Outdoor Concert: Longmont All-Star Jazz Band
On Monday, September 27, the City of Longmont Public Library will host a night filled with great jazz on the Library’s west patio from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The Longmont All-Star Jazz Band will play, made up of some of the local high schools’ best performers. Bill Wilkinson, who started the club in 2001, continues to direct the band of 17 players. The group has played at Dazzle Night Club in Denver, performed with the Lawrence Welk Band in Missouri and at the Olympic Torch ceremony in 2002. Registration is not required for this event but seating will be limited to 50 chairs starting at 6 p.m.
September 23
Art & Sip: Drawing Inspiration - Objects of Interest
This Thursday night from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the Longmont Museum, Curator of History Erik Mason and Teaching Artist Leigh Putman will select rarely seen objects from the Longmont Museum collection highlighting the past 150 years of our community’s history. Leigh will arrange these objects allowing light and shadow to play across the scene. She will demonstrate techniques in pencil, charcoal, watercolor pencil, and watercolor paint to help you capture the tableau. The class is $35 per person and there’s a 10% discount for Museum members.
Discovery Days at the Museum
Longmont Museum presents Discovery Days, an early childhood program that encourages children ages 2 to 6 and their parents or caregivers to engage together in educational, hands-on art activities. When you attend Discovery Days with your child, you help them cultivate important school-readiness skills, such as language development, attention, concentration, fine-motor skills, emotional regulation, and play and social abilities. Attend a session that fits your schedule, no registration needed. Discovery Days is where play and learning connect! Discovery Days are held at the Museum every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from September 1 to December 10, from 9 to 10:15 a.m., 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. and 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Each class is $4 per child member and $4.50 per child non-member. The theme for Discovery Days held on September 23 and 24 is Fall Fun!
September 24
Pop-Up Produce in the Parking Lot at Longmont United Hospital
Longmont Food Rescue will be distributing fresh, locally-grown vegetables in partnership with Longmont United Hospital, Uproot Colorado, and Growing Gardens in the Longmont United Hospital parking lot on Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. The produce comes from local growers such as Switch Gears Farm, Mary's Hands, and Growing Gardens Food Project Farm at the Longmont YMCA, as well as home gardeners affiliated with Longmont United Hospital. The distribution is open to anyone seeking food resources with the goal of alleviating hunger in our community.
Password:Comedy | Downtown Longmont, CO
Join us yet again for Longmont's longest running stand-up comedy showcase from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday at The Speakeasy at 301 Main Street.
Poetry Night at the Firehouse Art Center
Join the Firehouse Art Center Writers at the Firehouse for our Monthly Last Friday Poetry Night from 7 to 9 p.m. Poetry is an opportunity, it gives us the chance to celebrate and commemorate all the wonderful moments in our lives from the simplest smiles to the most momentous victories. It also enables us to cope in challenging times. With poetry, we can address our problems, come to terms with them, and work to grow past them. It has the potential to move across the spectrum of human experience in a cathartic and often beautiful way. Please only read original work. This event is free but the Firehouse Art Center, as a 501c3 non-profit organization, always appreciates donations.
September 25
Longmont Museum Presents Centennial State Ballet
The Longmont Museum welcomes the Centennial State Ballet back for its 2021 Fall Showcase featuring The Magic Flute and the opening of their 10th Anniversary Season of Celebration! The Magic Flute is a brand new ballet choreographed by Executive Artistic Director Kristin Kingsley to music composed by Riccardo Drigo, arranged for piano and flute by Rick Thomas. Follow Luc and his magical flute as he inspires Lise, his love, to dance. The performance will take place starting at 7 p.m. on Friday at the Stewart Auditorium in the Museum. The same performance will also take place at 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Kyle Hollingsworth Band - Wibtoberfest Finale
Wibtoberfest wraps up a month of anniversary festivities by welcoming Kyle Hollingsworth Band to our stage and brewery comrades to our taps! Hoist steins in a lively, biergarten setting while we prost and jam into fall! Decades ago, Kyle Hollingsworth set out on a career in music. With a wealth of desire and an abundance of ability, Hollingsworth has established himself as a formidable and versatile music talent deftly able to contribute, collaborate, compose, and communicate on a number of levels and within a vast spectrum of musical environments. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the show starts at 6 p.m.
