Colorado Parks and Wildlife invites public comment…
DENVER, Colo. – Colorado Parks and Wildlife is inviting hunters to attend a meeting to discuss and provide feedback on season dates and structure of waterfowl hunting in Colorado’s northeast region. CPW is looking for information from waterfowl hunters on the success of their hunts, the kinds of issues they’re encountering and their level of satisfaction with the waterfowl program. The agenda for the meeting will include:
Update on data from last year’s waterfowl hunt collected from check stations at state wildlife areas in Area 3 and Area 4.
CPW Avian Program Leader Jim Gammonley will provide an update on data and observations CPW has collected from the Central Flyway.
CPW Public Involvement Planning Specialist Jody Kennedy will facilitate a conversation and survey on hunter satisfaction in the region.
Details
What: Northern Colorado Public Waterfowl Meeting
When: Wed., April 18 from 5:30 – 8 p.m.
Where: Scheel’s, 4755 Ronald Reagan Blvd., Johnstown, CO 80534
Denver, Colo.– The Governor’s annual wildfire briefing is being held today at the Aero Colorado Hangar, Centennial Airport, 8082 South Interport Blvd Englewood CO 80112. Aerial and ground static displays will follow the press conference.
The Director of the Colorado Department of Public Safety and the Director of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) will join Governor Hickenlooper to share the state’s wildfire potential for 2018 and provide updates on the level of state preparedness.
Gov. John Hickenlooper, Colorado Department of Public Safety and Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, Colorado National Guard Helicopter and Bambi bucket, DFPC Multi-Mission Aircraft, DFPC Single Engine Air Tanker, US Forest Service Type 3 Engine and hotshot crew, South Metro Fire Type 3 Engine, DFPC Type 3 Engine and the DFPC Mobile Live Fire Trailer Unit.
Visit the Denver Art Museum (DAM) and the Golden Triangle Creative District to celebrate Día del Niño, Uncorked Reserve and Uncorked AFTERGLO, participate in Slow Art Day, and listen up and be heard at Untitled: Suzi Q. Smith.
The DAM’s annual spring fundraising event celebrating wine and creativity, is a two-tiered party. As Uncorked Reserve winds down, Uncorked AFTERGLO picks up with art activations, live music and artistic treats and cocktails. Note: the museum will close at 3 p.m. on April 13 in preparation for Uncorked. For ticket and other information about Uncorked, contact or 720-913-0030.
From 6–10 p.m, listen up and be heard as the slam poet and author hosts an evening of spoken word performances and workshops exploring the many languages of art. Included in museum admission, and college students with ID receive 2-for-1 admission to Untitled Final Fridays.
Free general admission, family-friendly programming, live music and dances at the DAM. The weekend-long celebration is hosted by multiple organizations in the Golden Triangle including the DAM, Denver Public Library, Clyfford Still Museum, Byers-Evans House Museum and History Colorado Center.
Visitors can see this on view at its only American stop. (Special dated and timed ticket is required for Degas.) Showcasing more than 100 artworks by the prolific French artist, the exhibition explores such recurring themes in his career as a strong interest in opera and dance, a passion for horses and a lifelong fascination with the nude. Dive deeper with a four-part course, Degas: An Artistic Journey, beginning April 14. Full-course registration is open; individual session tickets on sale April 2 (pending availability). On April 20, George Shackelford will speak on Degas and the Nude at 6 p.m.; his lecture is included in general admission.
Presenting more than 100 works on paper by the award-winning Denver-based artist, highlighting his four-decade fashion illustration career, and Eyes On: Xiaoze Xie, featuring still-life paintings of books, videos and installations that the artist based on banned and forbidden books in China.
There’s always plenty for families to do at the DAM with A Walk in the Woods and the 3-D Studio hands-on activities available whenever the museum is open, and Create-n-Takes are available on weekends. The Hamilton Building is also now open seven days a week, and general admission is free for youth 18 and younger every day.
Learn how to apply the Mediterranean diet to enjoy good food and improve your health…
Colorado State University Extension is offering free 2-hour workshops focusing on the Mediterranean diet. Delivered by your local Extension agent, Sheila Gains, the workshops will help to answer your questions about key characteristics of the Mediterranean lifestyle and how foods in the diet contribute to health. After attending one of the workshops, we hope you leave with strategies for incorporating Mediterranean foods and habits into your life!
