Arts and Culture

The Dikeou Collection pops up for a Denver Arts Week party

By Susan Froyd Thu., Nov. 8 2012 at 6:53 AM
Categories: Arts and Culture, Denver Arts Week

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Denver's private Dikeou Collection has a permanent gallery space in a downtown Denver office building that's a little hard to find, unless you know your way around the corporate world. As a remedy, the gallery's Devon Dikeou also curates a more accessible ground-floor pop-up space in the Golden Triangle, which opens serendipitously for special events and shows. Tonight from 6 to 8 p.m., the pop-up will pop open for a free Denver Arts Week reception that doubles as a vintage-vinyl dance party.

See also:
- Best Non-Venue Venue -- 2011: Dikeou Collection
- Dikeou Collection opens a pop-up exhibit
- Free yoga, huge bunny rabbits and inner peace at the Dikeou Collection

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Denver Arts Week: Dixie Longate packs plastic and bullpucky in Dixie's Tupperware Party

By Susan Froyd Wed., Nov. 7 2012 at 6:54 AM
Categories: Comedy, Denver Arts Week, Theater

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© Denver Center Attractions
The Tupperware will be real, all real, when the participatory tour-de-force Dixie's Tupperware Party returns to the Garner Galleria Theatre tonight for another hi-larious repeat run, just in time for the holidays. And like the contents kept in Tupperware, Dixie Longate, the larger-than-life, big-haired, trailer-trash star who struts out on stage to hawk her plasticware, also keeps very well.

See also:
- Dixie loves booze, sex and Tupperware, and we love Dixie
- Denver Arts Week
- Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Ravi Zupa at Black Book Gallery


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Denver Arts Week: Get ready for the holidays at the Ink Lounge's Sweet T Tuesday

By Susan Froyd Tue., Nov. 6 2012 at 6:58 AM
Categories: Classes, DIY, Denver Arts Week, Holidaze

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© Ink Lounge
In the midst of a modern DIY craft revolution, more people are resolving to make their holiday gifts, rather than dropping big bucks on impersonal gifts from the mall. And besides, it's fun to really get your hands into the holidays -- and even more fun to do it in a group, with other crafters. Novices do best in a setting where materials and instruction are provided, as they are in recurring Sweet T Tuesday screen-printing workshops, including one that will be offered from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. this evening at the Ink Lounge printing studio.

See also:
- Best Manly Holiday Craft Market - 2012: Holiday Mancraft
- Make. Workshop: Illuminated Sculpture with Melissa Borrell
- Ladies Fancywork Society members open Lowbrow on Broadway


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Denver Arts Week: a free performance by Denver's Dangerous Theatre tonight

By Susan Froyd Mon., Nov. 5 2012 at 6:55 AM
Categories: Arts and Culture, Denver Arts Week, Theater

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Denver's Dangerous Theatre lives up to its name, staging edgy and sometimes kinky theater of the sort we don't often see in this town. And the current show, Jonathan Vick's murky psychodrama Comfort in the Arms of the Damned, offers proof of that. But DDT's guiding force, Winnie Wenglewick, wants to know why more people haven't seen the production.

See also:
- Colorado's small theaters have a meeting of the minds
- Here be Dragons and other perilously prurient plays at Denver's Dangerous Theatre


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Countdown to Denver Arts Week: The Arts Harvest Festival at 40 West

By Susan Froyd Fri., Nov. 2 2012 at 6:00 AM
Categories: Arts and Culture, Denver Arts Week

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While the thriving arts districts within Denver city limits will be rocking tonight as Denver Arts Week kicks off with Know Your Arts First Friday, one of the newest kids on the block, the 40 West Arts District, will be touting the local artists of...Lakewood, our suburban neighbor to the west. The district, still finding its feet along West Colfax Avenue, is anchored by the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design and the 40 West Art Gallery, which will eventually front an enclave of studios.

See also:
- There's a RIOT! going on
- A district is born

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West meets East at the Denver Botanic Gardens through this weekend

By Noah Hubbell Thu., Nov. 1 2012 at 11:52 AM
Categories: Denver Arts Week

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"Foreign and Domestic" by Margaret Kasahara.
For much of this year, the Denver Botanic Gardens has been an intersection for Asian and American culture. It began with the Kizuna: West Meets East outdoor exhibit, for which bamboo specialists Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik created several site-specific sculptures. They were up in time for the June opening of the Gardens' Bill Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion, which honors the former Denver Post editor and 2007 Civil Rights Award winner. Next to the pavilion the Gardens constructed an authentic Japanese tea house in which to perform traditional tea ceremonies, which complements the facility's already renowned Japanese garden.

