Fine Arts Center

The Sound of Music
2019-12-15 14:00 - 17:00, 2019-12-12 19:30 - 22:30 (America/Denver) | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
When a postulant proves too high-spirited for the religious life, she’s dispatched to serve as governess for the seven children of a widowed naval Captain. Her growing rapport with the youngsters, coupled with her generosity of spirit, gradually captures the heart of the stern Captain, and they marry. Upon returning from their honeymoon, they discover that the Nazis have invaded Austria, and they demand the Captain’s immediate service in their navy. The family’s narrow escape over the mountains to Switzerland on the eve of World War II provides one of the most thrilling and inspirational finales ever presented in the theatre.

The Sound of Music: Backstage Tour
2019-12-26 22:30 - 23:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for a FREE guided backstage tour following the third Thursday performance.

Sound of Music Day Camps
2019-12-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Delight your young emerging artist in a magical holiday experience they won’t soon forget. Our Day Camps offer kids 6-13 a fun, educational adventure complete with a tour of the theatre, hands-on experiences with the set, a personal meet-and-greet with the cast members, and more! Cost is $30 per child (please bring a sack lunch if you are staying for the show). Performance tickets to The Sound of Music are additional.

Sunday Salon
2019-12-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
The FAC Theatre Company and Colorado College will host a conversation about themes emerging from the show following the Sunday, Dec. 29 matinee performance of The Sound of Music. This will be the third of several Sunday Salon discussions throughout the season, which allow additional engagement with the production through conversation with a member of the Colorado Springs community and a member of the Colorado College faculty. Our community and faculty co-hosts are Sally Lewis and Ryan Raul Bañagale.
Sally Lewis Hybl, BA, MPA (Actress, advocate, civic leader) A lifelong Colorado Springs resident, Sally calls the Fine Arts Center Theatre her theatre home. She has also appeared locally with Opera Theatre of the Rockies, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and UCCS Theatreworks earning such honors as Best Actress (PPAC), Readers Choice Best Actress Bronze (The Gazette), and nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Ovation Award) and Best Actress in a Play (CTG Henry Awards). An advocate for the arts, Sally is a recipient of the Theatreworks Community Art Award (CAW) and the Bee Vradenburg Foundation Art Champion award. She currently serves as a Trustee of Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation and the Tradition of Excellence Foundation.
Ryan Raul Bañagale is the Director of Performing Arts at Colorado College where he is also an Associate Professor of Music. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University and has published widely on the music of George Gershwin, including his book Arranging Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue and the Creation of an American Icon (Oxford University Press). He has composed scores for several theatrical productions, including the FAC productions of Enchanted April and Anna in the Tropics.
This Sunday Salon is free and open to all ticket holders (regardless of which performance of they attend during the run).

NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER
2019-12-31 17:30 - 22:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Bid 2019 adieu with an unforgettable five-course dining experience at TASTE!
This intimate dining experience is limited to 60 individuals and seated in tables of four. Make it a double date or leave it to fate and ring in the New Year with new friends!
$125 per person (includes tax and gratuity)
Space is limited, make your reservations early by calling (719) 634-5583

A cabaret featuring the company of The Sound of Music
2020-01-11 20:00 - 21:30 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join the company of The Sound of Music for an extra special cabaret evening, featuring songs NOT in The Sound of Music
Saturday, January 11, 2020
8 p.m.
Fine Arts Center’s Deco Lounge
Featuring Jerry McCauley on the Keys and Lauren Lukacek (Maria) and Trevor Martin (Captain von Trapp) as your Emcee’s
Suggested Donation: $10 at the door all to benefit the FAC Theatre School
Cash Bar

The Sound of Music: Talkback
2020-01-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
Join us for a FREE talkback session following the final Sunday performance.

