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FEBRUARY AT ASH� CULTURAL ARTS CENTER WORKPLACE WELLNESS LUNCHEON February 23, 2012 Noon-1:30 p.m. Ash� Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. | New Orleans Free and Open to the Public Each month, Ash� Cultural Arts Center invites its community partners to a free, healthy luncheon featuring speakers who share information about healthy eating and lifestyles. This month, we thought we'd do a different kind of "health" seminar. Beverly Andry will speak on the topic, "Getting Your Financial Health Checkup." Call (504) 569-9070 and let us know you're coming. COMMUNITY CINEMA, FREE FILM SCREENING: "MORE THAN A MONTH" February 24, 2012 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Ash� Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. | New Orleans Free and Open to the Public "More Than a Month," is directed by Shukree Hassan Tilghman. Owen Cooper is the producer. Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker, sets out on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. He stops in various cities, wearing a sandwich board, to solicit signatures on his petition to end the observance. He explains that relegating Black History Month to the coldest, shortest month of the year is an insult, and that black history is not separate from American history. Through this thoughtful and humorous journey, he explores what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a "post-racial" America. A talk-back panel discussion happens right after the film. Free refreshments will be served. For more information, call Drena. S. Clay at (504) 569-9070 . A COMMUNITY SINGS WITH MICHAELA HARRISON February 28, 2012 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Ash� Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. | New Orleans Free and Open to the Public Love to sing? Have you heard about the many health benefits of singing? With proper breathing, which gets more oxygen into the blood, the releasing of endorphins can have a similar effect as aerobic exercise. Studies have shown that singing relieves tension and lowers levels of stress, creating a feeling of relaxation. It promotes social interaction, and more. When you concentrate on singing, or on learning a new song, your brain power kicks in, memory is strengthened, and you really don't have time to "worry." So tune up your voice, call a few friends to join you, and come out and sing. No singing experience needed. For more information, call (504) 569-9070 . NEW ORLEANS BLACK MEN & BOYS INITIATIVE PRESENTS COMMUNIVERSITY February 29, 2012 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. Ash� Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. | New Orleans Free and Open to the Public The Black Men & Boys Initiatives' Public Health CommuniVersity will focus on a three-phase process for improving the Public Health system in NOLA. Phase one will consist of training leaders (lieutenants) to organize and mobilize the community around public health advocacy (February-June 2012). In phase two we will begin identifying, with community stakeholders, what our target and strategy is for a real political gain around public health, either a) improving the state of public health in New Orleans or b) defending Medicaid against cuts. In phase three our collective focus will be on implementing the strategy during the 2013 legislative session. For more information, call Trap at (985) 643-6186 or (985) 774-5321 . BARBERSHOP MEETING - ITS FATHERS' TIME February 29, 2012 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Ash� Cultural Arts Center 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. | New Orleans Free and Open to the Public The Barbershop Meeting happens each Wednesday of the month and focuses on issues of importance to the growth and well-being, particularly of young men. Men of all ages are invited to join the discussion and to give input based on their life experiences. This meeting affords the opportunity for goal-setting and refinement. Come and bring a few friends. Peter Nakhid leads the discussions. For more information, call (504) 569-9070 . SAVE THE DATE 4th Annual Douglas Redd Cultural Summit Focus: Health & Entrepreneurship Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:00 a.m - 3:00 p.m. Ash� Cultural Arts Center | 1724 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard New Orleans INCLUDING A Health Fair, Creative & Community Entrepreneur Workshops; Seminars and Information from Goodwork Network, Hope Community Credit Union, 1st Time Home Buyer's Programs, Fatherhood Consortium Initiative; a Poetic Tribute to Douglas Redd by Arthur (Arturo) Pfister, Networking: Creative and Business, Congo Square Preservation Society Drum & Dance Circle. Free and Open to the Public Sponsors include: LaCare Health Care, Ash� Cultural Arts Center's Side by Side Program For more information, call Luther Gray at (504) 569-9070 .

