Things To Do in Denver This Weekend: November 6-8, 2026
November 5, 2026
Denver Arts Week opens every district on First Friday, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance gives Oscar Brown Jr. a single night in Five Points, and the Museum of Nature & Science has a Venice flood game you can lose, November 6-8, 2026.
1. Denver Arts Week First Friday Art Walk
Denver Arts Week opens with the one First Friday that is genuinely citywide instead of district by district. Galleries, studios and museum spaces run 5:30 to 9:30 PM Friday November 6, free and self guided, and that is the entire appeal: no ticket, no schedule, nobody taking your name at a table. Pick two districts, park once, walk the rest.
2. OBJ aka Oscar Brown Jr.
Oscar Brown Jr. wrote Brown Baby, worked with Max Roach, and spent the civil rights era turning jazz into plain speech, and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance is giving him one night. Saturday November 7 at the company's own theater, 119 Park Avenue West in Five Points. No showtime or ticket price is published on the company's calendar, tickets page or event page, so call the box office at 303-295-1759 extension 102 before you build an evening around it. One night only means there is no Sunday to fall back on.
3. Changing Landscapes: Inside Venice, Mesa Verde and Rapa Nui at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
An exhibition about climate change at three World Heritage sites reads like homework until you are standing in a photogrammetry projection of a place that is going away. Saturday brings out a tactile Cliff Palace model and a Venice flood game, which is the version of this that kids will actually stay inside for. Open 9 AM to 5 PM in City Park, included with museum admission at $27.95 for adults, with parking on site off Colorado Boulevard. It runs through January 3, so this is a good rainy Saturday rather than a now or never.
Arts4. Bright Nights at Four Mile Historic Park
Last weekend for the lantern walk at Four Mile Historic Park. The gates run 6 to 11 PM through Sunday, November 8, and the oversized flowers and insects are worth seeing after dark. Adults pay $28 in advance or $30 at the gate; youth are $21 or $23. Book a timed slot and bring a layer.
5. pARTy and Rigsby Revisited: The Arvada Center Turns 50
Also finishing Sunday: the two free gallery shows the Arvada Center gave itself for its 50th birthday instead of a gala. pARTy hands the Main Gallery to 18 artists, and Rigsby Revisited rebuilds the Upper Gallery around the first solo exhibition the Center ever mounted, in 1977. Free, at 6901 Wadsworth Boulevard in Arvada, through November 8. Gallery hours are shorter than the theater's, so check posted times before you drive up.
6. DIVA Exhibition at the Denver Art Museum
Denver is the only American stop for the V&A's DIVA, which is a sentence this city rarely gets to write. About 250 objects cover close to 100 performers, Josephine Baker through Prince, Whitney Houston, Rihanna and Taylor Swift, with Tina Turner's Flame Dress and Rihanna's Met Gala gown on the floor Saturday. The Hamilton Building runs 10 AM to 5 PM Thursday through Monday, 10 to 8 Tuesday, closed Wednesday, on timed tickets from $29 for nonmembers, $7 for members and $5 for anyone 18 and under. Saturday is the museum's monthly free day and it does not cover this, so buy the timed ticket and enjoy the free general admission as a bonus.
7. Clocktower Conjuring
Flagging this one early instead of late: Indigo Moon and Soul Penny Circus bring Clocktower Conjuring back on Friday November 13, not this weekend. It is staged as a speakeasy and a seance rather than a cabaret revue, and the room seats roughly 100, so a two date run can be gone before the week it happens. Tickets go through the OvationTix link on clocktowercabaret.com/shows, at the Daniels & Fisher Tower, 1601 Arapahoe Street downtown.
Weird8. 9 to 5 Jr. at The People's Building
Apex middle schoolers performing the Dolly Parton musical, and Sunday's matinee is pay what you can with the money going to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. Try being cynical about that. Showtimes at The People's Building, 9995 East Colfax Avenue in Aurora, are 7 PM Friday, 2 and 7 PM Saturday, and 2 PM Sunday, with prices listed on the venue's event page. Free parking on site and the Colfax bus line goes right past the door.
9. Divorced, Beheaded, Unlaced!
Restaging SIX as an aerial and burlesque show is either the best or the worst idea of the season, and there is exactly one way to find out. Six dancers and three live singers play Henry VIII's wives on aerial rigging at Clocktower Cabaret downtown, running Saturdays through the rest of November after Thursday's opening benefit for Our Front Porch. The venue publishes no showtime and no price, so tickets run through its OvationTix box office at ci.ovationtix.com. Confirm the time when you buy, not at the door.
10. "Unspoken: The Visual Language of Silence" Opening at 40 West Gallery
40 West opens Unspoken: The Visual Language of Silence on First Friday, which gives the West Colfax end of the evening something to anchor to. The opening runs 5 to 9 PM Friday November 6 at The HUB at 40 West Arts, 6501 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood, free and open to the public, presented by the 40 West Arts District. The show hangs through November 29. Come Friday for the room, come back on a weekday if you want to see the work.
11. The Bierhalle Brawl: Live Pro Wrestling (November edition)
Rocky Mountain Pro puts a wrestling ring in Bierstadt Lagerhaus on Friday, November 6. Doors at 7 PM, prelims at 8:30, main card at 9. Ages 21 and up. Free standing room does not guarantee entry. Ringside is $28.52 and VIP is $39.19, fees included; reserved seats are sold out.
Quick answers
- What is happening in Denver this weekend, November 6-8, 2026?
- Friday November 6 is First Friday with Denver Arts Week on top of it, so the art districts run 5:30 to 9:30 PM, 40 West opens Unspoken in Lakewood from 5 to 9, and Rocky Mountain Pro wrestles inside Bierstadt Lagerhaus in RiNo with doors at 7. Saturday is the deepest day: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance's one night Oscar Brown Jr. tribute in Five Points, Tina Turner's Flame Dress on view in DIVA at the Denver Art Museum, 9 to 5 Jr. at 2 and 7 PM in Aurora, and Divorced, Beheaded, Unlaced! at Clocktower Cabaret. Sunday is closing day for Bright Nights at Four Mile Historic Park and for both Arvada Center 50th anniversary shows, plus the pay what you can matinee of 9 to 5 Jr.
- What free things are there to do in Denver this weekend?
- Three picks in this edition cost nothing: the Denver Arts Week First Friday Art Walk on Friday from 5:30 to 9:30 PM, the pARTy and Rigsby Revisited gallery shows at the Arvada Center through Sunday, and the Unspoken opening at 40 West Gallery in Lakewood on Friday night. Saturday adds two more worth knowing about. The Denver Art Museum's monthly free day covers general admission from 10 AM to 5 PM, though DIVA still needs its own $29 timed ticket, and MCA Denver opens free until 10 PM for Night at the Museums.
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