The afternoon will include art vendors, local organizations, interactive games for the whole family, and fun activities spread throughout the day.

Performances by:

The �������� High Freedom Band is Denver’s LGBTQ+ and allied community band—a vibrant, all-volunteer group of musicians who believe in the power of music to build connection, celebrate diversity, and uplift every voice.

CHEER Colorado is volunteer-lead nonprofit organization combines adult cheerleading and creative philanthropy.

Steph Luján is a local singer-songwriter. They are proudly queer and non-binary. They write songs from their heart and soul, and sometimes from the ego.

Elevated Circus is a local woman and LGBTQ+ owned entertainment company. They have a wide variety of performers who are specialized in hula hoops, fire, stilt walking, aerial arts, juggling, and more.

Kendoll Clitzone is a comedic force of nature. The charismatic Chinese & Jewish comedian brings stories & observations to life about their transition, family, generational trauma, grief, healing, and more.

TransRomantics is a four-piece eclectic indie rock band that carves out a deeply emotional and raw sonic space, blending atmospheric textures with gritty guitar lines and emotionally charged vocals. 

Miss Jessica was first born after visiting Rocky Top Middle School for literacy day, where she talked about how going to school helped her find her current career, Drag! She spoke on the importance of reading and education, answered a few questions from the students, and read a book about not bullying others.

This event is a sober and tobacco-free experience for the whole family.

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Like an in-person bridal show, you can shop wedding vendors and get show-only pricing. This includes local & mountain wedding reception & ceremony sites, wedding gowns, DJ info, wedding photography & videography, wedding coordinator/planner, floral and faux floral, rehearsal dinner info, bridemaids gifts & party favors and honeymoon & destination wedding info.

Also, wedding cakes, photo booth, in-store & online delivery suit & formalwear, boudoir photography, skincare, aesthetics — facial & body, makeup & beauty products, china, crystal and cookware, complimentary wedding magazines, bridal registry, wedding bands & engagement rings and much more!

Attend a virtual fashion show and fun presentation in the virtual auditorium. The first 25 brides who register will be mailed a limited edition “To Have & Hold” Wedding Show Bag. A few lucky brides will receive “The Knot Complete Guide To Weddings”.

Register to win a honeymoon package at the Mountain Lodge Telluride. Includes: 5 Days/4 Nights in a Junior Suite for 2 (certain blackout dates apply), $250 The View Bar & Grill Credit (to be used during stay) and $100 mountain bike/ski rental for 2 people for 4 days.

Admission also includes a *FREE men’s and women’s titanium or tungsten wedding ring (value up to $379.98). You can shop and pick any two rings of your choice. *A shipping & handling fee of $30 for the first ring and $25 for the second ring is applied at checkout.

Adult admission is regularly $5 (plus service fee), but organizers have offered 300 FREE tickets. You won’t find a better offer anywhere. Even the Groupon deal is a discount, not free. 

Here’s how to get a FREE ticket to the Virtual Colorado Bridal Show: 

1) Click on this link:

2) Click on “Ticket”

3) On next page where it says on the top “Enter promo code” click on that

4) Type in your promo code: MhcVirtual and click “Apply” 

5) Click on “Checkout”

6) Fill out the form and click “Register”

7) PLEASE NOTE: After purchasing a ticket(s) you will be sent a confirmation with a link and information for you to create a Username/Password, Display name to access the Virtual Colorado Bridal Show.

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You will need to use Zoom. Here’s a Quick Start Guide for setting up Zoom. To access any of these courses, simply and then click on “Go To Class”.

Here’s the schedule:

Female Songwriters of an Era: Part 2

Instructor: Paul Turelli
Mondays May 4, 11, 18
Time: 10-11 am MDT

Back by popular demand, educator and music guru Paul Turelli returns with another outstanding selection of female songwriters who have left an indelible mark on the music industry and the world. Music is joyful, music is soulful, music is healing and music expresses what we cannot put into words. Join Paul as he tells back stories, shares little known facts about great artists and songs and of course the music of some of the biggest names in female songwriting, while examining how the melodies and harmonies became etched into history…and our minds.

The Simple Life: In Pursuit of the Golden Mean

Instructor: Bob Melvin
Tuesdays May 5, 12, 19, 26
Time: 10-11 am MDT

Is there a way to simplify your life and still feel content? Yes, says popular Enrichment instructor Bob Melvin. First, consider how Plato, Ben Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt viewed the simple life. Then learn today’s mental shift you have to make to reach the simple life’s goal: the golden mean—having enough to be fulfilled without complicating life with excess beyond the mean. And finally, create a personal plan to achieve contentment and the self-discipline to complete your plan. Fulfillment is in reach—grab it here!

