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SUMMARY:The Power of Knowing: John Lewis\, Poetry & Hip-Hop Mosaic Theater's Young John Lewis Reflection Series
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 11 | 3:30-4:30 PM | Ward 5 | Woodridge Neighborhood Library \nThe Power of Knowing is an interactive workshop that brings together the legacy of civil rights leader John Lewis and the expressive energy of hip-hop and spoken word. Led by poet\, spoken-word artist\, and hip-hop educational leader Tony Keith Jr. in partnership with DC Public Library. \n  \nLearn more.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/the-power-of-knowing-john-lewis-poetry-hip-hop-mosaic-theaters-young-john-lewis-reflection-series-2/
LOCATION:Woodridge Neighborhood Library\, 1801 Hamlin Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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SUMMARY:Carry On: Oratory Competition - Mosaic Theater's Young John Lewis Reflection Series
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 12\, | 6:30 PM | Prince George’s County | Joe’s Movement Emporium \nThe Carry On: Oratory Competition honors the speeches of the Honorable John Lewis as students will use their voices to bring truth to power in a contemporary setting. As an oratorical competition\, students will gain confidence in public speaking\, learn more deeply about nonviolent civil rights actions\, and honor the legacy of John Lewis. Produced in partnership with Joe’s Movement Emporium. \n  \nLearn more.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/carry-on-oratory-competition-mosaic-theaters-young-john-lewis-reflection-series/
LOCATION:Joe’s Movement Emporium\, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd.\, Mt. Rainier\, MD\, 20712
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mosaic Theater":MAILTO:jacob@mosaictheater.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T193000
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SUMMARY:She Comes First
DESCRIPTION:This live storytelling show isn’t polite. It’s personal. \nShe Comes First is Story District’s annual night of true stories told by women – bold\, funny\, complicated\, honest\, and sometimes all at once. You’ll hear voices across generations and backgrounds. It’s not just a show. It’s a space where real experiences get the mic and connection happens in every story. \n  \nRegister
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/she-comes-first/
LOCATION:Penn Social\, 801 E Street Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20004
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Story District":MAILTO:amysaidman@storydistrict.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Workshop: Queer Homage
DESCRIPTION:2026 PRIDE POETRY WORKSHOPS AT THE ARTS CLUB\n\nThe Arts Club of Washington announces a slate of free community writing workshops for 2026\, led by five Pride Poets-in-Residence. Workshops are designed to be generative\, so participants will leave each session with a new poem-in-progress\, and are open to writers of all levels of experience and backgrounds. \n  \nPride Poetry Workshop: Queer Homage\nIn this workshop\, we will create poems in conversation with\, or in the style of\, or in response to another poem\, or piece of art\, or song. “After poems” are a powerful form of connection across mediums and artists—they can generate dialogue\, honor\, subvert\, or reclaim. Led by Marlena Chertock\, \nMarlena Chertock is a disabled\, lesbian\, Jewish poet with two books of poems\, who uses her skeletal dysplasia as a bridge to scientific poetry. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/pride-poetry-workshop-queer-homage/
LOCATION:Arts Club of Washington\, 2017 I St. NW\, Washington DC\, MD\, 20006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T170000
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SUMMARY:Behind The Headlines
DESCRIPTION:Black journalists have always been on the frontlines\, telling the stories that shape our communities and holding power accountable. In this special live performance\, DC?s Black journalists step out from behind the byline and onto the stage to share the “stories behind the stories”. Through true\, personal storytelling\, they will reveal the moments that changed them\, the challenges of navigating modern newsrooms\, and what it takes to keep telling the truth in an industry that doesn’t always make space for their perspectives. Join us for an evening of powerful narratives about chasing stories that matter and holding onto your voice. \nRegister here
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/behind-the-headlines/
LOCATION:Penn Social\, 801 E Street Northwest\, Washington\, DC\, 20004
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Story District":MAILTO:amysaidman@storydistrict.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260402T073000
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SUMMARY:65 Years of Good Trouble: SNCC in DC - Mosaic Theater's Young John Lewis Reflection Series
DESCRIPTION:April 2\, 2026 | Ward 6 | Atlas Performing Arts Center 2025 marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of SNCC\, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee\, by leaders including Congressman Lewis. Mosaic invites SNCC members into conversation around SNCC’s work\, legacy and more. Programmed in Partnership with the John Lewis Institute of Peace. \n  \nLearn more.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/intergenerational-matinees-mosaic-theaters-young-john-lewis-a-prodigy-of-protest/
LOCATION:Atlas Performing Arts Center\, 1333 H Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mosaic Theater":MAILTO:jacob@mosaictheater.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T180000
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SUMMARY:Fashion Intel: Mission No. 4 - Who Is Ralph Lauren?
