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| Jul 24, 2026 | 10 upcoming things to do in Boulder County | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Editor’s note: This list has been updated to correct the ballet school that operates the pre-professional summer intensive program in Boulder. That is the Joffrey Ballet School, based in New York C... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Boulder’s all-ages rebel art play hub Junkyard Social nabs $240K arts grant | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
After five years of running on crowdfunding, donated materials and an ongoing series of minor logistical miracles, the team behind Boulder’s Junkyard Social Club can finally take what founder Jill ... |
| May 20, 2026 | Boulder Creek Fest brings summer vibes and a Sundance collab | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Memorial Day is, blessedly, one of the few federal holidays most Americans actually get off. You could spend your precious 72 hours of uncommodified freedom sitting in I-70 traffic to try and battl... |
| May 1, 2026 | 10 upcoming things to do in Boulder County | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company opens “Mary Jane” on Friday – a play about a young mother caring for her chronically ill child — and it runs through May 24 at the Dairy Arts Center. (Bekah Broas -... |
| May 1, 2026 | Superior Mural Festival launching this fall with help from Boulder’s Streetwise Arts | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Crossing underneath an overpass is usually a dark, sometimes stinky, occasionally damp, and oftentimes spooky experience. But a few years ago, someone in Superior fixed a particularly dreary tunnel... |
| Sep 27, 2025 | Can AI move humans? Two Boulder Beat Gen-loving poets challenged ChatGPT to pen prose | When I fire up ChatGPT, it’s usually to ask if my knee pain means I need surgery, or if there’s any dignified way to turn wilting spinach and a lone sweet potato into dinner.
Sadly, after talking to pair of local poets and longtime friends,... |
| Sep 25, 2025 | Street Wise Mural Fest to blanket Boulder in a technicolor splash of ‘artivism’ | Every September, Boulder becomes a little more dangerous — if you’re a blank wall, that is.
Street Wise Mural Festival is back, and no open stretch of surface is safe from the spray-happy battalion of muralists who will, for one weekend, tu... |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Pomerance: Short-term rentals for Sundance, or more? | When the council decided to try to get the Sundance Film Festival to move to Boulder, there were obvious issues. One big one was that Boulder does not have the hotel and other lodging space of a resort community like Park City, Utah, where ... |
| May 22, 2025 | Boulder Creek Fest crams all the fun into 4 days with 30 bands, 3 stages, an art battle, a mural contest and way more | The band has been recording and writing all year, and this show feels like a turning point.
“Our live show is built to take the listener on a journey,” Schober said. “Quiet moments of intense emotion that ebb and flow against powerful decla... |
| May 10, 2025 | Boulder-area events for Saturday, May 10: Fossils and Flowers hike at Six-Mile Fold | Hazel Miller and the Collective concert: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Colorado-based music icon Hazel Miller has a reputation for bringing it, whether the event is a club setting, concert, festival or nonpr... |
| May 9, 2025 | Boulder-area events for Friday, May 9: Tonal Triage concert at Full Cycle Café and Bar | Sewing applique and illustration on a tea towel class: 11 a.m. Saturday, Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder. Learn to machine-sew a drawing or motif onto a tea towel and embellish with small appliqué. Get creative, and add ... |
| May 8, 2025 | Boulder-area events for Thursday, May 8: Chappell Roan Liquid Sky show at Fiske Planetarium | Tonal Triage concert: 6:30 p.m. Friday, Full Cycle Café & Bar, 2355 30th St., Boulder. Tonal Triage’s all-star line-up includes saxophonist Jeff Nathanson, vocalist Hazel Miller, Bijoux Barbosa on bass, Victor Mestas on keys and Alejand... |
| May 7, 2025 | Boulder-area events for Wednesday, May 7: ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ film screening at The Dairy | Story time and field trip to Primos Park: 10:15 a.m. Friday, NoBo Corner Library, 4600 Broadway, Boulder. Enjoy a water themed story time at NoBo followed by a field trip to Primos Park. Pack a snack and some sunscreen for some outdoor play... |
| Sep 5, 2024 | Entertainment | Behind the SMiLE: Boulder’s elusive street artist heads indoors for very rare gallery show | SMiLE endeavors to do the same.
