Reimagine Your Downtown Denver during free events Saturday, Sunday

October 1, 2014

Downtown Denver parks will turn into dance studios, parking lots to works of art and alleyways into gathering places for Denver dwellers and visitors of all ages to enjoy for free during Reimagine Your Downtown on Saturday and Sunday.

Reimagine Your Downtown is an event created by the 2014 Downtown Denver Partnership Leadership Program class, which was challenged with the idea of tactical urbanism – transforming spaces into places. The class maintained focus on urban interventions that transform a space into a more lively place such as guerrilla gardening, pavement-to-parks and open streets.

After months of research, interviews and discussions, Reimagine Your Downtown brings nine projects aimed to challenge attendees’ perception of public space.

“We took a unique approach this year in how we wanted the Downtown Denver Leadership Program to culminate (its) work by making a two-day event out of it,” said Jim Kirchheimer, senior vice president of economic development for the Downtown Denver Partnership. “This is the first year that we challenged the class to actually implement (its) projects that will physically transform an overlooked or underutilized space in Downtown Denver.

“We wanted to give the groups the opportunity to showcase their creative ideas to the public, with the hope that other individuals walk away inspired and begin wondering how they may be able to implement an urban intervention of their own.”

The schedule of events is as follows:

  • Reimagine Parking: one car = nine bikes – Friday through Oct. 9, all day (LoDo, Wynkoop Street);
  • Urban Backyard – noon – 4 p.m. Friday (Alley on 16th between Market and Blake);
  • Reimagine Less Homelessness  – noon to 4 p.m. Friday (16th and Stout);
  • Parktivation – 3 – 7 p.m. Friday (Skyline Park);
  • Play Denver: Reimagine Downtown with Your Kids – 4 to 7 p.m. Friday and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday (Friday: Union Station light rail station, Saturday: California Street between 15th and 16th);
  • Reimagine Your Commute: Art In Motion – 4 – 7 p.m. Friday (Union Station light rail station and 10th and Osage light rail station);
  • Arapahoe United: Reimagining Space Today… Stronger Community Tomorrow – 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday (21st and Curtis);
  • Chalk the Creek Front – 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday (Cherry Creek Path at Larimer and 14th Street);
  • Art Lot – 1 to 5 p.m. (California Street between 15th and 16th).

For more information about this event, visit www.reimagineyourdowntown.com.

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