Chance to Dance

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

Denver Arts & Venues is pleased to host Chance to Dance 2016. In its fourth year, this free, all-day event celebrates dance as an art form and occurs on the first Saturday of Denver Arts Week, Denver's city-wide celebration of art and culture. The day offers professional dance workshops (beginner and intermediate level - open to.... Read More

The Impossible Task

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

Join Warm Cookies of the Revolution (the world's first civic health club) and try to find solutions to the seemingly impossible. Tonight we’ll explore Nationalism, hearing from experts on Black Nationalism, Zionism, and Indigenous Nationhood while getting frustrated by puzzle boxes, trivia, ten year-old chess wizards, and even math for those who can bear it. More.... Read More

Inside the Orchestra: Tiny Tots

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

Tiny Tots gets children truly “inside the orchestra” by seating the audience on the floor and surrounding them with our 30+ piece professional orchestra. The conductor faces the audience and talk directly to the kids throughout the performance, asking questions and teaching them about the music as it is playing around them. Designed for children.... Read More

Imagine 2020 Speaker: The Art of Relevance: Mattering More to More People

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

Join museum director and author Nina Simon for an interactive workshop on how you can make your work more relevant to the audiences and communities you seek to engage. Together, we will explore the deep meaning of relevance—what it is, what it can do, how to measure it—and how relevance can fuel change to make your.... Read More

Imagine 2020 Speaker: Strategies for Attracting Millennial Audences to the Arts

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

  The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is part of a national grant program through the Wallace Foundation called “Building Audiences for Sustainability.” As part of the project, the DCPA conducted qualitative and quantitative research on the Denver millennial population which then informed their work on their first full-scale immersive production, Sweet & Lucky..... Read More

Project Ñ

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

The ñ experience is an engaging 90-minute presentation that combines a screening of the documentary "being ñ" infused with director’s cut style commentary from the film's star and co-director. This presentation is a heartfelt and interactive engagement that offers audiences a refreshing perspective on how to talk about culture and the feelings we all share.... Read More

McNichols Project #2

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

We had so much fun at the first McNichols Project (along with roughly 900 other party-goers), that we can hardly wait for the second installment! From the Organizers: Two exciting exhibits inspire McNichols Project #2: Night of ROCK, commemorating 100 years of Rocky Mountain National Park and the spirit of the 1960s. We also want.... Read More

Twilight Public Art Bike Tour – Free!

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

See Denver’s public art collection in a whole new light. Featured artworks will include: Virginia Folkestad’s Current 3, Adam Frank’s SUNLIGHT and Erick C. Jonson’s Bottom of the Night. Bike tour led by Denver Arts and Venues Public Art Administer, Rudi Cerri. RSVP (Limited to 15 people) All participants are required to wear appropriate safety gear,.... Read More

Free Public Art Tour: Civic Center and Denver Art Museum Campus

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

This tour covers a broad array of historical and contemporary public artworks in Denver. Beginning with the classic 20th century bronze sculptures of Alexander Proctor's On the War Trail and Broncho Buster, as well as the intriguing landscape and architecture of Civic Center Park; the tour will also explore the contemporary works outside of the.... Read More

Artist Talk with Trine Bumiller

McNichols Building in Civic Center Park 144 W Colfax Ave, Denver, CO, United States

Trine Bumiller talks about her residency with Rocky Mountain National Park and her process creating her 100 Paintings for 100 Year.  With a special introduction by Jim Robischon, Owner of Robischon, one of Denver’s top galleries. This event is FREE, but please RSVP. More info: http://mcnicholsbuilding.com/calendar/details/330217