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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October 1 - 10, 2021
7:00pm - 11:59pm
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October 12 - 18, 2021
6:45pm - 11:59pm
---October 20 - 31, 2021
6:30pm - 11:59pm
FEATURED ART PIECES
Artist Name: Meow Wolf
Artwork title: Now Converging...
Artist statement: Take a look into the four converged worlds of Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station. Inspired by the kaleidoscopic cathedral of Eemia, the flora and fauna of Numina, the memory bank of Oss, the gritty, glittery C-Street, and Denver itself, Meow Wolf brings original work from 11 animators and filmmakers to this unique canvas.
Website: https://meowwolf.com/
Date: October 2021
Social: https://www.instagram.com/convergencestation/
Social: https://www.instagram.com/meow__wolf/
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Notes: Special Thanks Tree People International.
Artist Name: SOOZ
Artwork Title: Mountain MEM
Artwork Info:Exploring the boundaries between reality and memory, this piece uses machine learning and image datasets to imbue the figure and landscape with the collected and captured memories of our shared reality, the internet.
Website: https://www.instagram.com/soozglobal/
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Natalia Stuyk
Artwork Title: C Street Directory
Artwork Info: Natalia Stuyk is a video and installation artist based in Granada, Spain. Her fluid animations use oscillating shapes and color fields to explore escapism, ritual behaviors and impossible worlds. For this piece, she had in mind an interactive mall directory from some parallel universe.
Website: http://www.nataliastuyk.com/
Date: Octoberr 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: KOKOFREAKBEAN
Artwork Title: GLOME ZONE (projection version)
Artwork Info: GLOME ZONE started as a humble shop for DIY body modifications, but has blossomed into a fully fledged, single-member cult/corporation. Need a twig for an arm or a skin-obliterating chrome hyper-exfoliation? GLOME ZONE has you covered. If you’re feeling particularly frisky, you can donate your entire body to the GLOME, and achieve a 100% PURE GLOME STATE. From there, your GLOME is respectfully presented to and consumed by THE DIVINE GLOME BEING, our CEO, founder and prophet, who guides us to endlessly higher returns which pleases our shareholders.
Website: https://www.instagram.com/kokofreakbean/
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Jeni Nelson & Josephine Tincher (age 7)
Artwork Title: Stay Trashy - C Street
Artwork Info: Trash Pals, don’t let anything go to waste! My daughter rummages through the recycle bin every day to find materials that bring her imaginative ideas to life. This is our reminder that you can use whatever is around you to make something beautiful and interesting, because we’re real C Streeter’s. Gyre Eye!
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Annie Jaynes & Gus Ortega
Artwork Title: Untitled 1
Artwork Info: Awaken Your True Form. Available Now! starting at $19,999,999.99. On a dark and claustrophobic sidewalk between the skyscrapers of a futuristic mega-city, a slouching hooded figure stops to gaze upon a towering advertisement for a new line of manufactured synthetic human bodies.
Website: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnnieJaynes/featured
Website: https://www.instagram.com/25gort/
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Annie Jaynes
Artwork Title: Untitled 2 [trains and clouds]
Artwork Info: The first part of this animation represents the forest fire I have experienced in Denver, Colorado. It was a traumatic experience for me to wake up in a smokey red sky. I wanted to recreate how I felt that morning to give the viewer the feeling of anxiety and I animated the smoke rising to the sky from a burning tree as well as the sky changing from blue to red because of the smoke.
Website: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnnieJaynes/featured
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Tristan Love
Artwork Title: Memory Kaleidoscope - Numina, Memory Kaleidoscope - OSS, Memory Kaleidoscope - Immensity
Artwork Info: Like a kaleidoscope, memories are formed from fragments of past events rearranged and experienced anew with each reminiscence. This comparison served as a point of departure by taking inspiration from the worlds of Numina, OSS, and C Street in Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station and filtering it through a kaleidoscopic lens.
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Kron
Artwork titles: Clint Beastwood & POLA
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar above
Notes: Kron has two separate artworks in this program, "Clint Beastwood" and "POLA".
Artist Name: Brad Wolfley
Artwork title: Convergence
Website: https://www.bradwolfley.com/
Date: October 2021
Time: See Calendar Above
Artist Name: Dream Create Inspire Tour
Artwork title: Generational Healing
Artist statement:This mixtape is meant to spotlight the importance of acknowledging the land we occupy. It features indigenous artists' perspectives on the history of their lineage. This mixtape aims to connect local healers to provide collective healing techniques anyone can engage with as they interact with the video.
Website: https://www.dreamcreateinspiretour.com/
Date: October 15, 2021
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Notes: Throughout 2021, DCI Tour will present their Visual Mixtape series on the 3rd Friday of every month. This month we will have some special live performances as well!
CONTACT
Say hello and feel free to ask questions.
info@nightlightsdenver.com