Tag: Festival
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The medium of temporality: Denver Chalk Art Festival returns for 23rd year
It was not yet 9 a.m. on Saturday, and Acoma Street was already becoming a canvas. Groups of people, many wearing salmon-red event T-shirts with the word “artist” on the back, used rollers to paint a solid liquid chalk background in 8-foot by 8-foot squares denoted by painter’s tape on the pavement. Others, down on…
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‘We’re not going anywhere’: Denver Pride celebrations return this weekend with PrideFest, parade
While the whole month of June has been full of celebrations for LGBTQ Pride Month, Denver’s community is ready for Denver Pride to make its triumphant comeback this weekend with dozens of celebratory events. Headlining events from the Center on Colfax include the Denver Pride 5K, Denver PrideFest at Civic Center Park and the Coors…
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Weekend things to do around Denver and beyond: UllrGras festival, Rio Frio Ice Fest and more
THURSDAY-SUNDAY A charming childlike delight honoring an acclaimed creative life, artist/sculptor “Sean O’Meallie’s: Head Cheese: A 25 Year Retrospective,” through March 13 at Museum of Art Fort Collins, 201 S. College Ave. The toy inventor from Colorado Springs and his followers love bright colors and happy objects. As the artist says: “I make objects. They disappear. I…
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Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks ready to return to Red Rocks after year away
After a year hiatus brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, Icelantic’s Winter on the Rocks will return this week at Red Rocks Amphitheatre for its 10-year anniversary festival. The festival was the first winter concert held at the world-famous venue. This year’s festival will be held on Friday and will feature headliners Diplo, Sofi Tukker,…
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Weeklong Denver Days celebration — filled with block parties and more — kicks off Saturday
The ninth annual Denver Days celebration is set to begin Saturday, kicking off a week of block parties, social events and community service projects through Aug. 8.— Saturday’s festivities include block parties at the Virginia Village Library, Ross-University Hills Library, outside of a home at 4872 Odessa St. and on the corner of East 33rd…
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Greeley Stampede to return for 99th anniversary in 2021
One of Colorado’s foremost western summer celebrations is returning this year with the annual Greeley Stampede community festival set to be held. This summer’s celebration is scheduled for June 24 to July 4 at Island Grove Park. This comes after the festival was forced to close in 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions. “We are thrilled…
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For the second straight year, Frozen Dead Guy Days will stay ‘chillin’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After being cancelled just two days before it was scheduled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Frozen Dead Guy Days will have another year to defrost. The organizers of the annual March festival that attracts the curious from across the world to Nederland announced…