September 26
Full Throttle Yoga at Bootstrap Brewing
Join us for Full Throttle Yoga classes every Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Full Throttle Yoga is a revolutionary power yoga community, a technically simple and physically challenging way to practice a new way of being on and off the mat. Full Throttle Yoga is powerful, bold, present and fun. A style of yoga and community and a way of living at it’s core, Full Throttle Yoga is a movement to bring yoga to the people - all people - young and old, short and tall, skinny and fat, veggie loving vegans and carnivorous couch potatoes, hardcore bikers and hard charging cyclists, gals and dudes, fighters and lovers, soldiers and tree huggers. Full Throttle Yoga is for everyone!
September 27
Coffman Street Busway Project
The City of Longmont is hosting a public open house for the Coffman Street Busway Project in Downtown Longmont on Monday, September 27, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at The St. Vrain venue at 635 3rd Ave. (southeast corner of 3rd Ave. and Coffman St.). The Coffman Street Busway Project seeks to make Coffman Street, from 1st Avenue to 9th Avenue, a world-class, multi-modal corridor to support residents, businesses, visitors, bikes and pedestrians, commuters, the environment, and the City of Longmont. The project will combine community input with technical design expertise to develop a cross-section and streetscape for Coffman Street.
September 28
Open Air Local Market and Ribbon Cutting
Ribbon cutting for Bricks local gift shop will happen this Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m. at 512 4th Ave. in Longmont along with an open air vendor market in front and in the courtyard behind the store just east of Ziggi's coffee at 4th Avenue and Main Street downtown. This event is a great chance to check out the workshop room, gift shop and booths from other local artisans and vendors. The public is welcome. Limited vendor space, contact [email protected] if you have a local business and would like to participate. Come celebrate this great local resource downtown and welcome them to the new location.
September 29
Story Time in the Park
Get ready for some fun stories, songs, and lots of movement with your Children's Librarians! Join us for an all-ages storytime at Collyer Park, 600 Collyer St., from 10 to 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September 29. Please bring something to sit on. Masks are highly encouraged for everyone 2 and older. We'll try to spread out as much as possible. Stay tuned for more Storytimes in the park this Fall! Once our Library patio/garden space reopens, we hope to offer more regularly scheduled in-person Storytimes outside at the Library, weather and COVID-dependent.
September 30
Stop, Shop, and Stroll | Downtown Longmont, CO
Don’t miss your chance to win a Downtown Longmont Gift Card when you Stop, Shop, & Stroll! Visit and check-in at all participating Downtown Longmont businesses, and be entered to win one of five $100 Downtown Longmont Gift Cards. Promotion runs from September 1st through 30th, so don’t delay, Stop, Shop, & Stroll today! Click here to learn more and sign up.
October 2
Blues, Brews & BBQ for Veterans Community Project Longmont
Join VCP for an exclusive house party in Niwot, CO featuring music by the Delta Sonics, craft beer from local brewers, BBQ, and a night of fun! Our friends at Wyatt Wet Goods are bringing their best for a wine pull and we're putting together a great silent auction as well. If you're a local business and would like to donate an auction item or service to help the cause, let us know! A special thanks to our host, David Chaknova, for opening his beautiful home for this event! This event will sell out quickly...get your tickets today! We’re also looking for volunteers to help make the event a success. VCP will need 8 volunteers to help between the hours of 4:30 PM – 9:00 PM with registration, serving beverages, house tours, wine pulls, silent auction and general help. If you or someone you know is interested in volunteering for this event, please contact VCP-Longmont’s Community Engagement Coordinator Miguel Valdez at 720-340-2916.
Bulb Planting Volunteer Project
The Longmont Downtown Development Authority is holding a fall bulb planting project in Downtown Longmont on Saturday, October 2, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. in lieu of the spring Clean & Green volunteer event. Volunteers will help plant 3,000 bulbs, including tulips and other flowers, that will help brighten up Downtown in the spring. All equipment is provided, as well as a morning coffee and to-go lunch for volunteers. If you like playing in the dirt, please join us! Complete our volunteer application here.
