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Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2025: Earth Protectors
2025-07-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Earth Protectors addresses our need to adapt as a species to the Anthropocene: the new era in which the impact of humans overwhelms natural cycles with fires, floods, pollution, super typhoons, and a deadly virus. These challenges provide incontrovertible evidence for the necessity of systemic change. On Anne’s expeditions creating her art installations, she meets a new generation of women and men who are working to save our planet and is inspired by their commitment and their achievements. Her narrative recounts the stories and the diversity of these young protagonists, whom she calls “Earth Protectors”
Anne de Carbuccia, an environmental artist, captures the stories of a motley crew of people who decided to dedicate themselves to the planet’s wellbeing.
Directed by Anne de Carbuccia
Runtime: 96 Mins

Anne de Carbuccia

Anne de Carbuccia is an artist and filmmaker from Corsica, France. Since 2013 she has travelled to the world’s most remote locations to artistically document endangered environments, species and cultures. The focus of her work is to move past the human-centered era of today. Her art has been exhibited in museums and public institutions throughout Europe and the United States.
She is currently creating a mixed-media art series Follow the thread and Sacred Bodies, a photography project. She is also filming a five episode documentary series, Choose Earth.

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2025: Age Group Winner
2025-07-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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In 1980 Jay Helgerson shocked the world, becoming the first person to run a marathon a week for a year – each race completed in under three hours. For the last ten years, his daughter, filmmaker Alexandra Helgerson, followed him with a camera in order to understand the eccentric man who raised her. What she gets are his projected anxieties, his struggles with physical age and emotional distress, all while he endlessly trains for the Boston Marathon. But as Jay trains, the film is nearly derailed by Alexandra’s encounter with a life threatening illness. Ultimately, AGE GROUP WINNER is an affirmation of the will to live.
Directed by: Alexandra Helgerson
Length: 83 mins

Filmmaker Lex Helgerson will join us for a discussion

Alexandra Helgerson has worked as a filmmaker, actor, teacher and musician. She earned a degree in Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley, where she played basketball her freshman year. After working in publishing at Town&Country Magazine in New York, she began a career in acting. Notable roles include Viola and Rosaline for the American Shakespeare Center, Vivien in VIVIEN, and Brynn in HAPPY ENDING, a horror-comedy to be released for streaming and video on demand by Buffalo 8 on June 27th. AGE GROUP WINNER is her directorial debut. A recent survivor of sarcoma, Helgerson discovered Taylor Swift after chemotherapy, and cites Swift’s songwriting as an influence for her debut album HALCYON DAYS, which will be released in the fall of 2025.

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2025: How To Power A City
2025-07-20 13:00 - 14:15 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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A “solutions-focused climate story….[that] demonstrates the societal and human health impact that climate justice action — in this case, renewable energy — can have on individuals and communities.” — kawarthaNOW.com / ReFrame Film Festival
“An unprecedented glimpse into the material steps being taken to improve the energy economy for those curious about green investment and renewable energy redevelopment.” —Evan Robins, Arthur Press
“Watch it and give your sense of possibility a much-needed boost!”— Randall Amster, Georgetown University
From zeitgeist clean energy projects and early solar adopters to investors trying to bolster local economies with clean energy, to environmental justice communities fighting to keep the lights on, How To Power A City showcases the people leading the way to our nation’s clean energy future. What began as a look at solar and wind power in the large urban sprawls of New York City, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and Detroit/Highland Park soon expanded to include towns in mountainous Vermont and communities throughout Puerto Rico. This allows the film to subtly explore what it means to be a city and the malleability of developed environments, no matter the size. How To Power A City is a behind-the-scenes exploration of leadership, innovation, technology, public participation, and what energy transformation looks like in everyday situations.
Directed by Melanie La Rosa
Runtime: 73 mins

Melanie La Rosa will join for discussion

Melanie La Rosa is an award-winning filmmaker and professor. Her documentary, “How To Power A City” (2023) follows people leading renewable energy projects in six U.S. and Puerto Rico locales. She is a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the author of “Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution” (Lexington Books, 2022). Her films air nationally on PBS and have screened at festivals worldwide. Her articles appear in World War Zero, The Progressive, and other national publications, and she has won many competitive grants supporting her films.

