Westword Best Of Honor for Globeville Center
Birdseed Collective's Globeville Center was recently honored in the Westword's annual Best Of issue as "Best Revamp of a Rec Center into a Community Arts Space." Recognition for Birdseed's arts-centered work is always appreciated. Read the write-up below and visit Denver's Westword for more about our great city's best.
"When the nonprofit Birdseed Collective took over operations at the Globeville Recreation Center last summer, the group's artists got down to business, covering every inch of the space with color and shape. Surrounded by the visual work of such artists as Elisa Gomez, Moe Gram and Thomas Scharfenberg, as well as the unmistakable serape patterns of Birdseed leader Anthony Garcia, neighbors can now come here to learn, be fed or simply hang out. Though the collective had already been doing programming for the center for a while, taking over operations meant that Birdseed now had a permanent home for its weekly food bank, a place to teach all-ages breakdancing lessons and space for local Grupo Tlaloc to share the tradition of Aztec dance. And the collective keeps dreaming new community-centered ideas into reality: This spring, it will launch its first youth football team, the Denver Dragons."