Dot Days Calendar
03 Sep: Seeds of a Planetary Future @ Heller Center
- 5:00pm Simulacra Gallery Exhibit located@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 all day long inside the museum
All day events: free activities for kids, open galleries
- 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 PPPL 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
All programs are free and open to the public
***More details coming soon! Check back this summer for links to register for events!***
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