South Platte River Fest
2016-06-25 - 2016-06-26 | Confluence Park, 2250 15th St, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
This two day festival is Denver’s premier urban RiverFest. Activities will include free stand up paddle board demos, a variety of riverside recreational activities, a kids zone, live music, beer, food vendors, and more.
The Coors Light South Platte RiverFest benefits The Greenway Foundation. For the past 40 years, The Greenway Foundation has worked to reclaim, restore, and revitalize the South Platte River and its tributaries in Denver. These efforts have led to the construction of over 100 acres of riverside parks, over 100 miles of interconnected greenway trails, and the elimination of over 250 sources of direct pollution into our urban waterways.
Hours:
Saturday, June 25th, 2016 10 am – 8 pm
Sunday, June 26th, 2016 10 am – 6 pm
Free event and fun for people of all ages.
More info: http://www.thegreenwayfoundation.org/south-platte-riverfest.html

Denver Taco Festival
2016-06-25 - 2016-06-26 | CO
Love tacos? Then the Denver Taco Festival is for you! Festival organizers have rounded up dozens of taco providers who will offer $2 tacos during the event. Entertainment includes a live “metalachi” music performance, chihuahua races, Lucha Libra wrestling, but it’s really all about the tacos.
Hours: Saturday June 25th, 12-9pm Sunday June 26th 12-7pm
Location: Streets between  38th-35th on Wynkoop St. &  Wazee-Brighton Blvd. on 36th.
More info including entertainment schedule and full vendor list: http://denvertacofestival.com

Meet in the Street
2016-06-25 - 2016-06-26, 2016-07-02 - 2016-07-03 | 16th Street Mall
Now in its third year, Meet in the Street brings free, fun programming to the 16th Street Mall for 5 summer weekends. And this party is for people only, no shuttles allowed! (During Meet in the Street the RTD Free MallRide service will be moved to 15th Street and 17th Street)
Meet in the Street includes more than 10 expanded patio cafes, fitness classes, arts and cultural programming, live music and more!
More info: http://www.downtowndenver.com/summer-in-the-city/meet-in-the-street
Five Fun-Filled Weekends
June 25 & 26
June 25 | Live Music, “Sipping & Painting”, Kids Train, Inflatable Animal Land, DJ, Mall Pong, Yoga, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, Giant Bunnies Installation by Brookfield, Lip Synch Contest
June 26 | Live Music, Denver Patio Ride, Mountain Biking Course, DJ, Mall Pong, Yoga, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, Giant Bunnies Installation by Brookfield
July 2 & 3
July 2 | The largest Café Culture in Denver with more than 10 expanded patio cafés, Denver Pavilions “Music in the Street” on Glenarm Street, Silent Disco, Live Music and stay late for the Summer Movie Series in Skyline Park, featuring Pitch Perfect 2
July 3 | Live Music, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, DJ, Mall Pong, Yoga
July 9 & 10
July 9 | Live Music, “Luche Libre & Laughs” at the Denver Pavilions on Glenarm Street, Silent Disco, The Big Wonderful, Denver Museum of Nature & Science rocket building and launching for kids, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, DJ, Mall Pong, Downtown’s largest Corn Hole Tournament with over 8 restaurants participating and stay late for the Summer Movie Series in Skyline Park, featuring Minions
July 10 | The largest Café Culture in Denver with more than 10 expanded patio cafés, The Big Wonderful, Live Music
July 16 & 17
July 16 | The largest Café Culture in Denver with more than 10 expanded patio cafés, Oversized Games and Denver Mad Libs at the Denver Pavilions on Glenarm Street, Dueling Pianos and stay late for the Summer Movie Series in Skyline Park, featuring Finding Nemo
July 17 | Live Music, Denver Museum of Nature & Science rocket building and launching for kids, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, DJ, Mall Pong, Yoga
July 23 & 24 Featuring the Inaugural Downtown Denver Prototyping Festival
July 23 | Live Music, The Big Wonderful, Climbing Wall, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, DJ, Mall Pong, Yoga and stay late for the Summer Movie Series in Skyline Park, featuring Star Wars: The Force Awakens
July 24 | Live Music, The Big Wonderful, Climbing Wall, Performances by the Black Actors Guild, DJ, Mall Pong, Yoga

