Events on this Day

Please join us for the 17th annual Cutest Kids Contest! $40 entry fee includes a 15 minute session (March 1-11, 2023) in Allison Ragsdale Photography's one-of-a-kind "Daydreamer" studio set and a $50 credit toward ordering portraits and entry into the contest to win up to $1500 toward a portrait session of your choice!    Sign up at https://get.allisonragsdalephotography.com/ckc-2023

An on-line and in-person event demonstrating how your own yard, garden, and landscapes can change to adapt to or even to mitigate changing climate conditions. March 1-31 view 8 recorded presentations by leading horticultural experts. On March 16 listen to Colorado's most prominent horticulturist, Panayoti Kelaidis, director of outreach and senior curator of Denver Botanic Gardens present "Rethinking the Durangoscape: What will it take to honor our setting?"   Check out the unique website at www.durangoscape.org for more information on the speakers. Tickets available on-line NOW!

BID holds a monthly meeting for business owners on the 2nd Friday of every month from 8:30 to 9:30 am at TBK Bank. The agendas for these meetings will be posted below a few days before the meeting date.    Check website for the agenda and meeting dates https://www.downtowndurango.org/meetings    Meeting dates subject to change, contact Tim Walsworth at timw@downtowndurango.org with any questions.

Departing from the Durango Depot, this excursion takes you up into the Rocky Mountains with incredible views of the San Juan National Forest as you travel alongside the beautiful Animas River while relaxing in heated coaches. Cascade Canyon is a destination like no other and is the perfect setting for a fire-side lunch, photo opportunities or a walk along the Animas River during your 60-minute layover. Spanning 26 miles each way, this 5.25 hour round trip experience is offered on select dates from November 19 through May 5. We recommend reserving your trip in advance online so that you have the best chance of securing your preferred seating.

$1 books, Paperbacks 2/$1  All Proceeds benefit Durango Public Library

Winter blues got you down? We have just the thing to turn that frown upside down! Head on over to DAC for a whimsical time in our Whimsical Wonderland Gallery!   Gallery event is free to the public.

Dancing Spirit offers a weekly art class for kids in grades 1-5. Each class includes music & movement, arts & crafts and games. $75 per month (4 classes) or $25 per day for a drop-in. (Drop-ins, please call ahead so we are prepared with materials and snacks.)

Come get your hands dirty as you create a unique and functional Ceramic Tea Cup! We will mix creativity with pleasure as we unwind from a busy week, enjoy happy hour drinks, spend time with community artists, and most importantly hand-build a Ceramic Tea Cup. By the end of the evening, your piece will be ready for glazing. You will select a glaze that will be applied to your ceramic piece when fired. Look for an email telling you when your piece is ready for pick-up and use. (about 16 days) Let the fun begin!  $30.00 Per Participant

A NIGHT TO MAKE AN IMPACT! You know what they say, Third Time is a CHARM! and the reason we are looking forward to our Third Annual Power to Act Fundraiser. Join us for a purposeful + powerful evening! Enjoy a delightful dinner, door prizes, Favorite Things Silent Auction, discover more about our impact, and provide justice + kindness + dignity to women facing adversity in our local and global community. We invite you to save your seat at the Dignity First! Dinner!  Offering Early Bird Tickets, Multi-Guest Discount, and Door Prize Entry.   Early Bird {ending 3/1} || $30  Multi-Guest || $25   At the Door {starting 3/2} || $35  Multi-Guest || $30  See you there!

The Durango Choral Society, the Durango Women's Choir, and special guests sing from their hearts and souls in celebration of song. Enjoy the reverence and revelry of music ranging from old time gospel to love and nature. Associate Conductor Rhonda Muckerman will lead this beautiful and inspiring performance.   Tickets $20/$5

Merely Players presents A Funny and Compelling Play    Tickets: $30

20MOONS dance theater presents, "When to Hold on", featuring original dance, movement, text and music based on seeds that took root and sprouted in our October 2022 collaboration with 7 local visual artists, "Boxes Branches and Thread".   This brand new evening-length performance explores change manifesting through time, space and the relationship between bodies.   Produced in the Stillwater Music performance venue, the audience is invited to shift perspectives literally and figuratively; to join us on a journey through memory, lineage, and the phases of relationship to self, other and the world; to come in one way and go out changed.

This program centers around themes of loss, love, and betrayal. We'll open with a bacchanalian dance that represents the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which lead to the destruction of Pompeii. From there, we will move to a new pop-influenced piece written to represent a romantic betrayal. We'll follow that with an uncommon march dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt after he lost his son during World War I, and we'll conclude our program with the well loved First Suite in E-flat by Gustav Holst. With works from Ticheli, Sousa, Dunton, and more, this program is sure to be an emotional journey.   This performance is FREE for current FLC Students and guests who are 18 & under.   FLC students must present their current College ID at the venue door to gain entrance. (1 seat per FLC ID)

Virginian, Keller Williams, released his first album in 1994, FREEK, and has since given each of his albums a single syllable title: BUZZ, SPUN, BREATHE, LOOP, LAUGH, HOME, DANCE, STAGE, GRASS, DREAM, TWELVE, LIVE, ODD, THIEF, KIDS, BASS, PICK, FUNK, VAPE, SYNC, RAW, SANS, ADD, SPEED and CELL. Each title serves as a concise summation of the concept guiding each project. Keller's albums reflect his pursuit to create music that sounds like nothing else. Un-beholden to conventionalism, he seamlessly crosses genre boundaries. The end product is music that encompasses rock, jazz, funk and bluegrass, and always keeps the audience on their feet. Keller built his reputation initially on his engaging live performances, no two of which are ever alike. For most of his career he has performed solo. His stage shows are rooted around Keller singing his compositions and choice cover songs, while accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, bass, guitar synthesizer and drum samples; a technique called live phrase sampling or "looping". The end result often leans toward a hybrid of alternative folk and groovy electronica, a genre Keller jokingly calls "acoustic dance music" or ADM." Keller's constant evolution has led to numerous band projects as well; Keller & The Keels, Grateful Grass, KWahtro, Keller and the Travelin' McCourys, Grateful Gospel and More Than A Little to name a few. Keller can be found playing clubs and festivals around the U.S. with these projects throughout the year.    http://www.KellerWilliams.net  https://www.facebook.com/kellerwilliams   http://www.youtube.com/kellerwilliamsmusic   https://www.instagram.com/kellerwilliams/   https://twitter.com/kellermusician   https://open.spotify.com/artist/5de5W8sgXIMq9dgMR0Wml0?si=I1Q8-PofTxuTSQYc-3Xg9Q