Create Denver
The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs (DOCA) invites individuals, organizations, and associations to submit happenings, workshops, lectures, and other programming ideas for Create Denver Week, a new project that kicks off with the fifth annual Create Denver Expo on Saturday, April 10th. Information on both projects follows below.
Create Denver Expo
The fitth annual Create Denver Expo will kick off Create Denver Week on Saturday, April 10th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Wellington E. Webb Municpal Office Building. DOCA seeks exhibitors and workshop presenters for the Expo, offering Denver's creative community a "one-stop" opportunity to learn about the various City, nonprofit, and commercial resources available to help grow and stabilize creative businesses. The Expo attracts approximately 400 attendees, representing a wide array of artists and creative businesses.
The Expo will include approximately 30 exhibitors and more than 20 workshops and panel discussions. Consultants, affinity organizations, and experts in creative industries who are interested in having a presence at the Expo may learn more and submit proposals a t www.denvergov.org/createdenver. The deadline for submission of a proposal is Friday, January 29th.
Create Denver Week
Create Denver Week is a weeklong program that exemplifies Denver as the Creative Capital of the Rocky Mountain West by providing a platform that:
- showcases Denver's talented and dynamic creative community including individuals, associtations, organizations, and businesses;
- recognizes the conribution that the creative sector makes to Denver's vibrancy and economic vitality;
- catalyzes the creative community to consider itself a cohesive collective and economic sector; and
- grows the creative sector through educational programming, inpirational dialogue, and ideation.
Individual, organizations, and associationa are invited to submit programming they will implement and market as part of Create Denver Week. Programs should be consistent with the goals of Create Denver Week. All programming ideas will be vetted by the Create Denver Advisory Committee for inclusion in the Create Denver Week calendar of events. Some remuneration may be available for signature programming concepts. For more information about Create Denver Week, suggestef proramming ideas, and to submit a proposal, visit www. DenverGov.org/CreateDemver. The deadline for submission of a program proposal is Friday, January 29th.
Create Denver is an initiative fot he Denver Office of Cultrual Affairs.
- Denver Neighborhood Connection
- January 2010
