Noi Chudnoff
The mind and soul behind go mama go!, president of the board of directors of Ganymede Arts and a most generous philanthropist.
Photograph by Todd Franson / Metro Weekly
Information on Noi
Ganymede Arts' staff and board of directors are
mourning the loss of longtime benefactor and board
chairwoman Noi Chudnoff. The owner of the 14th Street
mainstay Go Mama Go! died unexpectedly Tuesday
morning.
Chudnoff experienced a head trauma Monday morning while
preparing for colon
cancer surgery. She sustained a brain hemorrhage after
falling and hitting her
head and was kept on life support until her son could
arrive from New Mexico.
"We are Ganymede Arts because of her. She was the
first person to really believe
in the company and she gave her whole heart to make it
happen," Ganymede's
Artistic Director Jeffrey Johnson said. "She was just
as dedicated to us as she was
to her store, and her generosity in time, energy,
passion, joy and knowledge that she brought
to us here at Ganymede Arts has laid the cornerstone of how we will move forward and 'seize the day.'"
(read the official Ganymede Arts press release on Noi here)
Community Memorial
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
A Community Memorial was held at Source Theatre (1835 14th Street NW, same block as go mama go!) at 2PM on Saturday, November 10th. It was a time for community, friends and famliy to gather and talk about, speak publicly, sing, cry and remember Noi as the community leader that she was. There were performances by the Gay Men's Chours, Rachel Anne Warrn & Lauren Aycock-Parmentier and a reading by Kate Eastwood Norris. Councilman Jim Graham kicked off the event by reading a resolution naming Saturday, November 10th, 2007 as Noi Chudnoff Day in the District of Columbia. The event was hosted by Link, owner of of Home Rule, Sak co-owner of both Rice & Simply Home Restaurants and Jeffrey Johnson, Artistic Director of Ganymede Arts.
Here is a link to the FOX5 mention on the news (video link also on the FOX5 page next to the article). Click here
Pictures from the event will be posted as they become available. (If you have pictures please feel free to share!)
Donations
The family requests that there be no flowers. If you wish to make a donation, they ask it be made to Ganymede Arts, however we would also like to make available the list with their websites of some of the other non-profits she supported as well. They are listed below the following Ganymede Arts information:
To make a donation to Ganymede Arts at this time please use a special online donation page that has been set up here. If you prefer to donate by check please contact Jeffrey Johnson at jjohnson@ganymedearts.org
Other non-profits for donations:
Lesbian Services Program of Whitman-Walker Clinic (LSP)
Whitman-Walker Clinic
Gay Men's Chorus
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
N Street Villiage
Remembrance Page
To share your thoughts about Noi please go here.
Press Coverage
Watch the NBC4 News report on Noi here.
Watch the ABC7 New report on Noi here.
Read the Washington Post article on Noi here.
Mention on the Washington Blade Online - here.
Watch the FOX5 New Report on Noi's Community Celebration here.
Read the MetroWeekly article - here.
See pictures from the Memorial in MetroWeekly - here.
Special thanks to CuDC for donating the Source Theatre space so the memorial could take place somewhere that would have been home to Noi.
