The Washington, D.C. area performing arts organization Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has awarded grants to eight local high schools across metropolitan Washington, D.C. grants to fund music, dance, or theater projects at their respective schools, as part of Wolf Trap s Grants for High School Performing Arts Teachers Program. Students will receive Master Classes with Broadway performers; guidance from local historians and artists; and instruction from area performance groups. Projects will be either in-person and virtual, and in some cases, will be collaborative across the school s county. Wolf Trap will feature grantees progress via #WolfTrapVirtualStage and via Wolf Trap s Virtual Stage platform.
Dr. Shana Russell, literary scholar, historian, storyteller, organizer, and assistant professor of English at Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Newark, will deliver the 24th W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Lecture at Bard College at Simon s Rock. As reported in a press release, Russell will deliver the Lecture and participate in a Q&A this Monday, Feb. 22, from 8:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. EST. The event is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live via Zoom.
Russell s talk, Storytelling in Times of Crisis: Using the Past to Fight for Justice in the Present,” will draw from the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and the NAACP publication, The Crisis, to explore how storytelling, history, and academic discourse can inform the organization of movements and activism.