The ski season might be over but Telluride has a lot to offer to visitors during the early spring season. From health and fitness seminars to movie festivals and everything in between your favorite Colorado mountain town will not disappoint you. Below is list of a few quirky, true Telluride style events worth checking out.
Raw Food Celebration & Premaculture Workshop April 21-23
With the end of the long winter season our bodies need a healthy recharge and there is no better way to learn how to start or improve your raw foods lifestyle than hearing from the experts. Kris Holstrom, owner of Tomten Farm will share helpful tips on Permaculture while Gabriela Ranzi will teach you the art of gourmet raw food. You will educate yourself on the benefits of a raw food diet and how it can aid the body in healing on a cellular level, as well as how to prepare delicious, nutritious and easy recipes. Learn why enzymes are so important, how to get your protein needs through plants, how to make your own ferments such as kimchi, sauerkraut and kombucha, and how to maintain a raw foods lifestyle. The workshop will put into action beginning permaculture practices for the season ahead. Activities may include creating a composting station for building soil, looking at the topography of the landscape and defining swale lines for maximizing water absorption in the ground and putting together layer mulching for rich organic planting beds. The focus on food and permaculture will be coupled with daily yoga, meditation and movement classes that will support the full integration of this program.
Telluride Literary Arts Festival May 19-21
The Festival is a celebration of the joy of reading and the passion for good old fashioned books. The featured events start with American Bookbinding Academy's Open Set Exhibition of handmade books in the Daniel Tucker Gallery at the Ah Haa School for the Art on Friday from 10am to 5pm. Also on Friday may 19th are the Kids LitFest Day - A Trilogy Theatre Performance of Mo Willems Books starting at 12:15 at the Wilkinson Public Library and the Fischer Poetry Prize at Telluride Arts world headquarters, across from the library, at 5:30 p.m. Following a post-awards dinner break, poetry ramps up again at Liberty Bar at 8 p.m. with a performance by former Western Slope Poet Laureate Aaron Abeyta. The main event of the festival - 4th Annual Literary Burlesque will held on Saturday with doors opening at 7pm and the show starting at 8pm at Ah Haa School for the Arts.
Telluride Mountainfilm festival, May 26-29
Telluride Mountainfilm is more than a film festival. Approximately 85 films are selected each year from around the world, curated alongside guest presentations, a symposium, parties, scheduled conversations, book signings and musical events to create a full weekend event like no other. The event itself is a draw as much as the films presented. The festival begins on Friday morning with a symposium followed by the Gallery Walk on Friday afternoon. Films and presentations begin Friday night and run through Monday afternoon. During the festival weekend, guests can enjoy Town Talks, the Ice Cream Social, the Reading Frenzy, special programs at The Library, free movies under the stars at Base Camp Theatre and programs comprised of short films, such as Adrenaline and Kidz Kino. The Closing Picnic & Awards Ceremony closes out the annual festival on Monday afternoon.
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Professional canyoning course with Canyoning Colorado May 27th - June 3rd
Canyoneer Level 1-2-3 (CA123) is an 11-day course, 3 days pre-learning/8 days practical, that is designed to teach the trainee to progress independently in a moderate risk canyon. This highly intensive course is regarded around the world as being one of the best introductory to canyoning courses. The program allows you to organize canyoning excursions and to maneuver basic technical skills within moderate risk canyons. You will become a member of ICOpro with sufficient skills to use the ropes and then become independent in a moderate risk canyons. Canyoning Colorado is excited to announce that it is the first company to offer ICOpro courses in the USA. Course runs from 8:00 am - 6:30 pm out of Ouray, Colorado, for more information call 970-318-6492.
