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Goodwill Awarded $19 Million to Mentor Youth
ST. LOUIS (SLFP.com), September 6, 2009 - Goodwill Industries International(R) has been awarded $19.1 million by the U.S. Department of Justice for mentoring services to help youth develop and deploy career plans. The grant is part of the $129 million awarded to various nonprofits for mentoring services to help youth who have disadvantages avoid becoming involved in delinquency.

With the Department of Justice funding, Goodwill will implement GoodGuides -- a national mentoring program -- that will help youth, ages 12-17, prepare for school completion, develop work skills, identify career paths, and transition to post-high school graduation including post-secondary training. These youth will receive guidance through trusted adult mentors.

"Goodwill's goal is to help youth overcome challenges that are preventing them from succeeding in life," said Jim Gibbons, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International. "The youth mentoring grant from the Department of Justice will allow for positive role models to provide structured and supportive relationships and skills development to youth with demonstrated risk factors allowing them to reach their full potential and contribute to their communities."

The demonstrated risk factors that enable youth to participate in the mentoring program include school failure, prior delinquency, homelessness, family violence and other disadvantages to being successful in life. The program will offer these youth a pathway out of poverty and crime through support services and positive youth development approaches.

"Goodwill GoodGuides will expand career-focused youth mentoring in communities across the country," said Wendi Copeland, vice president of mission services for Goodwill Industries International. "Goodwill will recruit, train and support mentors to engage youth and their families in promoting their career development and life skills."

Van Gogh: Brush with Genius at the OMNIMAX®
ST. LOUIS (SLFP.com) - The Saint Louis Science Center takes audiences through the life of the eccentric, yet brilliantly talented Vincent Van Gogh in the new OMNIMAX® film Van Gogh: Brush with Genius. Surrounded by the wrap-around effects that can only be experienced at the OMNIMAX® Theater, theater-goers see the works and universe of this most beloved artist through his eyes, tracing an artistic expression rarely matched.

Van Gogh retraces the artist's journey from the time he painted his first canvases at the age of 27 to his death in 1890. Told from the perspectives of three main characters-Ellen Bukhuys, a museum researcher studying Van Gogh's letters and notebooks, Peter Knapp, a documentary filmmaker, and Vincent van Gogh himself-the film covers the surprisingly short 9-year period of the artist's career during which he painted more than 900 paintings.

"We often discuss the parallels between art and science at the Science Center," said Doug King, President and CEO of the Saint Louis Science Center. "Though the end results can be dramatically different, there are endless similarities in the artistic and scientific processes. Both require brilliant minds, unswervingly focused on a goal. This film gives us a glimpse into one of those brilliant minds."

Science Center representatives hope to explore those similarities through supplemental programming this fall in several venues, including at SciFest 09, the museum's annual science festival.

Van Gogh: Brush with Genius retraces the artist's footsteps and leads audiences on a breathtaking journey through the landscapes that inspired his most famous works. From the dazzling yellow of Van Gogh's cornfields to the deep blue of his famous night sky, the vibrant palette of one of the world's most innovative painters lights up the giant screen. The colors and textures seem to spring to life on the four-story OMNIMAX screen and immerse audiences in the branches of a cypress, the warmth of a southern sun, and the hush of a nighttime village.

"This is one of the most unique films we have ever shown at the OMNIMAX," said Brad Nuccio, Senior Vice President of the Science Center. "It is truly an immersive cultural experience. I think the personal look at an almost mythical artist and his work, in such an amazing forum, will appeal to and impress a wide variety of audiences."

Jacques Gamblin, winner of the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002, portrays a realistic and puzzling Van Gogh and brings the painter to life in a way that no one else could. Gamblin is joined by Hélène Seuzaret, playing Ellen, and Peter Knapp appearing as himself. All three characters take audiences through a mystifying journey through the real and painted landscapes and life of Vincent Van Gogh.

The OMNIMAX® Theater features a four-story screen in a wrap-around domed theater and a 15,000-watt sound system that will bring Van Gogh's famous paintings to life, wrapping audience members in ribbons of color and giving them a completely unique perspective of the artist's often-imitated brush strokes and style.

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