Cultural Events Calendar

Aspen Community Theatre (ACT) brings its fall production to the Wheeler Opera House. Performed and presented by your neighbors and friends, Neil Simon’s “Rumors” promises to be a night of farce and fun. “Rumors” contains adult language and themes.

Travel from the Himalayas to The Great Trango Towers in an unforgettable evening of high-altitude storytelling—featuring two films that celebrate the spirit of exploration, resilience, and the raw beauty of the vertical world. Together, these films showcase two expressions of mountain adventure, both driven by the same passion for the unknown.

Join us for a community art experience for all ages! Grab a smock and help bring the Paul JAS Center mural to life. Add your own artistic touch to colorful mural cloth panels, designed paint-by-numbers style by co-artists Miriam Singer and Chris Erickson. When completed, each painted square will come together to form a stunning mural at the Paul JAS Center in Aspen, a true community masterpiece!

WHEN
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Two Paint Sessions:
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

** Please plan to arrive and paint anytime within your selected session window. We’ll be wrapping up 15 minutes prior to the end of each session.

WHERE
Third Street Center – Community Hall
520 S 3rd St, Carbondale, CO 81623

Aspen Community Theatre (ACT) brings its fall production to the Wheeler Opera House. Performed and presented by your neighbors and friends, Neil Simon’s “Rumors” promises to be a night of farce and fun. “Rumors” contains adult language and themes.

Lectures are free, open to the public, and available in person or via livestream.

Roberto Lugo creates defiant genre-mixing works that confront the function and subject matter of high art objects from Classical Antiquity, East Asia, the Italian Renaissance, seventeenth-century Europe, and beyond. Using the ancient medium of clay as his canvas, Lugo both calls attention to intergenerational experiences of racial injustice while celebrating African American and Latino culture. Learn more.

Join us for an evening of bread baking! You’ll learn the basics of bread baking and take home a jar of sourdough starter.

Garrison Keillor Tonight is an evening of stand-up, storytelling, audience sing-alongs, and poetry. One man, one microphone.

The performance features sung sonnets, limericks, and musical jokes—all woven together by reflections on the beauty of growing older. Despite its inconveniences, old age brings a kind of contentment: the wisdom that less is more. With your big ambitions and past mistakes behind you, there’s nothing left to prove—and great joy can be found in life’s smaller moments.

Aspen Community Theatre (ACT) brings its fall production to the Ute Theatre. Performed and presented by your neighbors and friends, Neil Simon’s “Rumors” promises to be a night of farce and fun. “Rumors” contains adult language and themes.

Aspen Community Theatre (ACT) brings its fall production to the Ute Theatre. Performed and presented by your neighbors and friends, Neil Simon’s “Rumors” promises to be a night of farce and fun. “Rumors” contains adult language and themes.

Iris DeMent brings her powerful new album, Workin’ On A World, to Aspen for an evening of unforgettable music and reflection. Known for her deeply moving voice—described by John Prine as “like you’ve heard, but not really”—DeMent has long been one of America’s most respected singer-songwriters. Her music blends gospel, hymns, and old country traditions with a fierce commitment to truth and justice.