Teaming up with Telluride Arts and thanks in large part to a CCAASE grant, the Telluride Institute’s Talking Gourds Poetry Program is once again holding live performance events in town.

The free program will start with a one-hour performance at the Telluride Arts venue, and then move across the street to Mangala Yoga and the Viceroy Café, where after some warm-up drinks participants will remove shoes and enter the yoga studio to meet in a Gourd Circle, sit on pillows, and share their stories and poems.

“We encourage people of all ages to bring stories of any nature or finished poems to share,” said Goodtimes. For those who like prompts for stories or poems, the first week’s prompt is: “Old Telluride.”

For more information, text 970-729-0220 or email Goodtimes at <art@tellurideinstitute.org>. To visit the website: www.tellurideinstitute.org/talking-gourds