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December 2011 Dear Friends, The calendar is running out on 2011, and we are releasing a sigh of contentment as we think back over the many moments of community, culture and art you all have helped to make possible here at Ashé Cultural Arts Center. We have hosted over 20,000 of you at nearly 800 performances, events, exhibits, lectures, films, panels, meetings, convenings, workshops, socials, and family and community gatherings. You and your friends, colleagues, children, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and grandparents have left such lively and endearing spirits with us when they joined us. We have hosted 6,000 of you in other venues off-premises. All of this has returned to us and strengthened our commitment and effort to create and continue the task of mixing the wonderful ingredients of community and culture with art. Please think of us when you make contributions and gifts to organizations at work in the community. These are indeed times that can try the soul.  But we realize that the power of culture and community combined can lift us, carry us and anchor us through bad times, till times get better. We thank you for your support, encouragement and presence. We exist because you exist. Your life gives our life purpose. Your challenges give our life focus. Your potential gives our life vision.     As this year ends, we encourage you to be of good heart, to believe in hope and the unknown but dependable power of good work and faith. We count on you to be there in 2012, and we assure you that you can count on us being there. In the end, we are to each other the inspiration that we need to build a better world. If that is not enough, then certainly the warm smiles, hugs and kisses of so many "wonder full" children should move us a long ways toward full-powered involvement and action. But, my friends, the most important part of tomorrow is the belief in the possibility that things can be, will be better for us all. Passed all the history, the current reality, there is a path, maybe several that lead to a better tomorrow. You can count on us to be lighting candles rather than cursing the darkness. And we know that we can count on you to do the same. See you in 2012. Till then, enjoy the bonds of family and friends and the blessing of children and elders in your life. We look forward to the 2012 journey with you. God willing, it will be full of love, learning and adventure.   Blessings and Best Wishes, The Ashé Family SISTAHS MAKING A CHANGE Every Monday and Thursday Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard, New Orleans Free and Open to the Public Classes will resume in January.  Stay tuned for the schedule. For more information, contact Jamilah Muhammad at (504) 569-9070. KUUMBA INSTITUTE announces its Kwanzaa Program December 26-30, 2011; 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Tuition:  $25 per child Registration fee for new students:  $10 per child To register visit Ashé Cultural Arts Center at 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Call (504) 569-9070. ________________________________________________________________ Happy Holidays! Ashé Cultural Arts Center's Holiday Schedule:   Open Half-Day on Friday, December 23, 2011 Closed all day, Monday, December 26, 2011 (Kuumba Institute's Kwanzaa Program will be open December 26 through December 30.) We will resume regular business activities on Tuesday, December 27, 2011.        Contact Information: Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70113 (504) 569-9070 www.ashecac.org CAROL BEBELLE Co-founder & Executive Director

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November 2011 ________________________________________________________________ Thank you for a wonderful year full of wonderful moments! Your presence in our audiences and your presents in our coffers have made this year possible. We hope you will continue both. _______________________________________________ Dear Friend, The weather is cooling down, and we are turning the corner that leads to the end of 2011. At Ashé, we are preparing for an end-of-the-year flurry of activity which culminates with the 12th Annual Holiday on the Boulevard Festival, December 9-11, 2011. Watch for our calendar of upcoming events on our Facebook page (Ashé CAC) or our website www.ashecac.org. More than 20,000 individuals have visited Ashé so far this year, and we have served an additional 5,000 people through our off-site activities. We've hosted 750 events so far this year, and we have an active rooster of over 200 regular program participants. We've shared our performance works in Louisiana with Jefferson Parish, Baton Rouge and Crowley. We've brought our performance works to Southern University in Baton Rouge and Xavier University in New Orleans. We have strategic partnerships with Loyola University, Dillard University and Tulane University. We've brought performances to Houston and Santa Fe, New Mexico. We have been doing our best to contribute to the cultural economy in New Orleans and to provide livelihoods for nearly 100 artists, contractors and staff. Our network of partnerships and collaborations continues to flourish in New Orleans, across the country and around the world. Ashé has received three awards and commendations this year. We have traveled to Japan to share cultural healing with victims of the Tsunami. We have continued to nurture and connect with our colleagues and friends in South Africa, the Congo, Haiti, Ecuador, Venezuela, Mexico and Japan. We are proud to have established a critical partnership with College Unbound, a national alternative education program, and Roger Williams University in Rhode Island which has launched Ashé College Unbound, a distance-learning model. The program is aimed at helping eleven New Orleans artists, culture bearers and activists earn bachelor's degrees in General Studies from Roger Williams University in two years, with a community and cultural development emphasis. This year has been full of our efforts to create more and more ways for art and culture to serve human and community development. We are writing you to share our efforts to date and to ask you to be a part of helping us to live up to the meaning of our name (ashé: the ability to make things happen). Please become a donor or a paying member of Ashé Cultural Arts Center, and become a part of making things happen in New Orleans and for New Orleanians. Your contribution will make a difference. The times are hard, but an ever-growing number of small donors can accomplish as much as, or more than, a few large ones. Your contribution will assist us to: Complete the financing of the Venus Gardens/Ashé Apartments; Support our expanded hours of operation, after 6PM weekdays and week-ends; and Support our many cultural and creative projects with artists and culture bearers. Your gift can be unspecified, or you are welcome to specify one of the fundraising focuses above. We accept cash, checks, credit cards, stocks, bonds and life insurance assignment. Visit our website at www.ashecac.org for credit card donations. You can send your payment by mail to us at 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70113. Make check payable to Efforts of Grace, Inc./Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Call 504-569-9070 to discuss your gift or to ask any questions. Best wishes for a wonderful holiday season full of many warm and memorable moments. With Sincere Gratitude, Carol Bebelle Lloyd Dennis Co-Founder & Executive Director Board President Ashé Cultural Arts Center Efforts of Grace, Inc. Contact Information: Ashé Cultural Arts Center 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70113 (504) 569-9070 www.ashecac.org CAROL BEBELLE Co-founder & Executive Director

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