ART

THRU MARCH 31: Alternative Printmaking Juried Exhibition – Niza Knoll Gallery Niza Knoll Gallery is joining the Month of Printmaking celebration with a juried exhibition that showcases Alternative Printmaking techniques. Artists were asked to submit work crafted using methods such as monotype, collagraphy, gelli printing; printing with found objects, etc., or to creatively incorporate traditional techniques like woodcut, etching, engraving, lithography, and screen printing into an artwork of another medium. Gallerist Niza Knoll chose the most compelling of these submissions to put on display. The show will be on view from March 1 through March 31 during regular business hours Thursday–Sunday, 1-4 pm and during these special events. The March 16 demonstration is a free drop-in event where Artist Victoria Eubanks will show visitors how to make prints using a gelatin plate. This method requires no printing press and is a fast and fun way to start making art! Niza Knoll Gallery is located at 915 Santa Fe Drive in Denver’s popular Art District on Santa Fe and specializes in intriguing conceptual exhibits.

NOW ON VIEW: Artist Megan Morgan featured in “Grain & Fiber” – Valkarie Gallery In conjunction with the 2024 Month of Printmaking (Mo’print), multidisciplinary artist Megan Morgan showcases her printmaking techniques with contemporary sculptural skills in a paired-solo art exhibition with Chris Hoehle entitled “Grain & Fiber”. The show runs March 6th through March 31st, 2024 at Valkarie Gallery, 445 S Saulsbury St in Belmar with a public Opening Reception on Saturday, March 9, 5:00-8:30 pm. Both Hoehle and Morgan present a rich visual language of their mediums and skillsets while celebrating the organic patterns, tactile sensations, and significance embedded in their art. Visitors will be treated to print demonstrations by Morgan each weekend throughout the show. 

NOW ON VIEW: Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall – Denver Art Museum The arts of Oceania gallery will reopen with the presentation of a new temporary exhibition, Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection. This presentation showcases the work of celebrated contemporary artist Niki Hastings-McFall, who will create site-specific work in conversation with works from the DAM’s Arts of Oceania collection. Hastings-McFall, who is of Sāmoan and Pākehā descent, has been credited with shepherding contemporary Pacific art onto an international stage. Known for her large-scale and immersive “lei bombing” installations, she will use hundreds of synthetic lei to create an installation. Her work will be presented in dialogue with approximately 25 treasures—Pacific Peoples prefer the term “treasures” over “objects”—from the DAM’s collection that illustrate regional historic arts alongside new innovations.

OPENS MARCH 8: STEVEN J. YAZZIE: MEANDERED – MCA Denver For his solo exhibition at MCA Denver, Steven J. Yazzie (Diné/Laguna Pueblo) presents recent painting, drawing, sculpture, and video works that reflect on his shifting perceptions of and relationship with landscape. Yazzie is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the complexities of an Indigenous experience as it relates to personal identity, community relationships, and a connection to the land as the source of life, stories, conflict, and healing.

THRU APRIL 6: MO’ PRINT: MONTH OF PRINTMAKING – Space Gallery Featuring work by Diane Cionni, INSIGHT/OUTSIGHT and Taiko Chandler, PROVING GROUNDS. Space Gallery – 400 Santa Fe Drive. 303-993-3321 www.spacegallery.org

MUSIC

MARCH 26: Indie 102.3 Presents Black Belt Eagle Scout – Globe Hall With her third album, The Land, the Water, the Sky, Katherine Paul, aka Black Belt Eagle Scout dazzles us with lush atmospheres, seismic rhythms, and a voice that unfurls from another and perhaps a better world. Described as sounding like a cross of Mazzy Star and Nirvana, onstage the vulnerability throws punches through the distorted guitars and sweetly painful melodies.

MARCH 26: Sleater-Kinney – Mission Ballroom At a Sleater-Kinney show, you get the sense that guitarists/vocalists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein are pushing the limits of their material, their instruments, their bodies, the stage itself. That tension is the reason people see live music at all, and it’s something Sleater-Kinney does better than anyone.

APRIL 2: Indie 102.3 Presents Indigo De Souza – Gothic Theatre The rising indie rock artist Indigo De Souza’s show overflows with vibrant energy and heartfelt emotion. The 26-year-old songwriter’s music always emits a certain nakedness, as she chronicles the unknowing that often comes from being in your 20s.

COMEDY

AVAILABLE NOW: Taylor Tomlinson: Have It All – Netflix Taylor Tomlinson talks dream jobs, finding a perfect partner and dealing with anxiety, while asking the age-old question: “Can you really have it all?”

FILM

OPENS MARCH 22: Problemista – In Theatres Alejandro (Julio Torres) is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs out, a job assisting an erratic art-world outcast (Tilda Swinton) becomes his only hope to stay in the country and realize his dream. From writer/director Julio Torres comes a surreal adventure through the equally treacherous worlds of New York City and the U.S. Immigration system. “Torres takes a simple story about immigration and human connection, and turned it into a comedic, surrealist fantasy that serves as an epic critique of capitalism.” Valerie Complex, Hollywood Daily.

