How to Contribute to Voicing Boulder
Voicing Boulder is a creative way to share your voice and shape the city’s story.
You can contribute a photo, a short audio recording, or both. No experience needed. Use your phone, your voice, or your memory. Whether you send one entry or twenty, your perspective matters.
Step 1:
Choose a category that speaks to you
Use one of our core categories to guide your submission (for each one, we have several prompts to spark your ideas):
Climate Action: Share glimpses of how the Boulder you know is preparing for a hotter, drier, and more uncertain future.
Inclusive Local Economy: Highlight local work, mutual support, and spaces where wealth and opportunity are shared.
Food Systems: Show how food is grown, gathered, shared, or reimagined as a force for connection.
Housing Choice and Opportunity: Reflect on where and how people live, and what it means to stay, return, or belong.
Multicultural, Multigenerational Community: Celebrate the richness of Boulder’s cultural layers and shared spaces.
Safety: Document what makes a place feel secure, trusted, or cared for - beyond just enforcement.
Travel Options: Explore how you move through Boulder - on foot, by bus, on one-wheel (or-two) - and what makes it easier, safer, or more joyful!
Step 2: Capture a moment (and location!)
Take a photo or make a short audio recording that reflects your experience or point of view. You can also submit both together.
But do make sure you have a general sense for the location at play - we’re plotting your submission on a map, after all!
First, to properly plot your submission, we’ll need you to name the location as best you can. This helps us map your submission accurately. You can include:
A business (e.g., Behind Ozo Coffee on Pearl)
A park or trail (e.g., Chautauqua Park)
A neighborhood or landmark (e.g., Table Mesa underpass, near Dushanbe Teahouse)
Or a short description (e.g., alleyway with murals behind 13th Street)
Next, provide a physical address. The more complete the address, the more accurately we can place it on the map.
Example:
1777 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80302
Step 3: Add a reflection (Optional)
While optional, this short descriptive reflection is especially helpful if your image or audio might not be fully clear without some context - whether it’s a quiet place, a fleeting sound, or a layered memory. Your words will help others see what you see, what this moment means to you, how it connects to your life, and what you want others to understand.
Step 4: Share it
🚨🚨 Submit online via this form 🚨🚨
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This form allows you to submit photos/audio in real-time or upload content you’ve previously taken. Your call.
Your submission will be reviewed and added to a growing, geo-tagged public archive. It may appear in exhibitions, public displays, and future planning efforts. Together, we’re creating a collective portrait of Boulder - one voice, one image, one story at a time.
Part of a City-Wide Experiment
Voicing Boulder is part of Experiments in Public Art: the BVCP Update 2025 series—an initiative from the City of Boulder’s Office of Arts and Culture in collaboration with Planning and Development Services.
Rather than traditional public art commissions, Experiments in Public Art invite artists to work in new ways—embedded within city systems, processes, and possibilities. These temporary projects are as much for the community as they are by the community, opening new ways to see and shape our shared future.
This project supports the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP), the city and county’s primary long-range planning document, updated every ten years. By embedding artists into the BVCP Major Update, Boulder is investing in creative methods to:
Illuminate and humanize planning data
Visualize and interpret complex information
Expand whose voices are seen and heard
Celebrate identity while reimagining possibility
