Denver Arts Events October 27-November 2, 2025

This week’s calendar is delivering the goods. We’ve got ancestral celebrations, campy cult classics, a sizzling lineup of Colorado-based authors, and movies, lots and lots of movies. How lucky we are. If I could enjoy five performances, concerts, or exhibitions this week, this is what I’d do. Enjoy. 

✺ October 28 Hear Mandan/​Hidatsa/​Lakota artist Cannupa Hanska Luger talk about his new book, SURVIVA: A Future Ancestral Field Guide, with MCA Denver’s Miranda Lash at the Holiday Theater. 7 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ October 29 Hear (mostly) local authors, Ramona Ausubel, R.L. Maizes, Andrew Hemmert, Jessica Manack, and Nancy Viera, read their work at this month’s Reading Den at Fort Greene. Free. 7 p.m. More info.

✺ October 30-31 Come watch the campy cult classic alongside live performers at The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Night of 1000 Frank-N-Furters at BallyhooTable & Stage. 7 and 10 p.m. More info and tickets.

✺ October 31-November 9 This weekend kicks off 10 days of opportunities to watch movies—thought-provoking new work, mainstream hits, retrospectives, documentaries, you name it, at the 48th Denver Film Fest. Schedule, films and passes.

✺ Through November 15 View CHAC Gallery’s Dia de Los Muertos exhibition, Hearts Do Not Forget / El Corazón Nunca Olvida. Gallery times and more info.

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