The Mountain Words Literary Festival is a multi-day literary celebration at nine-thousand feet, featuring readings, workshops, kids’ events, parties, panel discussions, live theater, and more. Crested Butte | Colorado • Center for the Arts • May 25-28 2023
Thursday, 6:00 ~ 9:00 pm. May 18 Grab your friends and co-workers for an evening of entertaining art instruction while enjoying pastries and wine. Candy will walk you step by step on how to create a beautiful poppy field painting. No experience is necessary. You will go home with a complete painting while learning the…
Thursday, 6:00 ~ 9:00 pm. April 20 Let’s pop some bubbly and have fun drawing your favorite landscapes with chalk pastels. Pastels allow for so many different styles. This will be the perfect space for artists of all skill levels to come and play with a new medium and help find their own style within…
Saturday 3pm, April 15 This show is the cultivation of a puppet theater class at the GAC which included all phases of play production: rehearsals, improv, sets, puppet making, costumes, poster and finally the show itself. The choice of the play is up to the puppeteers themselves and depends also on the size of the…
Friday, 6:00 – 9:00 pm. March 24 Learn how to prepare, and cook fresh pasta with chef Danny, owner of Marios and the Dive Pub. Sip on wine while crafting a homemade sauce and linguine pasta. Once you learn and taste your dish you will never go back to your old ways. Registration includes instruction,…
Join us at the Gunnison Library on Saturday, March 11 from 3-5 p.m. to celebrate a wonderful first year of the Six Points Book Club! This book club collaboration has been meeting every other Friday for an entire year and it has been a great success. Come celebrate reading and community with cake, refreshments and…
Join us on Wednesday, March 15th at 6:30 pm to discuss The Giver of Stars, a novel of the real Horseback Librarians of Kentucky, a larger-than-life group of women facing unbelievable odds. Here, in a gripping slice of little-known Americana, Moyes provides a rare story of heroism that is so needed in today’s world. In…
Join us at the Gunnison Library on Thursday, March 2 at 6 pm for a presentation by Luke Danielson, President and Co-Founder of Sustainable Development Strategies Group. Luke will discuss how the “Green Minerals Boom” will impact our communities and indigenous rights. Learn more HERE
Looking for a new way to experience the 700+ miles of single-track trails in the Gunnison Valley? Join WP to learn the basics of mountain biking at this informative clinic meant for beginners!
Join WP to learn how to get your mountain bike tuned just in time to start riding trails as they melt out! Your friendly and informative instructors will show you the basics of maintaining your bike and what tools are avilable for use in the on-campus tune shop. Wilderness Pursuits Office