Category Archives: Culture

YOUR AH HAA MOMENT: WORKSHOP, ALENA HENNESSY

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Speaking just for me, I want, no I need, more creative moments in my life. Those moments that feed my soul and bring a smile to my heart. Whether it’s designing Ah Haa School’s new summer catalog, creating dresses for the Telluride AIDS Benefit, or just doodling, the ability to express myself creatively brings unmatched…

BOOK IT!: MOUNTAIN FILM’S READING FRENZY

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Editor’s note: Mountainfilm‘s Reading Frenzy, themed, “Conversations through Lenses and Pens,” takes place Sunday, May 27, 2 – 4 p.m., at the Between the Covers Bookstore “annex,” the Telluride High School Cafeteria. It’s that time of year: stacks and stacks of boxes show up on our door step thanks to UPS Greg. After barely using…

HEARTBEAT IN CONCERT AT AH HAA

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Beloved a capella group to perform Wednesday, May 23, Ah Haa School for the Arts How to make your heart sing? Heartbeat, an eight woman a cappella group, performs a host of fun tunes, Wednesday, May 23, at the Ah Haa School for the Arts. Included in the upbeat, intimate evening are  folk songs, pop…

PAT BAILEY’S SPIRITUALITY WITH RELIGION

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Editor’s note: With Mountainfilm in Telluride fast approaching – the Festival takes place over Memorial Weekend – the preservation of the earth and all things endangered, species, cultures and ideas, becomes an even more compelling notion. Mountainfilm guests don’t just pay lip service to the idea. They take action. In a series of posts, Pat…

WORKSHOP: TURNING CONFLICT INTO CONSENSUS

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Editor’s note: The timing is perfect. A 3-part workshop about achieving goals with civility – an inflated version of  the theme of the carrot, not the stick idea – with Mountainfilm in Telluride just around  the corner. Mountainfilm is known to shine a spotlight on global conflicts and challenges, opening the door to resolution. When…

TIO DENVER/TALL TALES: “RED” AT CURIOUS THEATRE

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Editor’s Note: Our Tall Tales contributor, Mark Stevens, is the author of “Antler Dust” and “Buried by the Roan.” “Buried by the Roan” is a finalist for the 2012 Colorado Book Award. Both books are the shelves at Telluride’s own Between the Covers Bookstore, 224 W Colorado Ave, Box 2129. “Picasso and Pollock are in…

POETS’ CORNER: BRIDGER ON THE “SILVER SCREEN”

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Editor’s note: Kierstin Bridger is the 2011 winner of Telluride Arts’ Mark Fischer Poetry Prize and a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out She joins our family of wonderful writers/poets, among them, Word Woman Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, “Feelosophy” major David Feela, and Denver-based writer Mark Stevens. Silver Screen Flick of cigarette the theatre is…

BARB BRATTIN’S “FIVE STARS”: TRIBAL LEADERSHIP

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Editor’s note: In 2011, for the fourth time in a row (and running), the Library Journal Index of Public Library Services, a public library rating system, designated Telluride’s Library a five-star institution. The Wilkinson Public Library ranked fifth in the nation among public libraries with annual budgets of $1 – 5 million, hence the name…

POETS’ CORNER: MOTHERS’ DAY

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Editor’s note: Happy Mothers’ Day. Poet/author David Feela sums up with the following tribute. His point: It is not necessarily about having it all. It is about doing it all, seamlessly and without fanfare. A mother’s gallery of quotidian moments is rich with fine art. The Road Near Two Grey Hills A Navajo woman knows…

PAT BAILEY’S SPIRTUALITY WITH RELIGION

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Editor’s note: Pat Bailey, pastor of Telluride’s Christ Presbyterian Church, continues with his exploration of Spirituality with Religion. While this installment is not exactly a traditional tribute to Mother’s Day, it is a tribute to the mother of us all: Mother Nature. His insistence on Her importance in a re-envisioned Christian theology is unrelenting. In…