Dairy Arts Center

Friday Night Weird: Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
2025-09-26 20:30 - 22:00 (America/Denver) | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 26
A stop-motion/live-action masterpiece inspired by the works of Jewish-Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz. A ghostly train journey on a forgotten branch line transports a son, Jozef, visiting his dying Father in a remote Galician Sanatorium. Upon arrival, Jozef finds the Sanatorium entirely moribund and run by a dubious Doctor Gotard, who tells him that his father’s death, the death that has struck him in his country, has not yet occurred and that here they are always late by a certain interval of time of which the length cannot be defined. Jozef will come to realize that the Sanatorium is a floating world halfway between sleep and wakefulness and that time and events cannot be measured in any tangible form. (Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay. 2025, UK/Poland, 1:15, NR)

The Blind Cafe Music & Dinner In The Dark Experience
2025-09-21 17:00 - 19:00 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Rosh & The Blind Cafe Orchestra + Richie Flores Project and Special Guest Artist James Carson (on Sept 20-21 only)
Join us for an award-winning social impact music and dinner in the dark experience at the Dairy Arts Center. Enjoy a tapas-style dinner, social impact discussion with legally blind ambassadors, and live music in 100% darkness—no blindfolds!
Tickets: $125 General Admission
Early Bird $110 General Admission – Before September 1st
$89.00 Seniors / Students
$79.00 Early Bird Seniors / Students
Limited Sliding Scale Tickets Available – contact Admin@theblindcafe.com
Volunteer in the dark – – contact Admin@theblindcafe.com
Contact: admin@theblindcafe.com
What’s Included
Dark Chocolate Tasting: Social reception to awaken your senses.
Wine and Drinks Available for purchase before entering dark at Dairy Arts cafe : ARRIVE before 6:30PM to purchase your drinks to be ready for entering dark at 7:00pm
Mystery Tapas Menu: Dietary friendly (bread and butter), shared table items, designed for sharing at communal tables to foster connection.
Dietary questions? Contact: admin@theblindcafe.com
Social Impact Discussion: Led by legally blind ambassadors James Jackson and Richie Flores, sharing personal stories and engaging in Q&A.
Live Music in the Dark: Intimate performances by Rosh & the Blind Cafe Orchestra, Richie Flores Project, and special guest James Carson.
Pianist James Carson has developed a new form of music and over the last twelve years has produced and directed Cabin Music, a feature film, to share it with the world. A childhood prodigy born with perfect pitch, Carson composed complete songs at age four and had his music performed by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at age sixteen, leading him to be called “one of the most gifted rising stars” by the Edmonton Journal. When he attended the New England Conservatory, however, his studies with Joe Maneri, Cecil Taylor, and the poet Robert Creeley led him to a dramatic life change: he walked away from music and spent two years backpacking and farming overland from Spain to Japan. After his return to Northern Alberta, Canada, he then spent five years designing, building, and practicing in a remote strawbale cabin. The musical result was multilayered, detailed, meditative, and harmonious. “I wanted to play the whole piano at once,” says Carson, “in the same way that a single breeze can cause the entire forest to dance and tremble in unison.” (performing on Sept 20-21 only)
Our Mission
The Blind Cafe inspires positive social change by fostering connection and compassion through darkness-based experiences, encouraging participants to engage beyond visual conditioning and social norms.
Our Story
Founded in 2010 by Rosh, inspired by a Reykjavik “cafe in the dark,” The Blind Cafe Experience has evolved into an internationally touring pop-up event. Partnering with blind ambassadors James Jackson and Richie Flores since 2011, it combines music, dining, and dialogue for transformative social impact.
Testimonials
“I cried during ‘Transcend’… knowing I was invisible made it easier to feel. Our table held hands and swayed together!” —Katie Maginnis, Seattle
“An incredible, enlightening experience… professional and impactful.” —Brian Johnson, The Marquee Music Magazine
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Hildegard Speaks
2025-09-21 16:00 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 21
“Hildegard Speaks” is a 72-minute film that brings the wisdom and spirit of 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen to life. Based on Dr. Annette Esser’s book “Saint Hildegard Speaks,” the film features Dr. Esser who embodies Hildegard, sharing her insights and experiences through a series of captivating presentations. Filmed along the Hildegard Pilgrimage Way in Germany, the film invites viewers on a journey of spiritual discovery and inspiration, connecting them to the landscapes and legacy of this remarkable woman.

