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Calling all Vancouver area cultural businesses and individual artists! Join us at Inspire Washington's Community Town Hall, sponsored by the Washington State Department of Commerce! We'll share the first draft of our legislative agenda as well as some new ideas, but really, we want to hear from YOU. This is an excellent opportunity to make your voice heard and give us your feedback.
Register HERE:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inspire-wa-in-residency-vancouver-town-hall-tickets-385207454867
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Journey Theater
DanceWorks Performing Arts
Evergreen Dance Center
Columbia Springs
LULAC SW WA Council 47013
Enspire Arts
Friends of Camas Arts
Washougal Arts & Culture Alliance
Dayley Dance Academy NW
Dance Evolution Camas
Two Rivers Heritage Museum
Maharaja Bhangra Group
BGAA - Battle Ground Art Alliance
La Center Historical Museum
Ridgefield Art Association
The Fuse Dance Force
Fort Vancouver Pipe Band
Vancouver Community Concert Band (Wash.)
Northwest Performing Arts Alliance
Artstra
Mosaic Arts Alliance of SW Washington
Music Fusian NW
Native American Parent Association of Southwest Washington
Chor Anno
Clark County Mural Society
Columbia Arts Network
Columbia Dance
KXRWvancouver
Native Arts & Cultures Foundation
Downstage Center Productions
Opera Quest Northwest
Pacific Stageworks
Vancouver Audubon Society
Greater Vancouver Area! We are coming to YOU on Friday at 6pm! Our sector saw a huge win of $50 million for cultural business in the state legislature. Join your cultural community at Magenta Theater to get news you can use about how to claim your funding! We also want to hear from you--what does your community need right now? Join your fellow cultural workers and make your voice heard by signing up here:
https://inspirewashington.org/events/cultural-futures/greater-vancouver-area
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Love Street Playhouse
Stageworks Northwest Theatre
ARTrails of SWW
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Discover! Children's Museum
Lewis County Historical Museum
Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center Museum
Columbia Land Trust
Maryhill Museum of Art
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DanceWorks Performing Arts
Evergreen Dance Academy
LULAC SW WA Council 47013
Latino Community Resource Group
Friends of Camas Arts
Dayley Dance Academy NW
Dance Evolution Camas
Two Rivers Heritage Museum
Maharaja Bhangra Group
BGAA - Battle Ground Art Alliance
La Center Museum Association
Ridgefield Art Association
The Fuse Dance Force
Southwest Washington Indian Cultural and Charitable Association
Bravo Concerts Northwest
Music Fusian NW
Native American Parent Association of Southwest Washington
Columbia Arts Network
KXRWvancouver
Downstage Center Productions
Opera Quest Northwest
Pacific Stageworks
As somebody who’s very passionate about promoting the arts and making them more accessible, I really appreciate the work of organizations like Opera Quest Northwest. Another nonprofit that does amazing work promoting the arts is the Giulio Gari Foundation, which focuses on discovering and promoting young opera performers. One of the ways they’ve done this is by bringing the opera online with their Salon Series. The series features different performers every episode, giving viewers an inside look into their lives and a preview of their talent. Their newest episode will air on Facebook Live on October 20th at 7PM ET/4PM PT and will feature Sylvia D’Eramo and her husband Chris Carbin. Sylvia is known for playing Abigail Williams in a recent adaptation of The Crucible and Chris recently made his LA Opera debut as Fate and Jove in the Death of Orpheus. If anyone is interested in this series, you can go to the Giulio Gari Foundation’s page on Facebook or watch their old episodes on YouTube.
What is a “Community Chest”? CWCC board members are often asked this question. We frequently answer that we are “like a local United Way,” and that analogy is pretty accurate.
Community Chests are fundraising organizations that collect donations from local businesses, workers, and residents and distribute them to other local nonprofits. The first Community Chest (named the “Community Fund”) was founded in 1913 in Cleveland, OH and the concept was so popular that by 1948, there were over 1,000 Community Chests in the U.S. and Canada.
The United Way was founded separately as the Charity Organization Society in Denver, Colorado in 1887. The COS served a similar function to Community Chests by coordinating fundraising and services for 22 local agencies.
Over the years, many Community Chests and other local fundraising charities in the U.S. and Canada joined together, and many of them ended up joining the United Foundation, which later became the United Way. United Way Worldwide is now a global organization, overseeing approximately 1,800 community-based "United Ways" in 45 countries and territories. Like Community Chests, local chapters (called “United Ways”) support their communities by collecting charitable donations to relieve local nonprofits of fundraising duties.
The Camas-Washougal Community Chest was formed in 1946 to coordinate fundraising for local nonprofits and we are still going strong after 75 years! The CWCC is governed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors and in recent years, we’ve been able to distribute over 97% of donations back to the community. We require grant recipients to provide services within the Camas-Washougal area, submit reports on how grant funds were used, and be involved with education, youth education, health and welfare, natural resource conservation, aiding those with special needs, crisis and emergency services, or other charitable and civic endeavors.
This year, the C-W Community Chest partnered with the Camas Washougal Rotary Foundation (CWRF) and, together, we awarded 28 grants totaling a record $127,671 to local non-profits. The CWRF awarded 5 grants – to the Friends & Foundation of the Camas Library, Fort Vancouver Regional Library–Washougal, TreeSong Nature Awareness and Retreat Center, Lunchmoney Indoor Skatepark, and REACH Community Development. The CWCC awarded the remaining 23 grants – to the Inter-Faith Treasure House, Janus Youth Programs, Meals on Wheels People, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, Children's Home Society of Washington - Southwest, Family Promise of Clark County, Cascade Pacific Boy Scout Council, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Camas Farmer's Market, Washougal School District Principals’ Fund, Pink Lemonade Project, Camas Washougal Historical Society, Refuel Washougal, GFWC Camas-Washougal, Police Activities League of SW Washington, Journey Theater Arts Group, Opera Quest Northwest, Pathways Clinic, Dance Evolution Camas, St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Kiwanis Camp Wa-Ri-Ki, Partners with Camas Parks & Rec – Skate Park, and West Columbia Gorge Humane Society.
To find out more, please visit our website at
http://www.camaswashougalcommunitychest.org/ or email us at
[email protected].
More photos of the Opera Quest Northwest performance thanks to Mrs. Sedivy :)
We had a wonderful interactive performance by Opera Quest Northwest! This video is just a snipet that Mrs. Rogers captured of some of the fun.
Opera Quest Northwest's mission,"... is to educate, enrich, and instill a love of music in the children of our region by introducing them to opera through a lively production that blends classic opera excerpts with a humorous, interactive script."
Photos will be posted soon :)
Congratulations on a great show today! Kudos to Barbara Choltco who stepped in at the last minute. Well done, all! (David Warner, Amy Grove Cole, Bruce Kyte, Patrick Scofield, and Kate Hobbie)
Come support Opera Quest NW and hear our singers for free concerts at the McMenamins Kennedy School the next three Saturdays!
"Music can open their minds to a world of imagination like nothing else can."
http://ow.ly/iRUn3037GXi Opera Quest Northwest
🎶Opera Quest in Vancouver Family magazine! 🎶
Come hear our singers in Esther Short Park's "Six to Sunset" concert Thursday July 28 with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Family friendly and free!