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2025: A Life Among Elephants
2025-07-20 13:30 - 15:00 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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“A Life Among Elephants” is a documentary that chronicles the life and work of “Save the Elephants” founder, Iain Douglas-Hamilton. The film follows his journey from a pioneering scientist studying African elephants in Tanzania to a passionate conservationist fighting against the ivory trade. It explores his dedication to understanding and protecting these magnificent creatures and his lifelong mission to ensure their survival.
Directed by Nigel Pope
Runtime: 90 mins

Nigel Pope
Director & Writer

Nigel Pope is an award-winning creative leader with 30 years of experience in program development and production. He has overseen some of TV’s greatest hits including international ratings juggernaut BIG CAT WEEK and legendary kids’ gameshow RAVEN.
After 16 years at the BBC Natural History Unit where he oversaw a slate of shows including the Emmy-nominated SECRET LIFE OF ELEPHANTS and BAFTA winner SPRINGWATCH he launched Maramedia with Jackie Savery in 2010.
In May 2024, Maramedia announced Maradocs – a premium feature documentary label set up with long-term creative collaborator Justin Purefoy. This launched with A LIFE AMONG ELEPHANTS co-produced with world-leading NGO Save the Elephants.
A LIFE AMONG ELEPHANTS premiered on Arte and on Channel 4 in the UK. It has already been nominated or won several international awards including the Stone Award for Outstanding Artistry in Filmmaking at Washington’s 2025 environmental film festival (the DCEFF)

Parlando School of Musical Arts presents 101 Dalmatians KIDS
2025-07-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Based on the classic animated film, Disney’s 101 Dalmatians KIDS is a fur-raising adventure featuring Cruella De Vil, Disney’s most outrageous villain, and 101 of the most adorable heroes to set their paws onstage. Pet owners, Roger and Anita, live happily in London with their Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita, stalwart dogs devoted to raising their puppies. Everything is quiet until Anita’s former classmate, the monstrous Cruella De Vil, plots to steal the puppies for her new fur coat. The Dalmatians rally all the dogs of London for a daring rescue of the puppies from Cruella and her bumbling henchmen.
Music by Mel Leven, Randy Rogel, Richard Gibbs, Brian Smith, Dan Root, Martin Lee Fuller
Lyrics by Mel Leven, Randy Rogel, Richard Gibbs, Brian Smith, Dan Root, Martin Lee Fuller
Book adapted by Marcy Heisler
Additional lyrics by Marcy Heisler
Music adapted by Bryan Louiselle
Music arranged by Bryan Louiselle
Based on the Screenplay by Bill Peet and the novel, “The Hundred and One Dalmatians” by Dodie Smith.
Direction by Ace Reichelt
Assistant Direction by Allison Lydic
Music Direction by Nawledge Brewington
Performance Accompanist- Elle Tyler
Parlando’s 2025 Theatrical Season is generously sponsored by JenStuckeyHome. Whether buying, selling, or investing in real estate, Jennifer saves you time, every time. www.jenstuckeyhome.com

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2025: OCEAN with David Attenborough
2025-07-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Manny Almonte, our 2025 EARTH ANGEL HONOREE

Prior to Closing Night film, the festival will honor Manny Almonte with the festival’s EARTH ANGEL statuette for his work in environmental advocacy and education.
Growing up in the bustling city of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Almonte sought peace and freedom during weekend, holiday, and summer visits to his father’s home in Bonao, an inland town at the foothills of the Pico Duarte mountains. “I was able to experience nature beyond the beach. Usually you think of the Caribbean Sea and how beautiful the beaches are, but when you go into the land, you find beautiful mountains, streams, and wildlife—and that is something that I always looked forward to,” said Almonte. “I didn’t experience nature intentionally; it was simply life.”
Today, Almonte shares that way of life with young Black and Brown men from New York City and Denver and uses it as a vehicle to help them create connections with nature, their passions, their inner selves and their communities through his non-profit organization Young Masterminds Initiative and its Camping to Connect outdoor mentorship program.
Manny lives in Denver, Colorado.

