Community Calendar

GENERAL

LITERARY

Immersive Writing Session

6:00pm-7:30pm, The Art Center - 1803 N. 7th Street Grand Junction, Colorado 81501

Join us on Tuesday, January 7, 2025, at 6 p.m. at The Art Center in Grand Junction for an unforgettable immersive writing session with Wendy more...0 Videlock. RSVPs are strongly encouraged as we will move about the Art Center and would like to plan accurately. Wendy will guide you on using art as a tool for reflection, activating your imagination, and evoking vivid description in all types of writing including memoir, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. Writers of every genre will enjoy and benefit from these exercises whether you write thrillers, cozy mysteries, historical fiction, poetry, holiday letters, blog posts, technical manuals, or anything in between! In the world of poetry, this is known as ekphrasis, “a literary device consisting of a vivid, detailed description of a visual work of art.” The Art Center has generously opened every gallery to the WCWF for this session. The art exhibits on display that night are: Terry Shepherd +1: Clay Vessels 2024 Exhibit The Sky is the Limit – an exhibition focusing on clouds as the primary subject matter The 7 Principles of Art and Design: Shape – featuring works from The Art Center’s Permanent Collection Kephart: Collector’s Exhibit We encourage all writers to RSVP for this special writer’s night session!

MUSIC

7:00pm-9:00pm, 195 W. Main Street, Cedaredge

A Twofer! Great music for one price!

MUSIC

Presented by the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra

7:30pm-9:00am, 645 Main Street Grand Junction 81501

Feel like a superhero yourself as the pulse-pounding, larger-than-life scores to today's biggest superhero films are brought to life by the full more...0 forces of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra! From classic themes to the latest epics, these iconic soundtracks display the full bombast and excitement of a live orchestral performance. This concert celebrates the unforgettable music that has accompanied our favorite superheroes on the big screen, an event that is sure to capture a world of excitement, courage, and triumph. When to Arrive: Doors open one hour before the show; most arrive 40 minutes prior. Concessions are available before the concert and during intermission. Parking: Public lot behind Avalon Theatre at 7th and Colorado, with free street and metered parking on weekends. Dress Code: Wear what you like; dressing up is optional. General Guide for Applause: Clap for the Concertmaster, Conductor, and after each piece. Etiquette: Please silence devices, limit noise, and be patient with post-concert traffic.

MUSIC

Presented by the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra

3:00pm-4:30pm, 645 Main Street Grand Junction 81501

Feel like a superhero yourself as the pulse-pounding, larger-than-life scores to today's biggest superhero films are brought to life by the full more...0 forces of the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra! From classic themes to the latest epics, these iconic soundtracks display the full bombast and excitement of a live orchestral performance. This concert celebrates the unforgettable music that has accompanied our favorite superheroes on the big screen, an event that is sure to capture a world of excitement, courage, and triumph. When to Arrive: Doors open one hour before the show; most arrive 40 minutes prior. Concessions are available before the concert and during intermission. Parking: Public lot behind Avalon Theatre at 7th and Colorado, with free street and metered parking on weekends. Dress Code: Wear what you like; dressing up is optional. General Guide for Applause: Clap for the Concertmaster, Conductor, and after each piece. Etiquette: Please silence devices, limit noise, and be patient with post-concert traffic.

