Schedule of Events

We invite you to celebrate the launch of the Bluff Community Foundation (BCF), the new parent organization of the Bluff Arts Festival. We’ll celebrate the creation of the Foundation with a good old-fashioned Bluff potluck..with a twist! Bring a pot of your best fall soup to share, and Twin Rocks will provide salad and bread. This is a competition, people! We’re in search of Bluff’s souper-star soup, and we invite you to vote for your favorite soup by dropping a few bucks (or more!) into the associated donation jar. The soup and chef that garners the most money will be crowned Bluff’s Souper-Chef! Help us raise much-needed funds that further our efforts to support and foster great work happening in Bluff. There is no doubt this event will be soup-herb! 

Walk across the street and to the banks of the San Juan River (with a belly full of warm, yummy soup) to listen to a reading by award-winning writer Kathryn Wilder. 

Wilder was awarded this year’s Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award for her in-progress book titled The Last Cows, to be published by Bison Books in 2025. Her memoir, Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild Horses in the West (Torrey House Press, 2021), won the Colorado Book Award in creative nonfiction, a Nautilus Book Award, and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award. Locals are invited to read stories or poems following our featured author. 

A new event for the Bluff Arts Festival, the Bluff Art Walk promises a good time! Grab a map (available online and at all participating businesses) and walk, run, skip, hop, or better yet, drive to various galleries, shops, artist residences, hotels, and restaurants around town. Each spot will have a unique offering, various artists, or demonstrations. For a list of participants, visit the Bluff Art Walk page on our website. 

Grab a chair and sit beneath the stars or drive up and take in an incredible selection of films from the comfort of your vehicle during this outdoor film festival at the Bluff Community Center. This year features six films covering an array of topics important to the communities of the desert southwest, including a photographic journey into Glen Canyon as it emerged from 60 years of being underwater and the story of a woman realizing her dream of becoming an Indigenous super-model, breaking barriers fueled by the love and responsibility of her sacred homelands. 

For a full list of films, visit the Film Festival page on our website. Food trucks will be on-site for dinner.