OCEAN with DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, Biologist and host

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“Ocean is by turns awe-inspiring, informative, deeply angering and cautiously hopeful.” – Radio Times
OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than the  ocean.
The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet stable and flourishing.
Stunning, immersive cinematography showcases the wonder of life under the seas and exposes the realities and challenges facing our ocean as never-before-seen, from destructive fishing techniques to mass coral reef bleaching. Yet the story is one of optimism, with Attenborough pointing to inspirational stories from around the world to deliver his greatest message: the ocean can recover to a glory beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen.
Following the film, exclusively in cinemas, A DEEPER DIVE WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes audiences behind the scenes with additional footage and interviews on the making of OCEAN.
Directed by Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan, Keith Scholey
Runtime: 95 mins

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2025: Closing Night Film and Reception
2025-07-20 16:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Film at 4:00PM at Dairy Arts Center OCEAN with David Attenborough
Reception from 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Reception at Velvet Elk Lounge, on 13th Street
Libations & Appetizers, Live Music
RAFFLE PRIZES GALORE!
We suggest you park free at the Boulderado Hotel, Boulder Bookstore, or on street nearby

Artist Talk: Matter Over Mind Exhibition
2025-07-22 17:00 - 20:00 | McMahon Gallery, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Join us for an exciting Artist Talk in the Dairy Arts Center’s McMahon Gallery, featuring a panel discussion with some of the incredible artists behind the current Mind Over Matter exhibition. The panel will be guided by Dairy Arts Center’s Visual Arts Curator, Stella Witcher, as they lead a discussion with artists including Heather Schulte, Netta Ofer, Belgin Yucelen, and Andrea Garcia Vazquez.
The Matter Over Mind exhibition is an exploration into multidisciplinary innovation, boundary-pushing research, and the brilliant, experimental space where art and science collide. The exhibition brings together a vibrant community of radical thinkers and hands-on makers, in partnership with the University of Colorado Boulder and its ATLAS Institute, an interdisciplinary hub for creativity and invention.
The panel will dive into the artists’ creative processes, the significance of their work, and their engagement with themes central to Matter Over Mind. Following the discussion, a Q&A session will be held, allowing the audience to interact with the artists and gain a deeper understanding of their practices.
The event will take place in the McMahon Gallery, amidst the artwork on display. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with the artists and gain a deeper understanding of the impactful artwork featured in Matter over Mind!

The Day Iceland Stood Still
2025-07-22 18:30 - 20:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 22
In partnership with Boulder JCC. Oct. 24, 1975, Iceland: 90% of women just took the day off, and men scrambled to fulfill their duties, sometimes comically so. A gleeful, amazing tale of the feminist collective, “The Red Stockings”, and their search for equality. (Pamela Hogan, 2024, USA/Iceland, 1:10, NR)

Weaving Workshop: Coding Democracy (FREE DROP-IN SESSIONS)
2025-07-23 15:00 - 17:00 | McMahon Gallery, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
Join Steven Frost and Heather Schulte to create the second installment of the Coding Democracy series. We will be weaving a pattern inspired by the text of Parallel Lines, a play written by Nick Malakow, based on community Story Circles held in Boulder during 2024. Frost and Schulte will show participants how to weave on a four-harness loom, with all materials provided. Weaving hours will be from 2–5 PM in the main gallery. Folks can drop in any time during the open hours—no registration necessary.

Between the Mountain and the Sky
2025-07-23 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 23-27
After graduating high school, Maggie Doyne embarks on a gap year to Nepal, where she meets Tope, a resilient Nepalese orphan devoted to caring for other orphaned children. United in purpose, Maggie and Tope join forces to establish a children’s home, a women’s empowerment program, and a school for orphaned youth in Nepal. After being named CNN HERO, Maggie, guardian to over fifty Nepalese children, confronts an unimaginable loss. Following a chance encounter amidst her grief, Maggie allows a filmmaker into her life to document herself, her family, and soon enough, their falling in love. (Jeremy Power Regimbal, 2024, Canada, 1:32, NR)

