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Also on today's calendar: Encouragement Day Festival 2026 and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why did the chicken go to the gym? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. At BMoCA, three artists turn family history into a conversation across generations (boulderreportinglab.org) — A new multigenerational exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art invites you to step inside a family's creative world while the museum pursues a $25 million expansion at the planned North Boulder Creative Campus. The show blends Chicano, Indigenous, and American imagery to explore identity, migration, and healing, and highlights how a Boulder family's home became an incubator for art and community.
2. Boulder Chamber honors 10 'Women Who Light the Community' (bizwest.com) — Boulder residents are being celebrated for their leadership as the Boulder Chamber's Women Who Light the Community awards honor 10 women shaping local business, service, and journalism. From homegrown arts ventures to sustainability work and independent media, the honorees' efforts touch everyday life across Boulder County, including downtown businesses, local nonprofits, and community-focused newsrooms.
3. Professionally Speaking: Jonathan Lev, Boulder JCC (ijn.com) — Boulder's Jewish Community Center leader Jonathan Lev describes how the 20‑acre campus has become a hub for education, events, and even a working farm that donates thousands of pounds of produce. He also reflects on guiding Boulder's Jewish community through crises like the Marshall Fire and the 2025 Pearl Street Mall bombing while expanding programs for families and local nonprofits.
4. Boulder police seek suspects in gold bar fraud cases (kdvr.com) — Boulder police are investigating two major gold bar fraud schemes that cost a Boulder woman about $200,000 and a Boulder man around $500,000, plus additional cash losses. Scammers posed as Apple, Geek Squad, FTC, and IRS-linked officials, directing victims to buy gold and send money, and detectives are asking anyone with information to contact them directly.
5. Watchmaker Genomics Boosts Manufacturing Capacity with Major Boulder Campus Expansion (genengnews.com) — Watchmaker Genomics is more than doubling its manufacturing footprint with a 100,000-square-foot facility at Flatiron Park in Boulder, expected to be operational in late 2027. The expanded campus will serve as a manufacturing center of excellence and is projected to support hundreds of new Colorado jobs as the company scales its DNA and RNA analysis products.
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