This month is Pride Month! Pride Month is celebrated annually in June in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising in Manhattan. According to History Colorado, the first Pride event in the Denver metro area was held in 1974 at Cheesman Park.

You can celebrate Pride here in the Denver Metro area alongside three of our amazing grantees! The Gay Men’s and Women’s Chorus, Harmony: A Colorado Chorale, and the Mile High Freedom Bands have been providing been providing safe spaces for LGBTQIA members of the Denver metro community to express themselves through music for more than 30 years. Join them at the following events this month:

Find more information on Pride activities happening all month here: Denver Pride 2023

Thanks to the voters and residents of the seven-county metro area, SCFD has come a long way in its more than 30 years of existence. SCFD is the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, a tax collected and distributed to more than 300 cultural organizations in our seven-county Denver metro region including Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties. Just one penny on every $10 spent in the district creates vibrancy for us individually and collectively.

Each year, arts, culture and scientific organizations can apply to be eligible to receive SCFD funding. This funding provides general operating support, so organizations can use it where they need it the most to fulfill their mission. Eligibility applications for organizations new to SCFD are now open. If you are part of an organization that might be a good fit you can learn more about SCFD eligibility. Applications close in September and eligibility is determined by the end of the year. 

Organizations from across the metro area provide hundreds of free days and free programs each year made possible, in part, by funding from SCFD. Some organizations are free every day such as Broomfield Veterans Museum, Foothills Art Center, Colorado Music Hall of Fame, The Aurora History Museum and the Louisville History Museum. Here’s a small sample of what’s on tap for June.