02 Oct 2001
2001 – $185,685 –
Greenway Arts Alliance kept up their streak in 2001!
Drama was supported yet again, with $171,361 contributed to after-school drama, after-school film classes, and film literacy classes in the school’s regular curriculum. An additional $2,200 was afforded to the drama club for sets and costumes.
Greenway Court Theatre followed up its opening year with a stage production of the 1969 Sydney Pollack film, They Shoot Horses, Don’t They. Greenway’s take on the Horace McCoy novel was adapted by Rick Sparks and Gary Carter, staged by Sparks, and reviewed by Variety Magazine as “a memorably haunting depiction of lost souls who have to keep moving just to prove they are still alive.”
Greenway Court Theatre had another hit co-producing the first two plays of Levy Lee Simon’s Haitian Trilogy with the Robey Theatre Company, reviewed by the LA Times as a “fascinating history of the struggle for Haitian independence.”
In equipment, the cheerleading team received $1,000 and the journalism club received $3,799. $1,836 in equipment was purchased for Fairfax High School’s Best Buddies Club. ROTC used $872 in supplies.
Students of Fairfax were able to go on the Titan Field Trip after GAA paid $604 for buses. Another $2,000 went to the annual Washington DC trip.
Congratulations, Class of 2001! Graduation was a blast with $2,013 donated by Greenway Arts Alliance.