Join us in kicking off the festival with complimentary bites, a cash bar, and the release of the Summer 2024 issue of the beloved local publication, the Crested Butte Magazine. Location: Grace Atrium Price: Free
Each poem, those personal gestures of honesty, compassion, healing, and joy, are our attempts to enter a temporal and sacred space – where the universal and the personal meet at the confluence of our lives shared with those of our readers. It was W.H. Auden who said that there were only a handful of poems…
Yes, you can write a complete, short play…in two hours! Acclaimed playwright, actor, and Western Colorado University Theater Director, Steven Cole Hughes guides you in the basics of playwriting, dialogue, history, and writing exercises. Location: Center For The Arts Crested Butte: Hawk Studio Ticket: $40
Rebecca Boyle will read and sign her national bestselling book, Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are. “Boyle walks the reader through a history of both Earth and humanity, from the formation of our planet and the evolution of life to the development of civilization,…
Hampton Sides will be joining us for our annual Mountain Words Festival, so we’re reading his latest book to get ready to chat with him! From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii,…
Join us in welcoming five wonderful new Writers in Residence to Crested Butte! Okwudili Nebeolisa, Amanda Rizkalla, Phil Coleman, Charlie Sorrenson, and Anna Claire will be writing in Crested Butte for the month of May, culminating in live readings of their writing projects during the Mountain Words Festival. The Kinder Padon Gallery will be open…
Join us every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 9 am for Socrates Cafe, an engaging conversation over coffee. Meeting upstairs at the Crested Butte Library.
Join us every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 9 am for Socrates Cafe, an engaging conversation over coffee. Meeting upstairs at the Crested Butte Library and virtually. If you would like the virtual meeting login information, please email event coordinator, Drew at drew-at-gunnisoncountylibraries-dot-org.
Join us every 1st and 3rd Tuesday at 9 am for Socrates Cafe, an engaging conversation over coffee. Meeting upstairs at the Crested Butte Library.
Join us for June Book Club! INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of Barack Obama’s Recommended Reads for Summer • New York Times Notable Book • NPR’s Best Books of 2021 • Washington Post’s Best Thriller and Mystery Books of the Year • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 • New York Public…