Denver Arts Events May 4-10

Get up close and personal with comic artists, emerging playwrights, filmmakers, and photographers at Denver arts events this week. If I could enjoy six shows, performances or exhibitions this week, this is what I’d do. Enjoy.

✺ May 6 View the nation’s best episodes at Series Fest at Sie Film Center. Through May 10. View schedule and buy tickets.

✺ May 8 Enjoy the vibrant Afro-Cuban sounds of Tito Puente Jr. at Parsons Theatre in Northglenn. 7:30 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ May 8 Attend opening night of Horsepower, an exhibition of the equine works of Ashley Collins and David Yarrow at Relevant Galleries. 5:30 p.m. More info.

✺ May 8-9 Sit in on readings and playwright feedback at Poetry to Play Staged Readings at The Three Leaches Theater. 7:30 p.m. More info.

✺ May 9 Meet the artists and publishers of Denver’s alternative comic scene at Denver Comics & Arts Festival at The Schoolyard. 11 a.m. More info.

✺ May 9 Dive into the contemporary cowboy experience in at a panel discussion with the artists ofWestern Cowboy: Reloaded at Colorado Photographic Arts Center. 1 p.m. More info.

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