DESCRIPTION:A book talk with author Alan Flusser about the iconic American Designer Ralph Lauren. \nMISSION PURPOSE\nThis Fashion Intel mission connects history to action\, moving from analysis to creation\, demonstrating how fashion operates as advocacy in real time. This mission supports High Tea Society | AskYourAuntea programs\, advancing leadership and creative confidence for girls in Washington\, DC. \nDress with intention. Think critically. Create boldly. \nThe Nation’s Capitol dresses with purpose. \n\n\n\n\nRegister here\n  \n\nMission Objective\nTo equip attendees with deeper cultural\, historical\, and aesthetic intelligence on Ralph Lauren’s enduring impact—and to reaffirm fashion as a tool of identity\, persuasion\, and power. \n  \nFASHION INTEL MISSION BRIEFING\n\nTransmission Start.\nThe Fashion Intel Service activates Mission No. 4: WHO IS RALPH LAUREN?\nAn onsite intelligence briefing transmitted from Washington\, DC\, the global command center for fashion advocacy and cultural style analysis. \nMission Schedule\n7:00–8:30 p.m. ET | Primary Briefing — Book Talk & Discussion\nAuthor Alan Flusser\, one of the foremost authorities on American menswear\, presents Ralph Lauren: In His Own Fashion. This briefing will decode the innovative\, timeless\, and sophisticated strategies through which Ralph Lauren reshaped the global fashion landscape\, from aspirational Americana to the architecture of lifestyle branding.The discussion will be moderated by fashion attorney Mariessa Terrell (Codename: M)\, who will frame the conversation as a public intelligence briefing for operatives who understand that style functions as strategy. \nField Demonstration — Covert Style Presentation\nOperatives will observe a live fashion presentation staged as an undercover style operation. Each look will be decoded as a visual dossier—evidence of how silhouettes\, color\, and detail can signal allegiance\, aspiration\, and authority. Every ensemble functions as a classified case study in how Ralph Lauren’s legacy continues to shape contemporary dress codes for power\, presence\, and persuasion.All wardrobe for this field demonstration will be provided through a special collaboration with Macy’s Tysons Corner\, whose partnership ensures operatives receive authentic\, mission‑grade Ralph Lauren intelligence in motion. \nAuthorized Acquisition Notice: Flusser’s dossier\, In His Own Fashion\, will be available for operative purchase through our official bookstore partner\, Politics and Prose. All copies are mission‑certified for continued study and field application. \n\n\n\nTransmission End.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/fashion-intel-mission-no-4-who-is-ralph-lauren/
LOCATION:Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library\, 901 G St. NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20001
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Fashion Intel":MAILTO:M@fashionintel.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T163000
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SUMMARY:Millennium Arts Salon Talkback - Mosaic Theater's Young John Lewis Reflection Series
DESCRIPTION:April 12\, 2026 | Ward 6 | Atlas Performing Arts Center Millennium Arts Salon holds a talkback conversation bridging arts and activism after a matinee performance of Young John Lewis. \n  \nLearn more.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/millennium-arts-salon-talkback-mosaic-theaters-young-john-lewis-reflection-series/
LOCATION:Atlas Performing Arts Center\, 1333 H Street NE\, Washington\, DC\, 20002\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T200000
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Workshop: Wronged Women - Hell Hath No Fury
DESCRIPTION:2026 PRIDE POETRY WORKSHOPS AT THE ARTS CLUB\n\nThe Arts Club of Washington announces a slate of free community writing workshops for 2026\, led by five Pride Poets-in-Residence. Workshops are designed to be generative\, so participants will leave each session with a new poem-in-progress\, and are open to writers of all levels of experience and backgrounds. \n  \nPride Poetry Workshop: Wronged Women – Hell Hath No Fury\nIn Postcolonial Love Poem\, Natalie Diaz said “Trust your anger. It is a demand for love.” For women who are socialized to be forever accommodating\, how can anger be a liberatory force? In this poetry workshop\, participants will be invited to engage with female figures such as Eve\, Lot’s Wife\, Selena Quintanilla\, Yolanda Saldívar\, and Harley Quinn\, giving these infamous women the dignity of context. Led by Xochi Quetzali Cartland. \nXochi Quetzali Cartland is a queer Chicana poet and seamstress who was the 2025 Latinx in Publishing poetry mentee\, and has been supported with fellowships from National Arts Strategies and Brooklyn Poets. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/pride-poetry-workshop-wronged-women-hell-hath-no-fury/
LOCATION:Arts Club of Washington\, 2017 I St. NW\, Washington DC\, MD\, 20006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T200000
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SUMMARY:Pride Poetry Workshop: Resistance - LGBTQ Poetry as an Act of Defiance
DESCRIPTION:2026 PRIDE POETRY WORKSHOPS AT THE ARTS CLUB\n\nThe Arts Club of Washington announces a slate of free community writing workshops for 2026\, led by five Pride Poets-in-Residence. Workshops are designed to be generative\, so participants will leave each session with a new poem-in-progress\, and are open to writers of all levels of experience and backgrounds. \n  \nPride Poetry Workshop: Resistance – LGBTQ Poetry as an Act of Defiance\nIn this workshop\, participants will consider the forms that resistance to the heteronormative status quo—and the limits of their own thinking—can take. We will look at poems that not only assert a queer life\, but also challenge those who view that life as “less than.” Led by Gregory Adams. \nGregory Adams is a founding member of Station-to-Station\, a groundbreaking collective of Black LGBTQ performance poets and writers of the 1980s\, and part of the creative team who produced the documentary Fierceness Served!: The ENIK Alley Coffeehouse (2021). \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/pride-poetry-workshop-resistance-lgbtq-poetry-as-an-act-of-defiance/
LOCATION:Arts Club of Washington\, 2017 I St. NW\, Washington DC\, MD\, 20006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260616T183000
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SUMMARY:Pride Month Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:2026 PRIDE POETRY WORKSHOPS AT THE ARTS CLUB\n\nThe Arts Club of Washington announces a slate of free community writing workshops for 2026\, led by five Pride Poets-in-Residence. Workshops are designed to be generative\, so participants will leave each session with a new poem-in-progress\, and are open to writers of all levels of experience and backgrounds. This is the final of six sessions. \n  \nPride Month Poetry Reading\nReading by Gregory Adams\, Xochi Quetzali Cartland\, Marlena Chertock\, Angelique Palmer\, and Nico Penaranda\, the five LGBTQ+ poets awarded 2026 Pride Poetry Fellowships from the Arts Club of Washington. Followed by a reception and book signing. \nRegister here.
URL:https://humanitiesdc.org/event/pride-month-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Arts Club of Washington\, 2017 I St. NW\, Washington DC\, MD\, 20006\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grantee Event
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