The Lion King Storytelling Experience
2026-07-18 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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What if The Lion King was more than a movie?
Created and performed by Andy Dooley, The Lion King Storytelling Experience is a funny, moving, and surprisingly powerful live performance that uncovers the deeper hero’s journey hidden inside one of the most beloved stories of all time.
Through storytelling, comedy, character work, and audience connection, The Lion King comes alive in a way that will make you laugh, think, and see both the story—and yourself—in a whole new way.
No prior Lion King knowledge required. Whether you’re a lifelong fan or have never seen the movie, the experience stands completely on its own.
This isn’t just something you watch. It’s something you step into.
Audiences have called it “funny, surprising, original, and deeply touching.”
“My life was changed last night.” — Philana Poz Hutchison
“This goes beyond entertainment.” — Amanda Love
Whether you’re a lifelong Lion King fan or simply looking for a memorable night out, you’ll leave with a fresh perspective, a full heart, and a story you’ll never forget.
You’ll laugh. You might get emotional.
And somewhere along the way, you may discover that The Lion King isn’t just Simba’s story.
It’s yours.

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2026: To Use A Mountain
2026-07-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Q&A with Director Casey Carter
Seconds of exposure, generations of debate, the history of nations, and epochs of geologic change – all overlap in the landscapes that define the American nuclear legacy and the quest to isolate 77,000 tons of nuclear waste for 10,000 years. TO USE A MOUNTAIN presents vignettes of ruin and salvation in six candidate communities for the nation’s sacrificial nuclear dumping ground.
Directed by Casey Carter | Runtime: 99 Mins

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2026: Burn, Scar
2026-07-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Filmmaker Hillary Bachelder and Colorado Fire Suppression Professionals will join us for a discussion
Prescribed fire– the practice of setting small burns to clear ecosystems of overgrowth– is a critical tool for climate resiliency and forest health. But in 2022, a burn set by the U.S. Forest Service in the mountains of northern New Mexico escaped its firelines and spiraled out of control to become the largest wildfire in the state’s history. Weaving together both sides of the story – the locals impacted by the fire and struggling to rebuild, alongside the Forest Service’s efforts to resume stewardship of the land following their tragic misstep – “burn, scar” is a personal and nuanced story of resilience, resistance, and our enduring connection to the land and each other.
Directed by: Hillary Bachelder | Length: 90 mins

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2026: Melt
2026-07-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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In his inimitable way, Geyrhalter (OUR DAILY BREAD, HOMO SAPIENS) travels the world of snow and ice. From Japan to the Alps, Northern Canada to Iceland, and Antarctica; MELT is the story of people living amid the gradual disappearance of the ice that was once presumed infinite.
Along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan, bulldozers carve out spectacular, 50-feet-high walls of snow to build corridors specifically to attract tourists, while the celebrated ski region Val-d’Isère in southern France uses artificial snow to create a winter wonderland. In Switzerland, snowplows carve furrows into the glaciers to preserve the snow for the coming winter sports season. And in Iceland, visitors pose in front of gigantic blocks of ice that are gradually being swallowed by the sea. Everything seems normal – but behind the apparently perfect white facade, the world’s ice and snow are melting at an alarming rate.
Everywhere Geyrhalter goes, his subjects talk of melting glaciers and increasingly extreme weather conditions, revealing how they experience climate change in their everyday lives and work. Filmed between 2021 and 2025, MELT preserves some of the world’s most compelling frozen landscapes, addressing some of the greatest environmental and political questions of our age.
“A meticulous, contemplative sweep of the globe, Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s impressive doc takes stock of humanity’s toil to control ice and snow as the climate crisis advances.”
—Carmen Gray, The Film Verdict
“Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s latest documentary is a fascinating, unsentimental love letter to snow and icy landscapes.”
—Susanne Gottlieb, Cineuropa

Directed by Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Runtime: 127 mins

