Cultural Events Calendar

Admission to the Big GAY Bingo Brunch on Sunday, June 7, 2026, includes brunch and one reusable bingo board.
• 11AM • TACAW, Basalt, CO • In Partnership with TACAW benefitting the Jack Raife Mental Health Fund

If you would like to sit next to someone, please note your seating request during the billing checkout process.

Experience our annual fundraiser with Drag Queen Bingo, hosted by none other than the sassy clown in a gown herself, all the way from San Diego. It’s She, Her, Me, Ms. Mariam T. Doors open at 11:00AM, with games starting around 11:45AM.

This beautifully crafted brunch will include morning eats and options for non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages.

Join Skyler Lomahaftewa, a member of the Ute Indian Tribe and Aspen Historical Society Educator, for an informal conversation about the historic and contemporary context of the Ute Indian Tribe, the original inhabitants of the Roaring Fork Valley. This free talk is offered in conjunction with the Aspen Historical Society's Ute Traditions and Culture exhibit at the Aspen Campus June 6-18.

Join former City of Rifle Mayor Sean Strode for a personal and applied look at what it truly takes to be involved and lead in your own local government. This seminar provides a practical roadmap for navigating decision-making, ethics, and representing your community, while ensuring your leadership delivers a lasting, positive impact.

Join us for a summer evening at Sopris Park with good people, good music, and plenty of time to hang out. Catch up with friends, meet a few new ones, and celebrate public lands with Wilderness Workshop.

We invite you to help us toast this new exhibition--our fifth!-- on Friday, June 12 from 4-6 pm at a celebratory exhibition opening. Team members will be stationed in the museum galleries, and Koko Bayer will be on site making art. Bauhauslers of all ages are welcome—bring friends, family, and enjoy drinks on the Bayer Center lawn.

Double Take features more than 70 works of art by Bayer, including many that are rarely seen and on loan from the Denver Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum in Rochester. The exhibition presents Bayer’s work in pairs and clusters to explore how the interdependency of mediums was central to his practice. This mode of dialogue reveals surprising thematic and formal continuities across varied bodies of work. Whether surrealist-inflected photomontages of the 1930s or vivid geometric abstractions of the 1970s, the exhibition examines new connective throughlines. With a fresh approach to this trailblazing and multi-disciplinary artist, Double Take offers a new understanding of his process, his development as an artist, and his sophisticated personal sign system.

Molly Altman’s ceramic sculptures explore the fragile balance between resilience and impermanence in the natural world. Working with flora gathered from the Carbondale landscape & flowers, leaves, vines, and grasses, she dips these materials in porcelain and fires them, transforming organic forms into delicate, ghostlike structures.

Sabrina Piersol’s paintings emerge from a spark of inspiration,a loose sketch, a color palette, or a single natural form, before unfolding into an intuitive, responsive process. Guided by presence and improvisation, she follows each mark as it appears, allowing the composition to evolve with the same unpredictability and openness found in meditation.

On view: June 12 to July 24, 2026
Opening Reception & Artist Talk: Friday, June 12 from 5 PM- 7 PM

Join us for our third annual Pride Extravaganza Drag Show—where fierce queens and kings from Colorado's Western Slope light up the stage! Expect jaw-dropping performances, high-glam looks, and plenty of surprises. Presented by the Aspen Art Museum in collaboration with the Roaring Fork Divas.

Light cocktail snacks and refreshments provided. AAM Members receive one complimentary alcoholic beverage; additional drinks available for purchase. This event is free and open to guests 21+. Please RSVP.

June 12 – 13, 2026, at 7:30 pm at the Wheeler Opera House

JUNE 12 — DANCE & FILM: SILVER LININGS: Only in Darkness can you see the Stars

A celebration of the human spirit through live dance and film.

UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS — SOULSKIN Dance. Following its NYC Premiere at Alvin Ailey Dance Center. A transformative ballet about how we collide, diverge, and reconnect.

“A Ravishing Lust for Life…” – Dance Enthusiast

DISAPPEARED — Alya Howe. Balancing disappearing values with hope’s renewal.

GAS LIGHTENING — Lilly Bright. Freedom is not for the Faint of Heart. — AFF FilmFest Award films

DREAMADRE — Film by Elisabetta Carnevale. Inspired by Terpsichore, the muse of Dance — for Mothers & Mother Earth.

THE KEY — Film by Jaco Strydom. Past & future blur in a desert landscape on a memory trail of loss & desire.

On June 13, VOICES is the featured nonprofit at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park for their Music on the Mountain series. Starting at 5 PM, enjoy $5 gondola access (which is a direct donation to VOICES) and free parking for the event. Experience Los Cheesies, a wildly fun, bilingual band blending rock, ska, reggae, and more into a can’t-stop-dancing show. Come for the music, stay for the magic, and celebrate community with us under the Colorado sky.

Featuring award-winning Theatre, Dance, and Film June 12–13, 2026 at 7:30 pm, Wheeler Opera House

JUNE 13 — THEATRE: STILL, by Lia Romero
A funny, thought-provoking play about lost love & second chances.
“Best New American Play” — NY Outer Critics Circle Nominee.
Nearly 30 years after their relationship ended, Helen and Mark meet over drinks… and find themselves charmed and attracted all over again. When past choices and new secrets surface, everything they believe about the future is called into question. Humorous and revealing, Still explores the delicate dance between what connects us and what divides us.
Starring David Ledingham and Libby Rife, directed by Maurice Lamee.
“Juicy. Smart” — NY Times “Romantic and timely” — TheaterMania