Just a DC boy

The DC Collaborative is pleased to announce that the DC Community is named the 25th Any Given Child City

A huge thank you to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, DC Public Schools and our members for joining us for the Any Given Child Washington, D.C. announcement today. In our 20th year, the DC Collaborative is thrilled to be the backbone support organization for Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child DC, the 25th city to be named through the program.

Any Given Child Washington, D.C. will expand the DC Collaborative members and education leaders to work optimally with all public and private stakeholders. Our Collaborative work, Our Collaborative Effect, remains a truly collective project from planning to implementation. We are a culture capital. We collectively put our world-class cultural amenities to best use for DC students and look forward to creating a plan that will be inclusive and vital. Full of arts and humanities learning in every ward and a key component of the District’s strategic educational and cultural planning! We are thankful to our students and educators for motivating and inspiring us to do better for them. We thank The Kennedy Center and DC Public Schools for its continued support of the DC Collaborative. Thank you for being a key local community initiative stakeholder and for nationally recognizing the District of Columbia as the 25th Any Given Child community during the DC Collaborative’s 20th year of service. 

Photo Credit: Yassine El Mansouri for The Kennedy Center

Gratitude to the Presenters:

Antwan Wilson, Chancellor, DC Public Schools

Deborah Rutter, President, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Mario Rossero, Senior Vice President, Education, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Jeanette McCune, Director, School and Community Programs, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Arthur Espinoza, Executive Director, DC Commission on the arts and Humanities

Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe,ExecutiveDirector, DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative

Linda Harper, President, DC Collaborative Board of Directors

Maria Tukeva, Principal, Columbia Heights Education Campus

Special thanks to our talented DCPS Students for performing this morning:

CHEC Latin Jazz Ensemble

David Onley, Director; Ivan Navas, Assistant Director

“El Final Del Verano” - Armando Rivera

Moten Melodics

Allyson Chamberlaine, Director

“Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr” -Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Howard AshmanandGlenn Slater:

“Part of Your World" Soloist- Paige Douglas

"Under the Sea" Led by Corrin Harris

Thank you to to our host, CHEC and our friends at DCPS:

Principal Maria Tukeva

Nathan Diamond

Pankaj Rayamajhi

William Gallion

David Onley

Allyson Chamberlaine

Gratitude to our Members for supporting and taking part in our Community’s Collective Impact work!

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Photos from the Announcement on 9/29/17:

Photo Credits: "Yassine El Mansouri for The Kennedy Center”

CHEC Latin Jazz Ensemble and Director, David Onley

CHEC Latin Jazz Ensemble

Moten Melodics and Director, Allyson Chamberlaine

Moten Melodics and Director, Allyson Chamberlaine

Antwan Wilson, Chancellor, DC Public Schools

Deborah Rutter, President, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Antwan Wilson, Chancellor, DC Public Schools

Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe, Executive Director, DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative

Arthur Espinoza, Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Principal Maria Tukeva, Columbia Heights Education Campus, DC Public Schools

Jeanette McCune, Director of School and Community Programs, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts