A weekend of words at the Crested Butte Center for the Arts, featuring four packed days of workshops, readings, movie screenings, panels, parties and kid-friendly activities.
We’ve also got a free concert in an abandoned water tank, an adventure film festival and a night for local journalism.
May 21-27
Mountain Words Festival. The festival starts Thursday night with a kick-off party and a free screening of “Come See Me in the Good Light,” the award-winning documentary about former Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson. Poetry continues through the weekend, with themed workshops focusing on verses on nature and resistance, as well as craft panels and conversations with Terry Tempest Williams, Suzi Q. Smith and Rajiv Mohabir, among others.
You’ll also find events designed for fans of comics, memoir, comedy, nonfiction and nature writing. For the wordsmiths, a series of sessions with editors and agents pulls back the curtain on the publishing industry. David Baron talks aliens (specifically, Martians) with journalist Laura Krantz, Shane Mauss dives into the strategies of comedy, and Steven Dunn teaches the lessons of setting that can be gleaned from rap lyrics.
Full festival passes are no longer on sale, but tickets to individual writing workshops and events can still be purchased online. There is also a lineup of more than a dozen free events open to the public, including a conversation between CPR’s Ryan Warner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Megan Kate Nelson, a live recording of Mitzi Rapkin’s “First Draft” podcast and book signings with this year’s authors. Find the full schedule of free events here.
Various Prices; May 21-24; Crested Butte Center for the Arts, 606 Sixth St., Crested Butte
Other events to consider
Harmony Singers. The first free concert of the Tank Center for Sonic Arts’s summer season, with music by Renee Stahl, Lily Wilson, Shay, and Musiic Galloway. Free; 8 p.m., May 27; The Tank Center for Sonic Arts, 233 County Road 46, Rangely MountainFilm Festival. A documentary-focused festival with a wild streak that’s brought adventure stories from around the world to Telluride for nearly 50 years. Various prices; May 21-25; Various locations in Telluride Denver Community Film Festival. Show up to support your favorite local journalists at a screening of Brian Malone’s “Truth Be Told,” a behind-the-scenes look at how reporters do what they do at 9NEWS, KSUT Tribal Radio, Colorado Public Radio, the Ouray County Plaindealer and The Colorado Sun. The evening includes a prefilm reception and post-film discussion. $10 suggested donation; 5:30 p.m., May 21; The Elitch Theater, 4600 W. 37th Place, DenverNote: This is a curated list by the reporter to give readers a sense of arts and culture events happening across Colorado that they may not have otherwise known about. This is not meant to be an exhaustive account of things to do.
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