Denver weekend happenings: Feb. 19-21
🎥 The Colorado Environmental Film Festival gets underway Friday through Sunday at the Green Center on the Colorado School of Mines campus with over 50 new films to see in-person or online.
🍺 Grab a dark beer. River North Brewery in Denver is hosting a weekend-long 13th Anniversary Party with new releases, food trucks and a beer pairing dinner.
If you want more, head to Loveland for the Verboten Stout Festival, where you can try unlimited pours from 2-5pm.
🎟 Get in free to the Denver Art Museum on Saturday. Doors open at 10am.
🎉 Embrace the season at the Arvada Winterfest from 11am to 4pm Saturday. Expect live ice sculpting, a beer garden and food trucks as well as craft vendors and music.
🏃 If you see half-naked people running through the streets of Denver on Saturday, that's Cupid's Undie Run, an event that raises awareness of the genetic disorder neurofibromatosis.
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