TODAY
Doors wide open
Durango Open
Studios Tour
Pick up a map at
the Strater Hotel,
666 Main Ave., Durango, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. | Free
Seventeen fine artists have thrown open their doors for Durango’s second annual open- studio tour. Spend the day poking around in the private worlds of artists including Paul Folwell, right, a second- generation painter and sixth-generation Coloradan who paints mostly landscapes, and David Mallin, who works whimsy into his sleek, sculptural furniture.
MORE STUDIO TOURS
Saturday, 10 a.m-4 p.m., Trinidad Area Arts Council tour of 22 private studios | Begins at the First Street Gallery, 150 E. First St. in Trinidad. | Info: 719-846-1441 trinidadarts.org
Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, Ninth annual Loveland Art Stroll through studios and galleries | See sculpting, painting and other works in progress. Bronze Services’ foundry will be open 10 a.m.-noon | Maps available at the Loveland Museum and Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave. | Free
Oct. 1-2 and 8-9, noon-6 p.m., 11th-annual Boulder Open Studios, tour of 144 studios |
Artists’ reception 6-9 p.m. Friday | Guides available at the Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd. | Info: openstudios.org
Through Oct. 16, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sundays, Longmont Studio Tour Exhibition | Longmont Museum & Cultural Center, 400 Quail Road
MORE FOR TODAY
FREE DAY, Denver Museum of Nature & Science | Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | 2001 Colorado Blvd.
11 a.m-5 p.m., Fourth annual Winery at Holy Cross Abbey Harvest Festival | Grapes for the 2005 Wild Cañon Harvest wine will be crushed and Ocean Jazz will play 1-4 p.m., artist Edward J. Adamic autographing posters and cards | 3011 E. U.S. 50 in Cañon City
10 a.m-5 p.m., Sunshine Historic School House Arts and Crafts Festival | Directions: Take Mapleton Street in Boulder west into Sunshine Canyon for 5 miles and look for the signs | Info: 303-443-0121
11 a.m-5 p.m., Park Hill Home Tour | Celebrating placement on the National Register of Historic Places | $12 adults, $8 seniors, $4 children 6-12 | Tickets: St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2201 Dexter St. in Denver
MORE FOR THIS WEEK
TUESDAY, New traditionalist architect and author Russell Versaci | Discusses his new book “Creating a New Old House,” 7 p.m. at Magnolia Hotel, 818 17th St. in Denver. Tickets $35. Info:
historicdenver.org or 303-534-5288
FRIDAY, Highlights of the CU Art Museum’s Permanent Collection | Discussion led by curator Lisa Tamaris Becker. 7 p.m. in the museum in the Sibell Wolle Fine Arts Building, University of Colorado at Boulder. Free.
FRIDAY, Fall color tree walk | Alan Nelson, grounds manager at CU-Boulder, gives a free presentation at 5 p.m. | Meet at the south entrance of the CU Museum of Natural History on the campus | Info: 303-492-6892 or cumuseum.colorado.edu
NEXT WEEKEND
A concert to harp on
Harp Fantasia by the Mile High Chapter
of the American Harp Society
Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway lakewood.org
We went to the Oktoberfest Sea of Accordions concert, and we plan to be there when hundreds of tubas converge on Larimer Square in December, but we had no idea that musicians tied to so elegant an instrument as the harp would think to gather for a mass concert. But there it is. Fifty student, amateur, professional, lever and pedal harpists conducted by Robert Kennedy, performing classical and popular music. $10 for adults, $5 for kids, students and seniors. Some proceeds will benefit Hurricane Katrina victims.
MORE FOR SATURDAY
FREE DAY, Denver Zoo Hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. | 2300 Steele St.
10 a.m.-5 p.m., Kiwanis Club of Loveland Oktoberfest | Brats, sauerkraut, burgers, brews and polka. Lots of polka. | Loveland Museum and Gallery, 503 N. Lincoln Ave.
10 a.m.-4 p.m., Northern Colorado Solar Tour of homes in Fort Collins, Loveland and Livermore | Self guided | $5 adult; children 12 and under free | Get a guidebook at the Fort Collins Senior Center, 1200 Raintree Drive; Advance sales at Café Amore, 255 Linden St., Fort Collins | Info:
ncres.org/tour2005.htm
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Marczyk Fine Foods’ annual pig roast | Barbecue, live bluegrass, chile roasting, organic cider and Western Slope apples | $11.95 for a plate of ‘cue, two sides, drink and dessert | 17th Avenue and Clarkson Street in Denver’s Uptown neighborhood
9 a.m.-5 p.m., Market Day at Osborn Farm in Loveland | Food, cowboy music and poetry, a petting zoo and hayrides pulled by antique tractors | Free | Take Exit 255 off of I-25 and go west on Colo. 402 toward Loveland for 3 1/2 miles. Watch for an old green truck with a pumpkin family standing around it.
10 a.m., Junior Naturalist training | For children 7-12, led by volunteer naturalist Sharon Logan and a State Forest Service firefighter | Visitor Center in Castlewood Canyon State Park, 2989 S. Colorado 83, Franktown | A $5 daily State Parks pass is required. | Info: 303-688-5242
