June ’25 Happenings
Celebrating Juneteenth
Celebrate Juneteenth on Welton Street in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood east of Park Hill on Sunday, June 15 from noon to 8 p.m. The festivities kick off with a street running parade and includes cultural vendors and food trucks and a youth zone. There is entertainment and live music all day, with a headline performance by hip hop legend Juvenile. The event is free and open to all.
Juneteenth is also known as Jubilee Day, Freedom Day, and Emancipation Day. It celebrates the day African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Three years ago Juneteenth became an official state holiday in Colorado, a year after then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation making June 19 a federal holiday.
Check out schedules and details for this year’s celebration at juneteenthmusicfestival.com.
Denver PrideFest June 29
Dust off your rainbows and join 100,000 of your closest friends at Denver PrideFest on Sunday, June 29. The PrideFest Parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m. with colorful floats, marchers, music, and more. Historically, the parade travels Colfax Avenue from Franklin Street west to Broadway. But this year the parade has moved to 17th Avenue, due to the massive construction from the Bus Rapid Transit project underway on Colfax. The staging and step-off will be at 17th and Franklin Street, with the parade concluding at Lincoln Street.
More details and information is at denverpride.org/parade.
Not Another Black Art Show
The Niza Knoll Gallery in the Santa Fe Arts District presents Not Another Black Art Show, now through June 29. Curated by Colorado artist Tyree Jones-Evans, the show aims to create a space that abandons imposed meanings behind black art and embraces nuance within the work. In addition to Jones-Evans, other participating local artists include Johnny Draco, Joseph Graves, Jazz Holmes, Angel Tirado and Devin Urioste.
The public is invited to an artists reception on Saturday, June 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. A free artists panel is also scheduled on Friday, June 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. The Niza Knoll Gallery is at 915 Santa Fe Dr. Visit nizaknollgallery.com for more info.
$10,000 For A Hole-In-One
This year’s City Park Alliance golf tournament is Monday, June 23. Swing Big For City Park includes a $10,000 Hole-In-One contest, open to men and women players. Tourney proceeds will be used for flowers in the park beds, renovations to the park’s handball courts and to install security cameras at the Martin Luther King, Jr. statue, which recently experienced vandalism. Sponsorships are also available.
Sign up at cityparkalliance.org.
Trick-Or-Treating In July
Save Monday, July 19 as the date for some early trick-or-treating at 16th and Ivanhoe in Park Hill. July-O-Ween was created in July, 2020 by a Park Hill kid named Charlie to have Halloween with his sister Rory, when she was diagnosed with a terminal rare disease. The neighborhood tradition continues. Costumes, decorations, bouncy castles, sprinklers, and, of course, candy and other treats. Email rachel@therorybellefoundation.org.