Armed with a meticulously handcrafted and hand-cut stencil, several cans of spray paint, and an inconspicuous get-up, SMiLE sneaks into the night to impress his vibrant creations onto the more mundane parts o... |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Things to do | Boulder-area events for Saturday, Aug. 3: Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance Festival 2024 | Today
Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance Festival 2024 Showcase Performance: 8 p.m. Friday, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. The festival brings together world-class artists in one show and includes lyra, stilts, bungee, aerial chain... |
| Jan 13, 2024 | Things to do | Boulder-area events for Saturday, Jan. 13: ‘Lusus Naturae’ exhibition | Today
“Lusus Naturae” exhibition: 1 p.m. Saturday, The New Local’s Annex, 713 Pearl St., Boulder. Take in the captivating acrylic paintings of Gail Wagner, and meet the creative behind the stirring work. Combining abstractions from differen... |
| Jan 12, 2024 | Things to do | Boulder-area events for Friday, Jan. 12: Joyce Yang performs with the Takács Quartet | Today
Joyce Yang piano with the Takács Quartet: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Macky Auditorium, -0285, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder. Pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism and interpretive sensitivity. The first half of the... |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Things to do | Boulder-area events for Thursday, Jan. 11: Drag performance at BMoCA | Today
Homecoming Queens at BMoCA: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Enjoy a drag performance exploring the notion of “home” as it relates to how each drag queen express their identity. $10-$15, ... |
| Oct 15, 2023 | Things to do | Take a Street Wise mural tour by bike and other events for today | Today
Street Wise mural tours by bike: 10 a.m. Sunday, Lolita’s Market, 800 Pearl St., Boulder. Come explore the street art of downtown and central Boulder by bike. The group will ride to 27 murals created by local and national artists. Lea... |
| Oct 14, 2023 | Things to do | Second Saturdays at CU Art Museum and other events for today | Today
Second Saturdays at CU Art Museum: 10 a.m. Saturday, CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder. Get creative on the second Saturday of each month. Come in and color or even pick up a new skill. This week, learn to make crepe paper flowers... |
| May 6, 2023 | Things to do
Things to do | Street Wise Arts mural walking tour and other Boulder events for today | Today
Street Wise Arts mural walking tour: Come explore the street art of Downtown Boulder with Street Wise Arts guided walking tours. Participants will cover murals created by local and national artists during the annual mural festival; 11... |
| Apr 6, 2023 | Entertainment
Entertainment | Boulder Arts Week painting the town bold | In the past, Boulder has been named the happiest city in the U.S., the best city to raise an outdoor child and the No. 1 place to live — if you’re a Janus Supercomputer.
More recently, according to the National Endowment for the Arts, Bould... |
| Sep 29, 2022 | Things to do
Things to do | BMoCA launches exhibits with four Colorado artists and other Boulder events for today | Opening reception at BMoCA: Four Colorado artists have works that experiment with photography in new exhibits, kicking off with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. “Just As I Am” features large-scale painting and printmaking artworks by Kris... |
| May 26, 2022 | Entertainment
Entertainment | Boulder County is raring to ring in summer 2022 with nonstop events | Confucius say, when Memorial Day descends upon Boulder, humans flock to town like, well, a flock of seagulls. Like all the seagulls.
We’ve all heard the infamous trope that Boulder is 25 square miles surrounded by reality. Well this weekend... |
| Mar 24, 2022 | Entertainment
Entertainment | Boulder Arts Week delivers 99 free and ticketed events | Boulder Arts Week — a long-running celebration of all things creative — kicks off Friday with BMoCA’s Open Wall. A visitor checks out BMoCA’s Open Wall in 2018. Open Wall, an inclusive art show and sale, will kick off Boulder Arts Week. On ... |
| Dec 3, 2021 | Colorado Gives Day keeps arts nonprofits thriving in the face of pandemic setbacks | Since it launched in 2010, Colorado Gives Day has been beneficial to thousands of nonprofit groups in need of funding. Linda Cranston displays her artwork at the Firehouse Art Walk along Main Street in Longmont on July 18, 2020. (Cliff Gras... |
| Oct 14, 2021 | Tour Street Wise Boulder’s 31 new murals via e-bike with local DJ, The Vibrarian | Building sides, alleyways and underpasses throughout Boulder have gotten a lot more colorful thanks to Street Wise Boulder, the annual mural festival that took place last month. A collaborative mural by Jodie Herrera and Jay Bellicchiat, ak... |
| May 26, 2021 | Street Wise mural fest fundraiser brings music, painting and more to Boulder’s Bandshell Saturday | In 2019, the first Street Wise Boulder mural festival transformed building sides, bike trail underpasses and parking garages with large-scale works of art. Creatives climbed ladders, armed themselves with spray paint cans and roller brushes... |
