Pirate is only open on weekends, and shows change frequently. The buzz is good on The Bug Performance and Media Arts Center, a renovated movie house that's now an avant-garde showcase for emerging artists and their artwork, including poetry, music, film and new media. In addition, CHAC sponsors a number of special events and programs throughout the city, including a Day of the Dead exhibition, the annual Chile Harvest Festival held at the Four Mile Historic Park in August and Las Posadas at the gallery during December. Counting such notable writers as Clive Cussler, Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Joanne Greenberg amongst its ranks, this organization has monthly meetings with speakers on any topic from spotting trends to writing with a collaborator. The purpose of this organization is to promote poetry throughout the state and to that end, the society offers contests, workshops and monthly critique groups.
Members get to attend all bimonthly programs for free.
One of the highlights of each year is the Annual Meeting where the featured speaker might be an FBI agent or a judge from a criminal court. This popular fiction-writing organization is geared to writers of commercial novels. Its 375 members are both published and unpublished and all enjoy monthly meetings where speakers talk about anything related to writing and researching. Monthly newsletters offer market news, and critique groups are held all over greater Denver. Forty dollars a year gets members a quarterly newsletter, displays at booksellers associations and a major opportunity to network.