The Sleeping Beauty by International Ballet Stars (recommended ages 3 and up)

From Indian Lakes, Relate., Viewfinder

Rock / Pop

Steel Magnolias - Lone Tree

theater

The Tragic Life of Rosemary “Silver Dollar” Tabor

Rosemary “Silver Dollar” Tabor was the daughter of Colorado Silver Baron Horace Tabor and Baby Doe Tabor. Losing his fortune after the silver crash, Horace Tabor died of appendicitis and left his wife and daughter penniless. The beautiful Silver Dollar Tabor aspired to be an actress. Rosemary “Silver Dollar” Tabor was tragically murdered in Chicago at the age of thirty-six. Location: CoHarbor Coworking, Memorial Room, 3rd Floor Steven Antonuccio: MLS from Emporia State and BA in Communications from the University of Colorado. *Dates, times, location are subject to change, please check registration link for up-to-date details. About PILLAR: PILLAR Institute for Lifelong Learning is a dynamic hub for curious minds seeking intellectual growth and meaningful community connections. Through an array of engaging programs, thought-provoking lectures, and enriching activities, PILLAR fosters a culture of continuous learning for adults of all ages. Our mission is to inspire lifelong learners by providing opportunities to explore diverse topics, cultivate critical thinking, and connect with others who share a passion for discovery. At PILLAR, learning is not just a pursuit—it’s a way of life. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Entropy

ENTROPY: lack of order or predictability; gradual decline into disorder. The old tree may tumble in a storm. It may knock out the power. The junk drawer isn’t likely to remain orderly. The lawn that needs mowed and edged, or it will consume the sidewalk and go to seed. Your hair will get tangled. It will get dirty. The windows you clean will be water spotted after the next rain, the dust will settle on the shelf you wiped. When the days get short and cold the leaves will fall, they will not fall carefully. The manicured garden will grow wild if not minded. The parking lot of the empty strip mall will crack and grow its own garden, without care for arrangement. For this open call for entries we asked artists to consider entropy, and the concept of disorder as the eventual natural state of the world. It is in the nature of humanity to want to create sequence, structure, patterns, and lines. We are asked artists to share an interpretation of the delight that can be found in the opposite – the jumble and disarray that is the eventual evolution of all order. Photo credit: Christine Lawson – Plants From the Garden This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Shapes of Rhythm

Harvey’s works are abstractions of texture, bold colors, and dreamy imagery inspired by the natural world. From the Artist: Shapes of Rhythm is an abstract art collection which features rhythm and soft atmospheres to express the beauty of nature through colors, lines, impasto textures, gestural brushstrokes, and abstract shapes. Various rhythms such as flowing, progressive, and alternating are incorporated to create feelings of sprightliness. The atmospheres are serene and created with soft tonal hues yet balanced with more energetic gestures. Impasto textures add dimension to the serene, dreamy, and starry sculptural paintings. Photo credit: Flowing – Jennie Harvey This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Next Generation

This next generation represents majors and minors in design, studio art, and art education. From Heron Mountain Art – Zen Mountain Journal on emerging artists: “These artists somehow give us “permission.” They are the creators of new, courageous art that embodies freedom. It often doesn’t make much sense on the surface, at first glance. But sit with it for a while and a wisdom emerges, perhaps a wisdom that can’t be described. They are storytellers; they create mythology. Above all, they invite us to honor our own imaginary world. Without them our culture would be kind of flat, kind of unimaginative.“ Fear no art! This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard

Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard celebrates the foundational role of yards in shaping contemporary art in America. Building upon existing scholarship on Yard Art, artwork created to exist in the transitional space between the home and wider world, artist and art historian Josh T Franco examines the lineage of this robust American art form. Featuring over 30 works, the exhibition spotlights both community and academically taught artists over the past five decades including David Driskell, vanessa german, Donald Judd, and Finnegan Shannon, revealing connections across communities in creative world-building with what is available. Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard was originally produced by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. The exhibition was made possible by the Katherine and Keith L. Sachs Guest Curator Program, and is supported at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College by the Catharine and Bart Holaday Endowment for Interactive Art. Where I Learned to Look: Art from the Yard is curated by artist and art historian Josh T Franco in partnership with Katja Rivera, Curator of Contemporary Art. The curatorial concept was developed by artist and art historian Josh T Franco and Hallie Ringle, Daniel and Brett Sundheim, Chief Curator for the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Explore Our Free Digital Guide Explore the Fine Arts Center’s museum with our free digital guide! Our guide offers digital access to works in our collection, including exclusive audio from curators, suggested tours, and more. Browse the guide on the web or enjoy our optimized guide on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Gifts That Shape Us

