Arts & Culture
- Book lovers, here's your assignment: Read the chapter “The Honorable Harvest” in Braiding Sweetgrass and join the discussion at Norlin Library. Don't get the chapter read? You are still welcome to attend. Don't have a copy of the book yet? An e-book option is available.
- The Mimesis Documentary Festival is described as an immersive theatrical and virtual slate of movies, workshops and more with artists, producers and scholars from around the world.
- In case you missed it, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival will be back with an in-person season June 5–Aug. 7. Peruse the lineup, including “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” “All’s Well That Ends Well” and “Coriolanus,” as well as two non-Shakespeare works: “The Book of Will” and “The Alchemist.”
- Come to Norlin Library's east entrance April 12–13 to take part in a community poem writing activity. Take away a pocket poem and engage with librarians.
- She’s a trapeze artist. He’s a computer scientist. Together, they’re hoping to redefine immersive performance.
- Co-hosted by the 91Ƶ School of Education and the city’s largest independent bookshop, the Boulder Book Store, the 2021 virtual Children’s Book Festival will feature 10 award-winning authors.
- Performing high energy, tightly-knit traditional, neo-traditional and highlife dance music from Ghana, CU’s West African Highlife Ensemble is the first university ensemble in the U.S. to perform highlife music.
- After being closed to the public for past 17 month, the CU Art Museum is celebrating its re-opening with three new shows, as well as a visiting artist-in-residence this fall.
- An alumna has built her brand, Past Life the Collective, as “a sustainable, small-batch label for those who speak the truth, walk their own path and raise hell.”
- On Sept. 24, see the documentary that takes an entertaining and revealing look into a week-long annual program in which a thousand high school seniors gather for an elaborate mock exercise to build their own state government.