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40 West Fall Arts Harvest Festival

40 West Artists Deliver another Exciting Show and Marketplace – with a Cornucopia of art treasures at Arts Harvest Festival.

40 West celebrates the annual autumnal splendor with the Fall Arts Harvest Festival & Exhibition.
Part of Denver Arts Week, the three-weekend event includes dozens of artists displaying in a juried art exhibition, including a special themed gallery entitled “Van Gogh Goes West.” On Nov. 2 from 5-9pm, visit the exhibition for Know Your Arts First Friday and enjoy complimentary light refreshments and a performance by a woodwind octet from the Lakewood Symphony.

On Nov. 10 from 10am-4pm, 40 West Arts District anchors Denver Arts Week with its Fall Arts Harvest Festival, a one-day-only marketplace offering art and artisanal goods, from over a dozen local artists, featuring handcrafted, one-of-a-kind unique designs.  Check out a wide range of jewelry, hand-knitted gloves, accessories and toys; up-cycled textiles, antiques & collectibles, household décor, small art, photo and painting prints and more. Complete your shopping for holiday/hostess/birthday/’for you’ in one location.  Meet the artists who created the wares they sell.

ARTIST VENDORS list - click here

Enjoy a series of fine art demos throughout the day to keep you inspired.  Painting, stone sculpture, glass lampwork and more.  Check out the Fall Arts Harvest Exhibition.  The exhibit will also be open for 3 weeks in November, with regular hours Wednesdays through Saturdays, 12-4, from November 1-17.  If you cannot join us for the 2 major events, we hope you can view the exhibit.
All events will be held at 40 West Arts Gallery at 1560 Teller St, Lakewood, CO  80214.
Please contact us a info@40WestArts.org with any questions.

Key Dates for the 40 West Fall Arts Harvest:

November 1-17 – Fall Arts Harvest Exhibition on Wednesdays thru Saturdays (12-4pm), plus additional hours as listed.
Friday, November 2:  “Know Your Arts” First Friday will have additional open hours 5 to 9pm and include a special performance by a woodwind octet from the Lakewood Symphony between 6:30pm - 7:30pm.
Saturday, November 10:  The featured event for the Denver Arts Week program will be the Arts Harvest Festival with small arts wares for sale, Saturday, November 10, 2012.  10am-4pm.
Saturday, November 17:  Last day to visit the 40 West Fall Arts Harvest Exhibition – 12 noon to 4pm.

Constantine Aboard The Constantine at the Aurora Fox Theatre

Brothers Wefso are proud to present the World Premiere of Constantine Aboard The Constantine, an original one-man show, from November 16th through the 25th, 2012 at the Aurora Fox Studio Theatre (9900 East Colfax, Aurora, CO 80010).

The Earth Ship Constantine is the largest, fastest, most ambitious star ship in the history of mankind. Capable of faster-than-light travel and designed for extra-planetary colonization, it spans 84 cubic miles and maintains a crew of over eight thousand individuals.

Among these individuals are: Captain Jonathan Harrison, a headstrong and ambitious war-hero who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the most powerful men in the galaxy; and Private Abel Constantine, the quiet, black-sheep descendant of a family famous for daring exploits and selfless heroism.

As ES Constantine embarks on its maiden voyage, it will forever change the lives of these two men, and transform them into the people they were destined to be.

Directed by and starring Henry Award Nominee Jack Wefso (most recently in Picasso at the Lapin

Agile, Amateur Night at the Big Heart, and the Buntport Theater's tRUNks! productions) and

written by Charles Wefso, author of "The Dogs of Atwood."

Also featuring Crystal Verdon Eisele, Stephen Siebert, Lauren Bahlman, and Mitch Slvec.

PRODUCTION STAFF

Stage management and lighting design by Karin Carter, set design by John Sullivan and sound

design by Rob Petersen.

PRODUCTION DATES

November 16, 17, 23 and 24 at 7:30 pm

and

November 18, 25 at 6:00 pm

Industry night to be announced.

TICKETS

All tickets are $18.

Call: 303-739-1970 or visit: www.AuroraFox.org

Rock The 'Fest Tonight!

Heard on Colfax: Adam Goldstein

Adam Goldstein

      "Taking a drive down East Colfax Avenue can still feel like a taking some kind of cruel, middle school geography quiz. Dayton, Geneva, Hanover, Jamaica, Lansing, Lima, Peoria, Scranton. The cross streets are a hodgepodge of cities and countries. Streets named after ho-hum American cities run parallel to routes with much more epic namesakes. Xanadu Street, for example, is named after a mythical city referenced in a Samuel Coleridge poem from 1816.

      But most of the places immortalized in Aurora’s street system are much less spectacular, especially in a modern context. Elkhart Street’s namesake is a town in Indiana that boasts the title of 'Trailer Capital of the World.' The claim to fame for Ironton, Ohio is as the home of the Ironton Tanks, one of the first professional football teams in the United States. Oswego, New York sits on Lake Ontario, and tourism officials never miss a chance to promote life jackets." --- Adam Goldstein, The Aurora Sentinel

Primus 3D at The Fillmore Auditorium Tonight!

Shop For A Cause: Thrift Stores on Colfax Avenue

By Barb Tobias
Special to The Denver Post

The community programs that benefit from most thrift stores may not be foremost in the minds of bargain-hunting shoppers. Like many people, my early motivation to try "thrifting" was purely for the thrill of the hunt and the joy of snatching up fabulous items for a fraction of their original retail price.
But when I began looking behind the scenes at these stores, I realized that many secondhand stores are part of larger organizations that support philanthropic causes ranging from crisis pregnancy centers to animal rescue, and that proceeds from shopping these places really can help the poor, destitute, challenged, abused or dying.

What follows are my favorite philanthropic thrift stores on Colfax Avenue:

Sheryl Higsby hangs clothing at the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store on East Colfax Avenue. She has worked there since 1999. These stores train employees and support programs that provide food and financial and emergency assistance to the poor. (Photos by Cyrus McCrimmon, The Denver Post)

St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store
This thrifting outpost's namesake is a Catholic lay organization that promotes spiritual growth through person-to-person service to those in need.

Nationwide, these stores serve as employment training grounds and support programs that provide nutrition, financial, and emergency assistance to the poor. The St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store is located at 6260 E. Colfax Ave.; 303-388-3315 or svdpden.org.

Goodwill
Goodwill's lofty vision is to afford every person the opportunity to achieve his or her fullest potential.
The organization served more than 4.2 million people through employment and training courses in 2011 alone, and spent 82 percent of its total revenue on these programs.

10590 East Colfax Avenue, (303)364-6385.

There are more than 2,650 retail stores and an online auction site, shopgoodwill.com
To find the nearest location, visit goodwilldenver.org.

The Assistance League
The Assistance League and its Assistance League Thrift Store are part of a busy national organization. This is an all-volunteer organization that benefits ten charitable programs including:
•ALDO Bear, which distributes teddy bears to children in crisis;
•Arts for Kids, which brings fine arts programs (music, dance and theater) to public school children; and
•Caps for Kids, for which volunteers create fanciful hats for children in hospitals.
 1331 E. Colfax Avenue, 303-861-2122 or AssistanceLeague.org

Barb Tobias is a Colorado blogger, speaker, author and online radio show host. Her book, "Tossed & Found: Where Frugal is Chic" (Diva Press), chronicles her journey from farm girl to fashion model to thrift-store fashionista. Read more at ThriftTalkDiva.com.