Things To Do in Denver This Weekend: November 13-15, 2026
November 12, 2026
DIVA gets a Saturday afternoon talk at the Denver Art Museum, Clocktower Conjuring plays its final night in a 100 seat room downtown, and Opera Colorado closes Macbeth with a Sunday matinee, November 13-15, 2026.
1. DIVA Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum
Denver is the only American stop for this one, so the alternative plan involves a flight to London. The Victoria and Albert Museum's DIVA fills the Hamilton Building with about 250 objects and costumes covering nearly 100 performers, Josephine Baker through Prince, Whitney Houston, Rihanna and Taylor Swift, with Jill D'Alessandro organizing the Denver run. Saturday at 2 PM there is a talk, The Diva as Cultural Revolutionary. Timed tickets are required and start at $29 for nonmembers, $7 for DAM members and $5 for anybody 18 and under, open 10 AM to 5 PM Thursday through Monday in the Golden Triangle.
Arts2. Changing Landscapes: Inside Venice, Mesa Verde and Rapa Nui at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
This is the rare museum exhibition you can lose. Changing Landscapes puts Venice, Mesa Verde and Rapa Nui up in photogrammetry projections and then hands you things to do, including tracing Rapa Nui rock art and trying to hold back a Venice flood. Open 9 AM to 5 PM and included with museum admission, which is $27.95 for an adult, at the Museum of Nature & Science in City Park with parking off Colorado Boulevard. It hangs until January 3, so the only reason to go this weekend is that you have the weekend.
3. Clocktower Conjuring
Friday is the last night of a two date run, and the room holds about 100 people. Indigo Moon and Soul Penny Circus stage Clocktower Conjuring as a speakeasy and a seance rather than a cabaret revue, inside the Daniels & Fisher Tower at 1601 Arapahoe Street downtown. No price is posted. Book through the OvationTix link on the venue's shows page, and do it before Friday afternoon rather than after.
Weird4. Cherry Creek Tree Lighting Holiday BAZAAR
The tree lighting is what Cherry Creek advertises, and the five hours in front of it are where the shopping gets done. Holiday BAZAAR brings Colorado makers to Cherry Creek Shopping Center, 3000 East 1st Avenue, from 2 to 7 PM Saturday, free at the door, with food carts, hot chocolate and Santa making his appearance. Leashed dogs are welcome, and a free Eventbrite RSVP gets you a reminder.
Markets5. Divorced, Beheaded, Unlaced!
Clocktower Cabaret restages SIX with aerial rigging, six dancers and three live singers splitting Henry VIII's wives between them. After the November 5 opening that benefited Our Front Porch, it plays Saturdays through the month, which puts it downtown this Saturday the 14th. The venue lists no showtime and no price, so the OvationTix box office is the only source for either. A show with no posted curtain is a show you call about.
6. "Unspoken: The Visual Language of Silence" Opening at 40 West Gallery
Free all weekend, with no opening night crowd left to get around. Unspoken: The Visual Language of Silence is up at The HUB at 40 West Arts, 6501 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood, through November 29. Hours past First Friday were never posted, so call before you drive.
7. Holiday Pop Up Market at Lakewood Cultural Center
Local makers in the Corner Gallery at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 South Allison Parkway in Belmar, free to walk in, through November 23. It opened about two weeks ahead of Denver's big holiday markets, which is the whole argument for going now instead of in December.
8. Urban Holiday Market at Denver Union Station
Free, outdoors at Denver Union Station, 11 AM to 5 PM Saturday and Sunday. Two of the market's six November dates land this weekend, and the only thing it asks of you is a warm coat.
9. Verdi's Macbeth by Opera Colorado
Opera Colorado opened its season with Verdi's Macbeth, and this weekend is where it ends: Friday at 7:30 PM, then a Sunday matinee at 2 that closes the run. Free talks start an hour before each curtain, which is the one part of the night Opera Colorado does not charge for. Resale sits around $140 with fees included, or roughly five DIVA tickets, at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
10. Clue: On Stage
Apex Performing Arts Collective gets four of its five performances in this weekend, which is a lot of murder for one Aurora block. Rebecca Shea directs Clue: On Stage at The People's Building in the Aurora Cultural Arts District, Friday at 7 PM, Saturday at 2 and 7, and Sunday at 2 to close. General admission is $25 flat for about 90 minutes, the clearest price on this list.
11. WASTED Wizard of Oz
Acting Tipsy Theatre Co. picks one cast member at random each night to drink on stage as Dorothy, with an all original score and live accompaniment. The catch is the calendar. This run plays Thursday November 12 and then Sundays November 22 and 29, so there is nothing to catch between Friday and Sunday. If you missed Thursday, November 22 at Clocktower Cabaret is the next one, through the venue's OvationTix box office, which lists neither a showtime nor a price.
Quick answers
- What is happening in Denver this weekend, November 13-15, 2026?
- Friday is the busiest night: Clocktower Conjuring plays its final date downtown, Opera Colorado's Macbeth goes up at 7:30 PM, and Clue: On Stage opens its weekend in Aurora at 7. Saturday brings the 2 PM DIVA talk at the Denver Art Museum, Colorado makers at Holiday BAZAAR in Cherry Creek from 2 to 7 ahead of the tree lighting, Divorced, Beheaded, Unlaced! at Clocktower Cabaret, and Clue at 2 and 7. Sunday closes both Macbeth, at a 2 PM matinee, and Clue, also at 2.
- What free things are there to do in Denver this weekend?
- Four picks in this edition cost nothing at the door: Holiday BAZAAR at Cherry Creek Shopping Center from 2 to 7 PM Saturday, Unspoken: The Visual Language of Silence at 40 West Gallery in Lakewood, the Holiday Pop Up Market at the Lakewood Cultural Center, and the Urban Holiday Market at Union Station from 11 to 5 both days. Opera Colorado's pre-show talks are free as well, an hour before Friday and Sunday curtain. If you want more, Second Fridays at Edgewater Public Market runs 5 to 8 PM Friday and Nightbots races robots free at Stanley Marketplace in Aurora from 11 to 3 Sunday.
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