Events on this Day

Gathers produce to distribute to those in need in our community. Bring your extra veggies and fruit to help out.

Learn how to create graphics for your digital campaigns.

The new Durango Sustainable Goods store in the Smiley Building (studio 12) is celebrating back to school with a weekly sustainable social event every Thursday in August and September. Bring the whole family and enjoy local tea, cookie, and ice-cream tastings, plus sustainable school product prizes and giveaways!

AH supports and empowers survivors of domestic violence. Alternative Horizons is currently looking for volunteer advocates, to staff our 24-Hour hotline, including those who are bi-lingual. This is a mobile opportunity. All you need is a phone and a private confidential space to take a call. Make a difference in the lives of others, join us for a free, comprehensive training.    Next Volunteer Training, September 20th through Oct 4th. Training will be held on Fort Lewis campus. For more information call the office at 970-247-4374 or email volunteer coordinator at advocacy-services@alternativehorizons.org. Go to our website https://alternativehorizons.org/get-involved/#volunteer

Durango Film is proud to present the 25th Annual Manhattan Film Festival. This global Oscar® qualifying film festival is a cinematic treat. If you like international films, this festival is for you! Durango and Cortez are two of over 500 cities spanning six continents who get to share in this experience. Global audiences will vote for best picture and best actor.    Sept 29 | 4pm & 7pm | Durango Arts Center | 802 E 2nd Av Sept 30 | 7pm | Sunflower Theatre - Cortez | 8 E Main

Each session students will discover fun and different mediums and concepts while creating extremely unique art projects! This class will focus on designing, painting, sculpture and prop techniques with an emphasis on correct shading, values, textures, and color.   September- Odd and Unusual Theater Posters and props, October - Halloween Extreme, November and December - We will celebrate DAC's Theater Production by creating posters, paintings and theater sets!   Create and become involved with DAC Theater Production of "We Will Rock You!" Theater Tickets are included with the class price. The classes offer fun, non competitive opportunities to explore new skills and individual expression.

Join us for live music each Thursday this summer in our beer garden. Food and beer specials!

All ages and experience welcome!

Tonight we will be having amazing dinner and drink specials all night long as well as some live entertainment out on our beautiful spacious patio. so come on down to the best steakhouse in the 4 corners.   RSVP 970-259-0940

Build your skill during a 10-week art introduction workshop for anyone who needs to leave their mental stress and anxiety behind. Progressive genre introductions of drawing in pencil and charcoal, ceramic clay, soft pastels, and acrylic paints.   Leave your mental stress and anxiety behind and get lost in various arts!

Growing up in a small Texas town, RW has drifted all across the American West, working cowboy jobs punching cattle, riding young colts, shoeing horses and even leading trail rides and guiding hunters in the high country. Never glamorous, ranch work instilled in him a positive approach to life. His favorite was singing around the campfire while out with the wagon, and his rich baritone voice brings an honest quality whether he’s performing live or on record. RW writes and sings about what he knows and lives. His music has earned numerous honors from such prestigious organizations as the Academy of Western Artists and Western Music Association, which inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2011.   Two shows: 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. Get your tickets now!

It's a play! It's a variety show! A youthful gang tries to foil a bank robbery. The Featured Performers from the Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering will be on hand to give you an evening filled with music and laughter. Entrance next to the Ore House Restaurant on College Drive. Cash bar. Children 12 and under are Free with an adult. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.    Doors open at 5:00 pm - Show starts at 6:00 pm.

Join us in the Carver Family Plaza for Trivia night every Thursday. Our trivia consists of four rounds of questions and always includes one scientific round and a music round. $5 suggested team donations. Cash bar available.

Durango Film is proud to present the 25th Annual Manhattan Film Festival. This global Oscar® qualifying film festival is a cinematic treat. If you like international films, this festival is for you! Durango and Cortez are two of over 500 cities spanning six continents who get to share in this experience. Global audiences will vote for best picture and best actor.    Sept 29 | 4pm & 7pm | Durango Arts Center | 802 E 2nd Av Sept 30 | 7pm | Sunflower Theatre - Cortez | 8 E Main

All the world’s a stage in one of Shakespeare’s most enchanting comedies. Music and poetry escort romance into the Forest of Arden where best friends stick together and love notes grow on trees. Our playful production is filled with flirtatious disguise, witty encounters, inventive puppetry, original music, and some of Shakespeare’s most famous phrases. Professional out-of-town actors Erika Vetter, Adam Fontana, and Zachary Chiero appear as Rosalind, Orlando, and Touchstone, joining a company of experienced and talented locals in the show that gave Merely Players our name.   Preshow Plot chats are offered 45 minutes before each show begins and are included in the ticket price. The show is appropriate for the entire family.   Tickets: $30

Growing up in a small Texas town, RW has drifted all across the American West, working cowboy jobs punching cattle, riding young colts, shoeing horses and even leading trail rides and guiding hunters in the high country. Never glamorous, ranch work instilled in him a positive approach to life. His favorite was singing around the campfire while out with the wagon, and his rich baritone voice brings an honest quality whether he’s performing live or on record. RW writes and sings about what he knows and lives. His music has earned numerous honors from such prestigious organizations as the Academy of Western Artists and Western Music Association, which inducted him into their Hall of Fame in 2011.   Two shows: 6:00 and 8:30 p.m. Get your tickets now!