Tag: manitou art center
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Manitou Springs advances kindness campaign with ‘Paint the Town Kind’ event on Saturday
Along with mineral water bubbling up for the taking, a steady parade of parades and an overall quirky vibe, the small town of Manitou Springs also is becoming known for a newer movement. A kindness initiative that began in January 2025 is growing and gaining worldwide attention, says former Mayor Ken Jaray. A $10,000 donation…
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Old Manitou Springs church being transformed into new community center for all
In a town where space is as valuable as time, 3,323 square feet of relief is shimmering in sight for the 4,607 residents of Manitou Springs. Reformation of a shuttered church that was built in 1905 in the heart of the landlocked municipality at the foot of Pikes Peak is turning the building into a…
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Artists’ collective near Colorado Springs works to keep art of indigo dye alive
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A vat of indigo dye contains the magic of chemistry and the history of ancient civilizations. It’s also the reason your denim jeans are blue. At a recent Blue Hands event, textile artist Melanie Audet slips a square of white fabric into a large vat…
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Indian artisans, author do trunk show, book signing, workshops near Colorado Springs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Judy Frater knows something most of us don’t — who made each item of clothing in her wardrobe. When she first began visiting India more than three decades ago, she noticed something about the country’s artisans that didn’t sit right with her. “They were turned…
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Indian artisans, author do trunk show, book signing, workshops near Colorado Springs
Judy Frater knows something most of us don’t — who made each item of clothing in her wardrobe. When she first began visiting India more than three decades ago, she noticed something about the country’s artisans that didn’t sit right with her. “They were turned into workers for designers,” Frater said. “And it was their…
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Manitou Springs artist Don Goede back from the brink and from creative destruction
Don Goede, aka “Jack Medicine,” aka “Chaos,” night-napped maybe four hours on the couch, but to him that’s like hibernation (“I used to never sleep, never.”). A full day of office work already in the rearview on this late-July afternoon, he was sock-clad and guitar-slung in the kitchen of his Manitou Springs home, suddenly launching…
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Tibetan Buddhist monks, mandala show impermanence of life | Live Well
Being a monk with a mandala might seem challenging to a non-monk. After days of painstaking work, placing colored grains in an intricate geometric pattern on a large mat, the sand painting is destroyed. Whoosh, just like that, the monks sweep the mandala into a dusty pile, carry it to a body of water, dump…
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New event producer picks up Fashion Week in Colorado Springs, merging fashion, art, business and music
The haute, the boho-chic, the creative, the urban wear, the costumes, the strutting, the hip-hop and the opportunity-making will return to Colorado Springs after all. An announcement at the beginning of June that the local Fashion Week scheduled for the last week of June would be canceled this year by the company that had produced…
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6 weekend things to do around Colorado Springs and beyond: Shen Yun, Women’s History Month, Junkin’ Market Days, Atlanta Rhythm Section
Colorado actor Seth Palmer Harris channels the long gone writer and humorist Mark Twain in “An Evening with Mark Twain.” Harris will take on the historical figure’s persona as he reads some of his works and interacts with the audience. It’s at 7 p.m. Thursday at Manitou Art Center, 513 Manitou Ave., Manitou Springs. Tickets…