New The Duke Ellington Schoolhouse Of The Arts Had A Fundraiser, As Well As The Raffle Prize Was A 2019 Chili Blood-Red Hardtop Mini Cooper!
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This raffle was a fundraiser, the proceeds of which volition back upwards the activities together with programming of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DESA).
It was formed through a partnership alongside MINI of Sterling, The Ellington Fund, together with the school's parent arrangement SHADE.
This was the 1st all-school raffle; parents, staff, faculty, students 18+ years old, together with community members all sold tickets on behalf of the school
Tickets sold could survive designated toward 1 of 8 arts departments (dance, theater, music, singing, art, etc) to adults over the historic menstruation of eighteen (so a educatee mightiness acquire the car, but only if their parent was feeling generous plenty to share).
This year's winner is a friend together with donor to The Ellington Fund. When informed that she was the grand prize winner, the initiative of all matter she said was that she couldn't believe it because she never wins anything!
The schoolhouse may create only about other All-School raffle side past times side year, maybe alongside a dissimilar car, or maybe alongside an alone dissimilar grand prize, tbd.
About the school, I learned of it from Comedians inwards Cars Getting Coffee, when Jerry Seinfeld was filming an episode alongside Dave Chappelle, together with they stopped past times the schoolhouse to drib off Dave's Emmy, to inspire the students past times showing an illustration of the accomplishments that the erstwhile students own got accomplished. How cool is that!!!
When they walked into the school, they passed the grand pianoforte that Steve Wonder donated to the school... seriously, wow.
If you lot await dorsum at the concerts (Performance Series of Legends) that own got been in that place at the school, they've been fundraisers, together with both Stevie Wonder inwards 1994, together with other incredible musicians, similar Patti LaBelle, globe Wind together with Fire, Sting together with Paul Simon, together with Smoky Robinson!
These 5 performances cumulatively raised $2 million.
it's together with thence impressive that the DESotA is focused on past times the Kennedy, together with celebs accept a minute to inspire the kids, similar Dave Chappelle's Emmy, together with Stevie Wonder's grand piano.
Starting young, learning inwards a disciplined yet improvisational manner, flourishing inwards a tough world, developing a lifelong network of fruitful relationships—all these accomplishments are represented inwards the life of the composer, bandleader, together with Washington, D.C. native, Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington. His are the qualities nosotros own got worked to instill inwards graduates since the Duke Ellington School of the Arts was founded over xl years ago. We create together with thence past times guiding ninth to twelfth degree students through a total academic course of report of report together with an arts major: Dance, Literary Media together with Communications, Museum Studies, Instrumental or Vocal Music, Theatre, Technical Design together with Production, or Visual Arts.
From the beginning, populace together with soul partnerships own got supported the school, which inwards 2000 evolved into the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Project (DESAP), which includes the D.C. Public Schools, the Ellington Fund, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, together with George Washington University.
http://www.ellingtonschool.org/ellington-fund/2018-mini-cooper-all-school-raffle/
http://www.ellingtonschool.org/ellington-fund/performance-series-of-legends/