Coming in October: Denver Arts Week

I'm going to be traveling for a good part of October, and I'm kind of bummed, because I'll be away for the first annual Denver Arts Week. I don't know whether anyone has counted up the individual events, but the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau cultural census has tallied more than a dozen museums, 40 performing arts groups, six neighborhood arts districts and 100 art galleries. Here are some events that I already regret having to miss:

Friday, October 5 - Super First Friday Art Walks in RiNo, ArtsDistrict on Santa Fe, Golden Triangle Museum District, Tennyson and Cherry Creek North, the half-dozen arts districts the DMCVB has identified. What makes it more "super" than a regular First Friday Art Walk? For one thing, the ArtsDistrict on Santa Fe will have live music all weekend with street performers, a drum circle, fire dancers and wine/beer tents.

Friday, October 5 - Colorado’s GALA Choruses' "Everything Possible" at Montview Presbyterian Church, 1980 Dahlia Street, Denver. The concert will start at 8:00 p.m. and feature the Denver Gay Men’s Chorus, Denver Women’s Chorus, Harmony: A Colorado Chorale, Out Loud: Colorado Springs Men’s Chorus, Resonance Women’s Chorus of Boulder, Sine Nomine and Sound Circle. Tickets are $20. For sales locations, click on website or call 866-464-2626.

October 5-7 - Tickets the Colorado Ballet ("Le Corsaire") and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra ("Magnificent Mendelssohn II") are $52.80 for two. They're not cheap seats either.

There are all sorts of other special events, some free. You can find them on website with a full calendar, but the ones I've mentioned are the ones I would have been most likely to attend.

I know that I will also be missing the October 5 first look at the Denver Art Museum's "Artisans & Kings: Selected Treasures from the Louvre," but it will be around until January 6, so I figure there's time to catch that.