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.
Lauri Willialmson Book Signing
O Museum in the Mansion 2020 O Street, NW, Washington, DCABOUT LAURI WILLIAMSON: Lauri is the Chief Experience Officer at DC Tours and Events. She wears many hats - author, tour guide, event planner, gifting company owner, & storyteller & […]
$40.45Film Screening and Panel Discussion: “It’s All About Palestine”
Alliance for Peacebuilding 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW # 401, Washington, DC, United States"It Is All About Palestine" documents the courage of student activists confronting repression and the moral clarity of a generation refusing silence. Please join the Museum of the Palestinian People […]
Echoes of Activism: Using Oral History Interviews to Craft a Lesson Plan
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS 200 Douglas Street NE, Washington, DCSari 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 […]
$15The Light Looks Like Us: An Intergenerational Conversation
1827 Wiltberger Street Northwest Washington, DC 20001 1827 Wiltberger Street Northwest, Washington, DCProminent 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 […]
Lilac Peril Book Launch
Lost City Books 2467 18th St NW, Washington, DCCelebrate 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 […]
DC Oral History Collaborative Community Meetup
DC History Center 801 K St NW, Washington, United StatesCalling 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, […]
KICKOFF EVENT! Salon Redux: In the Spirit of Georgia Douglass Johnson
The Writer's Center at Howard University 2441 6th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesYou 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, […]
At Issue: The Erasure of Black History Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain and New York Times White House Correspondent Erica L. Green
Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE, WashingtonLearn 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
The Poetry & Folklore of Sterling A. Brown
Trinity Washington University Main Hall 125 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC, United StatesSterling 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 […]
Photography 2025 Opening Reception
Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE, WashingtonThe 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 […]
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