Heller Center Dot Days Community festival 2026at Heller Center for Arts and Humanities

Come join us at various locations of events around Colorado Springs during our inaugural Heller Center Dot Days Community festival during September 3-13.   03 Sep: Seeds of a Planetary Future @ Ent Center/Heller Center 5:00pm Simulacra Gallery Exhibit located at GOCA 6:00pm Dornith Doherty Artist Talk @Chapman Theatre in the Ent Center 7:30pm Outdoor Movie Night @Heller Center for Arts & Humanities  04 Sep: Speaking of Nature @ UCCS Downtown 5:00-5:30pm Researcher tables in lobby 5:30-6:30pm Jordan Kokot talk, What do we mean by nature? 6:30-7:00pm Reception/Meet the Researchers 08 Sep: Sustaining Communities @ Hillside Hub 9:30-2:30pm No Cost Grocery & volunteer opportunities  4:00pm Garden and composting tours 4:30-7pm Local food trucks available 5:15pm Workshop: Out of Synch? with Dornith Doherty 6:45pm Cooking demonstration: Local and Delicious with chef Felicia Embry 7:30pm Screening/discussion of A Bigger World and Not Aliens (Youth Documentary Academy; discussion with filmmakers and Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius) 09 Sep: Cultural Connections @ Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Farmers’ market on West Lawn will be available all day long with food options  The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long on South Lawn Children's activities, galleries open all day long inside the museum 4:00-7:00pm Art-making stations throughout the museum 6:00pm Food Forest workshop on East Lawn 5:00pm & 7:00pm Screening & discussion of The Spectacular Quiet and Grasping at Stars (YDA, with filmmakers and Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius) 10 Sep: Citizen Science @ Concrete Coyote 3:30-7:30pm Citizen Science Labs: Making Scents of Nature  3:30pm Park tour and wild harvest  4:30pm Start essential oil distillation guided by Laura Huth of Rootfoot  5:30pm Biochar / Hugelkultur workshop  6:30pm Animal Continuum activities & discussion 7:00pm Essential oil collection, meditation and intention setting  7:30-9:00pm Dinner and Coyoetry Special Edition: “Our Place in Nature” open mic  11 Sep: Our Place in Nature @ Heller Center for Arts & Humanities 2:00-4:00pm General Heller events Gallery open Tours of Heller Center Geology tour (with Eric Billmeyer) Sungazing with special telescope (with Joel Tonyan) Ask a Philosopher booth Activities for kids 4:00pm Community Conversations: Sustainable Engagement 5:00pm Workshop and talk on fire building and fire in human history (with Dr. Haruki Eda) 6:15pm Picnic dinner available 6:30pm Storytelling/dance presentation and picnic dinner 8:00pm Stargazing and stories (with Joel Tonyan) 12 Sep: Feeling Place @ Heller Center for Arts & Humanities/UCCS The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long 10:00am Adult workshops; geology/natural history tours; activities for kids 11:00am Community curation workshop in Heller Gallery  12:00pm Flintknapping demonstration and conversation 12:30pm Picnic lunch  1:30-4:30pm Interactive campus tours: meet UCCS researchers and students, see research, win prizes! ***Art and writing from the competition will be on display around campus!!*** 5:00pm Picnic dinner/Community Conversations: Local Ecologies and Interconnections 6:30pm Interactive theatre 7:00pm Concert: music and dance 13 Sep: Connected Futures @ Heller Center for Arts & Humanities 2:00pm & 3:15pm Workshops and tours for adults, activities for kids 4:30pm Community-curated gallery opening 5:00pm Unveiling of winning art pieces and presentation of arts/writing competition awards 6:00pm Local Foods Feast 6:30pm Community Conversations: Connected Futures    Hosted by: UCCS Heller Center for Arts & Humanities Additional Information can be found at: https://mlc.uccs.edu/event/12468944