What to do in Colorado this week: Loud Women at the Fox Theatre in Boulder

This weekend, the LOUD WOMEN Festival puts the spotlight on female performers in Boulder, the Pueblo Film Festival screens an international lineup, Sundance Film Festival has free tickets up for grabs and museums in Denver are nixing admission.

Nov. 5-11

LOUD WOMEN festival. London was supposed to be their last gig. Boulder-based punk band Diva Cup, formed in the University of Colorado radio station basement, was “a college band,” Maxx Goodman, the band’s guitarist, said. “It was the natural thing. College was ending, people were thinking about other places to go and use their degree and all that.”

They booked a show in London at LOUD WOMEN Fest, produced by an international music organization of the same name that showcases female and femme musicians through festivals, radio shows, record compilations and a digital zine.

Plans changed. Goodman leaves Boulder in about a week’s time, moving to New York City to meet up with her bandmates and continue making music together. But not before she brings LOUD WOMEN to Colorado on Saturday at the Fox Theatre in Boulder.

“Boulder is a little bit of a weird music market, it’s so transitional because of the college,” Goodman said. “So bands are always forming and disappearing.” She hopes that her parting gift to the city, a full day of female-forward punk shows, will bring together “likeminded people to meet each other in the flesh.”

The festival starts at 4 p.m. Saturday and will feature 10 bands hand-selected by Goodman and a small crew of musicians. “It’ll be rowdy,” Goodman said, on what to expect of the evening. “It’ll be high energy. Fun. It’s a mix of local and not local bands. The hope is that you find new bands that you like and then keep following them.”

$35; 4 p.m., Saturday; Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder

Other events to consider

• Pueblo Film Festival. Start the weekend Friday night with 10 short films and a short documentary at the festival’s free kickoff party, then spend the next day bopping around the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, where you’ll find 35 films from nine countries for only 20 bucks. $20; 10 a.m., Saturday; Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, 210 N. Santa Fe Ave., Pueblo
• Sundance Trivia Week. A week of movie trivia at more than 30 bars around the Front Range. Compete for cinephile swag and tickets to the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. No advance registration required, just show up and throw down. Free; Nov. 8-13; Various locations
• Free Night at the Museums. As part of the 20th annual Denver Arts Week, visit more than a dozen cultural institutions in Denver for free Saturday night, from 5-10 p.m. Special shuttles will run between the sites to make visiting more than one museum even easier. Free; 5-10 p.m., Saturday; Various locations in Denver

Note: This is a curated list by the reporter to give readers a sense of arts and culture events happening across Colorado that they may not have otherwise known about. This is not meant to be an exhaustive account of things to do.