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A monthly event with thought provoking presentations on various topics people are passionate about. Be there and be square. 🤓

09/11/2026

✨SPOTLIGHT ON THE PRESENTERS✨

We are thrilled to have Hannah and Al present on Sept 17th!

Hannah is a marketer by trade but a philosopher at heart (and by virtue of an overpriced liberal arts degree). As an aspiring author, she’s always interested in storytelling and shared myth; and as a wannabe-witch/dirty hippie, she’s developed an interest in tarot and shadow work.

Al (Al Marino) is a high school art teacher that has been playing Dungeons and Dragons and other ttrpgs (table top role playing games) for many years. She is a gm (game master) and a player. She writes her own campaigns and has used pre-written ones as well. Currently, she is running two games and playing as a character in one.

We are currently at capacity Wolverine Farm Publick House! There is a waitlist available through the link in the bio and you can be notified if tickets become available.

09/01/2026

Our Sept 17th show has just been announced and you don’t want to miss it! Grab your tickets through the link in the bio before they are gone!

Talk 1:
Don’t Fear the Reaper: Tarot & Archetypes
by: Hannah Bauer

Did you draw the Death card? Don’t sweat it. This talk will demystify tarot with a brief history and a basic overview of the deck. From there, we’ll go beyond the cards as an Etsy witch parlor trick and examine they relate to Jungian psychology, mythology, and philosophy—and how they can help us better understands our “shadow selves.”

Talk 2:
What the hell is DND anyway?: background and how to play
by: Al Marino

My talk will be about Dungeons and Dragons, the history and the basics on how to play. This is an introductory talk that will hopefully get you inspired to play your own game or at least learn more about something you’ve heard of but don’t know where to start. It will be slightly interactive in rolling dice and discussing what a character sheet looks like.

08/31/2026

Check out our friend’s at the USS Cordilleran ! They are having a Charity Ball on Sept 19th to fundraise for Project Self Sufficiency (Project Self-Sufficiency ) at The Lyric (The Lyric 🚀 )! There will be a themed costume party and silent auction and then an outdoor movie screening of Star Trek: First Contact. The silent auction items look amazing! Follow their socials and find out more information about the event through the link in the bio.

08/21/2026

We had another fantastic sold-out show! Thank you to everyone who came out and, especially, to our wonderful presenters, Ryan and Miranda, for making the evening so memorable.

A heartfelt thank-you to Ryan for sharing his and his wife’s deeply personal medical journey. Your honesty, perspective, and willingness to share such a personal experience may offer insight, comfort, and hope to others facing a similar situation.
And thank you to Miranda (Miranda Guettlein ) for sharing her extraordinary gift for accents! Your presentation was as entertaining as it was impressive!

We’re so grateful to both of you for making this Nerd Nite Fort Collins one to remember!

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08/20/2026

Throwback Thursday to our previous August shows in 2023, 2024, 2025! It’s fun to look back on those amazing presentations!
We are at capacity for our show tonight Wolverine Farm Publick House! Follow our newsletter to get intel for when the tickets go on sale for our September 17th show!

08/14/2026

✨SPOTLIGHT ON THE PRESENTERS✨

Ryan and his wife Monica have lived in Fort Collins for the past two years. Ryan is a Data Scientist and occasionally joins local AI meetups. Alternatively, you may have encountered him playing ultimate frisbee with Fort Collins Ultimate, campaigning to protect privacy rights and remove Flock ALPR cameras with the Northern Colorado Privacy Coalition, at events related to his position on the city’s Disability Advisory Board, or helping Monica sell bedazzled sunglasses through Rainbow Nectar Studios at music shows or markets. And of course, here at Nerd Nite for the last few months and many more to come!

Miranda is a linguist (MA from CU Boulder) and dialect coach (Knight-Thompson Speechwork certified) based in Fort Collins. She taught voice, speech, and accents at the University of Northern Colorado for three years, has coached dozens of theatrical performances, and is the Editor in Chief of the Voice and Speech Review (the only academic journal dedicated to voice and speech training for performance).

