The Denver Post Pen & Podium Book Club dates and books have been announced and are listed above. Each event is held one week prior to the author’s arrival in Denver for their sold-out Pen & Podium lecture at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Authors do not attend the Book Club events. An email invitation will be sent to the Book Club list approximately three weeks before the gathering takes place. Visit penandpodium.com/book-club for more information.
Tickets are now available for $35 for A Christmas Carol, the Passport To The Arts holiday performance. Join us on Wednesday, November 27th at 7 p.m., visit passporttothearts.com for more information or to get your tickets now!
Support the arts and purchase your Denver Post Fall Passport To The Arts ticket package now, just $170 for some of the best live performances. HAMLET on September 18th; MENDELSSOHN VIOLIN CONCERTO on October 4th; DONIZETTI’S DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT on November 12th; and FUNNY GIRL on December 10th. Visit passporttothearts.com to get your tickets now!
Our mission is to improve and enrich the lives of others through support of programs that benefit arts and culture, children and youth, education and literacy, and the provision of basic human services. Click here to learn more about the Foundation.
The Denver Post Pen & Podium is a five-part lecture series that features the world’s most distinguished and thought provoking authors. Now in its 21st year, P&P is committed to presenting writers and speakers who inspire and challenge our audience with new ideas. The 2024/25 season welcomes the outstanding and inspirational line-up of Amy Tan – Sept. 23, 2024; Bonnie Garmus – Oct. 14, 2024; Erik Larson – Jan. 27, 2025; Tommy Orange – March 10, 2025; and Ed Yong – May 12, 2025.
If you are interested in becoming a new subscriber for the 2024/25 season, please click here to sign up for our Early Bird Advance Ticket Information list. In late July, an email will be sent to this group with the chance to subscribe – based on availability. At this time, series subscriptions are available to renewing subscribers only. For the authors’ bios and/or more information, please visit penandpodium.com.
Congratulations to Aditi Muthukumar, the 2024 Denver Post Colorado State Bee champion! On Saturday, March 9, 2024 the 8th grader from Hulstrom Options K-8 in Northglenn spelled TECHNICALITY correctly in the 30th round to win the coveted Colorado title and trophy and an all-expense paid trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee near Washington D.C. This is the second year in a row that Aditi won and will be representing Colorado at the national competition.
It was a great afternoon of spectacular spelling from the 14 finalists from across Colorado. They went round after round until we had our 3rd place winner, Aadhya Muthukumar, a 5th grader also from Hulstrom Options, and our 2nd place winner, Rebecca Jerison, a 6th grader from Challenge To Excellence in Parker.
More that 270 schools across Colorado started the 2024 competition off with a competitive online spelling and vocabulary test on March 4th and the top scorers advanced to the oral rounds at Sturm Hall on the University of Denver’s campus. Click here to see the 14 finalists who participated in the live competition. Please join us in congratulating all of the top spellers across Colorado!
A package of four of the best live performances Denver has to offer is available for $170 and will be on sale through Sunday, January 28, 2024. The shows are Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 on Friday, February 9th at 7:30 p.m.; HAIRSPRAY on Tuesday, March 5th at 7:30 p.m.; EMMA on Thursday, April 11th at 7 p.m.; and Samson & Delilah on Tuesday, May 7th at 7:30 p.m. Visit passporttothearts.com for more information and to purchase your seats now!
The Denver Post Season To Share is the annual holiday fundraising campaign of The Denver Post and The Denver Post Community Foundation and runs through December 31, 2023. Donations up to $1,000,000 will be matched at 50% by The Denver Children’s Foundation and will support more than 50 metro Denver nonprofit agencies with life-changing programs focused on children & youth, health & wellness, homelessness, and hunger. Visit seasontoshare.com for more information or to make a donation.
The Denver Post Community Foundation, a recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency, raises funds through individual and corporate donations, through four unique Signature Events and Programs, including the annual holiday campaign Season To Share. The overall mission is to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community through support of programs that benefit arts and culture; children and youth; education and literacy; and the provision of basic human services. Since inception in 2011,over $6,656,750.00 has been raised and distributed. Many thanks to our partners and to the thousands of donors and event participants over the years who have helped to improve and enrich the lives of those in our community.
These well-established events and programs have become staples in the community with many lasting over 30 years. They offer partners, participants and volunteers something unique each year. They include: Pen & Podium, Passport To The Arts, and the Colorado State Spelling Bee.
Through the 2022/23 Denver Post Season To Share campaign, $1,565,000 is benefiting 62 metro Denver nonprofit agencies. Thanks to more than 3,400 donors, a generous match from our partner The Denver Children’s Foundation, our partnership with MDC/Richmond American Homes Foundation and the Denver Post readers, we can support agencies providing life-changing programs to low income children, families and individuals to help move them out of poverty and into stabilization and self-sufficiency.
Donations are accepted year-round. Click here to make a donation to Season To Share.
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The 20th anniversary season of The Denver Post Pen & Podium kicks off with the award-winning and bestselling author of Homegoing and Transcendent Kingdom, Yaa Gyasi on Monday, October 16, 2023. Series subscriptions are sold out, however there are a limited number of single tickets available. Visit penandpodium.newmantix.com to purchase now. Visit penandpodium.com for more information on the Pen & Podium Series.
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