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2026: Ghost Elephants
2026-07-19 13:30 - 15:00 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Join us AFTERWARDS for a discussion — TBD
For over a decade, Dr. Steve Boyes, conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer, has been in search of a mysterious, elusive herd of Ghost Elephants in the highlands of Angola, deep within its forests. From acclaimed director Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”), GHOST ELEPHANTS follows Boyes on an epic journey as he sets out with some of the best master trackers in the world, in pursuit of an animal long believed to be a myth.
“This hypnotic and haunting documentary turns a search for mythical beasts into a profound meditation on memory, loss, and the vanishing wild.” – Screen Zealots
Directed by Werner Herzog | Runtime: 99 mins

Parlando School of Musical Arts: Every Color
2026-07-19 14:00 - 14:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Parlando presents a BRAND NEW musical, written by Elle Tyler— Every Color!
When the ROY G BIV Rainbow meets the color Gray, their world is turned upside down. How do you make a rainbow? Is there really room for every color? Gray sets off on a journey with newfound friend Orange to find somewhere to belong, discovering a whole kaleidoscope of colors along the way. Together they’ll find out that we all need each other to make our world beautiful.
Book, Music, & Lyrics by Elle Tyler
Direction by Ace Reichelt
Assistant Direction by Allison Lydic
Music Direction by Kailyn Martino

Boulder Environmental Nature Outdoors Film Festival 2026: Closing Film (The Last Dive), Award Ceremony & Reception
2026-07-19 16:00 - 20:15 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
CLOSING FILM & RECEPTION TICKETS CLOSING FILM ONLY TICKETS
Closing Night Film at Dairy Arts Center, Includes Award Presentation, Closing Film (OCEAN) and Reception at VELVET ELK LOUNGE on 13th Street.

Film at 4:00PM at Dairy Arts Center Gordon Gamm Theater THE LAST DIVE.
Reception from 6:15PM to 8:15PM at Velvet Elk Lounge, on 13th Street
Libations & Appetizers, Live Music by Hazel Miller and the Collective
RAFFLE PRIZES GALORE!
We suggest you park free (on Sundays) at the Boulderado Hotel, Boulder Bookstore, or on a street nearby

CLOSING FILM: THE LAST DIVE
Followed by a pre-recorded interview with Director Cody Sheehy
Terry Kennedy is a legend. A former associate of the Hell’s Angels, he sailed into the Sea of Cortez in the 1980s on a boat named Erotica. But while Terry’s friends have great memories of partying with him at sea, his legacy goes beyond mere popularity. His time on the water transformed Terry, who devoted his life to the conservation of manta rays after bonding with a giant manta he named “Willy Wow.” Over 19 years off the coast of San Benedicto Island, Terry and Willy Wow developed an extraordinary relationship that changed our understanding of mantas forever.
Now in his eighties, Terry goes on the adventure of a lifetime in The Last Dive, setting sail with his friends and a documentary crew in hopes of fulfilling his “dying wish” to swim with Willy Wow one more time. Director Cody Sheehy takes viewers along on their journey, using Terry’s story as a window into the developing science behind manta rays’ extraordinary intelligence, as well as the urgent need to protect these “gentle giants” and their stunning natural habitat.
Directed by Cody Sheehy | Runtime: 88 mins

How to Watch a Movie Part II - The Auteur’s Eye: Film Direction
2026-07-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States

Dead Souls
2026-07-22 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 22-25
For his directorial swan song, Alex Cox (Repo Man, Straight To Hell) stars in this frontier fable of American greed. Follow mysterious drifter ‘Strindler’ as he scours the West for the names of dead Mexican labourers. Here at this border town in 1890, Strindler – or is it ‘Swindler’? – raises eyebrows when he offers to pay a pretty penny to add to his list of names. Wandering affably from saloon to ranch, Strindler exercises the old adage that money talks – but sometimes too loudly. Between the town drunk, hot-headed cowherds and local outlaws, Strindler soon finds himself tangled up in his own tall tales. A meditative, sincere landscape at the borderlands of the American nightmare: where fortunes rest on a dirty deal, and legacies are built on blood and gold. (Alex Cox, 2025, USA, 1:28. NR)

