My grandchildren and I started the day with the Romanian Tandarica Puppet Theatre version of The Goat with Three Kids. I enjoyed the performance as much as my grandchildren! They both agreed the performance was terrific. Then it was off to story telling with Adrej Rosman Roza and Lila Prap. The feature story Oscar Detective and Why Crocodiles Cry entertained my grandson Brendan and made him laugh. My budding artist granddaughter (age 8) literally had to be dragged from the Corcoran Verbal Collages and Printing Out Loud workshops.
The face painting was a great hit for young and old along with the balloon artist.
We capped off the day with a special performance of Word-Beat in THEARC Theater.
Levine School of Music’s unique duo Word-Bear Artists Tom Teasley (global jazz percussionist) and Charles Williams (vocalist/actor) performed inspirational texts accompanied by inventive percussive rhythm and melodies.
WHY IS THEARC NEEDED?
Shockingly, the U.S. Census Bureau 2005 American Community Survey shows that our nation’s capital has the highest rate of childhood poverty of any jurisdiction in the United States. Three out of ten children in Washington, DC live at or below the poverty line—.
WHAT IS THEARC?
Ten non profit partners at THEARC have come together under one roof to help children.
Since its opening in 2005, Town Hall Education, Arts and Recreation Campus-THEARC- has become a national prototype combining social, cultural and health services. It is a $27 million 110,000 square foot center on 16.5 acres of land in Southeast Washington, DC. THEARC provides a daily safe haven for the children it serves, with a wide range of arts, educational, recreational, health programs and services. In addition there is a 365-seat theatre (the only theatre east of the Anacostia River) a regulation size gymnasium, computer lab, art gallery, state-of-the-art music and dance studios.
Will you contribute to help each charity fulfill their missions? Just click on the donate button! For more information about THEARC please go to our website http://www.thearcdc.org or you may call 1-202-4-THEARC (1-202-484-3272).
Selected for the 2008-2009 Catalogue for Philanthropy
“One of the best small charities in the greater Washington region”
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