Doors Open Denver 2008: Don’t miss this 2 day free event April 12th and April 13th all over town. 
Tour amazing public and private buildings of architectural interest during this absolutely free event. That’s right…zero cents! Take self guided or professionally guided tours of over 80 sites including Daniel’s & Fischer Tower, Malo Mansion and the Paramount Theatre. This events runs 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on both days. For a complete schedule, maps and to sign up for professional tours visit the Doors Open Denver website.
There are a few things you need to put on your schedule no matter how busy, how overscheduled, or how hassled you are.
I’ve been going to the Red Cross Breakfast of Champions for the last few years and now I wonder how I could NOT go. It’s a great morning and one full of emotions, (as evidenced by the packages of Red Cross tissues at each place). The breakfast on Friday morning gave me some time to think about why we need to schedule an hour or two on a regular basis and let the “better angels of our nature” take over. It’s not the Breakfast that I think we should put on our schedules…although if you get a chance it’s a great event. What we need to put on our schedules is some time to give back. Whether it’s to neighbors, our community, or the wider world.
Several years ago the Mile High Chapter of the Red Cross was looking for ways to honor the people and organizations that really brought the ideals of Red Cross and it’s founder Clara Barton into the communities where they live and work. In 2002 they held the first Breakfast of Champions as a way to celebrate people giving back, in large ways and in small ways. This year the Red Cross honored among others; a school cafeteria worker who saved a student’s life because she took the time for some Red Cross training, a boy scout who used his head and saved his sister from choking to death after he took the time to learn the Heimlich maneuver, a firefighter on vacation in Mexico who saved 3 people from drowning…in separate incidents on the same day !, using a lifetime of training. And to a person these everyday angels say that they didn’t have time to think, they just did what needed to be done, and they knew what needed to be done thanks to the Red Cross.
Those small moments are the heart of the Red Cross, an organization that not only provides lifesaving training, but responds to literally hundreds of disasters large and small in Colorado. Small moments in the big picture but huge moments in the lives of the people involved. Everything from a hot meal and a blanket when your home is on fire, to support for the families of military folks on deployment, to training hundreds of people in basic lifesaving techniques. All of that because individual people take the time…to learn, to volunteer, to train.
That’s what this 2 hours on my schedule does for me. It reminds me that I have to take the time…no matter how busy I am…to give something back. Once a year I get to see the effect of taking the time, on the people involved and on the 800 or so people reaching for the tissues.
Visit the Mile High Chapter of the Red Cross…take the time. http://www.denver-redcross.org
One of the best deals in town is free admission to featured plays at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts each season! The Scientific & Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) provides the free admission, funded in part through the 0.1% sales and use tax. There’s no catch. Just come on down to the DCPA and get in line around 4:00 pm the day of the play, pick up your ticket when the box office opens at 4:30, go grab a bite to eat at one of the great restaurants in the area, and then enjoy the play at 6:30. This week’s play is Gee’s Bend, description below. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to enjoy an evening at the theater for FREE!
This week’s play is Gee’s Bend.
The women of Gee’s Bend – an impoverished and isolated community on the Alabama River – created unique, bold and sophisticated quilts out of necessity and materials at hand. Now world-renowned, their brilliantly innovative quilts are featured in leading museums across the country, including the forthcoming Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt exhibit at the Denver Art Museum. One critic dubs Wilder’s new play “a glorious piece of theatrical handiwork that uses the Civil Rights Movement as a thread for stitching together the rich emotional material of a close-knit family of quilters. With echoes of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, Gee’s Bend is both a work of art and a bona fide crowd-pleaser.”
Additional FREE plays offered this season include:
The Merry Wives of Windsor
March 20 · 6:30pm · Stage Theatre
Doubt
April 3 · 6:30pm · Ricketson Theatre
3 Mo’Divas
May 8 · 6:30pm · Stage Theatre
A few rules, please:
- Available the day of the event at the theatre box office only
- Box Office opens two hours before performance
- House opens ½ hour before curtain
- No reservations
- First-come, first-served
- One ticket per person
- Seating is General Admission
- No children under six
Leap Day
February 29, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Hop on over to Denver Zoo to help the zoo and other zoos across the nation kick off The Year of the Frog at Denver Zoo’s Leap Day. Learn about local frogs and other amphibians during this day long celebration, get up close and personal while meeting some of Denver Zoo’s local resident frogs and learn what you can do to help solve the amphibian crisis in your own backyard. Activities free with admission.
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