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Week in the Arts - April 11th

The band Deer Tick plays an acoustic set at the Belly Up on Tuesday. Through the course of their latest album, the mix blues, country soul and punk. Ryley Walker opens the performance.

Rock Bottom Ranch is hosting a cooking class in Basalt on Tuesday. This event will teach attendees how to make a pizza using locally sourced and sustainably obtained ingredients.

Greg Jobin-Leeds comes to Explore Booksellers on Thursday. He’ll be reading from his book “When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First Century Social Movements and the Activists That Art Transforming Our World.” The book was released in January.

The Spring Youth Production of XanaduJr. opens at the Wheeler Opera House on Thursday. The performance is put on as part of Theatre Aspen School’s premiere training program.

The Aspen Art Museum’s Young Curators of the Roaring Fork program is hosting a movie night on Friday. Generation Now Movie Night presents short films that explore the perspectives of teenagers today and of past generations.

The SoprisTheatre Company opens their performance of “Uncle Vanya” at the New SpaceTheatre at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley campus. The performance is a more accessible version of the well-known play by Anton Chekhov.

Patrick Fort grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, nurturing a love for ice hockey and deli sandwiches. After moving to Colorado in 2010 to attend the University of Colorado to study music, Patrick discovered his love for journalism. In 2013, Patrick created and hosted the award-winning radio program Colorado Stories, a news program that covered CU and the surrounding community. An avid mountain and road cyclist, Patrick also referees youth ice hockey. He loves '60s pop bands and and trying new recipes ranging from milk-braised carnitas to flourless cakes.