Events & Programs
- Five Points Jazz Festival
- 2023 Five Points Jazz Festival Schedule
- 2023 Five Points Jazz Festival Performers
- 2023 Festival Food, Drink and Vendors
- Five Points Jazz Festival Map
- Attending the Five Points Jazz Festival
- 2023 Five Points Jazz Festival Vendor Information
- 2022 Five Points Jazz Festival Honorees
- Five Points Jazz Activation Grants
- Past Five Points Jazz Festivals
- 2020 Virtual Five Points Jazz Festival
- 2019 Five Points Jazz Festival Honorees
- 2018 Five Points Jazz Festival Honorees
- Art Drop Day Denver
- Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture
- Youth One Book, One Denver
- Ai Weiwei Denver
- Kintsugi: The Art of Healing
- Chance to Dance
- Arts Education
- World Singing Day
MAYOR'S AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN ARTS & CULTURE - 2021 WINNERS
Innovation Award
This award is presented to an individual or organization that has found innovative and creative ways to make meaningful connections with the community or partner with others through arts and culture during 2020 and 2021 – a time of shutdowns and social distancing.
2021 Award Winner: Edgar L. Page
Edgar L. Page comes from traditions celebrating the African Diaspora and legacies of Black Modern Dance. Locally, he stewards creative incubators employing the Africanist Aesthetic of Cool to inform a lush amalgamation of contemporary dance movement. He centralizes on storytelling and narration in his work.
Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts & Culture Innovation Award - Edgar L. Page from Denver Arts & Venues on Vimeo.
Impact Award
This award is presented to an individual or an organization that has made a significant and lasting impact on arts and culture in the City and County of Denver. This category requires that the nominee have at least 10 years of history in the arts in the City and County of Denver.
2021 Award Winner: Innervision
Through live and recorded performances and vocational training in many aspects of the entertainment industry, Innervision promotes personal services to aspiring broadcasters with disabilities in the Denver area. Innervision nurtures the talents and skills of local artists from diverse backgrounds while sponsoring concerts, events and weekly radio shows that enrich and educate the entire community. The organization was founded in 1991 by Johnnie W. Johnson and Wayne Turner, two African-American recording industry experts who are both blind. For thirty years, Johnson and Turner have used the power of music to foster education, acceptance and inspiration for artists and audiences alike. Innervision has made broadcasting accessible and recording affordable, and has showcased artists throughout Denver at clubs and festivals, and on television and radio.
Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts & Culture Impact Award– Innervision from Denver Arts & Venues on Vimeo.
Youth Award
This award is presented to a person under the age of 24 who has made a noteworthy difference in the community through the arts or an organization that has significantly impacted the lives of youth in the City and County of Denver through the arts.
2021 Award Winner: Pop Culture Classroom
Through its Classroom program, Pop Culture Classroom (PCC) works with schools, youth-serving organizations, museums and many other partners to offer innovative arts education programming. This programming includes:
• Highly customizable workshops that help students learn to make their own comics, board games or cosplay; create fictional worlds and craft narratives; develop targeted skills through playing board games, video games and tabletop role-playing games.
• Colorful History, a comic series about diverse people and events in Colorado and U.S. history that may not be covered in traditional textbooks.
• Storytelling Through Comics (STC) and Game On! (GO!), PCC’s two Common Core-aligned curricular units that help teachers, parents, and students understand the educational value of comics and games.
• Special programs serving targeted populations, such as LEAD (Literacy Education in Adolescent Detention) With Comics, which works with youth in detention facilities, and Connection Through Comics, which works with refugees to tell their stories through comics.
Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture Youth Award - Pop Culture Classroom from Denver Arts & Venues on Vimeo.
Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award
This award is presented to an individual or organization that has focused on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion through their work. Honorees have worked to integrate equity practices into their operations, developed programs that support communities that have been historically marginalized, including people of color, people with disabilities or members of the LGBTQIA+ community, presented events centered in social justice and the arts, and demonstrated commitments and authentic partnerships with historically under-resourced communities.
2021 Award Winner: Color of Conversation
Floyd and Stephanie Rance have made a mark as innovators in the arts and culture space by highlighting the works of filmmakers of color in Denver and by encouraging major studios and streaming platforms to take the city of Denver seriously as a market for promoting their multi-cultural films. Through Run&Shoot Filmworks, Floyd and Stephanie Rance have produced "The Color Of Conversation," a highly successful film series through which they amplify the voices of the African American, Latino and the LBGTQIA+ community through purposeful conversations and thought-provoking films.
Mayor's Award for Excellence in Arts & Culture Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Award– Color of Conversation from Denver Arts & Venues on Vimeo.