Biennial of the Americas Denver 2010

The 2010 Biennial of the Americas is an international event that celebrates the culture, ideas and people of the Western Hemisphere, hosted by the City of Denver.

Biennial Themes

  1. Innovation

    Innovation is the process that inspires progress, and the driving force behind creativity and positive change. Innovation occurs in all fields, from the arts and economics to science and government policy, powering the developmental momentum within every industry.

  2. Sustainability

    Sustainability is the capacity to endure and manage a state of wellbeing. Prolonged human and ecological endurance hinges on a diversified and productive natural world, a balance maintained through environmental awareness and the responsible use of natural resources.

  3. The Arts

    The arts are a humanistic discipline comprised of numerous cultures intended to heighten general knowledge and intellectual and humanistic awareness. Imaginative, creative, and interdisciplinary, the Arts offer a path to a process that provides new insight, perspective, inspiration, and often innovation.

  4. Community

    Communities are interacting groups of diverse people that share and benefit from common aspirations, interests and resources. Communities can form on both micro and macro levels, and are represented within tight interpersonal circles like families and social groups as well as broader groups such as towns, regions, nations and the collective global community.