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June. 14, 2024 - The Westwood-based organization will expand its efforts in a neighborhood with a disproportionate poverty rate and limited access to fresh food.
April 28, 2024 - Mariana del Hierro, executive director of Re:Vision, said sentiments like Miller’s are why the nonprofit helps put on cultural events including their ancestral food series, which focuses on introducing traditional indigenous cuisines to the neighborhood and Denverites.
“I think a lot of perceptions in the U.S. is that Mexican immigrants are just this one identity,” del Hierro said. “Here with our events, we have the unique opportunity to show just the complexities of the culture and the culinary traditions and just the people period… It is like a sampling of just the diversity and the beauty that is Mexico.”
April 26, 2024 - Oaxaca en Denver is a two-day event bringing the Mexican state’s rich heritage to the westside.
April 12, 2024 While strain is being felt all around, many smaller nonprofits – especially those who run food pantries – are saying they aren’t seeing much assistance from the city, which is touting an “all-in” mentality.
February 8, 2024 - By tapping into the ritualistic flavors of fire and smoke, chefs Alejandro and Alberto Rodriguez are diversifying Mexican cuisine in Colorado. The brothers’ food and beverage business, Dos Caras, is dedicated to using pre-colonial cooking techniques from Mexico “to show deference to our community and culture,” as Alberto says.
Oct 31, 2023 - Día de los Muertos officially starts Nov. 1 but the celebration, preservation and reclamation of the holiday begins Nov. 3 in Westwood.
Aug. 17, 2023 - “This event is just our first one, but we hope it can continue for many years to come,” Luong said. “Who knows, maybe this can help preserve this area. Like just letting the city know that this area cannot be pushed out because these cultural things all happen here.”
Aug. 14, 2023 - Eight organizations will receive a combined $10.7 million in funding from Denver to continue providing food and food education to youth in their respective communities.
July 20, 2023 - Frida Kahlo, woman empowerment, local artists, chefs and mole, gallons upon gallons of mole, will collide this weekend for two events at the RISE Westwood Campus at 3738 Morrison Road. - Frida Kahlo, woman empowerment, local artists, chefs and mole, gallons upon gallons of mole, will collide this weekend for two events at the RISE Westwood Campus at 3738 Morrison Road.
June 18th 2024 Re:Vision, a Westwood-based nonprofit, is expanding its urban farm program to a 1 acre tract of land just off of Federal Boulevard.