SOLI Chamber Music Ensemble

Earlier this month, SOLI Chamber Ensemble performed among the art of Personal Paradise in the FAC's El Pomar Gallery. The concert was part of the UCCS Contemporary Music Concert Series. Watch video from the performance here:

'Heart and Music' video from the Denver Post

The Denver Post recently posted this video podcast on a benefit concert held at the FAC in August. Heart and Music, organized by actor Natalie Jensen, raised over $5,000 for the Susan G. Komen breast-cancer foundation and the Pikes Peak Region Peace Officers' Memorial.

Heart & Music Benefit - Behind the Scenes from Ray Bailey on Vimeo.

Whimsical wedding at the FAC

Ever wonder what a wedding would look like at the Fine Arts Center? Well, a great wedding took place at the FAC recently and we've got the photos to prove it. Check out this whimsical wedding at Style Me Pretty, the ultimate wedding blog.

Success of the Springs video

Klayton Kendall from Springs Culture Cast interviews some of the talented people behind the Colorado Springs Dance Theatre's Success of the Springs, held right here at our very own Fine Arts Center's SaGāJi Theatre.

KRCC: Springs art scene at a tipping point

The FAC’s Tariana Navas-Nieves participated in a panel for the “Incubator” series at the UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art on April 12. KRCC’s Noel Black was there, and he filed this report. Has Colorado Springs reached a tipping point? The FAC and the Extremely Grand Opening in August were mentioned as catalysts to move the arts scene forward in the right direction. “That’s what I’m hoping that the Fine Arts Center will really become a synonym or symbolic of a new era, a new renaissance in the arts in the Colorado Springs area,” said Navas-Nieves.
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KRCC is having their annual open house this Saturday and Sunday from 1-3 p.m. at the station at 912 N. Weber. They’ll have BBQ, bands and a bounce-house and it’s all free.

Would you like the combo?

On April 5, the Fine Arts Center is offering a special package deal – $5 off – for patrons attending both the First Thursday wine tasting and the Thursday evening production of The Complete History of America (Abridged), which opens this Friday and presents an American history lesson in land speed record time. Three cultural guerillas will take you on a hilarious 90-minute rollercoaster ride. Read more about ‘Complete History.’

Watch Waters at Work

FAC Extremely Grand Opening guest and iconoclastic film director John Waters is the host of Court TV's 'Til Death Do Us Part, a "humorous look at marriages gone very wrong." Very wrong indeed. Each case examines a doomed marriage in which one spouse murders the other. “I’ve always been jealous of Vincent Price’s career,” said Waters, “Maybe now that he’s dead, I can hijack it.” Read more about John Waters.