Salida Creative District

Salida Creative District First Fridays
2024-12-06 17:00 - 19:30 (America/Denver) | Downtown Salida, Salida, 81201, United States
The Salida Creative District, local galleries, artists and creative businesses present 2024 First Fridays!
Mark your calendars to visit Salida, Colorado, the state’s first designated Creative District, during FIRST FRIDAYS held every month of the year! Galleries and creative businesses in downtown Salida’s Creative District will stay open late every first Friday of the month. From painting to sculpture, ceramics, photography, plein air, jewelry, fiber arts, and more, drop into one of Salida’s twenty+ art galleries and creative businesses where you can interact with the artist, ask questions, watch a demo and build your unique collection. Enjoy live music, refreshments, and a festive evening. See individual galleries and businesses for their schedule of events including demos, lectures, live music, and more.

The Candy Cane Cordial
2024-12-08 18:00 - 21:00 | A Church, 419 D street, Salida, 81201
Join us for the 6th annual Candy Cane Cordial! A fun filled evening for the whole family! All funds go to support our Ryan Hansen Memorial Scholarship Fund. Providing scholarships for people of all ages to access performing arts opportunities.

Salida Steam Plant's Annual Holiday Pop Up Art Market
2024-12-14 10:00 - 18:00 | Salida SteamPlant
It’s time for the annual Holiday Pop Up Art Market brought to you by Salida Arts & Culture and the Creative District. Join us Saturday, December 14 as local and regional artists and makers bring their hand made art, jewelry, prints, note cards, fiber art, ornaments, sculptures, ceramics and more for a fun holiday art market at the Salida Steam Plant. Find that perfect gift and enjoy music, cocktails, hot cocoa, sweets, a photo booth and more while you shop this fun market experience! Artists interested in participating as a vendor, please see the information and application here. Applications are due November 18.

Season of Words – Wintertide Live poetry at the SteamPlant
2024-12-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Salida SteamPlant
Poetry Live at Salida SteamPlant!
Welcome Wintertide – with a tall hot-toddy of performance poetry!
Please join us for this seasonal pre-solstice soiree…
Sunday December 15th Showtime 6:30 – 8:30 Salida SteamPlant Event Center Annex
Season of Words – Wintertide kicks off year-two of seasonal poetry gatherings
offered by Salida Poetry Stake.
Wintertide will feature Western Colorado poet laureate Wendy Videlock of Palisade
and poet, astronomer and owner of Lithic Press, Danny Rosen from Fruita, Colorado.
Local Salida poets Jan Ohmstede and Elizabeth Lewis will open the evening.
Open mic follows with voices familiar and new. ONE page, ONE poem per poet.
Open mic sign-up starts @ 6:15 These works range from poignant to provocative, soulful to surprising. This is not your great gramma’s poetry…
Book table, Cash bar and Cookies!
Your donations are appreciated. All are welcome!

TRI: A staged reading by Kelly Walters
2025-02-14 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-15 19:00 - 20:30, 2025-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 | A Church, 419 D street, Salida, 81201
What happens when three old friends who typically sit around eating sweeties at the local coffee shop complaining about life get their habit thrown off course when one of them suggests they train for a triathlon together. Directed by Susan Dawn Carson and starring Kelly Walters, Allen Lane and Bill Rogers. A Salida Theater Project Production.

On The Edge
2025-02-21 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-02-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Salida SteamPlant
On the Edge, presented by Grounded Dance Company, showcases a wide variety of choreography embracing the concept of war. Whether you interpret war at a global level or at an individual level, every moment of our existence there is constant push and pull, visible or hidden struggles and internal battles. Where will your thoughts and emotions take you over the course of the show?

