Groovy Nate: Musical Inspiration at LCNV’s Reading: A Family Affair
February 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM | Posted in AmeriCorps, Announcements, Class, Development, ESOL, Family Learning, Student Stories, Teaching, Tutoring, Uncategorized, Volunteers | Leave a commentTags: 2012, alumni, americorps partners, child entertainer, Children, Children's Books, Class Sites, community, couger club, edutainment, Elnathan K. Starnes, family, family fun, Family Learning, friends, groovin with groovy nate, groovin with nate, groovy nate, Kisha Kenyatta, LCNV, lcnv learners, literacy, march 24, Meet Groovy Nate, music together, National Capital Puppet Guild, Oktbrwrld, puppeteers of america, RAFA, reading a family affair, teaching, teaching strategies, the water story, training, tutoring, Volunteer, volunteers
Come see Groovy Nate at Reading: A Family Affair
Join Groovy Nate, his guitar, puppet friends, and other creative instruments for a musical adventure! Groovy Nate will perform at LCNV’s Reading: A Family Affair (RAFA), which will bring books to life through performance art. The RAFA festivities will take place Saturday, March 24, 2012, and run from 9:30 AM to 2:30 PM at the James Lee Community Center.
After watching the Groovy Nate show, Sheryl Leeds, a Supervisor at Arlington Public Schools, stated: Groovy Nate’s show engaged children in an innovative and creative approach that incorporated literacy, music and movement, and had the participants rocking and reading!
Elnathan K. Starnes, known as Groovy Nate, has been a working musician and song-writer in the Washington Metropolitan Area for over thirteen years. Elnathan is a featured guitarist on several CDs and has performed with several Washington DC-based groups. In 1997, he founded the award-winning soul band, Oktbrwrld, with whom he made four CD’s. Elnathan wrote the film score and co-wrote the film short The Water Story, which appeared on BET. Two of his songs are featured in the major motion picture Cougar Club. He is now a member of both the National Capital Puppet Guild and Puppeteers of America.
As Groovy Nate, Elnathan has performed at various venues in the DC/MD/VA area including: The Children’s Inaugural Ball; Source Theater Washington DC; Art on the Avenue, Del Ray,VA; The Children’s Inn, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD; Arlington Title I Mailbox Books Program, Arlington,VA; DC National Association for the Education of Young Children; and Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD.
Nate is a certified Music Together teacher, and teaches Music Together as well as Groovy Nate Music and Movement classes in the Northern Virginia area. Elnathan and his wife, Kisha Kenyatta, along with their two young children, combine talents to create meaningful and educational performance art and edutainment for children and families. They produced the first Groovy Nate CD, Meet Groovy Nate, in 2009.
Groovy Nate will give two performances at LCNV’s Reading: A Family Affair; the first performance begins at 10AM, and the second will take place at 10:45 AM. Adults and children get ready to explore various musical genres such as Reggae and Hip Hop. Come prepared to laugh and play together, and be inspired to bring music and imagination into your everyday lives.
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
2855 Annandale Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
(703) 237-0866
www.lcnv.org
Last Chance to Give in 2011!
December 31, 2011 at 10:00 AM | Posted in AmeriCorps, Announcements, Class, Development, ESOL, Family Learning, Student Stories, Teaching, Tutoring, Volunteers | Leave a commentTags: 40% State Tax Credit, alumni, AmeriCorps, americorps partners, announcement, Basic Adult Literacy, Class Sites, community, donate, donate to LCNV, family, Family Learning, friends, give, giving, last chance to give, last minute donation, literacy, literacy empowers, networking, student stories, students, thank you!, Volunteer, volunteers
Your support of the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia in 2011 has transformed the lives of our adult learners and their children, as well as our community as a whole. Before the year ends, would you please consider making one final donation that will help us continue our work in the new year?
Thanks to the gifts of your time, talents, and treasure, women like Maria in McLean have the opportunity to improve their English skills and secure better employment.
Center: Maria, LCNV Student
I am grateful for the opportunity to study with LCNV. The people have been a great help teaching me English. I have been studying English here for five years and have progressed a lot, but still have much more to learn; it’s difficult to learn another language. Now I have a job as a housekeeper for a family. I drive their car, cook and do their laundry.