Local filmmakers in attendance. Join us in 2026 to walk in the footsteps of Saint Hildegard. Learn more: https://www.sainthildegardway.eu/

Elevate Boulder & Motus Theater: Storytelling Project from Participants of Boulder’s Guaranteed Income Pilot Program
2025-09-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Join Motus Theater and Elevate Boulder participants for an afternoon of storytelling about their experience as part of the City of Boulder’s guaranteed income pilot program. In this innovative, inaugural program, 200 participants received $500 a month without conditions for two years. Participants will share experiences of the impact of Elevate Boulder, how it has strengthened our community, and speak about the challenges of living on a low income.
Prior to the performance, starting at 2:00 pm in the MacMillan Family Lobby at the Dairy Arts Center, don’t miss the opportunity to engage with Elevate Boulder participants, nonprofit partners, and city staff about their project experiences and impacts, through photographs, video, and collected objects.
Made possible with support from the City of Boulder and Community Foundation Boulder County.
**En español**
Acompaña a Motus Theater y a participantes de Elevate Boulder para una tarde de narración de historias sobre su experiencia como parte del programa piloto de ingresos garantizados de la Ciudad de Boulder.
En este innovador programa inicial, 200 participantes recibieron $500 al mes, sin condiciones, durante dos años. Los y las participantes compartirán cómo Elevate Boulder ha impactado sus vidas, cómo ha fortalecido a nuestra comunidad, y hablarán de los retos de vivir con ingresos bajos.
Antes de la presentación, a partir de las 2:00 pm en el vestíbulo MacMillan Family del Dairy Arts Center, no te pierdas la oportunidad de conocer y conversar con participantes de Elevate Boulder, organizaciones comunitarias y personal de la ciudad sobre sus experiencias e impactos en este proyecto, a través de fotografías, videos y objetos recopilados.
Realizado con el apoyo de la Ciudad de Boulder y la Community Foundation Boulder County.

The Short Game
2025-09-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 17-20
Jeremy Avery is vying for a college golf scholarship, but his preparation and game are affected by family pressures related to his younger autistic brother Ethan. Jeremy’s path leads him on a journey of discovery both internal and of his brother’s savant-like gifts, that if embraced can create an unstoppable pair. But on the brink of his greatest victory, Jeremy is forced to make a life-altering decision, finally achieving his own personal dreams or standing by his brother. (Frank Sanza, 2025, USA, 1:33, PG)

Humans and Other Animals
2025-09-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 17-20
This documentary takes viewers on an epic journey—from witnessing firsthand how animals think, use language and feel love, to dangerous investigations of powerful industries using custom-built surveillance equipment and never-before-attempted tactics. Inquiries into evolution, animals’ emotional intelligence and the deconstruction of speciesism lay the groundwork for a profound philosophical idea that may forever change how we view other animals…and ourselves. (Mark Devries, 2025, USA, 1:24, NR)

Friday Night Weird: Somnium
2025-09-19 20:30 - 22:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 19
After a painful breakup, small-town Gemma moves to Los Angeles with the hopes of making it big. To get on her feet, she takes a job working the overnight shift at Somnium – a mysterious, experimental sleep clinic where dreams are made real. Meanwhile, Gemma throws herself into the cutthroat world of Hollywood auditions. But as the pressure to succeed mounts, she begins to experience strange and unsettling phenomena, and soon finds herself trapped in a nightmarish spiral as she discovers a darkness lurking within the clinic walls. (Racheal Cain, 2025, USA, 1:32, NR)

The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard
2025-09-17 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 17, the feast day for Saint Hildegard of Bingen
The Unruly Mystic: Saint Hildegard is an inspirational documentary of how the filmmaker reaffirms his life’s work when he fell in love with a 12th century Saint. It’s a must-watch for anyone interested in spirituality, history, music, or the power of the human spirit to transcend limitations. Hildegard von Bingen is venerated for her widely recognized impact on today’s theologians, artists, musicians, doctors and educators.