And inside, the Gardens has hosted two shows that tie to the West meets East theme. But time is running out for this harmonic convergence.

See also:
-The yin and yang of bamboo meet in Kizuna at the Denver Botanic Gardens
- Oh, the Faces you'll see: The Arvada Center updates portraiture in a summer exhibit
- Food Day activities will bloom at the Denver Botanic Gardens


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Arts Week, cultural stereotypes, Denver, Denver Botanic Gardens, East Meets West, Kawana, Kizuna, Margaret Kasahara, Someone Like You, Talasnik
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Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Muertos Mart at Pirate Contemporary Art

By Susan Froyd Thu., Nov. 1 2012 at 6:00 AM
Categories: Arts and Culture, Denver Arts Week, First Friday, Talking Shop

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Annie Fisher of Anniebee.
Pirate gallery's annual Día de los Muertos celebration has been bringing family altars and candlelight processions to downtown and northside streets for close to thirty years. It's one of several Day of the Dead celebrations taking place in Denver this weekend, which will merge Dead events with the very lively Denver Arts Week's Know Your Arts First Friday.

See also:
- Dia de los Muertos: From Pirates to pinatas, six ways to celebrate
- Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Civilized Living at Fancy Tiger Clothing
- Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Ravi Zupa at Black Book Gallery


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Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Civilized Living at Fancy Tiger Clothing

By Susan Froyd Wed., Oct. 31 2012 at 7:07 AM
Categories: Arts and Culture, Denver Arts Week, First Friday, Talking Shop

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Stella Stumbled Upon a Giant Snail Diorama, becky's buttons & things.
Denver Arts Week starts November 2 with a Know Your Arts First Friday. All week, we're previewing events that might fall within the parameters of Denver Arts Week, but aren't exclusive to its confines. Today's First Friday pick, Fancy Tiger Clothing's Civilized Living, is a monthly trunk show focusing on local designers, crafters and jewelry makers. But the November edition, Fancy Made, is unique in that Fancy Tiger will turn the spotlight on its own team: employees Becky Wareing Steele, Clare Strouss-Tallman, Nathan Hall and Lara Nickel, along with the shop's owner, Matthew Brown.

Continue reading to meet the artists and get a preview of what you'll find at Fancy Tiger from 7 to 10 p.m. this Friday.

See also:
- Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Ravi Zupa at Black Book Gallery

- Fancy Tiger's Civilized Living event returns for First Friday
- What's in your bag? Khakis and Acne Paper magazine
- Style Local: Matthew Brown, Fancy Tiger

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Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Ravi Zupa at Black Book Gallery

By Susan Froyd Tue., Oct. 30 2012 at 6:52 AM
Categories: Art, Denver Arts Week, First Friday

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Ravi Zupa
Denver Arts Week, which kicks off Friday with a special Know Your Arts First Friday, is really a big magnifying glass: Denver boasts a vibrant First Friday tradition every month of the year; this annual event just turns on the spotlight. As with any First Friday, the real trick is to plot your course. So for the rest of the week, we'll be sharing a few of our favorite picks, beginning with One Million Things, a swarming solo show from Denver artist and Westword MasterMind Ravi Zupa at Black Book Gallery.

See also:
- Denver Arts Week
- Update: Lindsay St. Antoine and Ravi Zupa's big, beautiful mess
- Studio Shots: Ravi Zupa
- Meet the MasterMind Class of 2009

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Five things you might have missed at the brimming Kirkland Museum

By Jenny An Fri., Nov. 11 2011 at 4:17 PM
Categories: Denver Arts Week

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Visiting the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art is like taking a trip to grandmother's house -- if your grandmother was an obsessive, eminently wealthy hoarder with great but scattered tastes, that is. There are piles upon piles of furniture recognizable as antiques but from a plethora of periods and styles. The basement has narrow walls stacked high with breakable and shiny ceramics, making them terrifying to walk down. And there are a couple of dark cages filled with even more valuable objects waiting to be displayed.

A new exhibit covering Coloradan Abstract-Expressionists opens Friday as part of Denver Arts Week and will run for approximately four months.

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