The Mirror in the Machine

Instructor: Buie Seawell
Wednesdays May 6, 13, 20, 27
Time: 10-11 am MDT

After breaking the Third Reich’s Enigma code, British genius Alan Turing came to pose this question: While communicating with an unseen reality, can we tell if it is human or machine? Join professor emeritus Buie Seawell as he examines the reverse: Can a machine tell if a being is human or not? Explore the essence of humanness in the age of artificial intelligence. Consider how we’re coming to see ourselves as mirrored in machines that can learn.

Required reading: Hamlet’s soliloquy. Optional reading: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan; and Life 3.0, by MIT professor Max Tegmark.

Dusting Off the Classics: 1-Poem-a-Week Series

Instructor: Richard Sacks
Thursdays May 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 10-11 am MDT

In this special online edition of our Dusting Off the Classics series, former Columbia professor Richard Sacks will lead us each week on a collaborative exploration of a single, short, soul-searching poem by some of the greatest poets in the history of the English language—from Shakespeare to Yeats and beyond—as they look back at and “dust off” the classics. Please note that these May sessions will focus on different poems than those read in his April series.

Bells, Bells, Bells! Inside the Grand Carillon

Instructor: Carol Jickling Lens
Fridays May 8, 15, 22, 29
Time: 10-11 am MDT

Hidden high inside the gold-topped tower of the Ritchie Center is a musical instrument that is as mysterious as it is magnificent: the grand carillon. It’s massive too: a 500-pound clapper and 65 bronze bells, the largest weighing six tons. When Carol Jickling Lens is at its keyboard to summons its magnetic resonance, it is with fists and feet—not fingers. Join Lens as she demystifies the carillon’s history, anatomy, music and much more via a fun, revealing—and yes—melodic virtual tour you will not soon forget.

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For those of you who aren’t multi-lingual, when you watch the live stream, you can click on the small box at the bottom right that is labeled “CC”.  This will provide captions in English for you.

Here’s the latest schedule for upcoming streams:

Sunday, June 7
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Starring Renée Fleming, Michael Schade, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Jesús López-Cobos.
From December 20, 2008.

Monday, June 8
Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito
Starring Lucy Crowe, Barbara Frittoli, Elīna Garanča, Kate Lindsey, and Giuseppe Filianoti, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 1, 2012.

Tuesday, June 9
Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle
Starring Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczała in Iolanta, and Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko in Bluebeard’s Castle, conducted by Valery Gergiev. From February 14, 2015.

Wednesday, June 10
Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel
Starring Christine Schäfer, Alice Coote, Rosalind Plowright, Philip Langridge, and Alan Held, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. From January 1, 2008.

Thursday, June 11
John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles
Starring Teresa Stratas, Renée Fleming, Marilyn Horne, Graham Clark, Gino Quilico, and Håkan Hagegård, conducted by James Levine. From January 10, 1992.

Friday, June 12, and Saturday, June 13
At-Home Gala (Encore Screening)
In a re-broadcast of our recent At-Home Gala, more than 40 leading artists and members of the Met Orchestra and Chorus perform virtually from their homes around the world, with General Manager Peter Gelb and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin as hosts. From April 25, 2020.

Sunday, June 14
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Starring Renée Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Iestyn Davies, Joseph Kaiser, and Shenyang, conducted by Harry Bicket. From December 3, 2011.

Monday, June 15
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Starring Renée Fleming, Lawrence Brownlee, John Osborn, Barry Banks, and Kobie van Rensburg, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. From May 1, 2010.

Tuesday, June 16
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Starring Angela Meade, Elizabeth DeShong, Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green, conducted by Maurizio Benini. From March 10, 2018.

Wednesday, June 17
Gluck’s Iphigénie en Tauride
Starring Susan Graham, Plácido Domingo, and Paul Groves, conducted by Patrick Summers. From February 26, 2011.

Thursday, June 18
Verdi’s La Forza del Destino
Starring Leontyne Price, Giuseppe Giacomini, Leo Nucci, and Bonaldo Giaiotti, conducted by James Levine. From March 24, 1984.

Friday, June 19
Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
Starring Dísella Lárusdóttir, J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Aaron Blake, Will Liverman, Richard Bernstein, and Zachary James, conducted by Karen Kamensek. From November 23, 2019.

Saturday, June 20
Philip Glass’s Satyagraha
Starring Rachelle Durkin, Richard Croft, Kim Josephson, and Alfred Walker, conducted by Dante Anzolini. From November 19, 2011.

Sunday, June 21
Verdi’s La Traviata
Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Michael Fabiano, and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Nicola Luisotti. From March 11, 2017.

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