Since 1992, the Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts has produced and presented innovative arts experiences that foster curiosity and collaboration. Providing creative leadership and inspiring positive change in the Southern Colorado community and beyond.
Upcoming Events, Workshops and Retreats
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Soul Songs & Healing Sound for Hope, Renewal & Restoration
with Judith Piazza
📆 Sunday March 30th, 2025
⏰ 10:30 am — 12:00 noon
🎟️ Suggested Donation $15—$30
🎟️ Suggested Donation $15—$30
Join our community of devotional song! No experience required
We sing from the natural voice in call and response style. Sit, sing, hum, meditate, dance, move, sleep, rest… all are welcome! Bring your favorite morning beverage. Chairs, mats, pillows and blankets are available for your use.
Come in good health for everyone’s sake!
If weather is a consideration, watch for updates
RSVP please to 720-982-8291 or judypiazza@gmail.com
302 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Wild Origin Nature Connection — Every Last Saturday of the Month
with Earthskills of Manitou
📆 Saturday, April 26th ⏰ 9:00 am — 10:30 am
📆 Saturday, May 31st ⏰ 9:00 am — 10:30 am
🎟️ $10 – $15 Suggested Donation
Reconnect with the Earth and Awaken Your Wild Mind! Join fellow Earth stewards and learn together through hands-on outdoor experiences and meaningful conversations.
Join Earthskills of Manitou at Smokebrush Farm every last Saturday of the month this spring as we explore ways to care for the planet, enhance our sensory awareness, and deepen our connection to nature. Together, we’ll rediscover our integral role in the rhythms of the Land.
🐾 Animal tracking & species identification
🧘 Sit spot reflection
🦅 Bird communication & animal mimicry
🎨 Land art inspired by nature
🌎 Earth-based skills for everyday life
Optional local hike after the event (weather permitting). Bring outdoor clothing, a sitting pad, water, binoculars, journal, and pen. Let’s explore, learn, and renew our bond with the wild. RSVP today!
Questions? Text 719-678-6375
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Chocolate Truffle Making Class
with Chef Aimee Morrow
📆 Saturday, April 26th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 pm — 3:30 pm
🎟️ $65 per guest
🎟️ $65 per guest
Get hands-on and create your own delicious chocolate! Join Chef Aimee in the historic Rockledge kitchen for an immersive chocolate-making experience!
In this hands-on class, you’ll master the art of creating three ganache bases using organic, Fair Trade chocolate and low glycemic sweeteners of dates, raw honey & coconut nectar:
🍊 Orange & Vanilla Dark Chocolate
🥥 Toasted Coconut & Honey Ganache
🍫 Classic Peruvian Dark Chocolate
Take home six handcrafted, hand-dipped truffles and your own personally topped chocolate bark. Plus, indulge even more with additional chocolates available for purchase!
After class, savor a warm cup of Peruvian dark drinking chocolate, blended with coconut sugar and oat & coconut milk — a perfect way to wrap up your experience!
302 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Walk on the Wild Side! Create Your Own Spring Tonic
with Mari Marques-Worden, The ThymeKeeper and EarthSkills of Manitou
📆 Sunday, April 27th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 pm — 4:00 pm
🎟️ $30 per guest
🎟️ $30 per guest
Step into nature's pharmacy for an unforgettable hands-on experience in foraging and herbal crafting! From field to bottle, you'll craft your own healing remedy and gain the knowledge to use it for life!
🍃 Stroll through the lush fields of Smokebrush Farm, learning to forage wild, nutrient-packed herbs
🍃 Discover how common backyard plants support wound care and respiratory health
🍃 Uncover ancient herbal wisdom to naturally boost your immunity
At the end of the workshop, you’ll take home a personalized bottle of your crafted spring tonic to nourish and energize you long after the event.
📩 Mari: mugsyspad@aol.com 📞 719-439-7303
📩 Iraiah: irawaak@gmail.com 📞 719-678-6375
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Bug Out Costume-Building Work Sessions
with Smokebrush Art Club
📆 Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
📆 Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
⏰ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Sliding Scale Donation
$10 -20 if using Smokebrush provided supplies.
RSVP to Queen Bee Becca Loevy at 719-649-0953
Get Bug-Ready with Smokebrush Art Club! Join the Smokebrush Foundation’s Art Club for some buggy arts and crafts as we gear up for our main event: BUG OUT — A Creepy-Crawly Costume Bash & Bug-Themed Immersive Experience happening Saturday, May 3rd!
These costume crafting sessions are the perfect chance to finalize your buggy look for the costume contest or add your own unique insect-inspired touches. Join us for:
• A wings and antennae station with pipe cleaners and materials to craft your perfect bug accessories
• A googly-eye station, complete with pinecones for making mini bugs
• Buggy beats and creative community vibes to fuel your inspiration
• Plenty of space to get messy and imaginative—bring any extra materials you’d like to use!
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Bug Out — A Creepy-Crawly Costume Bash & Bug-Themed Immersive Experience
with Becca Loevy
music and dance performances by Bug Juice and The Smokebrush Players
📆 Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
⏰ 6:00 pm — 10:00 pm
🎟️ $30 per guest
🎟️ $30 per guest
Have you ever wondered where the creepy crawlers go in Winter? What gets our itty-bitty friends up and going in the Spring? Get your bug boy pants on and join us as we head underground, dressed the part, to find out in the biggest, buggiest costume party extravaganza you’ll ever see.