Highlands Street Fair
2016-06-25 10:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver) | CO
Street Fair with 140 artisan vendors, kids zone, music, beverages, and local craft beers.
Location: 32nd Ave between Perry and Julian
More info: https://www.highlands-square.com/#/events

Play Space: Painting Your Community
2016-06-25 22:30, 2016-07-02 10:30 - 12:00 | Mestizo-Curtis Park, 32nd & Champa, Denver, CO, 80205, United States
Children and families are invited to join RedLine in artist-led creative play sessions at Mestizo-Curtis Park on Saturdays, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM throughout the summer. The program is FREE and open to the public. Registration is NOT required and all ages are invited to join the fun.
More info: http://redlineart.org
Session 1 (June 4th, 11th and 18th): Hayley Krichels will present Building With Sunshine, in which families will use the park as inspiration for large scale fabric cyanotypes and fort building.
Session 2 (June 25th, July 2nd and 9th): Rochelle Johnson and Risa Murray will present Painting Your Community, where families will have the opportunity to paint t-shirts and collaborate on a mural.
Session 3 (July 16th, 23rd and 30th): Ramón Bonilla’s People and the Living Architecture will turn families into cities by way of wearable architecture.
Session 4 (Aug 6th, 13th and 20th): George P. Perez’s Walk with Me (An exercise in visual guidance) will feature camera obscura helmets, which distort the wearer’s vision, requiring them to navigate the world in a different way.

City Park Jazz: Otis Taylor
2016-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 | City Park, Denver, CO, United States
With Otis Taylor, it’s best to expect the unexpected. While his music, an amalgamation of roots styles in their rawest form, discusses heavyweight issues like murder, homelessness, tyranny, and injustice, his personal style is lighthearted. “I’m good at dark, but I’m not a particularly unhappy person,” he says. “I’d just like to make enough money to buy a Porsche.”
Whether it’s his unique instrumentation (he fancies banjo and cello), or it’s the sudden sound of a female vocal, or a seemingly upbeat optimistic song takes a turn for the forlorn, what remains consistent is poignant storytelling based in truth and history. On his sixth CD, Double V, Taylor unleashes intimate tales as he produces an aural excursion inspired by an unconventional childhood.
All City Park Jazz concerts are FREE and take place rain or shine at the bandstand by the pavilion on Ferril Lake
Free parking is available throughout the park—please be a good neighbor and avoid parking on side-streets around the park. Or better yet, ride your bike and enjoy free bike parking monitored by City Park Jazz volunteers at the Bike Corral in the Pavilion from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
More info: http://cityparkjazz.org

Monday Movie Madness: Star Wars - The Force Awakens (rescheduled)
2016-06-27 20:00 - 22:00 | Infinity Park at Glendale, 4599 E Tennessee Ave, Glendale, CO, United States
Free movies at Infinity Park! Gates open at 7p; movie starts at 8p
The 2016 Movie Lineup:
June 13: Star Wars – The Force Awakens <— Rained out, rescheduled for 6/27
July 11: Mamma Mia!
July 18: The Goonies
July 25: Mrs. Doubtfire
August 8: Aladdin
More info: http://infinityparkatglendale.com/2015/movies/

**Final Week: Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends**
2016-06-28 - 2016-07-03 | Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St, denver, CO, 80202, United States
Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends surveys the last ten years of the artist’s practice, bringing together video, sculpture, and works on paper for the first time. The works on view highlight the artist’s unique process that migrates from two dimensions to three and back again. Bress’s imaginative characters are born as doodles or collages, take shape as sculptural costumes, and come to life on video, as they are performed in front of elaborately composed backdrops. Connecting the past with the present, Bress’s “friends” imaginatively breach disciplinary distinctions amongst painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video.
Closes July 3, 2016.
More info: http://mcadenver.org/brianbress.php