Valentine's Day Lunch Special
2020-02-12 11:00 - 2020-02-14 14:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
3 days only – treat your valentine, a friend … yourself!
From February 12-14, Taste will be offering a special three course Valentine’s Day lunch.
For only $35 per person, guests will enjoy —
Course 1
Endive Salad with sesame tuilles, orange slices, and grapefruit lime vinaigrette
Course 2
Filet Mignon and Herbed Shrimp with potatoes au crème and roasted carrots
Course 3
Valrhona Chocolate Tart with cherry gastrique
PLUS – 2 for 1 Champagne Cocktails (Non-alcoholic sparkling cider available as an alternative)
Reservations recommended: (719) 634-5583
Open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Standard lunch menu will also be available.

The Bridges of Madison County
2020-02-13 19:30 - 21:30, 2020-02-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Fine Arts Center, 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
The Tony Award-Winning New Musical on stage Feb. 13-March 1. Francesca Johnson, a beautiful Italian woman who married an American soldier to flee war-ravaged Italy, looks forward to a rare four days alone on her Iowa farm when her family heads to the 1965 State Fair. When ruggedly handsome, National Geographic photographer, Robert Kincaid, pulls into her driveway seeking directions, though, what happens in those four days may very well alter the course of Francesca’s life.

POSTPONED: We Are All Aliens and Other Tales of Radical Imagination
2020-02-18 19:00 - 20:30 | Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs, CO, 80903, United States
We are sorry to announce that the February 18 performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña has been postponed to a later date due to unforeseen health circumstances.
We look forward to announcing a rescheduling of the performance soon.

A brand new spoken-word monologue by Guillermo Gómez-Peña featuring Balitronica Gómez
This performance features core Pocha Nostra member & collaborator Balitronica Gómez.
Free and open to the public
In his newest solo performance, Gómez-Peña presents a spoken-word immersion into his “living archive” encompassing 40 years of material from his engagement in Border culture and US Mexico relations completely reimagined in light of the current political climate. This piece is considered a “live anthology” dealing with immigration, US/Mexico relations, the implications of “the border wall”, racism at the border, extreme Mexiphobia, fear of immigrants and the insidious ways that new ultra-nationalisms are affecting our notions of nationality, identity, language and art making.
WE ARE ALL ALIENS is a philosophical and artistic response to the ongoing crisis in the lives of cultural and religious “others”, refugees and immigrants (legal as well as “illegal”) and a call for reinvigorated action. Throughout the work are the foundational beliefs that the human body is a site for reflection and reenactment of social phenomena and performance art a form of radical democracy and citizenship.

Artist Statement
“My new performance represents the fruit of my life’s work in all its iterations: live performance, lecturing, archiving, literary work, mentoring, community activism, all coming together to address the dangers of the times we live in with its disregard for human life and insidious undermining of democracy.
At this time in my life I am thinking as much about legacy as I am with trying to continually produce socially conscious experimental artwork that is simultaneously plugged into the national debates. I have learned from decades of touring performance material to locations beyond the Border that a call to action – in the form of a work of art – has the power to elicit compassion and inculcate a desire for social justice.
For me performance art is a form of radical democracy and citizenship which depends on the presence of the audience/community to succeed. I view my approach to creating this hybrid piece as “performing the archives” for multiple contexts: The art world, academia, community and the media. I am particularly interested in connecting with a new generation of audience members who may not have been exposed to the history of my generation, performance art and the Chicano movement.”

Artist Bio
Guillermo Gómez-Peña (US/Mexico) is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the legendary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978. His performance work and 12 books have contributed to the debates on cultural & gender diversity, border culture and US/Mexico relations. His artwork has been presented at over a thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, Bessie and American Book Award winner, he is a regular contributor for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe, a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU/MIT) and the Live Art Almanac (Live Art Development Agency-UK). Gómez-Peña is also a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, He was named Samuel Hoi Fellow by USA Artists in 2012, received a Eureka Fellowship from the Fleishhacker Foundation in 2013 and a Guggenheim award in 2019. Gómez-Peña is currently preparing two new books for Routledge (2020) and is currently working on a documentary portrait of his beloved troupe.

Location
Richard F. Celeste Theatre
Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, 825 N. Cascade Ave.
Generously sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Southwest Arts and Culture
