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Dairy Arts Center We are Boulder's hub for live theatre, music, comedy, dance, cinema, and free art galleries!

Boulder's hub for live theatre, music, comedy, dance, cinema, and free art galleries!

07/12/2025

The Penguin Lessons
July 15-17

Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.

🎟️ Tickets and showtimes: https://thedairy.org/event/the-penguin-lessons/2025-07-15/1/

07/11/2025

🎬 Porcelain War
🗓 July 15–17

Amid the devastation of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, three artists choose to stay and fight—not only with weapons, but with their art. Porcelain War follows Slava Leontyev, Anya Stasenko, and Andrey Stefanov as they transform the chaos around them into powerful creative resistance. Through tiny porcelain figures, daring acts of bravery, and a fierce love for their homeland, they preserve beauty in the face of brutality.

🎤 Don’t miss the special July 16 screening featuring a post-film conversation with Academy Award-winning producer Paula DuPré Pesmen.

🎟 Tickets and showtimes: https://thedairy.org/event/porcelain-war/2025-07-15/1/

🎬 Classics with Jeffrey Kash: The Facts of Life🗓 July 14 at 7:00 PMNot your typical Hope and Ball comedy — The Facts of ...
07/10/2025

🎬 Classics with Jeffrey Kash: The Facts of Life
🗓 July 14 at 7:00 PM

Not your typical Hope and Ball comedy — The Facts of Life (1960) explores midlife temptation, quiet longing, and the emotional complexities of friendship turned romance. With an Oscar-nominated screenplay, this rare gem delivers heartfelt character drama with a touch of sitcom charm.

🎥 Part of the Classics with Jeffrey Kash series, celebrating cinematic treasures worth rediscovering.

🎟 Tickets: https://thedairy.org/event/classics-with-jeffrey-kash-the-facts-of-life/

🎭 Boulder Jazz Dance Youth Workshop Performance🗓 July 12 & 24Celebrate the creativity, talent, and hard work of dancers ...
07/09/2025

🎭 Boulder Jazz Dance Youth Workshop Performance
🗓 July 12 & 24

Celebrate the creativity, talent, and hard work of dancers ages 7–18 in this high-energy showcase! After five days of intensive training and rehearsal, these young artists take the stage to perform original choreography created by professional faculty. It’s a joyful, inspiring afternoon of movement, music, and passion—perfect for families, friends, and dance lovers of all ages.

🎟 Tickets: https://thedairy.org/event/boulder-jazz-dance-workshop-youth-performance/

🎬 3-Iron🗓 July 13 at 4:00 PMA drifting outsider quietly occupies strangers’ homes while they’re away—until one encounter...
07/08/2025

🎬 3-Iron
🗓 July 13 at 4:00 PM

A drifting outsider quietly occupies strangers’ homes while they’re away—until one encounter changes everything. Kim Ki-duk’s hauntingly beautiful 3-Iron (2004) blends silence, intimacy, and surrealism in this meditation on space, presence, and connection.

Part of Landscape and Architecture in Cinema: An International Perspective, a six-part series presented by CU Professor Emeritus Dr. Suranjan Ganguly, exploring how film interprets space, memory, and the sublime.

🎟 Tickets: https://thedairy.org/event/3-iron/

🎬 Friday Night Weird: Hot Springs Shark Attack🗓 July 11 There have been cases of disappearances of hot springs visitors...
07/08/2025

🎬 Friday Night Weird: Hot Springs Shark Attack
🗓 July 11

There have been cases of disappearances of hot springs visitors in Atsumi city, Japan. When the victims are found dead with injuries mysteriously resembling a vicious shark attack, the townspeople being to investigate.

🎟 Tickets: https://thedairy.org/event/hot-springs-shark-attack/

Opening Night: Matter Over Mind + Live Projection & Music by Eren Autumn🗓 July 11 from 5–8 PM🎟 Free and open to the publ...
07/08/2025

Opening Night: Matter Over Mind + Live Projection & Music by Eren Autumn
🗓 July 11 from 5–8 PM
🎟 Free and open to the public

Join us for the opening of Mind Over Mind, a boundary-pushing new visual arts exhibit where art meets science, featuring smart tattoo inks, slime mold, poetic stone interventions, and other radical experiments in material and meaning.