**Final Week: Laura Shill: Phantom Touch**
2016-06-28 - 2016-07-03 | Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St, denver, CO, 80202, United States
For her first solo museum exhibition, Denver-based Laura Shill will create a new installation that features reclaimed materials in richly mannered, densely layered environments and which plays with the space as a site of disclosure and concealment. It will also include many of her Absent Lovers series in which the artist appropriates images from covers of Harlequin romance novels to create hauntingly beautiful cyanotypes. These works often reveal a violent, sinister, and sexualized dynamic latent in the clichéd depictions of lovers from these stories.
Closes July 3, 2016.
More info: http://mcadenver.org/laurashill.php

14th and Curtis Streets Public Art Tour
2016-06-28 18:00 - 19:00 | CO
Throughout the summer, Denver Arts and Venues offers free tours of the city’s public art collection. These tours, lead by Public Art Coordinator, Brendan Picker and/or Public Art Docent, Michael Barger, are an excellent opportunity to learn the stories behind the artwork you pass on the way to work each day or when headed to a show at the Performing Arts Complex. Tours are limited to 15 people and you must RSVP ahead of time.
Additional tour dates: 7/13, 7/27, 8/10, or 8/24. All tours take place at 6p.
[Free]
RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/curtis-and-14th-streets-public-art-tour-tickets-25510570804

Beats on the Creek: That 80's Band
2016-06-28 18:30 - 21:00 | Wewatta Bridge, 1400 Wewatta, Denver, CO, 80202, United States
Join Coohills restaurant on Tuesdays from June 14 – August 16, 6:30p – 9p for free live music on the Wewatta bridge!
2016 BEATS ON THE CREEK SCHEDULE:
June 14 – The Hazel Miller Band
June 21 – Funkiphino
June 28 – That 80’s Band
July 26 – The Moderators
August 4 – Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival
August 9 – UBRS
August 16 – The Long Run
More info: https://www.facebook.com/CoohillsBeatsOnTheCreek/

Shady Grove Picnic Series: Sweet B & Her Moonshine Gang
2016-06-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest Street, Denver, CO, 80246, United States
Wednesday Nights – 6:30 pm | June 8 – August 17, 2016
Join Swallow Hill Music and Four Mile Historic Park this summer for great live music in the fresh Colorado air at the Shady Grove Picnic Series at Four Mile Historic Park. Bring a picnic and your family and take part in this summer tradition that’s been happening for almost two decades.
Doors open at 6:00 pm. Shows begin at 6:30.
Tickets: $12 General Admission; $8 Swallow Hill Members/ Seniors/Bicyclist; $3 Kids 12 & under (Under 2 free)
Season Pass: The Shady Grove Season Pass will get you entrance to every show. Just $70 for members, $90 for general public. Click here for more information and to purchase.
More info and tickets: http://swallowhillmusic.org/events-and-festivals/shadygrove/
6/29 – Sweet B & Her Moonshine Gang
Sweet B and Her Moonshine Gang is a hot jazz band that is primarily a quintet but can take many forms. Taking inspiration from jazz greats we strive to feature classic jazz hits and standards with our unique sound.

B-Side Thursdays: Bluebook
2016-06-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St, denver, CO, 80202, United States
B-Side Thursdays is a rooftop summer music series at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) focused on presenting the best up and coming colorado bands + side projects of well known Denver bands and musicians.
Music 6p-8p
Members always FREE | Non-Members $5 admission after 5p; youth under 18 always free
All ages. Come early, capacity limited.
More info: http://mcadenver.org/bsidemusic2016.php
Bluebook
Bluebook is Julie Davis’ haunting analog-electro project, offering new songs and old, from each of her former projects—Bela Karoli, Fairchildren, and The Seven Hats. NPR has described Davis’ music as offering, “beautifully structured dynamics and captivating sonic twists,” and The Denver Post Reverb says Davis “gives haunting, holy voice to some of the darkest spots of imagination.” With a stage set-up designed to fit snugly in the back of a station wagon, Bluebook aspires to cross-country trips connected by shows in second-rate motel lounges.

