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.
RECENT NEWS
Space Sharing for Creative Meetings/Classes
We believe that the Cultural Office should be, in many ways, a home and crossroads for the creative community. We designed the 1,000 sq. ft.
Creative Flight Plan Workshop
The Cultural Office has partnered with executive coach JB Bolton of Bolton Co. to offer a first-of-its-kind, in-depth workshop for creative leaders in the Pikes
Film Industry Networking Mixer
Mix and mingle with filmmakers, actors, and industry pros on Feb. 18, 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Windstar Studios! Join filmmakers, crew, and creatives from across the
LOCAL ARTS EVENTS
Events for March 2026
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Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 12:00 pm
Sat, Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm
Fri, Feb 27 @ 12:00 pm
Sat, Feb 28 @ 12:00 pm
Saturday Night Improv with Improv Colorado
Mar 07 - Dec 05
Sat, Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm
Sat, Apr 4 @ 7:00 pm
Sat, May 2 @ 7:00 pm
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
Featured Artists Ken and Tina Reisterer
Feb 27 - Feb 28
Thu, Feb 26 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Feb 27 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Feb 28 @ 10:00 am
'Solastalgic Archive'
Feb 27 - Mar 08
Thu, Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm
Mon, Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm
Thu, Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Mar 6 @ 1:00 pm
'Solastalgic Archive'
Mar 05 - Mar 08
Thu, Feb 26 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Feb 27 @ 1:00 pm
Mon, Mar 2 @ 1:00 pm
Thu, Mar 5 @ 1:00 pm
Fri, Mar 6 @ 1:00 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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'Sacred Roots: The Art of the Living Earth'
Mar 06 - Mar 28
Fri, Mar 6 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 7 @ 10:00 am
Tue, Mar 10 @ 10:00 am
Wed, Mar 11 @ 10:00 am
Thu, Mar 12 @ 10:00 am
Fri, Mar 13 @ 10:00 am
Sat, Mar 14 @ 10:00 am
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Out of Our Minds: Magic and Mind Reading
Mar 07 - May 30
Fri, Feb 27 @ 7:00 pm
Sat, Mar 7 @ 7:00 pm
Thu, Mar 12 @ 7:00 pm
Fri, Mar 20 @ 7:00 pm
Sat, Mar 28 @ 7:00 pm
Tue, Mar 31 @ 7:00 pm
Thu, Apr 2 @ 7:00 pm
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Feb 28, 2026
'Colorado Nick: A Legacy of Tattoo Art in Colorado Springs'
Presented by Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum at Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Colorado Springs, CO
About The Exhibit The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum (CSPM) is thrilled to announce the opening of Colorado Nick: A Legacy of Tattoo Art in Colorado Springs on Saturday, February 28, 2026. Housed in the AJ Smith Gallery on the CSPM’s third floor, this fascinating exhibit was developed in partnership with Scott and Kayla Boyer, founders of Yellow Beak Press, a publishing company based in Colorado Springs focused on preserving and promoting tattoo history. “This exhibit aims to bring the hidden history forward. The early tattooers featured here were key figures who shaped the craft in Colorado Springs, but their stories were scattered, forgotten, or never recorded at all,” stated by co-curator Scott Boyer. Featuring a vibrant range of tattoo art known as flash, tools of the trade, and stories highlighting the history and legacy of Colorado Nick along with a host of others, this unique exhibit highlights the little-known but important cultural history of tattooing. The CSPM in partnership with Scott and Kayla Boyer invite the community to celebrate this special exhibit opening from 10 am – 5 pm. Opening Schedule 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Live tattooing by Scott Huttenmaier and Nate Hudak (for a fee) Both artists will be offering selected designs featured in the exhibit and book Interested guests should contact the artists in advance via their Instagram accounts: @s.huttenmaier and @nate_hda Family-Friendly Activities (end at 4:00 p.m.) 2:00 p.m. Division I Courtroom Colorado Nick Presentation, Book Sale and Signing with tattoo historian Scott Boyer (special edition bags and…
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Feb 28, 2026
CountyWyde
Presented by Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort at Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort Colorado Springs, CO
LIVE at the Lodge is a weekly concert series, every Friday and Saturday night at the Buffalo Lodge Bicycle Resort. Join us for free local live music, Colorado crafted drinks, and a friendly community of regulars. This Saturday is CountyWyde, a high-energy bluegrass band that loves making music and sharing that fun with their audience. Limited parking will be available at the back of our property, so please carpool or bike in if possible. 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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A Century of Black History Commemoration: The Groves Family and Fannie Mae Duncan
Presented by Manitou Springs Heritage Museum at Manitou Springs Heritage Museum Manitou Springs, CO
