Author: John Moore
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Boulder shooting victim and actor Suzanne Fountain remembered as a ‘soulmate’
Community members leave flowers and signs outside the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive while they grieve and process the events that took place in Boulder on Monday afternoon. A 21-year-old gunman allegedly opened fire in the store, killing 10 people, including a Boulder police officer. (Video by Katie Klann) One of Suzanne Fountain’s best…
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Colorado poet is voice for this moment
Bobby LeFebre is Colorado’s voice for this moment. And in this moment, “It’s not enough to be non-racist,” he says. “You have to be anti-racist. There’s a call to action in that.” LeFebre, born and raised in Denver’s Northside, is not like any Colorado Poet Laureate to come before him. And not (only) because he…
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The year the arts died: Colorado groups experienced devastating loss, creative resilience
Nothing tells the catastrophic story of the past year in the performing arts better than the sterile silence that still thunders over our mostly empty stages. Well, that and the numbers. Cold, brutal, unforgiving numbers, like these: The Denver Center for the Performing Arts lost $80 million in unrealized revenue from 34 scheduled plays and…
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Arts world restart could be a golden opportunity
It’s hard to truly wrap your head around all we’ve lost in the past year, even if you just lived through it. A year in Colorado without a major concert at Red Rocks. Not a single touring Broadway production. Hundreds of creative artists already living on the financial edge to keep the cultural blood of…
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Concert on Charlotte Figi Day planned to honor Colorado Springs teen
A virtual concert headlined by The Avett Brothers will be held in April to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Colorado Springs teenager Charlotte Figi. The 13-year-old Figi, who suffered from catastrophic epileptic seizures, inspired a medical cannabis movement after her story was featured on a CNN Special Report called “Weed,” hosted by…
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Colorado arts scene undergoing a sea change
An ongoing shakeup in Colorado’s arts leadership ranks since the pandemic began has accelerated in recent weeks, and it represents both a drain of proven creative experience and an opportunity for new voices to emerge. But experts say this reshuffling is also evidence of a much greater societal trend. Since COVID pressed pause on normal…
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SCFD funds helped nonprofits withstand the ravages of 2020
A feared pandemic wipeout of Denver’s nonprofit cultural sector has not yet materialized on the same scale as the restaurant industry. That, officials say, is in large part because the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District just reported the second-best year in its 32-year existence. The SCFD has distributed more than $1 billion to arts and…
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SCFD funds helped nonprofits withstand the ravages of 2020
A feared pandemic wipeout of Denver’s nonprofit cultural sector has not yet materialized on the same scale as the restaurant industry. That, officials say, is in large part because the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District just reported the second-best year in its 32-year existence. The SCFD has distributed more than $1 billion to arts and…
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Artistic director for Colorado Springs’ Fine Arts Center Theatre Company departs for nonprofit
Scott RC Levy, who helped guide the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Theatre Company to the top ranks of Colorado’s live theater companies over the past decade as producing artistic director, announced his surprise resignation on Friday. Levy has been named to the newly created position of deputy director for the Green Box Arts Project,…
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Arts organizations breathe a little easier with possible help from relief package
The hope that independent live-music venues have been clinging to for months seems finally to become reality with the expected passage of the $900 billion pandemic relief package. While the official language has not yet been released, the stimulus carves out $15 billion for live venues, independent movie theaters and cultural institutions, according to a…