One Colorado

Spanning a city block in Old Pasadena, One Colorado is an outdoor shopping, dining and entertainment destination. This award-winning property unites the urban environment of 17 historic buildings with 40 contemporary fashion and dining attractions. The One Colorado Courtyard, designed in the tradition of European town squares, hosts concerts, festivals, live swing and salsa presentations, high-quality fine art markets, and site-specific art installations curated by the Armory Center for the Arts. One Colorado has made a commitment to the arts through its partnership with numerous Pasadena organizations.

Out of the Woods
In partnership with the Armory, One Colorado presents artist Tony Bellaver’s outdoor multimedia installation, Woodland Recovery Project, consisting of science experiments that utilizing electronic environments for the hypothetically improved growth of native California trees. Commemorating the Pasadena Art Alliance’s fiftieth anniversary, curator Carole Ann Klonarides has selected work by cutting-edge video artist Jessica Bronson to be projected outside at One Colorado.

Land Sea Sky Film Series
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, is an extraordinary journey into the world of Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, a land-artist who uses materials from nature to make site-specific works.

The first in the Qatsi trilogy, Koyaanisqatsi, directed by Godfrey Reggio, takes its title from the Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." The film is an apocalyptic vision of the clashing of two different worlds—urban life and technology versus the environment. Powaqqatsi is a record of diversity and transformation, of cultures dying and prospering. Naqoyqatsi plunges into the hyper-accelerated, globally wired 21st Century.

Director Jacques Perrin’s Winged Migration is a film dedicated to birds and their displacements according to the seasons.

Re-Imagining
If you were to make a movie about the environment, what issues would you focus on? What do these films have in common? What effect does the music have on the images? Why would filmmakers make movies about these subjects?

A Link to Our Partners
Visit the Shumei Arts Council of America to see how musicians and composers imagine and utilize nature in their music.