Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I have spent the past week in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on a business trip to facilitate focus groups on behalf their orchestra. The Winston-Salem Symphony has a brand new music director, Tim Redmond, and while in town I had the honor of sitting in on the very first rehearsal […]
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Dan and I have been in Winston-Salem, North Carolina all week, with Dan working remotely while I facilitate focus groups for a local arts organization. My friend Mary Beth insisted that we make time for SECCA (pronounced Seeka), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Arts. The galleries were illuminating, including the eye-widening Owens Daniels exhibition — […]
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Each year, the Fort Collins Book Fest chooses a theme — last year was “The Big Think,” and the 2019 events centered around “Food for Thought.” The Fest invited cookbook authors, hosted “foodie walks,” and offered workshops revolving around tea, chocolate, whiskey and more. I took part in three events at this year’s Book Fest. […]
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When it rains, all of the areas that divert that water into a single source (for example, into a river) form a watershed. Hurray, someone finally explained that to me! This weekend, the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed hosted a Fire Ecology Tour, yet another in a long line of citizen-friendly science events that […]
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Dan and I both had work to accomplish near Denver, so we decided to drive the hour south one night early and make a date night of it. We saw Hustlers and enjoyed milkshakes at our first Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, then burned up some hotel points at The Source Hotel and Market Hall in the […]
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