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ARTrageous: 8/27-8/29

9/12/2021

Join us for the 2021 ARTrageous Fundraiser - "Art is For the Birds."
Friday, 8/27
Bird Mask Workshop for Adults -10am at Boulder Community Center
Saturday, 8/28
3pm - Bird Opening Ceremony: Release of the Rock Doves Sponsored by Boulder High Flyers
3:15 - Bird Parade through the Park
3:30 - Silent Auction begins - Open Mic: Bird songs, poems, jokes...
5:00 - Live auction and close of Silent auction
7:00 - Thank you concert: 3 Hattrio
Sunday, 8/29
8am - Bird Walk with Steve meet at the Community Center

Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Boulder Book Festival

9/11/2021

The 14th Annual Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Boulder Book Festival will be held at the Boulder Community Center September 30th to October 3rd. Faculty includes David Lee, Nancy Takacs, and Michael Branch. All participants of the conference must provide proof of vaccination. For more information visit Boulder Cliff Notes.

Smart Phone Workshop: Postponed to Saturday, 10/16

9/11/2021

This workshop is designed to teach you to use the camera that is most often with you: your phone. Participants will learn how to use their phones, make photos, panoramics, and time-lapse sequences, and create short video sequences. We work with portraits, self-portraits, close-up photography, and the new Portrait mode for those with the iPhone X. But all participants will learn how THEIR phone operates.

Class limit: 20 students; Register today, as this class will fill quickly!

Instructor: Kit Frost, www.kitfrost.com

Kit has been teaching photography for the past 40 years. As an Artist in Residence in our National Parks, she has taught iPhone workshops at Capitol Reef, Glacier, Crater Lake, Mesa Verde, Bighorn National Recreation Area, and at home in her studio in Durango, Colorado.

Echo Mine and Califone: POSTPONE until Spring 2022

9/11/2021

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Echo Mine will return to Boulder with a full band, Califone. Postponed until Spring 2022 due to Covid surge. Below are photos from their last site-based dance performance visit by this Chicago-based dance group with their last performance "Undercover Episodes" shared with the Boulder Community in September, 2019.

Photos by Anselm Spring, Scott Aho, Cheryl Cox

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Gypsy Swing and Dance Instruction: 7/24, Town Park

9/10/2021

The Red Rock Hot Club has been supplying the Intermountain West with Django Reinhardt style Jazz since 1999. Currently led by the hard swinging guitar of Pat Terry, the group specializes in “Gypsy Jazz” a European take of an American Art form. Guitar genius, Django, and violinist Stephane Grappelli, formed the original Hot Club of France in 1937, and subsequently created an entirely new Jazz genre by incorporating swing rhythms and mimicking the sounds of Louis Armstrong’s horn on their instruments.

The sound has been called Gypsy Swing, Jazz Manouche, Hot Swing, but no matter what you call it, the music swings hard with upbeat, fast pumping tempos but at the same time can also be sweet and lowdown. The Red Rock Hot Club delivers the style spot on. With the added help of James Martak on guitar and Dave Bowen on bass, the core of the Hot Club recreates the sound of Paris ala 1937.

The Red Rock Hot Club Disc, “Gypsy Day Dream” has received rave reviews from critics and the band is becoming widely known as one of the country’s best Gypsy Jazz groups. Django Biographer, and Gypsy Jazz authority, Michael Dregni, says, “This album of Gypsy Jazz is the real deal,” (Vintage Guitar Magazine June 09’) and Veteran Jazz reviewer Scott Yanow has said, “Django would have enjoyed this CD, and would certainly have loved to sit in with the Red Rock Hot Club!”

Cliff Notes Writing Conference: 9/30 - 10/3

9/1/2021

Join the faculty, David Lee, Nancy Takacs, and Michael Branch, for readings, discussions, writing instruction, and so much more!

For additional information and registration, click here!

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ARTrageous: 8/27-8/29

Cliff Notes Writing Conference and Boulder Book Festival

Smart Phone Workshop: Postponed to Saturday, 10/16

Echo Mine and Califone: POSTPONE until Spring 2022

Gypsy Swing and Dance Instruction: 7/24, Town Park

Cliff Notes Writing Conference: 9/30 - 10/3

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