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Arts Recognition Awards 2002 |
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individuals and two institutions - all champions of the arts - were
honored on October 20 for their longstanding contributions to the
cultural life of Contra Costa County.
The commission voted to bestow a special award on Margo Cowan,
who retired earlier this year after serving for six year's as AC5's
executive director. She is now on the staff of the California Arts
Council in Sacramento.
Rosamond Davis, of Walnut Creek, founder nearly 30 years ago of the Contra
Costa Performing Arts Society, based in Walnut Creek, which brings together
musicians, singers, composers, choral and chamber ensembles, music
educators and devotees of classical music through ongoing programs,
recitals, and workshops.
Louis Flynn, of El Cerrito, artistic director, guiding light, and cofounder with
his late wife of the volunteer-driven Contra Costa Civic Theatre, which for 43
years has produced quality musicals and plays for the community.
Jim Ocean, of Martinez, concert promoter and musician, who for more
than two decades produces more than 70 community concerts a year
in cities that include Pleasant Hill, Concord, Walnut Creek, Lafayette,
and Pleasanton.
The Eugene O'Neill Foundation, based at Tao House in Danville, which has
championed the life and perpetuated the classic works of America's only
Nobel Prize winning playwright for nearly three decades, bringing world
wide attention to the cultural life of Contra Costa County.
Wee Poets, of Berkeley, which for 18 years has produced an awardwinning
literacy program on cable television in El Cerrito. The program
stimulates an economically and culturally diverse group of children
how to read by writing poetry they read aloud on television. Since
the program's inception, more than 19,000 children have appeared on
Wee Poets.
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