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The CD Forum Announces 2010-2011 Season: What Now? God, Home, and Country
Ranging from a reading by best-selling author Terry McMillan co-presented with Elliott Bay Book Company on September 23, to the world premiere of a multi-media work by choreographer Charles O. Anderson’s Dance Theatre X co-presented with Velocity Dance from September ...
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June 18, 2010
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Danielle Bias
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CELL: 646-420-8499
The CD Forum Announces 2010-2011 Season: What Now? God, Home, and Country
Seattle, WA— Today, the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum) announced a full roster of groundbreaking arts and humanities programs during the 2010-2011 season themed: What Now? ...
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FEBRUARY 26, 2010
CONTACT: Amber Flame, Program & Marketing Coordinator
E-MAIL: amberf@cdforum.org
PHONE: 206-323-4032
Explore the Process of "Aging Out" of Foster Care on March 25
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas Presents "What's Next - Too Old for Foster Care"
Seattle, WA – The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum) presents a ...
 
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Organized by CD Forum board members Brenda Walker & Sandra Jackson-Dumont with a host committee of supporters from the Seattle arts community, the event was held at the Crocodile Cafe in Belltown.
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A PDF of this release is available here.
December 21, 2009
CONTACT: Amber Flame, Program & Marketing Coordinator
E-MAIL: amberf@cdforum.org
PHONE: 206-323-4032
CD Forum Presents
Cynthia Oliver Company Dance Theatre
Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso
February 19-20, 2010
“Cynthia Oliver delves into the riotously beautiful art of winding, a powerful, erotically charged rhythmic dance named for its sinuous, ...
A post-performance Q&A held with our main stage performing artists. These intimate and enlightening discussions offer insight into the world of the artist, allowing the audience to deepen their experience and understanding of the work they’ve just witnessed.
UP NEXT:
Stay after the performance on May14-15 for a CD Forum Session - ...
 A post-performance event where attendees can connect and dig deeper with the performers and artists in an intimate setting. Join us as we celebrate the performers’ hard work with food and drinks following the Friday performances!
UP NEXT:
Celebrate The CREATION Project Showcase with Afterglow a post-performance party open to all on Friday, May 14. Follow us ...
All connected with the CD Forum extend our heartfelt concern to those directly affected by the recent earthquake in Haiti. We invite you to visit our Facebook page wall and share your thoughts and feelings with your fellow community members….
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | October 8, 2009
CONTACT: Amber Flame, Program & Marketing Coordinator
EMAIL: amberf@cdforum.org | PHONE: 206-323-4032 x115
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas Presents American Heritage Series:
From Pioneers to Mayors – Blacks in the West
Seattle, WA – The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum) presents ...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 15, 2009
CONTACT: Amber Flame, Program & Marketing Coordinator
EMAIL: amberf@cdforum.org | PHONE: 206-323-4032 x115
Filter House
Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and The Elliott Bay Book Co. Presents
Author Nisi Shawl reading from her award winning short story collection
“These fourteen superbly written stories will weave around you a ring of dark, ...
 Written by Tyrone Beason
September 25th, 2005
Stephanie Ellis-Smith founded the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas in 1999 to "challenge assumptions about African-American culture," and since then the nonprofit has presented town-hall discussions, stage performances, a black science-fiction festival and a Food As Art event featuring local black chefs. But there's more to this free-spirited ...
August 12, 2008
Seattle, WA– The Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (CD Forum) proudly welcomes back performing artist Daniel Beaty. Beaty will perform Friday, September 12 and Saturday, September 13, 2008 at 8pm at Broadway Performance Hall. A CD Forum Session! post-show Q&A with the audience will immediately follow each performance.
With a sold-out ...
Food as Art was an amazing success! Thank you to all those who came, ate, bid and gave! Thanks to our generous supporters, we netted over $80,000! Couldn't make it? The pictures are online! Read more about Food as Art. Thanks so much!
Today the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas' (CD Forum) Board of Directors announced that Kumani Gantt has been chosen as the CD Forum's new Executive Director following a national search. Since 2004, Gantt has been the Executive and Artistic Director of The Village of Arts and Humanities, a nationally recognized arts organization ...
June 16, 2009
Seattle, WA— Today the Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas' (CD Forum) Board of Directors announced that Kumani Gantt has been chosen as the CD Forum's new Executive Director following a national search. Since 2004, Gantt has been the Executive and Artistic Director of The Village of Arts and Humanities, a ...
 By Tan Vinh, Seattle Times staff reporter
March 26th, 2008
Local African-American chefs, who have made it a tradition to gather one night annually to cook for charity, have come to anticipate two questions. Their answers: Yes, there are lots of African-American chefs in Seattle. No, they all don't specialize in soul food.
Their "Food as Art" fundraising ...
By Anthony Miles
September 30th, 2004
In an ironic story of this election, The New York Times recently reported that the U.S. Justice Department, which reports to President Bush, is investigating whether the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which reports to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, conducted a voting fraud investigation in a manner that could have the ...
by Lynell George, Times Staff Writer
June 22nd, 2004
SEATTLE — When novelist Octavia E. Butler set out in the early '70s to step off into the murky territories of science fiction, the consensus was that as a black writer, if you weren't writing about race -- or racism -- you were, frankly, wasting your time.
"There were ...
by Jerry Large, Times staff columnist
November 6th, 2002
Seattle's Central Area isn't itself anymore.
Residents and former residents are asking themselves a complicated question about the change: "How central is the Central District?"
How central is it to Seattle's increasingly decentralized African-American population?
The question is not a new one, but it was recently posed in a very public ...
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