Denver Arts Events October 19-25

There’s nothing spookier than an unlivable planet, and many of the events on this list lean into what that might look like. If I could attend seven shows, performances, events, or exhibitions this week, this is what I’d do. Enjoy.

✺ October 19 Discuss Never Whistle at Night, an anthology of Indigenous dark fiction at Fiction Beer Company Book Club. 7 p.m. More info.‍ ‍

✺ October 20 Channel your feelings into a letter at Dear Future, a letter-writing workshop with artist Regan Rosburg at RedLine Contemporary. 5:30 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ October 22 The Denver Film Festival begins. The schedule spans two weeks, and is full of excellent films — pay special attention to the Colorado shorts. Sie FilmCenter. View the schedule and get tickets.

✺ October 23 Experience a dance performance highlighting the resilience needed for effective climate activism in all the things I started at MSU Center for Visual Art. 7:30 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ October 23 Attend an opening reception for Once Upon Another Time, an exhibition by Terra Marks exploring the relationship between nature and what humans have left behind at Next Gallery. 5 p.m. More info.

✺ October 24 Attend an opening reception for Linda Nguyen Lopez‘s exhibition Low Tide, an exploration of cultural inheritance inspired by what lies on the beach when the waves recede. David B. Smith Gallery. 6 p.m. More info.

✺ Through January 23 Explore Earth’s environmental collapse at Adán De La Garza’s speculative exhibition Desert at Union Hall. More info.

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