Community Calendar

STATION EVENT

5:30pm-7:00pm,

Please join KAFM in The Radio Room for the Volunteer Planning Meeting Social Hour | 5:30pm to 6:00pm Volunteer Meeting | 6:00pm to 7:00pm more...0 Pizza and Drinks available & announcement of the Fall Member Drive's getaway drawing. Come Join the Fun!

MUSIC

7:30pm-12:00am, Moss Performing Arts Center Love Recital Hall

Outcalls $15 adults, $12 seniors, $5 youth

MUSIC

9:00pm-1:00am, 715 Horizon Drive Ste.100

Rock out of California

FOOD/BEVERAGES

GENERAL

3:00pm-6:00pm, 462 Ute Avenue

Join award winning historian and author Dave Bailey on a spooky tour of downtown Grand Junction with stops at 3 local pubs. This walking tour will more...0 explore the early and colorful history where the pubs have taken up residence. Participants will visit 3 local establishments and can partake of their favorite beverage at each stop (please limit to one beverage per establishment). In between stops, tour participants will learn about the mysteries and murders of early downtown Grand Junction. All participants must be 21 years of age. Ticket price includes an appetizer at the first stop as well as the guided tour, no drinks are included.

RADIO ROOM

7:00pm, The Mesa Theater

Zombie Promo is back at the Mesa Theater! Tickets are $15 Come celebrate the "Goring 20's" (2020 and 2021 have been so more...0 spooky) Drinks Dancing Photo Ops Costume Contest Crowning of Zombie Prom's King and Queen Mesa Theater | 538 Main Street Grand Junction, CO 81501

MUSIC

7:30pm-12:00am, Moss Performing Arts Center Love Recital Hall

Sean Hamilton, Percussion $12 Adults, $10 Seniors, $5 Youth

DANCE

VISUAL ARTS

10:00am-3:00pm, 1100 North Avenue, Grand Junction, CO 81501

In the last few years the Art & Design Department’s annual Open House has transformed from an event for high school students into an more...0 outdoor art extravaganza, welcoming university students, high school students, and community members alike. We invite you to join us at our sixth annual Artober Fest, on Thursday, October 21 from 10AM-3PM, on Delta Field just east of the Jac Kephart Fine Arts building on the Colorado Mesa University campus. Here are some of the activities planned for the day: Start your day at the Information station and pick up an Artober punch card. Get a punch on your card as you visit each booth. MED (Mesa Emerging Designers) will be giving away 2021 Artober Fest T-shirts to everyone who has a completed a punch card, while supplies last. Dust off your hands for the Sidewalk Chalk Contest, limited to five teams or individuals, with prizes awarded to the top three. Chalk provided. Pre-registration required: please email sgarner@coloradomesa.edu by October 15, 2021 to register. Explore your creativity with MED’s Temporary Graffiti Wall; spray paint provided. MED store will be providing schwag for purchase which will go for funding the student group’s scholarly activities. Throwing PARTY! Throw something on the wheel with Clay Club. The Ceramics Faculty and students will demonstrate wheel throwing and will teach anyone who is interested in trying. Wheels and clay are provided. There are “Blind Wheel Throwing” and “One Hand Wheel Throwing” contests with prizes! Clay Club will have an assortment of student ceramics pieces for sale. Get up and move with Dance Society! Dance Society is a student-run club at CMU that aims to support and provide opportunities for dancers as well as educate the greater CMU community about dance. Dance Society holds student directed and choreographed dance concerts every semester called Real Artistic Works. They also fundraise and offer support for dancers to attend outside training opportunities that will benefit their careers in the arts. Dance Society will be performing 10:00-11:00am. The AFP&MD Clubs and Department proudly presents portraits and caricatures by our talented illustrators, T-Shirts printed with 8x10 photograph prints of local landmarks taken by AFP&MD photographers, and a bake sale with free popcorn. It's road roller time with Printmaking Guild! The print makers will be live printing large woodcuts (up to 30" X 90"). Participants are welcome to bring their own large blocks or "grids" of smaller blocks for printing. Contact Professor Butler at jobutler@coloradomesa.edu by Sept 30, 2021 for participation details and so that we can be sure to have enough supplies. They will also be demonstrating live printing of woodcuts onto T-shirts and other apparel. These items will be for sale. Bring your own T-shirts to be printed and receive a discount. Turn up the heat with Sculpture Guild! Sculpture Guild will cast sculptures in molten iron during an Iron Pour. They will begin pouring around 10AM and won’t stop until all the molds are poured. There will be opportunities to win sculpture related prizes throughout the day! Come show your support and leave with original artwork. All proceeds from sales during Artober Fest benefit the individual student-run art clubs!

RADIO ROOM

8:00pm-10:30pm, The Radio Room 1310 Ute Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501

Nate Hancock & the Declaration rolls into The Radio Room for one night only. A Fayetteville, Arkansas native with a globe-trotting spirit that more...0 has taken him from Los Angeles to Spain and everywhere in between over the 15 years as a world-touring guitarist and vocalist. NATE HANCOCK is dropping his 3rd Album “The Comedown EP” and has upped his game again. The new record features RAMI JAFFEE of FOO FIGHTERS and original member of THE WALLFLOWERS on keys on all tracks. The album was mixed by ROBERT CARRANZA (JACK JOHNSON) and produced by longtime friend and partner JIMMY SLOAN of Modern Roots Music Company. A soulful frontman, blistering blues guitar, a fusion of rock, funk, hip-hop, electronica, and pop… NATE HANCOCK and his production company UNiTE THE ViBE are again headlining premier venues across the USA and EUROPE. Tickets are $20. Doors open at 7:30 Show starts at 8pm In The Radio Room 1310 Ute Ave Grand Junction

CLASSES/LECTURES

GENERAL

LITERARY

THEATRE

6:00pm-9:00pm, 2400 Consistory Ct.

“The 19th Amendment and All that Jazz” living history performances will focus on just that, Women’s Right to Vote and 1920s era more...0 culture. Mary Jane Bradbury will be portraying Jeanette Rankin who was the first woman to hold a federal office and notable women’s rights advocate. Becky Stone will be portraying Josephine Baker, who was an entertainment star in Europe during the jazz age; and a well known Civil Rights advocate. The final professional performance will be, Doug Mishler portraying Billy Sunday, who was considered to be one of the most influential evangelists in America for over two decades. The professional performances will be complimented by local youth Chautauqua performers, as well as, the Grand Valley History Players. Look out for ticket sales and schedules of programming beginning in September!

DANCE

VISUAL ARTS

Show One

7:00pm-8:30am, 645 Main St, Grand Junction, CO 81501

Alice’s Wonderland Ballet, presented by Absolute Dance & Performing Arts of Grand Junction, will be the family performance to attend. Take more...0 an incredible, magical journey with Alice when you tumble down the Rabbit Hole to discover Alice’s Wonderland to meet memorable characters such as the Cheshire Cat, Tweedle Dee and Dum, the Mad Hatter, and more. Performances will be held at The Historic Avalon Theater of Grand Junction, CO. Friday, October 22nd, 7:00 pm, Saturday, October 23rd, 2:00 pm, and 7:00 pm, and our final showing on Sunday, October 24th at 2:00 pm. This full-length ballet is a charming interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, with additional influences from Through the Looking Glass. Absolute Dance Company in collaboration with Infinity Media Productions for animated digital background effects will give you and your family the sense of truly being a part of Alice's magical journey in this two-act ballet. A must see for all of Western Colorado.