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Shakespeare Helps Shelter Residents Build Confidence and Community

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Arkansas Community Foundation Driving to work one morning, Joy Ritchey, case manager for Our House shelter in Little Rock, began to think about what a coincidence it was that the shelter housed several residents who shared names with some of Shakespeare’s greatest characters: Portia, Ophelia, Cordelia, Romeo. Ritchey was concerned that some of the shelter’s […]

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Local Shelter Gets Creative

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KARK Channel 4 LITTLE ROCK, AR – A local shelter for the working homeless is teaching classic plays to its residents and raising money at the same time. “Shakespeare at the Shelter” is a chance for current and former residents at Our House to take center stage. The group spent the past seven week practicing every

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Pair Fired Up About Our House

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette By Michael Storey Photo by John Sykes Jr. Meghan Collins was worried her goosebumps would show. You’d think the Michigan native would be used to goosebumps, but not in early spring – not in Arkansas. A pollen-busting storm had just swept through a couple of weeks ago when Meghan and her husband, Andrew, arrived

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Our House Takes On Shakespeare

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Shelter starts program involving play reading, insult hurling Arkansas Democrat-Gazette By Kelly Poe PHOTO BY WILLIAM KENYON LITTLE ROCK — It’s been a while since Alvin Hall has been involved in theater. He’s a resident of the Our House homeless shelter, and, in recent years, he’s had more immediate things to worry about. On Saturday, he joined 13

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October 2011 Newsletter

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Resident Jason Otis Back to school, in the words of a 7-year-old resident Volunteer Joseph Cherry, Summit Home School Group Family Volunteer Day Cyclists ride for Our House Tie One On is December 1st Our House gets ready for Halloween View past newsletters here.

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