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Colorado Potters Guild will hold its Annual Fall Show and Sale Nov. 5-7 at First Plymouth Congregational Church, 3501 S. Colorado Blvd., Englewood (Corner of East Hampden Avenue). Area art lovers flock to this event with holiday shopping lists in hand, knowing that members of the over-40-year-old guild will bring more than 2,000 hand-crafted ceramic pieces, functional and sculptural.
Jean Boch is one of five Littleton artists participating this year. Others are Jean Ajayi, Helen Hutchinson, Denise Simons, Marylou Steenrod. Boch, who grew up in Colorado, has been a potter since 1971. In recent years, she has been lugging her equipment around the country, including to Alaska, but is now back in Littleton with a home studio and her longtime Colorado Potters Guild connection. She makes functional stoneware, such as casseroles and dishes and creates raku-fired art pieces: bird feeders and table lamps. Show hours: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. For more information, see www.coloradopotters.org.
“The Best of Sacred Concerts by Duke Ellington” will be performed at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Although best known as a jazz legend, in the last decade of his life, Ellington wrote three somewhat controversial Sacred Concerts, fusing jazz with sacred music, calling them “the most important thing I have ever done,” according to St. Luke’s writer Katie Newall. The concert will feature the Chancel Choir, Ministers of Swing Jazz Band, tap dancer Alexis Dear and several soloists. Admission is by donation and the concert is open to the community. For information, call Jim Ramsey, director of music and arts at St. Luke’s, 303-791-0659 x 23.
“Pride and Prejudice” is the next production of the Highlands Ranch High School Theater Department, opening November 12.
Scott Dahm, who teaches sixth grade at Summit View Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, will be reading from his new novel, “Holly Hill,” and signing copies, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch, 9315 Dorchester St. A tale of romance interfered with by a scheming mother and a sequel to the story 10 years later. Available in paper and hardback. 303-470-7050.
Denver Allied Arts Guild members present a juried show through Jan. 5 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., downtown Littleton. Jackie McFarland was juror for the show that includes watercolors, acrylics, oils, mixed media. The guild was started in 1962 and meets once a month at Augustana Lutheran Church for lectures and demonstrations. The show is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and during performances. (“Oliver” opens Nov. 13). For information, see www.daagonline.com.
Hilliard Moore of Highlands Ranch announced a Denver Arts Week show at his Great Western Art Gallery, 1455 Curtis St., Denver. Opening Nov. 6, an exhibit featuring Jerry Bargar, Tanya Farreras and Jon Mullen, photographers and Marie Ungemah and Jessica Wicken, painters. Works by the gallery’s usual artists will also be displayed. From Nov. 16 to Jan. 31, Winter in the Cities activities continue with a raffle, hot chocolate and free gift wrap. A special show of miniatures will be featured Dec. 4 and 5 for the Parade of Lights in Denver. 303-396-2787, www.greatwesternartgalleryllc.com.
The Rosetta Chamber Society will return to Englewood at 2 p.m. Nov. 8, for “A Musical Offering by J. S. Bach,” an Englewood Arts Presents concert in Hampden Hall, Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Colorado Symphony Orchestra Associate Conductor Scott O’Neill directs the group and violinist Rachel Segal and Flutist Christina Jennings will be featured. The story is that J.S. Bach went to visit his son Carl Philip Emmanuel, court composer to the Prussian ruler Frederick the Great, who challenged Bach to improvise a fugue on a theme Frederick had written. The response was the basis for what is now known as “A Musical Offering.”
The ensemble will perform excerpts from that work as well as the “Chaconne” from Bach’s D Minor Partita with violinist and the “A Minor Flute Sonata.” There will be an interactive discussion about the historical encounter and the masterpiece it spawned. Tickets: $15/$12/$5. www.englewoodarts.org, 303-806-8196.
“Holiday Express” has steamed into the Depot Arts Center, 2069 W. Powers Ave., bearing a load of arts and crafts that are fine for gift-giving: paintings, photographs, jewelry, ceramics, toys and more. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays with extended hours Nov. 29, Dec. 20, 21, 22. 303-795-0781.
Correction: “Embrace!,” an exhibition of site-specific installations by 17 international artists in the Daniel Libeskind-designed Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, opens Nov. 14 and runs through April 4, 2010. A series of classes, lectures and related programming will be offered. A two part catalog will be available: Volume 1 will be ready Nov. 14 with a history of installation art and introduction to each of 17 participants. Volume 2, finalized later, will document the installation process and artists’ perspectives on finished works. www.denverartmuseum.org, 720-865-5000.
