Adult Ballet Barre Class with Valerie Madonia
Wednesdays | 5:30–6:30 PM | November 5, and 12, 2025

Join renowned dancer and instructor Valerie Madonia for a graceful and energizing ballet barre class designed for adults of all levels.

Baby-Wearing Ballet Barre
FREE – Tips encouraged
Tuesdays | 8:45–9:30 AM | November 4, 11, 18

Bring your little one with you as you move, strengthen, and connect. This unique barre class allows caregivers to wear their babies in supportive carrier while enjoying a ballet-inspired workout. Gentle barre exercises focus on leg and core strength, balance, and rhythm—all adapted to be low-impact and baby-friendly. Set to classical music, the class nurtures both body and spirit, offering a chance to bond with your child while meeting other caregivers in a welcoming community.

No prior ballet experience required—just a secure carrier and comfortable clothing. Expecting parents welcome too! 

Adult Ballet Barre Class with Valerie Madonia
Wednesdays | 5:30–6:30 PM | October 29 & November 5, 12, 2025

Join renowned dancer and instructor Valerie Madonia for a graceful and energizing ballet barre class designed for adults of all levels.

Baby-Wearing Ballet Barre
FREE – Tips encouraged
Tuesdays | 8:45–9:30 AM | October 28 & November 4, 11, 18

Bring your little one with you as you move, strengthen, and connect. This unique barre class allows caregivers to wear their babies in supportive carrier while enjoying a ballet-inspired workout. Gentle barre exercises focus on leg and core strength, balance, and rhythm—all adapted to be low-impact and baby-friendly. Set to classical music, the class nurtures both body and spirit, offering a chance to bond with your child while meeting other caregivers in a welcoming community.

No prior ballet experience required—just a secure carrier and comfortable clothing. Expecting parents welcome too! 

Private Event - Invitation Only for Attendance

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Adult Ballet Barre Class with Valerie Madonia
Wednesdays | 5:30–6:30 PM | October 22, 29 & November 5, 12, 2025

Join renowned dancer and instructor Valerie Madonia for a graceful and energizing ballet barre class designed for adults of all levels.

Baby-Wearing Ballet Barre
FREE – Tips encouraged
Tuesdays | 8:45–9:30 AM | October 21, 28 & November 4, 11, 18

Bring your little one with you as you move, strengthen, and connect. This unique barre class allows caregivers to wear their babies in supportive carrier while enjoying a ballet-inspired workout. Gentle barre exercises focus on leg and core strength, balance, and rhythm—all adapted to be low-impact and baby-friendly. Set to classical music, the class nurtures both body and spirit, offering a chance to bond with your child while meeting other caregivers in a welcoming community.

No prior ballet experience required—just a secure carrier and comfortable clothing. Expecting parents welcome too! 

Baby-Wearing Ballet Barre
FREE – Tips encouraged
Tuesdays | 8:45–9:30 AM | October 14, 21, 28 & November 4, 11, 18

Bring your little one with you as you move, strengthen, and connect. This unique barre class allows caregivers to wear their babies in supportive carrier while enjoying a ballet-inspired workout. Gentle barre exercises focus on leg and core strength, balance, and rhythm—all adapted to be low-impact and baby-friendly. Set to classical music, the class nurtures both body and spirit, offering a chance to bond with your child while meeting other caregivers in a welcoming community.

No prior ballet experience required—just a secure carrier and comfortable clothing. Expecting parents welcome too! 

Talking Gourds winds up its Artwalk collaboration with Telluride Arts with musician Kyle Harvey of Fruita, San Miguel County Poet Laureate Paulo Munguía of Montrose and Talking Gourds Director Art Goodtimes at the Telluride Arts headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 2nd, at 6 pm.

Harvey recently played Stories & Poems Norwood last month. He works for Lithic Press and Bookstore/Gallery and is a published poet as well as a musician and graphic designer.

Munguía has been performing in Spanish and English and will have some new work to share. He and Kyle both appeared in August at the MycoLicious MycoLuscious MycoLogical Poetry Show at the Sheridan Opera House during the Telluride Mushroom Festival.

Goodtimes recently read online for an international virtual session upon the publication of a new anthology he appears in from the San Francisco-based Revolutionary Poets Brigade – Riders of the Storm (Kallatumba Press, 2025). He also has a poem about Dolores LaChapelle in Western Colorado Voices (Western Colorado Writers Forum, 2025).

The Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program has teamed up with Telluride Arts to offer live poetry on Artwalk Thursdays in Telluride for the summer and fall. Performances began June 5th at the Telluride Arts Headquarters on 135 W. Pacific St. and have continued through the summer.

This series of three presentations will continue on first Thursdays at least through October. Then Talking Gourds is planning to transition the event to Stories & Poems Telluride, hopefully on the same day each month, first Thursdays – bringing monthly live poetry back to Telluride on a consistent basis post-Covid. Instead of three featured presenters, there will be just one, and the one featured will give a 30-40 min. presentation followed by a passing of the gourd, giving audience members a chance to tell a story or share a poem or song.

Telluride Artwalk Poetry is free and open to all ages, thanks to the generosity of Telluride Arts, a Town of Telluride CCAASE grant, private donors and Talking Gourds’ Fischer and Cantor poetry contests.

Join us on October 2, 2025 for the final Art Walk of the season. It will be an evening filled with inspiring exhibits, engaging receptions, and the chance to meet local and visiting artists.

From 5–8 pm, participating venues will open their doors, showcasing new collections and inviting art lovers to explore the vibrant gallery scene.

Get more information here.