Events Calendar

HumanitiesDC Community Grants Info Session at Anacostia Arts Center In partnership with the Anacostia BID and Art to Go-Go, join HumanitiesDC to learn about how Ward 8 residents can engage with HumanitiesDC through our community grant opportunities, as well as available fellowships, grant reviewer opportunities, and more. Light refreshments will be available. Event Details Host: […]

Event Details: Join HumanitiesDC and guest curator Tracy Chiles McGhee for an exploration of James Baldwin's profound legacy in "James Baldwin at 100: Celebrating the Enduring Witness." This event marks the centennial of Baldwin's birth and explores what it means to 'bear witness' in today's world and how we, as artists, writers, and citizens, use […]

On Saturday, January 11th Mt. Pleasant resident and illustrator DeAndra Hodge along with author Allen R. Wells will be at Sankofa Books on Georgia Ave to launch their newest children's book "Yvonne Clark and Her Engineering Spark,"an inspiring biography about a curious, tinkering girl who grew up to become one of the first Black female […]

HumanitiesDC Community Grants Application Workshops HumanitiesDC offers 4 virtual workshops for applicants that offer an in-depth look at each grant program's funding scope, eligibility requirements, application questions, and review criteria. Attendees are highly encouraged to come having started an application and reviewed the grant requirements. These sessions will be recorded and later uploaded to our […]

HumanitiesDC Community Grants Info Session at Woodridge Neighborhood Library Join HumanitiesDC to learn about how Ward 5 residents can engage with HumanitiesDC through our community grant opportunities, as well as available fellowships, grant reviewer opportunities, and more. Light refreshments will be available. This event is family and child friendly. This event was made possible in […]

This course, led by Anna F. Kaplan, PhD., will introduce Washingtonians interested in becoming oral historians to the best practices of doing oral history, to empower them with the basic tools for developing their style and approach to preserving DC’s rich past through oral history interviews. This course is structured to follow the full cycle […]

HumanitiesDC Community Grants Info Session at MLK Library Join HumanitiesDC to learn about how DC residents can engage with HumanitiesDC through our community grant opportunities, as well as available fellowships, grant reviewer opportunities, and more. Light refreshments will be available. This event is family and child friendly. Event Details Host: HumanitiesDC  Dates: Monday, January 15, […]

This introductory workshop will help participants define oral history in relationship to the history of the practice and other forms of interviewing and storytelling. Participants will learn what motivates oral historians to do their work and what might motivate them to initiate projects of their own. Participants will also learn how to discover archival oral […]

Event Details: By the time Backyard Band released their hit single “‘91 We in a Dope Jam “, go-go had become a defining cultural force in DC—shaping streetwear, establishing legendary performance venues, and inspiring a loyal community. While the go-gos cranked, city officials struggled to battle a public health crisis that would record over 500 […]