Welcome to the first edition of the Arts & Culture Newsletter from the Cleveland Foundation

Thank you for joining us at the Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank and "The Galvanizing Power of the Written Word" on Sept. 1. We're pleased to share with you more information about arts & culture in Greater Cleveland in this inaugural issue of our new quarterly Arts & Culture E-newsletter.

Watch "The Galvanizing Power of the Written Word"

Want to catch the conversation again? The Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting panel discussion among Karen R. Long, Manager of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards; Tara Pringle Jefferson, Digital Communications Manager of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards; and Zachary Thomas, Co-Founder, Writers in Residence, is available on our YouTube channel.

Interested in learning more? Visit our YouTube channel to watch all 10 live breakout sessions from the Cleveland Foundation Annual Meeting Presented by KeyBank.

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Cleveland Book Week, Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards go virtual

The fifth annual Cleveland Book Week, Sept. 29-Oct. 4, celebrates the 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards winners via a new, one-hour documentary, hosted by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. It debuts at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, on WVIZ/PBS ideastream, and will livestream at www.Anisfield-Wolf.org. Events throughout the week will also showcase the 2020 honorees:

Eric Foner, Lifetime Achievement
Ilya Kaminsky, “Deaf Republic,” Poetry
Charles King, “Gods of the Upper Air,” Nonfiction
Namwali Serpell, “The Old Drift,” Fiction

Browse the full schedule of events, and learn how you can register via: www.Anisfield-Wolf.org.

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Meet our team

Lillian A. Kuri
Senior Vice President for Strategy

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Courtenay Barton

Program Director for Arts & Culture and Racial Equity Initiatives

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Karen R. Long

Manager of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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Apply for a 2020 grant from the Minority Arts and Education Fund!

Now through Oct. 30, 2020, the Minority Arts and Education Fund is accepting applications for grants ranging from $5,000 – $20,000 to organizations that are led by people of color and serve, engage in, and promote the arts and cultures – both traditional and new – of communities of African, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous and Middle Eastern descent.

Learn more and apply

#BehindTheGrant: Cleveland Havana Ballet

In 2018, Shaker Heights-based dance company Verb Ballets began a transnational collaboration with Havana, Cuba-based company ProDanza when both groups participated in our Creative Fusion: Cuba Edition international artist residency. Since then, Verb and ProDanza have continued their work together as The Cleveland Havana Ballet – most recently presenting a joint production of Romeo and Juliet at The Teatro Nacional de Cuba. In this guest blog, Verb dancer Kate Webb shares her perspective on the creativity and camaraderie fostered by this collaboration.

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Recent Arts & Culture grants

SPACES ($50,000) – To expand the emergency relief grant program so that working artists in all disciplines may apply for a grant of up to $1,000 to replace income lost due to the COVID-19 crisis.
Rainey Institute ($300,000) – To continue to provide El Sistema (“The System”) youth classical music education training to 240 students at four different sites, with the goal to expand to more than 320 students by 2022.
Twelve Literary Arts ($175,000) – To expand the organization’s programmatic reach in the literary community through its various offerings, including in-school writer-in-residence programs at 12 partner schools, the after-school youth poetry fellowship and poetry slam competitions.

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