August 24, 2008

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David Kipen - National Endowment for the Arts Director of Literature, and National Reading Initiatives
The National Endowment for the Arts is giving grants totaling $2,810,500 to 208 libraries, municipalities, and arts, culture, and science organizations, to host Big Read celebrations between September 2008 and June 2009. The Big Read gives communities the opportunity to come together to read, discuss, and celebrate one of 23 selections from American and world literature. The newest Big Read grantees represent 46 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. To date, the NEA has given more than 500 grants to support local Big Read projects. Read more about The Big Read.

 

Sian Lindemann – Founder of The National Living Arts Foundation
Clear Solutions for the Blue Planet TM is a global "solutions" initiative, and a project of The National Living Arts Foundation. The impassioned trend for "global solutions," is the result an expanding desire to make a difference. The need for funding initiatives that "serve" a higher purpose is increasingly becoming more difficult with the competition for "donor dollars. Sian Lindemann will join us to talk about Clear Solutions for the Blue Planet TM and The National Living Arts Foundation. Read more about Clear Solutions for the Blue Planet.

Ellen Bukstel – Florida Folk-Pop Singer-Songwriter
This multi-faceted Florida based musician draws from her emotional rollercoaster of a life to bring hope, laughter, tears, biting wit, and inspiration to her irresistibly eclectic debut solo album ‘Daddy’s Little Girl’. From her first solo piano debut with the Miami Symphonic Orchestra at the age of 10 to performing before a cheering audience of 2200 for a Miami-Dade Democratic fundraiser featuring Guest Speaker Senator Barack Obama, her powerful songs and music videos nurture the causes she supports, affirm her love for her family and routinely bring her audiences to laughter and tears...sometimes both simultaneously. Read about Ellen Bukstel.



Don Garate -  Tumacácori National Historic Park
Located in Southern Arizona between Tucson and Nogales, Mexico, Tumacácori National Historic Park protects three Spanish colonial mission ruins: Tumacácori, Guevavi, and Calabazas. The adobe structures are on three sites, with a visitor center at Tumacácori. These missions are among more than twenty established in the Pimería Alta by Father Kino and other Jesuits, and later expanded upon by Franciscan missionaries. Don Garate will tell us about the fascinating history of the missions and about the people that built them and settled in the area. Read more about  Tumacacori National Historic Park.  






Carol Steinberg - Executive Vice President, Alzheimer's Foundation of America
Across the country, individuals and organizations are stitching together heartfelt quilt panels that celebrate the lives of people with Alzheimer's disease for the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA) Quilt to Remember. The AFA Quilt to Remember is the nation's first grand-scale dementia-related quilt, intended to raise awareness of the enormity and reality of Alzheimer's disease. As the quilt tours the country, its message is timely: the incidence of the brain disorder is expected to triple by mid-century – in fact. Over 100 panels are currently in the collection. Read more about the Quilt to Remember. 
 

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