Announcing the 2011 Cycle II Grant Recipients

Grant Awards Will Be Presented at a Ceremony this Evening at the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage

Major Grants

• Washington's Mural's as Spectacle and Message - City Arts Inc.
• Advanced Photography Training for At-Risk DC Youth Critical Exposure
• The 2012 Environmental Film Festival in the Nations Capital
• Shakespeare Steps Out - Folger Shakespeare Library
• 2012 Children's Gallery of Black History - MOMIE's TLC
• One World Education Units: Single Parent Families & Language in America - One World Education
• The Africa Club with Sadiki - Sadiki Educational Safari, Inc.
• Documenting Your Story (Documentary Video Storytelling Seminar) - Stone Soup Films
• Thurgood Marshall Academy's Community Archives Program - Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School
• Washington Storytellers' Theatre DBA Renewal and Enhancement of SpeakeasyDC's podcast - Speakeasy DC
• Voices of Health - Whitman Walker Health
• Our City Film Festival - Yachad, Inc

Small Grants

• Civil War Reading Series - Georgetown Theatre Company
• The Finding Gabriela DC Youth Poetry Competition - The In Series, Inc.
• Southwest Heritage Project - Southwest Neighborhood Assembly
• 38th Annual Conference on DC Historical Studies - Friends of the Washingtoniana Division
• In Their Own Words – DCPS Students - Global Harmony Through Personal Excellence, Inc.
• "Brookland, not Brooklyn" Discussion Guide - Black Women Playwrights’ Group
•  The Mother Story Project - The Sanctuary Theatre

We look forward to seeing the enriching programs, events, and projects produced by these outstanding organizations!

Live to Read Selection to be Distributed Free at Local Libraries

Don't Miss the Chance to Pick Up a Copy

The first annual Live to Read is coming to a close, but don't let that stop you from picking up a copy of this year's selection, Ruined by Lynn Nottage, a Pulitzer Prize winning play about life in the war-ravaged  Democratic Republic of the Congo. The play, based on Nottage's own travels through the region, is an eye-opening and often brutal account of the atrocities that can occur when corruption and violence rule in place of law and reason. Despite the suffering of her characters and the weight of her subject, Nottage manages to weave humor and familiarity into the narrative, making for an engrossing read, and a stunning theatrical production. The memory of the story lingers long after leaving the theater or putting down the book.

Copies of the Dramatist Play Service version of the book will be available throughout the week (first come first served) at the Anacostia Neighborhood Library, the Dorothy I. Height/Benning Library, the MLK Memorial Library, the Southwest Neighborhood Library, and the Tenley-Friendship Library.

Live to Read is Washington, DC's city-wide celebration of literature. This year's selected work of literature is Ruined, a Pulitzer Prize-winning play written by Lynn Nottage. The play is currently running at Arena Stage.