CARNE y ARENA Community Resources and Events

Community Resources Related to Immigration

Here is a listing of some local nonprofits working in support of immigrants and refugees, including ways to learn more and get involved.

Community-Based Programming Series

The producers of CARNE y ARENA are excited to partner with many local cultural organizations to offer a variety of virtual programs and community conversations that are free and open to the public. Below is a listing of all the current offerings that will be updated with links and more information as it becomes available.

Putting Latinx Stories Center Stage
Presented by DCPA Off-Center
Fri, Dec 4 | 12pm Mountain Time

DCPA Executive Director of Equity and Organization Culture Lydia Garcia facilitates a conversation between three of the country’s most-produced Latinx playwrights, Luis Alfaro (Mojada, Oedipus el Rey), José Cruz González (American Mariachi, Sunsets and Margaritas), and Karen Zacarías (Native Gardens, Just Like Us). These theatrical luminaries will discuss the power of storytelling, share their own experiences with telling Latinx-centered stories, and explore the opportunities and challenges of sharing stories of trauma like CARNE y ARENA.

Colorado Congressional Representatives Read Motus Theater’s
UndocuMonologues: Stories from our Undocumented Neighbors
Presented by Motus Theater
Jan 7 from 5:30-7pm

Motus Theater’s undocumented monologists invite you, via Zoom, into their homes to share personal stories about their lives, fears, and dreams. One story will be read aloud by special guest readers, Colorado Congressional Representatives Joe Neguse and Jason Crow, who will then reflect, alongside the monologists, about the impact of reading the story. Each monologue is followed by a musical response from Uruguayan musician Elisa Garcia.

Responsibility of Art and Leadership in Times of Continued Injustice
Presented by Latino Cultural Arts Center with the Biennial of the Americas, the Denver Art Museum, Emerson Collective, History Colorado, and the Village Exchange Center
Jan 27, 2021 | 1:00-3:00pm MT

The conclusion to the Community-Based Programming Series invites you to explore our collective responsibility as cultural institutions during times of continued injustice. This conversation is prompted by current events and CARNE y ARENA. Artist and Master of Ceremonies, Molina Speaks, will bookend the discussion with poems using his “live-scribe” technique integrating artistic perspective and audience voice.