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The Statewide and Regional Networks program is rooted in the California Arts Council’s commitment to supporting arts service organizations reflective of California’s diverse populations.
The program provides general operating grants for arts service organization networks with regional or statewide reach.
Arts service organizations serve as networks to provide specialized, practical services for artists, arts organizations, and cultural communities.
The California Alliance for Arts Education is the only statewide organization that brings together all primary constituencies for arts education including arts organizations, K-12 teachers, professional teacher associations, state and local education departments, professional development providers, parents, PTAs, and interested community members in higher education and business.
The alliance works to advance a statewide arts agenda through both policy and advocacy work at the state level, as well as through targeted efforts in local communities across California.
“This California Arts Council grant allows us to grow programs such as our Arts Now Campaign, where we host a series of events that spotlight districts and counties that are successfully returning robust arts programs to their schools,” said Joe Landon, executive director of the California Alliance for Arts Education. “We reach out to school and community leaders in surrounding districts, counties, and regions to bring them to an event. At the event, we educate attendees about advocacy practices and afterward engage them in the work through our suite of tools and programs.”
The California Alliance for Arts Education is one of 43 grantees chosen for the Statewide and Regional Networks program. The award was featured as part of a larger announcement from the California Arts Council.
“Our Statewide and Regional Network grantees have their finger on the pulse of their communities,” said Nashormeh Lindo, chair of the California Arts Council. “The California Alliance for Arts Education is part of a passionate group of arts service organizations whose tireless efforts keep the creative heart of California healthy and thriving.”
A complete listing of all Statewide and Regional Network grantees can be viewed at http://arts.ca.gov/programs/files/FY1718_ProjectDescriptions_SRN.pdf.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Jesse and Bosco, a new book by Lakeport author Irene Bergmen, illustrated by Patricia Bergmen, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co. Inc.
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If God is in the details, well, so is love.
What makes this poem by Susanna Lang feel fresh and new are the specific details of not only one love, but of one morning, and of even a few specific moments in that one morning.
Susanna Lang lives in Chicago, and this poem is from her new book, “Travel Notes from the River Styx,” from Terrapin Books.
After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day
You take the cats out with you, shut
the door: I have the whole wide bed, all
the covers to fall back asleep in, while you
cut up and sugar the strawberries, grind
the coffee, leave the radio off
so I won't be disturbed. The room is still
dark, rain forecast for the entire day,
other people's family picnics cancelled,
barbecues moved into basements, parades
rerouted to avoid flooded viaducts, the iris
losing petals beside newly cleaned graves,
their mason jars spilt into the saturated ground.
But here is my holiday, this drift back beneath thought
while I lie in the warm impression of your body.
American Life in Poetry does not accept unsolicited manuscripts. It is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2017 by Susanna Lang, "After You Get Up Early on Memorial Day, "from Travel Notes from the River Styx, (Terrapin Books, 2017). Poem reprinted by permission of Susanna Lang and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2018 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Ben Rosenblum Jazz Trio, led by an award-winning Juilliard-trained jazz pianist, is slated to perform at the Soper Reese Theatre at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 17.