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🎬 What Sundance could mean for Colorado
June 24, 2024 · Peyton Garcia
Welcome to the first official week of summer! In a fitting kickoff to the season, Denver’s next e-bike rebate release is tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. Set your alarms and stretch your typing fingers, because vouchers go fast 💨
What's CITY Talking About?
🎭 Su Teatro Expanding
A “cultural campus” is slated for the La Alma Lincoln Park neighborhood. Historic Chicano theater company Su Teatro is poised to purchase a second building just one block from its current home on Santa Fe Drive, with tentative plans to eventually buy a third along the same block. [Denver Gazette 🔒]
🎬 Colorado Makes a Move for Sundance
Boulder is putting in its bid to become the new home of the famous Sundance Film Festival once the event’s contract with Park City, Utah — which has hosted the festival for the last 40 years — expires in 2026. [CO Sun]
🔎 State Ready to Launch Racial Equity Study
Colorado lawmakers have secured the last bit of funding needed to conduct an exhaustive statewide racial equity study that will take a closer look at Colorado’s history with enslavement and how it led to disparities Black residents still face today. [CPR]
🥵 How to Keep Cool This Summer
Temperatures are hitting the 90s and keeping cool is a must. From tubing in Golden to finding respite within the air-conditioned comfort of a retail store, we’re rounded up some innovative ways to survive the summer heat streak. [City Cast Denver 🎧]
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What To Do
Monday, June 24
- 🌳 Free Day at the Museum | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Free | Museum of Outdoor Arts
- 🧶 Stitch & Bitch (50+) | 6:15-7:45 p.m. | Free | The Center on Colfax
- 🎬 Film on the Rocks: Shrek | 6:30 p.m. | $20+ | Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Tuesday, June 25
- 🪷 Sunrise Yoga | 7:30-8:30 a.m. | $10+ | Denver Botanic Gardens
- 🌮 Taco Tuesday | 3-10 p.m. | $3 Tacos | Kachina Cantina
- 📽️ Sunset Cinema: Across the Spider-Verse | 7:30 p.m. | Free | Sculpture Park
Today on City Cast
How to Beat The Heat This Summer
Summer is officially here! That means sunny skies, long days … and serious heat. So how do you keep cool? From mountain river dips to a free afternoon in one of the Mile High’s many AC’d museums, the City Cast Denver podcast crew assembles a list of innovative ways to beat the heat!
That’s all for today! For those of you following the gray wolf reintroduction with as much interest as I am, Colorado has its first confirmed gray wolf pup! 🐺
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