Explore our city’s upcoming humanities events from performances and lectures to celebrations and multi-media experiences. These public events are created and hosted by either HumanitiesDC, our grantees or local partners. To submit an event for consideration, please complete this form.
Art of Resilience: Celebrating DC’s Black Arts Community
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesEvent Details: Join us for this exciting opportunity to hear the stories of some of DC's most iconic Black visual artists. The speakers will talk about their lives and their […]
Free Concert: Musical Journey Around the Globe
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre 603 Edmonston Drive, Rockville, MD, United StatesEvent Details: Summer is just around the corner! Join Washington Metro Oasis to kick off the new term with a bang! Join Seth Kibel and Friends for a whirlwind tour […]
Culture Series: Narratives of Black Resilience
Busboys and Poets, Brookland 625 Monroe Street NE, Washington, DC, United StatesEvent Details: Join HumanitiesDC and guest curator Jermaine Jones to explore how Black literature produced from the 20th century up to today offers quasi essential history of a resilient […]
Keep the Mic Close – Audio Techniques for Oral History
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesEvent Details: This core workshop in the DC Oral History Collaborative Training Series will take an in-depth look at some of the techniques that oral historians use to get high-quality […]
Culture Series: The Other Significant Others
Busboys and Poets 450 K St NW 450 K St NW, Washington, DC, United StatesEvent Details: Our need for stronger social ties could hardly be clearer at a time when so many Americans are feeling the effects of the loneliness epidemic and a decline […]
ALL STORIES MATTER: Building Community Through The Arts
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop 545 7th St. SE, Washington, DC, United StatesThrough interviews with prominent thought leaders in the arts, and footage of creative pursuits inartistic expression, teaching and community- based arts programming across the Washington DC Metropolitan region, common threads […]
Planning Oral History Projects
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesEvent Details: Running an oral history project is a lot of work! But the skills and best practices in this third core workshop in the DC Oral History Collaborative’s Training […]
Children’s Book and Learning Festival
Wilson Plaza at The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, United StatesCapital Book Fest hosts its annual Children's Book and Learning Festival presented by the nonprofit organization Turning the Page. The family-friendly festival will offer a full day of engaging and […]
Stories in Motion
Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, Washington, United StatesEvent Details: The DC Oral History Collaborative will be at this year’s Anacostia Community Museum Juneteenth Festival to help festival goers learn about oral history and record informal interviews with […]
Arts & Humanities Community Meeting
Artists, teachers, leaders, humanities, museum, and gallery professionals all in one room? Not just looking toward the future, but creating it? That's our annual community meeting; where DC arts and […]
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