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Edmund Fleet and Mayor Muriel Bowser
Jack Evans, Kay Kendall and Jack Davies
Chris Smith
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AFTER DARK @THEARC
Jane Ottenberg and
Richard Creighton
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Jean-Marie and Raul Fernandez
A DECADE OF MAKING A DIFFERENCE: To ring in 10 years, THEARC pulled
out all the stops to ensure that its sixth annual gala was the most successful
ever — and it was, attracting more than 570 guests while raising more than $1
million. Founder and board chairman Chris Smith announced that THEARC
would be expanding with a $32 million, 90,000-square-foot campus called
Phase III, set to break ground this fall. The new building will include a teaching
kitchen, third through eighth grade classes of The Bishop Walker School for
Boys, the headquarters of AppleTree (which will offer a school for three- and
four-year-olds), and a black box theater to serve as the permanent home for
the I CAN @THEARC theater internship program. Lastly, Smith announced that
the Phillips Collection would be THEARC’s new resident art museum partner,
offering free multi-generational arts-infused programs. Kimberly Douglass,
Edmund Fleet, Michael Murphy and Jean-Marie Fernandez performed a flash
singalong of “10 Years More” based on “One Day More” from “Les Miserables.”
Ayanna Hudson, Ed Davis and
Ann Ashmore-Hudson
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Eugene and Gina Adams
Rhona Friedman, Mark
McFadden and Linda Roth
Children from the Washington Ballet
and Bishop Walker School for Boys
Nancy Tartt, Nora Pouillon
and Lyn McFadden
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Victor Shargai and David Grosso
The Ballou High School
marching band
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David and Carrie Marriott with Septime Webre
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