Caught By the Tides
2025-07-23 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 23-27
The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides. Assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years—a beguiling mix of fiction and documentary, featuring a cascade of images taken from previous movies, unused scenes, and newly shot dramatic sequences—Caught by the Tides is a free-flowing work of unspoken longing, carried along more by music than dialogue as it looms around the edges of a poignant love story. The film mostly adheres to the perspective of Qiaoqiao (Jia’s immortal muse Zhao Tao) as she wanders an increasingly unrecognizable country in search of long-lost lover Bin (Li Zhubin), who left their home city of Datong seeking new financial prospects. The always captivating Zhao carries the film with her delicate expressiveness, while Jia constantly evokes cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change: of people, landscapes, cities, politics, ideas.. (Jia Zhangke, 2024, China, 1:51, NR)

Friday Night Weird: AJ Goes to the Dog Park
2025-07-25 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 25
A surreal and gag-driven comedy about an ordinary man named AJ, who enjoys a simple life in the midwest haven of Fargo, North Dakota. When his favorite dog park is taken away, it begins a chain reaction that completely upends his existence and sends him on an unforgettable odyssey to fight, fish, scrap, scrape and sap things back into place. (Toby Jones, 2025, USA, 1:19, NR)

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Codes of Dreamsoil
2025-07-28 08:00 - 17:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
TICKETS In between childhood wonder, idle reverie, and planetary grief, a meditation emerges on what it means to tend the subtle pulse that binds species and generations. Through disappearing rituals, spells against catastrophe, and the renewed power of aging bodies, these works inhabit the delicate spaces where intimacy meets enormity. How do we belong to our lives when our lives belong to something infinitely more vast?

Sneak Peek of the 15th Annual Crested Butte Film Festival
2025-07-28 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 28-29
Crested Butte Film Festival takes you around the world with a fantastic program of short films curated from its upcoming festival. You’ll see immigrant kids diving from the cliffs of Marseille, hikers finishing the Appalachian Trail. You’ll fall in love with “the most racist person I know” and be invited to a super-awkward, but triumphant wedding. All this and much more as Crested Butte Film Festival gives you a sampling of what we do and invites you to do so much more at our 15th annual festival, September 24 – 28 in Crested Butte, Colorado.
The list of short films includes:
Plongeurs
I’m the Most Racist Person I Know
Foxhole
Lighting Up the Dark
Strangers in the Same Shirt
Made of Grit
Pastrana
(approx. run time: 1:25)

Georgia O'Keeffe: The Brightness of Light
2025-07-30 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 30 – Aug 3
Georgia O’Keeffe is widely revered as the “Mother of American Modernism” and the greatest woman artist of the 20th century. In the 1920s, O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones, and the beauty of nature. She posed nude for shocking photographs by her lover, Alfred Stieglitz. But she denied the widespread belief that her paintings depicted sexual imagery. In the 1970s, living in her beloved New Mexico, she emerged as an iconic role model for American women. (Paul Wagner, 2024, USA, 1:58, NR)

Shoshana
2025-07-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 30 – Aug 3
In this edge-of-your-seat thriller inspired by real events, a British police officer and a Jewish woman fall in love amidst the political turmoil of 1930s Tel Aviv. With British control over Palestine precarious and conflict inevitable, everyone is forced to choose a side. From acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom (The Trip, A Mighty Heart). (Michael Winterbottom, 2024, UK, 2:01, NR)

The Body's Still Warm: Online Dating for Divorced, Desperate, and Everybody Else
2025-07-31 19:00 - 20:30 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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This comedic play is about a 62-year-old woman who is searching for love through online dating. Through her journey of political debates, grappling with social issues, and awful dates, she finds much more than a mate – she comes to find herself and realizes that love comes in very unexpected packages.