During the opening reception, local musician Charles Lumpkin will speak about Black History Month and play the Black National Anthem on his saxophone. John Groves (1840-1902) and Louisa Divers Groves (1861-1943) were born in Virginia and Missouri, respectively. The son of a plantation owner and an enslaved woman, John soon showed his intelligence and was educated at a time that was illegal. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Sometime between 1886 and 1891, John and Louisa relocated to Manitou Springs, where they raised their family. Among their children: Harry Augustus (1891-1978), father of Harry Edward Groves (1921-2013), who would study at Harvard and become a respected law professor at universities around the nation. Fannie Mae Duncan was renowned as the founder and owner of the Cotton Club in downtown Colorado Springs, where her motto was “everybody welcome.” Her portion of the exhibit will include photos taken at the club in 1955. Fannie Mae Bragg was born in Alabama in 1918. Her family fled Alabama after a racially motivated murder and settled briefly in Oklahoma, Eventually, the family moved to Colorado Springs and Fannie Mae found work at the Manitou Spa. She married Ed Duncan in 1939 and the couple purchased a two-story building at 25 W. Colorado Ave. that would become the Cotton Club. Performers including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Flip Wilson, Etta James and B.B. King appeared there over the years to entertain audiences of all races. The exhibit also will feature Charlotte Rickert’s short…
Get Tickets Feb 27, 2026 - Feb 28, 2026
A Century of Black History Commemoration: The Groves Family and Fannie Mae Duncan
Presented by Manitou Springs Heritage Museum at Manitou Springs Heritage Museum Manitou Springs, CO
During the opening reception, local musician Charles Lumpkin will speak about Black History Month and play the Black National Anthem on his saxophone. John Groves (1840-1902) and Louisa Divers Groves (1861-1943) were born in Virginia and Missouri, respectively. The son of a plantation owner and an enslaved woman, John soon showed his intelligence and was educated at a time that was illegal. He served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Sometime between 1886 and 1891, John and Louisa relocated to Manitou Springs, where they raised their family. Among their children: Harry Augustus (1891-1978), father of Harry Edward Groves (1921-2013), who would study at Harvard and become a respected law professor at universities around the nation. Fannie Mae Duncan was renowned as the founder and owner of the Cotton Club in downtown Colorado Springs, where her motto was “everybody welcome.” Her portion of the exhibit will include photos taken at the club in 1955. Fannie Mae Bragg was born in Alabama in 1918. Her family fled Alabama after a racially motivated murder and settled briefly in Oklahoma, Eventually, the family moved to Colorado Springs and Fannie Mae found work at the Manitou Spa. She married Ed Duncan in 1939 and the couple purchased a two-story building at 25 W. Colorado Ave. that would become the Cotton Club. Performers including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Flip Wilson, Etta James and B.B. King appeared there over the years to entertain audiences of all races. The exhibit also will feature Charlotte Rickert’s short…
Get Tickets Mar 07, 2026 - Dec 05, 2026
Saturday Night Improv with Improv Colorado
Presented by Improv Colorado at Peak Improv Theater Colorado Springs, CO
If you like "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" you will love our show! Improv Colorado is guaranteed to bring laughter to any date night, girls’ night out, Meetup event or solo outing! These seasoned improv artists will amaze you with their wit and imagination! Every show is completely different than the last because it is all made up on the spot! Join us for giggles, grins and even a belly laugh or two! Fast paced improv comedy, you help with suggestions and we then create the fun. Bring the family or make it a date, it will be a fun night out. 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 Feb 28, 2026
Featured Artists Ken and Tina Reisterer
Presented by Green Horse Gallery at Green Horse Gallery Manitou Springs, CO
Ken and Tina Riesterer will be the featured artists in February 2026 at Green Horse Gallery. Ken throws the pots and bowls, and Tina adds her distinctive illustrations. 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 Feb 27, 2026 - Feb 28, 2026
Featured Artists Ken and Tina Reisterer
Presented by Green Horse Gallery at Green Horse Gallery Manitou Springs, CO
Ken and Tina Riesterer will be the featured artists in February 2026 at Green Horse Gallery. Ken throws the pots and bowls, and Tina adds her distinctive illustrations. 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 Feb 27, 2026 - Mar 08, 2026
'Solastalgic Archive'
Presented by Ent Center for the Arts at Ent Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
