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Life is more colorful with SCFD

We fund culture

Seven counties. 320 organizations. One mission: To make sure you have amazing experiences. Let us introduce you to our funded partners.

Natural Sciences
Thorne Nature Experience
Mission Statement
To build Earth stewardship by providing youth with joyful, hands-on, place-based environmental education experiences that foster an emotional connection to nature.
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Cultural History
Forney Museum of Transportation
Mission Statement
The Forney Museum of Transportation is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization which exists to collect, preserve, and exhibit items of artistic, historical and technological interest relating to transportation for the purposes of education and personal enrichment.
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Performing Arts
Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra
Mission Statement
Our purpose is to establish an active community within the freedom and culture expressed inauthentic and engaging jazz experiences. As a performing arts organization, our goal is to strengthen the community through jazz performances, recordings, and education. Jazz musictransports the listener through the best of the past, as well as the direction of the future.
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Three dancers leaping in unison.
Performing Arts
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
Mission Statement
To provide cross-cultural instruction, performances and enrichment programs empowering all our communities by cultivating the healthy mind, body and spirit development for intergenerational students, artists and audiences.
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Visual Arts
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts (DAVA)
Mission Statement
To strengthen the community through the arts with a primary focus on youth engagement. Every student that walks through our doors experiences the transformative power of high quality out-of-school programs that develop art, social, and life skills.
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Performing Arts
Evergreen Players
Mission Statement
To create community through the power of theater.
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Cultural History
Tango Colorado
Mission Statement
To provide a forum where people can meet regularly to learn, practice, perform and enjoy Argentine Tango dance, music and culture.
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Visual Arts
Clyfford Still Museum
Mission Statement
To preserve, exhibit, study, and foster engagement with its unique collections. To generate outstanding exhibitions, scholarly research, educational and other cross-disciplinary programs that broaden the definition of a "single-artist" museum. Be a gathering place for the exploration of innovation and individual artistic endeavor.
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Cultural History
Centro Cultural Mexicano (Mexican Cultural Center)
Mission Statement
To increase awareness of Mexico's splendid traditions of travel, cuisine, art, music and handcrafts among the audiences of Colorado.
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Cultural History
Broomfield Veterans Memorial Museum
Mission Statement
To preserve the memories of America's military history and strengthen the bonds to the community by facilitating the stories of veterans as supported by displays and artifacts for the benefit and education of generations to come.
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SCFD funds over 300 organizations in the 7-county Denver metro area.

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Free Days Are Back

Enjoy in-person and virtual programming from the cultural community. Please always check with organizations prior to attending as dates and times are subject to change.

Discipline
Location
Date(s)
The Art Garage
Open Studio - Need space to work on your art? Join our open studio session available once a week for free! This is a chance to bring your own work and materials, engage in a focused environment surrounded by other local artists, work at your own pace, and give and get creative feedback. We're so excited to offer our community this opportunity to further your creative practice and get inspired and in the zone with creative peers!
Fri Mar 31, 6-9PM
Denver, CO
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Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
Free Admission the First Wednesday of the Month through April 2023 - Visit the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave on the first Wednesday of the month through April and enjoy free admission. Free dates in 2023 are January 4, February 1, March 1, and April 5.
Wed Apr 05, 10AM-5PM
Golden, CO
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The Art Garage
Open Studio - Need space to work on your art? Join our open studio session available once a week for free! This is a chance to bring your own work and materials, engage in a focused environment surrounded by other local artists, work at your own pace, and give and get creative feedback. We're so excited to offer our community this opportunity to further your creative practice and get inspired and in the zone with creative peers!
Fri Apr 07, 6-9PM
Denver, CO
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Longmont Museum
SCFD Free Day at the Museum
Sat Apr 08, 9AM-5PM
Longmont, CO
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Denver Zoo
Free Days - Denver Zoo is offering seven (7) Community Free Days throughout 2023 for anyone in our community. To provide the best experience for all of our guests, we are offering a limited number of tickets for each Free Day, using an online lottery system. Anyone who wants to attend a Free Day must register online during the open lottery period for a chance to obtain up to five (5) vouchers for its corresponding Free Day. Follow the event link to enter—best of luck, and hope to see you this year!
Sun Apr 09, 10AM-5PM
Denver, CO
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Denver Art Museum
Free Day at the DAM - Visit the Denver Art Museum and enjoy free general admission all day and evening hours!
Tue Apr 11, 10AM-9PM
Denver, CO
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The Art Garage
Open Studio - Need space to work on your art? Join our open studio session available once a week for free! This is a chance to bring your own work and materials, engage in a focused environment surrounded by other local artists, work at your own pace, and give and get creative feedback. We're so excited to offer our community this opportunity to further your creative practice and get inspired and in the zone with creative peers!
Fri Apr 14, 6-9PM
Denver, CO
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Friends of Dinosaur Ridge
SCFD FREE DAY! Free admission to the exhibit hall at the Main Visitor Center!
Mon Apr 17, 9AM-4PM
Morrison, CO
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Historic Denver/ Molly Brown House Museum
SCFD Voter Free Day - Free admission for the residents of: Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson Counties – must show ID.
Tue Apr 18, 10AM-5PM
Denver, CO
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There's so much culture to experience. Learn more about SCFD-funded organizations here.
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Wonder looks good on you

Culture creates vibrancy for us individually and collectively. It gives our kids a unique perspective and understanding of the world. It inspires all of us to get off the couch, discover the radical and the beautiful, and stretches our capacity to be transformed. Through our diverse, local culture, we come together, we come to new ideas, we come to our senses.

Installation image from BMoCA + Anythink Bennett installation, Topographic Memory by artist Cherish Marquez. Courtesy of Wes Magyar and BMoCA.
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Joyce Tsai
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Bennie L. Williams directing the nationally-recognized Bennie L. Williams Spiritual Voices choir.
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