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May 16 Thursday
The exhibit “Stan Lee: Beyond the Book” opens this Wednesday, May 1, 2024 and runs to the end of October, 2024 at the American Heritage Center (AHC) at the University of Wyoming. This highly anticipated exhibition honors the legendary comics creator, author, editor and Marvel visionary, Stan Lee.
The exhibition itself is drawn from the AHC’s “Stan Lee Papers” collection. Researched and curated by three University of Wyoming students—Rhiannon McLean, Hazel Homer-Wambeam and Liam Leslie—it provides the first deep-dive into the collection. It displays drawings, documents, photographs and artifacts that have not been preserved elsewhere
The “Stan Lee, Beyond the Book” exhibition invites visitors to explore the life, work and enduring legacy of a true visionary. For more information about the exhibition and related events, visit the AHC website at www.uwyo.edu/ahc/exhibits.html , or email the Center at ahcref@uwyo.edu.
Each Thursday evening beginning at 6 PM is an acoustic Jam Session in which all musicians are invited to sing and play together. A wide variety of instruments are often in attendance. Great audience attendance. Friday and Saturday nights are entertainment on stage for dancing and listening pleasure. Mostly Country, Western and Bluegrass music. All ages including children are welcome. No cover charge, great comfort food is available along with your favorite beverage.
Fridays & Saturdays: Karaoke and Live music - tune into Wyoming Sounds for updates on live music and concert calendar information.
Relative Theatrics (RT) presents the 2nd Annual Play/Write Showcase on May 16th in the Thrust Theatre of UW’s Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA). This showcase consists of 9 carefully selected, student-written plays and is the culmination of the second year of RT’s education initiative: Play/Write Wyoming.
Since the fall of 2023, RT staff members & teaching artists Will Bowling, Kim Lockhart and Sean Coyle, have been working with 5th graders at Linford and Spring Creek Elementaries, and 4th-6th graders at Rock River Elementary, to teach a 20-week curriculum that focuses on theatre arts skills, and creative writing and literacy academic standards. Over the course of the year, students learned improvisation exercises and acting techniques, and were taught the basics of script writing. Each student has written an original short play of their own that will be bound and published by RT.
“Play/Write Wyoming offers students in Albany County a much-needed arts education program, and hopes to foster a new generation of writers, performers and theatre goers,” says RT Education Director Will Bowling.
As a celebration of all student work, 9 plays will be performed by Wyoming theatre artists from all backgrounds. Participating companies include artists from Relative Theatrics, The Eppson Center’s Unexpected Company, a group of University of Wyoming theatre students from the Associated Students of Performing Arts, and a high school group from the WYO Performing Arts and Education center in Sheridan. The evening will be a community celebration of student creativity and the talents of theatre practitioners from around the state.
Play/Write Wyoming will be performed as a morning field trip for participating students, and then RT will host an evening showcase for the general public at 7PM, with seating beginning at 6:30PM. The event is free, open to the public, and suitable for all ages.
Relative Theatrics is committed to providing universal access to all of our events. Please contact Alice Hovis at executive@relativetheatrics.com to request accommodations by May 6th.
The Friends of the Dubois Badlands have invited Jason Baldes to talk about the role of buffalo in the greater Wind River region and to present the work the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative have accomplished in a very short time,
May 17 Friday
The year is 1925 — the location, Club Lucky, a notorious Speakeasy. You have been invited to witness the stupefying mentalist, The Amazing Alexander. Along the way, you'll meet the likes of Tough Tony Bosco, Flossie Muldoon, Mugsy Doyle & Tara Bow. Be sure to keep your eyes open as tempers start to flare and you just might be called upon to help solve the crime!
Remember to wear your gangster, flapper, and other 1920s attire!
Girls Night Out with Laura Jean Mills
May 18 Saturday
Cheyenne Audubon members invite local birders to help find as many birds as possible in the Cheyenne area May 18. Birdwatchers can bird on their own or with the group starting at 6:30 a.m. at the parking lot in Lions Park between the Children’s Village and the big picnic shelter.
To join the group later and get a location update, or to report bird sightings if you don’t use eBird, please call count leader Grant Frost, 307-343-2024.
The tally party will be held at 5 p.m., May 19, at Perkins Restaurant on Dell Range. For more information, please go to the Cheyenne Audubon website, https://cheyenneaudubon.org/.
May 19 Sunday