Fly away with a newfound appreciation for bugs and an itch to learn more about how these little creatures buzz and all that they do for our ecosystem. You might even learn a fun bug fact or two. Make sure to wear shoes to buggy in. Leave with a plethora of dance moves and singsongs to tap back into later, whilst in your garden or your future summer picnic, when a particular pest is getting to you!
A kaleidoscope of sights, sounds, tastes, and creepy-crawly feels that are sure to wake up all your senses!
This is an 18+ event
302 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Champagne, Chocolate, and Chopin!
with classical pianist Heidi Alina and chocolatier Aimee Morrow
📆 Friday, May 9th 2025
⏰ 6:45 pm — 9:00 pm
🎟️ $37 per guest
Ticket purchase includes one complimentary alcohol beverage, hand-crafted hors d’oeuvres, coffee/tea, and artisanally-crafted chocolates.
A one-of-a-kind evening of musical enchantment and sensory delight—an unforgettable Mother’s Day gift.
Enjoy handcrafted cocktails, fine champagne, artisanal chocolates, hors d’oeuvres, and aromatic teas—all curated to elevate the evening.
Highlights include a rare ‘Under the Piano’ sound-bath experience, as well as an optional movement space in the yoga room to explore the soundscape through gentle motion.
This performance is part of Heidi’s preparation for the San Diego International Piano Competition, and her return to the stage after 30 years adds a deeply inspiring dimension.
Celebrate beauty, music, and connection—where every note, flavor, and moment is unforgettable.
302 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Friction Fire Building — EarthSkills Original Technology Series
with Earthskills of Manitou
📆 Saturday, May 10th, 2025
⏰ 12:30 pm — 2:30 pm
🎟️ $15 – $30 Suggested Donation
Bridge the connection between yourself & nature, learn how to take care of your basic needs as provided by your local environment — EarthSkills of Manitou offers you a unique opportunity to engage in time-tested techniques that our ancestors have used to thrive in harmony with nature for millena.
Reconnect with a sense of belonging on the land as we experience hands-on learning every second Saturday of the month, this spring at Smokebrush Farm. Rediscover the fundamental skills that make us humans wild!
Ignite your instincts as we tap into the age old skill of fire building, a cornerstone of surviving and thriving. Practice the art of friction fire using different local woods to birth a coal. Rekindle your connection to nature! RSVP today!
Questions? Text 719-678-6375
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Mother's Day Plant Sale
📆 Sunday, May 11th, 2025
⏰ 9:00 am — 3:00 pm
Reach out to smokebrushfarm@gmail.com for specific seedling requests!
⏰ 9:00 am — 3:00 pm
Reach out to smokebrushfarm@gmail.com for specific seedling requests!
Join us for a Mother's Day in Manitou with our favorite new seedlings all locally grown right here at Smokebrush Farm!
Gear up for thyme, basil, peppers, tomatoes, and many more veggies, flowers, medicinal and culinary herbs. Enjoy a curated Mother’s Day Tea, and peruse our pickled goods, fresh produce, teas, and tinctures too.
6145 Shoup Rd, Black Forest, CO
16th Annual MeadowGrass Music Festival
📆 Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
THREE DAYS May 23—25, 2025
The premiere music festival to kick off summer in the Pikes Peak region, known for attracting up-and-coming talent from the region and all over the world.
Besides the amazing musicians, we have activities for kids (12 and under get in free with a paid adult), guided hikes, workshops, yoga, and late-night shows along with our annual MeadowGrass Beer Festival and Steve Harris Songwriter of the Year Contest. Amazing vendors offer a wide variety of food for all diets and retail items for all styles.
The property, several hundred acres of forest, canyons and historic buildings, is a wonderful place to explore. All of this resides within 60 minutes of Denver and 30 minutes of downtown Colorado Springs!
Weekly Music
and Movement Classes
Red Crags Arts and Agriculture House
302 El Paso Blvd, Manitou Springs, CO
Ignite the Dancer Within: Stretching, Posture & Mudras, Zumba & Dances of India
with AuroTejas Hemsell and Shakti Dance School
Wednesdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Immerse yourself in a cultural fitness adventure with a series of invigorating classes led by the globally acclaimed dance artist AuroTejas Hemsell — presented by the Smokebrush Foundation for the Arts.
Bellydance: Embrace the Inner Goddess
with Adriana Jones Rincon
Thursdays 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Discover the vibrant art of bellydance in this fun and inclusive class designed for all skill levels! Learn graceful movements, mesmerizing techniques, and expressive choreography while building strength, flexibility, and confidence.
The Joy of African Drumming
with Heidi Alina
Tuesdays and Wednesdays
African drumming is one of the most invigorating ways to feed your creativity and renew your spirit! Heidi’s classes are an upbeat, empowering, and FUN musical adventure into the power of African drumming. FOUR sessions weekly — intermediate classes available.
ROCKLEDGE HOUSE • RED CRAGS ARTS and AGRICULTURE HOUSE • ONALEDGE HOUSE
Historic mountain estates thoughtfully transformed into an expansive retreat and urban farm destination — a haven for wellness, creativity, and connection.
Nestled in the majestic Rocky Mountain foothills near the natural healing mineral waters of Manitou Springs, this serene environment is designed to be a peaceful space for deepening your practice.
Rockledge House
Guest Check-in and Retreat Rental Office
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Onaledge House
Retreats, Private Events and Whole House Rentals
336 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Smokebrush Farm Headquarters
Agricultural Center, Community Farm Stand and Gift Shop
328 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
Red Crags Arts and
Agriculture House
Main Foundation Office, Studios and Artist Residences
302 El Paso Boulevard, Manitou Springs, CO
