The Greater Washington Creative Communities Initiative - Community Foundation National Capital Region

LEADERSHIP

For more than 30 years, The Community Foundation and our donors have demonstrated a deep commitment to our diverse communities.

Going forward, working together we can bring positive change to the most difficult issues facing our region today.

The Greater Washington Creative Communities Initiative

2008-09 Grantees

H Street Main Street & Nasar Abadey/musician
$15,000
To support the creation of "Diamonds in the Rough Suite", a compilation of three newly developed jazz musical compositions by Nasar Abadey.

Community Bridges & Carien Quiroga
$15,000
To support the creation of "In Her Shoes," a sculptural work by Carien Quiroga as well as drawings exploring issues surrounding the mother figure and generational relationships between mothers and daughters.

District of Columbia Arts Center & Quique Aviles/poet and performer
$15,000
To support the creation of "The Children of Latinia," a performance project by Quique Aviles that explores the realities and inner struggles of "hybrid" Latinos.

Institute for Policy Studies & Sarah Browning/poet
$15,000
To support the creation of "Deep Music- Poems from the Prison Crisis", a collaboration between
Sarah Browning, Hope House, and the children of incarcerated fathers.

Provisions Learning Project & Edgar Endress/performance artist
$15,000
To support the creation of a "The Floating Museum," a mobile museum by Edgar Endress that travels to various public sites around the region and engages community residents.

Jane Franklin Dance & Jane Franklin/dancer and choreographer
$15,000
To support the creation of "Breaking Ground", a dance and media collaboration centered on a skateboard park that will promote a creative and inclusive interchange between dancers and skateboarders, youth and community residents.

Pyramid Atlantic & Jefferson Pinder/performance artist
$15,000
To support the creation of a dynamic audio compilation of music, performance and video piece
by Jefferson Pinder that represents race through music and sound.

Washington Parks and People & Novie Trump/visual artist
$15,000
To support the creation of "Return of the Songbirds", a series of sculptures by Novie Trump
that will help celebrate the return of the songbirds to Marvin Gaye Park.

Joe’s Movement Emporium & Helanius Wilkins/dancer and choreographer
$15,000
To support the "Negro Dance Theatre Project" by Helanius Wilkins to honor the legacy of
black men in concert dance through live-onstage and filmed reconstruction of preparatory
works from 1954-1959 by the Negro Dance Theatre.

Young Playwrights Theater & Anu Yadav/playwright and performance artist
$15,000
To support "Classlines," a new play by Anu Yadav exploring assumptions and realities
surrounding race and class, privilege and entitlement, poverty and wealth.