Name: The Promise and Perils of Public Art: Ben Shahn’s Murals on Social Security
Start: 2026-12-03T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-12-03T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Capital Jewish Museum

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.

November 2026
Double Exposure Film Festival
November 5 - November 8

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States
Double Exposure combines four days of film screenings and a public forum including panel discussions, workshops, and special events. This year’s Double Exposure turns on a single question: what happens […]
$50 – $200
Double Exposure Film Festival: Your City Your Story
November 6 @ 10:35 am - 11:35 am

The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States
What happens when a community stops waiting on institutions and does accountability’s work itself? In Los Angeles, the gay community banded together to investigate a cold case murder and push […]
$25 – $200
Post-Show Discussion & Button-Making with Girls Rock! DC (HUNDRED DAYS)
November 8 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Keegan Theatre 1742 Church St NW, Washington, DC, United States
HUNDRED DAYS is a folk, pop-punk musical following the lives of a couple who love as if they have 100 days to live. November 8, 2026 | Following the matinee […]
$55 – $65
Supreme Court Justice Arthur and Dorothy Goldberg’s Legendary Passover Seders
November 12 @ 6:30 am - 7:30 pm

Capital Jewish Museum 575 3rd Street NW, Washington, DC, United States
In 1960s Washington, the Goldbergs hosted annual seders famous for weaving the Haggadah together with the songs and history of the labor movement. As Arthur Goldberg's career carried him from […]
$5 – $10
December 2026
The Promise and Perils of Public Art: Ben Shahn’s Murals on Social Security
December 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Capital Jewish Museum 575 3rd Street NW, Washington, DC, United States
Join Professor Laura Katzman as she discusses the public art of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), focusing on his most prominent New Deal fresco murals, The Meaning of Social Security, which were […]
$5 – $10