Wonderful post by Patricia Arquette on the White House Blog about the Champions of Change initiative.

I had the wonderful opportunity to go the White House and meet many of the Champions of Change, who are making great strides in incorporating strong arts curriculums into their schools. I was inspired by the principals I met with, and heard about how they were turning their low-performing schools around by incorporating the arts into the core subjects.

Champions of Change: Patricia Arquette

I’m so happy to announce CARGO’s affiliation with GiveLove! Give Love is a charity founded by Patricia Arquette and Rosetta Millington-Getty to develop temporary housing solutions and improved sanitation systems for the people of Haiti.

I had a great conversation with Patricia and was so moved by the work she has been doing that I immediately wanted to help. She spoke so passionately about the need, the work, the improvements being made, and most of all about dignity; about bringing dignity and hope to people who have encountered such misfortune. I often think that each tragedy is a call to each of us to step up. To do something.

Thank-you Patricia Arquette for so graciously answering the call. And thank-you for calling on CARGO to join you. We are honored. In turn, I am calling on each of you to join in. Donate to GiveLove (www.givelove.org). Click on the website and see for yourself how your dollars will be transformed into hope and into action.

Over the next few months, CARGO will be offering products for sale with proceeds going to GiveLove. We will announce these launches on our site and on our Facebook page. Again, we will invite you to join us in giving, in improving, and in celebrating the results when we work together to make a difference.

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Patricia Arquette was in Washington this week to represent The Creative Coalition at the White House’s Champions of Change initiative.

For her role as Allison Dubois on the critically acclaimed series “Medium,” Arquette has received numerous accolades, including the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and many subsequent Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations. The granddaughter of comedian Cliff Arquette (best known for his television personality Charlie Weaver), Arquette comes from a family ensconced in the entertainment industry. Her father was actor Lewis Arquette and her siblings — Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David — are all actors.

Arquette recently wrapped shooting Patricia Riggen’s “See If I Care” opposite Eva Mendes. Her feature film credits include Richard Linklater’s “12 Year Movie aka Boyhood,” “Holes,” “The Badge” and “Little Nicky.” Arquette has worked with a stellar list of directors in such critically acclaimed films as: Martin Scorsese’s “Bringing Out the Dead,” Rupert Wainwright’s “Stigmata,” Sean Penn’s “The Indian Runner,” John Madden’s “Ethan Frome,” Tony Scott’s “True Romance,” Tim Burton’s “Ed Wood,” David O. Russell’s “Flirting With Disaster,” John Boorman’s “Beyond Rangoon,” “Lost Highway” (in a dual role for David Lynch), Steven Frears’s “Hi Lo Country” and Roland Jaffe’s “Goodbye Lover.” Among Arquette’s TV movie credits is “Wildflower,” directed by Diane Keaton, for which Arquette earned a CableAce Award as Best Lead Actress.

Last spring, after visiting Haiti and seeing firsthand the destruction caused by the devastating earthquake that hit the island, Arquette started up the charity GiveLove (www.givelove.org) to help provide victims with sustainable housing and assist in rebuilding communities in the aftermath of the disaster.

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Last year, when actress Patricia Arquette cofounded the nonprofit GiveLove with Rosetta Getty (wife of actor Balthazar), the two women had a plan: To help rebuild post-earthquake Haiti, they would try to improve sanitation systems and use abandoned shipping containers to create homeless shelters. But as the rainy season approached, they distributed tents and mosquito nets as well. “Need is everywhere,” says Arquette, noting that GiveLove also built an orphanage that shelters 170 children and 30 at-risk teenage girls. “People say, ‘Just choose one thing and do it.’ But why? If there are kids sleeping on the ground, you say, ‘Let’s get them in bunk beds.’ Different groups need different things.”

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Patricia Arquette, Maria Bello, and others among latest celebrities to take the “Hollywood Pledge”.

Patricia Arquette, Maria Bello, Kristin Chenoweth, Lisa Ling and Sean Penn have joined the growing list of celebrities taking the “Hollywood Pledge”, a philanthropy campaign led by the Give Back Hollywood Foundation and inspired by Bill Gates & Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge. The “Hollywood Pledge” and its companion website unites celebrity philanthropists and serves as a convenient way for them to promote the charities and causes they are most passionate about.

Celebrities take Hollywood Pledge

Patricia has recently completed filming the drama/comedy See If I Care with Eva Mendes and Matthew Modine. No release date yet.

Patricia has also signed to star in the psychological thriller, Glutton , directed by her brother, David Arquette. The film also stars Abraham Benrubi and Kacey Barnfield. It will be shot in 3D and filming begins in July.

www.movieweb.com/news/glutton-adds-patricia-arquette

www.dreadcentral.com/news/44832/cast-expands-david-arquettes-glutton

Nice interview with Patricia Arquette about Give Love and her charity work in Haiti, filmed at SXSWi in Austin, TX.

www.nosexandthesuburbs.com/2011/03/givelove-video-interview-w-patricia-arquette-at-sxsw/

According to the GiveLove Twitter and Facebook pages, GiveLove.org will team with partners Water.org and CoTweet for a global viral sanitation campaign at SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX.

You can read more about it on their new Twitter and Facebook pages here.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/GiveLoveorg/160016190714950

http://twitter.com/#!/GiveLoveOrg

The day that we Medium fans have dreaded arrived last Friday and the episode gave us some kind of closure. I know that there are people who hated it (my neighbors for sure, I was howling like a wolf during full moon), and others found it to be the perfect ending. What ever category you feel you belong, the ending of the show is what upsets us all. Thankfully we have the DVD’s to fall back on when times get rough and we feel the withdrawal symptoms creeping on.

We at Patricia-Arquette.com would like to thank the cast and crew of the wonderful years that the show has brought us and  we wish you the best with your future projects. What ever the future brigs to Patricia Arquette we will keep you informed.