Be sure to indicate the donation is for the Swayze/Niemi Scholarship. It has become a collector’s item with inquiries from all over the world about how one can obtain one of the posters.” The posters are available by phoning AHA at (303) 696-4500.ĭonations to the Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi Scholarship can be made by sending a check to the Arabian Horse Foundation, 10805 E. “The poster was sold and continues to be sold with profits going to youth programming for AHA. “Several years ago, Patrick Swayze had a beautiful poster produced picturing him with his champion Arabian stallion, Tammen,” Kinneer said. A generous amount of funding will assure the scholarship’s longevity and could lead to more than one youth being awarded the scholarship per year.”īoth Swayze and Niemi competed for many years in Arabian horse shows, often drawing spectators and fans to watch them perform. Kinneer added, “We are looking, not only at the Arabian horse community to lend financial support to this scholarship, but to the public who admired the work of both Patrick and Lisa over the years and want to honor them in a special way. Donations are needed to assure the scholarship will be there for deserving students in the future.” “Now, we have established a very special scholarship for people to direct their contribution to. “Having options for people to decide how they want their donations used is a great benefit and incentive for the donor,” Kinneer explained. In the past two years, the foundation has given over $60,000 in grants in these particular areas. The Arabian Horse Foundation has several categories to which donations can be directed: Youth Scholarships, Horse Rescue and Rehoming, and Equine Research. “Establishment of the scholarship creates a lasting testimony to their careers in dancing, theater and movies, love of the Arabian breed and contributions over the years to AHA youth programs.”Ī highlight and emotion-filled moment at the convention was the showing of a video that captured special times in the life of the late film star and performer who died in September after a lengthy battle with cancer. “The establishment of the Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi Scholarship was a natural fit for the foundation and the association,” explained AHF President Larry Kinneer, who made the announcement before approximately 400 delegates and alternates.
The scholarship was launched with an initial pledge by Iron Horse Farms and Trisha Phelan of Canton, GA. Scholarship applications are available online. The scholarship will be awarded annually in the spring to a youth who is involved with Arabian horses and aspires to a career in the performing arts. The Foundation is the charitable arm of the Arabian Horse Association (AHA), also based in Denver.Īnnouncement of the scholarship was made at the association’s annual convention in Reno, NV, November 19-21. Swayze and Niemi have had close ties to the Arabian horse breed and owned Arabian horses for many years. She restarted acting and appeared in numerous Broadway productions before moving to Los Angeles with Patrick Swayze where she experimented with scriptwriting, moviemaking and authoring skills.A scholarship in honor of Patrick Swayze and his wife, Lisa Niemi, has been established by the Arabian Horse Foundation (AHF), which is based in Denver, CO. Armed with a degree in ‘Performing Arts’, she relocated to New York from Houston, and started training as a danseuse, performing as a ballet dancer, under the aegis of Harkness & Joffrey Ballet. She moved onto the Houston Music Theater to hone her acting skills, appearing in multiple children musicals for four years in a row.
LISA NIEMI TV
She bagged a part in the standalone TV episode, ‘Two Boys’ produced by Paramount Pictures as a 10-year old which incidentally was her debut small screen appearance.
She developed an affinity for acting from an early age, and at the age of 10, she enrolled in the Alley Theater in Houston to begin training. She shared screen space with her late husband in a string of movies including ‘Steel Dawn’, ‘One Last Dance’, ‘Beat Angel’, ‘Letters from a Killer’, and ‘Next of Kin’. Lisa has carved out a successful career as an actress, filmmaker, and director, thanks to her nearly four decades of association with the tinsel town. Her best claim to fame is being the widow of the late Hollywood actor, Patrick Swayze, with whom she was married to for more than three decades. Lisa Anne Happaniemi Swayze DePriso, popularly known as Lisa Niemi, is an eminent American actress, dancer, film director and producer.
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