Please save the date of November 14 for a special evening at the residence of the British Ambassador to the United States, Dame Karen Pierce. The reception will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and feature student performances and special guests!
A special thank you to our Honorary 50th Committee Chair Debbie Allen, and Committee Members, Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the United States, DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Wanda Durant, President of the Durant Family Charitable Foundation.
→If you are interested in sponsoring, see below or email Jackie at jlbaker@ellingtonarts.org. If there is space, general admission tickets will be available in mid-October.
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I think that Ellington, especially back in that day, was a haven for students who didn’t want to be caught up in the streets. If you had some talent, that was the place to go to. It does something internal in my spirit to think, ‘If any one thing had changed and I had not gone there, where would I be right now?’ That school saved my life in so many ways. —Stanley Squirewell, Visual Artist and DESA Graduate
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