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African Performance & Culinary Feast, April 30th

Posted on: April 10th, 2011 by marga No Comments

Culinary Griots with EWI artist member, Vera Oye' Yaa-Anna

Echoes of the African Sound: a Performance & Culinary Feast produced by Palaver Hut and its Founder and EWI artist member, Vera Oye’ Yaa-Anna will take place on Saturday April 30th, 2011 at 7:00 P.M. at The Nave – St Marks Episcopal Church, 118 3rd Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. Proceeds benefit Vera’s Culinary Programs for Children.

You are invited to experience master Kora players, storytellers, drummers, dancers, enthusiastic stilt walkers, exciting youth steel drummers and the Banjo African ancestor. Elevate your African sound and feasting experience. African music has a rich diversity of sound with roots dating back many thousands of years. Today, many instruments used by African musicians originated centuries ago. Often the skill of playing a particular instrument passes down through generations of a family. Read more

Congratulations, Juliana!

Posted on: March 14th, 2011 by shannon 2 Comments

Juliana Kerrest, our stellar AmeriCorps Outreach Coordinator completed her year of service, and in the entrepreneurial spirit of EWI launched her own business. We are very proud of all she’s accomplished since joining EWI in September 2009, and are looking forward to supporting her new endeavors.

In a relatively short period of time, Juliana contributed a wealth of talent and strategic thinking to help EWI grow its programs and develop new streams of revenue by creating an online store, managing a micro-enterprise program, and promoting and managing a series of artists markets and events.

Not only has she empowered and assisted EWI student entrepreneurs and graduates in building their businesses, but she herself launched her own online store to sell her beautiful photography, decorated stitch art, and embroidered jewelry. Last week, Juliana attended her first artists’ market, Art Carnage at The Soundry, Vienna, VA, not as an EWI staff member, but as an entrepreneur, marketing her own art and telling her own story. We will be missing Juliana dearly, but we now she will transform lives wherever she goes.

Read Juliana’s full success story written by Paula Margus.

Meet Our Most Recent Graduates

Posted on: January 6th, 2011 by juliana No Comments

Our Entrepreneur Training for Success Program saw its most recent graduates complete their training in December 2010. Meet these new EWI members and learn what path they are taking to achieve their entrepreneurial and artistic endeavors by reading their New Member Profiles.





Women of Courage Gala on December 11, 4-7pm

Posted on: December 6th, 2010 by juliana No Comments

Join us for a multicultural celebration of art, music and entrepreneurship on Saturday from 4-7pm at Convergence, 1801 N. Quaker Lane. The event is FREE but RSVPs are required.

You’ll have the opportunity to meet the 12 amazing graduates from our 2010 Entrepreneur Training for Success program, hear from inspiring speakers, and visit our Gift Shop to get some last-minute holiday shopping done. Please take advantage of this chance to celebrate EWI’s empowering work in the community!

RSVP Now!


Women of Courage: The Art and Stories of Entrepreneur Artists and Change Makers

Saturday, December 11 from 4-7pm

Convergence, 1801 N. Quaker Lane, Alexandria, VA 22302

The event is FREE and includes: Complimentary parking, appetizers, wine, and refreshments

* 4-5pm, Meet the Artists and do Some Holiday Shopping! *

Do your holiday gift shopping at EWI and support our local women artists!

Stop by and shop unique hand-painted silk scarves, knitted scarves, fashionable handcrafted jewelry, original fine art and prints, notecards, journals and handmade books, a natural line of bath and body products, and more…

Cash, Checks and Credit Cards are accepted! Proceeds from sales benefit our women members and EWI

 

* Starting at 5pm … *

Keynote Speaker Jimena Ryan, Director of Marketing and Community Affairs, RAFFA P.C.

Jazz Performance by ETS Graduate and Singer Tacha Coleman Parr with Scott Giambusso on Acoustic Guitar

Graduation Ceremony: Meet EWI’s 2010 Entrepreneur Training for Success Graduates

Book Presentation by Jameela Alter, Author of On Clipped Wings


* 6-7pm, Reception and Holiday Shopping Continues *

 

This program is co-sponsored by:

AAUW Mt. Vernon Branch — Alexandria Business and Professional Women

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Alexandria

 

Funding for this program came in part from:

Giving Circle of Hope, Reston — Washington Forrest Foundation

The Alexandria Commission for the Arts

 

Thank you to our dedicated donors who contributed scholarships for our women in need:

Giving Circle of Hope Reston — AAUW Mt. Vernon Branch

Jay (Jizeng) Chen, Publisher of Asian Fortune Newspaper & Asian Fortune Foundation

Sunanda K. Holmes, Esq. — Mihaela and Iulian Nistor — Bruce Steinhardt — Dienna Howard

Kudos to Three of EWI’s Award-Winning Members

Posted on: August 24th, 2010 by juliana No Comments

Congratulations to Evelyn Brooks, Nina Tisara, and Sharmila Karamchandani for their recent accomplishments and awards! All three women are long-standing EWI members, as well as graduates of our flagship program, Entrepreneur Training for Success.


Evelyn Brooks, the owner of Evelyn Brooks Designs and a graduate of our entrepreneurship training program, was recently honored by the Dialogue on Diversity with the Champion Young Entrepreneur Award 2010. More




Nina Tisara, a graduate of EWI’s entrepreneurship training program and Director of Living Legends of Alexandria, launched her 2010 “The Gathering of the Legends” photography exhibition at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery, 2704 Mt. Vernon Avenue, in Alexandria, from August 6 – 22, 2010. The opening reception took place on Friday, August 13, 7-10 pm at Del Ray Artisans Gallery. The exhibition, which features photographs of 30 of Alexandria’s recent history makers, was conceived while Tisara was an EWI student. More


Sharmila Karamchandani, a graduate EWI’s entrepreneur training program and talented artist and educator, was recently recognized as one of the best instructors at the ITT Technical Institute.


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