Local filmmakers in attendance. Join us in 2026 to walk in the footsteps of Saint Hildegard. Learn more: https://www.sainthildegardway.eu/
(Michael M. Conti, 2014, USA, 1:04, NR)

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: Blessings The Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns Of Tibet
2025-09-14 18:30 - 20:15 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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BLESSINGS: THE TSOKNYI NANGCHEN NUNS OF TIBET, director Victress Hitchcock
In 2005, Tsokyni Rinpoche, a renowned Buddhist teacher, led a group of Western women on a journey into a remote mountainous region of Eastern Tibet to visit nunneries where 3000 women were practicing an ancient yogic tradition of Buddhist teachings. This is the original longer version of the film that documented this extraordinary journey. 104 minutes
Celebrating 20 years since the pilgrimage, the film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with the director Victress Hitchcock along with other members who were on the journey.

Hola Frida
2025-09-14 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 10-14
In this animated feature, Little Frida is a bright-eyed girl who loves exploring in her Mexican village and playing with friends. When a polio diagnosis casts a cloud over her spirit, she is forced into the solitude of her bedroom. There, she finds solace in her imagination, brimming with possibilities. Hola Frida recreates the early life of famed artist Frida Kahlo and highlights the saving power of imagination. (André Kadi & Karine Vézina, 2025, France/Canada, 1:22, NR)

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: BORN I Guided Meditation and Sound Bath
2025-09-14 16:30 - 18:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Presence and sound, guided meditation and sound bath. This offering will include a short dharma talk on self-compassion and presence, followed by a guided meditation and immersive sound bath.

The American Southwest
2025-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 10-14
This family-friendly wildlife movie takes viewers on an unforgettable journey down the mighty Colorado River. Narrated by indigenous environmentalist Quannah Chasinghorse, the film beautifully showcases the abundant wildlife of the region, confronts the ecological impacts of dams and water overuse, and boldly advocates for better management of water and wildlife. Made in association with Natives Outdoors, the movie incorporates an indigenous perspective and features some of the Southwest’s most charming characters… such as industrious beavers, bugling bull elk, and soaring condors. Between its’ legendary landscapes and fascinating wildlife, The American Southwest aims to endear millions of people to better cherish, love, and conserve this unique region. (Ben Masters, 2025, USA, 1:47, G)

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: Brakhage on Brakhage
2025-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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BRAKHAGE ON BRAKHAGE, director Colin Still
Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. 94 minutes.

The Upstart Crow presents "Medea” by Euripides; directed by Katherine Dubois Reed
2025-09-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Carsen Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, United States
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Medea’s shock and grief when her husband Jason discards her to marry King Creon’s daughter quickly turns to rage. She vows revenge—but how much revenge is enough? Euripides explores how a person’s pride can lead to deadly recklessness regarding consequences.
Thursdays 8/28 & 9/11 are Name-Your-Price-Nights. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis. *NO reservations needed & NO ticket needed* – just show up at the Carsen Theater for the show. Donations of any amount are accepted in lieu of purchasing a ticket.
For Season Tickets, please visit: www.TheUpstartCrow.org/Season-Tickets
Current Season Ticket Holders, please make your reservation at: www.TheUpstartCrow.org/Reservations
Medea is a powerful revenge play not suitable for children due to violent descriptions.

Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet: LOLA RUN
2025-09-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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A Mesmerizing New Work by Internationally Recognized Choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl in Collaboration with Renowned Concert Pianist George Lopez
Lemon Sponge Cake performs the mesmerizing poetry of LOLA RUN, a new work by choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl. With a lean, elegant, modernist, almost mechanical impressionism, the audience faces the beauty of how bodies move in space without explanation. Sher-Machherndl takes movements and gestures, some of which recognizable from everyday life and transforms them into a style of dance that doesn’t tell what to think, what to feel, or what to believe. A new form of beauty stripped of signposts and melodrama.
“… it’s my curiosity that drives me to uncover new movement language, to redirect one’s mind, and take the audience on an intriguing journey,” says Sher-Machherndl.
Sher-Machherndl and dancers are to share the stage with highly-accomplished guest artist and dynamic concert pianist George Lopez, a Bowdoin College Artist in Residence.
“Working with Robert Sher-Machherndl again after almost ten years is a real joy. He’s such a creative force—so spontaneous and deeply musical. I love how his choreography with Lemon Sponge Cake feels both free and grounded. It will be a fun and inspiring collaboration, and I’m excited to see where the movement and music take us this time.” says George Lopez.
Lemon Sponge Cake operates in a place full of curious combinations and in doing so gives a world as big, and as deep, and with as many possibilities as the world we live in. You must sometimes dig for it, that’s for sure, but in every production there’s a freedom offered, a freedom that empowers the audience to follow its own path with the piece without the fear of being ‘wrong’.
“ … highlight of the program.” – The New York Times.
“When your way of seeing beauty is changed, your way of seeing the world is changed. It’s this that makes Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet Company so irreplaceable and vital to the cultural conversation around art’s place in society. With the ‘Technological Age’ about to enter a new and uncertain chapter with the advent of AI as part of daily life, of fact and fiction being almost impossible to tell apart, I can think of no greater place, no more important a place, no more essential a place for an artist to create than a world that reminds us to create our own beauty. Lemon Sponge acts like a solvent on reality, and with it, we’re given a chance to see beauty in everything.” Michael French | Director Writer

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: Wisdom of Happiness
2025-09-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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WISDOM OF HAPPINESS, directors Barbara Miller & Philip Delaquis
WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a deeply intimate and highly cinematic documentary featuring the Dalai Lama, who, at nearly 90 years old, offers practical advice for navigating the 21st century’s challenges. The film captures the Dalai Lama speaking directly to viewers, creating a sense of a private audience, and shares his timeless wisdom on achieving inner peace and happiness for everyone.
WISDOM OF HAPPINESS is a profound, new cinematic exploration of the innermost world of the Dalai Lama, perfectly attuned to our times. In an intimate heart-to-heart, the world’s greatest ambassador of compassion invites everyone along for a journey to the source of happiness. 90 minutes.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: The Lion's Roar
2025-09-14 10:30 - 11:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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THE LION’S ROAR, director Mark Elliott
This is the masterful portrait of the late 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, the great Tibetan Buddhist master known as the Black Hat Lama. The Karmapa is the head of the Karma Kagyu lineage, one of the four great lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. His line of successive reincarnations has its origins in the 13th century when it was the first to identify tulkus, reincarnations of Buddhist teachers. He is recognized as the embodiment of the teachings of his lineage, one that traces its source from teacher to disciple through Tibet’s great teachers Milarepa and Marpa to India’s Naropa and Tilopa all the way back to the Shakyamuni Buddha. 50 minutes

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: O Mother Gaia The World of Gary Snyder
2025-09-13 19:00 - 20:45 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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O MOTHER GAIA – THE WORLD OF GARY SNYDER, director Colin Still
This is the first feature-length film documenting the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/activist Gary Snyder. A participant in the famed 1955 Six Gallery poetry reading in San Francisco that launched the Beat era (and the careers of Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac), Snyder later lived and studied in Japan, becoming a Zen teacher. He is the model for the character of Japhy Ryder in Jack Kerouac’s bestselling novel, The Dharma Bums.
The film was skillfully assembled and remastered from the filmmaker’s original 1990s 16mm footage shot for British television, and offers a vivid self portrait of the famously elusive poet and essayist through his poems and commentary. Filmed on location at his Kitkitdizzie/Ring of Bone Zendo home in the Sierra and other locations connected with him, it also features key archival footage from the 1950s and 1960s, as well as contemporaneous readings and commentary by Peter Coyote, Jane Hirshfield, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Shoemaker, and Michael McClure, and a precious interview with Snyder’s late wife Carole Koda. 102 minutes.

