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Issue: # 49 |
November 2010 |
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Patricia
Smith Wins 2010 Giving Voice Award
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On
Wednesday, November 3, 2010, YPT Board Chair Brian Kennedy
presented the annual Giving Voice Award to
Patricia Smith. The award is given to a person or organization
that works to exemplify the ideal of giving voice and helping
others to be heard in the world.
Ms. Smith is the founder of Peace X Peace, the first social
network for women around the world, which brings the power of
women's wisdom into a world of need and violent conflict. She is a
poet, playwright, photographer, and entrepreneur with a deep connection to
YPT. YPT Founding Artistic Director Karen
Zacarias, who introduced the award, explained that she would not
have started YPT without Ms. Smith's help
and faith. "Patricia
changed my life," Zacarias said, "I
would not be a playwright. I would not have started YPT without her
help. Everybody
needs somebody, an adult, who is their ally. That is the basic
principle behind
YPT."
On receiving the award, Ms.
Smith responded gracefully, "For
someone who just won the Giving Voice Award, I find myself
speechless." She added that, "This [award] is not about me, it is
about our ideas. So find your ideas. Make them real. Put them with
really good people, and great things happen." Watch her speech here.
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Join
YPT at the Fannie Mae Help the Homeless
Walkathon! |
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Join Young Playwrights' Theater for a
free performance of the Express
Tour (featuring The Good Neighbor)
at 10:30am at Discovery Theater, at the Smithsonian Institution.
The performance will immediately follow the Help the Homeless
Walkathon on the
National Mall on
Saturday, November 20. The Walkathon will begin at 8am and benefit
nonprofit organizations throughout DC that serve homeless people
and those at risk of becoming homeless. Click here to read more about
The Good Neighbor.
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Express
Tour Showcase Celebrates YPT's 15th Birthday!
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From Wednesday, November 3rd, through Saturday, November 6th, YPT celebrated its 15th
birthday with performances of the Express Tour Showcase. At
a Past, Present, Future
event on opening night,
YPT community members celebrated the work we have done and dreamed
together about YPT's future. Producing
Artistic Director and CEO David Snider shared his thoughts:
"The sky is the limit, and with your support and with our
community, I feel like we can accomplish anything."
As theExpress Tour visits
elementary schools, nursing homes, assisted living
centers, and community centers through December, we continue to celebrate
fifteen years of changing lives and the communities that allow us
to do so. Thank you all
for your support as we continue to grow!
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Bell
Students Visit Ameriville
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On November 4th, Young Playwrights'
Theater brought two hundred and twenty eight eleventh-grade
students from Bell Multicultural High School to view Universes'
play Ameriville at the Round House Theatre in
Bethesda, Maryland.
Universes is a "National/ International ensemble
company of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse
Poetry, Theater, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Politics, Down Home Blues, and
Spanish Boleros to create moving, challenging and entertaining
theatrical works." Ameriville examines our country's politics,
history, race, economic situation, and government through the lens
of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Following the performance,
Universes engaged with the audience in a talk-back session,
dominated by questions from
enthusiastic Bell students. Read more about the experience here.
Thanks to the volunteers, teachers, and staff who made the
day a powerful, smooth, and inspiring one!
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Support
YPT through the 2010 Combined Federal
Campaign!
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Are you
a federal government employee working in the DC area?
If so,
please consider giving to YPT through this year's Combined Federal
Campaign for the National Capital Area (CFCNCA).
Your
generous CFC contributions accounted for 10% of all individual
donations to YPT last year.
CFC is
the largest annual workplace charity campaign in the country,
raising millions of dollars each year for thousands of non-profits
by enabling federal employees to pledge gifts through pre-tax
payroll deductions. The campaign runs from September to December,
2010.
YPT's
CFCNCA number is 64148
Be sure
to reference this number when you make your pledge.
By
choosing to give to YPT through your workplace, you are supporting
YPT's Write to Dream campaign by
showing thousands of students throughout the DC area that their
voices count.
Over
the past few months, YPT has had a wonderful time visiting charity
fairs for federal agencies throughout the DC region. You can
read about YPT's recent visit to the Army National Guard in
Virginia here (link to blog). Please let us know if you would like
us to pay you a visit this fall!
Click here to
visit the CFCNCA website for more information on how to participate
in the 2010 campaign, or to
inquire about the 2010 CFCNCA campaign at your
workplace.
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