Set the Table: Immersive Dinner & Art Retreat
2026-07-22 17:00 - 21:00 | McMahon Gallery, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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The Set the Table exhibition brings together food, art, home, and community, exploring how the table serves as a universal locus for culture, environment, and the many ways we come together over food.
The Dairy Arts Center brings this exhibition to life with a very special event: Set the Table: Immersive Dinner and Art Retreat. On July 22, guests are invited to an intimate farm-to-table dinner surrounded by the artworks of Set the Table, where dining becomes a creative, multi-sensory experience.
The evening will feature a beautifully crafted five-course meal by Forage Sisters, a local, women-owned farm-to-table catering company. Their menu offers a culinary journey through Colorado’s diverse peoples, places, and histories, with each dish rooted in seasonal ingredients, sustainable practices, and the rich narratives embedded in the region’s foodways.
Throughout the evening, Boulder-based artist and founder of Schoolhouse Studios, Kristen Abbott will guide guests through a mini artist retreat. Through a series of hands-on, creative activities woven into the rhythm of the meal, participants are invited to reflect, play, and embrace Abbott’s philosophy of “joyful experimentation.”
The tablescape itself is part of the experience—a feast for the senses that blurs the boundaries between installation, performance, and communal dining. An evening where the act of gathering becomes an artwork in itself.
Includes a five-course dinner, one drink, and all artist-led activities and materials. Bar will be available.
Menu to be announced soon. Capacity is limited to 40 guests—reserve your spot for this special one-night experience.
About Set the Table Exhibition:
The Set the Table exhibition, at the Dairy Arts Center from the 15th of May to the 2nd of August, explores the table as a site of connection—where food, art, and community intersect. Bringing together artists working across disciplines, the exhibition considers how the table is a locus point of culture, and how shared meals carry histories, shape identities, and reflect our relationships to the environment, heritage, and one another.
About Forage Sisters:
Forage Sisters is a full service event and farm-to-table catering company, born between two best friends whose passion lies in bringing people together through intentional food and thoughtful events.
About Kristen Abbott:
Kristen Abbott is a mixed media painter and textile artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Her practice moves between abstract painting and cyanotype textiles, shaped through an experimental, process-driven approach.
In her cyanotype work, sunlight acts as both collaborator and catalyst, imprinting organic forms onto hand-coated fabrics such as linen, cotton, and silk. Abbott often reworks these surfaces with additional materials, building layered compositions that shift with the viewer’s perspective and gradually reveal new details over time.
Guided by a philosophy of “joyful experimentation,” her work embraces unpredictability and reflects an intuitive dialogue with place, light, and material—inviting viewers into quiet moments of reflection and discovery.

Peter Asher: Everywhereman
2026-07-22 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 22-25
Peter Asher’s extraordinary life has intersected with some of the greatest artists and musical moments of the last six decades. A child actor who became a pop star and then a manager and producer to the likes of James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, he is a Zelig-like figure who remains a vital creative force to this day. Featuring interviews with Paul McCartney, Carole King, and many more.

Synthesis Theatre Presents: Ride the Cyclone | July 23 - 25
2026-07-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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In this hilarious and outlandish story, the lives of six teenagers from a Canadian chamber choir are cut short in a freak accident aboard a roller coaster. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller invites each to tell a story to win a prize like no other – the chance to return to life. Through a wondrously funny and touching series of songs, the teen contestants argue that they should be the ones to be saved. Told with moving insights into adolescence as well as dark comedic style benefiting the outrageousness of its premise, Ride The Cyclone is a memorable and original musical. What makes a life well-lived? Who deserves to have a second chance? Which are the memories that we will treasure? All these questions and more are answered in Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell’s stunning work.