GENERAL

LITERARY

a spoken word open mic

6:00pm-7:30pm, 1012 N. 5th

a spoken word open mic

RADIO ROOM

5:30pm, 1310 Ute Ave Grand Junction, CO

CLASSES/LECTURES

LITERARY

THEATRE

Live Performance & Workshop

1:30pm-9:00pm, 33 N. Uncompahgre Avenue

NYC Slam Poet Performance + Emotional Historians Workshop! THE ARTIST Jon Sands was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a winner of the 2018 National more...0 Poetry Series, selected for his second collection of poems, It’s Not Magic (Beacon Press, 2019). He is the facilitator of the Emotional Historians workshop, a series of generative writing classes that you can find out more about on Instagram at @iAmJonSands, and is the author of The New Clean (Write Bloody Publishing), a co-host of The Poetry Gods podcast, and a curator for SupaDupaFresh, a monthly poetry series at Ode to Babel in Brooklyn. His work has been featured in The New York Times, published in The Rumpus, The Millions, Cortland Review, LUMINA from Sarah Lawrence College, Muzzle, Rattle, Hanging Loose, The Rattling Wall from PEN Center USA, and many others, as well as anthologized in The Best American Poetry. He has received residencies and fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses, and the Jerome Foundation. He’s a MFA Graduate in Fiction from Brooklyn College, where his work won the Himan Brown Award for short stories. He was a founding curator of Poets in Unexpected Places, a New York based artist collective that moved poetry into unconventional public spaces with free live literature performances featuring accomplished poets and an array of performance artists from varied backgrounds and aesthetics. They were commissioned to curate “Pop Up” exhibitions in college classrooms, federal banks, museums, and much more. He is a facilitator with the Dialogue Arts Project, a non-profit organization that partners with communities in order to help participants collaborate & communicate more effectively across lines of social identity and difference. He taught at Brooklyn College, Urban Word NYC, and for over a decade, facilitated weekly writing workshops for adults at Baily House, an HIV/AIDS service center in East Harlem and The Positive Health Project, a syringe exchange center in Midtown Manhattan. He starred in the award winning web-series Verse: A Murder Mystery from Rattapallax Films, and has represented New York City numerous times at the National Poetry Slam. He tours extensively as a poet, but lives in Brooklyn. PERFORMANCE General Admission Performance is $25 for Adults and $15 for Youth. Purchase online at jonsands.com, healthyrhythm.net, or at Healthy Rhythm Art Gallery in Montrose, Colorado. Performance is a ticketless event. Doors open at 7:00 PM. Show starts at 7:30 PM. WORKSHOP - EMOTIONAL HISTORIANS January 25, 2025 • 1:30 PM (Doors 1 PM) In the world of people, celebration is often laced with melancholy, joy is a border that surrounds sorrow, and fear is usually one doorbell away from bravery. So, how the fork can we construct poems that acknowledge a complicated and dynamic world? How do we avoid writing that transforms us into caricatures? How do we convey what it feels like to be us, alive at the onset of a new millennium? If the job of an artist is that of an emotional historian, then we must create poems that are as multi-dimensional and layered as the people who write them. If we’re to properly archive, we must ask ourselves not whether this is a great poem, but rather, is this today’s poem? Workshop is $20 for Adults and $15 for Youth. Workshop is limited to 20 participants. People who attend the afternoon Worksop and evening Performance pay $35 per Adult and $20 per Youth. As a courtesy to all, we politely request that if you’re not feeling well please stay home and get better and we'll see you soon! HEALTHY RHYTHM ART GALLERY Healthy Rhythm Art Gallery (HRAG) is about Art and Music. The Gallery affords diverse individuals a user-friendly space to create, exhibit, and sell a variety of artwork. The Gallery, located in historic downtown Montrose, Colorado, also serves as an intimate Live Music Listening Room for nationally and internationally touring musicians. see • think • believe™ There are no refunds or exchanges for this event. All sales are final. The only exception to this policy is if an event is cancelled. In the event of cancellation, purchases will be honored when the concert is rescheduled. If you are unable to attend the rescheduled event, your purchase will be refunded at the point of service minus any fees that may apply.

RADIO ROOM

Live in the Radio Room

7:00pm-10:00pm, 1310 Ute Ave Grand Junction, CO

For over 20 years Ben Garcia made a name for himself in the bird dog hunting and field trialing community, spanning the country from border to border more...0 and coast to coast with 20+ bird dogs and a handful of horses. On these weeks-long interstate drives he had experiences that crafted his lyrics, bearing witness to the folks, towns, drinks, and feelings he met along the way. These songs have a confessional style that makes your heart and ears listen. When Ben Garcia strums his first chord and starts singing his Americana storytelling songs, people pay attention. Show starts at 7pm Doors open at 6:30pm. Tickets $20 in Advance and $25 at the Door

MUSIC

Presented by the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra

7:30pm-9:00pm, 864 Bunting Avenue Grand Junction 81501

Sit back, relax and enjoy the most Serene Concert of the Season. We’ve nestled a rare Marimba concerto between two masterpieces for a more...0 reflective experience that will help you take a deep breath and reset. If you’ve never seen a marimba concerto in person, Sejourne’s Concerto for Marimba and Strings is a perfectly paired duet between a marimba, with soloist Lee Cantrell, surrounded by strings. When to Arrive: Doors open one hour before the performance; most people arrive 40 minutes early. Concessions are available before the concert and at intermission. Parking: Plenty of parking around Colorado Mesa University Performing Arts Center with no passes needed on weekends or after 5 p.m. on Fridays. Dress Code: Wear what you like; dressing up is optional. General Guide for Applause: Clap for the Concertmaster, Conductor, and after each piece. Etiquette: Please silence devices, limit noise, and be considerate to ensure everyone enjoys the performance.

MUSIC

Presented by the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra

3:00pm-4:30pm, 864 Bunting Avenue Grand Junction 81501

Sit back, relax and enjoy the most Serene Concert of the Season. We’ve nestled a rare Marimba concerto between two masterpieces for a more...0 reflective experience that will help you take a deep breath and reset. If you’ve never seen a marimba concerto in person, Sejourne’s Concerto for Marimba and Strings is a perfectly paired duet between a marimba, with soloist Lee Cantrell, surrounded by strings. When to Arrive: Doors open one hour before the performance; most people arrive 40 minutes early. Concessions are available before the concert and at intermission. Parking: Plenty of parking around Colorado Mesa University Performing Arts Center with no passes needed on weekends or after 5 p.m. on Fridays. Dress Code: Wear what you like; dressing up is optional. General Guide for Applause: Clap for the Concertmaster, Conductor, and after each piece. Etiquette: Please silence devices, limit noise, and be considerate to ensure everyone enjoys the performance.