A proclamation celebrating the Denver Art Museum and their special exhibit - Star Wars™ and the Power of Costume.
None, Mr. President. Communications. Do we have any communications? None. Mr. President. We have one proclamation this evening. You might have heard it for the last five, 10 minutes. Councilman Lopez, will you please read Proclamation 149? Do we have a proclamation? I think we do have Republican nation, so absolutely. I mean, make sure that the screens are queued. All right. Proclamation 17 149 celebrating the Denver Art Museum and their special exhibit, Star Wars and the Power of Costumes. Nicely done and nicely recognizes the value of inspiring creativity and critical thinking in children and all residents. And. WHEREAS, The Denver Art Museum shares and embodies its value by serving the Denver region year round, but family programing, performance opportunities and school tourism on its collections as well as special exhibitions. And. Whereas, Star Wars and the Power of Costume, an exhibition created by the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Mission Service. A new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in consultation with Lucas films, limited highlights and celebrates the creativity, artistry and craftsmanship that goes into every costume and the creation of every character. And. Whereas, The Denver Art Museum is the sole venue in the Rocky Mountain region for Star Wars and the the power of costume, a unique journey onto the into the Star Wars universe, bringing the iconic characters to life through a dramatic presentation of more than 70 original costumes from the films from Princess Leia, his famous white robe , the queen armor, dollars, elaborately detailed gowns, chewbacca's giant feet to Darth Vader's imposing black armor. It's all fun and games until somebody gets forced choked over there. Whereas the Denver Art Museum has taken this traveling costume exhibition and added additional costumes and more material to create an immersive experience. Exclusive to this Denver showing including Emperor Palpatine's fingernails. Costume sketches and studio spaces to provide more context to the process of creating Star Wars costumes. And. WHEREAS, The Denver Art Museum and its partners, including the Mountain Garrison of the 501st Legion. The Mandalorian Mercs Costume Club and the Rebel Rebel Legion Mountain Base are staying on target to engage the public with costumes and creativity, whereas the possibility of successfully navigating the entire exhibit is approximately 50 to 80 to one. We have a good feeling about this now. Therefore, be it proclaimed by the Council of the City and County of Denver, Section one of the Council hereby proclaims February 13th as Star Wars costumes day in the city and county of Denver. Looking at you arriving Section two, the council urges all families to now witness the power of these fully operational, city sponsored cultural institutions by attending this exhibit and participating and participating in festivities which run through April 2nd, 2017. Section three that the Clerk of the city and County of Denver saw test and affects to see seal of the city and county of Denver to this proclamation and that copies be transmitted to the Denver Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition and Service. Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts. Lucasfilm Ltd. The Mountain Garrison of the 51st 501st Legion, The Mandalorian Mercs Costume Club and the Rebel Legion Mountain Base. And may the force be with you. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Your motion to adopt. Thank you, Mr. President. I move that proclamation 149 series of 2017 be adopted. It has been moved. And second, it comments by members of Council Councilman Lopez. Yeah, I am very proud, actually, in all seriousness, of when we can't be serious about this right there. It seems pretty serious to me. I am very excited about this costumes. This has been going on since November and it's been at the Denver Art Museum and it is one heck of an exhibition. If you get the opportunity to do this from now until April 2nd, go see this exhibition. This is the original Star Wars costumes here in Denver. A lot of them are original sketches. And it is it is a great it's a great show. It's it's awesome that it's here in Denver. And, you know, I had the opportunity of seeing this twice already, and I wouldn't mind a third time. And really, you can spend a whole afternoon, you know, just listening to the different exhibits and just seeing them. And those of us who grew up in the seventies and eighties and I can we can even say up to now, right, with the new movies that have been out, it's a multigenerational experience. You could take the kids, you know, those of us who are big kids can go over there and check it out. But it's I'm very excited. That's here in Denver. And sadly, I got to say this. We we actually were I took my daughter to see it the day that Carrie Fisher had passed away. And it just had it just had what a coincidence that that same day we had tickets for she had passed. And so it was pretty incredible to see, to walk in and actually see her white gown and to see her costumes and to see a little tribute to her after it. But this is definitely quite an experience. I urge my colleagues to go check it out. The folks in the in the room, in the council chambers to go check it out. This is very rare that it's here. And I just wanted to make sure that we are celebrating it, honoring it, welcoming it to Denver so that, you know, in hopes it can come again. So. Mr. President, I. I fully support this proclamation and I