THE DEN10: JANUARY 25th

What a difference a week makes. Take some deep breaths and manage your self-care. Get off social media and put your emotional energy into things that matter, because you know what? There is a whole world out there that's going to happen with or without you and the future of our city rests in the hands of those who will build it. Take pics and throw a #WDDI on the good ones and we might just feature you in our Monday's post, What We Did.

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125 MILES WORTH OF ART

There is so much great art happening in Denton now, especially at the Greater Denton Arts Council. You should stop in to the Gough Gallery for VAST’s (Visual Arts Society of Texas) 11th Annual 125-mile Visual Arts Exhibition. The exhibit features art of all mediums submitted by artists that live within a 125 mile radius of Denton. While at the exhibit, be sure to check out the Composite of the Soul exhibition that we talked about last week! Read on for more. 

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5 THINGS NOT TO MISS: THE DENTON BLACK FILM FESTIVAL

The Denton Black Film Festival returns to Denton for it’s third year this coming weekend, and we’re pretty excited about all of the films, music, panels, and poetry that are about to descend upon our little city. If you have the time, it would be worth it to check out the entire festival, running Thursday through Sunday in thirteen different schedule blocks--but if you’re interested and only have a few hours here and there to spare, we’ve narrowed it down to five things not to miss!

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PHOTO ESSAY: WOMEN'S RALLY ON THE DENTON SQUARE

This weekend's rally on the square was not alone. There were more than 4 million people gathered across not only our country, but worldwide in protest. Here in Denton we had quite the gathering - with a little more than an estimated 2,000 people showing up on the square to stand together in solidarity. One of our favorite photographers in town, Wesley Kirk, who runs People of Denton was on the scene as well. Here we share some of the incredible moments that he and another photographer captured throughout the rally. 

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WHAT WE DID: JANUARY 23RD 2017

What We Did is our weekly "slice of life" photo post in which we share some recent photos that were tagged with #WDDI on Instagram. This week we have 18 from several different recent happenings including Saturday's Women's Rally, The Denton Black Film Festival's Building Bridges event, some live music, and much more. 

If you'd like to be included in What We Did, tag your images with #WDDI on Instagram, and check back here next Monday.  Search the hashtag #WDDI and check out all of the other photos that we were unable to include this week. Click the images below to be led back to the photographer's Instagram page where you can follow them and then go comment on a photo from 113 weeks ago. 

Got a question about What We Did? Send it to will@wedentondoit.com. 

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POST RALLY VIBES

This weekend was inundated with protests, rallies and more in the wake of a new president. Across the country there were over 1,000 sister rallies to the Women's March on Washington. Here in Denton, there was a rally on the square that gathered over 2,000 people who stood united, exercising their right to peacefully protest and gather together for their voices to be heard. We sat down with some of the organizers of the rally afterwards to hear their thoughts on the turnout and the event. Read on to find out out what surprised them the most, and why people marched. 

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OFFBEAT DENTON ODDITIES ROUND 5

Can Denton get weird and kooky? Oh heck yeah. Just recently, we’ve written about the hit-and-run death of UNT’s lucky albino squirrel, the eco-friendly hippie haven settlement Whitehawk, and a new card game involving Denton and Profanity. We even have four prior volumes of Denton Oddities, but here’s even more proof that there’s still plenty to gander at slackjawed whist urban adventuring around our Denton area.

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