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DIY music, ballroom culture’s play dance
Friday-Sunday. Denver’s Titwrench, the 13-year-old DIY arts collective, is holding its last euphony showcase — 1 successful a agelong enactment of escaped events supporting all-ages women, the LGBTQIA+ assemblage and artists of color.
The lineup for the Sunday, Oct. 3, mini-fest astatine City Park Pavilion includes an artisan marketplace by Witch Collective, Ethiopian and Mexican nutrient trucks, on-site printing (“bring a shirt”), and unrecorded euphony from 4 p.m.-9:30 p.m.; a creation enactment volition follow. 2001 Steele St. Admission is escaped but donations are accepted. Chairs and blankets are encouraged. Register and spot the creator lineup astatine eventbritecom oregon titwrenchcollective.org.
Also this weekend: Black Pride Colorado’s archetypal solemnisation of ballroom civilization arrives with Black Fantasy, an perfect primer for the communal, competitory creation signifier that reinvented cheery civilization successful precocious ’70s Harlem.
The Saturday, Oct. 2-Sunday Oct. 3, lineup features escaped Saturday workshops connected ballroom culture’s past astatine Rocky Mountain PBS, the Black Fantasy Ball astatine the Studio Loft, wrong Ellie Caulkins Opera House, connected Saturday ($25 per person, oregon $150 per table), and a Sunday brunch astatine Triangle Denver. Visit blackpridedenver.com for tickets, locations and more.
How unusual is excessively unusual for Denver?
Saturday. Most attractions marketed arsenic freaky these days thin to person a general-audience vibe. This play offers a interruption with the Oddities and Curiosities Expo, wherever you tin bent retired with adults (and astir apt a fewer kids) amid a good enactment of skulls, taxidermy, quack aesculapian devices, bejeweled amulets, “funeral collectibles” and much household items.
The Saturday, Oct. 2, lawsuit invades Hall B astatine the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th St. Entry is $12, but for different $5 you get the Real Freak Show add-on, and for $210 there’s a Jackalope Taxidermy Class. Best of luck. odditiesandcuriositiesexpo.com oregon axs.com
A Legend, already made
Sunday. The impossibly smooth, ageless John Legend regularly backs up his twelve Grammy awards with wide touring. His latest brings him to southbound Denver’s nonprofit Levitt Pavilion, champion known for hosting dozens of free, family-friendly, and high-quality concerts each summer.
RELATED: Haven’t been to a performance successful awhile? Denver’s Levitt Pavilion is the cleanable re-entry.
Legend is simply a paid show, which helps money the organizations’ bottommost line, and is much than worthy the summons terms of $39.50 for tract spots, oregon $69.50-$200 for person seats. 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, astatine 1380 W. Florida Ave. successful Ruby Hill Park. Chairs and blankets are encouraged. levittdenver.org oregon ticketmaster.com
The legends of La Llorona
Saturday. Starting Sept. 15 and moving done Oct. 15, Latino Heritage Month events successful the metro country are arsenic sprawling arsenic History Colorado’s talker bid (see historycolorado.org/latino-history-heritage) and arsenic compact arsenic this weekend’s La Llorona Festival astatine Corky Gonzales Library.
The modern architectural gem astatine 1498 Irving St. is hosting the lawsuit arsenic portion of the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s (CHAC’s) Dia de Los Muertos 2021. “Recuerdos 2021,” arsenic this play is called, runs 2 p.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, with immoderate of Colorado’s astir celebrated cuenteros (storytellers), arsenic they recount tales and legends of the Weeping Woman, La Llorona.
In summation to Kristopher Garcia-Simms, Geraldina Lawson, Sherry Coca Candelaria and others, determination volition beryllium an unfastened mic for assemblage members to stock their ain La Llorona stories. Free and family-friendly, with refreshments. Call 720-865-2370 oregon sojourn denverlibrary.org for more.
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