Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance Festival Showcase Performance
2026-07-31 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | 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. 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

Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul | Aug. 4-7
2026-08-04 16:30 - 18:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 Gregg’s unforgettable blend of rock, country and blues mirrored the music and struggles of his soul. (James Keach, 2026, USA, 1:36, NR)

Shared Terrain: An Evening of Elevated Dance Cinema
2026-08-04 19:30 - 21:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 choir, and beyond – telling fables, confronting climate change, and expressing the idea that on this collective journey, our strength resides in living in harmony with the people and environments around us.
Traverse. (Canada) 13min
Synopsis: “Traverse” weaves the stories of five women into a tapestry of collective experience as they journey, confronting obstacles along the way. Through this process of reflection in motion, a powerful sense of strength is ignited.
Hubris. (Canada) 29 min
Synopsis: “Hubris” is an experimental docu-narrative that chronicles three individual journeys interpreted by dance and circus artists, exploring a powerful storyline about climate change. Blinded by ego, their journeys symbolize the collateral damage induced by a culture deeply rooted in individualism—serving as a metaphor for our environmental crisis and a need for a U-turn towards transformative change.
Branché.'(Canada) 16 minutes
Synopsis: Through unique, female-driven circus and movement art, Branché traverses time and lush natural landscapes of Quebec in a poetic exploration of our potential to work in harmony with nature in the face of the rising conflicts and chaos of the climate crisis. As diminishing resources and livable land drive an existential collapse, the daring three-high formations and breathtaking falls remind us that a oneness of nature and humanity is undoubtedly worth preserving.
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Horsegirls | Aug 5-7
2026-08-05 16:30 - 18:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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, Margarita gains greater confidence and autonomy, creating a future shaped less by expectation and more by her own rhythm, choices, and joy. (Lauren Meyering, 2026, USA, 1:41, PG-13)

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 Elise Jones (SWEEP). Music afterwards 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!

Maddie's Secret | Aug 7
2026-08-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 crisp to boot— mounting professional pressures threaten to reawaken a hidden secret from her troubled past. A pitch-perfect blend of satire, melodrama, daring tonal shifts and intimate performances, the film marks a bold new voice in contemporary cinema. (John Early, 2026, USA, 1:40, NR)

Freshmode Fest 5 | Aug. 8 & 9
2026-08-08 12:00 - 20:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 vendors, culminating in creative expression while advancing community resilience and ecological stewardship through wellness, education, and regenerative design.
Hosted by Mikewird, a staple in the Colorado creative community, who lends his decades of experience in Emceeing, Breaking and Ecological design to provide knowledge and entertainment in an inclusive, healing environment.
The three day festival is planned to run August 8th & 9th and will provide a platform for attendees to indulge in all 4 elements of hip hop, a marketplace, a healing lounge and access to experts wellness, in cultural, and ecological stewardship : featuring live DJs, Emcees, a 2-on-2 intergenerational break battle, dance workshops, and graffiti artists live painting creating in real time, health and wellness practitioners and ecological designers. Each inspired by the beats, the dancers, the murals and the collective energy of the audience, symbolizing the dynamic ways we all utilize each other’s energy for nourishment and creation, much like the Earth’s natural systems.
Beyond the stage, the festival offers a community marketplace with vendors, including upcycled fashion designers, ritual goods makers, local artists, creative entrepreneurs, and more. A food court from local chefs will serve nourishing dishes from hand-picked culinary pop-ups, curated with both flavor and health in mind.
There will also be film screenings of documentaries from some of our ecological design, cultural and health practitioners locally, nationally, and world wide , including q & a’s, and panel discussions.
For guests seeking restoration as well as celebration, Freshmode Fest 5 offers a Healing Lounge with chair massage, acu-detox practitioners, and sound bowls healers, along with an Ecological Design Info Table and workshops presented by Regenerative Adventures, sharing resources and invitations into regenerative living, permaculture, and community-based ecological design.
FRESHMODE FEST 5 has been designed and built for music and nature lovers, knowledge seekers and community builders.

MAD LIBrarians
2026-08-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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, 11 am – CARSEN
Sunday, 10/11/26, 11 am – CARSEN
Sunday, 11/22/26, 11 am – CARSEN
Sunday, 12/06/26, 11 am – GRACE GAMM
Sunday, 02/21/27, 11 am – CARSEN
Sunday, 04/18/27, 11 am – GRACE GAMM

Freshmode Fest: Bboys Dance Workshop
2026-08-09 12:30 - 15:30 | Gordon Gamm Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 master sensei and simultaneously a forever student of the dance. He is renowned as a technician and master artist. Together they will share a very incredible opportunity with students ready to dive into the essence of the art and practice of Breakin.

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

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Opening Night: To Use a Mountain
2026-08-11 19:00 - 20:30 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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.
This screening will be followed by a conversation with Casey Carter in-person.
Doors open at 6 PM with a catered reception (included with the cost of admission).

To Use a Mountain

Physics, geology, and democracy collide across the expansive American interior, in a series of vignettes from six candidate sites for a sacrificial nuclear dumping ground.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Terminus
2026-08-12 13:00 - 14:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Engaged to Wait, Waiting to Engage
2026-08-12 16:00 - 17:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Tended Bonds
2026-08-12 20:00 - 21:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Anarchist Calisthenics
2026-08-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Right Here
2026-08-13 13:00 - 14:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 missing the yet to be met. When we visit memories like places, overdosing on nostalgia becomes a way of life.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Terra
2026-08-13 16:00 - 17:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 images that illustrate the poetic and sensuous possibilities of human-soil relationships.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Conversation
2026-08-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Mimesis Documentary Festival: 17 Feet Deep
2026-08-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 and brute force commingle in the cramped quarters of a hostile hostel.

Mimesis Documentary Festival: Mickey
2026-08-14 16:00 - 17:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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

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.

Tapestry Theatre Company: Disney's Finding Nemo Jr. | Aug. 14-16
2026-08-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Grace Gamm Theatre, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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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 audiences of all ages.

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

Mimesis Documentary Festival: We Survived By Accident
2026-08-14 20:00 - 21:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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A program of shorts by Dana Kavelina
Animation becomes a practice of resurrection in Dana Kavelina’s cinema, where collage, stop-motion, and archival fragments reanimate forgotten histories. People speak from mass graves and coal mines of the Donbas, rising to haunt us anew. Dolls begin to move, photographs flicker, and buried voices return to relay histories erased by official narratives. Negotiating grief and utopia, Dana Kavelina’s films imagine remembrance not as a fixed record of the past but as an ongoing act of repair. In these reanimated half-worlds, the dead remain present, asking us to carry their stories toward a more just future.
Program:
Mark Tulip, who spoke with flowers (2018, 15′)
Letter to a Turtledove (2020, 21’)
it cannot be that nothing can be returned (2022, excerpt – 15′)
Grey Earth (2026, 32′)

Mimesis Documentary Festival: The Return Current
2026-08-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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The past persists in trembling images, unsettled ground, restless bodies, and repeated gestures. From a devastating street protest to a cryonics facility, these projects deny demands for resolution. They dwell instead in limbo between reversal and return, the solid and the spectral, preservation and decay, embracing absences that continue to shape the present.
