February is Heart and Soul of Golden month. This is our annual celebration of our fair city’s many cultural organizations. It’s a great reason for you to visit some of our great museums, attend a film festival, a lecture, or a symphony concert.
Here’s a preview of some of the events in Golden this month. For the details, check the Calendar of Events.
Museum Exhibits:
American Mountaineering Museum – Gregory William Frux: Mount Washington Observatory
Buffalo Bill Museum – The Buffalo Bill Story, From Adversary to Advocate, A Visit to the Wild West, Firearms, Kid’s Cowboy Corral
Colorado Railroad Museum – Images from the Tracks: Photographs of William Henry Jackson and Westward in the Age of Rail and Got Style and Ski Train
Geology Museum – Mineral from Colorado and Around the World, Radioactive Minerals, Meteorites, Fossil
Golden History Museum – Discovery Awaits
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum – Collaboration Quilts and RMQM Anniversary Quilt Show
Theater
Miners Alley Playhouse – Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers
Miners Alley Children’s Theater – Young King Arthur
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Forensic Science: Past, Present Future?
Friday Highlights Tour at the Railroad Museum
2
Babysitting Class at the Community Center
Painting Note Cards with Janet Nunn at Foothills Art Center
Young King Arthur Opens at Miners Alley Children’s Theater
CoderDojo at the Library
West Side Live! Presents Hank Troy
3
Coffee with a Ranger
Golden Retriever Gathering at the Visitors Center
4
Rowdy Colorado Lecture at the Golden History Museum
5
Hexie Ladies – English Paper Piercing Group at the Quilt Museum
Bell Middle School PTA Meeting
Reel Rock 13 Screening at the Mountaineering Center
Raising Confident, Caring Young People
6
TriceraTOTs
Teens After Hours Video Game Night at the Library
Trout Unlimited
Moms Demand Action Meeting
Planning Commission Public Hearing on site plan for 72 apartments and a 48-room hotel on 8th St.
SCRIPTprov at Miners Alley Playhouse
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Everything Dinosaur Talk: Thyreophora (Stegosaurs)
Wee Create: Color Mixing at the Library
Low-latitude Arc-continent Collision as a Driver for Global Cooling
Kindness Rocks at the Library
Wine and Wags at Foothills Animal Shelter
Backcountry Film Festival at the Mountaineering Center
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Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Settling Colorado
Open Space Volunteer Recruitment Fair
Date on the Diner at the Railroad Museum
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Date on the Diner at the Railroad Museum
GHS Mini Poms Clinic
Open Space Volunteer Recruitment Fair
Coffee with a Councilor
10
Sunday at the Museum – Pantograph Designs and Uses in your Quilting!
Jefferson Symphony Orchestra
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MOMS Club of Golden
STEM Girls
Golden Safety Academy – Environmental Dangers
12
Local Liquor Licensing Authority
Lego Play & Build
Golden High School PTA Meeting
Golden Beer Talks – Immune Responses to Stress & Grief
13
Power Lunch Lecture at NREL
Galentine’s Day at the Library
Public Meeting – Possible Cuts to Light Rail into Golden
14
Everything Dinosaur Talk – Thyreophora
City Council Meeting – Heart and Soul of Golden Proclamation
Subaqueous Debris Flow Processes and Deposits at CSM
15
Alien Invasion Workshop at the Community Center
Friday Highlights Tour at the Railroad Museum
Freaky Friday at the Library
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Jelly Roll Rug Class at the Quilt Museum
Behind the Scenes Tour: Design and the Railroad
Teen After Hours: Palentine’s Day Laser Tag at the Library
19
NREL Walking Campus Tour
Book Group at the Library: Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel
20
Bell Orchestra Concert
Dino Days at Jeffco Admin Building
Lecture at the Golden History Museum Reuben Benton Hayward’s Murder Part 2
Planning Commission Study Session
21
Everything Dinosaur Talk: Iguanodonts
Golden High School Chili Cook Off
Bell Band Concert
Environmental Film Festival
Golden Community Night at the Mountaineering Center
22
Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum: Caboose
23
Paper Quilts 2 with Jane Mathews at the Quilt Museum
Winter Fundraising Brunch for Go Farm
Other Earths Workshop at the Community Center
Seed Swap at the Golden Library
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Buffalo Bill Birthday Party at the Buffalo Bill Museum
26
SpayGhetti & No Balls Dinner and Silent Auction
Front Porch Golden Book Club – The Brain: The Story of You
27
Everything Dinosaur Talk: What is a Dinosaur?
Ukulele Wednesday at the Library
28
Everything Dinosaur Talk – Hadrosaurs
Shelton Coyote Carnivale – 3rd Annual Silent Auction
City Council Discussion of a Possible Moratorium on New Construction
Golden High School Choir Concert
