Art in the Garden – A Step by Step Landscape Painting Experience
Come join us in the grass and sun and bring home your very own painting! We will paint your masterpiece, step by step, inspired by the beautiful surroundings at Chautauqua Park. This event is appropriate for families, couples, and for the individual with friends. Participants should wear clothes to paint in and bring a blanket to sit on for comfort while painting. Don’t forget to bring a water bottle and sunscreen!
Arts in the Open fuses nature with the arts and invites our audiences and participants to enjoy the best of what Colorado has to offer. Our events are a healthy option that gets the whole family up and moving. As a Leave No Trace Company, our goal is to educate the public about Colorado trail preservation as well as reach a wide range of audiences and expose them to a variety of theatrical productions and artistic experiences.
Buster Keaton plays a movie projectionist in this 1924 production. In an extended dream sequence, he works his way into the film being shown in his theater, and he becomes the detective he always aspired to be. Also: Cops, Keaton’s 1922 short comedy, in which a series of misadventures has him chased all over town by the entire police force.
Featuring live accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra
Door Time: 7:00 PM Showtime: 7:30 PM
Lon Chaney, the “Man of 1000 Faces” portrays Quasimodo, the hunchback who inhabits the great Parisian cathedral. This 1923 film catapulted Chaney, born in Colorado Springs, into Hollywood stardom.
Dirtwire stands poised between ancient Mother Earth and modern technology, a blend of ethnomusicology and thepsychedelic trance state, gut-bucket delta blues and what the band variously dubs “back-porch space cowboy blues, swamptronica, and electro-twang.” It’s a sound informed by Dirtwire’s travels and performances around the globe, where East meets West and North joins South. From the favelas in Brazil, Femi Kuti’s Shrine in Lagos, Tokyo’s bluegrass clubs, Ayahuasca ceremonies in Central America, Gamelan performances in Bali, desert festivals in the Australian Outback, and the 20th anniversary of Kazakhstan’s modernized new capital Astana, the band spreads its message by building bridges across musical cultures in their own unique way. Dirtwire plays an array of instruments both ancient and modern, including West African kamale ngonis, jaw harps, space fiddles, whamola basses, Rickenbacher electric 12 string guitars, bowed Banjos and mouth harps from around the globe, all interwoven into modern laptop beat creation. Hailing from the underground west coast electronic bass music scene Dirtwire finds itself at the forefront of experimental electronic music production mixing in their wide array of world instruments with sampled beats and 808’s. Dirtwire’s live shows are a communal psychedelic journey, ranging from down home bootstomping get downs, to bass and blues electronic mashups, to ethereal cinematic beat driven soundscapes. Woven into each is the exploration of where live instruments meet computer production, and where tradition meets experimentation.
The swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. is memorable for his many stunts, like sliding down the sail of the pirate ship he has single-handedly captured. This 1926 film has it all – adventure, romance, and comedy rolled into one exciting feature.
