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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Cultural Council
Date: 2021-11-16 Time: 6:30 PM
Building: Location:
Address: Session: Open Session
Purpose: Grant Applicant Presentations Version: Draft
Attendees: Members - Present:
RECEIVED
TOWN CLERK
READING, MA.
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Brian Kimerer, Katherine Lopez Natale, Megan Fidler -Carey, Sherilla
Lestrade, Kern Perry
Members - Not Present:
None
Others Present:
Grant Presenters Listed In minutes
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Kern Perry
Topics of Discussion:
Meeting of the Reading Cultural Council November 16, 2021 6:30 PM Via Zoom
Call to order at 6:33 PM.
Grant Applicants signed up for 10 -minute presentation slots and presented and shared more
information on their plans. Below are those that presented:
• New Perspectives in Enrichment Programming- Birch Meadow Elementary School -
Gina McCormick
• Pamela Means Presents The Power of the Protest Song: Our Shared History & Present
Day Struggles- Pamela Means
• Cycle of Memory- Alex Leff
• Equity, Justice, and Inclusion Speaker Series- Reading Memorial High School -Anna
Cuevas
• Race and Music ... continued!- Alice M. Barrows Elementary School- Cory Sinclair
• Reading Remembrance Tour- CATO - The Coalition of Us- Colm Ellet
• Multi -Cultural School Assembly- Joshua Eaton School- Jessica Rogers
• RCS Celebrates the Holidays: Live and In Person- Reading Community Singers, Inc. -
Carolyn Ellet
• 4 Reading Porch Fest 2022- Reading Porch Fest Committee- Ace Foulds
• Downtown Reading Art Walk- Downtown Reading Art Walk- Eileen Barret
• Reading Community Task Partyl- J. Warren Killam Elementary School- Amy
Hussey/Sarah Doane
• Songs and Stories - The Highwaymen- Matt York
• Discover the Arts Day Cultural Festival- Joseph Leto, Jr.
• Duo Pianists, Composers & Educators Whipple & Morales in Concert - Kirk and
Marilyn Whipple
DEAFinitely: Performance and Panel - Understanding Disabilities, Inc. - Allison Slllers
Discounted Theatre Tickets for Reading Students and Seniors- Greater Boston Stage
Company - Heather Mel[
Meeting was adjourned at 9:36 PM
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