Movies, Music and Marsalis!
If you’re looking for entertainment within 20 to 30 minutes of Colliers Hill, you don’t have to travel far to find performances – music and theater – plus films that touch the heart and spark the imagination!
TODAY/TONIGHT, Thursday, February 17
TUESDAY / THURSDAY HIKERS
Come join a group of enthusiastic hikers on a day hike! These die-hards are a drop-in group and decide each time where to hike. They break up into smaller groups and car pool to various trail heads, reimbursing the drivers for expenses. Bring your lunch, water, and snacks and be prepared for all weather conditions. Please note: this is an informal gathering and leaderless, and each person hikes at his/her own risk.
North Boulder Park, 7th and Dellwood, Boulder,
9:00 a.m.
Free
Details: 303-494-8822
ART & SIP: PAINTING THE OPERA HOUSE
The Dickens’ Opera House facade and sign is an iconic part of Downtown Longmont. In this class, you will paint that very scene with acrylic paint using photos for reference. Learn how to use graphite tracing paper over a photograph to create a realistic drawing you can then paint! You instructor: Chad Straka, will encourage you to get creative with the art, and you can grab a drink (wine, beer and sodas) and a snack, available for purchase in the Atrium Bar. This season you’ll see a special focus on art projects inspired by the current exhibit Washi Transformed: New Expressions in Japanese Paper
Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont
6:30-9:00 p.m.
Registration: $35
Phone: 303-651-8374
Thursday-Sunday, February 17-20
COMEDY: FOURTEEN FUNERALS
“Fourteen Funerals” is a wry comedy about family, death, and the stories we tell about people we may never really know. Sienna is a little surprised when Millie reaches out to her from the funeral home in her childhood hometown of Blissfield, Indiana. She’s even more surprised to hear that her entire extended family has been wiped out in one fell swoop. As the very last of the Fitchwoods, Sienna’s got a lot to learn about herself, her new friend, and her estranged relations. The winner of our 2021 Generations new play competition gets a BETC world premiere!
Eric Pfeffinger has been hailed in his past work as “brilliantly intelligent and laudably ambitious,” (Chicago Tribune), with “amazing comic sensibilities,” (American Theatre), while his work “threads a delicate needle between satire and think piece,” (Colorado Sentinel).
Grace Gamm Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$50
Phone: 303-440-7826
JOHNNY DEPP IN TRUE STORY
Inspired by a true story, Minamata stars Johnny Depp playing celebrated photojournalist Eugene Smith. The film takes place in 1971 when we find Smith as a recluse and disconnected from the world he once shot. After receiving one final assignment from Life Magazine editor Robert Hayes (Bill Nighy), Eugene must travel to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, which has been ravaged by mercury poisoning. Ushered by an impassioned Japanese translator, Aileen (Minami) and encouraged by local villagers (Hiroyuki Sanada), Eugene’s powerful images expose decades of gross negligence by the country’s Chisso Corporation. (Andrew Levitas, 2020, UK, 1:55, R)
Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Thurs., 7:00 p.m.; Fri., 4:00 p.m.; Sat., 1:30 p.m. & 6:00 p.m.; Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $12
Phone: 303-440-7826
Friday, February 18
TAXING YOUR DREAMS
In 2035, our dreams are no longer our own–they’re infused with product placement and auditors assess unpaid taxes on our most private reveries. Beleaguered taxman James Preble (Kentucker Audley) arrives at a run-down house in the countryside for a routine audit and encounters Bella Isadora (Penny Fuller), a lifelong dreamer who remains resolutely analog, circumventing the surveillance state with VHS tapes and homemade headgear.
As Preble works his way through Bella’s archive of the unconscious, he begins to fall in love with visions of her younger self (Grace Glowicki). But all is not well in dreamland as dangerous family secrets and a rogue’s gallery of blue demons and fried chicken pitchmen threaten to set the lovers’ paradise ablaze. Can Preble and Bella escape from the modern, monetized dreamscape and find refuge in Strawberry Mansion? (Kentucker Audley & Albert Birney, 2021, USA, 1:31, NR)
Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
8:30 p.m
Tickets: $12
Phone: 303-440-7826
Friday-Sunday, February 18-20
LITTLE WOMEN THE MUSICAL
Based on Louisa May Alcott’s life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested – her friend Professor Bhaer tells her that she has to do better and write more from herself. Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America.
