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A man shouts with joy with his children as they ride the carousel at Camp Christmas

Don’t Just Enjoy Camp Christmas, Feel Good About Local Sustainability

A night out on the town can be a blast, an extravagance even, a chance to put your worries aside and take in a show. When you head to Camp Christmas this season, you can also get the glow of appreciation for the sustainability efforts at the Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park. How Camp Christmas is […]

A group of children run through a lighted archway at Camp Christmas

First Look: Camp Christmas

Handcrafted by Camp Director Lonnie Hanzon and his band of local magic makers, Camp Christmas is a dazzling dreamscape made just for you. It’s an invitation to leave your worries behind and lean in to the joy of the season. It’s an opportunity to remember, reconnect, and recharge. It’s fun, fleeting, and just a little bit […]

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Neuroscience 101: A Theater Analogy

You have your very own theater production, being acted out right now, in your brain. An exquisitely complex organ, driven by the hard work of both the actors onstage (your nerve cells) and the players behind the scenes (your glial cells). Just like in an immersive play, your nerve cells steal the show. They communicate […]

Some of the creative team for Off-Center's 'Theater of the Mind,' created by David Byrne and Mala Gaonkar. Photo by Adams VisCom.

Theater of the Mind Asks: If you are made of your memories, and those memories are malleable, then who are you?

This is the question that multi-media artist, David Byrne (American Utopia, Talking Heads, Reasons to Be Cheerful, A History of the World in Dingbats) posed to me. Byrne has been asking this question for decades. In his early 20s he found himself fascinated with the work of neurophysiologist Warren McCulloch and thus began a journey […]

A “camp-ier” Camp Christmas

If ever there was a King of Christmas, it might just be Lakewood’s very own Lonnie Hanzon. But instead of donning a crown, Hanzon takes on the role of Camp Director when DCPA Off-Center’s Camp Christmas opens at Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park. What started three years ago in Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace can no longer be […]

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DCPA selects two local projects to develop as part of its Powered by Off-Center Program 

The Bright Lights of Denver and Don Quixote de Auraria chosen from 39 submissions representing 82 Colorado artists DCPA Off-Center is pleased to announce not one, but two projects have been selected as part of its Powered By Off-Center program. The Bright Lights of Denver, created by Kenny Moten and Jessica Hindsley, will receive a […]

COVID-safe Van Gogh Alive comes to life at Stanley Marketplace

The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Stephen Lindsay & Brett Sirota and Andrew Kay Management in partnership with Grande Experiences present Van Gogh Alive, a large-scale, multi-sensory experience to entertain the whole family. For a limited time only — July 9 through September 26 in The Hangar at Aurora’s Stanley Marketplace — audiences have the unique […]

Mixed Taste

DCPA Off-Center and MCA Denver to bring Mixed Taste lectures online

DCPA Off-Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver are excited to bring the popular Mixed Taste series virtual with six free tag team lectures every Wednesday this summer, beginning July 15.

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‘Powered by Off-Center’ is empowering artists’ dreams

DCPA’s inaugural resident artists ready to unveil projects about Colorado’s little-known Jewish history and an immersive crop-circle mystery