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Name the 50th Penguin Contest, Pueblo Zoo. Deadline: 3 p.m. Aug. 3, entry forms online at
Tag that bird!
The Pueblo Zoo’s African penguin colony recently hatched its 50th chick. Want to name it? Submit your entry, one name per form, including an explanation that gives the name’s meaning. The chick’s gender is unknown. The winning name will be announced Aug. 10.
Native voices
Indigenous Film Festival, 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Aurora Fox Theater, 9900 E. Colfax Ave., Aurora; 303-739-1970
Tribal art.
For just $8 per person, see Friday’s program of short films by the promising Native American directors Steven Wounded Deer Alvarez, Paul M. Rickard, Abraham Cote, Derek Brown, R. J. Joseph and Dustinn Craig. On Saturday, see Larry J. Bauman’s “The Velvet Devil,” a coming-of-age-tale about a gifted Metis jazz singer.
Stories on stage
Colorado Center for the Humanities Chautauqua events at 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday in the Ryals room of the Rawlings Library, 100 E. Abriendo Ave., Pueblo, and Aug. 3 to 7 at Aims Community College in Greeley;
Literature out loud.
Listen to the words of poet Emily Dickinson, Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes, naturalist John Muir and other celebrated authors as portrayed by actors. The series is inspired by the 19th- century chautauquas that originally featured a traveling assembly of scholars, musicians and artists.
