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From: 09/20/2008 to 01/25/2009
Designing Women of Postwar Britain: Their Art and the Modern Interior is an exhibition of works by three influential female artists, which will be displayed in the Fine Arts Center's El Pomar Gallery.
Celebrate this stunning exhibition of bold designs that revolutionized home interiors in postwar Britain!
The art of textile design radically changed after World War II. Three women artists working in England in the 1950s were pivotal in this artistic revolution. The drab days of the War were suddenly washed with the light of the fresh, progressive designs by Lucienne Day, Marian Mahler and Jacqueline Groag.
Original artist designs with bold abstract patterns, inspired by Modern artists like Alexander Calder and Joan Miró, as well as the use of dramatic saturated color marked a dramatic departure from England's conventional notions of interior fabric design. Designing Women showcases the stunning geometric and abstract designs of the three leaders with furnishing fabrics, hand-towels, and dishware in varied sizes and colors.
Day changed the direction of furnishing fabrics with her 1951 design, Calyx. The revolutionary design, introduced at the Festival of Britain, captured the spirit of the era and subsequently received the coveted International Design Award of the American Institute of Decorators.
September 20, 2008 - January 25, 2009
Fine Arts Center
30 West Dale Street
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
For more information, please call 719.634.5583 or visit http://www.csfineartscenter.org/.
From: 10/01/2008 to 10/01/2008
Hailed the world over as one of the best-loved family musicals of all time, Oliver brings to the stage some of Charles Dicken's most unforgettable characters along with one of Broadway's most memorable scores.
Hits such as "Consider Yourself At Home," "Food, Glorious Food" and "Where Is Love" surround this tale of the young orphan Oliver Twist in this all new production of Lional Bart's magical musical.
Pikes Peak Center
190 South Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Wednesday, October 1 - 7:30pm
For more information, please visit http://www.pikespeakcenter.org/.
From: 10/03/2008 to 10/03/2008
The sensational "EPIC" collection of new large-scale works will be displayed for the first time in the Laura Reilly Gallery in Old Colorado City, Friday October 3, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Reilly's cozy Westside gallery will barely contain her large impressionist oil paintings of urban night scenes, golden aspens and colorful mountain settings.
Come meet the artist, enjoy refreshments and see this fabulous new collection! Located in Old Colorado City-next to Jake & Telly's Restaurant
Friday, October 3 - 11am - 8pm
2616 W. Colorado Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80904
For more information, please call 719.471.1360.
From: 10/05/2008 to 10/05/2008
The World Arena is proud to announce the 2008 World Tour of Gymnastics Superstars - a gymnastics extravaganza that launches this September immediately following the Beijing Summer Games.
World Arena
3185 Venetucci Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
Sunday, October 5 - 6pm
For more information, please visit http://www.worldarena.com/.
From: 10/30/2008 to 10/30/2008
ZZ Top plays red-hot Texas boogie and blues, and no one does it better - or has done it longer - than this "little ol' band from Texas."
The trio's enduring appeal owes much to their mastery of and feel for rootsy forms. Guitarist Billy Gibbons, bassist Dusty Hill and drummer Frank Beard were influenced by such blues masters as Freddie King, Lightnin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. From the beginning they took a hard-rocking power-trio approach to the blues, cultivating a new audience for it in the Seventies and Eighties with superior musicianship as well as attitude, style and some devilishly funny songs.
The genius of ZZ Top is that they're reverential about the blues but loose and funny about the subject matter of their songs. Their songs are laden with pop-culture references, sexual double entendres and the determined pursuit of a good time. They have written about fast cars, fishnet stockings, sharp clothes, TV dinners, cheap sunglasses and "tush." They visually connected with the MTV generation by virtue of Hill's and Gibbons' long beards and fur-lined guitars. For many, ZZ Top have been the premiere party band on the planet.
Pikes Peak Center
190 South Cascade Avenue
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Thursday, October 30 - 8pm
For more information, please visit http://www.pikespeakcenter.org/.
Pikes Peak Center
