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Oscar Shorts: Animation & Guest Artist Talk

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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 MEN
Synopsis- 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/2023

IN THE SHADOW OF THE CYPRESS
Synopsis- 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/2023

MAGIC CANDIES
Synopsis- 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/2024

WANDER TO WONDER
Synopsis- 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/2023

YUCK!
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/2024

Cash bar and limited concessions available.

Shards & Chardonnay Mosaic Making Night

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Artist Anne Walker and the Salida Community Mosaic are getting close to the finish line! After numerous workshops and thousands of hand laid tiles by community members and the artist, the 60′ long mosaic can see the light at the end of the tunnel! We can’t wait to share the work at the installation at Chisholm Park later this summer!
🥂Join Anne for a fun Sip & Mosaic SHARDS & CHARDONNAY Night on Friday, May 9 from 5-7pm at the Scout Hut. Then just a few more workshops are available in April and May.
🐟Last call, come help Anne bring it home, and help create the Salida Community Mosaic!
Participants must sign up using the link below and sign a waiver:
This project brought to you in part by the City of Salida, Salida Creative District program and the Public Art Commission.

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

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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

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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

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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.

Salida Creative District First Fridays!

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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.

On The Edge

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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?

Showman & Coole In Concert

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Through twenty years and a couple of thousand shows together in bands such as The Foggy Hogtown Boys and The Lonesome Ace Stringband, John Showman and Chris Coole have developed a deep and instinctual musical bond. Their music lurks in a truly unique space that is somewhere on the outskirts of old-time, bluegrass, and folk. The songs of John Hartford, Hank Williams, Dock Boggs, and The Band share space with the fiddle tunes of Eck Robertson and Ed Haley. The duo’s original songs and tunes take in all these vistas and paint something both personal and timely. They have performed across North America and Europe at festivals such as Merlefest, Rockygrass, Winnipeg Folk Festival, Mariposa, Wintergrass, Gooikroots, and The John Hartford Memorial Festival. In 2022, the duo released two albums; “ Afield” a collection of old-time fiddle tunes, and “Much Further Out than Inevitable – A Tribute to Some Music of John Hartford.”

BICYCLE NIGHT: FIRST FRIDAY!

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See you at FIRST FRIDAY: BICYCLE NIGHT 🚲🎨  September 6! The Salida Creative District & the downtown galleries and Creative Businesses welcome you for a fun and festive evening! Businesses stay open later so you can talk with an artist, see new work, watch a demo, and enjoy live music! 🚲 Decorate and ride your bike downtown & enjoy bike themed art and refreshments! Friday, Sept 6 5pm to close.
Join us at the host gallery for the night BrodeurArt with live music by Bill Hussey 🎶 Redeem your palette cards here!
Stop in at Arts Collective Salida, Sage Mountain Gallery, Leslie Jorgensen, Carl Bork and Karen Watkins Studio Gallery, Eye Candy ~ Art and Treasure, Mary Leslie Studio & Gallery, Museum of Authenticity Annex, The Michael Clark Gallery and Studio, Riveting Experience, The Maverick Potter  Four Winds Gallery, Colorado Wool Company-Makers Market and Gift Shop, Joshua Been Studio/Gallery, Salida Ceramics – Community Clay Studio, @lilbuddesigns at Coffee by Topo; special cocktail at The Office Bar Salida, Tres Litros Beer Company presents The Robin Davis Duo!
What a fun First Friday!

Shards & Chardonnay Mosaics Night

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Sign up to help create the 60′ long Salida Community Mosaic wall at the SHARDS & CHARDONNAY 🥂 night, a Sip & Paint style workshop presented by the Salida Creative District and Salida Arts & Culture. Bring your friends and learn bow to mosaic led by artist Anne Walker. Join us for mosaic making, snacks, cash bar with alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages available. Friday, September 13 at 5pm at the Salida Scout Hut Free but space limited so please rsvp at the link for SHARDS & CHARDONNAY and/or other mosaic workdays here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0A4DAEAC2EA1F9C61-50445723-salida

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