What We Do:

Manos Sagrados uses both hands to be present in Community. On top, we showcase our artists and musicians by booking and promoting musicians, artists, and creatives. The bottom hand is in a supportive position, with production, management, and consulting for artists and the communities that seek to work with them.

Manos Sagrados exists for BIPOC, femme, queer, and disabled creatives, focusing on music, art and movement practices.

With experience booking artists for partner agencies, Manos Sagrados is also able to provide both nonprofit and private bookings and consultation for events and festivals, focusing on these communities, with past and current clients including the Visit Aurora, Civic Center Conservancy, and The Biennial of the Americas. Manos Sagrados partners with local production companies to provide sound packages for bookings as well.

Manos Sagrados grew out of a need to support the communities it came from. Discover more on our offerings, and contact us with any inquiries or questions.

ABOUT Us

Manos Sagrados uses both hands to be present in Community. On top, we showcase our artists and musicians by booking and promoting musicians, artists, and creatives. The bottom hand is in a supportive position, with production, management, and consulting for artists and the communities that seek to work with them.

Manos Sagrados exists for the communities it comes from: a space for creatives to make and share their medicine.

While "manos" is a feminized word in the colonizer language brought to these lands by the Spanish, we keep "sagrados" masculine, a reminder of balance, and in honor of sacred queer identity imbued into this work. The name itself was inspired from a limpia (traditional Indigenous spiritual/energetic cleansing) that our founder received from Ancestor Maestra Cihuatli Cihuatl, who, upon going over her hands with flowers, looked up, and asked if she was an artist. When confirmed, she said, “yes, you have stories to tell, take care of your sacred hands.” 

our history

Manos Sagrados was founded by Alicia “Bruce” Trujillo in the spring of 2023. Trujillo is a queer Chicana of mixed heritage, and has spent her career in radio, talent buying, production, is a visual artist and muralist, a yoga instructor, and collaborates with several organizations in the Denver Metro area.

Trujillo saw the need for intentional safe spaces for musicians, artists, and other creatives that would foster creativity, curiosity, and collaboration - particularly for global majority, femme, queer and disabled folks. Additionally, with her background, she wanted to work with organizations in the community committed to booking and supporting these artists.

The idea of Manos Sagrados came about on a trip to Mexico City Art Week 2023 - a space that could house a venue, studios, and community all in one. For 18 months, Manos Sagrados was realized as a community space featuring concerts, studios, classes, workshops and gatherings, and closed in June of 2026.

Trujillo is now focused on bringing this work throughout the Denver/Metro area and beyond with the same mission.

About Bruce

Alicia "Bruce" Trujillo is an arts and music professional in Denver, CO. Known professionally as Bruce, she has been working in music and arts organizations since 2006, with a mission to collaborate with communities who are systematically excluded, with a focus on independent and locally made music and art.

Trujillo is the founder of Manos Sagrados, a cultural connector offering boutique booking, production, and promotion in the Rocky Mountain Region. Trujillo is also the Executive Director and Host for Colorful Colorado Collaborations, bringing together Colorado BIPOC musicians, entrepreneurs and local businesses for a unique concert series that celebrates collaboration, creativity and commerce. She's the founder and host of Whiskey, Women and Song, which pairs local female-identifying musicians with locally crafted whiskies for performances, interviews and whiskey tastings. Trujillo is also a talent buyer for The Underground Music Showcase.

Trujillo proudly serves on the Board of Directors for Biennial of the Americas, is Secretary of the Board of Directors for D3 Arts, is a 2023 appointee to the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, a member of the Civic Center Park Community Activation Collaborative, and an advisor for Control Group Productions. Trujillo is a Professional Member of the Recording Academy, and serves on the Advocacy Committee. She is a recipient of the Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business Award, and has been named a Top Person to Watch in Music by Denver Westword. Additionally, she hosts sessions, panels, and other live events with partners across the city, does voice work and audio production, is a regular DJ on KGNU Community Radio, and sometimes writes for Denver Westword, with a focus on local art.

Trujillo was born and raised in Colorado, with roots in Denver, Glenwood Springs, and Palisade. In addition to Manos Sagrados, she is a visual artist, yoga instructor, and Danzante in Westwood. Her focus on marginalized communities comes from her identity of the “in-between;” as queer Chicana of mixed heritage, Trujillo sees the need to uplift her community as both the marginalized and marginalizer.

Services we offer

Services we offer

Booking

Manos Sagrados is available to book your event, featuring acts of all types. Music may be our specialty, but it’s not all we do. Need a queer square dancing troupe? Synchronized jam skaters? Aztec Dancers? We’ve got you covered - because we’ve already booked it. You tell us the vibe you want and we can make it happen.

Production

Manos Sagrados can also help produce events, ranging from Artist Liason/Mangement, Planning and Execution, and partners with Raiz Del Sol to provide audio production and lights at their additional costs, which will be provided with a full quote for space, length, and entertainment needs.

Artist management

Manejo Sagrado (management by Manos Sagrados) works hand in hand with Creatives to maintain and grow reach, audience, and sustainability. Creatives can select services based on their needs and vision for their project moving forward. With a Roster of some of Denver’s favorite Creatives, Manejo Sagrado connects the arts to the community.

Events

The primary focus of Manos Sagrados is bringing Music, Art and Movement to the community, by and for BIPOC, Femme, Queer and Disabled creatives. Because of this, we’re always hosting and producing events with partners and allies across the Denver/Metro area - from workshops to concerts, you can connect with your community through Manos Sagrados.

Sessions & A/V Production

Getting to know Creatives in the Denver/Metro area and beyond, Manos Sagrados is bringing the work closer to you with interviews, performances, and specialty content only available here! Available to host, produce and share your ideas as well.

Kalpulli Mikakuika Aztec Dancers at Aurora Borealis Fest

Mezcal Y Tinta Workshop, in collaboration with Wild Common

iZCALLi, client through Manejo Sagrado, management services

In the Media