Conceived by artist Nina Elder, the Solastalgic Archive holds materials that contextualize and give breadth to the experience of living and making in this time of accelerated change. The evolving archive of objects, images, and conceptual actions collects ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience offered by contributors. It is an evolving, changing, temporal entity that will continue to grow as it is enriched by additions connected to each host venue. Beginning in 2019 with more than 40 artists, and continuing to grow throughout it’s many showings, Elder invites fellow climate conscious artists, scholars and public intellectuals, as well as farmers, spiritual practitioners, indigenous leaders, and activists to contribute something that represents the “solastalgic”. Much like the practicalities of a traditional time capsule, each submission has had only one physical requirement: it must fit in a medium flat rate USPS postal box; boxes in which the exhibition’s objects continue to be carefully stored and moved from venue to venue. The Solastalgic Archive holds contributions from a vast array of people, each asked to consider what connects them to the passage time. Unlike other museum collections, the Solastalgic Archive holds deeply personal items as well as things that change or disappear over time. Harnessing solastalgia as the archives’ organizing principle, the collections exemplify transformation rather than permanence, fleeting relationships rather than immutable. By allowing emotions and ephemerality to displace institutional indifference and contrived eternities, this space enlivens the passage of time. Installed in GOCA’s Project Space, the Solastalgic Archive will evolve over the course of the exhibition…
Get Tickets Mar 05, 2026 - Mar 08, 2026
'Solastalgic Archive'
Presented by Ent Center for the Arts at Ent Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
Conceived by artist Nina Elder, the Solastalgic Archive holds materials that contextualize and give breadth to the experience of living and making in this time of accelerated change. The evolving archive of objects, images, and conceptual actions collects ephemera of memory, creation, forgetting, destruction, preciousness and transience offered by contributors. It is an evolving, changing, temporal entity that will continue to grow as it is enriched by additions connected to each host venue. Beginning in 2019 with more than 40 artists, and continuing to grow throughout it’s many showings, Elder invites fellow climate conscious artists, scholars and public intellectuals, as well as farmers, spiritual practitioners, indigenous leaders, and activists to contribute something that represents the “solastalgic”. Much like the practicalities of a traditional time capsule, each submission has had only one physical requirement: it must fit in a medium flat rate USPS postal box; boxes in which the exhibition’s objects continue to be carefully stored and moved from venue to venue. The Solastalgic Archive holds contributions from a vast array of people, each asked to consider what connects them to the passage time. Unlike other museum collections, the Solastalgic Archive holds deeply personal items as well as things that change or disappear over time. Harnessing solastalgia as the archives’ organizing principle, the collections exemplify transformation rather than permanence, fleeting relationships rather than immutable. By allowing emotions and ephemerality to displace institutional indifference and contrived eternities, this space enlivens the passage of time. Installed in GOCA’s Project Space, the Solastalgic Archive will evolve over the course of the exhibition…
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…
Get Tickets Mar 06, 2026 - Mar 28, 2026
'Sacred Roots: The Art of the Living Earth'
Presented by Cottonwood Center for the Arts at Cottonwood Center for the Arts Colorado Springs, CO
From the Artist: In Sacred Roots, the symbiotic relationship between ancient heritage and the natural environment takes center stage. Drawing from centuries-old Indian art forms, this solo exhibition celebrates nature not as a backdrop, but as a primary protagonist. From the regal display of stylized peacocks to the fluid movements of aquatic life, each work serves as a testament to the belief that every living being carries an essential story. By bringing these earth-based traditions to a modern audience, the collection highlights a global yearning for harmony with our surroundings. The exhibition is a rhythmic dance of pattern and pigment, offering a meditative space where viewers can reconnect with the "Tree of Life" and the vibrant spirits of the animal kingdom. Through intricate linework and intentional geometry, these pieces translate the pulse of the natural world into a sophisticated, contemporary visual language. 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 07, 2026 - May 30, 2026
Out of Our Minds: Magic and Mind Reading
Presented by Cosmo's Magic Theater at Cosmo's Magic Theater Colorado Springs, CO
"Out of Our Minds" was written and designed to encourage audience input which affects the outcome for the evening. Continuing in our tradition of storytelling, light and fun presentation and comedy, this show includes brand new, original material created specifically for this performance. The audience will even be "taught" and participate in telekinesis (moving objects with your mind) during the performance! "Out of Our Minds" opened to sellout crowds for several weeks starting in June of 2022 to rave reviews! This show is subtitled, "The show that can't be done without you".
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