Cultural Events Calendar

In The Way Out: A True Story of Survival in the Heart of the Rockies tells a harrowing true story, capturing a tale of survival, tragedy, and resilience in the Colorado backcountry. In January 2017 three fathers and four teenage children set off on what was meant to be a memorable bonding trip in the rugged wilderness outside Salida, Colorado. During the trip, fifteen-year-old Cole Walters-Schaler and Brett Beasley, a legendary Forest Service ranger, embarked on what should have been a brief ski into the alpine backcountry. Within hours, an unpredictable blizzard transformed their adventure into a thirty-hour ordeal that left the entire community reeling.

Rough Waters, Sacred Roads: True Stories of Escape and Return brings together three unforgettable books—My Pretty Baby, The Voyage of Steppenwolf, and Nineteen—to explore survival, addiction, adventure, and the long road to healing. From escaping violent homes and chasing spiritual awakening to sailing into danger and confronting family secrets, these authors share raw, redemptive stories of breaking away and finding their way back. Join us for a powerful conversation about reckoning, resilience, and reclaiming one’s truth.

Celebrate the entrepreneurial spirit of American food and drink with Jennifer Glanville Love! Join for an unforgettable evening of beer, bites, and her debut cookbook.

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing is a literary podcast produced and hosted by Mitzi Rapkin. Each week the podcast features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer. The show is equal parts investigation into the craft of writing and conversation about the topics of an author’s work.

With little evidence, would-be author P.J. Larkin serves a “nibble” on the trendy new social-media app Crave, accusing editor George Dunn of stealing the novel she submitted to him for publication. The nibble shoots to the top of the site’s Popular Menu Items and before you can say “unpaid literary labor,” George is embroiled in a scandal, his job and book deal in jeopardy. P.J.’s novel is snapped up amid the publicity, but has she revealed her sister Mia’s secrets in the book? Some diners on Crave think so, and now it’s P.J.’s turn to feel the public’s scorn. Told in the humorous vein of Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, A Complete Fiction examines the very serious questions of who has a right to tell a story, and has cancel culture gone too far in our social media-drenched world?

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