From the museum’s earliest days, gifts of art have shaped this institution and the permanent collection it stewards. More than half of the collection arrived through the generosity of artists, donors, and others who gifted important works or funds that have made key purchases possible. These acts of giving didn’t just add works; they defined the collection’s scope and vision. Alice Bemis Taylor’s foundational gift of art from the Southwest grounded the FAC in this region. Meredith Sage Hare’s donation of American modernist paintings and sculptures set sights on the avant-garde. Subsequent gifts have continued this dual commitment—grounded in the Southwest, attentive to what’s new—while also broadening the FAC’s collecting scope. This exhibition brings together gifts from across the museum’s ninety-year history, from foundational donations to recent acquisitions that continue shaping the collection today. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Sonal Kamalia, Michele Ledoux, Shannon Mello and Kristopher Orr

Kristopher Orr – “Release” An exploration of forgiveness. “An underserved curse is like a bird flitting through the sky — it only bothers you if you pay attention to it.” Shannon Mello – “What I Pick Up Along the Way” A collection of encaustic abstractions on river-rock forms—intimate pieces carried from the earth, to my pockets, to my imagination, to this exhibit. Michele Ledoux – “Encaustic Works from the Artist’s Studio” Drawn directly from the artist’s studio, this body of work reveals the evolution of Michele Ledoux’s nearly two-decade exploration of encaustic—where sculptural texture, elemental materials, and quiet imperfection converge in meditations on authenticity and transformation. Sonal Kamalia – “Emergence” ‘Emergence’ is about ones journey as they go through life. It is about the human experience and being human. It is about who we emerge as, in that one moment, based on our prior moments in life, which in a way are all fleeting. Our thoughts, our feelings, our actions they all change based on who we decide to be. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Dave Hamman, Laurel Justice with Ashley Cornelius, and Erin Gillespie

In Waiting for Their Story to Be Told, Colorado artist Dave Hamann presents a series of Old West–inspired portraits that feel like characters paused just before their narratives begin, hovering between anonymity and legend. These ambiguous, weathered faces invite viewers to linger, speculate, and consider how easily we assign roles and histories based on appearance, costume, and cultural memory, and question if these narratives are even correct.​ In Cloud Dancer: Pantone and the Poetry of Thin Places, artist  Laurel Justice offers new work inspired by Pantone’s “Cloud Dancer,” reflecting on grief, healing, and the fragile thresholds between body, spirit, and the unseen. Paired with poetry by Ashley Cornelius, the exhibition invites deeper conversations about presence, wellness, and how we care for ourselves and one another. Painter Erin Gillespie debuts a fresh collection of luminous botanical and non-objective abstracts that mark her evolving journey from figurative portraiture into more intuitive, expressive territory. Layered in acrylic, oil, pastel, and ink, her works celebrate color, gesture, and the pure pleasure of mark-making.​ This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Springs Contemporary Jazz Big Band

Join the Springs Hottest Big Band as we return to the iconic Hogan! Let’s pack the place! This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Drag Trivia Night

8 East (Featuring Salad or Bust and Cocktails After Dusk) and “Not Rocket Science Trivia” is proud to bring you Drag Trivia hosted by the fabulously talented ‘X the Drag Thing’! Drag trivia is open to everyone and family friendly (although it may get a little racy *wink!*) Open to teams and individuals.  Grab a bite to eat from Salad or Bust and a fantastic cocktail from Cocktails after Dusk. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place finishers. 8 East is proud to host this event and loves to support our local artists and performers. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

Weekly Trivia

Put your thinking caps on and paws at the ready! Join us every Wednesday at 6:30 pm for Pub Dog’s Weekly Trivia Night—where brains meet barks and good times flow as freely as our craft beers. Bring your crew, sip on your favorites, and let’s see who’s top dog in trivia! This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

The Sleeping Beauty

Experience “The Sleeping Beauty”, a timeless fairytale told through breathtaking choreography, Tchaikovsky’s unforgettable score, and a truly magical stage design. Follow the journey of Princess Aurora – from her christening and the wicked curse of Carabosse to a century-long slumber and her awakening by true love’s kiss. Every detail of this production is designed to enchant. Featuring a brilliant cast of dancers from Moldova, Spain, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, United Kingdom, Brazil, Poland, United States, Japan, Turkey, Armenia, Tajikistan, Belarus and Principal Dancers from Ukraine! Ballet in Two Acts with one intermission. Family-friendly – suitable for ages 3 and up. Learn More This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.

