Events Calendar

Sari Leigh will present the Mind, Body and Justice Oral History project at the Social Justice Curriculum Fair. The workshop will help educators to design a lesson plan for health activism using oral history archives in the DC DIG Library. In this 50-minute interactive session, participants will engage with excerpts from the Mind, Body, and […]

Prominent DC-based poet and author Tony Keith Jr. will be reading and in conversation with local LGBT+ youth authors Hakim Rose, Oliver Lin, and Lauryn Ciardullo, whose work has been published in Shout Mouse Press? first LGBTQ+ anthology, The Light Looks Like Me. Shout Mouse Press is a DC-based nonprofit organization that coaches young people […]

Celebrate the launch of Lilac Peril's Issue 01, a collection of 30+ trans contributors writing on the topic TABOO. When the fact of our existence is taboo, what do trans people still not want to talk about, even amongst ourselves? Issue 01: TABOO gestures towards this question, taking a hard look at what we would […]

Calling all local oral historians: HumanitiesDC and the DC History Center are offering their next oral history meetup in Washington, DC! Join us at the DC History Center on Monday, September 8 at 6 pm to be in community with other oral historians. During the meetup we’ll share ideas, talk through challenges and obstacles, and […]

You are invited to attend the launch of Salon Redux: In the Spirit of Georgia Douglas Johnson, a citywide public humanities project honoring DC's literary and cultural history on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 6PM at the Howard University Writing Center. Inspired by Johnson?s iconic S Street Salon, where she hosted Zora Neale Hurston, Langston […]

Learn more here: https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-the-erasure-of-black-history-featuring-pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-marcia-chatelain-and-new-york-time-white-house-correspondent-erica-l-green/ Registration link

Sterling A. Brown's preeminence as a poet, author, literary critic and folklorist is unchallenged. He was also Washington, DC’s first poet laureate, a famed educator for 40 years at Howard University-- teaching some of the country's most popular writers-- and the controversial Editor for Negro Affairs of the Federal Writers Project, which was part of […]

The annual Photography Gallery is back. Juried by Philip Kennicott. Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic of The Washington Post. He has been on staff at The Post since 1999, first as classical music critic, then as culture critic. In 2011, he combined art and architecture into a beat focused on visual […]

Connect with your DMV community at this special screening taking place at The Festival Center in Adams Morgan. Enjoy delicious, locally-made Ghanaian, Mexican, and Iraqi Kurdish food (included with ticket), get a henna design from local artist, Amad Mahbub, and connect with organizations working right now in DC to support, protect, and champion our migrant […]

To what extent did 9-man volleyball help Chinese immigrants preserve their culture?  HumanitiesDC & Ted Gong Present Culture Series: 9-Man, a conversation with key members of the Chinese American community reflecting on the street sport that continues to unite generations. For more than 90 years, 9-man volleyball has drawn teams from Chinatowns across the United […]