Closing Reception and Poetry Reading. This exhibition aspires to introduce the art of Palestine to our community, and to raise funds for several Art and Youth programs in the Askar Refugee Camp in the West Bank in Occupied Palestine. Ahed Sobhey Helles, poet, will be joining us via ZOOM from Gaza.

Writers on Resistance / Open Mic
Curated by Hillary Leftwich

Artist Talk with Yumi Janairo Roth

This exhibition aspires to introduce the art of Palestine to our community, and to raise funds for several Art and Youth programs in the Askar Refugee Camp in the West Bank in Occupied Palestine.

Steven Frost in person

Curated by Toni Oswald and Ona Herman

Join us for an afternoon filled with beautiful hand made craftworks made by local artists… (read more)

Yumi Janairo Roth in person
In collaboration with Fall of Freedom

Steven Frost in person

SHINE 2.0: A love letter to the LGBTQIA+ community. Featuring poetry and short stories by Trans / Queer / Two Spirit youth ages 15 - 24.

Shadows Gather in Person

Smut Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come, listen and be turned on, or step to the mic and share some words of your own! 18+

Join us for the release of East Window’s Journal of Written and Visual Arts. We’ll be celebrating the contributors of Volumes 1 and 2. Read more…

Hosted by Aimee Herman and Shirin Chowdhury

Stories of menstruation and the changing of bodies featuring queer and trans voices.

Fireside Ink is now a nonprofit and our community is growing! Come celebrate with us…

Shadows Gather - Opening Reception

Paintings by Hector Castillo, Sonny Lee, and Mario Rios
Curated by Impact Arts

Closing Reception and Zoom Conversation with the Artists

Join us for readings and refreshments as we celebrate the release of the new book LILY IN A CODEBOX by Eric Raanan Fischman and Lee Frankel-Goldwater. Can an AI find a poetic voice that is authentically its own? Read more…

Candace R. Nunag will read from her book A Solar Flare.
Hanna Rose Shell will present about her film project Climax.

The Things They Carry: a performance featuring MG Bernard Read more…

Hillary Leftwich will read from her new book, Saint Dymphna's Playbook. With special guests Jade Lascelles, Toni Oswald and Sarah Elizabeth Schantz. Read more…

Lydia Lunch is passionate, confrontational and bold. Whether attacking the patriarchy and their pornographic war mongering, turning the sexual into the political or whispering a love song to the broken hearted, her fierce energy and rapid fire delivery lend testament to her warrior nature. Read more…

SMUT Verse is a night celebrating sexy words and stories. Come to be turned on, or step to the mic and share some of your words at the open mic!  18+. 

Tiny SPOON presents work that pushes the boundaries of conventional genres; work that is daring, experimental, innovative, quirky, thoughtful, vulnerable, electric, eccentric. In other words, our inner workings expanded and exposed, raw and immediate.

Readings:
Toni Oswald, Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Lisa Birman,
Erin Michelle, Alex Miller, Ahja Fox

Visual Art:
Casey Niccoli 

Music:
Max Davies

Meca'Ayo (Tameca L Coleman) is a queer singer, multi-genre writer, itinerant nerd, massage therapist, and point and shoot art dabbler in Denver Colorado. Their writing and photography are featured in literary magazines, art exhibits, newspapers, and other venues and publications.

Authors Ellen Orleans, Frankie Rollins and Teré Fowler-Chapman will be reading from their respective new works. Ellen is also an assemblage artist, devotee of carousels and kayaking, waterfalls and waterfowl. Frankie Rollins has worked 41 different jobs in her desire to live a life that centers writing. Teré Fowler-Chapman BFA, CLC, PRC, is a Black trans poet, educator, and certified life and recovery coach based in Denver, with roots in Tucson and Bossier City. Read more…

Meca‘Ayo reads from their book, identity polyptych

Banned Book Club Boulder (BBCB) offers you a chance to get in on the newest, most exciting book club in Boulder. Enrollment in the BBCB is FREE!

Featuring: Suzi Q. Smith, Natalie Hodges, Nancy Stohlman, Shannon Malloy
Visual Art: Kelsey Cruz-Martin
Music: Max Davies

This two day exhibition features seven artist’s books completed as part of the Graduate Drawing & Painting Seminar in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado Boulder. 

Banned Book Club Boulder (BBCB) offers you a chance to get in on the newest, most exciting book club in Boulder. Enrollment in the BBCB is FREE!