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THURSDAY - MAY 21st
This early-childhood program offers a range of activities and interactive experiences for the whole family.
This 21+ experience lets you sip your favorite cocktail or mocktail as you explore our exhibitions after hours and discover science in a whole new way.
Local DJs set the vibe as you sip exhibition-inspired cocktails, sample locally distilled spirits, and savor a rotating menu of lite bites.
Flipturn @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 7PM
With Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners
With Roman Candle, Doomsday, & Primal Fury
With Exodus, Biohazard, & Tribal Gaze
With mmj
With Two Girls One Laptop, Zentik, & more
Ray Bull @ Bluebird Theater @ 8PM
With Babehoven
Bubble Mower @ Globe Hall @ 7:30PM
With The Edgewater Project & Oatmilk
FRIDAY - MAY 22nd
This family-friendly evening celebrating culture through cuisine, entertainment, and community in the heart of Denver.
*In English & Spanish
Seven Lions @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 6PM
With MitiS B2B Trivecta, Kill the Noise, HVDES, & Quackson
With Must Die! & Quackson
Featuring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Dizzy Wright, & more
With Term$
Echo & The Bunnymen @ Mission Ballroom @ 8PM
With Joshua Trinidad Quartet
Chaos & Carnage Tour @ Ogden Theatre @ 4PM
Featuring Carnifex, Bodysnatcher, 200 Stab Wounds, & more
With Paws B2B Njoy, Marvl
With Jesus Christ Taxi Driver, Slow Caves, & Bitchflower
Gravagerz @ Bluebird Theater @ 9PM
With Garret Dix, Planet Bloop, & Mika Ohno
With Criso, Lord Genmu, & Soma
Bixby @ Globe Hall @ 8PM
With Bheruty
Step inside a multisensory light-art performance with rotating sculptures, music, and projection at one of Denver’s pioneering light galleries.
A phone-free, alcohol-free dance party with DJ CYN built around movement, release, and community connection.
SATURDAY - MAY 23rd
Shop small and local from 50+ vendors while enjoying music and gourmet bites from food trucks and bakeries.
Lone Tree’s annual Backyard Beats: Southern Street Eats event focuses on all types of cuisine from south of the Colorado border – Southern comfort, Cajun, Creole, Central and South American, Tex-Mex, and everything in between!
Get ready to sip, savor, and spice things up at the ultimate margarita tasting competition where over 2,500 margarita lovers crown the best margarita in Denver!
Practice all-levels yoga with rescue puppies while supporting foster, funding, and adoption efforts for animals in need.
Classically trained violinist-turned-comic Armando Anto brings his signature blend of haunting melodies and razor-edged comedy to Denver for one night only!
Your favorite throwback and contemporary Hip-Hop hits reimagined in classical sound! Featuring selections by Jay-Z, Outkast, 2Pac, Drake, & more.
Free Concert Series: Rock de Mayo @ Levitt Pavilion @ 5PM
Featuring iZCALLi, Los Mocochetes, El Cro, & more
With Vctms & TSS
With Thotsquad
Space Wizard @ Ogden Theatre @ 8PM
With Izzy Vadim, Lozer, Organic Matter, & more
Cradle of Filth @ Gothic Theatre @ 7PM
With Suffocation, Ghost Bath, & Cultus Black
With No Distractions, James Grebb, & San Foster
With Kayla Rae & AC Yung
Robert Lester Folsom @ Globe Hall @ 8PM
With Kassi Valazza
SUNDAY - MAY 24th
Alabama Shakes @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre @ 7PM
With JJ Grey & Mofro
With Fly By Midnight & Exhaler
Alive at Nine @ Globe Hall @ 8PM
With Bridge Down & Adolla
All Weekend
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.
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!
Watch the climactic sixth episode of the Star Wars saga unfold as your Colorado Symphony performs John Williams’ legendary score live.
Taking New York by storm, ‘It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues’ is a dynamic and moving musical journey tracing the evolution of the blues from Africa to Mississippi to Memphis to Chicago. Ends 6/21.
Set in 1950s, Matthew López’s newest production is a music and dance-filled portrait of a tight-knit Puerto Rican family striving to make it in show business. Ends 5/31.
