Cultural Events Calendar

The city invites community members to a meet and greet with Pete Strecker, the final candidate for the position of City Manager, on Thursday, Sept. 4 from 4-6 p.m. at the Vault, on the second floor lobby of the Wheeler Opera House.

The gathering is designed to provide residents, business owners, nonprofit partners, and other stakeholders with an opportunity to meet Strecker, ask questions, and share feedback with City Council before a final hiring decision is made.

Join us for September's First Friday in the heart of Carbondale’s Creative District to enjoy the first ever Bonedale Flea, featuring a variety of local makers, vintage goods, and culinary delights. Catch live music by Tommy the Animal at Chacos Park (5:30–8:30 PM), DJ sets by KDNK, street buskers, and special offerings from local businesses. Carbondale Arts’ gallery is open from 5–7 PM, and CLEER hosts a free Electric Car Roadshow in the parking lot behind Town Hall.

This year’s Mactoberfest will be held on Saturday, September 6th on Hopkins Avenue, and we’re turning up the fun with beer for sale by our local women’s hockey team, The Mother Puckers, live music, and plenty of cheesy competition. Two winners will be crowned, Judges’ Favorite and Crowd Favorite. Don’t miss this great community event that you can participate in!

The Crowd Favorite Winner will be determined by the number of votes received at our blind voting table. Every mac & cheese enthusiast will get the chance to taste, then cast their vote for their favorite. Once the event wraps up, we’ll tally the votes and crown the winner!

For our next Changemaker Speaker Series event, world-renowned primatologist and National Geographic Explorer Mireya Mayor—dubbed the “Female Indiana Jones” by The New York Times—recounts her thrilling journey from NFL cheerleader to Emmy-nominated wildlife correspondent. A Fulbright Scholar, NSF Fellow, and mother of six, Mireya’s story proves that bold dreams and scientific discovery can go hand in hand.

This photography project was the result of a collaboration between Bridges High School and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. As part of Anderson Ranch’s Latine Visiting Artist Program, photographer Steven Molina Contreras led a workshop where students created collaborative and self-portraits with people who have shaped their lives—family members, close friends, teachers, or symbolic representations. The project drew inspiration from Molina Contreras’s photographic practice, which often transforms everyday spaces—such as bedrooms, living rooms, and backyards—into intentional, emotionally charged environments.

When Albert Schweitzer visited Aspen in 1949, he imbued the community with a moral ideal – “Reverence for Life.” Such was the guiding principal of a great human being who, despite his self-effacing nature, was dubbed “the living saint.”

Now, 75 years later, Schweitzer’s legacy from the Goethe Bicentennial Festival is being reaffirmed by a group of Aspenites who hope to reinvigorate the Schweitzer ethic and identify Aspen with the highest ideals.

This book describes the importance of Schweitzer to the world and his relevance to Aspen at a time when it seems most needed.

Celebrate National Library Card Sign-Up Month at the Pitkin County Library with an afternoon of music, food, and community fun!

Join us for a live performance by Mack Bailey, Rich Ganson, and Randall Utterback, plus delicious local catering to enjoy while mingling with friends and neighbors.

Discover the endless possibilities a library card can unlock! Library staff will be on hand to help explore and set up accounts for popular online services like Libby, Hoopla, Kanopy, and Just for Kids, as well as introduce a wide range of programs, resources, and materials available year-round.

Whether signing up for a library card or rediscovering all the ways to use it, this is the perfect time to celebrate your Library at the heart of our community.

Join us for a vibrant evening of art, music, and community as we present a new exhibition in City Hall celebrating the extraordinary talents of Colorado artists. Visitors to the artist reception will enjoy artist talks, drinks, light bites, and live music. Starting at 4:30 pm, a progressive tour will take place, moving from one floor to the next, with each level featuring different snacks and artists.

Admission: Free and open to the public

Join CORE on September 12th for an afternoon designed to inspire and accelerate climate action in our community. Meet and learn from industry experts, businesses, and community leaders about practical and forward-thinking climate technologies and building solutions that are shaping the future. With engaging presentations, hands-on demonstrations, and networking opportunities, the Green Expo is ideal for anyone curious about practical ways to make a climate impact.

On Saturday, September 13, join an amazing collection of world-renowned speakers for Frontiers of Knowledge, a day-long symposium conceived by Candice Olson and co-produced by Aspen Public Radio, Center for MINDS, California Institute for Integral Studies and the Mays Family Foundation at the historic Wheeler Opera House in the heart of Aspen, Colorado.

Spend a day with the big questions and new answers that can shift the way we see our world —and our way forward.

For over three hundred years, our institutions, our businesses, our religions —our very motivations and psyches— have been built around an understanding of the world that has brought us material progress at the cost of a growing sense of spiritual isolation in a vast universe.

Over the last century a new universe story has emerged, of the origin of life, of how our minds relate to the world around us and within us, indeed a new story of the very nature of reality —all restoring our sense of wonder and wholeness.

Symposium Passes are available now at aspenshowtix.com. Complimentary copies of Journey of the Universe by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker will be available for all ticket holders, while supplies last.