A scene from "The Dating Game," Wildflower's live, interactive spoof on the classic dating show.

Less than four months after it opened inside Loveland's Suede Events Center, Wildflower Cabaret was forced to pack up its programming after a falling-out with the owner of the space. Wildflower founders John Seaberry and Sky Cash walked away with heavy hearts and a serious financial loss.

But the couple didn't give up on their dream. And they recently launched an aggressive Kickstarter campaign to fund a new home for Wildflower, eyeing a space on Loveland's popular Fourth Street. "We're trying to put in a theater that's smaller, more intimate -- somewhere where we can put original work up," says Seaberry. "We have a lot of great playwrights in Loveland and we'd really like a place where we can create."

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- Man of La Mancha still has impact at Arvada Center
- Matthew R. Kerns on Gay Fantasia, his late-night theater immersion project
- Update: Holly Bartges, local theater critic, moves on to her next act

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Ray Tollison and his twin twelve-year-olds, Ben and Sam, are men who make monsters. That's right: Together, the handy trio created their own monster-making company, A Monster to Love. They stitch together each adorable stuffed creature by hand, and the twin theme carries over into the charitable side of the business, which decrees that for every monster sold, a twin monster will be donated to a child in need.

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- A Monster Makers Auction at Tenn Street Coffee and Books
- Best Store on Tennyson Street, 2013: Tenn Street Coffee and Books
- Eric Matelski gets a show of his own tonight at Tenn Street Coffee

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Runae Moon

After the organizers of the Denver Dark Arts Festival decided to close up shop a few years ago, Brent Heinze saw an opportunity.

"The team that did it before haven't put the Denver Dark Arts Festival on in seven years; it got to be just a pain in their ass," says Heinze. "They kind of got over it, and no one had picked it up.... I organized last year's Exile Fetish Ball, and I thought, okay, I can obviously pull people together, so let's do it and see what the interest is like."

Turns out the community interested in a gothic gathering of this kind was more vibrant and involved than ever, and so this Sunday, April 28, Tracks, Colorado Dark Expo: CoDE-13 will rise from the ashes as a singular, twelve-hour benefit and fest of art, music, performance and more.

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- Exile Fetish Ball should whip it good on Friday
- Darkness Rises: Goth lives at the Colorado Dark Arts Festival
- Boyfriend University kicks off with Rush Week tonight

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Katelyn Hall

This Saturday, April 6, Hooked on Colfax will donate its wall space to Local Goes Global, an evening devoted to raising money through art for a global health-focused nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. A student-run organization, CU Peru comprises volunteers from various schools at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Members have donated pieces for the show, and the proceeds from Saturday's sales will help them train health workers in the Peruvian Amazon this summer.

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- Crowdfunding Corner: Lauri Lynnxe Murphy thinks art is for the bees
- Photos: Hooked on Colfax completes expansion, doubles capacity
- Flobots hawk collectibles on eBay to raise funds for its non-profit

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Mr. Brainwash, "Juxtapoze."

Thomas Horne of Black Book Gallery lost his twin brother, Tim, to cancer. But Horne recognizes that he's not alone in his loss. In solidarity with the thousands upon thousands of families, friends and patients whose lives are affected by cancer, he and gallery partner Will Suitts organized Knock It Out, an exhibition of original works by artists from around the globe to benefit the Love Hope Strength Foundation.

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- Best Addition to Denver's Art District on Santa Fe, 2012: Black Book Gallery
- Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Ravi Zupa at Black Book Gallery
- Over the Weekend: John Fellows at Black Book Gallery

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The studio community at Wazee Union, peopled by artists and creatives of all kinds, shows off its diversity to the rest of the world on Second Saturdays -- often with fundraisers that showcase the building's talented denizens. Unfortunately, last week's Lucky Dog Art Show got snowed out -- but it will rise again Friday, March 15, from 3 to 9 p.m.

Eleven artists designed screen-printed gig posters on the canine theme for the show; sales of the limited-edition posters, as well as postcard sets of all the images, will benefit the MaxFund no-kill animal shelter. Maxfund's adoption van will be on hand for the festivities, which will also feature live music, aerialists and the Pink Tank food truck.

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- Best Artist Community, 2011: Wazee Union/Walnut Workshop
- The artists of Wazee Union and Walnut Workshop auction off hipster Toys for Tots
- The Light Fantastic

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Regis University's Concert for a Cause series is dishing up a whopper tonight, all in the name of the Eating Disorder Foundation, which will benefit from performances by more than twenty acts, including professionals and students alike. Organized by student Zoe Vlastos, a psychology major who turns about to be a piano phenom on the side, the event features renowned Denver trumpeter Ron Miles, who will spread his instrumental love around in some unique duets.

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- 10 things to do for $10 this weekend (7 free!), February 22-24
- A Q&A with Time, aka Chris Steele
- Free jazz: Ron Miles performs at the Mercury Cafe tonight -- for free

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Sent(a)mental Studios

Artist Dylan Scholinski has been on an unending mission to offer help through art to young people struggling with issues of sexuality and suicide; for close to 25 years, he says, he's done everything possible to keep the doors of his Sent(a)Mental Studios and Haven Youth Project open, offering whole bundle of open-studio programs serving -- and remembering -- troubled and suicidal youth.

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- 100 Colorado Creatives: Dylan Scholinski
- Lesbian Inspired Poetry is taking poems out of the drawers and onto the streets
- Thanks for coming out, America: Are pop culture and politics on the same queer path?

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Drink to Honest Abe at Drinkin' with Lincoln.

Folks don't usually think of turning Presidents' Day into a party with drinking games. This most humble of three-day weekends is often associated with mattress sales and sanctioned hooky-playing, not necessarily the beloved national heroes it was meant to honor.

But KGNU Community Radio is out to combine both the honoring and the swilling parts at tonight's Drinkin' with Lincoln event, an evening devoted to Lincolnian facts and trivia...and a bit of silly quaffing in the name of Honest Abe.

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- Drinkin' with Lincoln
- Happy Birthday Abraham! Five Songs that mention Abraham Lincoln
- Read an excerpt from Noah Van Sciver's The Hypo; get the book at Kilgore tomorrow night

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From the Empower Women In Africa Facebook page.

This Saturday, February 16, The Presser Foot, a sewing and quilting store in Longmont, will host a Sew Day for African Girls. Working with the nonprofit Empower Women In Africa, the store will provide all the materials and inspiration to create cloth menstrual pads -- and in the process help women in countries like Namibia, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya continue their education.

See also:
- Photos: Homeless female veterans focus of housing project at old Su Teatro site
- The Denver County Fair's speed-sewing competition was sew intense
-Shining Star: Marlene Roulliard broke free from a vicious cycle and founded the Women's Empowerment Circle

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