Frequent Flyers' Aerial Dance Festival SHOWCASE PERFORMANCE
2025-08-01 20:00 - 21:15 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Frequent Flyer’s 27th annual Aerial Dance Festival PERFORMANCE SHOWCASE brings together the world-class Faculty Artists of ADF 2025 in performance.
You will never see this mix of artists together anywhere else!
Performers:
Artoor Voskanian, Seattle Washington: dynamic lyra
Summer Lacy, New York: dance trapeze
Issac Endo, Boulder / Montreal: devised dance trapeze
Danielle Hendricks, Fresno California, Bungee choreography on Laurel Johnson
Valerie Morris, Colorado: stilts with rope & harness
Anastasia Timina, Colorado: Silks
Nancy Smith, Colorado: Aerial Window
Casey Pottle, Colorado: Loops
Ariana Papousek, Colorado: lyra
Ariana Papousek & Peter Holben, Colorado: Aerial Pyramid
Shows: Friday August 1, 8pm
Saturday August 2, 8pm
Sunday August 3, 2pm
(All 3 performances are the same)

Friday Night Weird: The Sound
2025-08-01 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 1
A group of climbers embarks on a dangerous climb that has been off-limits for years. What initially begins as an audacious expedition transforms into a battle for survival against a force that toys with them. (Brendan Devane, 2025, USA, 1:39, R)

Parlando School of Musical Arts presents New Musical Project
2025-08-02 14:00 - 15:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Join the fourth annual New Musical Project, a showcase of new, unproduced musicals in Boulder, CO. NEW THIS YEAR: We have two different performances as a part of this year’s festival!
FESTIVAL PERFORMANCE- Saturday, August 2nd at 2pm & Sunday, August 3rd at 2pm
Come enjoy scenes from three brand new musicals: Do No Harm (Book & Lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz, Music by Doug Katsaros); Nadia Half Dreaming (Book, Music, & Lyrics by Elle Tyler); Kairos (Book & Lyrics by Mel Hornyak, Music by Cassidy O’Connell). All together this show is jam-packed with exciting scenes and musical numbers from these brand-new works!
CABARET & STUDENT SHOWCASE PERFORMANCE- Saturday, August 2nd at 7:30pm
NEW THIS YEAR! One night only: a premiere of scenes and songs from Parlando student and New Musical Project alum Melody Blauw’s musical- The Happy Parts. In addition to this 30-minute premiere, NMP is also presenting a Cabaret featuring songs from the 10 NMP 2025 finalist musicals.
You don’t want to miss either of these spectacular performances!
Parlando’s 2025 Theatrical Season is generously sponsored by JenStuckeyHome. Whether buying, selling, or investing in real estate, Jennifer saves you time, every time. www.jenstuckeyhome.com
New Musical Project is generously sponsored by Lisa & Jeff Navarre.

Happy Hour Draft Exchange
2025-08-07 17:00 - 19:00 | Colorado
The Fireside Ink Draft Exchange has moved to a new location! Check www.firesideinkwriters.org for more information.
Our once-a-month draft exchange is for writers of all genres who are interested in taking their drafts to the next level and joining a community of writers in the spirit of support and accountability. Less rigorous than a workshop, these exchanges offer the opportunity to share a short piece of writing in real time and receive immediate feedback, as well as guidance on the multitude of paths to publication. Whether you have specific questions or just need a little encouragement, join us for this relaxed gathering facilitated by seasoned writers, Brenda Kahn and/or Loie Rawding. First Thursday of every month, 5:00-7:00pm. Suggested donation: $20. Limit of 8 Registrants Per Session.

Tapestry Theatre Company: Bye Bye Birdie
2025-08-08 18:00 - 20:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Step back into the rockin’ 1950s with Tapestry Theatre’s summer production of Bye Bye Birdie, live on stage August 8–10, 2025! This beloved Broadway classic bursts with catchy tunes, big laughs, and high-energy dance numbers as teen idol Conrad Birdie shakes up the small town of Sweet Apple, Ohio. Watch as swooning fans, quirky parents, and starstruck teenagers get swept up in the excitement—and chaos—of one unforgettable farewell performance.
Join us for a heartwarming, hilarious celebration of music, mayhem, and the magic of live theatre. Whether you’re a longtime fan or discovering Bye Bye Birdie for the first time, you won’t want to miss this toe-tapping, family-friendly event. Mark your calendars and get ready to put on a happy face with Tapestry Theatre this August!

