WHAT’S NEW
2025 Black History Live – Save the Date!
While the year is quickly coming to a close, preparations for next year’s Black HIstory Live are in full swing! Chautauquans Becky Stone and Marvin Jefferson will portray Harriet Tubman and Louis Armstrong in several performances throughout Colorado. Events will be posted very soon on our website, so keep an eye out for a performance near you.
Submissions and volunteer judges/selector applications are open for the 2025 Colorado Book Awards. The 34th annual Colorado Book Awards season begins September 9, 2024 for books published for the first time between November 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. The submission deadline is January 3rd, 2025.
Salute our five decades of championing the public humanities in Colorado. Your donation makes you a part of that legacy. Gifts made through our ColoradoGives online profile now through Dec. 10 will count toward Colorado Gives Day.
Museum on Main Street to Open in Gunnison
Join us in Gunnison on January 8 at the Gunnison Arts Center for the opening of Crossroads: Change in Rural America. This traveling Smithsonian exhibit takes a broad look at the characteristics of rural America, how an attraction to and interaction with the land formed the basis of rural America, and how these communities and small towns have evolved. This is the last stop on the Crossroads tour, so be sure to stop by!
On December 19, Bemis Public Library in Littleton will host a free presentation of Susan Marie Frontczak as Erma Bombeck. With paring-knife-sharp humor, Erma Bombeck captured the daily life of a new American phenomenon: the suburban housewife.
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