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Featured Events

One Year Later: Reflections and Resiliency - Apr 10

Friends of Colorado Chautauqua and CU Boulder’s Center for Humanities & the Arts invite you to an in-person event where resiliency through the creation of art is showcased as a response to gun violence in our local community. Featuring the CHA’s Humanities @ Home competition winners and community members.

Come listen panelists discuss their art, their process, and how the act of creating has helped each of them reflect upon the March 22 Boulder Shooting at the Table Mesa King Soopers. With Opening Remarks from Phil DiStefano (CU, Chancellor). Information and tickets at the Center for Humanities & the Arts web page.

Boulder Strong Museum Exhibit: Feb 18 - Apr 10

March 22, 2022 sadly marks the first anniversary of the ten lives lost in the King Soopers tragedy. In response, the Museum of Boulder offers a new exhibit as a place to reflect how our community came together in the aftermath and on how we have all changed in the year since.

A series of collaborative portraits made by Ross Taylor, an assistant professor at the CU Boulder, will be displayed. SoBo Rising will also be showcasing portrait photos taken during the Sidewalk Social.

"Uplift" film shoot, performance, and participatory flight: Mar 31

Ready for an uplift? Come watch art unfold in myriad forms - the making of a film, a music & dance performance -- and then don a pair of wings to feel the uplift! Brought to you by Creativity Alive, a multi-disciplinary community arts organization.

See www.CreativityAlive.org for details, to RSVP, and to sign up to receive direct invites to future events. The website also has information on their Sound Journeys (remaining dates: Apr 4 & 18) and Creativity Coming Alives (remaining dates: Apr 14 & 28).

Boulder Strong Drum Circles: Jan 20 - Apr 3

Join us to play music together to support & affirm our Boulder Strong Community! This South Boulder program runs for 8 weeks and is free, facilitated with an evidence-based, group-music-making protocol to support health/wellness and community, and supported by the Community Foundation and Boulder County Arts Alliance.

Tickets are free, but registration is required.

Past Events

City of Boulder Remembrance: Tue Mar 22

  • 2pm - Line of Duty Death commemoration at the Boulder Police Department

  • 2:30pm - Moment of silence wherever you are

  • 4:30-6pm - Community-wide Day of Remembrance gathering at the Glen Huntington Bandshell

  • More details in the city Media Advisory

Avita Yoga with Meditation: Tue Mar 22

Let's Heal Together. In memory of the King Soopers tragedy and Marshal Fire Yoga Loft invites you to an Avita Yoga moving meditation with Jeff Bailey, Tue Mar 22 6:00-7:15pm. The last fifteen minutes will be a meditation about loss.

Join the yoga, meditation, or both. To register visit www.yogaloftboulder.com/events or call 720-612-4321.

Healing Yoga at Harlow Platts: Tue Mar 22

Bring your mat to the shelter at Harlow Platts Community Park for a yoga class in honor of the lives lost on the anniversary of the King Soopers tragedy. This will be a safe space for gentle, trauma-sensitive yoga led by certified yoga instructor and local Moms Demand Action leader, Lake North, RYT-200.

The class is scheduled for 12-1pm on Tue Mar 22. Inclement weather location is Boulder Mennonite Church. See here for more details and maps.

Inspire Creativity and Build Community: Feb 24 - Mar 22

Creativity Alive, a multi-disciplinary community arts organization, is bringing a series of free events to South Boulder designed to "Inspire Creativity and Build Community." These include a sound journey series, a participatory improvisational music, movement, and art-making series, and a big dance with live Brazilian music to celebrate Carnaval. Please come and connect/re-connect and rejuvenate!

See www.CreativityAlive.org for details, to RSVP, and to sign on to receive direct invites to future events.

Remembrance Run from Runners Roost: Sun Mar 20

As our community is slowly healing from the tragedy on that day, we will be holding a remembrance run celebrating the lives of Tralona, Suzanne, Teri, Kevin, Lynn, Rikki, Neven, Denny, Eric, and Jody.

Join us at Runners Roost Boulder, on Sun Mar 20th, at 2:30pm for a free 10K run or walk (1K to remember each victim) to NCAR and back. See their Facebook page for details and how to participate virtually.

DRAW IN: Healing with Neurographics: Jan 18 - Mar 15, 2022

A freeform drawing workshop as a fun way to address issues that are disturbing you, keeping you from thriving, and interrupting joy. by Cheryl Walker Artist/Parent Engagement Network. Fairview High School Library. Register for one of the weekly classes between January 18 and March 15.

The library entrance is tricky, so please consult this map before you go.

eTown Watch Party- Chuck Morris + AEG Present Marshall Fire Benefit Concert: Feb 28, 2022

Nick Forster is hosting a virtual fundraiser for those who suffered incalculable losses during the Marshall Fire. eTown will host a watch party of the Marshall Fire Benefit Concert virtual event at eTown Hall on Monday night. Stop by and see the whole thing on a big screen with eTown’s legendary sound system.

Tickets are $10 and all proceeds go to the Community Foundation’s Fire Fund. If you’ve been directly affected by the Marshall Fire, admission is free to both the watch party and the streamed event. Tickets and more info here.

SoBo Sidewalk Social - Sunday Sept 19, 2021

A local, uplifting festival for South Boulder that we hope can bring small moments of joy to our neighbors as they stroll through the Table Mesa shopping center. See our #SidewalkSocial page for details.


Flower Splash - Jun 21/23/24/27, 2021

Help the City of Boulder's Public Art Program with a special art installation at the newly reconfigured King Soopers fence. A flower wave installation will be temporarily installed on a roughly 60’ stretch of the fence. They will then invite the public to naturally ‘dissolve’ the installation by taking a flower and passing it along. Volunteers can sign up here.

Memorial Fence Retirement - Jun 1-4, 2021

Work with the Museum of Boulder and the City of Boulder to gently take down and preserve the King Sooper Memorial Fence. Join SoBo Rising to receive volunteering details or contact Chelsea Pennington Hahn at the museum.

  • Remove tribute items from the fence

  • Sort items into basic categories

  • Transport boxes of items to storage location

  • Sort material for composting and recycling