hope my council colleagues do, too. You will support this initiative? We all do. All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez. Councilman Espinosa. Yeah, I just wanted to say that. Yeah, it's an impressive it's an impressive collection of actual costumes and wardrobe. But coupled with there's a lot of information there about the making of the costumes and there's an impressive display of textiles and sort of the the science and engineering and everything, the creativity that goes into the actual making of the costumes. So there is a lot a lot of information there. And I strongly encourage fans and non-fans and whatever degree of interest that you have in the franchise that is Star Wars to go check it out because it is it is quite educational on top of being very familiar. And actually it'll add layers to the to the story making that you probably didn't even you never would have been aware of. But there's a lot of thought that goes into into what's going what's going on, on set and in creating these characters and it comes through in this presentation. So I just really do stress that no matter what your interest is, do check it out because it's quite an impressive curated piece. Thanks. Thank you. Catherine Espinosa and sitting in for Councilwoman can each layer. Mr. President. You know, Councilman Lopez, I imagine, has been dreaming about this day, his entire council career, and no one will be surprised that he's a fan. But I might not have been known as a fan. This is not the first time I'm in this way. I could just tell you, but I actually had the pleasure of attending the opening event where Kristoff and many others spoke. And one of the things that I think was really great to learn about is that this is a traveling exhibit in terms of the costumes, but no other museum to date has done the curation of the additional artifacts about the sketches and all of that. And so Denver was unique. And that's that's how this museum has operated with so many of its shows, is it takes art that may be very familiar to you because you learned about it in a class or in this case, you saw it in a movie. But it goes deeper. And and you know what Councilman Espinosa said about going around and into the creative process. And I think that that's really important because one of the things that I think that show does is it shows you the way that art is around you and is every day and hopefully inspires right kids to think about that. Art isn't just a painting or it isn't just a sculpture, but that there are many ways to express yourself and many ways to bring something to fruition from your vision. And that to me is, is where art is bringing the daily into, you know, the lives of the folks seeing the show. So and then, you know, I just want to say, you know, since it is, you know, the year that we lost Carrie Fisher for for an entire generation, I think, of young girls and young women. I think to see an action hero, right. As a as a female. And I think that that's one of the things that that I love and that many of the women of my generation love about that series. And so so for me, that was my chance to give her a little tribute today. So but but I just want to commend the staff and the folks who did the research and putting all of it together because it was very intricate and, you know, may not hit the art world in the same way as, you know, a monet exhibit. But my guess is the technical knowledge and the sorting of those things probably took as much, if not more research and work than our traditional art shows that we think about. So kudos to all your team. Thank you. Councilman, can each. Councilwoman Ortega. Thank you, Mr. President. I don't know anybody who is not a Star Wars fan. I also had an opportunity to go to the opening night and have a bunch of pictures on my phone that I was able to take of the exhibit. The economic opportunity that I think it created for our city to encourage not only people who live in Denver, but throughout the metro area to come and see the exhibit and to really feel that close to something that they saw on television for, you know, at least a couple of decades is is pretty exciting. And so I am, first of all, wanting to ask that my name be added to the proclamation. I don't think I had a chance to reply. And I just want to say that a friend of mine that actually went with me to the exhibit, I haven't seen every single one of the series and she's got them all . So we're going to do some binge watching so that I can get caught up to make sure that I am up to speed on all of these. And I just want to say to Darth Vader in the back, may the force be with you as well. All right. Councilman earned it. Thrilled. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. No. There. There are few things that last a test of time. And so I was checking the day May 25th, 1977, is when Star Wars debuted. And to think. All this ten years later, how it still just. Captivated generations for. That. And it's just truly a remarkable thing. And it would just if we could have had our. Students from DFA play some Star. Wars music, that just would have been even more. Fitting for that. And so I. I'm a huge fan and I would. Just like to say I'm excited to see this and take my son. And this is not the. First time we've had a stormtrooper in chambers. I wanted to make sure we all remember that. