Colorado Ballet tips its hat to Halloween by reprising the popular “Dracula” in performances this weekend at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.
And while it’s a bloody wonderful production, there was nothing scary about the way the company launched its 47th season. Longtime trustee Dick Saunders hosted a cocktail party in the gardens of his Cherry Hills Village home.
In addition to Saunders, a vice president of the board and head of its fundraising council, the “dear friends and community leaders” who were thanked at the twilight bash were Raydean Acevedo; Liz and Bill Armstrong; Merle Chambers and Hugh Grant; and Anne and Jim Hillary.
Acevedo and Anne Hillary are Colorado Ballet trustees; Liz Armstrong was president of the Colorado Ballet Auxiliary in 2000; Merle Chambers and Hugh Grant, along with the Armstrongs, are among the company’s major donors.
Guests were welcomed by board chair Denise Sanderson and Gil Boggs, a former American Ballet Theatre principal who became Colorado Ballet’s artistic director in 2006.
More good stuff
It’s never over ’til it’s over at Coors Field – and the same goes for getting World Series tickets. At noon today, the Limb Preservation Foundation begins an online auction for two tickets, the gift of a donor who wishes to remain anonymous, for the “if needed” Game 5 that would be played Monday at Coors Field. Bidding ends at 12:01 a.m. Monday; $1,000 is the minimum opener. The tickets are in Section 110, Row 33. Bids can be sent to martha@limbpreservation.org with the winner to be announced at 1 a.m. Monday at .
Six hundred volunteers will be in action from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday as Metro Volunteers hosts its seventh Day of Impact. They’ll be at 14 sites, including Food Bank of the Rockies, the Butterfly Pavilion and Project CURE, to rake leaves, build trails and feed the hungry.
Also on Saturday, the Southwest Region Woman’s Club is hosting its third Tampon Party at Southwest Plaza Mall. Admission is a box of feminine hygiene products that will be distributed to low-income women through the Jeffco Action Center. Recent changes in food stamp rules mean that stamps cannot be used to buy diapers or feminine hygiene products. Festivities begin at 10 a.m. and include brunch. RSVP to 720-565-1349.
Color on the Edge is the theme for a Nov. 3 cocktail reception and dance hosted by the DAM Contemporaries, CultureHaus and Young Associates of the Denver Art Museum. Funky retro is the dress code and admission ($70 for art museum members, $90 for guests) includes hors d’oeuvres, music and a look at “Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975.” Committee members include Dianne and Paul DeLongchamps, Lisa and Charles Duke, Emily Nelson and Jonathan Musser, Natalie Rekstad-Lynn, and Kristina and K.C. Veio. Visit .
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dp | See more pictures from the Colorado Ballet reception.
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