Community Announcements

Get Ready For July 4th

The Park Hill 4th of July Parade is back! This community-friendly, Greater Park Hill Community, Inc.-sponsored event will again be marching along 23rd Avenue from Dexter to Krameria Street on Independence Day. Registration for participants is open, so start planning. Last year’s parade included marchers, bikers, floats and classic cars. This year’s parade should be even bigger, with marching bands, acrobats and … more floats! The 2016 Parade will start at 1:30 p.m. Staging for participants will begin at 12:30 p.m. on Dexter between 23rd and Montview Boulevard. If you have any questions, contact parade organizers at 303-918-6517 or parkhillparade@gmail.com. See you on the 4th.

We Have A Date

You (maybe) heard it here first! This year’s annual Park Hill Home Tour and Street Fair is Sunday, Sept. 11. Organizers of the fundraiser, which includes a tour of numerous beautiful homes in Park Hill, as well as a daylong street fair on Forest Avenue Parkway, are signing up vendors as we speak. Check out the street fair website, at  ParkHillStreetFair.com, and the home tour website, at ParkHillHomeTour.org, for more info. Specific information is available by contacting the following:

• Food Trucks:  Erik Boller hawaiianlivingdenver@gmail.com

• Bands: Lynn Maedel maedel.lynn@gmail.com

• Kids Activities: Kate Hakala kate_hakala@msn.com

• Vendor Booths: Kate Sultan krsultan@comcast.net

• Sponsorship Opportunities: Lisa Clark Lisa@LisaCClark.com

• Advertising: Melissa Monforti Melissa@ForteMusicEducation.com

City Park Jazz Turns 30

City Park Jazz is celebrating its 30th anniversary season of free Sunday concerts in the park. The season spans 10 Sunday evenings from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. starting June 5. The concerts are staged at the City Park Pavilion.  Everyone is welcome. Without further ado, here is this summer’s line-up:

• June 5: Euforquestra

• June 12: Lannie Garrett in Swing Sets  – Benny Basie & Beyond

• June 19: Hazel Miller

• June 26: Otis Taylor

• July 3: Ritmo Jazz Latino

• July 10: Heavy Heavies

• July 17: Selina Albright

• July 24: SuperCollider with Very Special Guest Erik Deutsch

• July 31: Imagine featuring Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band), Ray White (Frank Zappa), Damon Wood (James Brown) & Friends

• Aug. 7: Chris Daniels & the Kings with Freddi Gowdy

For more information on the bands, and info on supporting City Park Jazz or volunteering, check out CityParkJazz.org.

Empire Lyric Players Return

If you’ve no objection to fun, you’ve been summoned to witness a double-bill that is sure to appeal to audiences of all ages.  If the Empire Lyric Players are guilty of too many puns in a sentence, they plead that you won’t let that affect your judgment and that you will give these actors a fair hearing. The Empire Lyric Players have been producing community theater in Denver since 1958. The troupe presents Trial by Jury at the Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church Theater, 1980 Dahlia St., on June 16, 17 and 18 at 7 p.m., and June 19 at 2 p.m. The plot involves a rowdy jury that hears the case of “breach of promise of marriage” from the beautiful and sympathetic Angelina … but, is the would-be groom even worth the trouble? Tickets are $15; $12 for senior and children, and can be purchased at elps.org/tickets

Welcome to the Dahl House

The Denver Film Society’s summer family program, Welcome to the Dahl House, highlights seven family friendly films from the beloved children’s author, Roald Dahl. Each week the Denver Film Society will screen a film on Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. All tickets are $5 (children 6 and under are free) and include an all-you-can-eat cereal bar beginning at 10 a.m. The series will kick off Saturday, June 4 with the 1971 classic, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. In the spirit of the series opener, the Society will host a Sie FilmCenter Golden Ticket contest. Children who attend the program will have the opportunity to enter to win the golden ticket, which will allow them and up to three friends or family members a behind-the-scenes tour of the Sie FilmCenter, where they will learn about projection, popping popcorn, and selling tickets. The day will culminate with a screening of a film of their choosing on the big screen at the Sie, which will be open to the public and to the winners’ friends and family. The series includes screenings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (June 4), Matilda (June 11), The BFG (June 18), Fantastic Mr. Fox (July 2), The Witches (July 9), and James and the Giant Peach (July 23).  In addition, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will screen on July 16. Dahl wrote the screenplay for the 1968 film. Tickets are on sale now at DenverFilm.org or at the Sie FilmCenter box office, 2510 E. Colfax Ave.

Rocky Mountain Spirituals Festival

Bennie L. Williams Spiritual Voices hosts the first Rocky Mountain Spirituals Festival on Saturday, June 11, at 3 p.m. at Park Hill United Methodist Church, 5209 E. Montview Blvd.  Performing along with the BLW Spiritual Voices will be choirs and their esteemed directors from all over the United States including:

• The Ambassadors’ Concert Choir – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• Celebration Multicultural Ensemble – Colorado Springs, Colorado

• The Ebony Chorale – West Palm Beach, Florida

• First Universalist Church Choir – Denver, Colorado

• The Heritage Chorale – Baton Rouge, Louisiana

• The United Voices of Detroit – Detroit, Michigan

The Spirituals were created by enslaved Africans as expressions of their humanity, quest for freedom, and wholeness of spirit.  The Spirituals are the root of many American music traditions, including gospel, blues, jazz, R&B and hip-hop. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for students, and children under 10 free, and can be purchased online through blwspiritualvoices.org/events.html (Eventbrite fees apply) or by calling the BLW Spiritual Voices hotline at (720) 460-8219. The website is: blwspiritualvoices.org