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Councilman. Councilman. Thank you. I I'm so pleased to have such a wonderful art museum in District ten and just a nationally read National Resource. And to have this exhibit, like Robin said, is so unique. This is so unique to Denver in the United States. So I'm so proud that Christoph and his staff are just providing such unique shows. And an educational event for kids is the only issue I had with the exhibit. Everybody had a wonderful time. The only issue is I enjoy the exhibit, but I enjoyed it without my wife, so I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing it again very soon with her. I was told this for sure was going to happen. So anyway, thank you so much for bringing this to Denver and congratulations. Thank you. Councilman knew Councilman Lopez back up. Yes, I am. And thank you, Mr. President. I wanted to make sure that I gave a big thank you to Christoph and his team, Frederick and Jeremiah. I think it's really, really great work on your behalf. And I think, you know, when we look at the art museum, we go look at a lot of a lot of the. Usually easel art and a lot of different things that are out there, you know, very typically well atypically do we have an exhibit like this? And this brings so many different people to the art museum. And while they're at the art museum, if they come and see this, they're still able to see the other exhibits in the art museum. And that's one of the important things is when you get it, when you come and see this exhibit, you're also able to check out the rest of the floor is the art museum in the Frederick C Hamilton building. All that. It's such an amazing institution. And I also wanted to give a shout out to to Rodolfo and Councilwoman and each his office who probably late at night did this little scroll here unbeknownst to us. And it was quite a surprise and a welcome surprised and and thank you to Darth Vader and the stormtroopers. Right thank you. Thank you for coming out to Denver. CC and know. Of hope you enjoy some of the finer things. See no other comments. Madam Secretary Rocha. Lopez. I. Knew Ortega Susman by Black Eye. Clark I Espinosa. Vote I do. Flynn I. Gilmore, I. Herndon High Cashman. Kenny. Mr. President. I please call voting and as a results. 13 Eyes. 13 Eyes. Proclamation 149 has passed. Councilman Lopez, if might there be someone you want to bring up to a few people? So why don't I at this point invite our director of the art museum, Krista Christoph Hedrick, and then we can have Darth Vader and stormtroopers if you want to come up to the podium as well. Yes. Green Bay, members of the city council. Thank you very much. That's truly a great honor. And I speak for all of us here at the Denver Art Museum who are very honored to be recognized today. We brought some of our friends with us some less some more heavily breathing. And it should be noted that the individuals join us from the Mountain Garrison, from the Rebel Legion and the Mandalorian costuming groups here in our area. So it's talent from the region. I'm getting actually always a little scared if I have these guys next to me because I know that I'm if I'm not in handcuffs, I'm part of the dark side. I think I'm not. I'm a proud director of a wonderful museum. And you already said it all. I feel I don't have anything to add to this, but it was a wonderful journey for us, a wonderful endeavor, really, to dove deep into the treasures of Skywalker Ranch and to find more than 300 additional drawings, maquettes, scribbles, notes to highlight the creative process behind the costumes, but as well, really behind creating characters that still resonate with us in a tremendous way. I want to say at this point as well, a very heartfelt thanks to you, members of the Denver city councils, but as well to the voters of the metro area and worldwide, community leaders support this community. Cultural scene will continue to flourish thanks to the renewal of the Scientific and Cultural Facility District last November, which of course makes all the difference and makes helps us to bring. Nationally and internationally acclaimed programs, world class programs to the community. I'd like to thank Councilman Lopez for his keen interest in Star Wars and the power of costumes at the Denver Art Museum. But as well, many thanks to the other members of the Council for supporting us and come back with your kids, with your grandkids. It is definitely a three, at least if not for generation pleasure. In the meantime, after so many years and with the new film just coming out, our just came out a few weeks ago, I think it really shows how much in the story is and how wonderful this is the purpose of our time. I would like to make a very brief note and thanks to our own District ten Councilman No. For his continuous support of the Golden Triangle cultural community and with this exhibition. Exactly. As Councilwoman Keech said, we are continuing this exploration, this dove deep into human creation, trying to find out and lay out what it is that makes us special and what art is and how many layers, how many costumes, no pun intended, we actually can find for art and what it happens when we look a little deeper and when we look. How do these amazing characters get created? Thank you very much. Thank you for having our team here today, but thank you as well for the great support that we always get from the city and county of Denver. Thank you. Thank you. That that one right there is he's a little bit too in character. I mean, he just kept staring at that. We welcome you guys. Everything okay? Okay. I just want to make sure we're good. You're lucky to still be alive. All right, I did it. All right. Thank you, Councilman Lopez, for bringing that forward. And Chris of Denver Art Museum, we're lucky to have this treasured asset in our community resolution. Madame Secretary, will you please read the resolutions.