It is full-on summer time, with markets, motion pictures and different celebrations popping up throughout this weekend. Whereas there’s lots to do on the town, you can even head south and again into the Renaissance.

See our lists of First Friday actions and ten free issues to do in and round city; now hold studying for occasions well worth the worth of admission this weekend:

Seen Planets Group Exhibition
Artist Reception: Friday, August 4, 6 to 9 p.m.
Bitfactory Gallery, 851 Santa Fe Drive
Seen Planets Live performance
Saturday, August 5, 8 p.m. to midnight (doorways, 7 p.m.)
Herman’s Hideaway, 1578 South Broadway
Denver artist Dan Drossman and New York rapper Homeboy Sandman struck up a friendship over music and artwork, and that was the start of Seen Planets, a consolidated group of hip-hoppers — Homeboy, Aesop Rock, Deca, Quelle Chris, Child Zits and Isaac Sawyer — who additionally occur to make artwork. Drossman finagled an exhibition for 5 of them at Bitfactory Gallery, which has been on view there since July 21; it is tied to a live performance at Herman’s Hideaway, the place all six will carry out. Meet the artists at Bitfactory on Friday, and listen to them play on Saturday; get tickets, $35 (or $500 for a high-roller fan pack), right here.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Residing the Lush Life
Friday, August 4, 7:30 p.m.
Mainstage, Arvada Heart for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard, Arvada
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance defines versatility in Residing the Lush Life, a set of dance works culled from a repertoire dreamed up over Robinson’s profession of greater than fifty years. The one summer time efficiency on the Arvada Heart bounces by musical genres from jazz to classical, bringing joyful power to the artwork of dance to the middle’s Fundamental Stage. Admission ranges from $28 to $40; seize tickets and be taught extra right here.

Frequent Flyers twenty fifth Annual Aerial Dance Competition: Efficiency Showcase
Friday, August 4, and Saturday, August 5, 8 p.m.; Sunday, August 6, 2 p.m.
Dairy Arts Heart, 2501 Walnut Avenue, Boulder
Frequent Flyers is punching it up for its twenty fifth anniversary Worldwide Aerial Dance Competition Efficiency Showcase, the fest’s excessive level and largest interface with public audiences. As all the time, high aerialists from across the globe who collect in Boulder every summer time to guide lessons in a spread of strategies will showcase their breathtaking specialties excessive up within the air, embracing, swinging and balancing on quite a lot of silks, hoops, trapezes and different aerial apparati. Tickets, which normally promote out, are $24 to $28 on the Dairy Artwork Heart’s on-line field workplace…whereas they final!

All Ages Monster Battle Makers Workshop
Saturday, August 5, 2 p.m.
Manufacturing facility Trend, Stanley Market, 2501 Dallas Avenue, Aurora
Should you don’t wish to be left within the chilly with out correct monster gear when Meow Wolf Denver’s first Monster Battle involves Cheesman Park on August 10, pray there’s area left in Manufacturing facility Trend’s all-ages Monster Battle Makers Workshop at Stanley Market. Convergence Station monster-maker Kate Main will prepared the ground, and important supplies can be supplied, however be happy to deliver, as they counsel, “your personal trash.” Tickets are $7 for twelve and up and free for everybody underneath twelve; no less than one paying grownup is required to attend for each two kids. Register right here.

Winter Park Uncorked
Saturday, August 5, 1 to five p.m.
Rendezvous Occasion Heart, Downtown Winter Park,
78821 US Freeway 40
Lips can be sipping away all afternoon at Winter Park Uncorked, the place virtually twenty vintners and wineries can be pouring their best classic wines on the Rendezvous. With a purpose to tempo your self, there can be meals distributors, too, or you possibly can BYO snacks; when it’s time to take a break, you possibly can take pleasure in reside music and a possibility to check your mettle within the non-Olympic sport of cork capturing on the 2023 Champagne Cork-Off. Admission is $55 basic admission (VIP tickets are bought out); buy tickets at AXS.com.

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Vibrant Nights at 4 Mile
By means of October 1, Wednesdays by Sundays, 7 to 11 p.m.
4 Mile Historic Park, 715 South Forest Avenue
Colourful mild shows do not should be reserved for these frozen winter holidays. Take pleasure in Denver’s beautiful summer time nights at 4 Mile Historic Park, the place Vibrant Nights, a spectacle of big brightly coloured lantern sculptures and different mild options by Tianyu Arts & Tradition, will swap on 5 nights per week at nightfall. No snowflakes, elves or Santa hats — and you’ll put on sandals. Tickets are $15 to $25 (with reductions for members) right here.

Colorado Renaissance Competition
Every day by Sunday, August 6
Larkspur
The Colorado Renaissance Competition is again in Colorado by August 6, and nonetheless going sturdy. Tickets begin at $25; get particulars right here.

KOOZA
By means of August 13
Below the Massive High, Ball Area parking zone
Cirque de Soleil is again on the town with KOOZA, which mixes acrobatic efficiency and the artwork of clowning whereas exploring worry, id, recognition and energy. The Harmless’s journey brings him into contact with comedian characters from an electrifying world stuffed with surprises. Tickets begin at $30; discover out extra right here.


Have you learnt of an important occasion in Denver? We’ll be updating this checklist by the weekend; ship data to [email protected].