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		<title>2012 Student Showcase May 10th!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Witness the power of youth creativity at Arts Corps&#8217; Annual Student Showcase!]]></description>
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		<title>Make some cents!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 14:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find some cents, will ya? Literally. Like, on the sidewalk or in a couch.  We found 80 cents hiding at the office.  See: The physical Arts Corps office space donated!  And now, you can too!  So, here&#8217;s the challenge- 1) Go digging for change wherever it&#8217;s free to be harvested. 2) Snap a pic and post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from Hannah, Age 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 18:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 2nd is Seattle Foundation&#8217;s GiveBIG one-day charitable giving event and we wanted to let you know that Arts Corps is over-the-moon about any gifts of any size.  Below is a letter that accompanied a donation by 9-year-old Hannah who collected funds for Arts Corps on her 9th birthday in lieu of receiving gifts for herself.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bring on the Funk…Power of Words at the Northwest African American Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog was written by guest contributor Stephanie Johnson-Toliver, Program Director of the Northwest African American Museum&#8217;s Dr. Carver Gayton Youth Curator Program (pictured below second from the right).  Daemond Arrindell and Arts Corps are totally hip in the opinion of the Northwest African American Museum 2012 Youth Curators…count me in too.  The Dr. Carver Gayton Youth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arts Corps is not just about arts education.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the address Arts Corps&#8217; Executive Director Elizabeth Whitford delivered at the 2012 La Festa del Arte on March 29th at the Triple Door in Seattle.   Arts Corps is not just about arts education. As it turns out, our work increasingly sits at the heart of a major tension in education—namely, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 Grand Slam Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t miss this epic event! Friday, April 13th 2012 at the Neptune Theater: 1303 NE 45th St, Seattle The top 5 poets from the Grand Slam will form the Youth Speaks Seattle Team. The team will travel to San Francisco in July to represent Seattle at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A call to action from an Arts Corps&#8217; parent&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.artscorps.org/2012/03/a-call-to-action-from-an-arts-corps-parent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arts Corps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can refuse to believe that the underlying problems of children in schools, along with society at large, are actually based on social and economic hazards. Children of all income families are being pushed to excel in grades but go home to an empty or violent home with no one else to talk to. What good are high grades or great paying jobs when there is no one to share them with?  What is the purpose of these if we have no joy? Where is the motivation to study when nurture and compassion have been replaced by demands and adult greediness? Have we made the competitive industrialization of society more important than the young human?]]></description>
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		<title>2012 La Festa del Arte Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arts Corps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Music Natural Alucinação © Show Brazil Records, opening photo © Susie Fitzhugh, show photos by Scott Wellsdandt, end photo by Joshua Trujillo Photography]]></description>
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		<title>When my entire world opened up&#8230; by Kathy Hsieh</title>
		<link>http://www.artscorps.org/2012/03/when-my-entire-world-opened-up-by-kathy-hsieh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.artscorps.org/2012/03/when-my-entire-world-opened-up-by-kathy-hsieh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arts Corps</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece was written by Kathy Hsieh in response to an article by Jen Graves in the Stranger&#8217;s SLOG and is republished with the permission of the author.   I&#8217;m saddened and angered at such short-sighted thinking from the Office for Education. As a person of color who grew up in Seattle and received all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Want Your Outcome, You&#8217;re Looking At It</title>
		<link>http://www.artscorps.org/2012/03/if-you-want-your-outcome-youre-looking-at-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Testimonial from Arts Corps Alumni &#38; current teaching artist at March 13th Mayor&#8217;s Town Hall about why Arts Education is vital. Read more about how this issue is unfolding locally at following links: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/03/13/is-this-what-we-voted-for-arts-organizations-deemed-unqualified-for-education-levy-money-theyve-been-getting-for-years-while-mayor-hosts http://westseattleblog.com/2012/03/happening-now-mayors-town-hall-youngstown]]></description>
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