It's a brave proposition to start a new theater troupe, but Wit Theatre Company, an ensemble of eight that formed just a few months ago, is ready to put on its first show. Make that almost ready.

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Definite trend: Drink and Draw, Cocktails and Canvases. No matter what you call the combo, it translates to knock back a few back while making art. And tonight at PlatteForum, the award-winning, innovative community art center that pairs underserved youth with artist-mentors, that's just what you're invited to do.

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One of TACtile Textile Arts Center's most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring -- as in the past -- a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show -- to sustain traditional arts while supporting women artisans living in poverty and sometimes dire conditions.

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Nick Callaio

In case you haven't noticed, Denver's proposed urban camping ban is shining a pretty heavy spotlight on the city's homeless community right now. Westword has covered the issue and the debate at great length -- we even spent a night on the 16th Street Mall -- and last weekend, we tracked the community to its musical roots.

Over the weekend, local advocates at Musicians in Action staged their first full-day outdoor festival devoted to raising awareness for the Denver homeless community and collecting supplies for The Gathering Place, during nine hours of art and live music. Click through for photos of the celebration.

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Bike culture rolls strong in Colorado, where every sort of cyclist thrives -- from leg-shaving, spandex-wearing road racers to evening pleasure cruisers. Whether reliving our childhoods or taking it a little bit too seriously, we seem to love everything on two wheels in these parts, so it follows that we also love everything to do with bikes, too. Regardless of how hard you choose to pedal, you'll find something of interest at the Handle Bar Moments Auction, a BikeDenver benefit featuring all kinds of Colorado professional bike racing memorabilia, Tour de France jerseys, posters and other gear.

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More Once Upon a Race photos.

Denverites really have no problem with getting up early on a weekend, donning a ridiculous costume and drinking -- all for a good cause (remember Cupid's Undie Run?)

It happened again over the weekend. Photos below.

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Tonight and tomorrow at the Mercury Cafe, V-Day Denver will stage readings from A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer, an anthology about violence against women co-edited by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. This is only one of the events organized by V-Day Denver, this city's arm of an international organization founded by Ensler in 1998 to illuminate truths about violence against women.

A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer is a series of "monologues about people's experiences with sexism, violence against women, and just the culture that contributes to sexual assault being as prevalent as it is," says Shelley Schreiner, who put the event together with fellow V-Day member Jaime Marston. The text includes writings by the likes of Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Howard Zinn, as well as Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, now in the spotlight for her work on the Oscar-winning documentary Saving Face.

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SOAR Charter School percussionists.

Saturday night at the Mercury Cafe, second- and third-graders from SOAR Charter School in Green Valley Ranch will bring their drumming skills to the big stage for the first time. Performing under the moniker Night Oblivion, the elementary-school band of percussionists will be part of a fundraiser to send the Koffi Togo band to Africa. "For them, it's going to be a really amazing experience -- its a real venue and a real crowd," says SOAR teacher and bandleader Yuzo Nieto.

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Little Big Man

It's a story too common in recent months: horses found emaciated on a Colorado ranch and seized by authorities in a last-ditch effort to save them. Half a dozen horses were discovered in a state of severe neglect on a ranch near Bailey in February. One of them, a colt named Little Big Man, was too weak to even lift his head -- but the story has a better ending, and even some guitar-strumming, toe-tapping horse opry music to go with it.

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Koffi Toudji has been making a positive impact on Denver as a drummer, dancer and teacher of both for more than half a decade, and now he wants to take his energy full circle. Toudji is originally from Kpalimé in Togo, West Africa, and he's putting on the Koffi Togo fundraiser this Saturday, February 25, at Stanley British Primary School so that his band can travel to Togo. "We are doing it to raise funds to take my group members to my hometown, to learn about my culture and bring that back to the community here in denver," Toudji says of his mission.

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