Community Calendar

LITERARY

A Riot on 1st Street

103 N. 1st St

The Western Colorado Writer's Forum presents the 3rd Annual Salmming Bricks: A Riot on 1st Street. Join us during Colorado West Pride's more...0 annual festival. All audience members will be entered for the chance to win prizes at CWP's Rainbow Party immediately after! Slamming Bricks is an intersectional (LBGTQ+ & BIPOC centered) slam poetry competition exploring resistance and liberation in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. Poets from all over the American West compete in four rounds of poetry in a battle for the brick. The competition is scored by a panel of judges, which has included Colorado Poet Laureate, Bobby LeFebre (2020). Slamming Bricks is a free, 21+ event (some exceptions made for performers). A Youtube live stream will also be available for all audiences. Competing for the brick this year: 1. Sarah Swedberg 2. Dalton Telschow 3. Briana Hammerstrom 4. Lydia Gates 5. Kimberly Jarchow 6. Adrienne Cascarella 7. Aerik Francis 8. Nico Wilkinson This year, in addition to our standard performer package, poets will also have all of their pieces published in a Slamming Bricks anthology! Check out Slamming Bricks 2020 here: https://www.facebook.com/103335944770709/videos/3123147751064186 Want to enter the competition? Learn more at: https://calebferganchick.com/slamming-bricks/

GENERAL

8:00am, 3073 F Road

Each summer, Cross Orchards Historic Site is home to a special market. Vendors at the Cross Orchards Market include farmers, artisans, and food more...0 trucks! You’ll find the market at the museum Wednesdays & Saturdays beginning June 5th and running through October 9th from 8am-Noon. We are still looking for vendors! If you are interested fill out the form here and return to Matt Darling - mdarling[at]westcomuseum.org

GENERAL

8:00am, 3073 F Road

Each summer, Cross Orchards Historic Site is home to a special market. Vendors at the Cross Orchards Market include farmers, artisans, and food more...0 trucks! You’ll find the market at the museum Wednesdays & Saturdays beginning June 5th and running through October 9th from 8am-Noon. We are still looking for vendors! If you are interested fill out the form here and return to Matt Darling - mdarling[at]westcomuseum.org

FOOD/BEVERAGES

FUNDRAISERS/BENEFITS

MUSIC

3:00pm-9:00pm, Las Colonias Ampitheater; 925 Struthers Avenue, GJ, CO 81501

An event to celebrate the human-canine bond with live music, food and drink, and, of course, dogs! Saturday, August 14, 2021 3:00pm – 9:00pm at more...0 the Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park. TICKETS ON SALE NOW – 18 and over – $20, ages 13-17 – $10, kids under 12 and well-behaved, leashed dogs free. VIP Tickets – $65 – includes reserved parking, early entrance, reserved seating, drinks in the VIP tent from The Rockslide and Talbotts, a Wüffstock poster signed by the bands and a limited edition Wüffstock 2020 t-shirt.Featuring award-winning band Bowregard, Leon & The Revival and local favorite Stray Grass!All proceeds benefit Roice-Hurst Humane Society! Current Health Department Guidelines Will Be Followed

MUSIC

RADIO ROOM

One Man Band from Illinois rocks The Radio Room

7:00pm-10:00pm, KAFM Radio Room, 1310 Ute Ave. Grand Junction, CO

Bailey, a gentle giant of a man armed with a formidable array of unconventional instruments, has been blending punk, blues, pop and soul influences more...0 for his entire musical career, without any regard to what sells at the time. His new record, Long Time Comin’, is a celebration of that no-fracks aesthetic, featuring new material alongside fully-realized re-recordings of old songs, all rough edges and loud noises camouflaging a remarkable knack for pop songwriting and mind-bending musicianship.

MUSIC

7:00pm-9:00pm, 2087 Broadway

Country Rocker FC Westcott and his band the Aficionados bring his unique traditional, yet hard driving country sound to Music in the Grapevines on more...0 Tuesday, Aug. 17. Arrive early with lawn chairs and perhaps a picnic dinner or appetizers for an evening in the shadow of Colorado National Monument. Wine is available for purchase. Gates open at 6 pm, music at 7 pm. Tickets are $15 in advance at the Winery, The Art Center (7th & Orchard) and online at artcenterguild.org. All proceeds benefit the Art Center of Western Colorado.

GENERAL

8:00am, 3073 F Road

Each summer, Cross Orchards Historic Site is home to a special market. Vendors at the Cross Orchards Market include farmers, artisans, and food more...0 trucks! You’ll find the market at the museum Wednesdays & Saturdays beginning June 5th and running through October 9th from 8am-Noon. We are still looking for vendors! If you are interested fill out the form here and return to Matt Darling - mdarling[at]westcomuseum.org

MUSIC

5:00pm-6:30pm, 599 30 Road

Come meet the teachers and tour the studios of Shining Stars Music Academy. We offer lessons in piano, guitar, classical guitar, ukulele, voice and more...0 violin.

GENERAL

8:00am, 3073 F Road

Each summer, Cross Orchards Historic Site is home to a special market. Vendors at the Cross Orchards Market include farmers, artisans, and food more...0 trucks! You’ll find the market at the museum Wednesdays & Saturdays beginning June 5th and running through October 9th from 8am-Noon. We are still looking for vendors! If you are interested fill out the form here and return to Matt Darling - mdarling[at]westcomuseum.org

RADIO ROOM

6:00pm-9:00pm, 1310 Ute Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501

Interested in learning more about where your food comes from? Join Woodlot Productions for free viewing of the documentary 3 Year Soil, followed by a more...0 panel discussion and Q&A. In 2012, Dawn & Brian moved to Grand Junction, CO from Albuquerque, NM with no jobs, and no place to live. Nine years later, they’re farming on an acre and a half of land at Green Junction Farmstead, feeding over 100 families every week with fresh, healthy produce. The rich, living soil, vibrant flora and fauna, and tight-knit community present on the farm didn’t appear overnight, but grew from years of long days and late nights. From the years of hardships and triumphs, heartbreak and joy, a universal truth emerges; healing the soil heals both planet and people.