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Original Thinkers and its big ideas Ticket sales, programming announced for the Sept. 29 – Oct. 2 gathering

If there’s anything Original Thinkers encourages, it’s that we all are original thinkers. The concept is at once approachable as it is lofty, but it is one that OT founder and ringleader, David Holbrooke, and president Meredith Lavitt, are confident the festival, and humanity, are poised to tackle. The annual gathering, scheduled for Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 at the historic Sheridan Opera House, has announced the early round of its provocative programming and that tickets are now available for purchase.

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Original Thinkers festival mines for creativity in limestone quarry near Telluride

SAN MIGUEL COUNTY — In this place, where miners in the past harvested limestone from the mountains near Telluride, Gabriel Lifton-Zoline hopes to extract creativity and ideas.

The decommissioned Deep Creek Mine is ground zero for an art, music and light show installation as well as the grand finale for the second annual Telluride Original Thinkers Festival.

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Telluride’s Original Thinkers blends stories with art, music, movies, performances

The canyon walls that box end-of-the-road Telluride inspire some out-of-the-box thinking.

Big-thinkers in the shadows of those crags strung the first alternating-current long-distance transmission lines anywhere; they battled corporations and raised $50 million to buy and preserve the valley floor; they linked communities with the country’s first free gondola and they seeded first-of-their-kind festivals…

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Jedidiah Jenkins featured in Salon Media

What Jedidiah Jenkins learned by bicycling across the world

A year-long, 14,000-mile journey through the Americas gave Jedidiah Jenkins new insight on our connectedness...

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Original Thinkers Featured on Telluride Watch

Ball of confusion, that’s what the world is today. So sang The Temptations in their 1970 hit that enumerated the world’s woes. Little has changed, it would seem, and there are many who believe the state of the world has deteriorated…

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Moving on from Mountainfilm

Telluride Daily Planet interviews David Holbrooke about moving on from Mountainfilm, why October, and what differentiates Original Thinkers from any other festival…

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Bringing People Together

Off The Record interviews David Holbrooke about starting anew, his love for the Mountainfilm Nation, and how he plans on bringing people together…

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