Planina, the Eastern European folk music and dance group, will appear at at 3 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle, in a family program. Fee: $1 per person. 303-708-3513.
The Moscow String Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in Littleton United Methodist Church’s Fine Arts Series, at 5984 S. Datura St., Littleton. Members are violinists Eugenia Alikhanova and Galina Kokhanovskaia, violist Tatiana Kokhanovskaia and cellist Olga Ogranovitch, all graduates of Moscow’s two leading conservatories; the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin Music Institute. Admission is free, donations are welcome. 303-794-6379.
“ Enjoy a “Night at the Littleton Museum” from 5 to 10 p.m. Nov. 7 as a part of numerous, mostly free Denver Arts Week events throughout the metro area. The historic farms will be open, with bonfires, hot cider, games and conversation in the 1860 and 1890 farm houses. Inside the museum, at 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, visit the galleries, which include Littleton’s Own an Original Exhibit, and enjoy jazz by the Park Hill Brass Quintet, with performances at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:15 p.m. Other arts week highlights: Colorado Chamber Players at Museo de las Americas; Saturday Night free openings at many Denver metro area museums; First Friday (Nov. 6) events at galleries throughout the metro area: Santa Fe Drive (including Macy Dorf’s Artists on Santa Fe), Golden Triangle, Tennyson and 44th, Belmar Block 7, RiNo, River North Arts District, Downtown Denver. Sunday On Stage completes the first weekend. For detailed information and lists of participants, visit www.denver.org/DenverArtsWeek.
Parker Writers Group will meet at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Lone Tree Library Meeting Room, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway. Note change of venue during construction at Parker Library. The speaker will be Douglas County Coroner Wes Riber, who will explain how coroners interact with a medical legal death investigation. Writers who have written a death scene are invited to bring them for review. Open to anyone interested in writing. Questions? Email parkerwritersgroup@gmail.com.
A Holiday Awards Show is presented by Heritage Fine Arts Guild Nov. 10 to Jan. 3 at South Fellowship Hall, 6560 S. Broadway, Littleton. A reception will be 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 10. The hall is open for visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Parker Artists Guild presents a Miniature Art Show through Dec. 14 at the Parker Mainstreet Center, 19650 E. Mainstreet.
“Seasons of Parenting” will be a speaker/author/book-signing event from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 12 at Kunjani Coffee, 10009 Jordan Rd., Parker. Speakers: Meghan DiMara, Michele Cushatt, Dianne Daniels, Selah the Scribe. to reserve a seat, email contact@sensorybibleexperiences.com or call Selah Cohen, 720-346-8278.
Art by elementary students will be displayed in November at Highlands Ranch Library, followed in December with works by Secondary students. Highlands Ranch Library is at 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., 303-791-READ.
Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle, Lone Tree, as part of South Suburban Parks and Recreation Cultural Arts Performances. Appropriate for all ages. Information: 303-483-7016.
Entries are invited for the Greater Castle Rock Arts Guild’s 6th Annual Romancing the Arts Show, with a deadline date of Dec. 1 for the show scheduled to open Feb. 2, with a Feb. 12 reception when cash prizes will be awarded. Open to any artist residing along the Front Range of Colorado. Entry forms are found at www.gcrag.org. Show dates: Feb. 2 to March 11, 2010 at Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock.
“Salon du Musee” features an exhibit of works by contemporary artists. It has held a sale to benefit the Denver Art Museum and other organizations. This year, director Natalie Rekstad-Lynn has asked the 17 artists who are involved in “Embrace!” a show opening Nov. 14 in the Hamilton Building, to contribute small works for a preliminary exhibit and sale in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries of the Hamilton Building. It will be open Nov. 1 to 14, culminating in a Soiree and Fine Art Sale on Nov. 14 (Tickets $75/$125/$350). Many artists will be present at the event. Admission to the exhibit is included in general admission. For Soiree information, see www.salon-d-arts.org. Tickets can be purchased at blacktie-colorado.com.
Visit www.hudsonholiday.com for news about the upcoming lighting display planned Nov. 21 through Jan. 3 on selected evenings at Hudson Gardens as a collaboration between the Gardens and Museum of Outdoor Arts, opening Nov. 21. Weekends at first, expanded later in December). Expect lighted sculptures, whimsical scenes, electric sheep, animals on parade, music, horse and wagon rides and more... State of the art, eco -friendly LED lights are featured. Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. (last ticket sold at 8:30 p.m.) Hudson Gardens is located at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. 303-797-8565.
