Give a Dam Beaver, a local nonprofit, is hosting a couple events in June.
June 3rd 10:30 am – Durango Public Library Family/Children Beaver Presentation
“Join us and Grandma Beaver on the Durango Public library’s Riverside Patio for a fun and interactive presentation about the importance of beavers to healing our local watersheds.”
Beaver Festival – June 14th, 2025, Saturday, 10am – 3pm at Rotary Park:
Give A Dam is thrilled to host Colorado’s first Beaver Festival on June 14th, 2025! This event will bring together beaver believers, restoration practitioners, educators, artists, and curious community members for a day of fun, learning, and connection. Music lovers too! Colorado’s best conscious reggae band, Niceness will be performing along with a Traditional Celtic band and contra dance with Tom Ward’s Downfall. There will be a Beaver Theater to boot! An audience participation (including you!) theater enacting the history of beaver watersheds and how humans are partnering with beavers to restore our streams!!!
PLEASE COME DRESSED IN YOUR FAVORITE BEAVER WETLAND COSTUME to participate in Beaver Theatre!!!!
Beaver NatureTheatre at Beaver Festival:
Come participate in an interactive theater recreating the role that beavers play as the guardians of the waters, rivers and creeks. Beavers are nature’s solution to drought, fire resiliency, water filtration and the return of many species that rely on beaver wetlands for habitat. Fun for all ages.
In this theater the “audience” gets to play the role of the creatures that are in the beaver-created wetlands while the narrator tells the story of how beavers are the keepers of the waterways. For example if the the child in the audience or student group is wearing brown they get to be a beaver or otter in the water, if they are wearing blue they get to be a dragon fly, if they are wearing orange they get to be our native cutthroat trout, if they are wearing multi colors they get to be a songbird, green they get to be frog in the pond, etc.