Enjoy a week of art and culture: International Film Series, Lowrider Exhibition and Coloring Book for Adults

The International Film Series will celebrate its 75^th anniversary this season at CU Boulder with a few exciting changes and additions. The previously used week-by-week calendar was replaced with a show-by-show basis, which will focus on each feature individually. This allows audiences to delve more deeply into the features with additions to the program like “C.U. at the Movies”, where faculty members from departments around the Boulder campus will both select and introduce films. Executive Director Pablo Kjolseth has  run the program for almost 20 years in his effort to get people interested in the art of film.

“It’s programmed from a place of serving the community, and sort of a place of passion, and wanting to bring things that are off the beaten track,” he says. One film Kjolseth mentions that has garnered national attention is “Under the Sun,” a no-holds-barred documentary about the hardships of living in North Korea, which will be shown in the Munzinger Auditorium on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. $8 general admission, $7 with student ID.

Cruise down the road a bit to the Longmont Museum on Sept. 17, and you’ll be able to catch the opening of the lowrider exhibition, celebrating and showcasing local Hispanic culture. This unique exhibition (the first of its kind in the state) will feature 100 tricked out cars, and donated clothes from popular eras in lowrider culture.

“Longmont has a long history of lowrider culture — Main Street used to be the place for cruising — and we’ve historically had car shows here that happen annually,” explains the museum’s Marketing Director, Joan Harrold.  Saturday’s free event is from noon to 4 p.m. and there will be live music and food and drinks. The exhibition runs through May 14, 2017.

Longmont has no shortage of interesting artists and exhibitions. Bradley Books, a previously homeless man who has dealt with mental illness for years, has been featured in almost a dozen art shows, ranging from paintings to presentations.

He says of his work, “I operate in sort of general anxiety, almost like it comforts me. And then I piece all the experience and all the anxiety together in someway and turn it into a poem or a painting or a drawing.”

He currently has a selection of paintings on display at the First Lutheran Church. On Sept. 21 he will hold a launch party for the release of his first coloring book, “B. Rad Coloring Book 1,” at Magic Fairy Candles where it will also be available for sale.