“In a Safeway parking lot in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood on a mid-June weekday, dancers Jasmine Francisco and Samiyah Lynnice Parramore were making the most of #ArtFindsUs’ teensy stage.
Above them, clouds were gathering energy for a burst of rain that would scotch their third stop, at the Blair-Caldwell Library. (The first took place in front of health care workers at St. Joseph’s Hospital.) But for the moment, stragglers, supermarket patrons and fans of Cleo Parker Robinson Dance — standing apart, nearly all of them masked — were getting a fix of live performance.
This month, on Thursday, July 16, the itinerant event will continue its mobile revelry along the Santa Fe arts corridor and through the blocks of District 3. There are plans to hit all seven districts, culminating with Denver Arts Week, slated for early November. The latest installment is set to feature Native American poet Tanaya Winder, the dance troupe Samba Colorado, and members of the indie rock band DeVotchKa.”
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Kennedy, Lisa. The Know 10 July 2020.