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2020-2021 Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts Grant Recipients 2020-2021 Louisiana Cultural Equity Arts Grant Recipients Kumbuka`=40 Years of Remembering Ausettua AmorAmenkum Kouri-Vini Chasidy Morris Anthony Bean Community Theater and Anthony Bean Communty Theater Acting School and Acting School 100 Years - The RISE and FALL of Voices in the Dark Repertory BLACK WALL STREET ( Saluting BLACK Theatre Company Producer/Director BUSINESSES in NOLA) -Tommy Myrick A Cultural Renaissance R & R: The Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Regenerate and Reunion - the 30th Theatre Anniversary Celebration of the Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre Gordeax: Explorations of Southern Antonio Garza Louisiana Foodways Lamentations Chakra Dance Theatre We Must Save Our Schools Bianca Siplin Big Chief Brian and the Nouveau Brian Nelson Bounce presents Hell Out The Way Black Film Festival of New Orleans Black Film Festival/Gian Smith Follow Me! India McDougle Deep South by Suroeste "DSXSO" Charitable Film Network Angles Miles Labat The Congo Square Website Freddi Evans African American Female The New Quorum Musician/Composer/Writer Residency New Venture Theatre Presents "Kings" New Venture Theatre February 25 through March 7, 2021 Rhythm and Blues Rontherin Ratliff We are the Light: LUNA Fete 2020 Arts Council New Orleans COMING TOGETHER: A tribute to Ellis Jamar Pierre Marsalis & 2020 (Mural) Folk Art Zone Sculpture Garden Charles Gillam Portal: A Solo Exhibition of Art by Demond Melancon Demond Melancon at the Arthur Roger Gallery CONGO SQUARE LIVING CLASSROOM Congo Square Preservation Society FIELD-TRIP GLBL WRMNG Nate Cameron Jr. Ana Hernandez Ana Hernandez Pass It On open mic Ayo Scott Watercolors Interdisciplinary Jarrell Hamilton Performance Work Place Congo: Restoration of the Spirit Kai Knight CARL LEBLANC: NEW ORLEANS’ 7th Geovane Santos WARD MODERN JAZZ GRIOT Big Chief, Black Hawk Jonathan Isaac Jackson "Creole Music - a Musical Gumbo" Joseph Hall The Bartholomew House: Rising Artists- Journey LaToya Ondiyahla Allen in-Residence Community Black Masking Indian Tribal Roll Call Laurie A. Kaufman Rise My Child - Kid's Corner Rise My Child Foundation Artist Sheleen Jones Sheleen Jones DOMA Tekrema Center for Art and Culture 2021 NCA MLK Commemorative Art Charlie Johnson Exhibition The Lizette Suite: An Electro-Acoustic Denise Frazier Musical Documentation of the Mossville Community Online Arts Integrated Classes for Pre-K Cultural & Creative Arts, Inc. through 3rd Grade Their Wildest Dreams Erica Day Black Canvas Kreative Arts Collective Summer Dance and Step Camp New Hope Baptist Church House Not For Sale Nola Christine Brown SecondlineSunday.com Courtney A. Nero The Building of a Black Indigenous Darryl Montana Tradition Cultural Sustainability - A Podcast Eric L. Cager Series Symbiosis: Poetry in Conversation with Gian Smith Jazz & Film Mos Chukma Arts-As-Healing Institute Mos Chukma Arts-As-Healing Institute The Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund Times-Picayune Doll and Toy Fund Annual Gift Giving Distribution Event DISPLACED Shana Griffin Bridging History: Preserving the legacy Sharbreon Plummer of Scotlandville Theresa Crushshon- Won’t Bow Down Theresa Crushshon "Rebuilding New Orleans " Veronica casares Passing on the Tradition of the Black Walter Landry Jr. Mohawk Mardi Gras Indians Together We Can Make It Scottie Beans Theatre Productions Ubuntu Art & Culture New Orleans (From Nicole Adams Tutoring to Trivia!) Reimagining the Healer's Yard: NewCorp, Inc. Commemorating the Life of Dr. Thelma Coffey-Boutte Katrina National Memorial Park Katrina National Memorial Park Charitable Foundation Charitable Foundation Closure Shameka Gray Spirit of the Fi Yi Yi Mandingo Warriors Wilfred Alexander Assemblée! A Celebration of the History Louisiana Creole Research & Legacy of Economy Hall Association, Inc WHEREABOUTS Krystle Sims-Cameron The Royal Boys Choir 4th Album and Royal Boys Choir Inc. Music Video FACADES Renee Johnson 5th Annual New Orleans Dance Week Brittney A. Williams The Self-Aware Millennial Podcast Jessica Mixon Resistance & Transformative Street Joyce Jackson Theater: The New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians and their Cir-cum Caribbeean Associations Black People: Problems -- The Play Diarra McCormick Silence the ViolenceFoundation Youth House of Faith Non-Denomination Talent Show & Festival Ministries Black Love: the Album and the Darrell Warren Movement Sustaining Traditional Quilting in BEECHER MEMORIAL Progressive Times (CONGREGATIONAL) UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST LaBertha McCormick Poetic Justice Labertha McCormick Rosebud Lakesha Glover Black Life and Times in New Orleans Omni Wanda Dulin Cultivating Philanthropy in Louisiana COMMUNITY PARTNERS Communities of Color Evangeline Arts Council- Virtual Art Evangeline Arts Council Classes for Mental Health Gaming: A Narrative Performance Gianna Chachere Baton Rouge Juneteenth Celebration John Mosley Sr. Ernie Vincent Ernie Vincent Bringing Africa to Mardi Gras: The story Wesley Phillips of the FIYIYI drum section For the culture Nola Angel Omoike Young Songwriters Project - From North American Song Competition Concept to Licensing Foundation We Are the Promised Land Free Feral The Audacity of Twerk Podcast Marissa Joseph Way Downtown Michael Andrews The Black Transcendental Suite for Gary Washington String Quartet Untitled Solo LP by Branden Lewis Branden Lewis WATA (We Are The Ancestors) Dominique Rising The African,Indigenous,And Creole Sonya Williams Journey Seven Sisters of Algiers - Audio Cathy Smith Naderah McCormick Visual Artist Naderah McCormick Backyard Culture Fest Desmond Venable .
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