Freyer-Newman Center, Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street A couple of shows at the Denver Botanic Gardens have been languishing behind closed doors in the DBG’s new Freyer-Newman Center galleries because to heightened COVID measures. But those doors will now swing back open for viewers on Sunday, January 17. In
Prima Lingua: First Words of the Earth, Aspen artist Jody Guralnick’s work a blend of science and art teeming with imagery borrowed from the microscopic world of fungi and microorganisms in the natural world will fit right in at the gardens. And Tony Ortega’s
Raíces y Ramas | Roots and Branches brings rich color and scenes from the close-knit Chicano community to brighten visits to the gardens in winter. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, and the use of masks and distancing protocols will be enforced.
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the closest forest and shot them there. i was also inflicted with the typhoid. and then one night, we had the lights went on and we had everybody out, everybody out, and i ll make it very brief because i m the one that take up all the time. there were 87 people in that barrack that night in that quarantine. 86 people were shot right there. only one, only one came out alive. only one escaped that night. and that s the one person that is sitting here and speaking to you now. [ applause ] i just want to go by fast because it s very important that i finish with i don t know whether i ll get more time, so i have to finish with this. going through the different concentration camp in auschwitz in 1945, in the last camp where i was, the american air force came and destroyed the camp. we could hear the artillery and seeing that the war is coming close to an end. we just didn t know whether we were live another hour and see the uniforms, to see the liberators coming and freeing us.