Dot Days Calendar | Heller Center for Arts & Humanities

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

More about the Ent Center for the Arts

5:00-5:30pm Researcher tables in lobby
5:30-6:30pm Philosophy in the City talk by Dr. Jordan Kokot: What do we mean by nature?
6:30-7:00pm Reception/Meet the Researchers

More about UCCS Downtown

9:30am-2:30pm No Cost Grocery & volunteer opportunities
The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long
4:00pm Garden and composting tours
4:30-7pm Local food trucks available
5:15pm Workshop: Out of Synch? with artist 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)

More about Food to Power

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, galleries open all day long inside the museum
4:00-7:00pm Art-making stations throughout the museum
5:30pm Food Forest workshop with permaculturist Kelly Bull
7:00pm Screening & discussion of The Spectacular Quiet and Grasping at Stars
(YDA, with filmmakers and Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius)

More about CSPM

More about Concrete Couch

2:00-4:00pm General Heller events
- Heller Studio open: Our Place in Nature multimedia exhibit (Last day!)
- Tours of Heller Center
- Workshops and hikes for adults (Local geology hike; Container gardening for sustainable fresh food)
- Sungazing with special telescope
- Activities for kids (Making dorodango mud balls; How to build a fire)
4:00pm Community Conversations: Sustainable Engagement
5:00pm Workshop and talk on firebuilding and fire in human history (with Dr. Haruki Eda)
6:15pm Picnic dinner available
6:30pm Storytelling presentation and picnic dinner
8:00pm Stargazing and Star Stories

The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long
10:00am, 11:00am Adult workshops (Yoga; Deep listening hike)
10:00am, 11:00am Activities for kids (Beading with recycled glass; Making leaf paper)
10:00am Nature photography workshop (bring your phone!)/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 and creative work, win prizes!
- ***Art and writing from the high school competition will be on display around campus!!***
5:00pm Picnic dinner/Community Conversations: Local Ecologies and Interconnections
6:00pm Outdoor concert featuring world premiere of Y. Wu piece, site-specific dance performances, EcoSono performances, and more!

2:00pm-4:00pm Adult workshops (The Stories Trees Tell: Tree ring history; more coming soon!)
2:00pm-4:00pm Activities for children (Volcanoes!; more coming soon!)
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

***Events will be added all summer. Check back in August for links to register for events!***

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Questions? Please call (719) 255-6277