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.

DC Oral History Collaborative: Oral History 101+

Southwest Neighborhood Library 900 Wesley Place, SW, Washington, United States

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 […]

Free

Grants General Information Session (Virtual)

HumanitiesDC Lydia on H, 1427 H St NE, Washington, DC 20002, Washington, DC, MD, United States

This session will provide an overview of all open grant opportunities to help you decide which is right for you. Bring all questions and concerns and a HumanitiesDC staff member will help prepare all participants to submit a successful application. Event Details Host: HumanitiesDC Date: January 24, 2023 @ 12:00 pm Event fee: Free For More […]

Free

Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap

In this presentation, Dr. Tanya Golash-Boza will explain how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. She will describe the cycles of state abandonment and punishment that have shaped the city, revealing how policies and policing work to […]

Free

Grants General Information Session (Virtual)

HumanitiesDC Lydia on H, 1427 H St NE, Washington, DC 20002, Washington, DC, MD, United States

This session will provide an overview of all open grant opportunities to help you decide which is right for you. Bring all questions and concerns and a HumanitiesDC staff member will help prepare all participants to submit a successful application. Event Details Host: HumanitiesDC Date: January 25, 2023 @ 6:00 pm Event fee: Free For More […]

Free

The Sacred Imagined: Portraits of Afrodescendant Spirituality on Screen

Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library 5401 South Dakota Ave NE, Washington, DC, United States

This interactive screening and panel discussion featuring short works and film selects from Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, and the US will explore the imaginative representation of Afro-descendant spiritual practices and the personal pathways of filmmakers—across cultural geographies. The imagination of rituals—such as divination, spirit possession, and ecstatic dance—on screen invites inquiry into the role of Afro-descendant […]

Free

Grants General Information Session (In-Person)

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library 3935 Benning Rd NE, Washington, DC, United States

This session will provide an overview of all open grant opportunities to help you decide which is right for you. Bring all questions and concerns and a HumanitiesDC staff member will help prepare all participants to submit a successful application. Event Details Host: HumanitiesDC Date: January 30, 2023 @ 6:00 pm Eastern Location: Benning/Dorothy I. Height […]

Free

Grants General Information Session (In-Person)

Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff Neighborhood Library 5401 South Dakota Ave NE, Washington, DC, United States

This session will provide an overview of all open grant opportunities to help you decide which is right for you. Bring all questions and concerns and a HumanitiesDC staff member will help prepare all participants to submit a successful application. Event Details Host: HumanitiesDC Date: January 31, 2023 @ 6:00 pm Location: Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff […]

Free

Grants General Information Session (In-Person)

Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library 3935 Benning Rd NE, Washington, DC, United States

This session will provide an overview of all open grant opportunities to help you decide which is right for you. Bring all questions and concerns and a HumanitiesDC staff member will help prepare all participants to submit a successful application. Event Details Host: HumanitiesDC Date: February 1, 2023 @ 12:00 pm Location: Martin Luther King, […]

Free

Creativists In Dialogue Podcast

Creativists in Dialogue is a podcast embracing the creative life, with hosts Elizabeth Bruce and Michael Oliver. In this weekly podcast, the hosts interview people from all walks of life about the role that creativity plays in shaping who they are. They explore creativity at both the practical level, and the process level. On occasion, […]

Free

Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice

Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Come see an engaging story of DC residents who fought against racial segregation and resisted the plans of society to displace their families and communities during the 1860s through the 1980s. Event Details Host: Association for the Study of African American Life and History Date: February 4, 2023 @ 2-4pm Location: Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library Event fee: Free Registration […]

Free

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