Told through richly poetic language and layered storytelling, ‘Furlough’s Paradise’ is a poignant, powerful exploration of kinship, forgiveness, and the fragile path toward healing. Ends 5/31.
This heartfelt, humorous play follows five strangers in an Iranian TOEFL class as they navigate language, identity, and unexpected friendships. Ends 5/31.
Set in a cosmic limbo disguised as group therapy, this play takes audiences on a darkly funny and deeply moving journey through grief, identity, and the messy, beautiful process of letting go. Ends 5/24.
Explore the duality of man with this stoned production of Shakespeare's ‘King Lear.’ Ends 6/6.
This nostalgic comedy follows a group of high school friends as they attempt to re-create the moment they broke a Guinness Book World Record in 1991. Ends 6/14.
‘Silent Sky’ is the true story of Henrietta Leavitt and her team of female astronomers at the Harvard Observatory during the early years of the 20th century. Ends 6/7.
A story of a mother’s unbounded love and the makeshift circle of women who support her, ‘Mary Jane’ is a beautiful testament to endurance and human kindness in the face of tragedy. Ends 5/24.
Ongoing
Shop Colorado products in season like farm flowers, fresh fruit & veggies, local greens, culinary herbs, French cheeses, vegan & gluten-free products, and much more! Ends 10/11.
Shop Colorado-grown produce and locally-made products, plus enjoy live musical performances. Ends 11/8.
This immersive experience invites visitors of all ages on a journey through real human specimens, carefully and respectfully preserved, uncovering the intricate systems that sustain life. Ends 6/28.
Experience the legendary Inca citadel like never before. Traverse the majestic mountain site, explore the agricultural terraces, the Temple of the Sun, and other iconic ruins as you witness the beauty of the Andes all around you. Ends 6/5.
This captivating 360º digital art exhibition invites you to step into the universe of the Dutch genius, Vincent van Gogh. Ends 8/30.
You and your team will be placed in a themed room where you will search for clues to solve puzzles until you reach a final goal. Ends 6/19.
Go on an exciting search for gold in this 60-minute immersive team quiz. Ends 2/27/2028.
Unlock the secrets of the Great Pyramid of Giza with a brand new concept: the immersive expedition that lets you travel back thousands of years to the heart of ancient Egypt. Ends 6/29.
The exhibition invites you to explore the mind-bending biology and amazing anatomy of sauropods — the largest land animals to ever live - through enthralling life-sized exhibits and displays. Ends 9/7.
Take an extraordinary journey into our prehistoric past as DMNS unveils a remarkable fossil discovered by a crew of inquisitive young dino hunters in North Dakota.
Argentine-born, Colorado-based Ana María Hernando presents recent work rendered in her signature materials: tulle, textiles, and paintings, to explore how color, song, and poetry are potent emblems of strength, persistence, and rebirth. Ends 7/5.
Through sculpture, sound, and works on paper, Chicago-based artist Bethany Collins traces what it means to inhabit a world where words, memory, and history surge and intertwine. Ends 7/5.
This exhibition probes complex personal dynamics of diaspora, moving and migration through playful and poignant works that explore notions of nostalgia, longing, memory, utopia, and home. Ends 7/5.
This landmark exhibition is the largest display of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art ever presented internationally. Ends 7/26.
This exhibition features a rich variety of portraits, self-portraits, and candid scenes that touch on the joys and challenges of everyday life as well as personal relationships, solitude, and the way people see themselves and each other. Ends 9/29.
Discover connections between visionary designers, cultural movements, and the evolution of iconic fashion houses. Ends 10/11.
Colorado artist Sadie Young invites visitors to step inside enormous mouths of towering monsters, dodge playful tube creatures, and discover hidden surprises in this colorful installation.
The exhibition brings together historic prints made about Colorado, depicting an imaginary in the life of Colorado through the eyes of printmakers, one hour at a time.
The exhibition navigates an era when artists and designers turned their gaze skyward, channeling the optimism, anxiety, and curiosity that defined the mid-20th century.
Designed to facilitate visceral, whole-body experiences with Clyfford Still’s work, this exhibition explores how visitors may experience abstract visual language through sound. Ends 2/17/2027.
Through a selection of Margaret Johnson’s botanical works, abstract paintings, and monotype prints, the exhibition traces visual resonance between human relationships and the natural world. Ends 7/26.
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