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Anne Klein Barney, Public Relations Specialist, (970) 749-0991, anne@durango.org

DURANGO’S ARTS AND CULTURAL COMMUNITY

Durango’s population of sixteen-thousand year-around residents supports a vital and diverse cultural and arts community. The visual and performing arts are represented by a myriad of artists and performers as well as community groups, patrons, and supporters. Following is a partial list of shows, events, festivals and community groups associated with the arts and culture in Durango. Experiencing one of the many activities during your Durango vacation.

• Music in the Mountains –a three and one-half week summer festival featuring orchestra, chamber music and conservatory young artists performances of classical and world music. Musical leaders Gregory Hustis, Guillermo Figueroa and Arkady Fomin bring acclaimed soloists and renowned musicians to spectacular venues in the San Juan Mountains. Artists Market and Plein Air Paint-Out included in Festival schedule. www.musicinthemountains.com.
• Durango Songwriter’s Expo – one of America’s most prestigious singer-songwriter gatherings with over 100 writers and performing artists and 25-30 music industry professionals in attendance. www.durangosong.com/
• The world-renowned Henry Strater Theatre is one of the oldest and most prestigious continually running theatres in Colorado, tallying almost 50 years of quality performances. This intimate and prestigious venue operates year round as a community space and theatre, welcoming live bands from around the nation and professional off-Broadway shows. As featured in National Geographic's ‘Travelers Top Places to Stay 2009!’  www.HenryStraterTheatre.com    Box Office 970.375.7160
• Durango Gallery Association – this organization represents numerous galleries that feature works from regional and national artists in a wide variety of media.
• Durango Art Galleries—Home to more than 14 commercial galleries, Center for Southwest Studies and Art Gallery at Fort Lewis College, and two Durango Art Center Galleries.  Featuring works from contemporary fine art to Southwestern pottery, Native American to folk arts from around the world, western art to jewelry and textiles.
• Durango Independent Film Festival – a juried festival featuring independent feature films, documentaries, animated films, shorts, experimental and new media works. www.durangofilm.org 
• Durango Meltdown – a two-day festival featuring some of the finest Bluegrass bands and performers from around the nation. www.durangomeltdown.com 
• The Durango Arts Center – a 35-year-old nonprofit organization which is a showcase of our community’s commitment to the arts. It features a gallery, museum shop, performances and educational exhibits. DAC Kids offers year-round arts classes and programs. The Paint Bar is an open studio for all ages to explore the creative process through painting and art-oriented activities. DAC is the home of The Durango Performing Arts Company as its premier children’s resident theater group providing quality performing arts programming and an intensive summer camp.  www.durangoarts.org 
• The Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College–state of the art concert hall features an amazing array of musical productions including individual performers, dance troupes, opera, musical groups, and Broadway musicals. www.durangoconcerts.com 
• Fort Lewis College Theatre—for over 25 years the Department of Theatre at Fort Lewis College has performed a wide variety of plays providing highest quality theatre productions.  http://theatre.fortlewis.edu/past_productions/default.asp 
• Durango Shakespeare Festival – Fort Lewis College’s annual summer stock theater productions of the works of Shakespeare in a beautiful outdoor amphitheater surrounded by the spectacular peaks of the San Juan Mountains.
• The Dance Center – Durango’s center for dance offering ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, salsa, swing, tango and more for people of all ages through classes and performances.
• Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering – a three-day celebration of cowboy culture with music, poetry, story telling and a motorless parade. www.durangocowboygathering.org 
• Nightly live music-- from classical to acoustic, musicals to street ensembles, dinner theatre and western chuckwagons, saloon crooners to outdoor fiddlers, orchestra to 70’s rock, Durango offers a wide variety of live music in a variety of venues.
• Dance in the Rockies, The Dance Center, Durango Art Center, Encore—A wide variety of dance instruction from ballet to ballroom, jazz to folk dance. Dance recitals and performances held throughout the year.
• Stillwater Foundation--offers young and adult musicians the opportunity to learn and play original arrangements of global music on traditional and non-traditional instruments such as Caribbean steel drums, African percussion, guitar, bass, keyboard, woodwinds, marimba and vibraphone, among others. www.stillwaterfoundation.org 

 

 

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