Friday Night Weird: Camp
2026-07-24 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 24
Haunted by a traumatic past, Emily finds solace as a camp counselor while navigating grief, witchcraft and the power of female friendship. Emily feels at home as she is taken in by the other counselors, who accept her as she is and wrap her in a veil of peace & forgiveness. Emily stands at the forefront of a new kind of life, but there’s a voice out there in the woods she can’t quite seem to ignore. The voice is whispering – and she’s telling Emily to go home. (Avalon Fast, 2026, Canada, 1:51, NR)

Dark Night of the Soul: Cinema and Transcendence presented by Suranjan Ganguly: The Seventh Seal
2026-07-26 14:00 - 15:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. (Ingmar Bergman, 1957, Sweden, 1:36, NR)
This film is part of a six-part European film series, presented by Suranjan Ganguly, focuses on the search for spiritual transcendence by people who struggle with faith, conscience, loss and grief. It seeks to define a cinema of interiority in which the subtle nuances of one’s inner life find poetic expression.
CU Professor Emeritus Suranjan Ganguly of the Cinema Studies Department teaches a wide range of international film courses. Former chair of the department and director of the Stan Brakhage Center for Media Arts, he is the founder and curator of the monthly Brakhage Film Series, Celebrating Stan.

How to Watch a Movie Part III: Framing the Story: Cinematography
2026-07-27 18:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States

Jews of the Wild West
2026-07-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 28
In celebration of America at 250, the Boulder JCC presents two films illuminating Jewish contributions to our new nation’s history.
Join Boulder Jewish Film Festival founding director Kathryn Bernheimer and guests to view and discuss two festival favorites that shed light on unfamiliar chapters of American history.

“Jews of the Wild West,” which coincides with Colorado’s 150th year as a state, will be shown at 3 pm, with guest speaker Dee Dee Diamond. “The Levys of Monticello,” which offers an unusual take on Thomas Jefferson, screens at 1 pm.

“Jews of the Wild West” highlights the contributions Jewish Americans made in shaping the Western United States. The story of Jewish pioneers who played a definitive role shaping the expansion of the United States has been largely forgotten. But by 1912, it is estimated that more than 100,000 Jewish immigrants, many fleeing persecution in Europe or simply seeking greater personal and economic freedom, had put down roots in the Wild West, leaving a lasting imprint on the cultural landscape. (Directed by Denver’s Amanda Kinsey. Running time: 83 minutes. 2022)

Guest Speaker: Boulder’s Dee Dee Diamond is the great, great grandniece of Solomon Bibo, one of the pioneers showcased in the film. Dee Dee traces her family’s fascinating journey from Prussia to America back to 1812, when great, great, great-grandfather Lukas Rosenstein first emigrated to escape conscription in Napoleon’s army.

The Levys of Monticello
2026-07-28 15:00 - 16:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 28
In celebration of America at 250, the Boulder JCC presents two films illuminating Jewish contributions to our new nation’s history.
Join Boulder Jewish Film Festival founding director Kathryn Bernheimer and guests to view and discuss two festival favorites that shed light on unfamiliar chapters of American history.

“The Levys of Monticello,” which offers an unusual take on Thomas Jefferson, screens at 1 pm. “Jews of the Wild West,” which coincides with Colorado’s 150th year as a state, will be shown at 3 pm, with guest speaker Dee Dee Diamond.

“The Levys of Monticello” tells the little-known story of the Levy family, which owned and carefully preserved Monticello for nearly a century – far longer than Jefferson or his descendants. The acclaimed documentary weaves together the remarkable story of the Levy family with an examination of Thomas Jefferson’s legacy, also touching on still relevant issues of race, slavery, and antisemitism. Watch the trailer. (Directed by Steven Pressman. Running time: 70 minutes. 2022)

