Youth Health Center holds art exhibit

The Friends of the Culver City Youth Health Center will host an exhibit and sale of the work of Culver City resident, artist and author Francia Turner Fate. The event will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 8 at 5502 Sawtelle Blvd.

Fate will donate 25 percent of sales to the Friends group to help support the services provided by the Health Center.

Middle school theatre program racks up national honors

National Youth Arts announced the winners of its Seventh Annual National Youth Arts Awards to honor outstanding work by youth in the arts This year’s award winners were selected from nominations by a panel of more than 20 judges and reviewers.

Culver City Middle School earned awards for:

Outstanding Ensemble—Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Outstanding Ensemble —Comedy Improv

Outstanding Supporting Actor—Robert Washington as Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Funds for The Kirk Douglas Theater

Kirk Douglas and his wife, Anne, have announced a total of $50 million of pledges to five nonprofit organizations through the Douglas Foundation. The Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City will receive a portion of the total. Douglas helped to launch the Culver City theater in 2004. The actor has provided the theater with an endowment for the development of new works.