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EXPANDED OFFERINGS HIGHLIGHT 45TH ANNUAL PEOPLE’S FAIR By Caroline Schomp Fun-seekers will find many new things to see and do at the 45th edition of the Capitol Hill People’s Fair, scheduled for Saturday & Sunday June 4th & 5th at Downtown Denver’s Civic Center. The fair is the longest-running, volunteer-driven community celebration in the Metro Denver area. Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN), one of Denver’s largest and oldest registered neighborhood organizations produces the fair. “We’ve added many new offerings this year, while keeping the most popular from years past,” said CHUN Executive Director Roger Armstrong. The People’s Fair was named Westword’s 2016 “Best Annual Festival.”
Fine Art Avenue, featuring 80 local and national artists, will extend along 14th between Bannock & Broadway. The expanded art show is a new partnership with the Denver Arts Festival (formerly the Downtown Denver Arts Festival). Artists exhibit and sell all original work. Media includes ceramics, digital, drawing/ graphics, fiber, glass, jewelry, wood, leather, metal, mixed media, painting, sculpture, and photography. “This gives the People’s Fair another aspect of the show that hasn’t been there in recent years,” said Denver Arts Festival Director Jim DeLutes. “The majority of the artists are from Colorado but also represent 13 other states. It’s appropriate that Fine Art Avenue is right in front of the Denver Art Museum. It’s definitely worth people’s while to come and take a look.”
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For the first time all beer available at the People’s Fair will be from Colorado craft brewers, the result of a new partnership with the Tivoli Distributing Co. According to Tivoli’s Corey Marshall, there will be between 20 and 30 different-style beers, among them five of the Tivoli Brewing Company’s own: Tivoli Helles Lager, Sigi’s Wild Horse, Tivoli’s Pass the Buck, Tivoli Jet Malt Liquor and Zang’s XXX Imperial IPA. The rest are small Colorado craft beers that Tivoli Distributing represents. Marshall and his family restarted Denver’s Tivoli in 2012 after a 43-year hiatus. “We are super excited to partner with the People’s Fair and CHUN,” Marshall said. “People’s Fair attendees are going to love what we bring to the fair.”
Guest artist and art instructor Tommy Nahulu is offering three opportunities each day for creative souls to sip some wine at the Wine Pavilion while painting their own art masterpieces. Nahulu will share some of his expertise with participants. Tickets are available online at www.peoplesfair.com. Small teams of younger artists will compete in the annual Mural Project to create a large canvas mural on the theme “Your Neighborhood, Your Future.” The competing teams this year are from Boys and Girls Club-Wilfley Branch, Colorado’s High School of Choice, Ridgeview Academy, Pangloss Gravitron and Compassion
By Caroline Schomp Parking concerns dominated a May 11 neighborhood meeting at which the Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG) unveiled an updated design concept for its planned Center for Science, Art and Education. This was the second time the DBG and Davis Partnership Architects have met with neighbors to get feedback on the proposed building planned for the now-vacant property on East 11th Ave. between York & Gaylord. It is the final project in the Gardens’ 50-year Master Development Plan. “I’ve never worked with an architectural firm that was so responsive,” said DBG Executive Director Brian Vogt. Neighbors offered some substantive design suggestions in an initial meeting last October. Davis Partnership ‘took down’ everything
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the neighborhood said and responded beautifully. It was a remarkable job,” Vogt said. “The relationship to the neighborhood is critical.” There will be two more phases in the design process and Vogt promised that neighbors would be included in both. The neighbors were most vocal about parking concerns, including the availability of on-site parking and how to discourage patrons from using street parking instead of the Gardens’ parking garage across York St. The proposed building design includes 140 underground spaces for use by DBG employees and volunteers, freeing up space for visitors in the parking structure. Vogt said he would consider allowing continued on page 24
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