Here's your community calendar for Saturday, October 17th, underwritten by Basalt Regional Library, presenting First Draft with Mitzi Rapkin: An Author Conversation with Abby Geni, on Thursday October 29th at 6:30pm. This discussion and live podcast recording will focus on Abby's novel Children of the Wolf, the creative writing process, and the themes of the book as well as other creative ideas that emerge. More info at Basalt Library dot org.
There's something happening just about everywhere you can receive the KDNK FM signal, let's not waste any more time telling you about it all…
- The Shining Mountains Film Festival gets two showings today at the Wheeler Opera House, at 2pm and again at 6:30.
- Glenwood Springs offers an Oktoberfest party on 7th Street from 3 to 8 today
- Mountain Action Indivisible holds an Early Voting Rally today from 4 to 5:30 at Sayre Park in Glenwood.
- Jesse Mead plays live at Townline Trucks at 6pm this evening
- Leadville holds a makeup 4th of July Fireworks show at Dutch Henry Hill, that'll be at 6:30.
- The Crystal Theatre begins showing Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma, that's at 7pm, plus a captioned option tomorrow at 5.
- The third annual Roaring Fork Valley Backcountry Symposium is ongoing at TACAW, running til 8pm this evening
- The Carbondale Education Foundation's Oktoberfest celebration runs from Noon til 10pm tonight at the park across from Peppino's & Beer Works. Hazel Kuhn plays from Noon to 1, Rock & Roll Academy youth musicians from 1:30 to 2:30, Anthony Peebles from 3 to 5, Sweet Jessup & The Dirty Buckets from 5:30 to 7:30, and Typical Ghost from 8 to 10.
- Over in Paonia, the first-ever Porch Fest provides music all across the town til 9:30 this evening
- And Kohanna & Evelyn Roper take the stage at Steve's Guitars tonight at 8
And here's just a couple things happening Sunday…
- Mountain Valley Developmental Services puts on a 2nd day of Beginner Weaving Class, that's from 9 to 5 tomorrow
- And the Pitkin County Library presents a discussion on the Joys and Challenges of Pursuing an Education in Kenya, that's tomorrow at 5pm
Keep your community in the loop about events and programming ideas by emailing calendar@kdnk.org. Check KDNK's app or website for our coverage on the upcoming elections, and once you've got yourself informed, go talk to someone else about their thoughts on all the different ballot issues, so you can both have a Discussive Saturday