Here's your community calendar for Thursday, October 1st, underwritten by Basalt Regional Library, now accepting donations of gently used clothing and accessories through October 15, with early donors receiving a ticket for exclusive first access to the Clothing Swap taking place on October 17. More info at basalt library dot org
Welcome to October and the final quarter of 2026! This year has been flying by, partly because of all the great things to keep you busy in the KDNK listener area…
- The Pitkin County Library's Girls Who Code group meets today from 4 to 6
- CMC's Lappala Center in Carbondale holds an opening reception for the cultural history collection titled Paperboy Omnibus, that's at 5 this afternoon.
- The Basalt Library plugs in for a Modular Synthesizer workshop at 5:30 today
- Also at 5:30, Freight Leadville holds a non-denominational blessing of the animals
- Leadville City Council meets at 6pm at City Hall
- The Threshold Choir sings in the True Nature Kiva, that's at 6 as well.
- Also at 6pm, Townline Trucks puts on their weekly Bluegrass Jam
- The Carbondale Library's Spanish Conversation Club gets together at 6:30
- New Castle's Town Council holds their meeting at 7 at Town Hall
- The Wheeler Opera House presents an evening with Tom Rush, accompanied by Brendan Cleary, that starts at 7 this evening
- The Crystal Theatre puts the top down for a one-time showing of 90s classic Thelma & Louise, that's also at 7pm
- And Pink Talking Fish returns to Belly Up Aspen, doors open at 8pm tonight
Potato Day Weekend kicks off on First Friday, and we'll have the full schedule for you tomorrow, but for now here's just a few things to plan for…
- The Carbondale Library holds a Sketch, Paint, Play workshop tomorrow at 1pm
- Carbondale Arts begins their next pairing of exhibits at the Launchpad tomorrow, with doors open at 10am and an opening reception from 5 to 7 for First Friday
- And a guided Fall Sculpture walk starts at 5:30 tomorrow at Carbondale Town Hall
Keep your community in the loop about events and programming ideas by emailing calendar@kdnk.org. The new KDNK app is just sitting there waiting for you to download it, grab it right now at the Apple or Google Play stores! Dance with everything you've got today while you're listening to KDNK, and have a Hip-Thrusting Thursday