Arts & Culture

Expect a lively, original production of Macbeth – and a haunting one – in the newly renovated Space Theatre at the Denver Center.

Axis Mundi: Environmental Melancholia, Collective Social Mania and Biophilia, a complicated three-part group exhibition facilitated and mounted by artist Regan Rosburg and PlatteForum, follows the convoluted paths of modern ecopsychology through layers of art, science and our delicate symbiosis with nature.

Big events collide in a beautiful way this weekend in Denver, importing an international presence for the Biennial of the Americas, along with a hardworking community of street artists descending on Rino to paint murals for Crush 2017. In keeping, local galleries and businesses are getting in step with satellite exhibits and events — and then there’s a nice chunk of the regular stuff.

Norbeto “Beto” Mojardin is ready for Denver’s art community to know his name. While he has always been an artist, it was only in the last decade that Mojardin earned enough income from his hair salon to practice his art through fashion. And what makes Mojardin’s art unusual is that his wearable fashion is made of corn.

When New York yoga teacher Jeannene Orofino moved to Denver and made Stapleton her home six years ago, the mother of two was attracted to the neighborhood’s health and wellness-oriented culture. As she began settling in, however, she started wondering why Founder’s Green Park, the sprawling public space near her home where farmers markets and other events took place, didn’t host an outdoor yoga festival.

With the world’s current natural and unnatural disasters, the environment is increasingly on the minds of many, and Water Line and Propagate demonstrate that these artists are in that group, too.

The Denver Film Festival, one of the nation’s leading festivals, has announced its dates for its fortieth edition.

Wade Gardner has been running the DocuWest Film Festival on a shoestring budget since 2008. For the past few years, the bootstrapping filmmaker, programmer and activist rented space in the Sie FilmCenter so that he could bring cutting-edge documentaries to the region. Not anymore.