Salida Chamber Calendar

The Chaffee County Community Foundation is excited to announce the 2024 Community Summit for nonprofit professionals and community leaders on April 30 at the Chaffee County Fairgrounds. This year's theme is Building Bridges - Strengthening Community Connections. This full day event includes sessions on a variety of topics critical to nonprofit success such as fundraising, nonprofit management, setting your board up for success, volunteer engagement and more. Keynote Speaker, Denise Ackert, will lead us through sessions that will challenge us to increase our community impact. In the afternoon, we will welcome panels from local business owners and funders to explore creating strong partnerships and aligning funder priorities. Visit our website for the full agenda and register today: https://www.chaffeecommunity.org/summit.

Come out for Queer Happy Hour at Tres Litros Beer Co!

Join Salida Mountain Trails and Soulcraft Brewing on Thursday, May 2nd for their Spring Kickoff Party from 5-8pm.  Renew your membership, pick up fresh SMT swag, and celebrate Salida's trails! Bring your friends, and meet new ones. Door prizes: You could win cool stuff just by showing up! This event is FREE and open to the public.

Under the animated direction of Linda Taylor, the chorus will perform a wide variety of music that reflects the theme of making space for opportunities in our busy lives: allowing ourselves to make U-turns when things don’t work out, being brave enough to embrace the unknown and loving life enough to explore the mysteries before us. The show will feature guest instrumentalists: Oso Blanco, drums; Yufen Chou, violin; Kathleen Chiras, electric bass; and Brenda Covert, flute Performances:  Friday, May 3, 7:00pm, Clearview Community Church, Buena Vista Saturday, May 4, 7:00pm and Sunday, May 5, 3:00pm, SteamPlant Event Center, Salida Please join us for our spring concert series. The Noteables’ productions are so much more than concerts, including theater, humor and audience participation. Don’t be shy. You’ll love them! This is an opportunity to Make Space For Life To Live! Suggested donation is $15 to help pay for the cost of music and publicity. For more information, call Linda Taylor, 719 539-2428. Tax deductible contributions are appreciated. Visit www.salidasings.org

Come out for FREE live music with Groovespeak at Tres Litros

Save May 4 as the date for the 2024 E-Waste Event at the Chaffee County Fairgrounds! Thank you to our sponsors of this event: City of Salida, Collegiate Peaks Bank, a division of Glacier Bankcorp Inc., Chaffee County, and  Lifestream Water Systems .  

Come on down for deals and special events all day long!

Attention all Jedi, Sith, and galactic enthusiasts! Salida Regional Library is thrilled to announce the "May The Fourth Be With You Film Festival" at 2 pm on May 4th at High Side Bar & Grill. This year, we ask individuals, businesses, and organizations to create their own TikTok or YouTube Star Wars 15-60 second training video showcasing their unique work or home galaxy. Competing for the title of the galaxy's best with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place trophies is a great way to connect with the community and get your message out. Examples from last year. Light Saber Hacks, Equal Representation Whether you're a Padawan mastering the Force or a seasoned Jedi Knight, this is a chance to share your message with our community using a Star Wars twist. Even if you don't make a film, gather your droids and join us to watch the film submissions, make fun crafts, get temporary tattoos, and hang out at High Side! May the Force guide you to victory!

Come out for FREE live music with Big Horn with Fuzzy Nuggets & A Butter Way at Tres Litros

Under the animated direction of Linda Taylor, the chorus will perform a wide variety of music that reflects the theme of making space for opportunities in our busy lives: allowing ourselves to make U-turns when things don’t work out, being brave enough to embrace the unknown and loving life enough to explore the mysteries before us. The show will feature guest instrumentalists: Oso Blanco, drums; Yufen Chou, violin; Kathleen Chiras, electric bass; and Brenda Covert, flute Performances:  Friday, May 3, 7:00pm, Clearview Community Church, Buena Vista Saturday, May 4, 7:00pm and Sunday, May 5, 3:00pm, SteamPlant Event Center, Salida Please join us for our spring concert series. The Noteables’ productions are so much more than concerts, including theater, humor and audience participation. Don’t be shy. You’ll love them! This is an opportunity to Make Space For Life To Live! Suggested donation is $15 to help pay for the cost of music and publicity. For more information, call Linda Taylor, 719 539-2428. Tax deductible contributions are appreciated. Visit www.salidasings.org

On Sunday, May 5th, 2024, Cinco de Mayo, Bradfield/Ramsey Real Estate Team with Kellar Williams will be hosting a Red Day Food Drive at Tres Litros Beer Co. from 4-7pm. Bring five pounds of food in exchange for a token to receive a free beer or taco! The donated food will be going to The Grainery. Peak to Peak Pickleball will also be supporting this event.

