07/14/2025
THE 5280 SWAP MEET - TICKETS ON SALE NOW
The 5280 Swap Meet is coming to Heritage Lakewood at Belmar Park on Saturday, September 27, 2025. This is a Rocky Mountain Region milestone project that is designed to create awareness about, promote, and celebrate the shared Chicano and Native cultures, traditions, and blood connection. The 5280 Swap Meet project marks the beginning of a new Colorado people of color tradition. Our history, our journey, and our story are rich and honorable; they are rooted in survival. SOMOS! La Familia and our 5280 Swap Meet team, sponsors, and community partners are proud to see this vision come to fruition and bring it to the Gente of Colorado in 2025 as we begin the first phase of a 3-year project building plan.
FIRST THINGS FIRST - OUR COMMUNITY PURPOSE
All net proceeds from the 5280 Swap Meet, after expense recovery, will go back into communities to help families, single parents, and grandparents raising kids this Christmas in Brighton, CO, Commerce City, CO, Denver, CO, Pueblo, CO, and on down to Rocky Ford and the La Junta, Manzanola, CO areas. This will be accomplished by distributing those proceeds to a network of small ministries and churches, non-profit organizations, and the Aztlan Recreation Center in Denver's Northside for use in servicing kids and families through their outreach projects. For any questions, email us at [email protected]
5280 SWAP MEET EVENT DETAILS
The 5280 Swap Meet will take place on
Date: September 27, 2025
Location: Heritage Lakewood - Belmar Park, 801 S Yarrow St, Lakewood, CO 80226
Time: Gates at 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM - This is a two-part event as follows,
DAY ACTIVITIES
Will run from 12 PM to 4:00 PM and include the Impalas 5280 Car Show, the 5280 Mile High Riders Viclas Show, and the Toys-In-Da-Hood End of Summer Run. For registration, for the Impalas Car Show - Call Ed at 303-808-4985 or David at 720-435-9934. For the Mile High Rider 5280 Viclas, call James Laughlin at 303-884-6222. For registration for the Toys-N-Da-Hood End of Summer Run, call Rosalie at 720-998-9326
Also included in the Day Activities, the "Calle Cultura" Culture Festival and the Calle Cultura Stage attractions. Features of the culture festival include art exhibits, community exhibits, food and merchandise vendors, the Kids Zone, including the Youth Mural Art Exhibit, and activities for the kids. The Calle Cultura Culture Stage will feature Elvia Cadena, Latin Sol, the Abraxas Santana Tribute Band, the Rocky Mountain Indigenous Dancers, Grupo Tlaloc Danza Azteca, the Folklorico Cultura Dance Group, and the Mariachi Juveil de Bryant Webster. Calle Cultura will be a family-friendly no alcohol area, however, there will be a beer and margarita garden in the car and viclas show area. Tickets for the day event are $10 for adults 13 years old and older and $5 for kids 12 years old and under. Kids' under 18 years old must attend in the company of an adult. There will be 400 free kids' tickets available to families courtesy of our Calle Cultura sponsors. To register for tickets, email us at [email protected]
EVENING CONCERT
Gates to enter the amphitheater for the Latin Jam Old School Concert will open at 3:00 PM, one hour before the concert starts. The concert will run from 4 PM to 10 PM in the Amphitheater. The concert will feature an All-Star legendary lineup featuring the "Dedicated To You" Tribute to Brenton Wood, featuring Aki Starr and the Doo Wops and Ms. Kreo Rowlette. Then come the Legends, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes featuring Donnell "Big Daddy" Gillespie (" Wake Up Everybody" "The Love I Lost", "Hope That We Can Be Together Soon"), the Rick James Stone City Band featuring Oscar Alston ("Mary Jane", "Give It To Me Baby", "Super Freak") and Jr. Walker's All Stars featuring Lloyd Dewalt and Darryl Buchanan ("Shotgun", "What Does It Take", "These Eyes".) The Latin Jam 5280 Old School Concert requires an "ALL ACCESS PASS" ticket. This ticket is good for all activities, both in the day and the evening concert. All Access Pass tickets are $60 and can be purchased at www.5280swapmeet.com To nuestra Gente de Colorado and Nuevo Mejico, this is being built for you! Esto te pertenece, begin taking ownership Órale!
PARA LA GENTE
Un gran Gracias! A big thank you to our Colorado Gente for your continuing support! But go ahead and own this one, it's yours. Orale! Much more to come.
