SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 22
Community Crafts and Art Making Sessions at The New Local
The New Local, 741 Pearl St.
Sunday, 11 am - 2 pm
On the green, outside of The New Local, join artists for a variety of classes including wildflower watercolors, fall cyanotypes and botanical dyeing for all ages.
Street Wise Presents: Black Love Mural Battle & Art Making
One Boulder Plaza
Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday, Noon - 5pm
Streetwise partners with the Black Love Festival to proclaim Colorado's Black history alongside the Museum of Boulder. The event will feature live muralists, black-owned businesses, and a community-led mural open to the public. View live muralists include Jasmine Holmes-Piesco, Marcus Murray, and Selah Ruckard. Participate in street art workshops led by Yazmin Atmore and Devin "Speaks" Urioste. Enjoy the music and dance alongside the tunes of Kaylee Bender, also known as DJ Bugs Honey.
"The Playwright" Interactive Sculpture by Peanut Butter Art
16th Street
Friday, Noon - 6pm
Saturday, 10am - 6 pm
Sunday Noon - 5pm
The Playwright is an interactive sculpture designed for the user to create their own visual narrative following a "fill-in-the-blank" story prompt. Participants will be able to touch and move sections of the sculpture to design the story they like best! What will you come up with?
CMA Tiny Stage
16th Street
Friday, 11am - 6pm
Saturday, 10 am - 6pm
Sunday Noon - 5pm
CMA's mobile stage, nicknamed Tiny and dedicated to the memory of Louise Christopher, is a community outreach vehicle which allows us to travel to interesting and unusual venues and host performances of many genres.
Sunday Lineup:
11:00am CSF Romeo and Juliet performance
12:00-12:30 Show talkback
1:00-2:00pm Mickey Lenny
2:00pm Center for Musical Arts Cello Group
3:00-5:00pm The Gatos Band
People Person by RIOS & Lolita’s
8th and Pearl (next to Lolita's Market)
Friday, Noon - 6pm
Saturday, 10 am - 6 pm
Sunday Noon - 5pm
RIOS and Lolita’s invites visitors to celebrate the incredible and eclectic people that share our space on West Pearl. People Person is an immersive art experience filled with surprise and discovery that highlights some of the humans that come to our corner everyday.
Stitching the Situation Collaborative Creation
1100 Block of Pearl St Mall
Friday, Noon - 6 pm
Sunday Noon - 5pm
Join community members and contribute to Stitching the Situation, an ongoing archive and memorial of the pandemic in the US. Project founder Heather Schulte will be giving stitching demonstrations, collecting stories to add to the project, and displaying completed panels. Materiales en español son disponible.
"Portraits from the Community" Installation by Edica Pacha
16th Street
Friday, Noon - 6 pm
Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, Noon - 5pm
The City of Boulder Office of Arts and Culture Experiments in Public Art and Social Streets collaborates with Edica Pacha to create a large scale interactive installation that engages the audience in conversations around public space in the city of Boulder. We will create a collage of 'portraits from the community' pasted up on the street, alongside exploring the town square vibes.
Community Created Public Art with Studio Arts Boulder
16th Street
Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm
Sunday, Noon - 4 pm
Studio Arts Boulder invites visitors and community members to make clay pinch pots by hand throughout the [placeholder] event weekend. These pinch pots will be glazed and fired by Studio Arts staff. Each pot will be imprinted by its maker - from fingerprints left in the clay to the pot's unique size and dimensionality. Finished pinch pots will be used to make a public wall art piece that will be displayed at Studio Art's new space at Diagonal Crossing. The wall-art will be a 3D visual representation of community... an artfully rendered collection of individual pots/people that comes together to create something truly beautiful.
Miss Way's Pen Pals
1400 Block of Pearl Street Mall
Friday, Noon - 6 pm
Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Sunday, Noon - 6pm
This project provides visitors the opportunity to make their own paper creations to send to student pen pals ages PreK-12 and Senior pen pals at Boulder's Brookdale Senior Living. This is an interactive activity that showcases the inspiring artwork from our pen pals of diverse generations and background.Miss Ways Pen Pals provides social-emotional community care through pen pal letter writing and advanced technology in augmented reality.
Pressing Play Kindness Cart
Look for the Kindess Cart all over downtown during the festival weekend!
The Pressing Play Kindness Cart is a very portable, colorful, and playful maker’s cart and is full of little objects of wonder meant to entice the imagination of all who witness it. The Kindness Cart will travel throughout Downtown Boulder during the festival with an eclectic assortment of supplies people will use to create tangible gifts of kindness for themselves and others.
El Centro Amistad at The New Local
The New Local Annex, 713 Pearl St.
Friday, Noon - 5 pm
Saturday, Noon - 5 pm
Sunday 11 am - 2 pm
At the New Local's Annex, get creative with the women of Boulder nonprofit El Centro Amistad by diving into some Día de los Muertos crafts perfect for the season. Visit the Annex all weekend long to check out the current art on display.