9 Things to do in Denver and Colorado this weekend: Feb. 23-25

COLORADO, USA — From festivals and gala’s to expos and music, there’s heaps to do, see and discover throughout Colorado this weekend.

A number of annual Denver traditions are again this weekend together with Arvada Winterfest, the Colorado Backyard and Dwelling Present, and Denver Household Fest.

Colorado will definitely take pleasure in winter inside and outside this February weekend. With greater than a dozen festivals, expos, performances and occasions, there’s an journey awaiting you in all corners of the Centennial State.

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ARVADA — The annual Arvada Winterfest arrives Saturday at McIlvoy Park in Previous Towne Arvada. The free out of doors occasion gives cultural celebrations, video games, meals, distributors, carriage rides, ice sculpting, pet parade and ugly sweater contest, sizzling drinks and dwell music. Winterfest runs from 11 a.m. to three p.m. Saturday.

DENVER  — The Rocky Mountain Area’s oldest and largest residence and backyard present is again this weekend on the Colorado Conference Heart. Greater than 500 firms can be exhibiting the newest tendencies in landscaping, gardening and residential enchancment on the nine-day competition. The present options professionally landscaped gardens and the area’s high residence enchancment consultants that will help you get your initiatives transferring ahead. The Colorado Backyard & Dwelling Present opens at 10 a.m. Saturday and runs by means of Sunday, March 3, with tickets out there at AXS.com. 

DENVER — The sixth annual Denver Household Fest takes place Saturday from 12 p.m. to six p.m. at Colorado Conference Heart. There can be distributors, face portray, household sources, dinosaur fashions, prizes and photographs with Clifford the Huge Purple Canine. Each vendor on the competition has a free children exercise at their sales space. Final yr’s competition had near 13,000 individuals, so arrive early when you can. Grownup tickets are cheaper on-line than on the door and children are free.

GREELEY — Downtown Greeley will remodel right into a winter shoppingland for its Freezy Daze occasion on Saturday. From 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., guests can take pleasure in buying offers, see dwell ice and wooden sculpting, take pleasure in a beer backyard and vendor cubicles.

VAIL — Vail Resorts is celebrating the legacy of the tenth Mountain Division with a mountain parade, black hawk touchdown, Riva Ridge Ski down and extra. Festivities are deliberate Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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DENVER  — Opera Colorado‘s manufacturing of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” opens Saturday on the Ellie Caulkins Opera Home. Extra performances are set for Feb. 27, March 1, and March 3. “The Flying Dutchman” follows the story of the captain of a legendary ghost ship who’s doomed to roam the seas and solely come to land for sooner or later each seven years. This manufacturing marks the return of Wagner to the Ellie Caulkins Opera Home after 15 years. “The Flying Dutchman” options new units from Emmy Award-nominated designer Alan E. Muraoka and path from Kathleen Smith Belcher. Tickets for the manufacturing vary from $39 to $219 and can be found at operacolorado.org. 

LOUISVILLE — Coal Creek Theater of Louisville opens its new manufacturing “Charley’s Aunt” on Friday. At Oxford College in 1892, Jack and Charley invite their mates Amy and Kitty to satisfy Charley’s rich aunt from Brazil. Cancelling her go to on the final minute, the aunt sends the boys into cataclysmic confusion. The issue is solved by drafting their undergrad pal into pretending to be Charley’s Aunt. When the actual aunt turns up, basic comedian chaos ensues. “Charley’s Aunt” can be carried out at Coal Creek Theater of Louisville on the Louisville Heart for the Arts by means of Saturday, March 9.

DENVER  — The Colorado Mammoth return residence to the “Loud Home” at Ball Enviornment this weekend. The Mammoth and New York Riptide meet at 7 p.m. Friday. Celebration zone tickets begin at $32 at ticketmaster.com.

DENVER  — The Colorado Avalanche are making a push to the playoffs. The puck drops between the Avalanche and Toronto Maple Leafs at 5 p.m. Friday at Ball Enviornment. Tickets can be found for resale at ticketmaster.com.

DENVER  — Tons of of individuals in Denver will take to the streets in simply their lingerie throughout Cupid’s Undie Run on Saturday. The occasion raises consciousness of neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic dysfunction that causes tumors to develop on nerves all through the physique and fundraises for NF analysis by means of the Youngsters’s Tumor Basis (CTF).