The SPECTRUM of fashion converges in this year’s CSU Fashion Show
Tonight, Colorado State University’s Department of Design and Merchandising will present its annual fashion show, “SPECTRUM,” at the Lincoln Center at 7:30 p.m.
The CSU event showcases talents from 24 senior designers’ collections and 30 draping designs. The show provides an opportunity to unveil garments conceptualized, designed and constructed solely by Design and Merchandising students.
Diversity theme
“SPECTRUM” was chosen as the theme for this year’s show to encompass diversity. From the collections to the models, and everything in between, the show will be a true demonstration of multifaceted, avant-garde fashion. Every year the show gets better and better. I’m excited about CSU blossoming into an icon of fashion, helping both designers and merchandisers emerge, bringing together raw talents and presenting them in the best light. — Carol Engel-Enright, a faculty member in the department and fashion show production lead
The evening’s events will feature spectacular stage design, lights and music accompanying the 60 models who were handpicked to wear the distinctive garments.
VIP reception
A VIP reception will take place prior to the fashion show, from 5 to 7 p.m. The formal “green carpet” affair will include drinks, appetizers and a silent auction with materials and merchandise from the various sponsors and donors to the show.
The show is entirely produced by students in the fashion production class led by Engel-Enright.
The Department of Design and Merchandising is part of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Colorado State University. This program provides students the knowledge and tools to succeed in the apparel industry. TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE HERE
Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment. Arapahoe County raises awareness this April with Prevention Pinwheel Gardens across County buildings. Thank you Commissioners Nancy Sharpe, Kathleen Conti, Nancy Jackson and Jeff Baker for holding steady in the wind to help support an important cause. Today, the County will observe a Statewide awareness campaign to #wearblue. More than 2,000 employees will be showing support many of them wearing blue to work and celebrating strong families, safe kids and stable communities.
The third annual ACT Human Rights Film Festival opens Thursday, April 5, with an evening dedicated to student filmmakers from around the West.
This year highlights include a new Festival Pass, two U.S. premieres and six Colorado premieres, more than 15 international film guests, encore screenings and a closing night concert featuring musicians from the film RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World.
The festival’s hand-picked feature documentaries begin screening Friday, April 6, in Colorado State University’s Lory Student Center Theater at 4:30 p.m.
About ACT
ACT showcases the most critically acclaimed and recently released international documentary films that explore a range of human rights themes, including democracy in crisis, immigration, war, gender rights, race and class in America, occupational health and climate change. The festival closes Saturday, April 14, with RUMBLE, followed by a reception and concert with Pura Fe and Cary Morin in the Lory Student Center.
Films will screen Friday through Sunday at CSU, The Lyric and the Lincoln Center Magnolia Theatre, and resume the following Friday, April 13, at The Lyric before closing Saturday, April 14, at the Lory Student Center Theatre. Encore screenings will occur Monday, April 9, through Thursday, April 12, at The Lyric. The complete festival schedule appears on the festival’s website, www.actfilmfest.org. Festival tickets, four-packs and all-festival passes went on sale today, March 8. Tickets are also available for purchase the day of show, pending availability.
Six premieres
The festival’s lineup represents the most relevant, recent and acclaimed films produced within the last two years. ACT is proud to premiere in Colorado six international and U.S. films, including two U.S. premieres, Chega de Fiu Fiu from Brazil and Dead Donkeys Fear No Hyenas from Ethiopia, as well as a sneak preview of Minding the Gap, which won the U.S. Documentary Competition Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
“This is the strongest lineup of films we’ve yet curated,” said Professor Scott Diffrient, who conceived the festival during his time as the William E. Morgan Endowed Chair of Liberal Arts (2014-16), and now directs festival programming. “The fact that we’re premiering six films in Colorado tells us that in just a few years ACT has emerged as a nationally recognized festival catering to a discerning crowd — audiences who are well-informed and who want something more from movies than just an escape from reality.”
“In fact, each of the films selected for the ACT Human Rights Film Festival highlights acts of human kindness, perseverance and bravery in the face of adversity, and each celebrates the kind of empathy-building connectedness and border-dissolving kinship that so many of our elected officials and political leaders seem to have forgotten or turned their backs on during these divisive times,” he added.
Special guests from the films
Directors and film subjects from around the world will appear in person for the majority of post-screening Q&A sessions.
Guests include Heather Wright, director of Complicit,a breakthrough story about poisoned phone assembly workers in China; Col. Honorine Munyole, a senior Congolese policewoman in charge of stopping sexual violence and physical abuse against women in children and the subject of Mama Colonel, directed by Dieudo Hamadi (also appearing in person); and Stevie Salas, executive producer of RUMBLEand the recipient of the festival’s 2018 Harry Belafonte Resistance Through Art Award.
