Events Calendar

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.

Stories in Motion

Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, Washington, United States

Event 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 […]

Free

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 […]

Free

We De Ya IV: The Caribbean American Takeover

The President Woodrow Wilson Building 2340 S St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join us for an evening of talks, visual art and performance art honoring and celebrating the spirit of Caribbean Americans contribution to the cultural and civic tapestry of Washington D.C. […]

Free

Film Screening and Discussion: Kindred Spirits

Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, Washington, United States

Join filmmaker Cintia Cabib for a screening and discussion of her documentary, "Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell." The film explores the lives and work of […]

Free

Ladies In The Day, The Musical

Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC, United States

Experience a captivating soul and jazz musical production with Ladies In The Day. This fantastic stage performance will take you back to some of the greatest singers and entertainers, including […]

$63

DC Museum of Sidewalk Stuff: Mutual Aid Stories

Gallery Y 1325 W St. NW, Washington, DC, United States

The DC Museum of Sidewalk Stuff is about the stories behind the free stuff we leave for each other on the street. Learn from local organizers who took to the […]

Free

The Theatre Lab: Titanic: The Musical

Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC, United States

Event Details: Titanic: The Musical Directed by Deb Gottesman and Lucia LaNave Choreographer Sarah Frances Williams Story and Book by Peter Stone Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston Winner of […]

$10 – $15

City Cast DC and DC Office of Planning Live Podcast Taping

Metrobar 640 Rhode Island Ave, Washington, DC, United States

Event Details: Join us for a live taping of the City Cast DC podcast at metrobar on July 13th! Host Bridget Todd will be joined by DC Office of Planning […]

Free

Oral History Interviewing Workshop

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Event Details:   This core workshop in the DC Oral History Collaborative workshop series will provide participants strategies to make the interview experience rewarding for the interviewer and the narrator. […]

Free

Culture Series: Fighting For Home

Busboys and Poets 450 K St NW 450 K St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Event Details: The 1970s was a period of intense gentrification in DC — but the decade was also marked by the most effective and creative tenant organizing in DC’s history […]

Free

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