Wednesday, Sep 13 |
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RADIO ROOM
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KAFM SALON
6:30pm, The Radio Room
KAFM Life Long Learning brings a new opportunity
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for 2017, The KAFM Salon. This is a once a month get together to have discussions on topics affecting our lives today. It's not about convincing others or about """"being right"""" but a chance to share ideas with an open mind and heart. We want to explore the diversity in our community.
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MUSIC
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FACULTY GALA
7:30pm, Moss Performing Arts Center, Love Recital Hall
Prices: ?$12 adult, $10 senior, $5 student
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Thursday, Sep 14 |
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VISUAL ARTS
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BUILDING THE SURFACE ENCAUSTIC DEMO
1:00pm, The Art Center (1803 N 7th Street)
Watch and learn as local artist Susan Delgalvis
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demonstrates encaustic, or painting with hot wax. Encaustic dates as far back as Ancient Egypt. Using different tools, the wax can be built up in layers to create paintings that are highly sculptural.
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MUSIC
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SIERRA SEGREST
Avalon Fest
6:30pm, Sierra Segrest
Join the Avalon Theatre Foundation at 6:30 PM
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(doors at 6:00 PM) on Thursday, September 14th, for a night full of music! Bookcliff Barborshop Chorus, Stray Grass and Centennial Band will be performing a wonderful mixture of music. Purchase tickets online, by calling 800-626-8497, or in person from the box office at the Avalon Theatre (7th and Main Street in downtown Grand Junction) Monday through Saturday from 12pm to 8pm.
For further information on the Avalon Theatre Foundation, please visit avalontheatrefoundation.org
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Friday, Sep 15 |
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GENERAL
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HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH KICK-OFF
5:30pm, The Art Center (1803 N 7th Street)
Each year, the United States honors the
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contributions that Latinos have made to our country with a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration that runs from Sep. 15 to Oct. 15. The Art Center is pleased to co-host the annual kick-off celebration again this year with the Western Colorado Latino Chamber of Commerce and Hispanic Affairs Project. This is a free event for the community, featuring music and dance performances, the presentation of the Hispanic Advancement Award, and keynote speaker Aline Silva, pastor at Koinonia Church.
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MUSIC
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OLD SALT UNION
9:30pm, 715 Horizon Drive
Newgrass from St. Louis! $5 cover gets you a free
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drink!
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Saturday, Sep 16 |
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GENERAL
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GEARING UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Ride to de-stigmatize
9:30am, Lincoln Park
Gearing up for Mental Health: Grand Junction,
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aims to de-stigmatize mental health and put it on equal footing as physical health. The event starts with a short bike parade through town and is followed by a Wellness Fair where nonprofits and organizations focused on mental, behavioral, and physical health will be tabling. We will provide lunch, free of charge for all, and will have family-friendly activities (including a face painter and bouncy castle). Join us with your bike and open mind!
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MUSIC
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AN EVENING WITH DAR WILLIAMS
Performance and Reading
7:00pm, Star Hall, Moab, UT
The Moab Folk Festival and Back of Beyond Books
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present “An Evening with Dar Williams” on Saturday, September 16th at 7 PM in Star Hall. Dar’s performance will include a reading from her new book. Tickets are available at www.moabfolkfestival.com/dar-williams and in Moab at Back of Beyond Books 83 North Main Street. Regular seating tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door. A limited number of VIP tickets are available and include priority seating and a personally signed copy of her book. VIP tickets are $38 in advance and $40 at the door.
Dar Williams is a renowned folk musician and composer based in the Hudson Valley who has sold millions of albums and toured across the United States. Williams is also a well-known environmentalist and social justice advocate. You can learn more at www.darwilliams.com
Dubbed by the New Yorker as “one of America's very best singer-songwriters,” Dar Williams has made her career not in stadiums, but touring America's small towns. She has played their venues, composed in their coffee shops, and drunk in their bars. She has seen these communities struggle, but also seen them thrive in the face of postindustrial identity crises.
In WHAT I FOUND IN A THOUSAND TOWNS: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, & Open-Mike Night at a Time (Basic Books; on sale September 5, 2017), Williams muses on why some towns flourish while others fail, examining elements from the significance of history and nature to the uniting power of public spaces and food. Drawing on her own travels and the work of urban theorists, Williams offers real solutions to rebuild declining communities.
She traveled to and writes about dozens of towns and small cities across the U.S. that have taken steps to cultivate what she calls “positive proximity.” By embracing their public spaces, drawing on their area’s unique attributes and identities, and allowing all willing citizens to put their gifts and talents to good use in the commons of town, these locations have become the types of places in which communities are vibrant and joyous—and the economic benefits have followed.
Williams talks to local officials, small business owners, academics, and residents who spend their free time getting involved in their communities. She explores elements as diverse as the local significance of history and nature to the uniting power of public spaces and food. Readers ride along with her as she meets engaging local characters, attends concerts and fundraisers, and basks in the natural beauty of these regions. And she shows that small steps can build into big changes: dog runs and simple public spaces made Beacon, New York, buzz again; a unique, locavore food and wine culture transformed the Finger Lakes region into a foodie’s heaven; blazing bonfire celebrations and sci-fi film festivals have turned Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, into a place where everyone wants to live; and Moab, Utah’s “most beautiful dump” competition put it on every nature-lover’s map when local leaders were out of other ideas for economic development.
By celebrating the creativity, hard work, and determination of average people who want to build something meaningful, WHAT I FOUND IN A THOUSAND TOWNS offers a roadmap for other communities seeking to do the same.
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MUSIC
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BEAU AND LUCI
9:30pm, 715 Horizon Drive
Bluesy Americana from two Southern Georgia
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sisters. $5 cover gets you a free drink!
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Tuesday, Sep 19 |
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GENERAL
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GEARING UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Ride to de-stigmatize
9:30am, Lincoln Park
Summer time is one of the best seasons to get
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outside and be physically active, but physical health is not the only health we should be thinking about this summer - mental health is health. That's why we are pedaling through 3 cities to raise awareness.
Healthier Colorado’s event “Gearing Up for Mental Health” is a free community event to raise awareness for mental health. The event starts with a bike parade around downtown followed by a wellness fair which includes fun, family-friendly activities (including face-painting, bike decorating, and a bouncy castle), free lunch, and information about local and statewide mental health and wellness resources.
RSVP here!
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