Lani Schweiger
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Community Highlight: Christina Cultural Arts ...

In this month’s blog, we are highlighting the Christina Cultural Arts Center Inc. Executive Director, James “Ray” Rhodes discusses the history of the Christina Cultural Arts Center and its importance to our community.

Community Highlight: Christina Cultural Arts Center

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Downtown Wilmington Celebrates Shakespeare Day

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Lunchtime on Market Street on Friday provided a real treat as the Delaware Shakespeare Festival coordinated a production of all of Shakespeare's plays in under an hour using more than 50 people from our community.

All of this took place in front of The Grand Opera House - and I would dare say we had participation from people from all walks of life and all of our great communities - artists, musicians, attorneys, business leaders, young, not so young, students, professionals, and more!

I am proud of our vibrant arts community in Wilmington - and I am proud that Downtown Visions helped sponsor and support this event.

Marty

Black Jobs Matter

Black Jobs Matter is a one-act play that briefly examines the lives of unemployed blacks in the city of Wilmington, from three different perspectives.

The play will be performed on Thursday, February 25 at the Baby Grand on Market Street.

Click Here to RSVP for this FREE performance. 

Here's a description from the website:

#blackjobsmatter…a Wilmington experiment is a movement born out of the desire to employ the over 9000+ unemployed black men in the City of Wilmington. The movement is based on three key areas:
  1. The solution to the crime problem is not more cops. It is jobs.
  2. The solution to better academic performance of inner city kids is not new schools or different teachers, it is a safe nurturing home so our kids can do their homework and get parental encouragement. Jobs bring the father back into the home and create that atmosphere.
  3. The solution to balancing the city's budget is to get people off of welfare and onto the tax-paying rolls. Jobs do that.
 The overall result of these things is to restore respect for parents and for themselves.

I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to join our neighbors and friends in exploring this important issue.

Marty

A look at Downtown Wilmington's rich history

Downtown Wilmington has a truly impressive history - and our friends at WITN, Channel 22, have put together a great feature on that history.

All of us at Downtown Visions were happy to work with WITN to put this together, I encourage everyone to take a few minutes to see the growth of our great community.

Click Here to watch the video

The next time you're walking through Downtown Wilmington, just think of the men, women, and families who have lived, celebrated, marched, mourned, worked, danced, played, and prayed here - and know that we're in the process of creating more history now.

Marty