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STAND UP FOR DEMOCRACY and sponsor The Civic Circle’s seventh anniversary celebration on October 23! Sponsor benefits include free event admission, event logo display, social media and newsletter shout outs, and program listing. Best of all, you’ll help build youth civic power, and advance our mission to inspire compassionate, informed, engaged citizens. Click HERE to sponsor our “Art of Democracy” celebration, and HERE to make an in-kind donation to our silent auction. Please also email info@theciviccircle.org to join our Host Committee and help get

MARK YOUR CALENDARS for The Civic Circle’s “Art of Democracy” celebration on Thursday, October 23 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Silver Spring Civic Center. We’ll celebrate seven years of building youth civic power through the arts, and hear from Kyle Lierman, CEO of Civic Nation. We’ll also enjoy delicious refreshments and live music, and will present our second annual “Art of Service” award to Lisa Martin, Executive Director of the Silver Spring Town Center. Sponsor this event, and support democracy and civic

DO YOU KNOW a service-minded young person who would like to make a positive difference? Please share The Civic Circle’s AmeriCorps VISTA opportunity with your networks. This position includes full benefits, professional training opportunities, and tuition assistance. The VISTA will make a valuable social impact while gaining skills in program development, marketing, evaluation and nonprofit governance. We thank Transform Mid-Atlantic for sponsoring this position that will help us empower the next generation with civic skills like news literacy and voting. Apply via AmeriCorps HERE.

THE STORY OF JUNETEENTH, which is about freedoms granted and freedoms delayed, resonates with impact today. American freedoms are under threat to a greater degree than at any time in recent memory. Academic freedom, freedom of expression, artistic freedom, and freedom of assembly are just a few of the core American rights now at risk on several fronts. On paper, our nation remains a democracy. But not unlike illiberal democracies such as Hungary, India and Indonesia, we are discovering that

Arcola Elementary School students showcase their civic songs SONG, MOVEMENT, AND POETRY made for a joyful capstone to the school year in Civic Circle workshops. With songwriter and teaching artist Munit Mesfin, two student groups at Arcola Elementary School showcased the civic songs they had written for one another, and discussed their creative choices in a conversation across the grade levels. At the Pembridge Square Apartments, students sang songs about kindness, community and their dreams for the future with Lilo Gonzalez, who