As part of the celebration, don’t miss a live interactive projection mapping + music performance by Denver-based artist Eren Autumn. Fusing code, sound, light, and ritual, Eren crafts immersive experiences that draw from Diné (Navajo) heritage and digital futurism to explore what it means to be spiritually awake in a high-tech world.

07/07/2025

🎬 Familiar Touch
🗓 July 9–15

In this tender and intimate debut, a retired cook named Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant) begins to lose her grip on memory — but not on the pleasures of love, food, and human connection. With a delicate blend of humor and heartache, Familiar Touch traces the emotional journey of aging, caregiving, and rediscovering agency when the past starts to slip away.

🎟 Tickets + showtimes: https://thedairy.org/event/57788/2025-07-09/

07/07/2025

🌈 Sabbath Queen
🗓 July 9–13
🎤 Director Q&A at July 9 & 10 screenings

Shot over 21 years, Sabbath Queen follows the extraordinary true story of Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie — 38th-generation Orthodox heir, drag queen rebel, q***r father, and founder of Lab/Shul. From 1990s NYC nightlife to the pulpit, this unforgettable documentary explores identity, faith, and radical reinvention.

Co-presented by Boulder JCC.

🎟 Tickets + showtimes: https://thedairy.org/event/57798/2025-07-09/

🎬 Showing this week at the Boedecker Theater🗓 July 7–13👑 Sabbath Queen (July 9–13)Shot over 21 years, this moving docume...
07/06/2025

🎬 Showing this week at the Boedecker Theater
🗓 July 7–13

👑 Sabbath Queen (July 9–13)
Shot over 21 years, this moving documentary follows q***r rebel-turned-rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie on a journey of faith, drag, and radical belonging.

🧠 Familiar Touch (July 9–15)
A gentle, compassionate look at memory, identity, and aging through the story of Ruth, an octogenarian navigating life in a memory care facility.

🦈 Friday Night Weird: Hot Springs Shark Attack (July 11 at 8:30 PM)
Disappearing tourists. Mysterious bite marks. And a hot spring full of secrets. This Japanese cult thriller makes waves in all the weirdest ways.

🏠 3-Iron (July 13)
A drifter quietly inhabits strangers’ homes in this meditative and poetic Korean drama. Part of the Landscape & Architecture in Cinema series.

🎟 Tickets and showtimes: https://thedairy.org/events/month/2025-07/

Matter Over Mind: New Visual Arts Exhibit Opens July 11Opening Reception: July 11, 5–8 PMExplore the cutting edge where ...
07/05/2025

Matter Over Mind: New Visual Arts Exhibit Opens July 11
Opening Reception: July 11, 5–8 PM

Explore the cutting edge where art meets science. Matter Over Mind showcases bold, hands-on innovation by artists, researchers, and inventors who are redefining how we think about the physical world. From smart tattoo inks to slime mold experiments and poetic stone interventions, this exhibit invites you to experience material as a guide to new ideas.

Featuring artists from CU Boulder’s ATLAS Institute and beyond, including:
Joshua Coffie, Meenakshi Skandarajan, Caitlin Rogers, Alexandra Felderman, Ana González Barragán, Andrea Garcia Vasquez, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Belgin Yucelen, Carson Besser, Heather Schulte, Netta Ofer, and Steven Frost.

Come celebrate radical creativity, interdisciplinary thinking, and the beauty of experimentation.

🖼️ On view at the Dairy Arts Center July 11–August 31.

Did you know? The Dairy Arts Center is home to four award-winning galleries plus two additional rotating gallery spaces....
07/03/2025

Did you know? The Dairy Arts Center is home to four award-winning galleries plus two additional rotating gallery spaces. These galleries show works by regional, national, and international artists in a variety of exhibitions throughout the year.

Our galleries are free + open to the public every day from 12–6 PM. Stop by and get inspired!

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