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Friday, May 23
 

5:30pm MDT

Wild Dark: A Multimedia Presentation with Craig Childs
Friday May 23, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
Beloved Colorado author Craig Childs (House of Rain, Animal Dialogues, Tracing Time, Secret Knowledge of Water, Atlas of a Lost World) returns to Crested Butte with his newest book, The Wild Dark: Finding the Night Sky in the Age of Light. A reading from Craig is a not-to-miss occasion. Blending sound and visual elements Childs takes the audience with him to desert landscapes and wilderness landscapes seen by few.

A night sky is not an absence of light; it is the presence of the universe. In The Wild Dark, master storyteller Craig Childs embarks on a quest to bike from the blinding lights of the Las Vegas Strip to one of the darkest spots in North America. Childs is a fearless explorer of both the natural world and the human imagination, making him the perfect guide to help us rediscover the heavens and to ask: “What does it do to us to not see the night sky?” In a book that is at once an adventure story, a field guide, and a celebration of wonder, Childs invites us to look up and to look inward, eyes wide and sparkling with stars.
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Craig Childs

An Arizona native, Craig Childs has lived within the bounds of the Gunnison River and the nearby Dolores for thirty-five years. He has published more than a dozen books of adventure, wilderness, and science and is a contributing editor at Adventure Journal Quarterly. His writing has... Read More →
Friday May 23, 2025 5:30pm - 6:30pm MDT
1 Steddy Theater
 
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