An award-winning organization....
-2006 Best of Denver from Westword Newspaper: Open Mic (last time recognition was offered)
-2011-2012 Best Community Parnter (from Metropolitan State University's Journey Through Our Heritage program)
-2012 Cesar Chavez Organization Leadership Award
-2012 Spirit of Tlatelolco Art & Culture Award
-2012 Navajo Times' Most Notable People
-2013 Rosa Park's Diversity Community Award (from University of Colorado, Denver)
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MAY
10
Features: Alexis Rain Vigl; Jam Session w/
Cafe Collective Members; Art by Mat Barkhausen & April Tsosie; WORD (Warriors Organizing and Rising in Denver)...Palabra Guerriller@
7-10pm
Denver Inner City Parish/La Academia
(9th Ave & Galapago St)
JUNE
14
Features: Youth Participants from Cafe Cultura's Workshops (College Track, STRIVE Prep SMART, KIPP Denver Collegiate HS);
Art from Youth
6:30-9:30pm
La Alma/Lincoln Park Amphitheater
(12th Ave & Osage St)
JULY
12
Features: CU's Upward Bound Students; No Mo' Violence Dance Troupe
6:30-9:30pm
La Alma/Lincoln Park Amphitheater
(12th Ave & Osage St)
AUG
9
Features: NDAAZ; TBA
6:30-9:30pm
La Alma/Lincoln Park Amphitheater
(12th Ave & Osage St)
Community members say...
“I love the safe environment Café Cultura has provided for youth to express their poetry. What Café Cultura gives to the Brown & Red communities is important
to ensure our people have a forum to share our creativity.”
-from 2010 anonymous survey
“I take a group of At-Risk youth and every group has had a positive experience from it.”
-from 2010 anonymous survey
“My most memorable moment was going to a workshop…and finding something I didn't know I
had inside.”
-from 2012 anonymous survey
“They ([Café Cultura]) provide a format for youth to express themselves in a positive, creative manner…inspiring words of the next generation of Native Youth.”
-from 2012 anonymous survey
“[I enjoyed] expressing myself through poetry…Overall, the workshop is great. I learned to not be embarrassed about my culture and be proud!”
-6th grader at Bridge Project
“I liked the interaction of the teacher with students… Café Cultura gives students the opportunity to
express themselves and not have bad emotions and feel depressed. I know that’s my story. It also made me realize where my actual roots are from.”
-9th grader at KIPP Denver Collegiate HS
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