Autumn Exhibit Party
2025-09-13 17:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
Join us for a celebratory evening as we launch three powerful new exhibitions at the Dairy Arts Center. The Autumn Exhibit Party brings together artists, curators, and community for an immersive night of art, conversation, and connection.
Explore three exciting new exhibitions that span borders, identities, and histories:
We Are From Iran, curated by Parisa Tashakori, features striking typographic poster design by 18 Iranian artists, offering a deeply personal view of cultural expression and resistance.
In Concrete Contrast, by Samira Hemmat, presents layered, abstract works that reflect on the silent tensions of survival, family, and language.
Marking the Space, an evocative mixed-media show by Steven Tassin, investigates the weight of memory, architecture, and personal mapping.
The evening will also feature a live dance performance by Delsie Khadem and delicious handmade desserts from Honeybird Sweets.
Come experience these thought-provoking exhibitions, meet the artists, and enjoy an unforgettable evening of creativity and community.
About the Performer: Delsie Khadem Ghaeini
Born in Mashhad, Iran and raised in Colorado, Delsie Khadem-Ghaeini is a Persian-Iranian dancer and choreographer based in Denver. Delsie is a co-founder of Iranian Dance Academy, artistic director of the Delnaz Dance Ensemble and teaches weekly Persian Pop and Traditional dance classes at Bella Diva World Dance Studio. Her Iranian dance experience includes what’s known in the West as “Persian Classical”, contemporary, “Ruhowzi”, Pop “Mehmooni”, Sama/Erfani/Mystical, Baba Karam, and regional folk dances including Bandari. Audiences describe her artistry as emotive, graceful, pure and authentic. Her other dance experience includes Egyptian Bellydance, Hip Hop, Flamenco, Salsa and other Latin dances.

Bella Diva’s link: https://belladivadance.com/
Photographer: M.C. Maxwell https://mcmaxwell.com/

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: BORN I book reading and performance "Lyrical Dharma"
2025-09-13 16:15 - 18:15 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Lyrical Dharma: A Journey through Music and Mindfulness. This will be an immersive experience blending spoken word, live performance and readings.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: Women of Tibet Gylayum Chemo – The Great Mother
2025-09-13 14:00 - 15:40 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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WOMEN OF TIBET: GYALYUM CHEMO – THE GREAT MOTHER, director Rosemary Rawcliffe
Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo – The Great Mother recounts the compelling story of Dekyi Tsering, the mother of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. Dekyi Tsering, known by Tibetans as ‘Gyalyum Chemo’ or ‘Great Mother,’ gave birth to 16 children, three of whom were recognized as incarnate lamas. Weaving anecdotal threads and personal reflections from her children, grandchildren, and friends, with never before seen photographs from their family collections and rare footage of Tibet, the film offers an intimate glimpse into Tibet’s first family and the woman who inspired them. His Holiness talks about how his mother helped shape the man he is today and the relationship between healthy family and healthy humanity, and how it all begins with a mothers love. Dr. Marion Woodman (Addiction to Perfection), Alice Walker (The Color Purple), and Angeles Arrien (The Second Half of Life) link this uniquely Tibetan story to a much broader perspective of motherhood and how the Great Mother lives within each of us. 97 minutes

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: One Mind - A Zen Pilgrimage
2025-09-13 12:00 - 13:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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ONE MIND is a rare cinematic portrait of life inside one of China’s most austere and revered Zen communities. The monks at Zhenru Chan Monastery continue to uphold a strict monastic code established over 1200 years ago by the founding patriarchs of Zen in China.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival: Dances of Universal Peace
2025-09-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Dances of Universal Peace with Waduda and Jahanara.
The Dances of Universal Peace are a joyful, embodied, sacred practice of sound and movement. The chants and movements are powerful, but simple and repetitive, and easily accessible, even to beginners. Everything is taught in the moment so anyone can join.

Friday Night Weird: Harvest
2025-09-12 20:30 - 23:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 12
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears. Townsman-turned-farmer Walter Thirsk and befuddled lord of the manor Charles Kent are childhood friends about to face an invasion from the outside world: the trauma of modernity. (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2025, UK, 2:13, NR)

Face Vocal Band in Concert
2025-09-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Face is an internationally acclaimed all-vocal rock band from Boulder, Colorado who have been captivating audiences for over a decade with their infectious energy punctuated by an endearing love of performance. “Blending modern popular tunes with complex harmonies, brilliant beat-box rhythms and superb singing… Face take their audience on a musical journey and it’s fantastic fun.” (FringeReview.co.uk)
Performing over 100 shows per year around the world, the band has also competed on the hit NBC series The Sing-Off, headlined at Edinburgh, Scotland’s prestigious Festival Fringe, and has been scheduled in front of legendary performers such as Jon Bon Jovi, Jay Leno, Manhattan Transfer, Culture Club & Boy George, and Barenaked Ladies.
Critics and fans worldwide describe Face as “a true American heartland sound.” (Recorded A Cappella Review Board) “[Face] communicates with a directness and warmth – perhaps America at its best.” (Norrbottens Kuriren) “Soulful singing stands out above the crowd.” (FringeReview.co.uk)

