DMFAH Reaches Out To New Community Partner |
|
A CONVERSATION WITH GOODWILL ABOUT COMMUNITY AND A CIVIC MISSION, VISION AND VALUES FOR DANVILLE
“Friends of Goodwill, be dissatisfied with your work until every handicapped and unfortunate person in your community has an opportunity to develop to his fullest usefulness and enjoy a maximum of abundant living.”
— Dr. Edgar J. Helms, 1941
On Friday April 2, 2021, the DMFAH reached out to Goodwill to discuss WANDERLOVE in a community context. Goodwill works to enhance the dignity and quality of life of individuals and families by strengthening communities, eliminating barriers to opportunity, and helping people in need reach their full potential through learning and the power of work. The WANDERLOVE project provides many opportunities not just to create art but to create a communal labor around art that all can be proud of. Goodwill Industries believes every person has the opportunity to achieve his/her fullest potential and participate in and contribute to all aspects of life. This is what the DMFAH believes too. Here are the great Value Pillars of Goodwill:
Respect – We treat all people with dignity and respect.
Stewardship – We honor our heritage by being socially, financially, and environmentally responsible.
Ethics – We Strive to meet the highest ethical standards
Learning – We challenge each other to strive for excellence and to continually learn.
Innovation – We embrace continuous improvement, bold creativity and change.
|
|
|
|
Green Rock Correctional Center comes on board for WANDERLOVE |
The DMFAH welcomes Shelby Harrell from Green Rock Correctional in Chatham and her team of 10 knitters/crocheters who will be participating in the WANDERLOVE yarn bombing that is being prepared for July 4th on the Danville Riverwalk!
At Green Rock Correctional Center, one of the Mental Health offering is the Finger-Knitting/Crochet group. In this group, inmates learn how to finger-knit, or if they are more advanced, finger crochet, and make projects for donation to the community. Usually, Green Rock projects (mostly scarves) are donated to Haven House, a domestic violence shelter. The members of the group are usually from GROC's SAM (Shared Allied Management) The group is limited to 10 inmates. Yarn for the group is from donation, and while all yarn is accepted, thicker yarn is preferred due to not being able to use any tools other than our hands. To Donate Yarn to Green Rock, please contact Shelby Harrell HERE
|
|
|
|
|
|
Explore the Louvre's Entire collection Online!!! |
A new digital database features 480,000 works from the Paris museum’s holdings
According to a Smithsonian article by Nora McGreevy (March 30, 2021) when cultural institutions around the world were forced to shutter last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, even the most popular art museum in the world felt the effects. The Louvre, home to such masterpieces as the Mona Lisa, welcomed just 2.7 million visitors in 2020—a 72 percent drop from 2019, when 9.6 million people flocked to the Paris museum. But even as physical museums remained closed, art enthusiasts continued to seek inspiration in new ways: In that same pandemic year, 21 million people visited the Louvre’s website, according to a Louvre museum statement. For the first time ever, the Louvre’s entire art collection is available to search online. The updated catalogue boasts more than 480,000 entries, from rare items stowed away in storage to the iconic Venus de Milo and Winged Victory of Samothrace. (Though the digital database is free to browse, offerings are not open access, meaning users cannot directly download, share or reuse the images.)
|
|
|
|
Richmond Historical Cemeteries |
Thursday, April 8 at 12:00 PM
In this virtual Banner Lecture, Ryan K. Smith will explore the history and recovery of the burial grounds of Richmond, Virginia, through the lens of race, comparing these important sites in terms of their initial dynamics as well as their ongoing states of preservation and commemoration.
Virginia's capital holds one of the most dramatic "landscapes of death" in the nation, with graveyards dating from the city's founding through the Civil War, emancipation, and the long road that followed. Yet too often these graveyards are treated in isolation. This lecture by historian Ryan Smith will compare these important sites in terms of their initial dynamics as well as in terms of their ongoing states of preservation and commemoration.
Ryan K. Smith is a professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author several books, including Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses: Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century and Death and Rebirth in a Southern City: Richmond's Historic Cemeteries.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Rebuilding America: Reconstruction to Jim Crow |
Tuesday, April 13 at 10:00 AM
Join the Virginia Museum of History and Culture for our upcoming webinar, Rebuilding America: Reconstruction to Jim Crow. (Recommended for Upper Elementary & Above)
This program examines the period of rebuilding and reunification after the Civil War. Students will study the impacts of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, the origins of Jim Crow, and steps taken to disenfranchise African Americans.
