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INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival celebrates art as an inspiration for conversation and connection among artists and audience of all ages, races, cultures and art forms. INTERSECTIOSN 2010 and attracted over 6000 patrons to the Atlas Performing Arts Center, topped by 9000 at INTERSECTIONS 2011. The festival returns in February 2012 for twelve days of multidisciplinary, curated performances with new opportunities for participation and audience engagement. “We hope to create through the arts a place where we all can meet, bringing with us our past and our present, with our eyes set on what's ahead. We will meet at a crossroads of multiple perspectives offered by artists of all ages, cultures and races. We will meet as audiences from every neighborhood in DC. From this intersection of people and place, an energy will be ignited -- an energy that transforms. Our hope is that we will all go down roads we have not traveled before, and along the way, find new seeds for understanding about ourselves, our community and this richly-connected, ever-evolving place that is America.” See INTERSECTIONS 2011 Artists on Fox 5 Morning News with Holly Morrris. 2012 Programming Committee
Aisha Davis, President, DESHO Productions
Peter DiMuro, Director, Dance Metro/DC Arthur Espinoza, Director of Artistic Operations, The Washington Ballet
Brad Linde, Saxophonist, Educator, Co-Director of Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra
Jeffrey A. Parks, Arts Consultant
Malcolm Pelles, Co-Founder and Producer, New Galaxy Theatre Group
2012 INTERSECTIONS Staff
Mary Hall Surface, Festival Artistic Director Paul Douglas Michnewicz, Festival Manager Shari Ashman, Assistant to the Artistic Director
Dan Covey, Lighting Designer, Lang Theatre
Stephanie Freed, Lighting Designer, Sprenger Theatre
Leticia Stanley, Café Concert Stage Manager
Atlas Performing Arts Center
Administration
Sam Sweet, Executive Director
Kyle Rudgers, Director of Operations
Rafael Chapman, Director of Finance and Administration
Robert T. Boaz, Program Manager
Jessica Abel, Administrative Coordinator Matthew Graf, IT Consultant
Communications and Development
Renée Littleton, Director of Marketing and Public Relations Kara Barnes, Director of Development
Jen DeMayo, Director of Community
TC Benson, Development Consultant
Cecily Stewart, Development Associate
Production
Alex Evans, Lang Theatre Manager Jamie Mulhern, Sprenger Theatre Manager and ASTAP Lead Instructor
Andy Cissna, Master Electrician Camille Kashaka, Lab 2 Theatre Manager
Front of the House
Anastasia Robinson, Front of House Manager Kathy Jones, Volunteer Coordinator/Box Office Associate Facilities
Warner McCain, Facilities Manager
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The FIRE Fund of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, created to promote interracial reconciliation and education.
Founding Media Sponsor
Sponsors
Major funding provided by Paul Sprenger and the Sprenger Lang Foundation.
INTERSECTIONS is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works.
The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, also helped make this Festival possible through its generous support.
The Atlas also gratefully acknowledges the generosity of these additional sponsors:
UBS, The Aaron and Cecile Goldman Family Foundation, BB&T, M. Ann Belkov, The Randy Hostetler Living Room Music Project and Fund, and Scott & Stringfellow, LLC.
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