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  • You Oughta Know: Alanis Morissette and the Women Who Rocked the Industry

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    Join our resident cabaret artist, J. Chang-Tablada, as we explore the influence of Alanis Morissette and the powerful wave of women in rock that emerged around her. Through song and storytelling, this lecture traces musical lineages across generations, looking back to artists such as Stevie Nicks, who helped shape the landscape Alanis entered and forward […]

  • A rocky cliff coast in Newfoundland

    Chasing the Cambrian Explosion: How the Fossils of Newfoundland Defined the Greatest Biological Revolution in Earth History

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    This event is sold out. To be added to the wait list, please contact the Box Office at fac@coloradocollege.edu or (719) 634-5583. Thank you! As a young PhD student in Newfoundland, I helped propose, and win acceptance of, the definition of the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary in rocks on the southeast coast of Newfoundland. This boundary marks […]

  • Black and white portrait of Mary Hallock looking downward

    A Victorian Gentlewoman in Colorado’s Mines: Mary Hallock Foote’s Extractive Imagination

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    Fine Arts Center 30 W. Dale St., Colorado Springs, CO, United States

    When Wallace Stegner mined the letters of the writer and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote for his Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose, he continued a longstanding association between mining and men. A century earlier, though, Foote herself had drawn on the mining communities of Colorado as the subjects of her novels and illustrations. This talk explores […]