upcoming events

‘Aubergine’ Play

Feb. 2 to 19 | Multiple Showtimes Ent Center for the Arts

5225 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs

Tickets: $10 to $36 Use code AUBCOMMUNITY for buy one, get one 50% off tickets entcenterforthearts.org

In this play written by Julia Cho, Chef Ray cares for his dying father but struggles to connect with the man who never understood his life’s calling in the kitchen. Performed in English and Korean, and supertitled in both languages, Aubergine offers an intimate look at the ways that heritage, food, and family can transcend language to share love.

Day of Remembrance 2023

Japanese American Healthcare Disparities

Sunday, Feb. 19 | 1pm to 4pm History Colorado Center

1200 N Broadway, Denver Free, in-person event (masks recommended) milehighjacl.org

The Mile High Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), the oldest Asian American national civil rights organization, sponsors an annual Day of Remembrance event so we don’t forget the injustice of World War II incarceration. Join us for keynote speaker David Monkawa, an activist and journalist who is a leader in the Save Our Seniors, who will speak about the history of Japanese American healthcare in the United States and how it relates to the fight for Keiro, a senior care facility in Los Angeles, which provided culturally competent care to its largely Japanese American senior residents.

KODO One Earth Tour 2023: TSUZUMI

Feb. 18 at 7:30pm | Feb. 19 at 2pm

Newman Center for the Performing Arts

2344 East Iliff Avenue, Denver

Tickets: $36 to $92 newmancenterpresents.com

Feel the reverberations of heaven and earth in harmony with this all-new performance from internationally renowned taiko performing arts ensemble, KODO. Entitled “Tsuzumi,” this explosive performance, created to commemorate the ensemble’s 40th anniversary, will electrify, dazzle and uplift audiences of all ages with the he visceral sound of KODO’s taiko drumming.

Mile High Asian Food Week

Feb. 22-26

Participating restaurants, food trucks, and pop-ups across the Denver metro area milehighafw.com

The inaugural Mile High Asian Food Week will occur on February 2226, 2023. During this week, foodies can experience different AAPI cuisines from participating businesses and receive insider perks such as special discounts, secret menu items, specialty menus, and more. Presented by Asian Avenue Magazine and created by Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) food and beverage industry members, Mile High Asian Food Week celebrates culture, community, and Colorado’s growing AAPI food scene.

Her Brush: New Approaches to Gender and Agency in Japanese Art Symposium

Saturday, Feb. 25 | 9am to 4pm Denver Art Museum

100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver Free, but advanced registration required In-person and virtually via Zoom denverartmuseum.org

This international symposium is in conjunction with the exhibition, Her Brush: Japanese Women Artists from the Fong-Johnstone Collection. Scholars and specialists from various disciplines will add to the discourse on approaches and methodologies in the study, connoisseurship, and exhibition of Japanese art through the lens of gender, agency, and artistic voice. The aim is to advance the discourse on approaches and methodologies by these artists.

CO Dragon Boat Film Festival

March 9-12

Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E Colfax Ave, Denver, Tickets and festival passes: denverfilm.org

Check out the lineup: cdfilm.org

The four-day all Asian/Asian American Film Festival is themed “Celebrating Our Stories,” to honor individuals, organizations and films that highlight the rich cultures and experiences of AAPI communities. The festival will also feature community conversations and live Q&As with filmmakers.

Experience you can trust to deliver:

• Over 20 years advocating for working families in government, labor, and education

• As a City and County of Denver public servant,

• Will managed the distribution of $154M of federal stimulus dollars to help residents, businesses, and neighborhoods

• Developed programs that lifted hard-working communities, supported residents, business owners, and welcomed first-generation Americans to Denver

Will’s plans to fill Denver’s GAPS, and to make Denver Greener, more Affordable, more Prosperous, and Safer:

• Green: address transit, climate, and pathways to green jobs

• Affordable: work to update housing options and policies to support housing affordability, support working families by improving access to childcare among other services, and protection for contract workers

• Prosperous: overhaul policies for big and small business who call Denver home, streamline permitting and licensing processes, and incentives for businesses providing social good

• Safer: expand alternative interventions to policing, invest in civic engagement opportunities for youth interventions for preventing crime, and investing in programs proven to reduce recidivism