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Stephen and Ayesha Curry and Unanimous Media have a new film to focus on: a childhood literacy documentary titled Sentenced from co-directors Connor Martin and Mark Allen Johnson. Stephen Curry will narrate the film as well as produce while his wife, Ayesha Curry, who serves as CEO of Sweet July, will produce alongside Jeff Martin from It Matters and Children’s Literacy Project. Additional producers include Unanimous Media’s Erick Peyton, the film’s co-directors and Chris Helfrich, CEO of the Curry’s foundation Eat. Learn. Play. Brian Tetsuro Ivie and Kalyna Kutny will executive produce from Unanimous Media, with Tony Kriz and Jim Gulian serving as writers.
Sentenced is described as an “immersive and vulnerable exploration of the epidemic of childhood illiteracy through a series of braided character driven stories.” Those stories will be offered from diverse adults and children who have never learned to read.
NBA all-time 3-point leader and Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and WNBA single-season 3-point record holder and New York Liberty guard Sabrina Ionescu will compete in “Stephen vs. Sabrina,” the first-ever NBA vs. WNBA 3-Point Challenge, which will take place on Saturday, Feb. 17 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during State Farm® All-Star Saturday Night.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. will serve as the Official Benefiting Charity of the annual event. Through event partnerships, participant peer-to-peer fundraising, as well as staff & running community participation in Eat. Learn. Play. programs such as schoolyard remodels, the two organizations will work together to expand upon interrelated strategic objectives supporting Oakland students. Eat. Learn. Play. hosting Kids Fun Run on Saturday, March 16 as part of the Oakland Marathon weekend.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation and Kaiser Permanente are expanding a partnership committed to creating safe places for Oakland children to play and increasing access to nutritious foods at Oakland schools—fueling healthy habits that will last into adulthood.
Eat. Learn. Play. and the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) are working together to transform the childhood experience for Oakland kids. As part of this work, Eat. Learn. Play. is developing a strong partnership with OUSD’s Central Kitchen, Education Center, and Instructional Garden & Farm (The Center) to help ensure all Oakland students have access to quality school meals throughout the year.
The Advancing Literacy Efforts in Oakland Report, created in partnership with DRK Foundation offers guidance and perspective from the field in supporting literacy efforts in Oakland.
Springboard Collaborative offers the opportunity for Oakland students to receive targeted programming that engages them and their families in tutoring and coaching to help to address summer learning loss.
When Eat. Learn. Play. launched in July 2019, we saw the immense need that existed in Oakland and set out to unlock the full potential of the kids in our community.
Eat. Learn. Play, along with Co-Founders Stephen and Ayesha Curry, hosted a surprise holiday celebration for the 11th Annual Christmas with the Currys—for this year’s capstone event Eat. Learn. Play. brought the joy of reading to every elementary school student (17,000) in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)—delivering beautiful gift boxes from Literati full of books to students at all 49 OUSD elementary schools. Each of the 17,000 holiday gift boxes included five books (85,000 books total) for each student.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation and Kaiser Permanente are expanding a partnership committed to creating safe places for Oakland children to play and increasing access to nutritious foods at Oakland schools—fueling healthy habits that will last into adulthood.
The Oakland Marathon announced today that Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s Eat. Learn. Play. will serve as the Official Benefiting Charity of the annual event.