Arts/Culture

A Unifying Vision of Community Art

A Unifying Vision of Community Art

Children learn at an early age how to mix colors of paint. Red and blue combine to make purple. But adults don’t always see those two colors in alignment during a heated election season.

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Sidewalk Artist Brings Joy to Neighbors Passing By

Sidewalk Artist Brings Joy to Neighbors Passing By

Julie Johnson started drawing seasonal chalk greetings in front of her house on Beeler St. during the pandemic: an Easter message with colored eggs, a New Year’s greeting, a heart for Valentines Day. “It was my effort to bring a little cheer to members of the community,” she recalls. 

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DSA Filmmakers to Showcase 20 Films at NYC Festival in October 

DSA Filmmakers to Showcase 20 Films at NYC Festival in October 

Sofia Macias has known she wanted to work in the film industry since she was very young. “I’ve loved horror films since I was 8 years old,” she says. A senior at the Denver School of the Arts, she recently found out that her 6-minute film Resonance was accepted into the All-American High School Film Festival in New York City.

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Sign of the Times: Revitalizing East Colfax

Sign of the Times: Revitalizing East Colfax

There isn’t always a big, shining sign pointing to the future. But on East Colfax Ave., there is, and the local arts community in northwest Aurora believes it’s a beacon of what’s to come for the neighborhood and its overlapping 16-block creative district.

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…NE News Updates

…NE News Updates

This month: 1) Take an Immersive Space Walk at Stanley Marketplace; 2) Check to See If You Have Unclaimed Property; 3) Proposed Changes to Sidewalk Repair Ordinance; 4) Ashley Elementary First Graders Get Bicycles; School Doubles in Size; and 5) Mayor’s Plan to Combat Auto Theft.

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Art Venues Revitalize  East Colfax Community

Art Venues Revitalize East Colfax Community

Purchased by the City of Aurora in 2015 and converted into an arts venue, The People’s Building is revitalizing the neighborhood by providing platforms for artists, entertainment and culture for audiences, and foot traffic for businesses. Now a new venue called Manos Sagrados (Sacred Hands), expected to open this spring, will augment the District by offering live music, art studios, and yoga sessions.

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Denver Painter Brings Local Scenes To Life

Denver Painter Brings Local Scenes To Life

Sporting a wide-brimmed hat and a large paintbrush, artist Ed Natan can often be found on Colfax Avenue, South Broadway, in the Uptown neighborhood, or in one of Denver’s municipal parks, chatting with locals or tourists as he creates vivid watercolor paintings of some of the city’s most iconic street scenes.

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StoryWalk Adorns East Colfax with Original Poetry

StoryWalk Adorns East Colfax with Original Poetry

New interactive art is now adorning the East Colfax neighborhood in some of the most unexpected places, from panels atop wooden posts throughout McNichols Park to vinyl-wrapped electrical boxes along Colfax Avenue. The panels and electrical boxes are inscribed with original poetry and are the “stops” in a “StoryWalk,” the first art installation by the Denver non-profit Sidewalk Poets. 

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…NE News Updates

…NE News Updates

This month: 1) 4 Noses Brewing Expands to Park Hill; 2) FlyteCo Brewing Offers Tours of Former Air Traffic Control Tower; 3) Camp Christmas Returns to Stanley Marketplace; 4) New Mural on Sand Creek Trail in Central Park; and 5) Cheluna Brewing Wins Gold Medal.

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Boundless Wonder

Boundless Wonder

Primarily a contemporary ballet company, Wonderbound also curates and displays visual works, collaborates with local songwriters, stages productions with live bands, and has incorporated spoken word poetry into performances. Wonderbound exists “to foster bounding curiosity and thoughtful storytelling,” Fay says. “Everything is created for Wonderbound and choreographed by Garrett.” 

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Colfax Creates a  Colorful Canvas for  Aurora’s Arts District

Colfax Creates a Colorful Canvas for Aurora’s Arts District

It’s a way to celebrate visual arts, small businesses, food, music, and one of metro Denver’s most under-appreciated neighborhoods. The Fourth Annual Colfax Canvas Mural Festival will be held on Sept. 16 from 12pm-5pm in the heart of Aurora’s Arts District along Colfax Avenue.

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Sounds of Mexico in the Neighborhood

Sounds of Mexico in the Neighborhood

If you want to hear—and learn—mariachi music in Denver, you only have to go so far as the East Central Park neighborhood in Aurora, home to the Colorado Youth Mariachi Program (CYMP).

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