Jean Boch is one of five Littleton artists participating this year. Others are Jean Ajayi, Helen Hutchinson, Denise Simons, Marylou Steenrod. Boch, who grew up in Colorado, has been a potter since 1971. In recent years, she has been lugging her equipment around the country, including to Alaska, but is now back in Littleton with a home studio and her longtime Colorado Potters Guild connection. She makes functional stoneware, such as casseroles and dishes and creates raku-fired art pieces: bird feeders and table lamps. Show hours: 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7. For more information, see www.coloradopotters.org.
“The Best of Sacred Concerts by Duke Ellington” will be performed at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, 8817 S. Broadway, Highlands Ranch. Although best known as a jazz legend, in the last decade of his life, Ellington wrote three somewhat controversial Sacred Concerts, fusing jazz with sacred music, calling them “the most important thing I have ever done,” according to St. Luke’s writer Katie Newall. The concert will feature the Chancel Choir, Ministers of Swing Jazz Band, tap dancer Alexis Dear and several soloists. Admission is by donation and the concert is open to the community. For information, call Jim Ramsey, director of music and arts at St. Luke’s, 303-791-0659 x 23.
“Pride and Prejudice” is the next production of the Highlands Ranch High School Theater Department, opening November 12.
Scott Dahm, who teaches sixth grade at Summit View Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, will be reading from his new novel, “Holly Hill,” and signing copies, at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at Tattered Cover Highlands Ranch, 9315 Dorchester St. A tale of romance interfered with by a scheming mother and a sequel to the story 10 years later. Available in paper and hardback. 303-470-7050.
Denver Allied Arts Guild members present a juried show through Jan. 5 at Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 W. Main St., downtown Littleton. Jackie McFarland was juror for the show that includes watercolors, acrylics, oils, mixed media. The guild was started in 1962 and meets once a month at Augustana Lutheran Church for lectures and demonstrations. The show is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and during performances. (“Oliver” opens Nov. 13). For information, see www.daagonline.com.
Hilliard Moore of Highlands Ranch announced a Denver Arts Week show at his Great Western Art Gallery, 1455 Curtis St., Denver. Opening Nov. 6, an exhibit featuring Jerry Bargar, Tanya Farreras and Jon Mullen, photographers and Marie Ungemah and Jessica Wicken, painters. Works by the gallery’s usual artists will also be displayed. From Nov. 16 to Jan. 31, Winter in the Cities activities continue with a raffle, hot chocolate and free gift wrap. A special show of miniatures will be featured Dec. 4 and 5 for the Parade of Lights in Denver. 303-396-2787, www.greatwesternartgalleryllc.com.
The Rosetta Chamber Society will return to Englewood at 2 p.m. Nov. 8, for “A Musical Offering by J. S. Bach,” an Englewood Arts Presents concert in Hampden Hall, Englewood Civic Center, 1000 Englewood Parkway. Colorado Symphony Orchestra Associate Conductor Scott O’Neill directs the group and violinist Rachel Segal and Flutist Christina Jennings will be featured. The story is that J.S. Bach went to visit his son Carl Philip Emmanuel, court composer to the Prussian ruler Frederick the Great, who challenged Bach to improvise a fugue on a theme Frederick had written. The response was the basis for what is now known as “A Musical Offering.”
The ensemble will perform excerpts from that work as well as the “Chaconne” from Bach’s D Minor Partita with violinist and the “A Minor Flute Sonata.” There will be an interactive discussion about the historical encounter and the masterpiece it spawned. Tickets: $15/$12/$5. www.englewoodarts.org, 303-806-8196.
“Holiday Express” has steamed into the Depot Arts Center, 2069 W. Powers Ave., bearing a load of arts and crafts that are fine for gift-giving: paintings, photographs, jewelry, ceramics, toys and more. Hours: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays with extended hours Nov. 29, Dec. 20, 21, 22. 303-795-0781.
Correction: “Embrace!,” an exhibition of site-specific installations by 17 international artists in the Daniel Libeskind-designed Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, opens Nov. 14 and runs through April 4, 2010. A series of classes, lectures and related programming will be offered. A two part catalog will be available: Volume 1 will be ready Nov. 14 with a history of installation art and introduction to each of 17 participants. Volume 2, finalized later, will document the installation process and artists’ perspectives on finished works. www.denverartmuseum.org, 720-865-5000.
Planina, the Eastern European folk music and dance group, will appear at at 3 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle, in a family program. Fee: $1 per person. 303-708-3513.
