Community Events

Lakewood community events

By Lakewood Edge • February 1st, 2012

SUBMITTED BY: Jim Durham
The Lutheran Chorale is expanding its vision of community service.  According to Chorale president Linda Blandin, the organization’s primary goal since its inception in 1976 has been to provide opportunities for those who enjoy choral singing to perform the great classical and contemporary choral works of such composers as Mozart, Brahms, Haydn, [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Jamie Mager, American Cancer Society Relay for Life
Relay For Life invites you to come celebrate your birthday. The American Cancer Society is “The Official Sponsor of Birthdays” and we want to save lives and create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.  The Relay For Life Birthday Celebration invites the entire community [...]

LAKEWOOD – Thunderbolt Orators, Lakewood’s local Toastmasters club, is kicking off its competition for the 2011 International Speech Contest by choosing a local winner who will represent the community in the next round.
On March 17, the local clubs will join more than 12,500 Toastmasters clubs from around the world participating in the competition, the world’s [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Rhetta Shead, Marketing & Promotions Supervisor, Lakewood Cultural Center
LAKEWOOD – The Lakewood Cultural Center announces the addition of second performance by one of China’s premier dancers, Yu Wei, on Saturday, Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. for Yu Wei: Chinese Dance Collection, a visually stunning multimedia performance of Chinese culture and history shown through [...]

MESSIAH CHORUSES AND MORE: A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION
SUBMITTED BY: Jim Durham
LAKEWOOD – The Lutheran Chorale and the Lakewood Symphony, along with the Green Mountain High School’s “Shadow of the Mountain’ Choir and the Lutheran High School’s ‘Light Brigade’ Choir, will offer a Christmas program at the Lakewood Cultural Center, 470 S. Allison Parkway, on Thursday, Dec. 2, at 7:30 pm.
The [...]

LAKEWOOD –The Denver Reclamation Employees Association’s annual Vendor Fair will open for its fourth holiday sale Nov. 2.
The sale, which benefits local Bureau of Reclamation employee activities, offers everything from ice cream to crafts items and tools.
“ It’s an easy way to do your holiday shopping and find any number of individual and unique holiday [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Residents of Jefferson County’s unincorporated Central Plains area can help shape the future of their neighborhoods by taking part in discussions with the county’s Planning and Zoning Division about land use recommendations in the Central Plains Community Plan.
The Planning & Zoning staff will conduct four October meetings – one of them in Lakewood for [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Lynn Setzer, Jeffco Public Schools

Jeffco Public Schools offer a variety of student performances that are open to the public, most of which are free*.  Dates and times are subject to change, contact the school or check the Web site for confirmation at www.jeffcopublicschools.org.
* call school for applicable ticket costs
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JEFFERSON COUNTY – The Sheriff’s Office annual Safety Fair returns Sept. 18 and 19 at the Summerset Festival at Clement Park in south Jeffco, offering tips on all aspects of family and financial safety.
“The Sheriff’s Office hosts this annual fair to engage our community in taking steps to stay safe and healthy,” according to Mark [...]

LAKEWOOD – Thunderbolt Orators, one of six Toastmaster clubs in the city, will cater to the younger set on “Bring a Kid to Toastmaster Day” Aug. 5 during their meeting at the Kinder Morgan Building, 370 Van Gordon St.
One of more than 10,000 Toastmaster clubs in the world, the Thunderbolt Orator Chapter is the winner [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Karen Wachtel, Director of Communications, Rocky Mountain College of Art+Design
LAKEWOOD – A little over a year ago, Katie Caron was celebrating her graduation – a hard-earned Master of Arts degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. She was helping move partitions used in exhibitions when one of the half-ton walls fell on [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Karen Wachtel,  Director of Communications, Rocky Mountain College of Art+Design
LAKEWOOD – A lot of adjectives have been used to describe Jimmy Joe Roche’s art: “hyper,” “spiritual,” “crazy,” “haunt­ing,” “hilarious.” But one word you’ll never see tied to Roche is “mundane.”
Born in Florida and now based in Baltimore, he represents a new generation of talent [...]

SUBMITTED BY:  Jennifer Kostka, Jefferson County Citizen Involvement Coordinator
JEFFERSON COUNTY – Homeowner association members will have the opportunity to learn about legislation affecting HOAs, legal issues for covenant enforcement, architectural standards for renewable energy and more at a roundtable event at 5:30 p.m., June 10, at Peak Community & Wellness Center, 6612 South Ward Street [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Deb Frazier, Colorado State Parks
LITTLETON – Come join the fun at Chatfield State Park for Slocum Cabin Days on June 18-20.  Events include furs and historic trade goods, storytelling, cannon drill and firing, frontier-style cast-iron cooking, a Saturday night council fire and flag retirement ceremony, old-fashioned crafts such as beading and lace making, [...]

SUBMITTED BY: Mark Techmeyer, Public Information Officer, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
JEFFERSON COUNTY – In an effort to reach out to seniors in the community who may be more at-risk for becoming victims of crime, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office will host its fifth annual senior safety luncheon on Tuesday, June 22,  from 11 a.m. to 2 [...]

Submitted by: Karen Wachtel Associate Director of Marketing/Communications, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
LAKEWOOD – The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Student Chapter at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (RMCAD), along with the RMCAD Alumni Association present RMCYCLE—a charity art event benefiting Architecture for Humanity and the work they’re doing in [...]

LAKEWOOD – In his 2010 State of the City address, Mayor Bob Murphy will focus on how a strong community can survive, even in the worst of times, and move on to prosper. “Lakewood has laid the foundation for making the city an enduring community, set to flourish in the new decade,” Murphy said.
The mayor [...]

Submitted by: Karen Wachtel, Associate Director of Marketing and Communications Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
LAKEWOOD – On December 5 the Philip J. Steele Arts and Education Foundation presents the 4th Annual Art Bash.
Proceeds from this exhibition and silent auction support the Foundation’s student scholarship fund. These scholarships give students with financial need the [...]