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1 event, 29
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Reception Manual (Hill/Bloom) at the Kinder padon gallery
05 | 22 to 07 | 27
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

Reception: May 22 | 4-6pm Pioneers of digital imaging, Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill have spent over four decades exploring photography, video, and multimedia art, earning prestigious awards like the […]

FREE
1 event, 30
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
3 events, 1
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Hot Tub Jazz
Hot Tub Jazz
07 | 01 @ 5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Hot Tub Jazz

Hot Tub Jazz was originally formed in Boulder, Colorado in the early 80’s when Scott Betts gathered some friends together to play some tunes. The quartet was asked to play it’s first gig at the grand opening of a health club in the foothills outside of Boulder. Before playing the job, the four musicians were […]

7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Leslie Chang – Globalization and its Discontents
Crested Butte Public Policy Forum
07 | 01 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Leslie Chang – Globalization and its Discontents

Presented by: Crested Butte Public Policy Forum “Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of Egypt and China” Leslie T. Chang has written about women in the developing […]

Free
1 event, 2
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
2 events, 3
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
RMBL’s Douglass Distinguished Science Lecture
RMBL’s Douglass Distinguished Science Lecture
07 | 03 @ 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm
RMBL’s Douglass Distinguished Science Lecture

Presented by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Doors: 6:00pm | Show: 7:00pm Over the past two decades, the United States has lost a quarter of butterflies. This includes loss of […]

free
1 event, 4
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 5
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 6
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
2 events, 7
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Alpenglow: JD Clayton
JD Clayton at Alpenglow
07 | 07 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Alpenglow: JD Clayton

The Fort Smith Arkansas native, JD Clayton, released his debut album Long Way From Home, early last year which has received overwhelming critical acclaim. There’s no artifice surrounding the Arkansas-born singer and songwriter. No glitz. No pretension or mythology. JD Clayton’s sound, and where he chooses to make it—Arkansas, the most western of the southern […]

free
3 events, 8
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Gypsy Jazz Social Club
Gypsy Jazz Social Club Performing at Center for the Arts
07 | 08 @ 5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Gypsy Jazz Social Club

Mysterious… yet strangely familiar, Gypsy Jazz Social Club showcases their take on acoustic jazz and swing styles including Latin, Gypsy, Bebop, traditional and original music, each GJSC line-up is drawn from a consortium of Colorado musicians with a history of diverse musical projects and instrumentation.  Guitar, Voice, Band Director- Les Choy “El Chino”; Saxophone- Erin […]

free
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Laura Adams – Sr. Advisor of Artificial Intelligence at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
Crested Butte Public Policy Forum
07 | 08 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Laura Adams – Sr. Advisor of Artificial Intelligence at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Presented by: Crested Butte Public Policy Forum   "Governing AI in Healthcare: the Hope, the Hype, the Promise and the Peril." Laura Adams, Senior Advisor at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), provides strategic leadership for the Science and Technology portfolio and leads the NAM’s Artificial Intelligence Code of Conduct national initiative. Her expertise is […]

Free
1 event, 9
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 10
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 11
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 12
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 13
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
2 events, 14
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Alpenglow: Easy Jim
Easy Jim at Alpenglow
07 | 14 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Alpenglow: Easy Jim

“Settle back easy, Jim…” The words of Robert Hunter in the song “Althea” seemed to fit the mold of the band when it began in the fall of 2018 . The laid back group of musicians from Gunnison and Crested Butte, Colorado found a common love for the music with one another and a desire […]

free
3 events, 15
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Rhythm Future Quartet
Rhythm Future Quartet
07 | 15 @ 5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Rhythm Future Quartet

The acoustic jazz ensemble, Rhythm Future Quartet has a straightforward agenda: to keep the spirit of Gypsy jazz alive and expanding in today’s musical universe. The virtuosic foursome, named for a Django Reinhardt tune, offers up a newly minted sound, influenced by the classic Hot Club of France, yet wholly contemporary. Founded by violinist Jason […]

free
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Khalida Popal – Founder & Director of Girl Power Organization – Women’s Rights and Sports Development
Crested Butte Public Policy Forum
07 | 15 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Khalida Popal – Founder & Director of Girl Power Organization – Women’s Rights and Sports Development

Presented by: Crested Butte Public Policy Forum   "From the Field to the Frontlines: Fighting for Freedom Through Football" Khalida Popal is an award-winning Afghan football pioneer, activist, and advocate for women's rights in sports. She is the Founder and Director of Girl Power Organization, an international non-profit that empowers refugee, migrant, and marginalized women and girls […]

Free
1 event, 16
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
2 events, 17
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Book Project: MANUAL (Hill/Bloom) Closing Reception
Reception Manual (Hill/Bloom) at the Kinder padon gallery
07 | 17 @ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Book Project: MANUAL (Hill/Bloom) Closing Reception

