Events on this Day

Exhibit run: December 5, 2019—January 30, 2020   The public is invited to the opening reception for the Looking Glass Collective’s winter art show at the Smiley Café Gallery, Thursday, December 5, 2019 from 5 to 7 PM. Meet the artists and see their work in oil, pastel and watercolor. All paintings are for sale with 30% of sales going to Durango’s Local First’s efforts to establish a Creative District in Durango. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served. The show continues through January 30, 2020. The Looking Glass Collective consists of twenty artists who meet monthly to critique one another’s work. The collective also creates opportunities for exhibits such as the yearly show at Smiley, exhibits for non-profits like San Juan Citizens Alliance and shows at local businesses. The artists have all been juried into multiple national shows; many have won awards. Looking Glass Collective artists participating in this year’s show are: Linda Bonds, Emma French, Sue Giddings, Sandra Heller, Yvonne Holland, Rosemary Juskevich, Rebecca Koeppen, Betsy Krill, Annette LeMaire, Juanita Nelson, Cheryl Roberts, Pat Smiley, Ann Stringfellow, Dinah Swan and Lorraine Trenholm.

THE NEW YEAR SACRED PSOAS RETREAT  This illuminating and uplifting retreat starts on Friday evening and continues on Saturday to set the tone for a truly transformational experience. I’m thrilled to share with you a new paradigm in healing body-mind-spirit rooted in ancient yoga therapeutics and breath work, as well as, leading edge work in neuropsychology, spiritual awakening, and healing “Gaia” planetary principles.   Enjoy gentle, therapeutic yoga modified for all ages, shapes, and abilities. Learn liberating breath work and mindful movement cultivating profound embodied presence. Release your psoas “muscle of the soul” to enhance freedom, function, flexibility and ease in your body again.   Discover how your posture is actually a “shape” and learn how to “re-shape” your self for deep healing and enhanced vitality. Delve into emotional authenticity exercises and body oriented inquiry designed to free your body-mind-spirit of trapped energy and old limitations.   SET YOUR INTENTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR AND EMBODY MORE GRACE, PEACE, EASE, AND JOY AS YOU EMBRACE TRUE HOPE FOR HEALING AND AWAKENING.   Register today! This retreat is sure to fill as space is limited to 15.

$14/18  Doors 10:30am  Show 11:00am   Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.   America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.   But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.   Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House) directs the cast, which also includes Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin) alongside Bessie Carter, Oliver Johnstone, Kayla Meikle and Sule Rimi.

Our Fly Fishing 101 class is based on the Orvis 101 Fly Fishing class and is free to attend. Please call or stop by the shop to sign up.   Learn all the basics to get you out on the water. Instruction in gear needed, knots, basic fly selection and casting instruction. Everything you need to get out on the water and give fly fishing a try.   Call us at 970-385-4081. There is no cost for the 101 class.

The MakerLab at the Powerhouse in Durango presents a make your own rock band t-shirt clinic from 3:00 p.m. -5:00 p.m. on Saturday January 25, 2020. People of all ages will be able to make a rock band t-shirt. The $15 entry includes a t-shirt and everything needed to create a personalized shirt just in time for Snowdown. Please RSVP with T-shirt sizes and number of attendees by Tuesday, January 21 to events@powsci.org. Cash bar available

Seven Rivers Saturday Night Entertainment Presents: Robbie Pepper

Come in for a night of standard Jazz tunes performed by a handful of local artists!

Desert Thunder playing classic and new country at The Wild Horse! Dance away!!