The Moscow String Quartet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 13 in Littleton United Methodist Church’s Fine Arts Series, at 5984 S. Datura St., Littleton. Members are violinists Eugenia Alikhanova and Galina Kokhanovskaia, violist Tatiana Kokhanovskaia and cellist Olga Ogranovitch, all graduates of Moscow’s two leading conservatories; the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin Music Institute. Admission is free, donations are welcome. 303-794-6379.
“ Enjoy a “Night at the Littleton Museum” from 5 to 10 p.m. Nov. 7 as a part of numerous, mostly free Denver Arts Week events throughout the metro area. The historic farms will be open, with bonfires, hot cider, games and conversation in the 1860 and 1890 farm houses. Inside the museum, at 6028 S. Gallup St., Littleton, visit the galleries, which include Littleton’s Own an Original Exhibit, and enjoy jazz by the Park Hill Brass Quintet, with performances at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:15 p.m. Other arts week highlights: Colorado Chamber Players at Museo de las Americas; Saturday Night free openings at many Denver metro area museums; First Friday (Nov. 6) events at galleries throughout the metro area: Santa Fe Drive (including Macy Dorf’s Artists on Santa Fe), Golden Triangle, Tennyson and 44th, Belmar Block 7, RiNo, River North Arts District, Downtown Denver. Sunday On Stage completes the first weekend. For detailed information and lists of participants, visit www.denver.org/DenverArtsWeek.
Parker Writers Group will meet at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Lone Tree Library Meeting Room, 8827 Lone Tree Parkway. Note change of venue during construction at Parker Library. The speaker will be Douglas County Coroner Wes Riber, who will explain how coroners interact with a medical legal death investigation. Writers who have written a death scene are invited to bring them for review. Open to anyone interested in writing. Questions? Email parkerwritersgroup@gmail.com.
A Holiday Awards Show is presented by Heritage Fine Arts Guild Nov. 10 to Jan. 3 at South Fellowship Hall, 6560 S. Broadway, Littleton. A reception will be 6 to 7 p.m. Nov. 10. The hall is open for visitors from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Parker Artists Guild presents a Miniature Art Show through Dec. 14 at the Parker Mainstreet Center, 19650 E. Mainstreet.
“Seasons of Parenting” will be a speaker/author/book-signing event from 7 to 9 p.m. Nov. 12 at Kunjani Coffee, 10009 Jordan Rd., Parker. Speakers: Meghan DiMara, Michele Cushatt, Dianne Daniels, Selah the Scribe. to reserve a seat, email contact@sensorybibleexperiences.com or call Selah Cohen, 720-346-8278.
Art by elementary students will be displayed in November at Highlands Ranch Library, followed in December with works by Secondary students. Highlands Ranch Library is at 9292 Ridgeline Blvd., 303-791-READ.
Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher will perform a free concert at 2 p.m. Nov. 8 at Lone Tree Recreation Center, 10249 Ridgegate Circle, Lone Tree, as part of South Suburban Parks and Recreation Cultural Arts Performances. Appropriate for all ages. Information: 303-483-7016.
Entries are invited for the Greater Castle Rock Arts Guild’s 6th Annual Romancing the Arts Show, with a deadline date of Dec. 1 for the show scheduled to open Feb. 2, with a Feb. 12 reception when cash prizes will be awarded. Open to any artist residing along the Front Range of Colorado. Entry forms are found at www.gcrag.org. Show dates: Feb. 2 to March 11, 2010 at Philip S. Miller Library in Castle Rock.
“Salon du Musee” features an exhibit of works by contemporary artists. It has held a sale to benefit the Denver Art Museum and other organizations. This year, director Natalie Rekstad-Lynn has asked the 17 artists who are involved in “Embrace!” a show opening Nov. 14 in the Hamilton Building, to contribute small works for a preliminary exhibit and sale in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries of the Hamilton Building. It will be open Nov. 1 to 14, culminating in a Soiree and Fine Art Sale on Nov. 14 (Tickets $75/$125/$350). Many artists will be present at the event. Admission to the exhibit is included in general admission. For Soiree information, see www.salon-d-arts.org. Tickets can be purchased at blacktie-colorado.com.
Visit www.hudsonholiday.com for news about the upcoming lighting display planned Nov. 21 through Jan. 3 on selected evenings at Hudson Gardens as a collaboration between the Gardens and Museum of Outdoor Arts, opening Nov. 21. Weekends at first, expanded later in December). Expect lighted sculptures, whimsical scenes, electric sheep, animals on parade, music, horse and wagon rides and more... State of the art, eco -friendly LED lights are featured. Hours: 5 to 9 p.m. (last ticket sold at 8:30 p.m.) Hudson Gardens is located at 6115 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton. 303-797-8565.
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