GOLDEN — The 2024 Colorado Environmental Movie Competition opens Thursday on the Inexperienced Heart at Colorado College of Mines with a pre-party reception from 5:30 to 7:30pm and Movies + Awards from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The  Colorado Environmental Movie Competition brings collectively movie lovers and environmentally minded individuals to have fun the ability of movie to teach, entertain and encourage. The competition, which runs by means of Sunday, will display feature-length and quick movies by international, native and younger filmmakers. This yr’s occasion will display 66 movies chosen from greater than 250 submissions from 38 nations. To see the entire Colorado Environmental Movie Competition schedule, go to CEFF.web.

DENVER — This Sunday is a SCFD Free Day on the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. From 9 a.m. to five p.m., visitors can delve into the colour spectrum on the non permanent exhibition “Wild Shade” at no further value. The museum mentioned there isn’t a want to order your free day ticket forward of time on-line. Visitors can stroll up anytime Sunday and acquire entry to the Wildlife Halls or everlasting exhibitions. A separate ticket is required to go to the planetarium or Infinity Theater.

DENVER — “Message In A Bottle” is the most recent touring manufacturing to reach on the Denver stage. The brand new dance-theatre present from five-time Olivier Award nominee Kate Prince is impressed by and set to the hits of 17-time Grammy Award-winning artist Sting. With exhilarating dance types, footwork and athleticism, “Message in a Bottle” options the tracks “Each Breath You Take,” “Roxanne,” “Fields of Gold,” “Strolling On The Moon” and extra. “Message in a Bottle” performs the Buell Theatre in Denver by means of Sunday.

DENVER — “Cebollas” is a brand new manufacturing now enjoying at Denver’s Singleton Theatre. Yolie, Celia, and Tere are three sisters compelled to take an surprising highway journey from Albuquerque to Denver. Making their approach north on I-25, they don’t journey for enterprise or for pleasure. They only want to move a lifeless physique throughout state traces. However, then once more, what are sisters for? “Cebollas” performs on the Denver Performing Arts Complicated by means of Sunday, March. 17.

DENVER — The Denver Heart for the Performing Arts has opened the brand new drama “Rubicon” on the Kilstrom Theatre. Primarily based on a real story, “Rubicon” tracks the profession of one in every of historical past’s best spies, Elizabeth “Betty” Pack as she transitions from society spouse and mom to steely, seductive agent for British and American Intelligence within the years main as much as World Battle II. “Rubicon” was an viewers favourite on the 2022 Colorado New Play Summit and now has its world premiere by means of Sunday, March 17.

DENVER  — The twelfth annual Kaleidoscope Gala, to help Rocky Mountain Youngsters’s Well being Basis, can be held Saturday at The Ritz-Carlton in downtown Denver. The Gala gives a cocktail reception, wine-paired meal, in a single day keep, on line casino night time and dancing. Saturday’s occasion will honor Dr. Reginald and Faye Washington for his or her service to the neighborhood.

The Bob Marley biopic “Bob Marley: One Love” outperformed expectations to debut at No. 1 on the field workplace final weekend with $27.7 million. “Madame Internet” nevertheless flopped with one of many lowest debuts for a film a few Marvel character.

Sony’s Spider-Man spinoffs have been largely hit or miss. Its two “Venom” movies have collectively surpassed $1.3 billion worldwide, however 2022’s “Morbius” and now “Madame Internet” have each underperformed.

Expectations are excessive for “Dune: Half Two,” opening March 1.

• Drive-Away Dolls
• The Stolen Valley
• Demon Slayer: Hashira Coaching
• Unusual Angels

1. “Bob Marley: One Love,” $27.7 million.
2. “Madame Internet,” $15.2 million.
3. “Argylle,” $4.7 million.
4. “Migration,” $3.8 million.
5. “The Chosen,” Episodes 4-6, $3.4 million.
6. “Wonka,” $3.4 million.
7. “The Beekeeper,” $3.3 million.
8. “Anybody However You,” $2.4 million.
9. “Lisa Frankenstein,” $2 million.
10. “Land of Dangerous,” $1.8 million.

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Have a improbable weekend! 

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