BETC: Cry it Out
2025-08-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Jessie is a frazzled corporate lawyer in a cutthroat Manhattan firm. Lina dropped out of her community college and has a life circumscribed by her working class roots on Long Island. The two newly minted moms share one thing in common — they are both feeling isolated and trapped at home with their new babies.
In the yard between their houses — as far as their baby monitors will reach — they bond over sleep deprivation, unreliable childcare and “having it all.”
Molly Smith Metzler’s Cry It Out is a smart, candid comedy about parenthood and class in America today — and the hard choices all mothers make.

Colorado Brazil Fest
2025-08-09 17:00 - 21:00 | Boulder Bandshell, Canyon Boulevard, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Colorado Brazil Fest offers an exciting evening of live music and dance that celebrates the depth and energy of Brazilian culture. Get swept into the spirit of Brazil with Gisele Duquè, a bold new voice in Brazilian music, delivering a night of samba, soul, and swing with raw energy and refined artistry. Dance performances by Samba Colorado and Escola de Samba Denver bring colorful energy to the stage. The high energy continues with Dandha da Hora—a masterful singer and dancer from Salvador, Bahia and longtime member of the legendary Afro-Brazilian group Ilê Aiyê—joined by Ginga band and the powerful percussion of Bateria Alegria — bringing the festival to a joyful and unforgettable close.
Gisele Duquè started her singing career at the age of 12, performing at restaurants, private parties, and weddings. She spent this time hoping and eager for something bigger. When this hope came to fruition, it took her from her home in Brazil to tour through China, Hong Kong and Macau. The culmination of this tour saw her living at sea, performing for Celebrity Cruise Lines and bringing her music to over 13 different countries. Gisele’s all-embracing style has been influenced by the multitude of styles and languages she’s been exposed to, ranging from bossa nova and samba to soul and rock n’ roll. Singing in Portuguese, English, Spanish and sometimes even Chinese, Gisele is an eclectic songstress whose versatility and charm can carry her from an intimate show with a small crowd to a fervent carnival.
Dandha Da Hora: Born and raised in Salvador, Bahia, Dandha Da Hora has been a member of Ilê Aiyê, one of Brazil’s most important musical and cultural institutions, since she was 6 years old. A master dancer, as well as vocalist and percussionist, Dandha invokes the incredible spirit of Ilê Aiyê and Salvador, Bahia, each time she steps onstage. As a lead dancer with Ilê Aiyê, Dandha toured internationally and has shared the stage with many of Brazil’s most renowned artists such as Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil and Daniela Mercury. In addition to performing with Ilê Aiyê and SambaDá, Dandha has performed with Casa Samba (New Orleans, LA), SambaDendê and Bateria Alegria (Boulder, CO), Banda Remelexo and Bahia Soul (Bay Area, CA).
Members of Ginga: Cultivated in Boulder, Colorado and composed of some of the best jazz, classical and salsa musicians on the Front Range, Ginga is the powerhouse Brazilian band in Colorado. The members of Ginga accompanying Dandha are Greg LaLiberte (flute, saxophones, percussion, vocals), Bill Kopper (acoustic 6 & 7 string guitars, electric guitar, vocals), Bill McCrossen (Bass), Raoul Rossiter (drums, percussion, vocals), Carl Dixon (percussion, vocals), and Vincent Gonzalez (percussion, vocals).
Bateria Alegria is the primary performing ensemble of the Boulder Samba School, composed of 20-30 percussionists and led by Music Director Carl Dixon. The ensemble plays percussion-based styles of music from Rio de Janeiro (samba batucada) and Salvador (samba reggae). The music incorporates a mixture of African, European, and indigenous influences and traditions. These styles of music are traditionally played during the carnival parades throughout Brazil and can be heard in Brazilian concert stages, dance clubs, neighborhoods, and soccer matches.
Escola de Samba Denver with Bella Diva: Escola de Samba Denver is the newest international addition to the original Escola de Samba Sydney in Australia, directed by renowned performing artist and instructor Sashya Jay. Escola de Samba Denver carries on Escola de Samba Sydney’s dedication to providing progressive Brazilian dance education that is aligned with the latest and evolving dance techniques and artistic styles in Brazil, with authenticity and respect for the roots of the culture at its core.
Samba Colorado: Since its founding in 2013, Samba Colorado is devoted to bringing together people from all walks of life in an artistic, educational, and positive community by sharing the joy and beauty of Brazilian culture and dance. They offer classes, workshops, dance residencies as well as energetic and exciting performances for both community and private events.

