Our new monthly show, Storytellers of Color, airs on the second Monday of each month as part of A Public Affair on KGNU. The major goal of the show is to provide a safe space for communicators of color, through a series of conversations, to elevate their voices and discuss issues of equality in the media. The show is inspired by recent gatherings of various working groups, including Latinx Voices, organized by Diamond Hardiman from Free Press’ News Voices Colorado Project, and Journos of Color Network led by Tina Griego, reporter, editor, and coach from Colorado News Collaborative.
Adolfo Romero is a visual storyteller, a songwriter and a poet that currently lives in Denver. He is active in the local arts and music community.
The major goal of this series is to provide a safe space for communicators of color, through a series of conversations, to elevate their voices and discuss issues of equality in the community.
Today’s guest, Rodolfo Romero, a Chilean visual artist, songwriter, poet and cultural arts project developer, was born in Arica in 1975. Currently, residing in Denver, Colorado, he is active in the local art and music community. His visual works include a series of techniques that are always searching for symbiotic relationships between the human psyche and its origins in the social world and history.
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It has developed mainly his artistic work in Chile, and now living in Colorado, he has positioned himself as one of the most outstanding emerging Latin artists. He has exhibited at the Denver Museum of Arts frequently and has also created several murals and other art pieces for the Santa Fe Arts District of Denver.
As a musician, Romero can interpret a variety of Latin America styles in Spanish and Portuguese, such as Bossa Nova, Boleros, Tango, Afro Peruvian, Candombe, Caribbean music. Adolfo Romero is the Musical Director of Su Teatro and an active performer in Colorado.
The Storytellers of Color series is a collaborative effort, with an open invitation to other storytellers to come into our airwaves, to tell their stories, and to occupy the safe space we are providing every second Monday of the month.