Jesters Dinner Theatre & School for the Performing Arts, 224 Main St., Longmont
Fri./Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20-$45
Phone: 303-682-9980
GALLATHEA: A QUEER LOVE STORY IN THE WOODS
In this timeless Elizabethan romance, two women disguise themselves as men and take to the woods to avoid being their town’s latest human sacrifice. Set here in the late 1960s, “Gallathea” is a reimagined classic that follows each character’s quest for love and understanding of their own place in the world. This lighthearted romp through the woods is filled with magic, music, plenty of mayhem, and, of course, love.
Kaitlin Nabors directs a cast of CU Boulder Department of Theatre & Dance’s talented student performers. Don’t wait to purchase tickets! Due to limited seating, tickets sell fast. But in the intimate Loft Theatre, every audience member gets a front row experience to this performance.
Loft Theatre, University Theatre Building, 261 University of Colorado, Boulder
Fri.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $18
Phone: 303-492-8008
THE VELVET QUEEN
In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-award-winning nature photographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard. In this film, The Velvet Queen, Munier introduces Tesson to the subtle art of waiting from a blind spot, tracking animals, and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts. Through their journey in the Tibetan peaks, inhabited by invisible presences, the two men ponder humankind’s place amongst the magnificent creatures and glorious landscapes they encounter along the way. (Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier, 2021, France, 1:32, NR)
Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Thurs., 4:30 p.m.; Fri., 6:30 p.m.; Sat./Sun., 4:00 p.m.
Tickets: $12
Phone: 303-440-7826
Saturday, February 19
DAIRY COMEDY IN THE BOE
The guy who started Dairy Comedy, Arlis Mongold, is back as guest host to get the year started off right. Joining him will be some of the funniest folks we know, including Cody Ullrich, Katie Bowman, Anthony Bartolo, and Steve Michelle Swager.
Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
8:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15
Phone: 303-440-7826
Saturday-Sunday, February 19-20
KID FLICKS – NY INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL
Kid Flicks One and Two – Saturdays and Sundays Feb. 19- Feb.26
Presented in partnership with the New York International Children’s Film Festival. Catch the best short films from around the world! Kid Flicks Two bridges the gap between little and big for young audiences growing in experiences and ideas. (68 minutes) Kid Flicks Two for 8+.
The Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
1:30 p.m.
Tickets: $9-$12
Phone: 303-440-7826
Sunday, February 20
LEGENDARY SAM BUSH, LIVE!
Charles Samuel Bush is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. As a teen fiddler Bush was a three-time national champion in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddler’s Contest. He recorded an instrumental album, Poor Richard’s Almanac as a high school senior and in the spring of 1970 attended the Fiddlers Convention in Union Grove, NC. There he heard the New Deal String Band, taking notice of their rock-inspired brand of progressive bluegrass.
Roy Acuff offered him a spot in his band. Bush politely turned down the country titan. It was not the music he wanted to play. He admired the grace of Flatt & Scruggs, loved Bill Monroe- even saw him perform at the Ryman- but he’d discovered electrified alternatives to tradition in the Osborne Brothers and manifest destiny in The Dillards.
He and some former band mates formed New Grass Revival and played bluegrass fests slotted in late-night sets for the “long-hairs and hippies.” Quickly becoming a favorite of rock audiences, they garnered the attention of Leon Russell, one of the era’s most popular artists. Russell hired New Grass as his supporting act on a massive tour in 1973 that put the band nightly in front of tens of thousands. After 18 years in New Grass, he spent five years with Emmylou Harris’ Nash Ramblers, then did a stint with Lyle Lovett. In 2009, the Americana Music Association awarded Bush the Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist. Punch Brothers, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Greensky Bluegrass are just a few present-day bluegrass vanguards among so many musicians he’s influenced. His performances are annual highlights of the festival circuit, with Bush’s joyous perennial appearances at the town’s famed bluegrass fest earning him the title, “King of Telluride.”
Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Tickets: $60-$190
Phone: 303-786-7030
Monday, February 21
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS
“Jazz is not merely music. Jazz is America—relationships, communication, and negotiations.” —Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world-renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began his classical training on trumpet at age 12, entered The Juilliard School at age 17, and then joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. He made his recording debut as a leader in 1982 and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and classical recordings, which have won him nine GRAMMY Awards. In 1983 he became the first and only artist to win both classical and jazz GRAMMYs in the same year and repeated this feat in 1984.
