The Performing Arts Project

Before posts went viral, broadsides did; ink-on-paper “posts” loud enough to spark a revolution. As we head toward America’s 250th anniversary, Denver’s Performing Arts Project is leaning into that origin story in the most literal way we can: we’re backing Broadside the Musical and promoting with the folks keeping the ink-and-type tradition alive.

Tom Parson of Letterpress Depot with a “Broadside of Broadside”

Letterpress Depot is a volunteer-run effort rehabbing the historic Englewood Depot into a living museum of letterpress printing, typography, design, poetry, and book arts. Their mission isn’t nostalgia; it’s access: workshops, community programming, and hands-on learning that keeps the craft (and the voices behind it) within reach for everyone.

Broadside Letterpress

And here’s where the 250th connection gets deliciously full-circle: Letterpress Depot is printing the Broadside posters as actual broadsides. The same tactile, time-travel medium that carried satire, news, dissent, and courage through the 1700s, now rallying audiences in 2026 as we commemorate the unfinished experiment of democracy.

We keep saying “broadsides were the original social media:

• Type you can feel
• Ink you can smell
• History you can hold
• Stories that travel hand to hand like they used to

Want to help keep the presses rolling:

• Donate toward their build-out goal.
• Become a member.
• Volunteer and help on everything from construction to press projects.

Ink is messy. Type is heavy. And the impact is real. All aboard. 🚉

https://www.letterpressdepot.org/