Community Calendar

MUSIC

7:30pm-9:00pm, Moss Performing Arts Center, Love Recital Hall, CMU

Western Colorado Chorale presents its Winter Concert in the Many Moods of Music concert series on Saturday, February 25 at 7:30 P.M., and Sunday, more...0 February 26 at 3:00 P.M. Both concerts will take place in Love Recital Hall of the Moss Performing Arts Center at 12th Street and North Avenue on the CMU campus. This is the 37th Season for Western Colorado Chorale. For this concert, the sixty-voice chorale and guest string quartet will be conducted by Dr. Monte Atkinson, Interim Music Director, who founded the group in 1985. This is the Chorale’s first full performance season since March 2020, due to COVID restrictions. The concert literature is derived from music evocative of the winter season, by composers from the 16th to 21st centuries.

MUSIC

3:00pm-5:00pm, 12th and North Avenue, GJCO

Western Colorado Chorale will present its Winter Concert in The Many Moods of Music series on Saturday, February 25 at 7:30 P.M., and Sunday, more...0 February 26 at 3:00 P.M. Both concerts will take place in Love Recital Hall of the Moss Performing Arts Center at 12th Street and North Avenue on the CMU campus. This is the 37th Season for Western Colorado Chorale, and is the Chorale’s first full performance season since March 2020, due to COVID restrictions. For this concert, the sixty-voice Chorale and guest string quartet will perform music evocative of the winter season, by composers from the 16th to 21st centuries. The program will be conducted by Dr. Monte Atkinson, Interim Music Director, who founded the Chorale in 1985.

LITERARY

Deep Wild Journal panelists

6:30pm-8:00pm, 533 Main St. Grand Junction, CO 81501

“Words from the Wild,” a reading featuring five regional writers from the journal Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry, the home for more...0 creative work inspired by journeys to places where there are no roads, will take place at Out West Books in downtown Grand Junction, 533 Main Street, on Wednesday, March 1, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Deep Wild contributors Peter Anderson of Crestone, Jill Burkey of Grand Junction, and Wendy Videlock of Palisades, and editors Heidi Blankenship of southern Utah and Rick Kempa of Grand Junction will read stories and poems inspired by their journeys on the Colorado Plateau and beyond.

LITERARY

Deep Wild Journal

6:30pm-8:00pm, Out West Books, 533 Main St. Grand Junction, CO 81501

Deep Wild Journal contributors Peter Anderson of Crestone, Jill Burkey of Grand Junction, and Wendy Videlock of Palisade and editors Heidi more...0 Blankenship of southern Utah and Rick Kempa of Grand JUnction will read stories and poems inspired by their journeys on the Colorado Plateau and beyond. The 2022 issue of Deep Wild: Writing from the Backcountry offers our largest gathering yet of writing inspired by places where there are no roads, by 25 poets, 6 fiction writers, and 20 essayists—including the winners of the Deep Wild Graduate Student Essay Contest. Also featured is a portfolio of multi-media work by California-based artist Andie Thrams. The cover art is by Utah artist Bessann Swanson.

MUSIC

Presented by Alpine Bank

7:00pm-9:00pm, 195 W. Main St., Cedaredge, CO

High energy interpretation of acoustic music.

GENERAL

with Grand Junction City Council Candidates

6:00pm-7:30pm, 1803 N 7th St, Grand Junction, CO 81501

The Grand Valley Creative Alliance will present the 2023 Arts and Culture Forum on March 7th, Tuesday evening from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. This more...0 moderated question-and-answer session is held each election cycle with the Candidates running for Grand Junction City Council. The March 7th event will be held at The Art Center, 7th & Orchard, in Studio Colorado and is open to the public.

CLASSES/LECTURES

Reading Your Written Work in Public

6:00pm-7:30pm, 1803 N. 7th Street

I’d Rather Die, They Said: Reading Your Work in Public with John R. Lanci Polls indicate that the number one fear people have is a fear of more...0 public speaking. Fear of death only comes in second. Join John Lanci for a workshop on how to overcome fear and become a more effective reader of your own work. John, current vice president of the Western Colorado Writers’ Forum, has forty years of public speaking under his belt—as a teacher, a giver of stirring sermons, and a retreat master. Our time together will be a workshop, not a lecture, in which participants share their experiences as well as their own tips for sharing their work with others. NO ONE WILL BE FORCED TO FACE THEIR FEARS!! Come and listen to your peers, and share if you like.

LITERARY

Geology Underfoot on Colorado's Western Slope

6:30pm-8:00pm, 533 Main St. Grand Junction CO 81506

About the Author: Amy Ellwein is a Senior Partner at Paradox Geologic and a Research Professor, Western Colorado University. She lives in the more...0 Gunnison Country. From the publisher: This tenth book in the Geology Underfoot Series offers an inside view of the uniquely enigmatic landscape west of the Continental Divide in Colorado. In this arid region where mountain snowmelt drains through deep canyons en route to the Gulf of California, the crumpled gneisses of the Colorado Rockies meet the famous red rocks of the Colorado Plateau. Nothing is simple here, with rich metal ores filling fractures of supervolcanoes, small mammals flourishing in a world of giant dinosaurs, and rivers shifting course with each new uplift or eruption of lava. Join a team of geologists as they use clear prose, concise illustrations, and dramatic full-color photographs to tell the deep-time stories of 26 geologic sites, including four giants of the national park system: Mesa Verde National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado National Monument, and Dinosaur National Monument. Fossil collectors, rockhounds, hot potters, coal miners, and adventurers of all ages can use this guide to better understand the geology underfoot throughout Colorado’s beautiful Western Slope.

LITERARY

Geology Underfoot on Colorado's Western Slope

6:30pm-8:00pm, Out West Books, 533 Main St., Grand Junction, CO 81501

Geology Underfoot on Colorado's Western Slope with author Amy Ellwein, PhD. Mountain Press $26 About the Author: Amy Ellwein is a Senior Partner more...0 at Paradox Geologic and a Research Professor, Western Colorado University. She lives in the Gunnison Country. From the publisher: This tenth book in the Geology Underfoot Series offers an inside view of the uniquely enigmatic landscape west of the Continental Divide in Colorado. In this arid region where mountain snowmelt drains through deep canyons en route to the Gulf of California, the crumpled gneisses of the Colorado Rockies meet the famous red rocks of the Colorado Plateau. Nothing is simple here, with rich metal ores filling fractures of supervolcanoes, small mammals flourishing in a world of giant dinosaurs, and rivers shifting course with each new uplift or eruption of lava. Join a team of geologists as they use clear prose, concise illustrations, and dramatic full-color photographs to tell the deep-time stories of 26 geologic sites, including four giants of the national park system: Mesa Verde National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, Colorado National Monument, and Dinosaur National Monument. Fossil collectors, rockhounds, hot potters, coal miners, and adventurers of all ages can use this guide to better understand the geology underfoot throughout Colorado’s beautiful Western Slope.

FOOD/BEVERAGES

VISUAL ARTS

3:00pm-7:00pm, Bookcliff Vineyards 670 39 Road Palisade, CO

2nd Friday of each month Bookcliff Vineyards invites 2 or 3 artists from the Grand Valley to showcase their art work while enjoying cheese and wine. more...0 (usually live music)