2018 highlights:
Odell Brewing Co.hosts the ACT Human Rights Film Festival Kickoff and Release Party at its taproom (800 E. Lincoln Ave., Fort Collins) on Tuesday, March 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. Taste the 2018 Screening Session IPA, brewed exclusively for ACT, win an all-festival pass and ACT T-shirts, meet some of this year’s Call to ACT nonprofit partners, see select trailers and purchase tickets.
The Lyric hosts a festival preview on Tuesday, March 27, at 6:30 p.m. with a special screening of Human Flow, directed by Ai Weiwei. Tickets available atwww.lyriccinema.com. Proceeds benefit Rams for Refugees.
The Music Districtjoins ACT in presenting RUMBLEmusicians Pura Fe and Cary Morin in a closing-night concert and reception.
Encore screenings of select opening weekend films will screen at The Lyric from Monday, April 9, through Thursday, April 12. Tickets available atwww.lyriccinema.com.
NEW: A limited number of all-festival passes being offered at $90 ($45 for students) feature priority seating for all screenings. Individual tickets cost $10 ($5 for students), and four-packs cost $30 ($15 for students).
ACT is produced by the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University with generous support from university and community partners, including the College of Liberal Arts, the City of Fort Collins Fort Fund, the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, One Tribe Creative, The Lyric, Odell Brewing, The Music District, KUNC 91.5 FM, The Coloradoan, The Armstrong Hotel and the Colorado Office of Film, TV, and Media. ACT is the Intermountain West’s only film festival dedicated to curating the most relevant, recent and acclaimed documentary and narrative fiction human rights cinema produced around the world. Learn more at www.actfilmfest.org.
The Eight Ogallala Region States Come Together for Interstate Collaboration
The Ogallala Aquifer Summit will bring together water-use decision makers in Garden City, Kansas, April 9-10. Summit participants will be discussing current management and policy best practices as well as exploring interstate approaches to managing the aquifer for the long-term benefit of the region’s communities and the ag industry.
Eight states in the Ogallala region include: Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, South Dakota and Wyoming.
The Summit will take place over two half-days, the afternoon of April 9 and the morning of April 10, and includes a social on the evening of April 9 that will feature producers involved with Kansas’ Water Technology Farm program.
The importance of groundwater used for irrigated agriculture in the Ogallala Aquifer Region cannot be overstated. We’ve recognized through our work on implementing Kansas’ Long-Term Vision for the Future of Water Supply that we needed to bring together water management leaders including producers, commodity and tech leaders, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders from across the Ogallala region to share and exchange valuable expertise. — Tracy Streeter, Director of the Kansas Water Office
Logistical support for the Ogallala Summit has been provided by the USDA-NIFA-funded Ogallala Water Coordinated Agriculture Project (CAP) in partnership with the Kansas Water Office. Additional support in planning this event has been provided by individuals from all eight Ogallala states.
April 5 registration deadline
Visit the Ogallala Water CAP website to see a detailed agenda and access online registration. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. The registration deadline is Thursday, April 5.
Policy and decisions about water management are often made at the local or regional level within states. This Summit will cover emerging innovations, research, and policies and help identify opportunities for working together across state lines to help address the water-related challenges facing this region. — Meagan Schipanski, assistant professor at Colorado State University and co-director of the Ogallala Water CAP
Denver’s Aquarium will open early for Special Needs — once a month
WHAT: For some adults and children with sensory sensitivity and special needs, the Downtown Aquarium’s exhibits can be a bit overwhelming. Join Downtown Aquarium Denver as they host Low Sensory Mornings on the second Sunday of every month beginning April 8 from 8:30 – 9:45 a.m.
The Aquarium will open an hour and a half early with a calmer, quieter setting, turning down the ambient sounds and turning up the lighting. These mornings will offer families that have children or other family members with special needs a subdued environment to participate in all the fun Downtown Aquarium Denver has to offer! The Aquarium will return to normal operations at 9:45 a.m.
COST: Exhibit entry purchased required.
WHEN: 8:30 – 9:45 a.m., Second Sunday of every month, April 8 through December 9, 2018
(April 8, May 13, June 10, July 8, August 12, September 9, October 14, November 11, December 9)
WHERE: Downtown Aquarium Denver, 700 Water Street, Denver, CO 80211
