Cherry Creek Arts Fest turns 35
Friday-Sunday. One of Colorado’s biggest and most vibrant cultural gatherings returns this weekend with the Cherry Creek Arts Festival, celebrating its 35th year. The event, which typically draws about 150,000 total visitors and acts as a dividing line for summer in Denver, this year features 265 juried artists, live music, kids’ activities, food and drinks, and more.
The sea of white tents with paintings, sculptures, carvings, ceramics, custom glass, and other art will be set up in the Cherry Creek North neighborhood on 2nd Avenue from Clayton to Adams streets, and between 2nd and 3rd avenues from Detroit to Adams streets.
Admission is free and all-ages for the Friday, June 3-Sunday, June 5 event. (Note: it’s entirely cashless this year). See more details and side events from nonprofit producer CherryArts at .
Andrea Gibson tribute at Red Rocks
Sunday. Late, beloved Boulder poet Andrea Gibson, the subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary “Come See Me in the Good Light,” will be celebrated with an agreeably stacked Red Rocks Amphitheatre lineup on Sunday, July 5. The multimedia show includes a screening of her final live performance in 2024 at the Paramount Theatre (dubbed “Love Letter from the Afterlife”) plus live sets from the Colorado Symphony, Megan Falley, Sara Bareilles and Chris Pureka, with guest conductor and composer Blake Neely.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show, presented in association with the Sundance Film Festival, are $75.20-$200 via — and still available as of press time. Red Rocks is located at 18300 W Alameda Parkway in Morrison. Visit for more details.
Comedy crusher Nathan Lund
Friday. Among Denver’s best comedic exports, Nathan Lund is returning from places far-flung (in this case, Trinidad) to headline Comedy Works downtown for only the second time. A member of the acclaimed, DIY group The Fine Gentleman’s Club (which reunites for Denver’s High Plains Comedy Fest most years), Lund is a deceptively breezy stand-up and podcaster who can turn explosive on a dime, switching between knowingly self-aggrandizing and hilariously harried; see his excellent 2023 special “Soup’s On.”
Lund headlines Denver’s Comedy Works downtown, 1226 15th St., at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, July 3. Tickets, $27 including fees, were still available as of this writing. See for more.
Mixed Taste at MCA
Wednesday-Aug. 26. There’s simply nothing else like the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Mixed Taste lecture series. Playful, bizarre, grim, curious, gross, confounding and delightful topics mingle unpredictably on the same bill, with predictably fun results. The series is running this year on Wednesdays, July 8 through Aug. 26 at MCA Denver’s Holiday Theater, but you’d do well to get tickets for future shows now, since sell-outs are not unusual.
So what’s on tap? July 8 unites “Synesthesia and the Denver Omelet,” while “Cuba and Andy Warhol” tag teams on July 15, plus much more. Tickets for the lectures, which typically run 7-9 p.m. at 2644 W. 32nd Ave. in Denver, are $6.55 for students and $22.28 for adults. Visit for more details.
