The Denver Traveler

So, you’ve made it to Denver for the weekend?! You won’t have to go too far to find something to do. In fact, staying right in Denver proper has its rewards this weekend.
Stroll on down the 16th Street Mall to Skyline Park for Open Air Denver-
This weekend festival will host over 50 performers and have open mics- everyone will be playing for you for free for the love and for the glory!
Then hop onto the 16th Street Shuttle and take it to the Civic Center Stop, walk across Colfax toward the Library, see all those white tents… It’s The Denver …read more

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Mark your calendars for Friday, June 13, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm for the Denver Public Library’s Friends Foundation Used Book Sale Preview Party!
Friends Members will enjoy light refreshments, wine, music and friends, all outside under the tents north of the Central Library. If you are not currently a ‘Friend’ of the Denver Public Library, this is a great opportunity for you to join the Friends Foundation and show your support for our great Library.
The main sale, which happens June 14th and 15th, features more than 50,000 items, beginning at just 50 cents for paperbacks. It is an event that …read more

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Fresh City Life, Denver Public Library’s outstanding event and activity offering to enhance and enlighten our minds has a spring art exhibit up at the Denver Art Museum.
The exhibit is in the Morrison Concourse of the Denver Art Museum and it features the work of Ed Adler. The exhibit shares the name with Fresh City Life’s Thinkology: “Wilde, Horses and Cowboys.”
If you choose to stroll through this art exhibit on Saturday May 17th- cross the courtyard to the Library and join Ed Adler in the B2 Conference Center. 2pm is the start time for its official opening and rumor …read more

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Friday:
6:00pm- Critical Mass Bike Ride Start: 15th Street and West Colfax.
8:00pm- 3rd Law Dance Theatre premieres The Clean Room.
Saturday:
7:30pm- Next Stage Denver presents Falsettos at the Aurora Fox Theatre
10:00pm- Ladies and Gentleman, The Fabulous Stains Neighborhood Flix Cinema.

Sunday:
Noon to 4pm- Dia de los Ninos
Celebrate World Cultures during a Day for the Children.
Free admission to the Denver Art Museum, Colorado History Museum, Byers-Evans House and the Denver Public Library.
2:00pm- Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series Finale with Margaret Patterson.

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The Denver Public Library and Fresh City Life, have launched a new Thinkology Series entitled, Wild Wilde West. This series of events invites you to think about those moments when you work to keep your private persona sacred, while our culture makes ever greater demands on our privacy.
Wild Wilde West kicks off this Saturday, April 26th with American Girls Playing Cowboys. This discussion will focus mainly on Calamity Jane and Willa Cather. Geoffrey Bateman, who teaches rhetoric and writing, at The University of Denver will take the conversation into further depths by examining whether this time in history …read more

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April 22 people nationwide will be celebrating Earth Day to inspire awareness and appreciation for our planet. We here in Denver will join the celebration with two very important events:
Civic Center Park will host an Earth Day Fair to spread the green word all Earth Day long. Everyone is welcome to attend and learn more about activities going on in Denver to help save the plant.
The Denver Botanic Gardens‘ main order for Earth Day 2008 will be the kick off of the “Take 5 Pledge“! An initiative that has 5 categories and a pledge to improve each …read more

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April 13th through April 20th is National Library Week (founded in 1958 and sponsored by the American Association of Libraries) and Denver Public Library is celebrating the contributions of libraries, librarians and library workers! Denver’s communities are enriched everyday to have the Denver Public Library and all of its 23 branches plus a Book Mobile. Denver Public Library is rated third in the nation, yet it feels like number one when you step in and find exactly what you need.
This week, bring your kids and enter into a raffle to win a book bag full of a plethora of treasures …read more

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The Louisville Public Library is offering a rare glimpse at the life of Eleanor Roosevelt through a character monologue that brings us back to the ’30’s when Franklin D. Roosevelt was the President of the United States. Susan Frontczak will portray Eleanor Roosevelt as she remembers what she accomplished during her tenure as First Lady while her husband served his first term.
Eleanor Roosevelt was perhaps the first First Lady to take on such a public and political role; helping to establish minimum wage, laws against child labor, women’s rights, civil rights, and a progress toward world peace. The …read more

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The Friends of the Denver Public Library want you to come out and enjoy a night of delicious food and fabulous atmosphere at Baur’s Ristorante’s grand opening in the Theater District. Baur’s is an old name in Denver, remembered fondly by many Colorado natives, and it promises to be just as grand in their new location.
Tickets to the event are $50 each, and all proceeds benefit the Friends of Denver Public Library Foundation. What does this mean? Well, the Friends Foundation is an organization which strives to assist the library in whatever it may need. This includes advocacy, fund …read more

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Derailer Bicycle Collective Build a Bike free workshop- Friday at 3pm
Aurora Fox Art Center’s presentation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Museo De Las Americas free day- Saturday
National Western Stock Show- Pro and Mexican Rodeo
Masterpiece Theatre’s Persuasion is showing at The Central Location of The Denver Public Library- Sunday

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