¡Radio Free Bassanda! is performing at A Church, on Sunday May 5th. A Church is located on 419 D. Street Salida, CO Doors open 6:30 Music 7:00 Globally renowned ¡Radio Free Bassanda! returns to the Arkansas Valley! They bring their eclectic mix of exotic Eastern rhythms and dizzying melodic frenzy. Music from Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Macedonian, Persia, Armenia, North Africa, and Medieval Spain, all delivered with RFB’s trademark take-no-prisoners approach. ¡Radio Free Bassanda! presents a wide-and wild repertoire and range of instrumentation to their performances. Their use of both Eastern and Western instruments affords them a broad timbral palette with which to weave their sound landscape. Energetic and complex rhythms challenge the mind, ear and feet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5asVYrTT00  (a brief and wonderful intro to RFB) Event Website: www.facebook.com/ClarkProductions Venue Website:www.achurchsalida.org Advance Ticket Sales ¡Radio Free Bassanda! | ACHURCH achurchsalida.org) $25 in adv $30 at door

Cost: FREE! Time: 2pm-4:30pm Location: The Stardust Event Center- 16450 CR 306 Buena Vista

Director: Cord Jefferson Opening Night Film – Sponsored by Colorado Office of Film Television Media Salida SteamPlant 7:00pm - Thursday, May 9 Thelonious “Monk” Ellison’s writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world’s hypocrisies. The book’s immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews. Film is Rated R. Winner of the 2024 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The Chaffee County “We Are Chaffee” storytelling initiative has been developing a community-focused documentary for the past year and is hosting two film premieres and several free showings throughout the county this summer and fall. The dates for the premieres of “A Home in Paradise” have been set for Friday May 10th as part of the Salida Film Festival and will include a panel discussion with the people who share their stories in the film, the directors and producers, and local experts on housing and health. Join us after the premiere for an upscale social with appetizers & desserts by Kalamatapit & a cash bar. Take your turn on the red carpet & photo booth. ~ Red Carpet Attire Encouraged ~ Music provided by the local musicians who created the music for the film. Tickets can be purchased at the Salida SteamPlant website, April 22nd. The second premiere date is Wednesday, June 5th at the Salida SteamPlant and will be a free community event with only registration required. After the movie showing, We Are Chaffee will host a complimentary dinner and facilitated community discussion. Read the press release here!

Come out for FREE live music with Harry Mo & The Colorado Reggae Unit at Tres Litros

Director: Ian Cheney Salida SteamPlant 7:45pm - Friday, May 10 THE ARC OF OBLIVION explores a quirk of humankind: in a universe that erases its tracks, we humans are hellbent on leaving a trace. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an art in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield – to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara – to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory. Film is Not Rated. Preceded by THE LOST SEASON (directed by Kelly Sears, filmmaker and CU-Boulder Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts professor), the film premiered at 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

TRUE STORIES Director: David Byrne Late Night Looks – Songs on Screen Salida SteamPlant 10:00pm - Friday, May 10 This Late Night Looks section of Salida Film Festival revisits a visual and musical gem. Talking Heads’ David Byrne uses a fictional Texas town as the backdrop to satirize the eccentricities of America in TRUE STORIES. Starring John Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz and Spalding Gray. Film is Rated PG.

THELMA Director: Josh Margolin 12:30pm - Saturday, May 11 Inspired by a real-life experience of filmmaker Josh Margolin’s own grandmother, THELMA shines a spotlight on an elderly grandmother as an unlikely action hero. The film features Oscar® nominee June Squibb (NEBRASKA) in her first leading role, as well as the final performance of trailblazing actor Richard Roundtree (SHAFT). Film is Rated PG-13.

Sponsored by GARNA, High Country Bank, Protect Our Winters, Salida Mountain Sports 3:00pm - Saturday, May 11 Salida SteamPlant A package of documentary shorts that will bring you outside and get you thinking about the individual forces that impact our lives. RIVER MAMMA (dir. Sarah Hamilton) – Ride along on a lifelong raft guide’s journey through single motherhood, bringing her 8-month-old to the only job she ever knew while grappling with societal expectations. BODY OF A LINE (dir. Henna Taylor) – In this animated documentary, Madeleine Sorkin undertakes an intimate and creative journey to climb the most difficult rock climb above 13,500 feet in the world: the Dunn-Westbay Direct on Longs Peak in Colorado. THE HYPOCRITE (dir. Amie Engerbretson) – A film that aims to squarely address imperfect advocacy in the world of snow sports. SVALBARD: FELT ESSENCE OF (dir. Alexandra Lockhart) – This choreographic expression filmed in Svalbard, Norway immerses us in the environment, in hopes of learning from and experiencing the essence of the place, and then respond. CLIMATARIUM: A RURAL EDUCATION ROADMAP (dir. Julie Jackson) – Discover three communities in rural Colorado coming together to solve the climate crisis, one student career pathway at a time.