MoJaBlu
2016-06-30 18:30 - 20:30 | Conservatory Green at Stapleton, 49th Place and Valentia St, Denver, CO, 80216, United States
Get more Motown, Jazz and Blues into your life with a series of free Thursday night concerts at Conservatory Green at Stapleton (49th Place and Valencia Street) known as MojaBlu.
Free and open to the public.
More info: http://www.stapletondenver.com/whats-happening/event-calendar/

Cherry Creek Arts Festival
2016-07-01 - 2016-07-04 | Cherry Creek North Business District, 299 Milwaukee, Denver, United States
A signature event of the Denver summertime festival scene. Wander the streets of Cherry Creek North and enjoy artwork presented by 250 juried exhibitors in a variety of different media. In addition, catch live performances, watch artist demos and eat tasty food along the Festival’s Culinary Avenue.
Free and open to the public.
Friday, July 1 7 PM to 10 PM Clayton St. ONLY: Opening Night Artist Preview Event: FREE!
Saturday, July 2 10 AM to 8 PM 8 PM to 10 PM Festival Nights: Concerts on Fillmore
Sunday, July 3 10 AM to 8 PM 8 PM to 10 PM Festival Nights: Concerts on Fillmore
Monday, July 4 10 AM to 6 PM
More info: http://cherrycreekartsfestival.org

La Alma Connection Art Celebration Block Party and Parade
2016-07-01 17:30 - 21:00 | CO
Featuring live music, street art, food trucks and local vendors. A parade of upcycle floats will move down West 10th Avenue to celebrate the “Neighborhood Connection” of the Osage Light Rail and the Santa Fe Arts District.
Parade: 7p
Location: 10th and Osage
More info: http://arts-street.org/2016/06/03/la-alma-connection-art-celebration-block-party-and-parade/

Lookout Club
2016-07-01 18:00 - 21:00 | Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St, denver, CO, 80202, United States
Every Friday, 6/10 – 9/9. OPEN LATE TIL 10PM!
Music 6PM-9PM.
Members always FREE | Non-Members $5 admission after 5PM.
An evolution in Museum Quality Drinking, Lookout Club pairs some of Denver’s best bartenders with underground DJ’s. The ideal rooftop Friday happy hour with Deep Club providing the groove.
Combo for this edition of Lookout Club:
DJ:
BOCAJ
BARTENDER IN RESIDENCE:
CRYSTAL’S CASTLE
(Crystal Barrios of The Kitchen with MCA Denver Cafe Staff)
Bartenders in Residence During this Series:
Goodnight, Sweet Girl – A. Minetta Gould of Ste. Ellie with Alexandra Amaru
The Banshees – Nicole Laurita of Williams & Graham with Christina Andrews
Aliquot – Micah Shanks of Union Lodge No.1 with Chris McMahan & Bryce Doty
Crystal’s Castle – Crystal Barrios of The Kitchen with MCA Denver Cafe Staff
More info: http://mcadenver.org/lookoutclub.php

Cherry Creek Arts Festival Artist Preview Event
2016-07-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Cherry Creek North Business District, 299 Milwaukee, Denver, United States
One of our favorite times to attend the Cherry Creek Arts Festival is on the night before the festival opens for its first full day. On this evening, the buzz of the festival is in the air, but it’s not as hot and crowded. Perhaps grab dinner nearby and then head to Clayton Street between 2nd and 3rd for a “sneak peek” at 28 of the 260 juried visual artists that will exhibit at the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. The rest of the festival site opens on Saturday, July 2 (10a – 8p; concert 8p -10p) and continues Sunday, July 3 (10a – 8p; concert 8p -10p) and Monday, July 4 (10a – 6p).
Free.
More info: http://cherrycreekartsfestival.org/artist-preview-event/

Free First Saturday at Denver Art Museum
2016-07-02 10:00 - 17:00 | Denver Art Museum, 100 W 14th Ave Pkwy, Denver, 80204, United States
Free First Saturdays are a great time to try out the Denver Art Museum!
Celebrate creativity and Latin cultura at CelebrARTE on Free First Saturdays with bilingual activities for toda la familia.
The Denver Art Museum offers free general admission on the first Saturday of the month, made possible by Your 6 Hometown Toyota Stores and the citizens who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD).
Free First Saturdays in 2016:

January 2
February 6
March 5
April 2
May 7
June 4
July 2
August 6
September 3
October 1
November 5
December 3

Note: First Free Saturdays do not include admission to special ticketed exhibitions.
More info: http://denverartmuseum.org/visitor-info/free-days

