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ACT will contract with an artist to paint a floor mural with Special Education students using wheelchairs and other adaptive tools and equipment. Separately, at the ACT studio, the artist will teach the public how to create smaller art pieces from the original mural such as cards, boxes, and windsocks. The artist will be present at both events to provide creative education and support.

Heather Moore is one of nine winners of the 2024 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities. This award is designed to support accessibility in the arts and celebrate the exceptional work of disabled Midwestern visual artists.

The Willa Cather Foundation and library partners invite residents of Webster County, Nebraska, and of neighboring communities in Nebraska and Kansas to read and discuss Cather's MY ÁNTONIA. A shared reading experience and related programs will enable readers to reflect on the landscape and lived experience in the region, both historically and today.

The United States Marshals Museum will present diverse public programming connected with the community-wide reading of Kao Kalia Yang's book, "The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Planned events will hosted by USMM and local partners such as the Fort Smith Public Library, Fort Smith Regional Art Museum, Bookish, and the University of Arkansas- Fort Smith.

Taos Center for the Arts, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, and Taos Public Library present readings, workshops, film screenings and a community art project devised across arts, culture, and agriculture groups to center the cultures, traditions, histories, and languages of northern New Mexico and to gather around the question: how do we take care of each other in these times?

The University of Florida, in partnership with the Alachua County Library District and local community organizations, will use the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God as a lens through which to explore the intersections of environment, people, and history in Alachua County and the surrounding area.

The Office of Institutional Equity & Diversity provides programming, services, and educational opportunities fostering inclusion and equal access. Campus and community partners will use Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, to facilitate inclusive programs and educational opportunities to the Hampton Roads/Eastern Shore areas to address accessible healthcare.

A touring production to schools of "Much Ado About Nothing", highlighting what happens when we allow gossip or misinterpretation of facts to lead our lives. This will be targeted to a 13-18 year-old-population, and coincides with our Free summer production of "Love's Labors Lost" (July)

"Family Feud: Capulets vs. Montagues" invites audiences in school assemblies, soccer fields, and public parks to explore Florida's historic mix of English/Spanish languages and perspectives. Theater with a Mission’s multiethnic cast pits Shakespeare's “Romeo & Juliet” against Lope de Vega's “Castelvines y Monteses” in a game show that sparks cross-cultural conversations.

Quintessence will produce ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA with education activities focused on Shakespeare and history for 15 middle/high schools in NW Phila. Two rival leaders fall into romantic passion so great it destroys both their kingdoms: Clear verse speaking, modern dress, a bare stage, and Shakespeare's most cinematic, romantic poetry will transport students to North Africa for a political thriller.