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Home Rule Music Festival at Alethia Tanner Park
Alethia Tanner Park 227 Harry Thomas Way NE, Washington, DC, United StatesThe Home Rule Music & Film Preservation Foundation presents the 2026 Home Rule Music Festival on Saturday, October 3, from 12-9 PM at Alethia Tanner Park in Washington, DC. Celebrating […]
Free – $108.55Forging a More Perfect Union: American Jews and Democracy with Professor Lauren Strauss
Capital Jewish Museum 575 3rd Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesJourney through the history of American Jewish political activism in the 20th and 21st centuries. In this 250th year since American independence, Professor Lauren Strauss goes beyond theoretical discussions about […]
$5 – $10DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
Founded in 2011, the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival champions the work of Palestinian artists and filmmakers in Palestine and in diaspora, showcasing the range and complexity of Palestinian […]
Supreme Court Justice Arthur and Dorothy Goldberg’s Legendary Passover Seders
Capital Jewish Museum 575 3rd Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesIn 1960s Washington, the Goldbergs hosted annual seders famous for weaving the Haggadah together with the songs and history of the labor movement. As Arthur Goldberg's career carried him from […]
$5 – $10The Promise and Perils of Public Art: Ben Shahn’s Murals on Social Security
Capital Jewish Museum 575 3rd Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesJoin Professor Laura Katzman as she discusses the public art of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), focusing on his most prominent New Deal fresco murals, The Meaning of Social Security, which were […]
$5 – $10
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