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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 the Express
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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