Thursday, March 22 from 5:30 - 7pm
The Collective, 201 N. Public Rd, Lafayette

What does it mean to be the ‘other’ or to mark someone as such? How do we all create the ‘other’ in our everyday choices and what power lies in recognizing our own ‘other-ness’?

Utilizing a vast array of theater techniques, Vanessa Roberts invites participants to play with these concepts in order to gain a larger vision of the significance of the “us vs. them” dynamic in the work of identity construction. 

Wednesday, April 4 from 5:30 -7pm
The Collective, 201 N. Public Rd, Lafayette

This performance and panel explores how communities might engage with underrepresented voices, stories and experiences through the arts.

Participants will explore this topic through the example of the Theatre Made in Boulder Festival at the Dairy Arts Center, a new yearly event launched in January 2018. Tamara Meneghini, co-producer and CU Boulder Theatre and Dance Professor, Adam Russell Johnson (Accsuckability and Phamaly Theater Co.), Ayla Sullivan (Trans/Action) and Kirsten Wilson (founder Motus theater) will share performance and workshop excerpts and lead a discussion of how you might involve your community in conversation around issues shared in their work.

Wednesday, May 16 from 11:30am - 1pm
Vandeveer Workshop Room, Dairy Arts Center
2590 Walnut St, Boulder

How will changes in the tax law affect charitable giving? Do you need to re-think your fundraising plan for 2019 for your arts organization? Bring your questions and get advice from tax attorney Jane Caddell Paddison and Individual Giving Coordinator Meagan Vallejo of the Community Foundation as well as Toby Gallegos and Megan Austin, Tax Preparers at Block Advisors.

$10 BCAA Members/$15 non-members
Registration 11 - 11:30am
Workshop 11:30 - 1pm

If you attended a Business of Arts Workshop in 2017, we would love to hear from you!

You may have filled out an evaluation immediately following the workshop, but how about now? Have you put what you learned to use? What, if any, have been the long-term effects (positive or negative) of your experience? Useful skills? Networking?

Please share with us any stories or testimonials about how the workshop(s) impacted you, your art, or your organization.

Thank you in advance for your response. It will help us in the creation of new workshops for 2018-2019!

Image courtesy Evan Carmichael

Deadline to apply is March 16 at 5pm

Help keep the Boulder Star shining during the 2018 holiday season!

Open to all artists in the Boulder region. Applications are available through the online form only.

The Boulder Chamber seeks to commission a local artist, in association with BCAA, to create an original image that it can license for the 2018 Boulder Star Holiday Card, a wine label, and possibly other items. The original image will be designed by an artist that the Boulder Chamber selects through a competitive process, which begins with this Call for Artists. The Boulder Chamber sells all the items that carry the selected original image to support its stewardship of the Boulder Star.

Deadline: Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 5pm

Due to the large number of General Operating Support applications received in the spring, Equipment Grants and Fellowships have been moved from the spring to late summer cycle.

Awards are between $1,000 to $5,000.

Plan to attend a free grant coaching session on Thursday, March 29 from 5 -6:15 pm, especially if this is your first time applying. The coaching session will be held at the KGNU Community Room, 4700 Walnut St, Boulder. 

Volunteer Grant Panelists are needed! This is an excellent opportunity to find out what makes a successful application. If you are interested, please contact Charlotte LaSasso, Executive Director at 303-447-2422 or info@bouldercountyarts.org.

Friday, March 23rd from 5:30 - 8pm
Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St

Party with a Purpose and join your fellow artists, performers, and colleagues who are participating in the 5th annual Boulder Arts Week.

Twisted Pine is generously donating a portion of the whole day's proceeds to support the longevity of Boulder Arts Week. BCAA staff and friends from the Office of Arts & Culture will be there for lunch too - come join us!

Enjoy with us:

• Live music by Orbiting Olympia
• A demo and lovely hand printed card from Black Dog Press
• Projection by multi-media artist Betsy Tobin/Now or Never Theatre
• Performance by members of Blue Moon Dance Company

Ayla Sullivan s the current Denver Youth Poet Laureate (how cool is that?) and a third-year student at the University of Colorado Boulder pursuing degrees in theatre performance and education. In addition to productions at CU Boulder, recent shows have included last summer’s Julius Caesar, Taming of the Shrew, and Henry VI Part III at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. An avid activist on campus, they serve the Gender and Sexuality Center as the communications coordinator.

BCAA is excited to have Ayla as part of the upcoming Business of Arts workshop on Engaging Underrepresented Voices on April 4. This panel will also be presenting at the Colorado Creative Industries Summit on May 10 in Greeley.

Ayla is currently appearing in the role of Perla in Local Theater Company's Widsom from Everything. 

March 1 - March 25 at the Dairy Arts Center

a world premiere play by Mia McCullough
directed by Seema Sueko
presented by Local Theater Company

“People are uncomfortable when women are powerful.” Nineteen-year-old Syrian refugee Farzana is stuck. Once the top student in her school, she’s now educating girls in Zaatari, the largest refugee camp in the world. But when an older Jordanian doctor offers Farzana an education in exchange for marriage, she takes the chance—and finds herself embroiled in her new husband’s bizarre plot to redeem himself. Wisdom From Everything is one woman’s stirring story of sacrifice, hope, and resilience.

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Block 1750

Boulder Art Matrix

Boulder Bach Festival

Boulder Muse

Iryiel Cochran

Melinda Driscoll

Suzanne Frazier

Molly Hargarten

A History of the Visual Arts in Boulder (HOVAB)

Mari Madeira

Naropa University/School of Art

Heather Ng

Beth Pomerantz

Round Room Image

Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema

The Schiff Dance Collective

Penelope Sharp

Elisa Snyder

square product theater

James Walker

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