Category — Events

Picture this: heading out for a night on the town with drinks, a little shopping, and…painting? If you’re tired of your usual Saturday night routine, stop by PoshSplat, a recent addition to Pearl Street and Boulder’s first all-in-one wine bar, art studio, and boutique.

Located in the heart of downtown Boulder on Pearl and 15^th, this self-proclaimed “cure for the ordinary night out” offers step-by-step painting classes taught by local artists. The studio holds up to 60, and Posh supplies everything you need to get creative, including brushes, paints, canvass, aprons, and $3 beer and wine by the glass.

You can choose your class by date or based on the painting you like best, as shown on Posh’s event calendar. Though everyone in the class will end up with a version of the same painting, adding your own artistic flair is encouraged and applauded. The step-by-step classes all cost around $35. If you want to do your own thing, you can take advantage of the studio space and materials during an open studio session for a lower price.

PoshSplat is owned by two couples whose goal was to create a creative and original venue for fun-loving Boulder-ites. Customers appreciate that Posh is locally and family owned, and die-hard Buff fans will easily connect with the owners who are all University of Colorado alumni.

Posh is also invested in the local community, offering its space to community groups, businesses, and nonprofit organizations. In August, Post will be hosting two nights in support of Out Boulder!, a social justice organization aiming to create a safe and supportive environment for Boulder’s LGBTQ community. A portion of each ticket sold on Saturday, August 20^th will go to support the Boulder Pridefest. Choose from two times and paintings:

• 10:00 to12:30 pm to paint “Birds in the Blue Green World.” Complimentary mimosas included.
• 6:30-9:00 pm to paint “Aspens.”

Whether you are an avid painter, an occasional artist, or have never picked up a paintbrush in your life, PoshSplat offers you the space to stretch your creative muscles while enjoying good company, delicious drinks, and inspiring atmosphere.

In Boulder, there’s never a shortage of festivals and events to awaken your sense of community and creativity and give you a taste of that unmistakably tangy and passionate Boulder vibe. On August 13, don’t miss your chance to share in the second annual Poetry in Motion event hosted by the Boulder International Fringe Festival.

Poetry in Motion is a unique gathering of poets, filmmakers, dancers, and choreographers who use each other’s work as inspiration for their own. This year, the Poetry in Motion Project is soliciting poetry based on the theme “available space.” Accepted poems will be given to either a filmmaker, dancer, or choreographer who will then create a project inspired by the poem. On August 13, the artists will get to share their work with the community in a daylong celebration of arts and culture.

The most exciting part of the Project is that anyone can participate. You don’t need to be a professional or famous artist. You need only have passion, inspiration, and ten dollars to cover the entrance fee (without which the Project would not be able to run.) If you are interested in participating, the entrance deadline for poets, dancers, and filmmakers has been extended to August 1.

Hosted by the Boulder International Fringe Festival, The Poetry in Motion Project is proof that “art generates art.” The idea that art is not an isolated event, that creativity spreads organically and in many directions is one of the key beliefs that drives Boulder Fringe. Their goal is to infuse the Boulder community with uninhibited art and to support local businesses at the same time. In 2007, Boulder Fringe poured $750,000 into the Boulder and Colorado economies through their events, and they continually push for economic development through art.

Whether you are moved to watch or to participate, the Poetry in Motion project will give you an opportunity to explore a wide variety of media and gather with other passionate people. Join the crowd and be inspired as Poetry in Motion transforms Boulder’s streets into a canvass of images, movement, and words.

On Friday, July 22, the Boulder Theater will host an event that very well may rock the globe. For nearly 5 hours  (breaks included) audience members will get a chance to hear about some of the most visionary and extreme projects being developed by young entrepreneurs from around the world.

The event, dramatically titled the Unreasonable Climax, is hosted by the Unreasonable Institute, a Boulder-based organization that is in its second year mentoring, training, and equipping young entrepreneurs with the resources and skills they need to create large-scale social change through business. Unreasonable Fellows speaking at the Climax have gone through a 6-week intensive program at the Institute in Boulder to learn how to make their dreams a reality.

Twenty-five Fellows will speak for 6 minutes each about their projects, adressing such issues as better ways to screen for disease, provide clean water, ease food shortages, and provide education to women in impoverished and struggling countries.

While their projects may seem ideal and perhaps far-fetched, these Fellows have been selected by the Unreasonable Institute precisely because they can succeed. The Institute only trains entrepreneurs who have a strong business idea involving a sustainability or social problem. The Fellow must be able to make their idea must be profitable and, (here’s the kicker) be able to impact more than a million people in 5 years with their vision.

The goal of the Unreasonable Climax is to gain public support and awareness of these revolutionary businesses and to, according to the Institute’s website, “define progress in our time.”

Following the event, audience members are invited to join the Unreasonable Fellows, Mentors, and Partners at the St. Julien Hotel in downtown Boulder for food, music, drinks, and inspiring company. For those who can’t get enough, there will be additional events on Thursday the 21^st and Saturday the 23^rd.

With so many wild ideas, energized people, and radical business plans swirling around, there may be no more unreasonable place to be on July 22 than Boulder, Colorado.