Author: cmcgenesis
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CMC Theatre mounts holiday pageant with a twist
“The Butterfingers Angel” etc etc etc a thoroughly modern Nativity play By Kristin Carlson If you’re looking for a novel way to celebrate the holiday season this year, look no farther than Colorado Mountain College in Spring Valley. “The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in…
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‘The Tempest’ captures a perfect storm live in HD
Meteropolitan Opera simulcast series continues Nov. 10 at CMC-Breckenridge A simulcast HD transmission of the New York Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Tempest,” staged by visionary director Robert Lepage, will begin at 10:55 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, in the Eileen & Paul Finkel Auditorium at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. Scored by Britain’s preeminent contemporary…
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CMC speaker Milgram empowers women to enter high-tech fields
Renowned expert on women in the workforce to speak at CMC in Leadville Donna Milgram, the executive director of IWITTS, the National Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science, will visit Colorado Mountain College to talk about how to empower women to enter high-tech fields. In addition to providing intensive training for CMC staff,…
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New Colorado Mountain College Website is Live!
CMC Web redesign based on user needs After a year of development, the new Colorado Mountain College website is live! Take a look. This was a huge effort, executed with excellence by Web Content Editor Frank Martin. Beginning with user feedback and web analytics, he created a user-centric navigation that should make it much easier…
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‘Live in HD’ opera season features ‘Otello’ Oct. 27
Met Opera brings tale of jealousy and murder to CMC in Breckenridge The New York Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s Shakespearean drama “Otello” comes to Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge as part of this year’s “Live in HD” simulcasts. Renée Fleming and Johan Botha star in the towering tragedy of jealousy and murder, which will…
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Cast your vote for comedy at CMC Theatre’s ‘November’
Pre-election parody offers irreverent take on politics By Kristin Carlson Just when we all need a sense of humor about the elections, Colorado Mountain College presents David Mamet’s searing satire about a bombastic, incumbent president desperate for reelection. “November,” a comedy about a fictional president’s desperate bid for reelection, opens at Colorado Mountain College in…
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New grant supports new approach to solar education, training
Colorado Mountain College to create mobile training lab This article first appeared in the Citizen Telegram By Rob Winn This fall at Colorado Mountain College in Rifle we are preparing for a whole new era of learning that will allow us to improve the way we deliver our integrated energy programs, which prepare students for…
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Galaxy of paintings formed by alchemy
Abstract exhibit opens at CMC Gallery Oct. 12 By Debra Crawford When Ellen Zagoras was 70, she looked at the 132 paintbrushes she’d accumulated over decades of working in other media. “I put a fortune into those brushes,” she says. “And I thought, ‘I could be dead before I use those things.’ So if not…
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Students celebrate National Vet Tech Week and take you on a farm tour
Community invited to Vet Tech farm tour and open house Oct. 13 Colorado Mountain College’s Veterinary Technology Club invites the community to tour its 220-acre farm and teaching hospitals at Spring Valley on Oct. 13 from noon to 2 p.m. The farm tour coincides with National Veterinary Technician Week. It is free and open to…
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Westlake to speak about poetry, stars
National award-winner at CMC-Edwards Sept 26 Some people try to capture the beauty and majesty of the starry sky with a camera or on canvas. Others try to capture it with words. In an evening called “The Poets and the Stars,” Colorado Mountain College astronomy Professor Jimmy Westlake will present verses about the stars written…