Creativity & The Arts

The Lamont School of Music heats up the Colorado winter with a sizzling collection of faculty and guest artists presenting solo recitals and performing with the symphony orchestra, jazz and wind ensembles. Performances are in the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts on the University of Denver campus.

This year’s Harper Distinguished Speaker, Nigel Poor will visit DU on November 14 and give an on-stage interview with Associate Professor of Art Sarah Gjertson. Poor is the co-creator and co-host of the award-winning prison-based podcast, Ear Hustle.

Healing 2020 is a REAP (Research, Education, Activism, Performance) conference hosted by The Spirituals Project and the University of Denver.

John Ashbery, César Vallejo, Joan Didion, Robert Penn Warren — these are just a few of the writers published in DU’s Denver Quarterly, the oldest, continuously publishing literary arts journal west of the Mississippi. With a 53-year history publishing innovative work in poetry, fiction and nonfiction, Denver Quarterly isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.

Sarah Cambidge (BM ’11, MM ’13) sings the role of the Lady in Waiting.