Levitt formed Bodies of Culture, a board of all-BIPOC musicians, in 2020.
. Levitt"wanted to form a collective of diverse musicians that serve the community and really fill some gaps," says Marque,"because I think during the pandemic, a lot of those things were coming more to the forefront as far as diversity and equity, and are there equitable practices set in place at these venues?"
"A lot of it has been thinking about: What is the impact that we want to have? What is our intention? And how do we align our intentions with our actions? So it's been a slow-moving process, but I think it's good, because I feel like now we're at a place where we are able to transcend this vision to the public eye," she says.
At that event, Bodies of Culture also announced Artists Survey, a program in which boardmembers will reach out to other artists in the community to"gauge where there are equity or diversity gaps to be filled," Marque says."This is really a platform for us to start surveying the BIPOC artists in our community, just to get some insight about what their experiences are like playing in the live-music industry in Denver.
The boardmembers are also making their ideas visual through a comics series."I think we just individually wanted to introduce ourselves in a creative way and share our experience, either as being a musician in the Denver music ecosystem or just in general," Marque says."We also wanted to highlight some BIPOC artists, and so we put out an open call on our Instagram, and we got some really incredible submissions.
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