The Ridgway Chautauqua Society’s Sherbino Theater & 610 Arts Collective are the community’s premier venues for arts, culture, creativity and lifelong learning.
Regular programs include: a monthly lecture series highlighting presenters on a wide variety of topics, regular film presentations, a regular poetry series which highlights a featured/accomplished poet followed by open poetry readings, at least twice-monthly live music events featuring regional and national-touring musicians, a monthly "art bar" where users come into the space for two hours to create a masterpiece with a qualified instructor, a monthly trivia night, a space for performing arts education in partnership with Weehawken Creative Arts, a quarterly "Ignite!" series, a summertime “Travel Talks” Series, a beautiful dedicated space for art exhibitions as well as a gallery shop space, a stage for touring and regional theatrical productions, a space for community rentals and a stage and rehearsal space for our very own community theatre group, “Sherbino Theatre Company” (now offering 6+ productions annually!).
Our mission is to support and sustain the Ridgway Public Library through fundraising and public awareness.
In an ongoing effort to promote and get to know our local businesses, the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to introduce our July 2019 RACC Member of the Month:
In an ongoing effort to promote our local businesses and organizations, the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to introduce our June 2020 Member of the Month: Uncompahgre Watershed Partnership
In an ongoing effort to promote our local businesses and organizations, the Ridgway Area Chamber of Commerce is proud to introduce our November 2020 Member of the Month:
Second Chance Humane Society and Second Chance Thrift Shops.
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Since 1960 OCAA sponsors a juried art show “Artists’ Alpine Holiday”
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Housed in an old mining hospital, collection focuses on local history. Includes virtual tour, calendar, special events and membership information.
Ouray County Performing Arts Guild is a well respected non-profit that was first established in Ouray in 1983. Since then, the mission has been to bring the best possible entertainment to the county's citizens, visitors and youth. Our events include many genres of music - classical, jazz, folk, instrumental and vocal. We also present dance and poetry performances.
The museum's mission is to preserve and share Ouray County ranching history and heritage, including stories of the area's early settlers from the mid 1800s to today. The museum has a rich display of artifacts that depict the hard work and tools of trade for ranching and rural family life along with the contributions ranchers made to Ridgway and the surrounding area.
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300 N. Cascade #1
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Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning provides programs and services that meet the needs of the people in the region, are cost-effective, reduce the burden of local governments, leverage available resources, and support our charitable status.
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We advocate for, build, maintain and have FUN on recreational single-track trails. Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) is both a very effective non-profit, NGO, dedicated to trail advocacy and construction, and a very fun system of single track trail in and around Ridgway, Colorado.
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Weekly farmers market offering local vegetables, fruits, meats, cheeses, eggs, and artisan crafts. Dates for the 2022 season are May 27th - October 14th. The market is located in Hartwell Park and is held from 10AM - 3PM.
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The Ridgway Railroad Museum is dedicated to the preservation of the history of railroading in Ouray County and surrounding areas.
Open daily June-September, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Open daily in May and October, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Railroad Museum Events
September 21 – 24 : Ouray County Railroad Days
Work week is a one-week long work session where volunteers put in four eight-hour days working on museum projects, followed by a one-day field trip. Anyone can help. We do everything from serious carpentry to painting to archival research to laying track. The outside work can get pretty physical. We typically have about 12 people, about half are local, half come from as far away as California and Texas. Other railroad museums and organizations have similar programs, notably the Cumbres & Toltec in Chama, NM and Antonito, CO - they have three work sessions with a one-week break; our week is timed to fall into that break, so some of our workers work in Chama, then come here, then go back to Chama. With a good crew and four eight-hour days, with all materials and tools on hand, we get a tremendous amount done in a short period of time. All of our members worldwide know about these dates, but we welcome locals, and would like to see more local participation, not just at work week but at the museum in general - we also have work sessions every Tuesday morning, except during winter. We provide free lunches, drinks and snacks each day. So it's not a big event where we try to pull in hundreds of people, but more local participation from people who want to dive in and do some serious work (and make good friends in the process) would definitely be welcome.