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Holiday book-making workshop offered

The Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., will offer “Book Making: Exploring Memories, History & Sense of Place” with Barbara Klema from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

In this workshop, students will use memory, writing and images to construct collaged book pages that reflect a sense of place. Color, mark making, texture, etc. will be combined with images to create a visual memoir in a handmade book structure. The cost is $195 for center members and $225 for nonmembers.

To register, visit www.DurangoArts.org/visual-adult or call 259-2606.

Winter semester art camps for kids

The Durango Arts Center announces its winter 2016 art camps for kids ages 3 to 16 in visual and performing arts.

The center’s arts education program invites kids of all ages to come draw, paint, sing, dance, act and play with imagination. The Visual Art Department offers After School Art, Boys Art Camp, Girls Opportunity for Arts & Leadership Camp and School’s Out Winter Camps. The DAC Applause! program offers musical and nonmusical camps with Wee Glee, Storybook Ballet, Acting I and II, Confetti, Somethin’ Doin’ and Spot On!

For more information or to register, visit www.DurangoArts.org.

Broadway classic debuts at arts center

Durango Arts Center Theatre and the DAC Applause! youth performing arts program announces that the Broadway classic musical “The Music Man” will take place at 7 p.m. Dec. 11, 12, 18 and 19 and at 1 p.m. Dec. 12 and 19.

More than 40 local children (ages 5-16) and adult actors will perform the musical on the center’s theatre stage. The musical is the tale of the smooth-talking con man Harold Hill who turns a small Iowa town upside down. As a community collaboration, the show also will feature an appearance by members of the Durango Barbershop Club. Tickets are $12 for center members and children ages 13 and older, $10 for children ages 12 and younger and $15 for nonmembers.

To purchase tickets, visit www.DurangoArts.org.

Arts center ‘RENT’ nominated for awards

Select cast and crew members of the Durango Arts Center’s theatre production of “RENT” have been nominated for the 2015 BroadwayWorld Denver Awards, as follows:

Dave Mensch – Best Actor in a Musical.

Jenny Fitts Reynolds – Best Actress in a Musical.

Scotty Howard –Best Supporting Actor in a Musical.

Caty Herrick – Best Supporting Actress in a Musical.

Katherine Walker – Best Supporting Actress in a Musical.

Eric Bulrice – Best Set Design.

Suzy DiSanto – Best Choreography in a Musical.

The center asks the public to vote for these locals by visiting www.broadwayworld.com/denver/vote2015region.cfm. For more information, visit www.broadwayworld.com/denver.

Gala to benefit Mercy Cancer Center

Sorrel Sky Gallery will host the gala event, Eighties Prom, taking place during Durango’s annual Snowdown festivities, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at the gallery, 828 Main Ave.

This year’s winter festival theme, Back to the Eighties, recreates that era of fashion, music and technology with Sorrel Sky Gallery and Mercy Health Foundation teaming up to raise money for this year’s benefactor, the Mercy Cancer Center. The event will include champagne, food and music by the Soul Man, DJ Steve Kahler. Black tie and ’80s prom attire are optional. Tickets are $50 and can be picked up at Sorrel Sky Gallery or by calling the Mercy Health Foundation at 764-2800 or Sorrel Sky at 247-3555.

Snowdown beer tapping party on tap

The Snowdown Board of Directors and the SKA Brewing Company will host a tapping party of the official Snowdown, Back to the Eighties Beer, Frogger Lager, at 5 p.m. Dec. 17 at SKA Brewing Company, 225 Girard St.

The festivities will begin at 5 p.m., with the official tapping at 5:15 p.m. The event will feature food, eighties music and beer. In conjunction with the release of Frogger Lager, the Snowdown Awkward Eighties Photo Contest will be underway. Participants may bring an awkward ’80s photo to enter.

Snowdown, Back to the Eighties, will take place from Jan. 27 to 31.

For more information, visit www.snowdown.org and like Snowdown Durango on Facebook.

Herald Staff



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