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DCPA Event Services

At the Denver Center, our Event Services team is staffed by theatrically trained professionals wielding concert-quality A/V equipment. The result is an experience for your guests that rivals the production quality of a Broadway spectacular!

If ambiance and professionalism are important to you, look to the Denver Center for your next big event. From planning and logistics to lighting design and catering, we’re able to pull off showstopping affairs that other rental venues can’t even fathom. Everything is done in-house by our event professionals and preferred partners, all working in concert to make your fundraiser, gala, all-team meeting, or whatever else you have planned, shine brighter than ever.

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What To Listen To When Healing

BY LINNEA COVINGTON

PPut on the soundtrack to your favorite musical to feel the difference a song makes. Does the music elevate the mood, get you going, or relax you? There’s so much power when it comes to music, so it’s not surprising this art form is used to help in the healing process.

That’s where music therapy comes in. For Angela Wibben, a board certified music therapist with UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, she knows a piano concerto or rock ballad isn’t a cure for illness or injury, but it can help. Especially when incorporating Broadway hits.

“People naturally pair movement with music, like working out, dancing, tapping our feet,” said Wibben.

“In the hospital, we provide assessments, design music interventions, and create treatment plans to support patients and families with things like pain management, anxiety reduction, emotional and self-expression,” said Wibben. “We are providing avenues for coping with their illness and hospitalization, or to address rehabilitation needs.”

According to Wibben, to treat a patient, they use music experiences and musical tools to help the clients work through different aspects of care, physical, emotional, social functioning or cognitive therapy.

“People of all backgrounds, ages, and cultures can respond to music, and to music therapy,” said Wibben. “Sessions may include things like relaxing to music, discussing lyrics, improvising, playing instruments or singing, creating musical keepsakes, or writing songs.”

Best part, she said, you don’t have to be able to play a musical instrument or sing well in order to benefit.

“Music therapy research tells us that the most effective music in therapy is music that is familiar, and not too complex or too simple, which, as you can imagine, varies dramatically for everyone,” added Wibben.

DCPA curates playlists exclusively for UCHealth patients and one of the recent ones includes songs from the upcoming 2023 season: “River Deep, Mountain High” from TINA — The Tina Turner Musical, “All I Really Want” from the Alanis Morissette musical Jagged Little Pill, and “Defying Gravity” from Wicked

“I believe music, and music listening, can be an excellent exercise for gaining deeper personal understanding and self-awareness of creative, emotional, self-expressive, and/or rehabilitative outlets for most anyone,” said Wibben. “One of the incredible things about music is that it’s one of the universal cultural features of all human societies and it’s an integral part of the human experience.”

No matter if you’re sick or injured or not.

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TTransamerica offers solutions that help people achieve financial security throughout their lives, whether it’s saving and investing for the future or protecting themselves and their loved ones.

The people of Transamerica bring expertise, creativity and heart to everything they do—and to the communities where they live and work.

The company’s charitable giving and volunteerism in Denver includes a wide range of causes, with particular focus on youth and families. This reflects a belief that supporting and educating young people helps set them on the path for the kind of future they want.

Contributing to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is consistent with Transamerica’s desire to underwrite programs that foster creativity in the areas of music and performing arts for youth and the underserved.

Transamerica looks forward to continuing to support programs such as the DCPA’s Middle and High School Playwriting Competition. The company is pleased to play a role in advancing literacy, creativity, writing and communication for these talented young individuals.

UUnion Pacific Railroad, through its Community Ties Giving Program, is proud to support DCPA Off-Center’s Camp Christmas Community Access program, ensuring equitable access to underserved populations in the Center’s surrounding communities. Union Pacific proudly supports organizations that improve the quality of life where its employees live and work. Investing in high quality, nonprofit programs positions communities for future growth and prosperity.

Union Pacific is proud to support the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and its commitment to embed diversity, equity and inclusion into its organization and programs. Camp Christmas brings together the local community in a secular celebration to remind everyone that joining together as a community is important during the holiday season and year-round. This program meets the community’s need for an affordable, family-friendly program that showcases differences and unites us through immersive storytelling.