A Hunker Down Kinda Weekend 🥶

Good morning, Golden & the Front Range! The cold cometh this weekend. 🥶

Old home?….drip your water
Apartment?….keep your heat on
New home?….where’s my housewarming party invite? 💁‍♀️

Today’s issue includes:

• 🎨 Calling all Artists

• 🥕 GoFarm Partnering with “Hyperlocal” Vendors

• 🎥 Banff, Rocks, & Beer Talks

• 📆 Upcoming Events

• 🔎 Around Golden: the Funicular

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🎨 Calling All Artists

Are you an artist? Know an artist you could forward this newsletter to?

The City of Golden is seeking new public art to enhance Ulysses Park as part of it's redevelopment. Submissions are due by January 21.

(The city is also adding multi-use sports fields ⚽️ to replace the Rooney Road Sports Complex, where they have a 20-year lease that’s up in 2026.)

Find more information on submissions… ➡️ here
For more on the redevelopment of Ulyseses Park… ➡️ Golden Transcript

🥕 GoFarm Partnering with “Hyperlocal” Vendors

GoFarm is hoping to join forces with small, local businesses that are interested in popping up at their Local Food Share distributions in 2025.

Bring more awareness to your business…or test out whether there’s a market for your product. Send up the bat signal to all of your MBA friends. 🤓

More info ➡️ here.

🎥 Banff, Rocks, & Beer Talks

Lovers of rad, next-level, outdoor stoke, UNITE!! (Ok, admittedly I’m not hip on the lingo, but you get the idea.) 🤷‍♀️ 

🏔️ The Banff Film Festival World Tour is back! Colorado Mountain Club hosts this multi night (usually sold out, per my experiences) film festival. And this year it’s in a new venue—The National Western Stockyards Event Center. Dates: February 27 - March 2 | Get your tickets 🎟️ : here

🧗 Looking for sendy stoke closer to home? Reel Rock 19 will be featured in Mine’s Friedhoff Hall. Date: April 3 @ 6pm | Get your tickets 🎟️ : here

🍺 Don’t forget about the upcoming Golden Beer Talk (FREE at The Buffalo Rose). “This presentation will outline the history of weather and climate observations in Colorado, what they tell us about the climate of our state, and how a warming climate is expected to affect Coloradans.” Date: January 21 @ 6pm

📆 Upcoming Events

This Weekend:

• 🎵 Live Music at New Terrain Brewing (11/16 @ 6-9pm)

• 🥸 First Annual Mustache Competition at Golden City Brewing (1/18 @ 5pm) - FREE beer with mustache entry

• 🧘 Soundbath at Pranatonic off Washington Ave (1/18 @ 6:30-7:30pm) - $35

• 🥃 State38 Cocktail Class (1/18 @ 4-5:30pm) - $65; “The cocktails for this class will include the Winter Old Fashioned and the Green Beast (Absinthe). Each individual will get to take home a State 38 Distilling rocks glass and tasting glass.”

• 🍺🐶 Dog Adoption Event at Over Yonder Brewing (1/19 @ 1-4pm): meet adoptable dogs and enjoy beer knowing you’re supporting a good cause. $1 per full pour of a featured beer goes to Animal Rescue of the Rockies and Old Dogs New Digs.

• 🎉 Cannonball Creek Brewing’s 12 Year Anniversary Celebration (all weekend!): Drink anniversary beers, checkout the food trucks, and more…

  • 1/17 - Limited Edition T-shirts & Live Music @ 7pm

  • 1/18 - Photo Booth & Live Music @ 4pm and 7pm

  • 1/19 - Live Music @ 1m AND for the kiddos…face painting and balloons, piñata @ 3pm for kids 10 and under

🔎 Around Golden: the Funicular

If you were single and ready to mingle in Golden’s early days, the Lava Lane Dance Hall 🌋 atop Castle Rock was the place to be—and getting there was half the fun! From 1913 to 1915, the Castle Rock Funicular with its 32-seat car and 30 minute trip, took visitors up the steep slope for just 50 cents.

At the top, the dance hall buzzed with music, but its reputation wasn’t all glitter—it was also rumored to host meetings of the Ku Klux Klan, a dark stain on its past.

The funicular lasted only two years, and the dance hall burned down in 1927, but traces of their history remain etched into the mountain. The old line is still visible, its path scarred into the slope, and bolts and foundation remnants can still be found atop Castle Rock.

Source: Golden, Colorado By Golden Pioneer Museum

Stay safe. Stay warm. See you in your inbox again on Monday—MLK day.

Your friendly neighborhood goose 🪿,
Kelsey
Publisher | The Golden Goose