Mary Oliver: Saved By the Beauty of the World
2026-07-29 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 29 – Aug 1
If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. Celebrated best-selling poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and long walks in the woods, openly queer but intensely private, Oliver was America’s unlikely contemporary mystic, stalking the ponds and forests of Cape Cod for nearly fifty years in order to open herself – and her readers – to the known and unknowable world. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, Oliver’s life was shaped by devotion to nature, paying attention, and the long journey toward learning to love and to be loved. Her poems inspire liberals and conservatives, atheists and believers, naturalists and urbanites, speaking directly to contemporary anxieties about attention, presence, and the human relationship with the natural world – issues that feel especially pressing in an era of climate crisis, digital distraction, and social fragmentation.
Featuring interviews with her close friends, including John Waters, never-before-seen personal photos, notebooks, and correspondence from her archive, and recitations of her work by Stephen Colbert, Lucy Dacus, Steve Buscemi, and Oprah Winfrey, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World considers the poet’s long lifetime of work in context, capturing the uniqueness of her world and the natural beauty that inspired her. (Sasha Waters, 2026, USA, 1:31, NR)
TALKBACK: Join us after the film on July 30th for a Talkback with Michele Battiste.
Michele Battiste is the 2026-28 Poet Laureate of Lafayette, Colorado. The author of four poetry collections, Michele has taught poetry workshops across the U.S. and right here in Boulder. Her latest book, The Elsewhere Oracle, is a finalist for the 2026 High Plains International Book Award in Poetry and was long-listed for the 2026 Julie Suk Prize. Here third book, Waiting for the Wreck to Burn (2019), won the Louise Bogan Award for Excellence in Poetry by Trio House Press. Michele received an MFA from Wichita State University and a masters of the arts degree in English from the University at Albany, and her writing career has been supported by several organizations, including the Jerome Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, the Good Hart Artist Residency, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She works for The Nature Conservancy in Colorado, raising funds to tackle climate change and protect nature.

Miroirs No. 3
2026-07-29 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 29 – Aug 1
During a weekend trip to the countryside, Laura, a young piano student from Berlin, miraculously survives a shocking car crash. Awakening in a nearby house, Laura finds herself in the care of a local woman, who tends to her with motherly devotion . As she recuperates, Laura begins to integrate herself into the lives of the woman and her initially reluctant husband and son. By turns haunted and hopeful, Laura and her adopted family reawakens to the world and comes to find a strange harmony together. However, they cannot outrun the ghosts of the past, which begin to stir, as acclaimed director Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT) spins a modern gothic fairytale about the lies we tell ourselves and the strange ways that grief, connection, and humanity bind and sustain us. (Christian Petzold, 2025, Germany, 1:26, NR)

Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performance
2026-07-31 20:00 - 21:00 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Frequent Flyers® Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performance brings together world-class Artists. Performances on lyra, slings, dance trapeze, loops, rope & harness, invented apparatus, and more!
Performances by: Jenn Bruyer, Issac Endo. Peter Holben, Laurel Johnson, Valerie Morris, Niff Nicholls, Ariana Papousek, Sofia Rodriguez, Nancy Smith, Anastasia Timina, Artoor Voskanian
You will never see this mix of artists together anywhere else!
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Friday Night Weird: Alpha
2026-07-31 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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July 31
Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old, lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day Alpha returns from school with a tattoo on her arm. (Julia Ducournau, 2025, France, 2:08, R)

Parlando School of Musical Arts: New Musical Project 2026 | Beethoven: Live in Concert and Sunflower: The Story of Amalie & Vincent | Aug. 1-2
2026-08-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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New Musical Project 2026 is Parlando School of Musical Arts’ annual celebration of brand-new musicals— bringing emerging works to life through semi-staged scenes and songs featuring Colorado community actors at the Grace Gamm Theatre at the Dairy Arts Center. A portion of every ticket sold goes directly to the writing teams behind these original works.
This year features two separate performance events:
Festival Performances- Semi-staged excerpts from Beethoven: Live in Concert (a rock-and-roll retelling of the legendary composer’s rise and fall, by Jad Jacob) and Sunflower: The Story of Amalie & Vincent (a heartfelt story about a lonely sixth grader who finds friendship and confidence inside a Van Gogh painting, by Laura Guli & Premila Mistry) are performed together on Saturday, August 1 at 2pm and Sunday, August 2 at 2pm.
Cabaret & Student Showcase- On Saturday, August 1 at 7pm, experience semi-staged scenes and songs from C’est La Vie (a musical about four teenage girls thrown together for a school project who discover the power of unexpected friendship, by Victoria Bernardes & Miriam Lakein), plus a cabaret showcasing songs from original musicals by Alanya Bridge, Amy Jo Jackson, Bonnie Corral & Krystin Lacey, Jesse Ayala & Justino Tesoro, Sequoia Sellinger & Sarah Rossman, Benjamin Walton, Stephanie Henry, and Magda Vidal.
Come be among the first audiences to experience these works— and help support the future of musical theater storytelling. Learn more at www.newmusicalproject.org

How to Watch a Movie Part IV: The Art of the Cut: Film Editing
2026-08-03 18:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States

The Casual Enormity of Adam Palmer
2026-08-05 19:00 - 21:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Screening of film, panel discussion on local climate solutions. Panelists committed: Will Toor (Colorado Energy Office), Chris Steinkamp (MT2030), and Kim Schaepfler (Lotus Engineering). Music beforehand by CU Senior, Montana Palmer – a tribute to her father who was lost in a 2021 Silverton Avalanche.

Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC): Witch | Aug. 6-23
2026-08-06 19:00 - 20:30 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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The devil arrives in a small village to recruit souls, and business has never been better. Everyone is scrambling to bargain for something. Love, riches, and personal validation top the list.
But one woman is having none of it, and she happens to be the woman whom everyone thinks is the town witch.
Jen Silverman’s reworking of the 1621 drama, The Witch of Edmonton, is wickedly funny, surprisingly moving and dangerously entertaining.
The play poses the question, “How much is a soul worth in a world where hope is increasingly hard to come by?”

Messengerz Dance Company Presents: “Waves” | Aug. 7 - 8
2026-08-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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“Waves” presented by Messengerz Dance Company is a contemporary dance show that represents different seasons of our lives. Waves ebb and flow, waves are sometimes hurling violently at you and tossing you around, and sometimes waves are a soft relaxing crescendo that collide peacefully with sand on the shore.
This show is to make you feel, make you connect, and make you reflect on all seasons of your life when you have experienced different types of waves. Our hope is to reach out and connect with the audience, letting them know they’re never alone in what they’re going through.
Each one of us are so deeply loved, seen and known. Each wave that we come into contact with is for a greater purpose, and it is all used for our good. We hope this show brings you hope and encouragement in your life!

How to Watch a Movie Part V - The Method and the Madness: Performance on Screen
2026-08-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States

Off the Page Exhibition Opening Reception
2026-08-14 17:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
Opening Reception: Off the Page: Language as Material
Friday, August 14, 5–8 PM
Free and Open to the Public
Join us for the opening reception of Off the Page: Language as Material, a group exhibition exploring how contemporary artists engage with language, literature, media, and storytelling. Through photography, sculpture, installation, textiles, and mixed media, the exhibition examines language as both subject and material, asking how words shape our identities, transmit knowledge, and connect us to one another.
Meet the exhibiting artists, experience the exhibition across the Dairy’s gallery spaces, and enjoy an evening celebrating the power of language, creative expression, and the stories that bind communities together.
Participating artists include Mariel Reed, Nathan Storey Freeman, Bug, Josh Hughes, Dagny Rayn Chika, Dawn Siebel, Leona Lazar, Sarah Tenney, Samuel Austin, Lisa Berley, Jacqueline Moulton, Austin Baskett, and Russell Schnell.

The Last Call Comedy Show (Sober)
2026-08-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Most comedy shows encourage drinking. This one is what happens after people stop.
Join us for The Last Call Comedy Show, a night of hilarious stand-up featuring some of Colorado’s funniest sober comedians. This is a sober comedy event, proving you don’t need alcohol or drugs to have a great night out.
Whether you’re in recovery, sober-curious, or just looking for a comedy show with a different vibe, this event brings together community, connection, and big laughs.
Expect a night of raw, unfiltered comedy from some of the best sober comics in Colorado.
Headliner: Ben Roy is a nationally touring stand-up comedian, writer, and actor based in Denver. He is the creator and star of the TruTV sitcom Those Who Can’t, and has appeared on Comedy Central Presents as well as numerous comedy festivals and clubs across the country.
Known for his high-energy style and brutally honest storytelling, Ben blends sharp observations with chaotic life experiences that leave audiences laughing from start to finish. Whether he’s talking about parenting, bad decisions, or the absurdity of modern life, Ben brings a raw, fearless perspective that has made him a favorite in the Denver comedy scene and beyond.
Featuring: Andy Lopez, Katherine Clancy

How to Watch a Movie Part VI - Thinking About Film Critically: Theory and Beyond
2026-08-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
