Author: Kaylee Harter

For Joseph Nutter, giving back to his community around the holidays feels personal. He still remembers one childhood Christmas in particular where a local nonprofit stepped in to help his family. If You Go Event Mindless Vitality Fourth Annual Christmas Toy Drive Show Where The Black Sheep, 2106 E. Platte Ave., Colorado Springs Admission $10 with toy donation, $20 without “When I was four or five, we actually got Grinched,” he says. “It was just me and my mom, someone broke into my house and they took all the presents. I believe it was Christmas Unlimited that reached out and…

Cacti and other Southwestern plants made from repurposed U.S. border patrol uniforms sprout up from flower pots in the El Pomar Gallery at Colorado College’s Fine Arts Center. One of the soft sculptures is embroidered with the phrase “shared pain” beneath two broken hearts, fitting together like puzzle pieces. “Comunidad” is embroidered on an adjacent portion of the cactus. A joshua tree in the gallery is embroidered with military patches and the phrase “die for the rich.” Another is embroidered with stick figures, a heart and the phrase “la familia.” If you go Exhibitions The Space in Between & CARE…

Theaters are not museums. That’s a core belief of Matt Giles, the new general director of Theatreworks.“Theatres are meant to be living, breathing, organisms,” he says. “Every leader should, at all times, be willing to undergo radical transformation, because communities undergo radical transformation all the time.”As Theatreworks celebrates its 50th season, two new leaders, Giles and artistic director Max Shulman, are stepping into the spotlight. Shulman, who started as artistic director mid-summer, will lead the creative vision, while Giles, who took on the new general director role in early October, will lead strategic operations, business development and community partnerships.Having Giles…

The early days of Joey Quiñones’ childhood in San Bernardino were set on a backdrop of open fields and dirt roads. When he moved to LA around the age of nine, it was “like seeing color for the first time.” “Walking down the street and hearing hip hop to punk rock to mariachi and seeing the street corner musicians, it was just such an eclectic kind of feel, just on my way to school,” says the frontman of LA-based Chicano soul nine-piece Thee Sinseers. Show Info When: Thu., Oct. 24 Where: The Black Sheep — 2106 E. Platte Ave., Colorado…

Opening weekend at Thrashers was a full-circle moment for Connor O’Neal.After he moved back to Colorado Springs a little over a decade ago in the wake of his dad’s death, he’d busk on the corner or play open mic nights at the Zodiac when he wanted to get out of the house.“Fast forward 12 years, and it’s like, holy shit,” he says of opening a venue and bar with his wife, Dania O’Neal, in the former home of the now-shuttered Zodiac at 230 Pueblo Ave. “That was such a nice, like, therapy during that time, and we … own this…

Elizabeth Selby wanted to remember the moment her therapist said, “I’m really proud of you.” “It means a lot when someone’s proud of you that’s been with you in it all and seen all the work you’ve done, and where you started, where you are now,” Selby says. She snapped a picture in that moment, which became the reference for the oil painting at the center of the first piece she completed for her latest exhibit, The Shape of Consciousness, running through Oct. 31 at Surface Gallery. On View The Shape of Consciousness by Elizabeth Selby, through Oct. 31 at…