Marsalis is also an internationally respected teacher and spokesman for music education and has received honorary doctorates from dozens of U.S. universities and colleges. He has written six books; his most recent are Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The mission of the organization is this: In the Spirit of Swing. The mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education and advocacy.
Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $45-$100
Phone: 303-492-8423
NEXT WEEK: Thursday-Sunday, February 24-27
COMEDY: FOURTEEN FUNERALS
“Fourteen Funerals” is a wry comedy about family, death, and the stories we tell about people we may never really know. Sienna is a little surprised when Millie reaches out to her from the funeral home in her childhood hometown of Blissfield, Indiana. She’s even more surprised to hear that her entire extended family has been wiped out in one fell swoop. As the very last of the Fitchwoods, Sienna’s got a lot to learn about herself, her new friend, and her estranged relations. The winner of our 2021 Generations new play competition gets a BETC world premiere!
Eric Pfeffinger has been hailed in his past work as “brilliantly intelligent and laudably ambitious,” (Chicago Tribune), with “amazing comic sensibilities,” (American Theatre), while his work “threads a delicate needle between satire and think piece,” (Colorado Sentinel).
Grace Gamm Theatre, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder
Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 2:00 p.m.
Tickets: $25-$50
Phone: 303-440-7826
Saturday, February 26
LACE UP AND SKATE!
With the Winter Olympics kicking off this year, what a great way to imitate your triple salchow heroes, have fun and get a little cold weather exercise! Round up family and friends, gather everyone and head to the skating rink in the Ice Pavilion in Longmont! You can skate to fun party music, meet up with friends, and let the kids meet up with their friends in a safe place!
Longmont Recreation/Ice Pavilion, 350 Kimbark St., Longmont
Monday-Sunday: Morning and Afternoon, and 7:40 to 9:00 p.m. Fridays
Admission: $5.50-$8:00
Information: 303-776-6050
MW3: BEETHOVEN CYCLE/PORTRAIT
Join Music Director Elliot Moore for a historical deep dive on Ludwig van Beethoven as the LSO adds to our Beethoven Cycle with two of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most beloved Symphonies. The program begins with the “Pastoral” 6th Symphony, depicting scenes of nature and burned into consciousness for millions by its use in Disney’s Fantasia. Finishing the program is the towering 5th Symphony, whose widely known fateful first four note motive is practically part of our shared human DNA. This is a towering powerhouse program showcasing triumph over adversity and the orchestra as a vehicle of human cultural expression.
Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont
7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $6-$29
Phone: (303) 772-5796
BOULDER BACH FESTIVAL
The program Across Time Across Cultures embraces a diversity of musical styles including works in romantic style with Moorish-Andalusian, Roma, and Sephardic influences.
Carettin and Gajić open the program with Joseph Achron’s haunting and deeply meditative Hebrew Melody, and Gajić is then joined by Claire McCahan for Manuel de Falla’s poetic song cycle, Siete canciones populares Españolas. Gajić continues with colorful, meditative, and exotic solo piano works from her homeland—Balkan Dances by Marko Tajčević. Next, Carrettin offers us unaccompanied Bach’s Sonata in A Minor played in his distinctive manner that explores intimacy and a poetic sense of time and pulse.
Following intermission, concert violinist and USC artist faculty Lina Bahn joins Gajić for a seldom-heard work, D’un matin de printemps, by the French composer Lili Boulanger. Colorado Symphony Orchestra double bassist Nicholas Recuber appears in his own arrangements Fantasi No. 10 and No. 11 by G.P. Telemann.
Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Rd., Longmont
7:00 p.m.
Tickets: 12-$18
Information: (303) 776-6050
Life in Erie, Colorado
There’s lots to do near the master-planned community of Colliers Hill, whether it’s right in Erie, or 20 minutes away in Boulder. If you don’t live here yet, check out the stunning model homes from KB Home, Richmond American Homes – and coming next month, Boulder Creek. Priced from the $500s, this fast-growing new home community in Northern Colorado has lots of exciting amenities to offer new home buyers, too!
