Greg Fox Aperture
Visit Santa
4 p.m. Friday and Saturday — Kids can get their photo taken with ol’ St. Nick and enjoy the display of more than a half million lights and a giant musical Christmas tree. Roast smores around the fire pit, warm up in the North Pole hut and enjoy the winter scenery.
Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, 51000 Two Rivers Plaza Road, Glenwood Springs |$14-$19. Gondola tickets are $14 for kids ages 3-12 and $19 for adults
Vaudeville Dinner Theatre Holiday Show
6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday — The Glenwood Vaudeville Revue Holiday Show is a two-hour family fun dinner theater show with professional talent performing a variety of holiday-themed comedy skits, jokes, high energy dance numbers, unique novelty songs and original comedic presentations. Advanced reservations recommended.
Glenwood Vaudeville Revue, 915 Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs | $25/adults; $22.50/seniors; $16/kids 2–12 (prices are show only, food and beverages optional and a la carte)
‘The Need To Grow’ Movie screening
6:30 p.m. Friday — Screening of the award-winning documentary ‘The Need To Grow,’ hosted by the Roaring Fork Food Alliance, followed by a community dialogue on the local food system. A story of solutions in a race against the end of farmable soil, three individuals fight for change in the industry of agricultural food production, calling for a revolution.
Third Street Center, 520 S. Third St., Suite 28, Carbondale | by donation
Valle Musico
8:30–11:30 p.m. Friday — Valle Musico play elegant guitar-based music with classical, jazz, Latin and worldbeat music elements.
Rivers Restaurant, 2525 S. Grand Ave., Glenwood Springs | Free
Callin’ Old Souls
9 p.m. Friday — Dirty underground country, sad songs you can dance to.
Glenwood Springs Brew Garden, 115 Sixth St., Glenwood Springs | Free
‘End the Year with Kisses’ Wine & Paint
6:30 p.m. Saturday — Laughter, wine, painting and best friends; first glass of wine, all materials, and step-by-step instructions to create a wall-worthy painting are included. Additionally, locally brewed kombucha from Elevated Elixirs is available, as is catering from Native Son. Call ahead to place an order for tapas or entrees.
Create Art & Essence, 823 Grand Ave., Suite 120, Glenwood Springs | $45 per person, 10% discount for groups of 4 or more
CMC’s Sopris Theatre Company presents ‘The Veil’
7 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday — A defrocked priest, a haunted house, a seance gone awry and a 17-year-old girl forced into marriage to save her mother’s estate — these are all part of Conor McPherson’s “The Veil,” produced by the Sopris Theatre Company. Performances are at the New Space Theatre at CMC’s Spring Valley campus in the Calaway Academic Building.
Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley, 3000 County Road 114, Glenwood Springs | $18/adults, $13/seniors, students, CMC employees and graduates (tickets available at eventbrite.com or by emailing svticketsales@coloradomtn.edu)
Valle Musico
7 p.m. Saturday — Valle Musico play elegant guitar-based music with classical, jazz, Latin and worldbeat music elements.
Heathers Savory Pies and Tapas Bar, 166 Midland Ave, Basalt | 970-927-0151 | Free
Louie & the Lizards
9 p.m. Saturday — Louie & The Lizards is a five-piece rock, funk and contra-billy (yeah, we just made that up) band that lives a comfortable existence on the edge of conventionality. They like their rock down and dirty and know their way around some white trash rockabilly as well as a good chorus of your favorite AC/DC song.
Glenwood Springs Brew Garden, 115 Sixth St., Glenwood Springs | Free
Sunday Funday Family Paint
2 p.m. Sunday — The flexibility of this class allows the choice of everyone painting a similar-themed painting or the same painting with step-by-step instruction, or for each person to choose their own painting. Price includes all instruction, materials, kombucha for kids and adults, and a snack for the kids.
Create Art & Essence, 823 Grand Ave., Suite 120, Glenwood Springs | $35 per person; $25 per child 11 years and younger (must be by an adult painter); discounted rate for families of 4 or more
