Community Impact Grant helps Theatre Arts work with the Dream Center and Iowa City Police

Monday, November 2, 2015

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At the Latino Festival, Ottumwa, Iowa

Associate Professor Loyce Arthur of the Department of Theatre Arts has received a $9,000 Community Impact Grant from the University of Iowa Provost's Office of Outreach and Engagement to support a partnership between the Dream Center, the University of Iowa, the Iowa City Police Department, and members of the Iowa City Southeast District community to develop a series of creative projects with at-risk children, young people, and their families. The grant will also enable the partners to plan and create arts activities and performances based on African American, African, and Caribbean arts and culture in Iowa.

Throughout the grant period, dance routines, costumes, and floats based on Black Iowa themes and stories will be created for the 2016 Iowa City Carnival Parade—a community engagement event that positively brings diverse people into the streets of the city to celebrate and interact with one another.

For more information and to learn how to participate in the projects, contact Professor Loyce Arthur.

The Dream Center in Iowa City works to strengthen and empower families and youth through support, advocacy, lifelong education, and community connections.

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The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.