Schedule
12-12:30pm Community Yoga with Urban Sanctuary, bring your mat, all ages, family friendly
12:30-2pm Jon Romero and the Taco Cats - Latin Jazz & Native American flute
1-3pm Screen Printing Workshop with Artist Leticia Dominguez
2-4pm Community Writing Workshop with Lighthouse Writers Workshop
2-4pm Kaylee Bender – DJ Bugs Honey
4-6pm Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra
Community
Community feedback station for Lighthouse mural, bARTer Collective Truck, Art and Stories
Lighthouse Writers Workshop - Spring Awakening in the Neighborhood with Azar Kohzadi
Come explore the many ways the stir and buzz of springtime can be felt in the rhythms of life and literature alike, from the sidewalks of our neighborhoods to the songs that serenade the season. In this 2-hour workshop, we will wander into the dreamlike landscapes of spring through imaginative and mindful writing prompts that encourage us to examine the particulars that set spring in motion, from seed to bud to fleshy first bloom. We will read and write spring poetry and prose, as well as explore connected processes of rebirth, reawakening and renewal within ourselves.
Lighthouse will also be gathering community feedback for our mural that will be going up on our building on 39th and York street! Stop by our booth during the festival to receive a free Lighhtouse keychain when you share your ideas for the mural and/or let us know what kind of programming you want to see Lighthouse do in the Clayton community.
Vendors
Denver Food Rescue, Denver Public Library Mobile Library Truck, MySpark, Denver Urban Gardens, Volo, Health Screening from American Heart Association, My Outdoor Colorado (booth info + craft station), Duendes Tejidos (female-owned, artisan woven art and goods), Harvest Moon Botanics
Food
Big Raven Bread, Cohesion, South American (arepas + empanadas), Little Bodega (paninis and convenience store in Five Points), Tuk Tuk (Thai bento boxes)
About The Artists
Jonathan Paul Romero was born in Denver, Colorado. At the age of seven years old he started studying music by learning how to play the saxophone! At sixty nine years old, Jon plays Saxophone, Flute, Native American Flute, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Conga, Latin percussion instruments and sings in four Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and Lakota. Jon has been performing live for sixty years! His recordings on his own record labels JPR Records and Jonnie Sage Records have been aired on the Radio for fifty eight years. Jon has performed on Television and Radio broadcasts live and prerecorded for forty eight years. His original music has been used in movies, short films and commercials. Jon has performed with some of Denver, Colorado's Best Local bands including his own! Los Charrito's, Jon Romero y Amanecer and his new band Jon Romero & The Taco Cats! Jon's bands have performed for all the major outdoor events in Denver for years. His bands have shared the stage with Tito Puente, Los Hombres Calientes, Tierra, El Chicano and bands from New Mexico!
His band Jon Romero y Amanecer has been included on several KUVO Jazz 89.3 FM Radios Compilation CD's. Jon is currently performing with his band Jon Romero & The Taco Cats and is a Member/Artist for The Chicano Humanities and Arts Counsel of Denver. Jon is teaching Music and Art classes and is considered to be an Multimedia Artist, Educator, Mentor, Entertainment Production Technician, Specialty Event Promoter and Sole Proprietor of Jonnie Sage Records established in 1997.
Azar Kohzadi is an award-winning teacher and writer who has taught creative writing for over twenty years to students ranging from age 8-adult. Azar writes and teaches in myriad genres and styles, from ecopoetics to screenwriting, at a number of schools and venues, from Denver Art Museum to Denver Botanic Gardens, leading daylong workshops, semester-long courses, as well as summer camps and overnight writing retreats.
Azar has dedicated most of her teaching career to Denver School of the Arts (DSA) where she has taught for twenty years, mostly as the director of the Creative Writing Department, where she continues to teach as a guest artist/visiting writer. Throughout Azar’s time at DSA, she developed creative writing curriculum in all genres, oversaw the audition process, created and co-directed a number of multi-disciplinary performance projects and led a number of travel-writing excursions.
Azar has published poetry, memoir and fiction in a number of literary magazines, as well as journalistic publications. Most recently, Azar was a lead writer for Culture Dish, a book project involving immigrants and refugees in Denver and their stories connected to food and homeland.
Mariachi Sol de Mi Tierra was formed through the idea to show people something fresh and different from the already existing groups in Denver, Colorado. On August 6th of 1999, four young enthusiasts, Oscar Vaca, Jesus Ramirez, Raul Romero, and Vicente Romero, gave thieir complete trust and hope to whom would be the leader of the group, Juventino Romero. Together sitting at a table they decided to plan this adventure that with a lot of determination, practice and hard work, soon would blossom into something wonderful. Throughout the years more musicians would join, which lead to the eight musicians that are a part of the group today. Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra enjoys a prestige that they have gained along the years. In the past twenty years they have been a part of events associated with the National Western Stock Show and for the past eighteen years they have shared the stage with the Colorado Symphony in the festivities for Cinco de Mayo and Mexican independence at Boettcher Concert Hall. The group has also accompanied great Mexican singers that have performed in Denver. With a firm belief to keep demonstrating a beautiful part of the Mexican culture, Mariachi Sol de mi Tierra is now more and better than ever offering to their audience dedication, love, and passion for their music.