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: BORN I Performance, Short Film, and "Pig At The Crossing" screening
2025-09-12 18:30 - 21:30 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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PIG AT THE CROSSING, director Khyentse Norbu
Dolom, a YouTuber, has an affair with married Deki. She’s pregnant. After his accidental death, Dolom’s soul enters limbo. Guided to confront his past choices, he must relinquish attachments to move on or remain trapped indefinitely. With the help of a mysterious guide, Dolom navigates this in-between realm and faces his storied past and consequences of his actions. As time collapses around him, he must choose to right his wrongs and let go of his attachment to his former self or be trapped to wander in a dream-like in-between state for timelessness. 122 minutes.
The film will be followed by a live zoom commentary and Q&A with renowned teacher and director, Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.

Buddhist Arts and Film Festival 2025: Welcome, Opening Performance, short film, "The Dalai Lama's Gift," Q&A
2025-09-11 18:45 - 20:30 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Welcome, Nawang Khechog performance, short film, trailer and film “The Dalai Lama’s Gift”, followed by panel discussion and Q&A with director Ed Bastian, and special guests HE Tulku Yeshi Rinpoche and Nawang Khechog.
THE DALAI LAMA’S GIFT, director Ed Bastian
In 1982 , a Buddhist monk teaching at the University of Madison, Wisconsin, made the bold request of the Dalai Lama to come and perform a rare ritual, never before done outside of India or Tibet: the Kalachakra, among the highest of the Buddhist tantric teachings. In just a few months, with a team of dedicated students, and cameras rolling, they constructed a temple and organized an event for over a thousand spiritual seekers, in a cornfield outside Madison. The incredible footage was tucked away in the Smithsonian vaults, until now. What unfolds is the story of a powerful ritual, its impact on the people that made it happen, and the meaning behind this ancient initiation. 76 minutes.
The film will be followed by a discussion and Q&A with musician Nawang Khechog and director Ed Bastian.

Freehub Presents Film Tour
2025-09-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Freehub PRESENTS, brought to you by Arkansas Tourism, is a collection of films from some of the best filmmakers and riders, as well as new up-and-comers alike, all given the proper big-screen experience. The multi-stop film festival honors top and emerging filmmakers, riders, leaders, and storytellers who will shape the sport for generations to come. Cinematic events and coast-to-coast independent events celebrate community, culture, and cinema while benefiting nonprofit trail advocacy organizations.

Dharma's Garden Presents: Radical Love, The Life and Legacy of Satish Kumar
2025-09-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Radical Love is an intimate documentary that reveals the journey and testimony of Satish Kumar, a tireless Indian pacifist who left his homeland 65 years ago to sow deeper and more purposeful ways of being on Earth.
Best known for his 8,000 mile walk for peace, the ex-monk, activist, author, and educator Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for nearly 70 years. Between his home in southern England and an experience of returning to India, the documentary “Radical Love” portrays his remarkable journey, presenting a collection of vivid demonstrations of what can be accomplished when our presence in the world is filled with the powers of simplicity, collaboration, forgiveness and love.

Bad Shabbos
2025-09-07 18:30 - 20:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Sept 3-7
David and his fiancée Meg are about to have their parents meet for the first time over a Shabbat dinner on New York’s Upper West Side when an accidental death (or murder?) gets in the way. With Meg’s Catholic parents due any moment, this family dinner soon spirals into a hilarious disaster. With Milana Vayntrub, Kyra Sedgwick and Method Man. (Daniel Robbins, 2025, USA, 1:24, NR)
Talkback: Join us after the screening on September 4 for a talkback with Boulder Jewish Film Festival founder Kathryn Bernheimer. This film is co-presented by the Boulder JCC.
