From YourHub (Tim Carroll) via The Denver Post:
Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs never expected a poem he wrote about his passion—water—to become the lyrical content of a rap song.
But a rap rendition of his poem, “Colorado Mother of Rivers,” written in celebration of the 30 th year of Colorado’s in stream flow law, was performed by rapper Mr. Figurora at MSU Denver’s first ever “Water and the Arts” symposium. The two-day event on Feb 25-26 brought musicians, authors and artists to Tivoli Turnhalle on the Auraria Campus to raise awareness and explore water issues through the arts.
The event is part of the university’s One World, One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship initiative, which in addition to bringing water-related events and applied learning activities to campus, also offers an interdisciplinary pilot water studies minor that more than 90 faculty members are involved with.
“The students here at Metro are in a perfect situation,” said Hobbs, who is a member of the One World, One Water advisory board and a co-chair for the “Water and Arts” event. “We’ve identified 100 different courses that have to do with water in some way. English, music, technology of clean water, water infrastructure, engineering, biology…There are so many opportunities for students in the water profession, and this is what this curriculum is trying to do.”
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