VAPA Student Arts Festival

April 10-May 13 UCCS Music Student Recitals Ent Center for the Arts 7:30pm April 10-May 16 – Chrysalis Visual Art Senior Exhibition Location: Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery Opening Reception April 10, 5-8pm Exhibition runs April 10-May 16 GOCA presents a capstone exhibition by UCCS Visual & Performing Arts students, focused on the visual arts discipline, at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Featuring the works of Kate Coleman, Lizzy Cox, Emily De Smidt, Graham Drews, Alexander Kracker, Amy Lauderbaugh, Julia Lewis, Ashley Lopez, Ashlynn Mann, Finn Mosbarger, Amelia Cate Parr, Riley Rhodes, Eden Swanson, Reily Yaekle. No ticket reservation required. April 14 – UCCS Student Brass Ensemble Location: Chapman Foundations Recital Hall 7:30pm-9pm The UCCS Student Brass Ensemble – the Mountain Lion’s Roar Brass – presents their exciting spring concert, featuring classic works of Americana as well as music from video game soundtracks, and more. Directed by Tim Hoffman. April 18 – Front Range Art History Symposium Location: Osborne Center for Science & Engineering – room B134 9am-4pm The Front Range Art History Symposium celebrates the research of undergraduate and graduate art history students from regional colleges and universities. Students will present their research in a conference-like format with 20-minute papers followed by Q & A from the audience. There will be a wide-range of topics presented, and it’s a great showcase for up-and-coming art historians. Breakfast and lunch refreshments provided. No ticket reservation required. April 21 – Mariachi Ensemble Location: Chapman Foundations Recital Hall 7:30pm-9pm Come celebrate the premier concert of UCCS’s first mariachi program for an evening of impassioned singing and playing of mariachi classics. The UCCS Mariachi will be joined by Mariachi Diamante who has been mentoring our new program and passing on the beauty of this tradition to the next generation of learners and advocates. April 22 – University Choir Location: Chapman Foundations Recital Hall 7:30pm-9pm University Choir presents Media Madness! Hear some of your favorite movie themes, Academy Award winning songs, video game favorites, with a few surprises along the way. Directed by Solveig Olsen. April 23 – AFFIX Location: GOCA Project Space The AFFIX exhibition, curated by the MSGP 4040: Gallery Management Exhibition class, provides students a chance to express themselves through hard times during the current political and social climates. A way to connect and bring the UCCS community together. No ticket reservation required. April 24-May 3 – UCCS Theatre Company Presents: Picasso at the Lapin Agile Location: Osborne Studio Theater Performances April 24-26 & May 1-3 Friday & Saturday @ 7:30pm Sunday @ 4pm Steve Martin’s long-running off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. April 25 – UCCS Student Short Film Festival Location: Dwire Hall – room 121 12pm-6pm The 25 Annual VAPA Film Festival is a local event highlighting student achievement in film. The festival showcases different genres such as horror, comedy, documentaries, horror, & musical videos, featuring students and local actors, tackling social issues, highlights future stars, all through the eyes of future film makers. No ticket reservation required. May 5 & 7 Dance Composition I Works in Progress Location: Overlook Studio 12:30pm No ticket reservation required. May 6 – Symphony21 Location: Shockley-Zalabak Theater 7:30pm-9pm Symphony21, the UCCS Orchestra, celebrates Colorado and the United States with a special anniversary program featuring music by Colorado composers, accompanied by an energizing performance of Sibelius’ rousing Finlandia. This special program brings together musicians from across the lovely UCCS campus as well as musicians from our community. Don’t miss this unique celebration of American (and Finnish) Music! Directed by Jon Forshee. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region’s one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.