Penny Saturday at MCA
2016-07-02 10:00 - 17:00 | Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St, denver, CO, 80202, United States
That’s right, admission is only 1 penny on the first Saturday of the month at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Grab some pennies, call your pals and go see some art!
More about MCA: http://mcadenver.org
On View until July 3rd:
Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends surveys the last ten years of the artist’s practice, bringing together video, sculpture, and works on paper for the first time. The works on view highlight the artist’s unique process that migrates from two dimensions to three and back again. Bress’s imaginative characters are born as doodles or collages, take shape as sculptural costumes, and come to life on video, as they are performed in front of elaborately composed backdrops. Connecting the past with the present, Bress’s “friends” imaginatively breach disciplinary distinctions amongst painting, drawing, sculpture, performance, and video.
Arne Svenson: The Neighbors After receiving a bird watching, telephoto lens from a friend, Arne Svenson set up a tripod to capture what unfolded within a brand new, glass-and-steel high-rise building across the street from his Tribeca studio. Capturing the lives of his neighbors (their habits, activities, tastes) over the course of a year, Svenson also used the geometry of the buildings’ windows as his frame, creating various tableaux of domestic life unfolding. Presenting over 20 photographs from this series, The Neighbors, this exhibition explores in depth the central issues raised by these enigmatic works: voyeurism, the increasingly imperceptible boundaries between privacy and the public, and the ubiquity of the camera in our surveillance-obsessed world. Documentation of a court case brought against the artist (which he successfully appealed, twice) will enrich this discussion, as the works point up a tension between the luxury of looking out and the vulnerability of being looked upon.
Laura Shill: Phantom Touch For her first solo museum exhibition, Denver-based Laura Shill will create a new installation that features reclaimed materials in richly mannered, densely layered environments and which plays with the space as a site of disclosure and concealment. It will also include many of her Absent Lovers series in which the artist appropriates images from covers of Harlequin romance novels to create hauntingly beautiful cyanotypes. These works often reveal a violent, sinister, and sexualized dynamic latent in the clichéd depictions of lovers from these stories.

Free Day at Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls & Toys
2016-07-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, 1880 Gaylord St., Denver, CO, 80206, United States
Every 1st Sunday of the month, DMMDT offers free admission thanks to the support of the Scientific Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) and the citizens who support it. Go check out the tiny treasures housed in this museum if you have never been!
More about the museum: http://dmmdt.org
More about SCFD: http://scfd.org

City Park Jazz: Ritmo Jazz Latino
2016-07-03 18:00 - 20:00 | City Park, Denver, CO, United States
Ritmo Jazz Latino, Denver’s Finest Latin Jazz Ensemble, is made up of seven gifted musicians who specialize in the infectious rhythms of Latin Music. The members of Ritmo Jazz Latino have decades of musical experience bringing various styles, rhythms, & musical influences that collectively translate into a very exotic blend of music! Ritmo Jazz Latino performs both as a five-piece instrumental ensemble (quintet) for smaller intimate settings and as a six-piece ensemble (sextet) for larger concerts and festivals which includes vocalists.
All City Park Jazz concerts are FREE and take place rain or shine at the bandstand by the pavilion on Ferril Lake
Free parking is available throughout the park—please be a good neighbor and avoid parking on side-streets around the park. Or better yet, ride your bike and enjoy free bike parking monitored by City Park Jazz volunteers at the Bike Corral in the Pavilion from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
More info: http://cityparkjazz.org

Shady Grove Picnic Series: Rocky Mountain Jewgrass
2016-07-06 18:30 - 20:00 | Four Mile Historic Park, 715 S. Forest Street, Denver, CO, 80246, United States
Wednesday Nights – 6:30 pm | June 8 – August 17, 2016
Join Swallow Hill Music and Four Mile Historic Park this summer for great live music in the fresh Colorado air at the Shady Grove Picnic Series at Four Mile Historic Park. Bring a picnic and your family and take part in this summer tradition that’s been happening for almost two decades.
Doors open at 6:00 pm. Shows begin at 6:30.
Tickets: $12 General Admission; $8 Swallow Hill Members/ Seniors/Bicyclist; $3 Kids 12 & under (Under 2 free)
Season Pass: The Shady Grove Season Pass will get you entrance to every show. Just $70 for members, $90 for general public. Click here for more information and to purchase.
More info and tickets: http://swallowhillmusic.org/events-and-festivals/shadygrove/
7/6 – Rocky Mountain Jewgrass
Rocky Mountain Jewgrass returns to Shady Grove with their unique blend of bluegrass styling with lyrics that come from all things Jewish. Great stage presence and a heavy dose of humor combine with beautiful harmonies and skilled musicianship to produce a unique sound and performance on today’s Jewish and bluegrass music scenes. With a little “picklin’ and grinning”, and a “high lonesome kvetch,” Rocky MountainJewgrass is foot stompin’ fun. (But be careful you shouldn’t hurt yourself.)

