Denver, here is my list of things to do this weekend. [May 24th - May 26th]

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SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Denver Arts Festival @ Central Park @ 10AM Visit one of the nation’s leading arts festivals showcasing the best Colorado artists and craft-makers. Shop for art, enjoy music, and sip on delicious wine and beer.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY - Memorial Weekend Festival @ Old South Gaylord Steet Enjoy the first party of the summer season with live music, food trucks, crafts market, puppy yoga, and live music from local artists!

All weekend - Boulder Creek Festival Kick off the summer at this 3-day festival extravaganza featuring live performances, a beer fest, art battle, food trucks, kids activities, and local artisan market!

All weekend - Memorial Day Weekend Rib Fest @ Six Capital Brewing and BBQ @ 2PM Enjoy award-winning competition style ribs for Memorial Day!

All weekend - Matt McCusker Stand Up @ Comedy Works Downtown

All weekend - Rocky Laporte Stand Up @ Comedy Works South

All weekend - The Kitchen Dwellers @ The Mishawaka Amphitheatre

All weekend - ‘An Alpine Symphony’ in Concert @ Boettcher Concert Hall This unforgettable sendoff to Colorado Symphony’s Centennial Season includes Strauss’ epic ‘An Alpine Symphony,’ as well as compositions from Glinka and Prokofiev.

All weekend - Buddhist Arts and Film Festival @ The Dairy Arts Center The annual BAFF brings Buddhist inspired art, film, performance, discussion, and workshops to the community.

All weekend - ‘The Old Oak’ Screening @ The Dairy Arts Center A Palme d’Or nominee, this film is a deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope.

All weekend - ‘Company’ Musical @ Buell Theatre This revelatory new production of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking musical comedy is boldly sophisticated, deeply insightful, and downright hilarious.

All weekend - ‘Where Did We Sit On The Bus’ Play @ Singleton Theatre Through live music and storytelling, this one-person show immerses the audience in elaborate, layered soundscapes by fusing Latin rhythms, hip-hop, and spoken word poetry.

All weekend - ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Play @ Kilstrom Theatre ‘The Lehman Trilogy’ is an epic and timely story of family, ambition, and risk, sprawling across 163 years of history of the Lehman Brothers.

All weekend - ‘Cullud Wattah’ Play @ Curious Theatre This time-bending play takes on the Flint Water Crisis and dives deep into the poisonous choices of the outside world and how we make the best decisions for our families’ futures when there are no options.

All weekend - ‘The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee’ Play @ Vintage Theatre In this original Broadway production, an eclectic group of teenagers vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime.

Ongoing - ‘Bubble Planet’ Experience @ Exhibition Hub Art Center Prepare to be transported to surreal landscapes and explore 10 bubble-themed rooms that will take your imagination to new heights.

Ongoing - ‘The Berlin Airlift: Supplies from the Sky’ Exhibition @ Wings Museum The exhibit shares the lessons of courage, perseverance, and the triumph of the human spirit and pays tribute to the brave citizens who risked their lives to bring hope to a divided city.

Ongoing - ‘Biophilia: Nature Reimagined’ Exhibition @ DAM The exhibition brings together more than 80 imaginative works, including architectural models and photographs, digital installations, and immersive art that collectively highlight the transformative power of nature.

Ongoing - ‘Fazal Sheikh: Thirst | Exposure | In Place’ Exhibition @ DAM Capturing the Colorado Plateau, Sheikh’s portraits and landscapes shed light on the far-reaching consequences of extractive industry and climate change.

Ongoing - ‘The Russells in Denver, 1921’ Exhibition @ DAM Charles M. Russel’s works capture the vast landscapes, mountain ranges, and peoples of the American West of the 1880s, thus leaving a valuable chronicle of the West that once was.

Ongoing - ‘Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes’ Exhibition @ DAM The exhibition highlights paintings, drawings, and prints by award-winning artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, who explores the notions of fantasy, desire, fear, and pleasure and its relationship to the human body.

Ongoing - Spring Exhibition Series @ MCA MCA’s Spring series includes solo exhibitions of three contemporary artists whose multidisciplinary works focus on the exploration of the natural phenomena, landscapes, and human interactions with the natural world.