Events
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FeaturedDairy Arts Center Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United States$10 – $20 -
Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul | Aug. 4-7
Boedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Aug. 4-7 This soaring music documentary traces Gregg Allman’s journey from a childhood scarred by his father’s murder to the heights of Southern rock and late-life sobriety, exploring grief, addiction, love, and the racially charged American South through his transcendent music. Tender and unsparing, featuring electrifying performances and archival recordings, the film reveals how […]
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Shared Terrain: An Evening of Elevated Dance Cinema
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Shared Terrain: An Evening of Dance Cinema Co-produced by Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, Frequent Flyers® Aeria Dance and Dairy Arts Center. This special screening, as part of the Aerial Dance Festival 2026, will ignite the imagination and tickle the senses. Three Canadian films re-envision the boundaries of dance through cirque, contortion, body […]
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Horsegirls | Aug 5-7
Featured HorsegirlsBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Margarita, a 22-year-old autistic woman balances early adulthood, her first job, and the uncertainty surrounding her mother's health. When she discovers the world of competitive hobby horse dancing, what starts as curiosity becomes a lifeline of movement, craft, and community. As she trains and finds her footing among people who provide encouragement and care, […]
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The Casual Enormity of Adam Palmer
FeaturedGrace Gamm Theatre Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS 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.
$11.50 – $28.75 -
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company (BETC): Witch | Aug. 6-23
Carsen Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, United StatesTICKETS 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 […]
$17.25 – $48.30 -
Messengerz Dance Company Presents: “Waves” | Aug. 7 – 8
Grace Gamm Theatre Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS “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 […]
$32.20 – $36.80 -
Maddie’s Secret | Aug 7
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS MADDIE’S SECRET is comedian, writer, and actor John Early’s critically acclaimed directorial debut starring himself as Maddie, a plucky dishwasher who leaps to viral superstardom at a trendy food content creation company. While her life seems picturesque — complete with an adoring husband, ride-or-die best friend and a cupboard full of woman-owned ethically-sourced chili […]
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Freshmode Fest 5 | Aug. 8 & 9
Featured Freshmode Fest 5 | Aug. 8 & 9Dairy Arts Center Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS FRESHMODE FEST 5 is a multi-generational, multicultural arts and wellness festival celebrating the rich expressive art forms of Hip Hop and how that intersects naturally with health, wellness, and the mindful stewardship of nature. Blending live music, intergenerational dance battles, dance workshops, mural art, healing arts, local food, film screenings, panel discussions and community […]
$5.75 – $40.25 -
MAD LIBrarians
Featured MAD LIBrariansDairy Arts Center Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Watch top-notch improvisers light up the stage, while your kids’ faces light up! At each one-of-a-kind show, kids in the audience make up new book titles and then the MAD LIBrarians hilariously off-the-cuff stories to go with the kids’ titles. A free craft starts at the listed show time of every performance! Sunday, 08/09/26, […]
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Freshmode Fest: Bboys Dance Workshop
FeaturedGordon Gamm Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Join legendary Bboys, Remind and Bounce, for this special 3 hour intensive “Masterclass” workshop. From the Stockton/Modesto area crew Style Elements, Remind is widely recognized as one of the most influential Bboys of the iconic 90s generation and shares a deep and spiritual connection to the movement. Similarly, Bounce is known worldwide as a […]
$45.00 -
How to Watch a Movie Part V – The Method and the Madness: Performance on Screen
FeaturedDairy Arts Center Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United States$10 – $20 -
Mimesis Documentary Festival: Opening Night: To Use a Mountain
FeaturedDairy Arts Center Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Six rural communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites. […]
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Terminus
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Far from loved ones, people push external borders and stretch internal boundaries seeking safe havens – willingly or warily. Meanwhile, fantasies of return and tensions between here and there linger. Traversing the perpetual crossroads of nightmares and daydreams, home becomes a space of knowing and not knowing.
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Engaged to Wait, Waiting to Engage
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS An incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. A housebound mother struggles against the celebration of matrescent martyrdom. Observing and reenacting daily routines where human potential is bought and sold, these projects document their own production in contested terrain, confronting the exploitations of capitalist culture on the clock.
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Tended Bonds
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS A daughter's father. A mother's sons. Across time and space, the nuanced contours of grief are mapped between generations. From the intimate to the systemic, the films in this program explore meaning-making in the wake of loss and the paths of remembrance that loved ones create to sustain communities.
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Anarchist Calisthenics
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Structures of resistance are powered by the hopeful who inhabit them, like individual fibres of a muscle, contributing their strength to a collective resilience. Radical, expansive inclusion facilitates collaboration, imagining the future as a restored whole, with a history and home emancipated from colonial display.
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Right Here
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS When distances are measured in time and oceans, we cannot simply quantify the gaps. Separated bodies are marooned and shipwrecked, waiting to be found. To be so far causes the heroes of these tales to set sail, testing the potential of presence through deep reminiscing, craving a specific flavor of happiness, and fearful of […]
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Terra
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS An exploration of Colombia's geographies, peoples, and stories through the material and imperceptible intersections of the Spanish word "tierra" – land, soil, ground, and territory. From geological formations to coca-growing regions, unequal land distribution to mass graves, and Indigenous rituals to land re-appropriation efforts, Terra interweaves some of Colombia's most pressing issues in a montage of […]
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Conversation
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: 17 Feet Deep
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Fragments, movements, and radical unselfing coalesce in a collective treatise on the poetry of charged spaces. A hazy screen marks a violence that cannot be traced. Felled trees drift along a bayou tributary, in search of a disappearing home. Childhood excursions are revisited, unearthing obscured truths from spring-fed rivers and snow-capped mountains. Strained desire […]
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: Mickey
FeaturedBoedecker Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Mickey spent the last ten years exploring her transition process within the conservative context of Sinaloa, Mexico. Through digital archives, artistic reenactments, and deeply personal encounters, the film moves between tenderness and rage, transforming memory into an act of freedom. An exploration of self-perception and a n
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Off the Page Exhibition Opening Reception
FeaturedDairy Arts Center Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesOpening 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 […]
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Tapestry Theatre Company: Disney’s Finding Nemo Jr. | Aug. 14-16
Grace Gamm Theatre Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS Dive into adventure with Tapestry Theatre’s production of Disney’s Finding Nemo Jr. This all-abilities performance brings Nemo, Marlin, Dory, and their ocean friends to life in a heartwarming story of courage, friendship, and finding your way home. Enjoy a joyful, inclusive theatrical experience featuring a talented cast and a beloved Disney score, perfect for […]
$25.30 – $28.75 -
The Last Call Comedy Show (Sober)
FeaturedGordon Gamm Theater Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, United StatesTICKETS 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 […]
$11.50