Classics with Jeffrey Kash: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2025-08-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 11
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar® at the 1964 Academy Awards®, this is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane. This episode features Sophia’s famous striptease, which was recreated 30 years later in Robert Altman’s Ready To Wear. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica (Two Women, Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious. (Vittorio de Sica, 1963, Italy, 1:59, NR)

BETC: Elizabeth I: In Her Own Words
2025-08-12 19:00 - 20:30 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Having thrilled audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, BETC favorite Tamara Meneghini and her artistic collaborators now bring their riveting, one-woman show to Boulder!
This passionate and revealing play – threaded throughout with the monarch’s own words and passages from Shakespeare’s plays –shares the humanity, demands, and deep complication of being a woman and a leader nearing the end of her life.

Sunlight
2025-08-13 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 13-17
This hilariously dark and unconventional love story, presented by Christopher Guest (Spinal Tap), has a surprisingly authentic emotional core. In New Mexico, Roy, a dysfunctional Radio host is pulled from the noose by Monkey-clad Jane, who is escaping a controlling relationship with her dead mum’s toyboy husband. Together they dig up the grave of Roy’s blackbelt-in-dipshit dad to retrieve the watch they hope will fund a new life built on a shaky dream. This is beauty and the beast in reverse. Love grows between Roy and Jane, who finds a ballsy new voice from within the fur but feels she can’t come out until she is truly loved. (Nina Conti, 2025, USA, 1:36, treat as R)

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025-08-13 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Aug 13-17
In 1987, at the age of just 21, Marlee Matlin shattered expectations as the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award® for her groundbreaking performance in Children of a Lesser God. Catapulted into the spotlight, she seized the moment to challenge an industry unprepared for her immense talent, emerging as a trailblazer not only as a performer but also as an author and activist. Matlin’s incredible journey continued with standout roles in acclaimed projects such as The West Wing and the Oscar-winning CODA, all while relentlessly advocating for greater inclusion and accessibility both within Hollywood and beyond its borders. Matlin opens up about her personal and professional struggles – her meteoric rise to fame, the challenges of navigating a predominantly hearing industry, the pain of a tumultuous high-profile relationship, getting sober and years of being overlooked by Hollywood – alongside her many triumphs. (Shoshannah Stern, 2025, USA, 1:36, NR)
TALKBACK: Stay after the film on Aug. 13 for a Talkback led by Kevin Finkelstein.

Kevin Finkelstein is a graduate student in CU Boulder’s Theatre & Performance Studies program whose work bridges decades of professional experience and a deep commitment to accessible, socially engaged performance. Over the past 30 years, Kevin has worn many creative hats—playwright, director, composer, producer, actor, and filmmaker—contributing to productions from Manhattan to Miami, and from NPR to the AFI Silver Theatre.
As a hard-of-hearing artist and award-winning theatre maker, Kevin is passionate about reimagining classic texts for contemporary audiences and using performance as a tool for civic dialogue. His current research in Colorado explores how disability and integrated performance intersect with activism and classical works. Kevin holds a BA in History and Philosophy from UMGC, where his capstone focused on the Federal Theatre Project, Orson Welles, and the so-called Voodoo Macbeth. More information can be found here.
If you require a an ASL interpreter for the talkback on Aug. 13, please contact us at info@thedairy.org.

Friday Night Weird: Brush of the God
2025-08-15 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
TICKETS
Aug 15
For decades master model-maker and effects artisan Keizo Murase has crafted memorable monster costumes for the GODZILLA, GAMERA,
DAIMAJIN, KAMEN RIDER and ULTRAMAN franchises. At the age of 88, Murase has completed his first feature film as a director, and it’s truly something special. The kaiju scenes are of course a joy, but more than it is a generously self-referential rolic, a venerable master’s reflection on his extensive legacy. In this movie a boy comes across a rabbit, guardian of a magical brush to prevent the Yamata no Orochi from re-emerging in the modern world. (Keizô Murase, 2024, Japan, 1:14, NR)
