Dot Days Calendar | Heller Center for Arts & Humanities

5:00 pm Simulacra Gallery Exhibit @GOCA (Ent Center)
6:00 pm Dornith Doherty Artist Talk @Chapman Theatre (Ent Center)
7:15 pm Gallery event: Our Place in Nature @Heller
8 pm Outdoor Movie Night: Undammed (2024; 17 min) @Heller (with Rocky Mountain Women's Film)

5:00 pm Researcher tables in lobby
5:30 pm Philosophy in the City talk by Dr. Jordan Kokot: What do we mean by nature?
6:30 pm Reception/Meet the Researchers

9:30 am-2:30 pm Volunteer opportunities
12-2 pm No Cost Grocery (sign-up begins at 9 am)
12:30-6:30 pm The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit
4:00 pm Garden and composting tours
4:30-7 pm Local food trucks available
5:15 pm Workshop: Out of Synch? with artist Dornith Doherty
6:45 pm Cooking demonstration: Local and Delicious: Cooking with What's Growing with Chef Felicia Embry of Thelma Lou's Innersoul Food
7:30 pm Screening/discussion of A Bigger World and Not Aliens (Youth Documentary Academy; discussion with filmmakers Devani Gayadin and Mridul Govind led by Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius)

Explore the museum's exhibits throughout the day
11:30 am-5:30 pm The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit on South Lawn
4:00-7:00 pm Art-making stations throughout the museum presented by artists featured in the museum's 50% of the Story: Women Expressing Creativity exhibit
5:30 pm Food Forest workshop with permaculturist Kelly Bull
7:00 pm Screening & discussion of The Spectacular Quiet and Grasping at Stars
(Youth Documentary Academy; discussion with filmmakers Lillian Lugo and Sierra Buah, led by Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius)

3:30-7:30 pm Citizen Science Labs: Making Scents of Nature
- 3:30 pm Park tour and wild harvest
- 4:30 pm Start essential oil distillation (guided by Laura Huth of Rootfoot)
- 5:30 pm Biochar / Hügelkultur workshop
- 6:30 pm Animal Continuum activities & discussion
- 7:00 pm Essential oil collection, meditation and intention setting
7:30-9:00 pm Dinner and Coyoetry Special Edition: “Our Place in Nature” Open Mic

2:00-4:00 pm General Heller events
- Heller Studio open: Our Place in Nature multimedia exhibit (Last day!)
- Tours of Heller Center
- Local Geology hike with Eric Billmeyer (Geography and Environmental Studies)
- Workshops for adults (Container Gardening for Sustainable Food with Dr. Andrea Baker (Communication); Colorado Constitution at 150 with Dr. Josh Vandiver (Political Science))
- Sungazing with special telescope, with Dr. Joel Tonyan (Kraemer Family Library)
- Activities for kids (Making Dorodango Mud Balls with Dr. 'Ilaheva Tua'one (WEST); How to Build a Fire with Dr. Haruki Eda (Sociology))
4:00 pm Community Conversations: Sustainable Engagement
5:00 pm Workshop and talk: Firebuilding and Fire in Human History with Dr. Haruki Eda (Sociology)
6:15 pm Picnic dinner available
6:30 pm Storytelling performance over dinner with Bone Stories Collective
8:00 pm Stargazing and star stories with Dr. 'Ilaheva Tua'one, Dr. Joel Tonyan, Dr. Kimbra Smith, and more!

The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long
10:00 am Adult workshops (Yoga with Dr. Andrea Baker (Communication); Deep Listening Hike with Dr. Dylan Harris (Geography * Environmental Studies); Colorado Constitution at 150 with Dr. Josh Vandiver (Political Science))
10:00 am Activities for kids (Beading with Recycled Glass with Dr. Abby Ferber (Sociology and WEST); Making Leaf Paper and Bookbinding with Mia Alvarado of Brave Irene's)
10:00 am Nature Photography Workshop with photographer and videographer Clay Bowen/11:00am Community Curation workshop with Dr. Rhonda Goodman-Gaghan (Heller Curator)
12:00 pm Flintknapping demonstration with Dr. Colin Wren (Anthropology)
12:30 pm Picnic lunch
1:30-4:30 pm Interactive campus tours: meet UCCS researchers and students, see research and creative work, win prizes!
- ***Art and writing from the high school competition will be on display around campus!!***
5:00 pm Picnic dinner/Community Conversations: Local Ecologies and Interconnections
6:00 pm Outdoor concert
- World premiere of Songdream with Birds by Dr. Yvonne Wu (VAPA Music)
- Site-specific music by Music faculty Jon Forshee with accompanying dance performances by Dr. Rosely Conz (VAPA Dance) and students
- Solos by community musician Martha Muhleisen on violin

2:00-4:00 pm Adult workshops (The Stories Trees Tell: Tree Ring History with Dr. Christine Biermann (Geography & Environmental Studies); Colorado Constitution at 150 with Dr. Josh Vandiver (Political Science); Medieval Ink-making with Dr. Danielle Allor (English))
2:00-4:00 pm Activities for children (Volcanoes! with Dr. Jen McLeod (Geography & Environmental Studies); Interconnections with Anthropology graduate Ella Love)
4:30 pm Community-curated gallery opening
5:00 pm Unveiling of winning art pieces and presentation of arts/writing competition awards
5:30 pm Local Soundscapes live performance with Iddo Aharony (Colorado College), Ben Kinsley (UCCS VAPA Visual Art), and Andrew Weathers (Pueblo-based intermedia artist and upcoming Heller Fellow)
6:00 pm Local Foods Feast
6:30 pm Community Conversations: Connected Futures

All programs are free and open to the public

***Free registration for all events is now open! Click on any of the links above to register.***

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