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Sidewalk Poets Sidewalk Poets is a nonprofit organization focused on empowerment and healing through storytelling

The Globeville StoryWalk is quickly approaching—it's THIS SATURDAY, October 17th, from 11am-1pm! We are incredibly excit...
10/14/2026

The Globeville StoryWalk is quickly approaching—it's THIS SATURDAY, October 17th, from 11am-1pm! We are incredibly excited to showcase Globeville's poetry, writings, and art!

Join us for a community reading and a leisurely walk/roll through the installation of Globeville's poetry and art! There will be free coffee and burritos for the first 50 participants, so make sure to swing by!

We are meeting at Argo Park, behind the pool! Walk starts at 11:30. We hope to see you there!

The Globeville StoryWalk installation is supported by Arts in Society, Bonfils Stanton, and Denver Arts and Venues PS You Are Here Program.

We’d also like to thank our sponsors, GES Community Investment Fund, Denver Foundation’s Strengthening Neighborhoods, Denver CALC, RiNo Sign Works, Buenas Causes Studio, and partners, Birdseed Collective, Mile High Behavioral Healthcare, Emmanuel’s Bakery, Prodigy Coffeehouse, and artist, Levi Garcia.

Check out the installation process for Globeville's poetry signs!If you think this is cool, you will love our upcoming S...
10/09/2026

Check out the installation process for Globeville's poetry signs!

If you think this is cool, you will love our upcoming StoryWalk in Globeville! Join us on Saturday, October 17th from 11am - 1pm to see these signs in person!

More details on our website: https://sidewalkpoets.org/events/

We can't wait to see you there! 🎨📝

I call this one "Admiring the Install"...come and admire with us and hear from the Globeville authors themselves! Globev...
10/08/2026

I call this one "Admiring the Install"...come and admire with us and hear from the Globeville authors themselves!
Globeville StoryWalk next Saturday, October 17th! 11:00-1:00!!

I am steady.I am the roots of an oak, deep & unshaken.I am the whisper of dawn, soft but sure of its rise.I am from slee...
10/06/2026

I am steady.
I am the roots of an oak, deep & unshaken.
I am the whisper of dawn, soft but sure of its rise.

I am from sleepless nights and bright beginnings,
from hands that cradle & voices that uplift.
I am the shade of renewal--cool, calm, unfolding.

I take with me lessons written in love,
the warmth of new bonds, the grace of second chances.
I am learning that love is patient & family is chosen,
that healing is both a destination & a journey.

In the dream of the future we grow like wildflowers:
unapologetic in beauty, unbreakable in spirit.
I am the light spilling through the cracks,
I am whole.

- Nothing Left But Me, by Joie Friemering

Curious about our new art installation? Swipe to see some of the poetry and art displayed in Globeville, and join us for our upcoming StoryWalk on October 17th, from 11am to 1pm!

More details on our website: https://sidewalkpoets.org/events/

We hope to see you there!

We are delighted to invite you to come celebrate our new writing and art installation, The Globeville StoryWalk! This St...
09/29/2026

We are delighted to invite you to come celebrate our new writing and art installation, The Globeville StoryWalk! This StoryWalk will take place on Saturday, October 17th, 2026 from 11am - 1pm, in Argo Park!

Curious to see what a StoryWalk is? 👀 Swipe to see some pictures from our 2024 StoryWalk installation and walk event in East Colfax!

Throughout the past year, we've hosted creative writing workshops in the Globeville community. Now, local residents have their poetry, writings, and art showcased across the neighborhood! Come out and join us for a community reading and a casual two-mile walk/roll through local creative works.

Our walk starts at 11:30am in Argo Park, behind the pool!
Argo Park, 4700 Logan Street Denver CO 80216

Free coffee and burritos will be provided for the first 50 participants!

We can't wait to see you there! ✏️🎨

09/21/2026

🏚️ Denver ran Interstate 70 straight through the middle of Globeville in the 1960s. About thirty homes came down.

Globeville grew up around the smelters north of downtown. The Globe plant gave the neighborhood its name in 1889. Denver took the town in soon after.

Slovenian, Croatian, Polish and Russian families worked the furnaces first. Mexican and Mexican American families came in numbers after the Second World War, for the smelter, the rail yards and the packing houses.

Then the highways arrived. The Valley Highway went up along the west side in the 1950s. Interstate 70 was finished in 1964 and cut the neighborhood in half.

Residents sued the smelter's owner in 1991 over the lead and arsenic in their yards. The company paid thirty eight million dollars to clean the soil. Crews dug out more than five hundred fifty properties.

Happy Juneteenth! 🐦‍🔥 Keep fighting for a better world
06/19/2026

Happy Juneteenth! 🐦‍🔥 Keep fighting for a better world

Pardon the late post! In May, we celebrated Asian-American Heritage Month! Some of the greatest pieces of American media...
06/16/2026

Pardon the late post! In May, we celebrated Asian-American Heritage Month! Some of the greatest pieces of American media have come from Asian-American minds, hands, and visions; the films we have selected here speak to that sentiment. In the last decade or so, there has been a rise in Asian representation in American media, and much of that has to do with the box office success of Crazy Rich Asians. The directors of Parasite and Everything Everywhere All at Once pointed to Crazy Rich Asians as paving a way for Hollywood studios to see that Asian stories can not only be compelling, but commercially successful as well. Hopefully, we will see even more films like Past Lives and Minari come out of Hollywood as studios invest in Asian creatives and stories.

It’s comingggg… Save the date for the Sidewalk Poets Writing in Nature Retreat in Estes Park, September 11th - 13th 2026...
06/16/2026

It’s comingggg… Save the date for the Sidewalk Poets Writing in Nature Retreat in Estes Park, September 11th - 13th 2026! More details to come!

Sidewalk Poets celebrates Pride Month this year with a great selection of q***r films to watch, share, and enjoy! Some o...
06/15/2026

Sidewalk Poets celebrates Pride Month this year with a great selection of q***r films to watch, share, and enjoy! Some of the most interesting and inspiring creatives in media and at our workshops are a part of the LGBTQ+ community, and this month we hope to celebrate them. Our selection of films span from gay love in England in the early 20th century, to a Korean lesbian-thriller, and to a modern American story of a government agent whose job is to arrest gay men realizing he is gay himself...

Q***r stories are desperately needed in our current polarized state as they serve to humanize people's stories and lives that are too often stereotyped and abstracted.

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7700 E Colfax Avenue
Denver, CO
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