Salida Community Mosaic Workshops
2025-03-06 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-13 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-20 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-03-27 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-03 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-10 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-17 12:00 - 14:00, 2025-04-24 12:00 - 14:00 and 1 more date | Salida Scout Hut, 220 W Sackett Ave., Salida, CO, 81201, United States
Join mosaic artist Anne Walker in creating the Salida Community Mosaic project! Help bring to life a 60-foot-long mosaic wall featuring fish swimming in a river, to be installed at Chisholm Park on the wall surrounding the playground. All adults and teens are invited to participate in free mosaic-making workshops. No experience is needed—just come ready to create! All materials are provided.
Workshops will take place on Thursdays from 12 PM to 2 PM at the Salida Scout Hut. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is scheduled for Spring 2025.
To sign up for a workshop, please review the available slots below and click the button to reserve your spot. These workshops are for adults and teens, and we will also offer occasional Sip & Paint-style workshops for adults, as well as Family Nights.
A signed waiver is required to participate. You can print, sign, and bring the waiver with you, or sign it in person when you arrive.
This project is supported by the Salida Public Arts Commission and the Salida Creative District Program of the Salida Arts and Culture Department.
For more information, please contact Anne at anne@annewalkerstudio.com or Tina at info@salidasteamplant.com. We look forward to creating with you!

Salida Creative District First Fridays!
2025-03-07 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-04-04 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-05-02 17:00 - 19:00 | Downtown Salida, Salida, 81201, United States
Mark your calendars to visit Salida, Colorado, the state’s first designated Creative District, during FIRST FRIDAYS held every month of the year! Galleries and creative businesses in downtown Salida’s Creative District will stay open late every first Friday of the month. From painting to sculpture, ceramics, photography, plein air, jewelry, fiber arts, and more, drop into one of Salida’s twenty+ art galleries and creative businesses where you can interact with the artist, ask questions, watch a demo and build your unique collection. Enjoy live music, refreshments, and a festive evening. See individual galleries and businesses for their schedule of events including demos, lectures, live music, and more.

A Season of Words – Spring Speaks hosted Poetry Live at the SteamPlant
2025-03-16 18:00 - 20:30 | Salida SteamPlant
Please join us for

A Season of Words – Spring Speaks hosted Poetry Live at the SteamPlant

Sunday March 16th at the Salida’s SteamPlant Event Center Annex

The evening will showcase the engaging and much loved featured poets, Peter Anderson from Crestone and Salida’s Lynda LaRocca. Dynamic local Salidan Michael Fox will open the evening.

Open mic follows – one page, one poem, per poet.

There will be Music! With Dave Tipton on Champman Stick

Doors open at 6:00pm | Open mic sign-up at 6:15pm | Showtime from 6:30 – 8:30pm

Your donation of any amount is appreciated and will support future poetry events.

Much gratitude to all of YOU and City of Salida Arts & Culture for supporting Live Poetry!

Artist Reception- Andrew Dengate
2025-03-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Salida SteamPlant
Please join us at the Salida SteamPlant as Arts & Culture hosts the March artist reception featuring the work of Andrew Dengate, painter and designer. Stop in to view the work and talk with the artist. Light refreshments and cash bar available.

The Wizard of OZ at the Salida SteamPlant
2025-03-28 17:30 - 21:00 | Salida SteamPlant
Join the Salida Arts & Culture Department for a magical evening of singalongs, photo booths, and enchanting pre-show entertainment, all inspired by Wizard of Oz! Don’t forget to dress up as your favorite character from the Land of Oz – we highly encourage it!

A young farm girl and her little dog are magically transported into the enchanted land of Oz via a Kansas tornado. As they travel down Oz’s Yellow Brick Road to find the Wizard and ask him to send them home, they encounter a wonderful, funny, terrifying and, ultimately, enlightening group of characters, human and otherwise. This 1939 award-winning film classic (Best Score and Best Song Academy Awards) is a perennial favorite that has recently been meticulously restored. (This film is rated G with a run time of 101 minutes)

Friday March 28th at 6:00pm | Doors open at 5:30pm
Adults Admission – $8
12 and under – $5

The screening event is open to the public.

Click HERE to purchase, or stop by the SteamPlant box office.
Cash bar and limited concessions are available.

