ground cover

140 South Broadway,Denver CO 80209

24 April, 2022

Description

ground cover featuring Evan Weissman Join The Marigold Project and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats as we continue our community building series, 'ground cover'. Led by Evan Weissman, we will dive into a rich conversation about civic engagement - what it is, why it matters, why it must be creative and fun and how we can all dive in to the work ahead of us. *Proof of vaccination required for attendance; event will take place indoors in a well-ventilated area. Masks required when not actively consuming food or beverage. If the entry fee prevents your participation, please reach out to Kari Nott at [email protected]. We are committed to making this event accessible for all. Evan is the founding executive director of Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a Civic Health Club that blends innovative arts and culture with crucial civic issues. Prior to founding Warm Cookies of the Revolution, he spent 12 years as a company member of the collaborative Buntport Theater Company, who the Denver Post called “Monty Python’s anarchist grandchildren”, winning over 100 awards as playwright, director, designer, and actor. Warm Cookies of the Revolution have created over 250 unique arts-based civic programs, including the nationally recognized multi-year Participatory Budgeting project called “THIS MACHINE HAS A SOUL”. Evan was recently selected as a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow for innovative activism as well as a 2019 Livingston Fellow from Bonfils-Stanton Foundation. He was awarded the 2019 Colorado Governor’s Award for Creative Leadership and the 2018 Parr Widener Civic Leadership Award from the Denver Foundation. Evan was also named one of “15 Disrupters Changing Denver” by 5280 magazine. Evan was Denver Commissioner for Cultural Affairs in 2017 and Creative in Residence at the Denver Art Museum in 2015. Evan teaches a course on the foundations of nonviolence at The Colorado College. He was a Kellogg Foundation Leadership for Community Change Fellow with Mi Casa Resource Center for Women, as well as board member of Rose Community Foundation’s Roots and Branches Foundation for emerging Jewish leaders. Evan was the founding organizer of Colorado Bend The Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Social and Economic Justice. In 2002, he was a Jane Addams-Andrew Carnegie Graduate Fellow for Leadership and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University’s Center on Philanthropy. He graduated with Honors from The Colorado College with a BA in Political Science. Evan lives in Denver with his wife Kristin and their kids Ezra Huck and Tavi Scout.