Latest news from Art from Ashes!

Saying Goodbye

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Not only did Art from Ashes lose a wonderful youth poet when Jessie Hernandez was killed at the end of January, but we lost a former workshop facilitator when Christy Bailey succumbed in June to cancer after a long and fierce fight. In the same month, ItsReaLight (Natasha Spence), who motivated and inspired hundreds of youth poets by serving with our agency, passed from Lupus.

We remember them with love.

Christy Bailey

Click on the photo to read more about Christy.

Click here to attend Christy’s memorial service at Lighthouse Writers

Christy and former volunteer Lisa at Running of the Gays 2011

Christy and Lisa at Running of the Gays 2011

Read more about and by Christy here:

Hunger Mountain and Rochester Magazine

ItsReaLight (Natasha Spence)

Support ItsReaLight's burial fund by clicking on her photo.

Support ItsReaLight’s burial fund by clicking on her photo.

Listen to ItsReaLight’s words here:

2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award Finalist!

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In May 2015, Art from Ashes received the following notification letter from President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its partner agencies, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Congratulations! Your program’s work has been chosen for recognition as a 2015 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award (NAHYP) Finalist by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and its partner agencies, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

We are highly impressed with the successful work your organization and the other Finalists have accomplished in youth after-school and out-of-school arts and humanities learning.

Your program’s selection as one of the 50 Finalists distinguishes it as one of the top arts- and humanities-based programs in the country.

Thanks, El Pomar!

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Thank you so much to El Pomar Foundation for sending us this amazing young woman to help us run (and expand) our Phoenix Rising creative youth empowerment program and for supporting her salary!! You’ve made it possible for a small agency to hire a big talent! Ashley Cornelius rocks. And so does El Pomar.21885_931979760180390_1634706419894800091_n

Grey Matter Supports AfA

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body-artJoin us for a beautiful evening of awe-inspiring art and delicious all-you-can-eat eat sushi!

The event is May 9th from 9PM-1AM: all you can eat sushi for one is $50 or a for two people it is $100 plus a bottle of wine!

At 285 Landing, 3650 S Wadsworth Blvd, Lakewood, CO 80235

Art from Ashes has been chosen as at the nonprofit beneficiary of this event.

Anyone interested at reserving a table can contact Alexis!

Alexis Hollenback
Grey Matter Promotions
greymatterdenver@gmail.com
720-233-8989

Thanks, Rockies!

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Thank you so much to the Colorado Rockies Ball Club for gifting Art from Ashes with baseball tickets in a suite! We all decided we could get used to living like this!

Watch the Rockies play the Mets with Art from Ashes on Saturday, August 22, 2015. As a fundraiser and community builder for our youth, AfA is selling 100 Rockies tickets at face value. We have guaranteed seats in Section 112 (foul ball territory!), there’s a Star Wars parade on the field before the game, AND the first 10,000 fans get a free Star Wars Bobblehead doll!

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Honoring Lalo Delgado and listening to Jimmy Santiago Baca.

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9News Interview

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co&co-040815Catherine O’Neill Thorn was invited on to Colorado & Company for an interview by Denise Plante. Watch the 4-minute video interview below with founder and executive director Catherine O’Neill Thorn, as well as previous interviews over the past year and a half.

Many thanks to Risa Friskey, producer of Colorado & Company, for supporting Art from Ashes over the years, and to Denise Plante, who is so moved by our agency’s work with youth. Thank you to 9News for supporting nonprofits in the community!

Boulder International Film Festival

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Art from Ashes has been selected as the first Nonprofit Partner in the Call 2 Action program of the Boulder International Film Festival 2015!

C2A circle logo_shadowA collaboration of Boulder International Film Festival, Philanthropiece Foundation, the Twisted Foundation, and committed local leaders, Call 2 Action offers concrete ways for filmgoers to take the energy and passion inspired by film and move from concern to action.

Because of AfA’s connection with the Jimmy Santiago Baca film “A Place to Stand,” Art from Ashes has been provided a platform “to raise awareness for the incredible service that [you] provide for our community by introducing the power of poetry and art to transform lives.”

Art from Ashes Executive Director Catherine O’Neill Thorn will introduce the film at 10am on Sunday, followed by the screening. Tickets are $8 and $10: buy them here!

Post-screening, there will be a TalkBack (panel discussion) in the “TalkBack Cafe” just across the street from the Boulder Theater on the Pearl Street Mall. The TalkBack is open to anyone who wishes to find out more about the film and our work with youth, and will feature Jimmy Santiago Baca, Art from Ashes Executive Director Catherine O’Neill Thorn, and Art from Ashes youth poet Prinjastin Sykes.

Download the program here. (we’re on pages 15 and 35 :D)

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A Place to Stand