Homegrown Fort Collins
September 25-October 4, 2009
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Homegrown Fort Collins celebrates the harvest season and its contribution to community and local culture. With partnerships from local farms, educators, and business owners, this week long event offered restaurant progressive tours, cooking classes, a special edition Science Café, and even a chef’s competition using all local ingredients. |
A Fort Collins Jazz Experience
July 7-9, 2009
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Ramsey Lewis Trio and Al Jarreau, two talented and legendary jazz acts, headlined the second annual Fort Collins Jazz Experience. These two performances were part of a weekend long celebration of jazz music in our community.
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Imagination Fair
June 5-6, 2009
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Beet Street’s Imagination Fair brought a glimpse into the rising merge of science, art and music, to inspire the imagination and creative enterprise within the northern Colorado community. Local musicians, performers, and educational groups displayed their work, and Laurie Anderson capped off the fair with a headlining performance.
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Thought Leaders Series
Jeanette Walls: The Glass Castle
May 18, 2009
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E! television correspondent and popular New York Magazine columnist Jeannette Walls made her living spreading celebrity gossip. In her best-selling memoir The Glass Castle, Walls shares her own dirty laundry describing a childhood of hunger, love, homelessness and chaos theory. |
Thought Leaders
Christine Comaford
February 4, 2009
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The New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is CEO of Mighty Ventures, an innovation accelerator that helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. |
Thought Leaders
Jean-Michel Cousteau
January 13, 2009
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For more than four decades, explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer Jean-Michel Cousteau has used his vast experience to communicate to people of all nations and generations his love and concern for our water planet.
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How to Write a Hit Musical
Faye Greenberg, Walt Jones, David Wohl
December 13, 2008
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Beet Street brought together three experts in the theatre and music industry to share their experiences and advise. The speakers covered a variety of topics in this mini-instructional, including the writing process and navigating the commercial aspects of production.
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Thought Leaders
Morgan Spurlock
December 2, 2008
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The Thought Leaders series brought interesting and relevant speakers to Fort Collins for thought provoking lectures. Morgan Spurlock is an award-winning writer, director, and producer, best known for the documentary film Super Size Me and as the author of Don’t Eat this Book.
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An Afternoon in Space: Youth Orchestra of the Rockies
November 9, 2008
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Beet Street hosted Spend an Afternoon in Space, featuring a big screen presentation of images from the universe taken by NASA, personal accounts from astronauts and scientists, all set to live music performed by the Youth Orchestra of the Rockies. Afterwards, a special screening of the award-winning In the Shadow of the Moon was presented, introduced by Fort Collins’ own astronaut Ron Sega and chief scientist Bob Phillips.
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Peace Corps and Friends: A Celebration
August 22-24, 2008
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Returned Peace Corps volunteers from around the country along with members of the global community participated in this conference, which included inspired talks with international keynotes, an opportunity for new and renewed friendships, a concert for peace with Cadillac Sky and the Kingston Trio, unique area tours, and much more.
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A Fort Collins Jazz Experience
Wynton Marsalis
July 12, 2008
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A Fort Collins Jazz Experience, presented by the Downtown Business Association and featuring Beet Street as a collaborator, brought to fruition years of grassroots volunteer work by jazz aficionados in our community. Beet Street hosted a concert from Wynton Marsalis, who performed to a sold out audience.
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Social Media
April 22-26, 2008
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For this program, Beet Street invited the community to participate in various forms of oral, written, electronic and Internet-inspired communication, and to consider the impact of the new forms of social media on our lives and legacies. Events included a social media exhibit at the Gallery Underground, Story Corps and The Buried Life participation, an interactive blog, and a lecture and book signing by PostSecret founder Frank Warren.
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Life on a Shoestring
February 19-March 22, 2008
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Life on a Shoestring: Perspectives on Stepping Out of Poverty was a month-long series of presentations, community discussions, and perspectives to help advance a community dialog on the issue of poverty in Fort Collins/Northern Colorado. Highlights included a keynote lunch presentation by author Barbara Ehrenreich, an evening discussion on the best practices of other communities by author/trainer Phil DeVol, and the long-awaited production of Nickel & Dimed by OpenStage Theatre & Company.
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Beet Street Launch
September 17, 2007
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Over 700 people attended this outdoor event in Civic Center Park to kick off the start of Beet Street. The event featured a blessing from Lakota spiritual leader David Swallow, dancing by the Falé West African Drum and Dance Group, a talk by author John Villani, and music from Grammy Award winner Arturo Sandoval.
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