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)

More about the Ent Center for the Arts

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

More about UCCS Downtown

9:30 am-2:30 pm No Cost Grocery & volunteer opportunities
The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long
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 with chef Felicia Embry
7:30 pm 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
4:00-7:00 pm Art-making stations throughout the museum
5:30 pm Food Forest workshop with permaculturist Kelly Bull
7:00 pm Screening & discussion of The Spectacular Quiet and Grasping at Stars
(YDA, with filmmakers and Pikes Peak Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius)

More about CSPM

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

More about Concrete Couch

The Truth About 250/150 visiting exhibit all day long
10:00 am, 11:00am Adult workshops (Yoga; Deep Listening Hike; Colorado Constitution at 150)
10:00 am, 11:00am Activities for kids (Beading with Recycled Glass; Making Leaf Paper)
10:00 am Nature Photography Workshop (bring your phone!)/11:00am Community Curation workshop in Heller Gallery
12:00 pm Flintknapping Demonstration
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 featuring world premiere of Y. Wu piece, site-specific dance performances, EcoSono performances, and more!

2:00-4:00 pm Adult workshops (The Stories Trees Tell: Tree ring history; Colorado Constitution at 150; Medieval Ink-making)
2:00-4:00 pm Activities for children (Volcanoes!; more coming soon!)
4:30 pm Community-curated gallery opening
5:00 pm Unveiling of winning art pieces and presentation of arts/writing competition awards
6:00 pm Local Foods Feast
6:30 pm 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