This webinar is free; however, registration is required. After registering for the webinar, attendees will receive an automated confirmation email with connection instructions. We will connect via Zoom which is available for free download here: https://zoom.us/download.
The Danville Museum has reserved 25 student spots. If you are Interested to have your elementary students engage we will be happy to send you the Zoom link. Please contact us at info@danvillemuseum.org
|
|
Museum Participates in Carter Woodson Education Units |
After two months of training k-12 and museum educators, the Carter Woodson Commission is working to migrate materials from the Dr. Carter G. Woodson Collaborative to its new homepage at #VaGoOpen! This may take some time, but we anticipate that the education units created by the museum will be available later this spring when the site is about to go public. It's pretty amazing to see how much creative work this Collaborative produced in just a few short months! The organization's namesake would be proud of the work all have all done in support of his vision for history education. With great appreciation for these intense months of learning the DMFAH wants to thank Beau Dickenson, Christonya Brown, Ma'asehyahu Isra-Ul, and Jean Weller for their tremendous guidance during this process. Our DMFAH logo and learning experience has been officially submitted to the Woodson Collaborative's shared drive and to the Virginia Studies folder. Many thanks to Daniel Shogan who worked on these units for the Carter G. Woodson Education Collaborative team and thank you also to Kate McDannold for providing content from her “Think Like a Historian” that is currently available on the DMFAH website. |
|
|
|
|
MARK YOUR CALENDARS:Garden Week April 17-24 |
Lanie Davis, reporter for the Star Tribune wrote that within the past 88 years, the Garden Club of Virginia’s Historic Garden Week festivities have only been canceled twice, during World War II and last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year, the Historic Garden Week will take place April 17-24 and continue with their tradition of tours, with added changes and safety precautions. Twenty-five tours of homes and gardens organized by 48 member clubs will take place across the state during that week, at the peak of spring blooming. An estimated 2,200 floral arrangements statewide will be created to enhance their properties.
Locally, the Gabriella and Chatham Garden Clubs and the Garden Club of Danville are hosting a tour of properties in Danville and Chatham on April 22.
This year is the first time the tour has ever highlighted these tobacco barns.
This year, extra safety precautions will be taken on tours, Walker said. All ticket sales will be online, and there will be a limited number available.
|
|
Service Spotlight: Nurses Working Hard to Help Vaccination Efforts |
Thank you to our DPS nurses who assisted with the vaccination efforts recently held at the Community Market! We are grateful for your participation - it was wonderful seeing familiar faces as we were getting vaccinated.
Signing up for an appointment is just a click away!
April 1 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
April 3 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
April 5 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
April 6 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
April 7 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
April 8 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
April 10 @ Danville Mall (250 1st Doses of Moderna)
|
|
Photo (Back row, Left to Right): Joan Day (O.T. Bonner), Charity Robertson (Northside Preschool and Johnson), Jennifer Satterfield (Forest Hills), Renee Tucker (Westwood), Michelle Buie (Gibson), Karen Pickeral (Park Avenue), Kris Campbell (GWHS), Pamela Felici (Woodberry Hills), Lisa Fowlkes (Grove Park), Renita Townes (Covid Coordinator), and Sabrina Wood (Woodrow Wilson)
Seated: Sherri Wright (School Nurse Facilitator at Galileo and Langston)
|
|
Get Ready To Stretch! DMFAH is partnering with Firefly Yoga again! |
|
|
|
SATURDAY YOGA COMING SOON |
Get Ready to Stretch! DMFAH is partnering with Firefly Yoga Again for Yoga on the DMFAH lawn!!!
There will be two pop-up Saturday sessions on April 10 and 17 to get us going before regular sessions start on Saturday mornings from May - September, 2021.
Firefly Yoga also offers yoga, mindfulness and fitness classes online, outdoors and in their new studio at 415 Main Street. (The Meredith Gravely School of Dance has four studios in their building; they use three for dance and sublease the fourth; the Pilates studio is moving out on the fourth, so Firefly is moving in this Friday 4/2).
There will be no Yoga on Saturday July 4th and the Labor Day weekend?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
