Sacred Voices LIVE 10/25 Featuring Suzi Q Smith

Opening act and Sign up at 6:30pm Open Mic at 6:50pm.

Join us for a night of community! We want to hear your voice!

All performers are able to get a high-quality video of their performance!

First-timers are not only welcome but encouraged to come perform.

This is an all-ages event.

Show up at 6:30 to ensure your performance spot, but also to watch our musical opening act.

Our featured performer is @suziqsmith Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning poet and author who lives in Denver, Colorado. While primarily known for her poetry, Suzi is also an organizer, an educator, a singer-songwriter, playwright, and interdisciplinary creative. She has created, curated, coached, organized, and taught for over 25 years, touring throughout the United States.
The author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones (winner of the 2019 Electric Press Award), and the chapbook collection, Thirteen Descansos, Smith is also the co-editor of two anthologies, Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado's Prisons and All the Lives We Ever Lived, Volume I, both Finalists for the Colorado Book Award. Smith is also a Pushcart-nominated essayist with an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College.
As an educator, Suzi has worked extensively with both youth and adult students for many years. Recipient of the 2023 Beacon Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is currently a Faculty member with Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Regis University’s Mile High MFA, and the Writing Director with Chateau d’Orquevaux in France, where she was a resident artist in 2023. Suzi designed and led writing courses with Youth On Record for over a decade with youth from middle school through alternative high schools and young adults, and she has taught Creative Writing to people who are incarcerated with several organizations. Suzi also served as a coach and mentor with Denver Minor Disturbance Youth Poetry Slam, resulting in two international championships in 2012 and 2013.

Come and share what makes your voice sacred!