OPENS MARCH 22: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire – In Theatres In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started — the iconic New York City firehouse — to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age. Starring much of the original cast including, Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd, Paul Rudd, and Ernie Hudson.

OPENS MARCH 22: Femme – In Theatres With his performances as Aphrodite Banks, Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Candyman) has a place among London’s celebrated drag artists. One night after a show, he steps out to get some cigarettes and is brutally attacked by a man (George MacKay, 1917), out with a gang of his friends. Although Jules is able to recover physically, he withdraws from the outside world, traumatized. Months later, he recognizes his attacker by chance in a gay sauna. Without make-up and wrapped only in a towel, Jules is able to approach the other man incognito and find out who he is. He begins an affair with the closeted Preston, with a plan to take his revenge. Femme is a really well-worked-through story with tense developments and reversals; it keeps you on the edge of your seat and the outstanding performances from Stewart-Jarrett and MacKay have delicacy, subtlety and depth.

OPENS MARCH 29: La Chimera – In Theatres Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like the woman he lost, Beniamina. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, searches everywhere, goes inside the earth — in search of the door to the afterlife of which myths speak. In an adventurous journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the intertwined destinies of these characters unfold, all in search of the Chimera. 

THEATRE

APRIL 12: Urban Bush Women – Gates Concert Hall Founded in 1984 by dance icon Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Urban Bush Women’s groundbreaking work centers women(+) and members of the African diaspora. Legacy + Lineage + Liberation is an evening of classic works that transcend genre, illuminating overlooked perspectives that contribute to our national conversation around equity and justice. These iconic works give multiple dimensions of life that resonate in this time of reflection around equity and justice, and lift up Black lives in inspiring ways. In this dynamic evening, audiences are offered Urban Bush Women’s great sense of musicality, and reflection inside of empathy and joy, and a gracious invitation to respond to what they’re experiencing–and to leave the theater energized and inspired.

EVENTS

ARCH 15-17: Denver March Powwow – Historic Denver Coliseum Since 1984, the heritage of American Indians has been celebrated in Denver every year at the Denver March Powwow, one of the largest events of its kind in the country. The Powwow features more than 1,600 dancers from close to 100 tribes from 38 states and three Canadian provinces. The three-day event in the Denver Coliseum is packed with singing, dancing, storytelling, food, art and more, ensuring a wonderful experience for everyone.

MARCH 16: Denver St. Patrick’s Day Parade – Historic Denver Coliseum Denver is the place to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a parade and tons of other ways to celebrate Irish culture. How do you begin to tell the story of Denver’s finest community event for the past 58 years?  Many argue that the parade has become the single largest gathering of Colorado residents every year in one place, where everyone sets aside their own heritage to become Irish for a day.   Many people are under the misconception that the parade is organized and presented by the City of Denver every year.  The parade is actually organized and driven by a group of volunteers formed 58 years ago and officially incorporated as the Denver St Patrick’s Day Parade Committee, Inc. in 1986. 

MARCH 13-17: Cirque du Soleil Crystal – Ball Arena Cirque du Soleil Crystal™ is more than an ice show. For the first time, Cirque du Soleil® pushes the boundaries of performance, redefining the artistic possibilities of ice. Watch as world-class ice skaters and acrobats claim their frozen playground with speed and grace, challenging the laws of gravity with daring acrobatics. Feel the thrill of poetry in motion as our protagonist Crystal’s journey towards empowerment is brought to life on ice. 

THRU APRIL 7: Wild Color – Denver Museum of Nature and Science Delve into the color spectrum like never before as you make your way through immersive rooms, each representing a color of the rainbow. Discover some of the brightest and boldest examples from our collections—alongside experiences designed to awaken your senses. Anywhere you look in nature, color holds meaning. It evokes emotion, signals alarm, creates disguise and illusion. In this special exhibition, you’ll learn how to decode the hidden messages that different colors can send. Then, explore some of nature’s mysteries that are hidden in plain sight: creatures that change color, plants and animals that give off an eerie glow, and shades of color that the human eye can’t detect.

APRIL 5: Nathaniel Rateliff Presents A Night of Leonard Cohen – Boettcher Concert Hall One of the most fascinating and enigmatic singer/songwriters of the late ‘60s, Leonard Cohen developed a massive following across six decades of music-making, interrupted by various digressions into personal and creative exploration, all of which have only added to the mystique surrounding him. A master wordsmith with a voice like aged whiskey and lyrics that cut to the core of humanity, Cohen’s artistry transcends generations, weaving tales of love, longing, and spirituality that continue to resonate. Denver singer and songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff joins the Colorado Symphony, blending his folk, Americana, and vintage rhythm & blues influences with Cohen’s timeless lyrics for a collaboration six decades in the making. From “Hallelujah” to “Suzanne,” witness the power of songwriting to touch the deepest recesses of the soul.

APRIL 11 & 12: An Evening with John Cusack and Screening of Say Anything – Lincoln Center and Paramount Theatre With four decades’ worth of roles in over 70 films, Hollywood icon John Cusack has enjoyed a varied and diverse career. Now, join John for a screening of Say Anything on the big screen followed by a LIVE conversation regarding his career and the making of the film. Fans will get the opportunity to experience a moderated discussion, with John answering audience questions.