When he discovered DIME was shutting down because it wasn't financially lucrative enough for Metro, he decided to take that idea and run with it. One of the founders of Coastless Creatives, Alex Creighton, already knew in his junior year at DIME that he wanted to start a music collective. This Saturday, August 21, the collective will host its first big show, at Your Mom's House, 608 East 13th Avenue, to show Denver what can happen when artists lift each other up. ![]() The private school, which had been accredited by Metropolitan State University, had organically formed a tightly knit community of budding local artists eager to make a living in the industry and see Denver's music scene thrive.Įnter Coastless Creatives, a musical collective started last February by a group of ex-DIME Denver students. Students from the Detroit Institute of Music Education (DIME) Denver were left without the degrees and music education they were promised before the institute abruptly closed its doors last year, but they didn't lose everything.
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