Bye Bye Blue
2016-07-07 10:00 - 19:00 | Default Theme
For six decades, Clyfford Still’s work was infrequently exhibited in this country and very seldom seen outside the U.S. Now, thanks to Abstract Expressionism—the first major international exhibition on abstract expressionism since 1959, coming to London’s Royal Academy of Art and Spain’s Guggenheim Bilbao—nine of Still’s most iconic works from Denver’s collection will be on view to millions from the fall of 2016 until the summer of 2017.
In order to be included in this great adventure, PH-247 of 1951, a Clyfford Still Museum fan favorite affectionately known as “Big Blue,” will come down from the Museum’s walls for the first time ever. Join the museum for a celebration of blue as we say “bon voyage” on Thursday, July 7.

Dress in all blue and be admitted for just $1 all day!
Visit our all-day creation station to make your own ode to blue.
At 12:30 p.m., enjoy a lunchtime talk with chief conservator James Squires, who will describe preparing Big Blue and other priceless works for their journey overseas.
At 1:30 p.m., enjoy light refreshments in the Museum’s Anschutz Foundation Atrium.
At 3 p.m., enjoy an afternoon talk about the color blue led by a Museum gallery guide.
At 4 p.m., join us for another round of light refreshments.
The Museum closes at 5 p.m. and we bid farewell to Big Blue until summer 2017!

More info: https://clyffordstillmuseum.org/event/bye-bye-blue/

B-Side Thursdays: What Young Men Do
2016-07-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St, denver, CO, 80202, United States
B-Side Thursdays is a rooftop summer music series at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) focused on presenting the best up and coming colorado bands + side projects of well known Denver bands and musicians.
Music 6p-8p
Members always FREE | Non-Members $5 admission after 5p; youth under 18 always free
All ages. Come early, capacity limited.
More info: http://mcadenver.org/bsidemusic2016.php
What Young Men Do
(No artist info available at this time)

PechaKucha Denver: Vol. 29
2016-07-07 18:30 - 21:30 | the ART Hotel, 1201 Broadway, Denver, CO, 80203, United States
PechaKucha (chit-chat) is a presentation style in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (6 minutes and 40 seconds in total). The format keeps presentations concise and fast-paced.
Speakers: Brandi Shigley (Founder of Fashion Denver); Jeffrey Sloan (Art Director/Designer); Jessica Robin Thomas (Jewelry Designer); Pat Harris (Motorcycle Enthusiast); Jade Polizz (Teaching Confidence through Design-Build); Brian Corrigan (Creative); HugoBC (Experimentalist) [$5 suggested donation]
More info and RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/492174947659655/

Colorado Black Arts Festival
2016-07-08 - 2016-07-10 | City Park, Denver, CO, United States
Happy 30th birthday, CBAF! The Colorado Black Art Festival is an annual event showcasing the rich and creative talents of local, regional, and national African Americans in art and culture. The three day event features three stages filled with jazz, blues, reggae, gospel, traditional African drum and dance. The Saturday morning Boogaloo Celebration Parade (starts at Downing and continues down 22nd and into City Park) is always a colorful favorite. [Free]
More info: https://www.colbaf.org

Denver Design Week
2016-07-08 - 2016-07-15 | CO
Denver Design Week is a showcase for the region’s best architecture, interiors, art, brands, and technology. Eight days of education, home and studio tours, demonstrations, presentations, conversations, inspiration, collaboration, and a launch party that might be the highlight of your summer.

More info on Denver Design Week and individual session registration: http://www.denverdesignweek.com
