Colorado voters will get a chance this week to hear from most of the Democrats running in a primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Cory Gardner at a forum in Denver.

Former Gov. John Hickenlooper, the frontrunner in the sprawling field, won’t attend the forum because of a scheduling conflict, his campaign told Colorado Politics.

Those confirmed to be on hand are climate activist Diana Bray, nonprofit director Lorena Garcia, former state House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, women’s studies professor and former congressional candidate Stephany Rose Spaulding, immigration rights activist Michelle Warren and scientist and educator Trish Zornio.

The forum, sponsored by Indivisible Stapleton, is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29, at Park Hill Congregational Church, 2600 Leyden St., in Denver.

Attorney General Phil Weiser is scheduled to introduce the candidates and deliver remarks about the stakes of the November election.

“We need a powerful voice in the Senate to pass legislation addressing urgent local and national concerns: health care, climate change and the environment, gun safety, human rights, and national security,” the forum’s organizers said in a release. Senators elected this year, they added, will have an outsized impact on the federal judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

Two other other candidates – University of Denver professor David Goldfischer and former gubernatorial candidate Erik Underwood – won’t be on stage because they got in the race after the forum was put together, organizers said.  

Park Hill’s Colorado Friends of Democracy is assisting with the event.

All of the Democratic U.S. Senate candidates – including Hickenlooper, Goldfischer and Underwood – are scheduled to appear Sunday afternoon in Longmont at what organizers are billing as a “conversation” about issues facing Colorado’s Latino community.

It isn’t the kind of traditional forum the candidates have been attending since last summer. Rather, the nine Democrats will respond individually, one after the other, to questions from a moderator and the audience.

They’ll each be on stage for 15 minutes – except for Underwood, who announced his candidacy after the schedule had been set and will get five minutes.

Sunday’s event, sponsored by Longmont Latinx Voice, is 2-4:30 p.m. at the Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road in Longmont. Doors open at 1 p.m.

Nick Lopez, a former assistant Colorado attorney general and legal counsel to the state of Vermont, will moderate the discussion.

Here’s when each candidate is scheduled to be on stage:

• 2:03 p.m.: Bray
• 2:19 p.m.: Warren
• 2:35 p.m.: Zornio
• 2:51 p.m.: Hickenlooper
• 3:07 p.m.: Spaulding
• 3:23 p.m.: Romanoff
• 3:39 p.m.: Garcia
• 3:55 p.m.: Goldfischer
• 4:11 p.m.: Underwood

The event will be streamed live here, and organizers expect to have archived video of the event posted here.