There are only a few tickets remaining! Grab yours before they sell out through the link in the bio!

08/06/2026

We are BACK with two amazing talks on August 20th Wolverine Farm Publick House! Grab your tickets through the link in the bio!

Talk 1:
Psychobiotics & The Microbiomes That Make Us
by: Ryan Burns

Did you know your gut microbiome weighs roughly as much as your human brain? In the last decade, research into the Gut-Brain Axis has fundamentally changed how we understand mental and physical health. Psychobiotics leverage these trillions of microbes to communicate directly with our nervous and immune systems. Join us to explore how bacteria dictate daily wellness and discuss a real-world case study of gut microbiome modulation to revitalize mental and autoimmune health.

Talk 2:
The Science and Magic of Accent Acquisition
by: Miranda Guettlein (Miranda Guettlein)

Speaking in different accents seems like magic, but there are predictable rules and practicable skills than anyone can learn. Combining research in linguistics, performance, and psychology, this talk demystifies the process of learning any accent by breaking them down into their component parts and relying on real human speakers of the accents for data.

07/10/2026

Join us on July 16th at Wolverine Farm Publick House for a collaboration SOCIAL with the USS Cordilleran (USS Cordilleran ), northern Colorado’s Star Trek, Sci-fi and Fantasy group.

At 6:00 pm, the USS Cordilleran will have their monthly meeting. Feel free to come and learn more about their group. On Sept 19th they are having a Charity ball to fundraise for Project Self Sufficiency (Project Self-Sufficiency ) at The Lyric! There will be a themed costume party and silent auction and then an outdoor movie screening of Star Trek: First Contact.

Tickets for the Charity Ball can be found here:
https://www.lyriccinema.com/movie/uss-cordillerans-annual-charity-ball

At 7:00 pm come help us build a better Nerd Nite! We’ll be testing and demonstrating trivia formats, and we want your input. This is a low-key, free community night at Wolverine Farm where we workshop ideas to improve Nerd Nite Fort Collins.

Get a free ticket (https://events.humanitix.com/nerd-nite-fort-collins-s2026e07-free-planning-event ) to reserve your space to play along, and tell us what you think.

Come on out and meet fellow FOCO nerds!

06/20/2026

Nerd Nite Fort Collins delivered! Joel Bacon had us building a pipe organ with our bare hands while learning the history, physics, and art behind these incredible instruments. Evan Wilson illuminated the present and future of our electric grid — and why the economics are as much the problem as the engineering. We also debuted Nerdometer trivia, which was a blast. Thank you to our presenters, volunteers that helped with the organ building, our audience and
Wolverine Farm Publick House !

Hope to see you July 16th for our free social and trivia with our Northern Colorado’s Star Trek, sci-fi, and fantasy group: USS Cordilleran !

06/11/2026

✨Spotlight on the Presenters✨

Our June 18th show is going to be fun and interesting! We have a few tickets left so grab them before they sell out through the link in the bio!

Joel Bacon is a distinguished Professor of Music, the Stewart and Sheron Golden Chair of Organ and Fr. Don Willette Chair of Catholic Studies at CSU, where he has taught for over 20 years.
He earned a Ph.D. in historical musicology through a joint degree program of Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts and the University of Vienna, with a dissertation on the use of the organ in orchestral music.

Evan has spent 15 years navigating the electric power sector from multiple angles: as a competitive supplier trying to win customers, a utility executive building demand management programs at scale, and now as a startup operator tackling load flexibility. His obsession with how individuals like you use energy has given him a rare, ground-level understanding of how supply and demand-side constraints actually affect real people. He’s here to demystify how it all works to give you a baseline of how the grid is built, what challenges we need to solve, and where we are headed in an ever-electrifying world.

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