Exhibition: May 22-July 27 Join us as we celebrate the closing of this remarkable exhibition featuring the pioneering digital art of Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill. With over four decades of innovation in photography, video, and multimedia, their work blends technology, nature, and human perception in striking ways. Don’t miss this final opportunity to experience […]

free
1 event, 18
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 19
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 20
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
2 events, 21
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm
Alpenglow: Jacob Larson Band
Jacob Larson Band at 2025 Alpenglow.
07 | 21 @ 5:30 pm
Alpenglow: Jacob Larson Band

The Jacob Larson Band is a 10 piece funk and soul ensemble combining powerhouse vocals, classic instrumentation and an old-school approach to music. Digging inspiration from the roots of soul religion, the band shares their own take on notable influences such as Tower of Power, Stevie Wonder, and Earth, Wind, and Fire. Jacob, an experienced […]

free
3 events, 22
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Summer Winds
Summer Winds
07 | 22 @ 5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Summer Winds

Former members of the Crested Butte Music Festival and Summer Classics Festival converge in Crested Butte to create a new, one-of-a-kind chamber performance. View the full Summer Classics lineup here!

free
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Paul Kane – Washington Post Sr. Congressional Correspondent
Crested Butte Public Policy Forum
07 | 22 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Paul Kane – Washington Post Sr. Congressional Correspondent

Presented by: Crested Butte Public Policy Forum   “Will today's Congress stand up to the Trump administration? Paul Kane has covered Congress since 2000, when he started at Roll Call with a beat focused on the Senate. He joined The Washington Post in 2007, covering the 2008 financial crisis and the Obama-Republican fiscal wars. He […]

Free
1 event, 23
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 24
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 25
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 26
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 27
2025-05-22
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition
1 event, 28
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Alpenglow: Mihali
Mihali at Alpenglow.
07 | 28 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Alpenglow: Mihali

For Mihali, music behaves much like a living being. It grows, it matures, and it changes with a sentient consciousness and with whims of its own. And just like music, the Vermont-based singer, songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of rock outfit Twiddle continues to evolve, using his gift as one of the strongest modern-day songwriters, guitarists […]

free
2 events, 29
5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: The CopyCat Concert
Copy Cat Concert with Elizabeth Bond
07 | 29 @ 5:30 pm
Summer Classics in the Courtyard: The CopyCat Concert

Please join Elizabeth Bond and Friends for an unusual combination of classical and contemporary music in the open-air courtyard. "THE COPYCATS CONCERT” - SONGS INSPIRED BY FAMOUS CLASSICAL WORKS What makes a concert “The Copycats Concert”? A modern song - music of any kind - inspired by famous classical works is called an “adaptation.” Dozens of such […]

free
7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Alex Fillipenko – Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
Crested Butte Public Policy Forum
07 | 29 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Public Policy Forum: Alex Fillipenko – Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley

Presented by: Crested Butte Public Policy Forum   "Exciting Results with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope" Alex Filippenko, an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, is one of the world’s most highly cited astrophysicists. He studies exploding stars, black holes, galaxies, and the expansion […]

Free
0 events, 30
0 events, 31
1 event, 1
3:00 pm
Colorado Grandeur: Plein Air Painters of America 2025 National Exhibit
Colorado Grandeur - Shaun Horne
08 | 01 @ 3:00 pm
Colorado Grandeur: Plein Air Painters of America 2025 National Exhibit

Presenting an extensive collection of paintings by Plein Air Painters of America ( PAPA) members, including many new paintings of Crested Butte. PAPA is the original and premier landscape artist group in the United States. PAPA's Catalina, California shows beginning in 1986 were the very signal of an American return to referential painting. Learn more at […]

0 events, 2
05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 01 @ 5:30 pm

Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Hot Tub Jazz

07 | 01 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Leslie Chang – Globalization and its Discontents

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 03 @ 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm

RMBL’s Douglass Distinguished Science Lecture

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 07 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Alpenglow: JD Clayton

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 08 @ 5:30 pm

Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Gypsy Jazz Social Club

07 | 08 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Public Policy Forum: Laura Adams – Sr. Advisor of Artificial Intelligence at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 14 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Alpenglow: Easy Jim

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 15 @ 5:30 pm

Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Rhythm Future Quartet

07 | 15 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Public Policy Forum: Khalida Popal – Founder & Director of Girl Power Organization – Women’s Rights and Sports Development

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 17 @ 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

Book Project: MANUAL (Hill/Bloom) Closing Reception

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 21 @ 5:30 pm

Alpenglow: Jacob Larson Band

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 22 @ 5:30 pm

Summer Classics in the Courtyard: Summer Winds

07 | 22 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Public Policy Forum: Paul Kane – Washington Post Sr. Congressional Correspondent

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

05 | 22
All day

Book Project: MANUAL (HILL / BLOOM) Exhibition

07 | 28
07 | 28 @ 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Alpenglow: Mihali

07 | 29
07 | 29 @ 5:30 pm

Summer Classics in the Courtyard: The CopyCat Concert

07 | 29 @ 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Public Policy Forum: Alex Fillipenko – Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley

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08 | 01
08 | 01 @ 3:00 pm

Colorado Grandeur: Plein Air Painters of America 2025 National Exhibit

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