Donate & Decorate sale
The Colorado builder Berkeley Homes is hosting a furniture and accessories sale at 10 a.m. Saturday. Approximately 500 items with a total retail value of more than $75,000 are in the sale including framed art, silk plants and floral arrangements, furniture, bedding, throw pillows, cookware and barware. The event will be at 6563 S. Potomac Court in The Village at Centennial, north of Arapahoe Road at Potomac Street. All proceeds from the sale will benefit The Bridge Project, a nonprofit organization for at-risk and low-income children. Details at .
Free home classes
Swank Space is north Denver’s “home fashion boutique” for playful, eco-smart urban living. The store is launching a series of Tuesday-night design workshops from 7 to 8 p.m. This Tuesday, single gentlemen can learn how to forge sophisticated homes in “The Bachelor Pad” class. Other upcoming topics include “The Space Retreat,” a class about creating soothing rooms, on Oct. 30; “The Merge and Purge,” a class where new couples learn how to pull their things together in one space, on Nov. 6; and “The Empty Nest,” a workshop about creating a dream home after the kids are grown and gone, on Nov. 13. Register at . or call 720-855-0725. Swank Space is located in Highland at 3615 W. 32nd Ave.
Globe-trotting design
“Substance: Diverse Practices From the Periphery” is the name for two design-minded exhibits at the Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for Visual Art (CVA) and the Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus. Both were engineered by professor and curator Lisa Abendroth. “I’m interested in how design changes lives and meets unaddressed needs,” Abendroth says. Objects on display range from a special kids toothbrush to a filter for bacterially contaminated water. The exhibit is on view at the Emmanuel Gallery through Oct. 27, and at CVA through Nov. 9.
