Tag: Spring Valley Campus
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CARE director stepping down, moving next door
Leslie Rockey leaving shelter, though staying close at CMC’s Veterinary Technology Farm It is hard to imagine Colorado Animal Rescue without Leslie Rockey there. But come July 20, she will be leaving the directorship of CARE, a job she’s had since the shelter opened its doors in 2000. Rockey has accepted an offer from Colorado…
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Theater professor named CMC Faculty of the Year
Gary Ketzenbarger takes top collegewide honors GLENWOOD SPRINGS – It was standing room only recently in Associate Professor Gary Ketzenbarger’s classroom at Colorado Mountain College in Glenwood Springs-Spring Valley. That’s because a cadre of college administrators and guests interrupted Ketzenbarger and the dozen or so students in his Theatre Script Analysis class for a special…
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‘The Women of Lockerbie’ shows that love can come from hate
The next production of Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College, formerly CMC Theatre, illustrates the kindness which can come from a horrific act. “The Women of Lockerbie” is a play based on the actual 1988 terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Written by Deborah Brevoort and directed by Wendy S.…
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‘The Glorious Ones’ comes to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House in January
When the X Games comes to Aspen in January, Colorado Mountain College’s theater troupe, Sopris Theatre Company (formerly CMC Theatre), will offer up an entirely different kind of spectacle when it presents “The Glorious Ones,” a fun and bawdy musical about a 16th century Italian Commedia dell’arte troupe. Directed by Brad Moore, seven archetypal characters…
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Sopris Theatre Company brings Renaissance-era comedy to Glenwood
This article on CMC’s Sopris Theatre Company’s latest production, The Glorious Ones, was printed in the Glenwood Post Independent. The production runs Dec. 4 through Dec. 6, Dec. 11-13 and Dec. 7 at the New Space Theatre at CMC in Glenwood Springs. The latest production from Sopris Theatre Company bounces from over-the-top humor to quiet,…
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Sopris Theatre Company at Colorado Mountain College opens its season with one of its ‘most challenging shows’
This article was published in the Post Independent. By Jessica Cabe. Gary Ketzenbarger, artistic director for Colorado Mountain College’s Sopris Theatre Company, says in many ways Lanford Wilson’s “The Rimers of Eldritch” is his favorite American play. “It captures that kind of small-town Americana atmosphere, and it’s also so experimental,” said Ketzenbarger, who also acts…
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Community invited to annual veterinary technology facility tour and open house
Colorado Mountain College’s Veterinary Technology Club invites the community to tour the program’s 220-acre center and teaching hospital at Spring Valley on Saturday, Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to noon. Refreshments and a silent auction will also be available. The comprehensive tour is free and open to anyone who is interested in veterinary technology or…
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CMC grads celebrate well-earned degrees
This article was printed in the Glenwood Post Independent. By Kristin Carlson. GLENWOOD SPRINGS — Brent Bagen graduated with an associate degree in nursing, an admirable achievement for any student. But it’s especially impressive for Bagen. “I have dyslexia,” he explained, “so I read quite a bit slower than the average student.” Rather than letting…
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‘Proof’ seeks truth
Colorado Mountain College Theatre’s midwinter play opens Feb. 7 By Beth Zukowski The essence of David Auburn’s play is all in its name – “Proof.” Because the play deals with intellectual brilliance – particularly as it relates to mathematics – the most obvious meaning of “Proof” is literally a scientific proof or theorem. But on…
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‘I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change’ romps through couple-hood
Musical comedy revue scheduled at CMC’s Spring Valley campus theatre Colorado Mountain College Theatre’s production of “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” tackles some of life’s toughest questions: How do you find love? How do you keep it alive? And what the heck do you do with it after a certain age? “I Love…