Thursday, March 22, 2007

IDEA Cafe Friday Afternoon, Great Free Events This Weekend!

Friday

2 p.m. IDEA Café. Panera Bread, 13th & Grant St. Starting something new? We help each other turn our inspirations into effective action. We hear successful entrepreneurs share their startup stories and we brainstorm. RSVP No, you’ll get an invitation to the next meeting! RSVP at http://ideacafe.meetup.com/1


6 p.m. Socrates Café. Panera Bread, 13th & Grant St. Good discussion about life’s larger topics. Free and open to all. No preparation required, no RSVP.


Saturday

Starting today, the Botanic Gardens will be crawling with ten giant sculptures — ranging from a three-foot ladybug to a ten-foot ant — made from whole trees, saplings and other forest materials. There will also be classes ranging from "How to Create Your Own Butterfly Garden" for adults to "Self-Guided Big Bugs Discovery Backpacks" for kids who want to search for bugs all on their own.

Tickets are included with admission; the bugs will stay up through June 24.

Today is family free day, with interactive programs for kids, insect slide show, cockroach races, exhibit tours and more, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.


Ultimate Music Xperience Annual Capitol Hill People's Fair music auditions, featuring 60 diverse competing bands.

Daily from Sat., March 24 until Sun., March 25, 10:00am-6:00pm. Free.
Bender's Tavern, 13th & Grant St., Denver.

6:30 p.m. Astronomy Open House. View the crescent moon, star clusters, the Orion nebula, and Saturn's rings through DU's famed 20-inch Clark refractor as well as dozens of attended amateur telescopes.
$1 donation for 20-inch telescope viewing; other activities free

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