February - What's Inside? Sharing and Gaining Knowledge; Building the Imagine Nation; the Big Thought Endowment Fund; Branding; What We're Reading; profiles of the Reader-Writer Patrol and the Embrey Family Foundation May - What's Inside? What is Creativity; Two Leaders in High School Interest Groups in Dallas; The Theater Project; What We're Reading; profiles of Mark Shelton and the Rees-Jones Foundation July - What's Inside? A New Name for the Dallas Arts Learning Initiative: Thriving Minds; Coordinated Initiatives for Arts Education; Every Child Ready to Read; What We're Reading; profiles of Kent Williams and Chase
January - What's Inside? The Upcoming Launch of DALI; Up Close with Dallas ArtsPartners; Working at Big Thought; profiles of Melody Bell and CitiBank March - What's Inside? The DALI Launch; Master of the Arts; Bank of America's $1 Million Challenge Grant; profiles of Holly Lapinski and The Wallace Foundation April - What's Inside? Creative Solutions After-School Program; Treasure Beyond Measure; profile of Willy Welch and PriceWaterhouseCoopers
September - What's Inside? What We Did Last Summer - a photo essay; BT Online; What We're Reading; profiles of VET, the Dallas Public Library and Wachovia November - What's Inside? Putting Creativity Front and Center; Little Kids Rock; BT Honored at the Night of Light; What We're Reading; profiles of Ollimpaxqui Ballet Company, the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs and Target August - What's Inside? Summer Program Benefits Homeless Families; Dream Come True; More than Measuring; Summer in the City; Make a Connection Thru Art; profiles of Janet Reynold and Nokia October - What's Inside? America's Best Teaching Artist Training Program; Dynamic Design with DALI; profiles of Dallas Black Dance Theatre and Harold Simmons Foundation December - What's Inside? Talent on Tour; Turning up the Heat; Marketing & Communications; profiles of Eth-Noh-Tec and Darden Restaurants & Olive Garden
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Library Live! presented by Target
Wed, Sept 1; 11:00am @ Hampton-Illinois Library
Wed, Sept 1; 1:30pm @ Park Forest Library
Thurs, Sept 2; 10:30am @ Martin Luther King, Jr. Library