So, what is this program all about?
The Stompin’ Ground Games are a neighborhood Olympics where arts, culture, and history collide in the name of civic pride. While we keep you entertained with the finest artists and cultural groups our community has to offer, you’ll learn crucial historical lessons about the neighborhood and its landmarks, as well as current issues affecting these areas and ways to take action for change.
Just imagine: attending a dance festival at Ruby Hill Park, and learning the history of the neighborhood and plans to bring the Levitt Pavilion there…or, discovering everything there is to know about the smelters of Globeville past, and what the community is doing today to bring in healthy food options, all while the city’s best street artists battle it out for glory.
In order to decide where we’re headed we’ve got to know where we’ve been. Come show us what your neighborhood has to offer and take part in envisioning what our community could be.
(Don’t live in the city? No worries, our community spreads beyond borders. This program is for everyone (We’re looking at you Lakewood, Thornton, and Aurora. And you there in Texas and New York and Jakarta and Buenos Aires!)
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Janae Burris, Jordan Doll, Timmi Lasley and Nathan Lund interwove the ins and outs of four big issues – homelessness, immigration rights, queer history and housing alternatives – faced by the community in Denver’s Capitol Hill into special routines at this month’s Stompin’ Ground Games session, hosted by Warm Cookies of the Revolution at the Grant-Humphreys Mansion. Oh, and there were doughnuts! All photos by Ken Hamblin.
“A neighborhood Olympics… in the name of civic pride.” That’s how Evan Weissman, who founded the Denver “civic health club” Warm Cookies of the Revolution, describes his latest project. The “Stompin’ Ground Games” is a friendly competition with no losers and no winners. A twist on Denver’s urban development debates, it tours to a different community each month, showcasing arts and culture while exploring that area’s history.
Evan Weissman thinks every neighborhood in Denver is important. That’s the point of his 3-year-old nonprofit group, Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a “civic health club” that uses quirky public events with speakers, entertainment and, yes, warm cookies to fire people up about issues in their community.
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