THE PEOPLE'S PROJECTOR
Night Lights Denver is a permanent way for The Denver Theatre District to support innovative artists with an experimental platform while attracting people downtown to experience a free, unique experience.
Our vision for this project is that Night Lights Denver truly becomes ‘the people’s projector,’ encouraging Denver to participate and contribute – including the international, national and locally-based artists we pay for commissioned artworks, schools and people walking through the district. Night Lights Denver partners include Downtown Denver Partnership, Orange Barrel Media and the Daniels & Fisher Tower.
ABOUT
The Denver Theatre District
The Denver Theatre District (DTD) enlivens a 16-block area of downtown Denver through interactive, immersive and experimental art and culture events and experiences. It provides creatives with a downtown platform and financial support for sharing their work. The DTD is a private non-profit funded through a revenue share collected from advertising on static and LED screens located throughout the District. The Denver Theatre District invests its outdoor media revenues in cultural and art-based experiences, most of which are free to the public. This model is the first of its kind, setting an example for cities nationwide in how to leverage private revenue streams to fund public art and activity.
Downtown Denver Partnership
The Downtown Denver Partnership implements a place-based economic development strategy to support its vision for an economically healthy, vibrant and growing downtown. Through creative public realm activation with a focus on iconic, inclusive public art, the Partnership is building a thriving center city – a place for the community to come together for meaningful interactions and memorable experiences. The Partnership convenes the public, private and philanthropic sectors to drive progress forward in Downtown Denver to the benefit of all those who live, work and play downtown.
Every Tuesday through Sunday evenings
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August 1 - 15, 2022
8:30pm - 11:59pm
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August 16 - 31, 2022
8:15pm - 11:59pm
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Shows Start by 8:00pm
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: Melissa Furness
Artwork title: blood lines and solitons
Artist statement: Weeds and overgrowth serve as a metaphor for personal or public habits or things in our lives that we wish to rid ourselves of. We pull them out and they are gone for a time, but they return as a pattern of ongoing struggle which changes us. There are things that overtake our lives, arriving in waves that both crash and cleanse.
Website: https://melissafurness.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/melissafurness/
Date: August 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: View additional work in the project space at K Contemporary Art In-habit : August 27 - October 15, 2022 ; https://kcontemporaryart.com
Notes: Special thanks to the College of Arts & Media at CU Denver for their support of creative research.
Artist Name: camiah
Artwork title: Buddies on a Building
Artist statement: A bunch of Buddies and their interests on a Downtown Adventure.
Website: https://camiah.com/
Date: August 2022
Time: See Times Above
Artist Name: George Berlin Studios
Artwork title: Dreams
Artist statement: All life on earth is connected in one continuous stream, from the desert sands to the arctic seas. What we do today affects the other side of the world tomorrow- sharing the winds, the tides, and the air we breathe across vast distances.
Website: http://www.georgeberlin.com/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/georgeberlinart/
Date: August 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: “Eco-nnections: Dreams” is one in a series of ecologically themed stories continuing in Saudi Arabia and at BLINK Cincinnati, the largest light festival in the United States.
Artist Name: Angela Fraleigh and Joshua Miller
Artwork title: Memory in Bloom
Artist statement: Floriography, or the language of flowers, is the use of a flower as a means of expression. "Memory in Bloom" utilizes Floriography to “translate” six oral histories by Globeville community members into vibrant bouquets. These mesmerizing and larger than life blooms celebrate and amplify these community members' voices by providing a visual platform to help illuminate the rich, but often invisible, histories that exist on the margins..
Project Website: https://www.historycolorado.org/museum-memory-initiative
Artist Website: www.josh-miller.com
Artist Website: http://www.angelafraleigh.com/
Partner Website: https://www.historycolorado.org/museum-memory-initiative
Date: August 2022
Time: See Times Above
Notes: A big thank you to the History Colorado and the Museum of Memory program, especially Maria Islas-Lopez, Adriana Radinovic, Christina Vu-Pham, and Jeannie McFarland-Johnson.
Artist Name: Dream Create Inspire Tour
Artwork title: DCI Tour Mixtape Summer 2022
Artist statement: The DCI Tour June and July visual mixtape highlights artists from Denver, New York, Memphis, and Baltimore and their musical interpretations of the concept, "By Any Dream Necessary." It also features a collaborative anthem performed by youth internationally in partnership with Soundtrap. This anthem titled "The World We Want," speaks to the idea that together, we can create change for the better.
Website: https://www.dreamcreateinspiretour.com/
Date: August 19, 2022
Time: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Notes: Throughout 2022, DCI Tour will present their Visual Mixtape series on the 3rd Friday of every month. Due to the ongoing 16th Street Mall construction, we will also partner with other locations to screen these mixtapes.
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com