across our community.
The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region (a.k.a. COPPR) is the nonprofit local arts agency that serves the City of Colorado Springs and the greater Pikes Peak region (El Paso and Teller Counties) in Colorado. We work to ensure that the creative sector grows in economic vitality and depth of impact, that creative workers can thrive in our community, and that the arts are leveraged to positively address regional economic development, education, cultural tourism, and quality of life.
Beyond the Cultural Office's regional leadership & advocacy,
our programs focus on:
Our Mission
We champion our diverse creative community as a vital part of the region’s identity and economy through service, connection, and advocacy.
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LOCAL ARTS EVENTS
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'Clamour'
Apr 02 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Apr 01 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Mar 28 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Mar 27 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Mar 26 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Mar 25 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Mar 21 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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'Clamour'
Mar 20 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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Sat, Apr 18 @ 7:30 pm
'Clamour'
Mar 11 - Apr 04
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 4 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 5 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
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Apr 02, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Apr 01, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Mar 28, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Mar 27, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Mar 26, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Mar 25, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Mar 21, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
Get Tickets Mar 20, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
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Apr 16, 2026
Tyler Braden
Presented by Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers at Phil Long Music Hall at Bourbon Brothers Colorado Springs, CO
Tyler Braden: devil and a prayer TOUR With Special Guest: Clayton Mullen Tyler Braden is many things all at once. He’s an energetic showman who can rile up a crowd with a blast of electric guitar and a stadium-size singalong. His voice booms with soul, his riffs rock with gusto, and his songwriting teems with truth. That’s why he’s quietly asserted himself as a “country powerhouse,” according to American Songwriter. Throughout high school in Slapout, AL, he transformed into a formidable performer by captivating local crowds with marathon cover gigs. Years later, holding down a job as a firefighter, he wrote and recorded at every chance possible. After introducing himself with “Little Red Wine,” he gained traction with a series of singles and 2021’s What Do They Know EP. Two years later, he served up the Neon Grave EP highlighted by the standout “Try Losing One,” which catapulted to #1 on SiriusXM The Highway’s Hot 30 Weekend Countdown. However, he really leveled up on 2024’s “DEVIL YOU KNOW.” Not only did the latter eclipse 335 MILLION global streams it also earned a GOLD-certification from the RIAA. Billboard hailed its “automatic authenticity,” going on to attest, “The sound is dangerous.” Additionally, he received acclaim from People, Taste of Country, Country Now, and more. He notably lit up venues with everyone from Luke Bryan, Brooks & Dunn, and Dierks Bentley to Brothers Osborne, Warren Zeiders, and Darius Rucker. With nearly 765 MILLION global career streams, countless SOLD-OUT shows in the rearview, and a bright future ahead, he reveals multiple sides…
Get Tickets Apr 18, 2026
Itzhak Perlman: Cinema Serenade
Presented by Colorado Springs Philharmonic at Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts Colorado Springs, CO
The Colorado Springs Philharmonic presents an extraordinary evening of celebration and music. With his extraordinary technique and rich sound, Itzhak Perlman brings to life music from some of the most iconic film scores, including John Williams’ stirring theme from Schindler’s List and Ennio Morricone’s beloved Cinema Paradiso. This unforgettable performance celebrates the power of music in film and Perlman’s unmatched artistry. In celebration of his 80th birthday season, with music director, Chloé Dufresne, conducting the Colorado Springs Philharmonic at Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
Get Tickets Mar 11, 2026 - Apr 04, 2026
'Clamour'
Presented by Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Colorado Springs, CO
Contemporary Film, Video, and Sound: Maria Gaspar: "Clamour" In summer of 2021, the Cook County Department of Corrections began the demolition of two jail dormitories. The buildings, perhaps best known for housing the likes of Al Capone, were more than a hundred years old. The artist Maria Gaspar, who grew up in Little Village, the same neighborhood where the jail is located, documented the demolition and site restoration over the course of two years. She positioned her camera across the street from the project, fixing its view on the long concrete wall that marks the border between the jail and the residential neighborhood. The result is Clamour, which is sixty hours and twenty minutes in duration and captures one section of the building block being torn down, from start to finish. The extended run time of the video — which makes it effectively impossible to view in a single sitting — creates a tension between the persistence of carceral architecture and the possibility of resisting the logic it sustains. This tension is amplified by the scale of the institution itself. To this day, Cook County Jail remains the largest single-site jail in the United States, with an average daily population of approximately 9,000 people. The work’s collapsing of nine months of demolition, and a history that spans generations, offers a way to imagine the dismantling of structures that have shaped the lives of people both inside and outside the jail’s walls. As part of the exhibition, the public is invited to…
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Apr 30, 2026
'Mrs. Doubtfire'
Presented by Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts at Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts Colorado Springs, CO
Everyone’s favorite Scottish nanny is headed to Colorado Springs in this internationally acclaimed hit musical critics call “wonderful, heart-warming, and laugh-out-loud funny” (Manchester Evening News) and “a feel-good, family-friendly comedy that delivers” (The Hollywood Reporter). Based on the beloved film, 'Mrs. Doubtfire' tells the hysterical and heartfelt story of an out-of-work actor who will do anything for his kids. It’s “the lovable, big-hearted musical comedy we need right now,” raves the Chicago Tribune – one that proves we’re better together. This calendar listing is brought to you by Peak Radar, the Pikes Peak region's one-stop, online website for arts and entertainment events, powered by the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region.
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