Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand to Speak, Oct. 4, 6:30 pm, Carla Madison Recreation Center

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CPFAN is honored to host a presentation by artist, activist and educator Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand at its October 4 Board Meeting/Program. The meeting is open to the public and will begin at 5:30 pm. Kristina’s program will begin at 6:30 pm. Kristina is a Sicangu Lakota and Cherokee artist who hails from Taos, NM, but Denver is her home now – luckily for us! In describing her “A Story of Denver” mural featuring treasured Denver landmarks (an interactive artwork created through the Storytelling Studio at the Denver Art Museum), she says:  “From the moment I came here to attend college I fell in love with the energy. Every time I travel, I always feel a wash of relief when I drive back into town. It’s my city. And I, like so many others, have some really great memories in various places all around the metro area.”

Kristina grew up traveling, singing and dancing with her family at powwows. She spent most of her high school career experimenting with mixed media, participating in youth art shows, painting murals and doing set design for her high school drama class. Arriving in Denver, she studied at the Art Institute of Colorado in the Media Arts and Animation program. She has ten years of experience in after-school and summer programs with organizations like Think 360 Artist.

She is particularly known for her work with Pop Culture Classroom, the nonprofit that “delivers high quality, all-inclusive educational resources to school districts, teachers and educational organizations using comics, graphic novels, and related pop-culture media.” One of the educational materials Kristina developed is the comic narrative, A Tale of Sand Creek, created for third graders. The beautifully rendered cartoon video recounts the story of a Sand Creek survivor – a Denver woman whose great grandfather was put in a saddle bag and sent out of the massacre to be received by family elsewhere.
“Indigenous Warrior Woman”
by Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand
As the Creative and Public Engagement Fellow at the Denver Art Museum, Kristina is constantly creating new ways to promote her passion for storytelling and for community and social justice. She has also created several Land Acknowledgement art installations in the Denver area. One of the most recent is a Living Land Acknowledgement in Five Points, funded through a “P.S. You Are Here” grant administered by Denver Art and Venues (DAV).  The sponsor is Redline Contemporary Art Center. DAV describes the project: “P.S. You Are Here funds will support the centerpiece of the garden, a collaborative community-responsive artwork that actively acknowledges the Indigenous ancestral land of Five Points in an ongoing conversation to fortify residents’ sense of belonging, agency, and place-keeping. Co-designed by Five Points residents and a local artist selected through an open call, the topiary sculpture will feature Indigenous plants that thrive in Colorado’s arid climate to reconnect gardeners to native plants and to promote environmental sustainability.”

The Color Field installation at City Park’s Lily Pond was funded by a P.S. You Are Here grant sponsored by City Park Friends and Neighbors in 2020. CPFAN is now collaborating with Kristina on a P.S. You Are Here grant to install a Land Acknowledgement installation in the seed beds of the Lily Pond. We are excited to bring the City Park Lily Pond back to life under the inspired leadership and vision of Kristina Maldonado Bad Hand. Please show your support by attending the Oct. 4 program. You may also attend by Zoom. Also, email your thoughts and ideas about the proposed project to info@cpfan.org

You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Oct 4, 2022 06:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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East High School Sustainability Club calls for Change

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September is going to be a special month at CPFAN, starting out with a presentation by the East High Sustainability Club at our monthly Board Meeting and Program on September 6 at the City Park Pavilion. The Board Meeting will start at 5:30 pm and the program will begin at 6:30 pm.  Please join us to learn about the many ways the East High Sustainability Club benefits the community. The club’s mission is to “create a conscious culture of sustainability across our school and in the broader Denver-metro area. We’re all about inspiring action to take action against climate change. It’s time for you to change climate change.”

 

The club hosts an annual tree planting event every Spring around Denver in concert with Tree-Plenish, a national, student-run organization. The mission of Tree-Plenish is to “empower students to create more sustainable schools by replenishing the environment with the resources they use each year. With Tree-Plenish, students host community tree planting events based on how much energy their schools use.”  Last year, East High students sent volunteers to the areas impacted by the Marshall Fire to help reforest those landscapes.

 

According to Mariah Rosensweig, the Club’s Vice President, the club fulfilled its educational mission in 2021 by creating lesson plans educating students on the basics of composting and recycling and pointing out how everything we do impacts the environment. On the club’s Instagram site (eastsustainabilityclub) is a quote from Albert Einstein: “The environment is everything that isn’t me.”

 

In 2022-23, the East High Sustainability Club is working towards an Eco-Schools certification through the National Wildlife Foundation. Eco-Schools was developed in 1994 by the Foundation for Environmental Education. It was founded in response to the needs identified at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and is the largest global sustainable schools program, spanning 69 countries. For more information on the East High Sustainabiility Club, go to their webpage at https://sites.google.com/lightco2.org/sustainability-club.

 

This will be an in-person meeting/program featuring co-Presidents, Gabriel Nagel and vice presidents, Kate Todd and Maria Rosensweig at the City Park Pavilion and will also be available on Zoom.

 

 

 

 

Zoo Trustee, Kevin Fitzgerald to Speak, June 7

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Please join us on Tuesday, June 7 to meet Denver Zoo trustee, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald. We will meet in the Multi-Purpose Room at the Carla Madison Recreation Center, 2401 East Colfax Avenue. The CPFAN Board Meeting will begin at 5:30 pm and the program will follow at 6:30 pm. Parking is behind the Center, accessible from 16th Avenue. Dr. Fitzgerald is a mesmerizing speaker and dynamic presence, and it is hoped that most can attend this special event in person, but there will be Zoom access to the meeting.

Well-known and admired Denver veterinarian, animal activist and conservationist, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald started his career at the suggestion of Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones. Fitzgerald worked security for the rock legend over a period of 25 years until Richards urged him to “get on with his life†and maybe go back to school.  The suggestion led to not only a thriving veterinary practice at Alameda East Veterinary Hospital in Denver, but featured roles on Animal Planet’s “Emergency Vets†series and also “E-Vet Interns.†In addition, Dr. Fitzgerald lectures nationally and internationally on topics ranging from toxicology to emergency medicine to care of exotic species. He has published more than 150 scientific journal articles and 41 veterinary magazines including American Kennel Club, Family Dog Magazine and Police K9 Magazine.

Fitzgerald has been a trustee for the Denver Zoo since 2009 and has supported the Zoo’s conservation work in Mongolia by assisting capture-and-tagging missions, as well as studies on wildlife health in the Ikh Nart Nature Reserve, a protected area in the East Gobi Province of Mongolia. He also serves as consultant to the Smithsonian Institution for veterinary matters and for endangered species world-wide. He has assisted in 10 animal expeditions ranging from Antarctica to Manitoba focusing on conservation to endangered species.

And — Dr. Fitzgerald is an accomplished stand-up comedian who has opened for Bob Hope, Jeff Foxworthy and George Lopez. Come join us on June 7 to enjoy and learn from the multi-talented Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald who has a wealth of knowledge to share. You are in for a treat!

If you can’t attend in person, you can access the program on Zoom. Remember the program itself begins at 6:30 pm:

When: June 7, 2022 05:30 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

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