Do some good. Have some fun. Limelight 2026.
About the Event:
5:00 - 6:30 | FREE Drinks and some apps
6:30 - 7:00 | FREE Food and some socializing
7:00 | INSPIRATION and AWARDS...and other fun stuff
8:45 (ish) | Collect your winnings from the auction
Dress Code: Come as you are!
Video: better than reading...
Featured Guests:
Johnny Crowder
2026 Spotlight Innovation Award Recipient, Johnny Crowder, is a suicide/abuse survivor, TEDx speaker, touring musician, Certified Peer Recovery Specialist, and the Founder & CEO of Cope Notes, a text-based mental health platform that provides daily support to users in more than 100 countries around the world. ( Cope Notes® )
Armed with a decade of clinical treatment, a psychology degree from the University of Central Florida, and 10+ years of peer support and public advocacy experience through the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), Johnny’s youthful vigor for mental health has impacted millions of lives across the globe..png)
Stephen Malloy Brackett
2026 Spotlight Impact Award Recipient, Stephen Malloy Brackett — aka Brer Rabbit — is a Denver-based artist, organizer, and educator who has spent twenty years asking what music can actually do. He co-founded the platinum-selling Flobots, co-founded Youth on Record, and serves as Executive Director of both ONE Denver (the city's Office of Nighttime Economy) and Foundation Music School in Fort Collins. He is a former Colorado Statewide Music Ambassador, a PBS producer and presenter, an adjunct professor at CSU, and the creator of The House Party — a platform for rebuilding the ecosystems that make politically grounded artists possible. He has always lived in Denver. That is not incidental.
