Events Calendar

Join our celebration for an incredible run of the multimedia exhibit "Dap is a Love Language" at the Anacostia Arts Center. The celebration includes a live recording of the podcast followed by an afterparty. You've seen their photos and have heard snippets of their interviews. Our podcast assembles dynamic guests for an in-depth conversation about […]

KAMA DC’s volunteer-run, grassroots mission dedicates itself to providing a platform for immigrants to share their skills and their stories. In this KAMA DC and Story District collaboration, we showcase some of the KAMA DC’s favorite immigrant storytellers sharing humorous and heartfelt stories about loss, renewal, and transformation; about leaving one home and finding a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]