Denver Arts Events October 12-18

This weekend we have the opportunity to immerse ourselves in all things film or dive straight into spooky season. If I could attend seven shows, performances, events, or exhibitions this week, this is what I’d do. Enjoy.

✺ October 12 Work on that song stuck in your head in a songwriting workshop at Swallow Hill. 5:30 p.m. More info and registration.

✺ October 15-17 Immerse yourself in locally-produced short films at EFPalooza Film Festival at The Bug Theatre. More info and tickets.

✺ October 16-18 Enjoy films made by women at the Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival at Colorado College. More info and tickets.

✺ October 16 -18 Get spooked and awed at In the Wings Aerial’s Bite, a full-length aerial dance production about vampires and other creepy things at the Elaine Wolf Theatre. More info and tickets.

✺ October 16 Honor the ancestors at Día de los Muertos Spoken Word at CHAC Gallery. 7 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ October 18 Enjoy the rhythmic sounds of Venezuelan singer Rawayana at Fillmore Auditorium. 7 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ Through November 28 Peruse Zoe Hawk’s exhibition Lost Girls at Visions West Contemporary. More info.

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