Please make one last donation before the end of 2011 and join LCNV’s family of everyday philanthropists who are ensuring that low-income and immigrant adults in our community have the resources they need to survive and thrive.
Best wishes for 2012,
Patricia M. Donnelly
Executive Director
P.S. Remember, your donations totaling $500 or more in 2011 may be eligible for a 40% state tax credit in Virginia. Make your donation online now using our secure processing system or visit our website for more information about the Neighborhood Assistance Program.
Support LCNV on Give to the Max Day!
November 7, 2011 at 12:00 PM | Posted in AmeriCorps, Announcements, Class, Development, ESOL, Family Learning, Student Stories, Teaching, Tutoring, Volunteers | Leave a commentTags: alumni, AmeriCorps, americorps partners, announcement, Basic Adult Literacy, Class Sites, community, friends, give, giving, networking, Volunteer, volunteers
Imagine if you could not read a teacher’s note about your child’s school performance. Picture yourself trying to decipher medicine labels. Envision maneuvering a place as large as Northern Virginia without knowing how to read a bus schedule or Metro map. These simple tasks are immense challenges for someone who is illiterate. Literacy is a survival skill. By empowering individuals with the gift of literacy, LCNV opens pathways that enable them to become more independent, confident, and active in their communities.
Support the Literacy Council on Give to the Max Day this November 9, 2011.
Give to the Max Day is a one-day fundraising event that unites local Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC communities to support nonprofits serving the area. LCNV, alongside hundreds of nonprofits, will compete for cash awards and matching grants offered throughout the day. Every donation you make gives the Literacy Council of Northern Virginia a chance to win even more funding.
Please visit http://give2max.razoo.com/story/Lcnv, and consider making a contribution to the LCNV Scholarship and Advancement Fund. Your generous contribution of $50 will directly support an adult learner for a full semester. By donating $150, you will enable a student to attend a full year of classes. A $500 donation will enable a mother and her two children to participate in a 12-week family learning class. Consider donating to the Fund, and support an adult who has come forward to learn.
Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
2855 Annandale Road
Falls Church, VA 22042
(703) 237-0866
www.lcnv.org
Registration Update
January 25, 2011 at 2:21 PM | Posted in AmeriCorps, Class, ESOL, Family Learning, Student Stories, Volunteers | 1 CommentTags: Class Sites, late registration, Registration, thank you!
Five registrations down, nine to go! So far the Literacy Council has registered about 120 students at our sites in Alexandria, Falls Church, Lorton, Herndon, and Springfield. Our numbers are slightly decreased from the fall, but we are hoping that a large contingent of returning students will show for the first day of class. Tonight we have our remaining Learning Centers registrations. The Learning Centers program is for all adults over the age of 18 who need beginning help with English. The registrations are at the Woodrow Wilson Library in Falls Church, the Lincolnia Senior Center in Alexandria, and at our very own office in the James Lee Community Center. All the sites will open for registration at 5:30 and will remain open until 8:00. If you know anyone who would like to take English class, send them over!
Next week begins our Family Learning Program registrations. The Family Learning Program offers English classes for adults who have children in their lives. The Family Learning Program sites all offer child care. Below is list of Family Learning Program registration times and locations:
Hollin Hall Senior Center 1500 Shenandoah Rd. Alexandria, VA 22308 January 31 5:30-8:00
Higher Horizons Head Start 5920-B Summers Lane Falls Church, VA 22041 January 31 4:30-7:00
Herndon Fortnightly Library 768 Center St. Herndon, VA 20170 February 1 5:30-8:00
Connections For Hope 13525 Dulles Technology Dr., Suite 103 Herndon, VA 20171 February 1 9:30AM-12:00PM
Woodlawn Elementary School 8505 Highland Lane Alexandria, VA 22309 February 2 5:00-7:30
Crestwood Elementary School 6010 Hanover Ave. Springfield, VA 22150 February 2 9:00-11:30 AM
As of now, all of our sites are open. Late registrations for all locations (both Learning Centers and Family Learning) will occur on February 5th from 3:00 to 6:00 at the James Lee Community Center, 2855 Annandale Rd. Falls Church, VA 22042.
For more information, please call 703-237-0866
A BIG THANK YOU to all our volunteers who have made the registrations go so smoothly!
-Kerrin Epstein, Lead Teacher and AmeriCorps Member
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