WICKED at the Salida SteamPlant
2025-03-29 18:30 - 22:00 | Salida SteamPlant
Join the Salida Arts & Culture Department for a magical evening of singalongs, photo booths, and enchanting pre-show entertainment, all inspired by Wicked! Don’t forget to dress up as your favorite character from the Land of Oz – we highly encourage it!
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misunderstood because of her unusual green skin, who has yet to discover her true power, and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda, a popular young woman, gilded by privilege and ambition, who has yet to discover her true heart. (This film is rated PG with a run time of 160 minutes)
Saturday March 29th at 7:00pm | Doors open at 6:30pm
Adults Admission – $10
12 and under – $8

The screening event is open to the public.

Click HERE to purchase, or stop by the SteamPlant box office.
Cash bar and limited concessions are available.

Barefoot in the Park
2025-04-18 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-24 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-25 19:00 - 21:30, 2025-04-26 19:00 - 21:30 | A Church, 419 D street, Salida, 81201
Barefoot in the Park is one of the most beloved comedies of Neil Simon. Newlyweds Corie and Paul Bratter are over the moon to begin their life together in their new apartment in Manhattan. It may be small and a six-flight climb, the heating may be busted and snow may be falling through the skylight, but nothing can quash their newlywed bliss. Paul is a straight-laced lawyer and Corie a romantic free-spirit; nevertheless, opposites attract and the two are wild about each other. Corie decides to set her conservative widowed mother up with their eccentric, bohemian neighbor. A wild night ensues, one that highlights just how different Corie and Paul are. The young couple must learn how to accept and embrace their differences as they learn that marriage is no easy walk in the park. Don’t miss Salida Theater Projects new take on this classic farce.

Oscar Shorts: Animation & Guest Artist Talk
2025-04-24 18:30 - 20:30 | Salida SteamPlant
2025 Oscar Nominated Shorts: ANIMATION with preshow talk by Naters Calderone and Kat Been
Join us at the SteamPlant for Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation and enjoy a preshow talk by local illustrators Ryan O’Brien, Naters Calderone and Kat Been who will share images of work and talk about their illustration and animation projects!
Date: Thursday, April 24
Doors: 6:00pm
Showtime: 6:30pm | Preshow talk by local illustrators at 6:30pm, movie begins immediately after, approx 7pm
Run time: 88 minutes
Ticket price: $10 | Purchase online or at the Box Office
“This special release features the year’s most spectacular short films and is available to watch on the big screen for a limited time shortly after nominations are announced.” The 2025 Oscar nominated Animation Shorts are:BEAUTIFUL MENSynopsis- Three balding brothers travel to Istanbul to get a hair transplant. Stuck with each other in a hotel far from home, their insecurities grow faster than their hair.Director- Nicolas Keppens, BELGIUM, FRANCE, NETHERLANDS/18 MINS/2023IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESSSynopsis- Living in a house by the sea with his daughter, a former captain who has post-traumatic stress disorder leads a tough and secluded life.Director- Hossein Molayemi, Shirin Sohani; IRAN/20 MINS/2023MAGIC CANDIESSynopsis- The other kids at the park never ask Dong-Dong to play. But he’s fine just playing marbles on his own. One day he goes out in search of new marbles, but ends up buying a bag of colorful, marble-shaped candies instead. But the first time he pops one of them into his mouth, he’s astonished to hear his old sofa start talking to him! For the next few minutes, until the candy melts away, he has the most unexpected and amazing conversation of his life. Realizing that these are no ordinary candies, Dong- Dong looks at the rest of colorful sweets. Who else will he be able to talk to, and what else will he learn, through these magic candies?Director- Daisuke Nishio; JAPAN/21 MINS/2024WANDER TO WONDERSynopsis- Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three tiny humans who star in a kids’ TV Series called “Wander to Wonder”. After the creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. Struggling to find enough to eat, they continue to make increasingly strange episodes for their fans.Director- Nina Gantz; NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, FRANCE, UK/13 MINS/2023YUCK!Synopsis- Yuck! Adults kiss each other on the mouth, and children find it disgusting! What’s more, you can see it from afar: when people are about to kiss, their lips become all pink and shiny. Little Léo makes jokes about it, as do the other kids at the summer camp. But he has a secret he won’t tell his friends: his own mouth has actually begun glistening. And, in reality, Léo desperately wants to give kissing a try.Director- Loïc Espuche; FRANCE/13 MINS/2024Cash bar and limited concessions available.
