Events Calendar

Through interviews with prominent thought leaders in the arts, and footage of creative pursuits inartistic expression, teaching and community- based arts programming across the Washington DC Metropolitan region, common threads of a larger and vital arts story are revealed and celebrated in this 30 min documentary from EMMY-Awarded director and editor, Todd Clark in partnership […]

Event Details: Running an oral history project is a lot of work! But the skills and best practices in this third core workshop in the DC Oral History Collaborative’s Training Series will help participants understand how to avoid getting bogged down in budgetary or scheduling challenges. This session covers topics such as developing an organizing […]

Capital Book Fest hosts its annual Children's Book and Learning Festival presented by the nonprofit organization Turning the Page. The family-friendly festival will offer a full day of engaging and educational activities, featuring an exciting lineup of local authors from the Children?s Book Guild of Washington, DC and exhibitions from the National Children's Museum, DC […]

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 their friends and family! The oral history booth will feature recording equipment, comfortable conversation space, and guides to help interviewers get started. Interviewers and interviewees […]

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 humanities practitioners and advocates connect and organize! ? Free to attend | Registration Required DC Collaborative will present: - An updated membership model (Teaching Artists, […]

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. Powered by HumanitiesDC and MCBS Group. Event Details Host: PineXGinja Date: June 28, 2024 • 6 - 10PM Location: The President Woodrow Wilson House 2340 […]

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 two accomplished but unsung Black women artists - both native Washingtonians - and their special bond as aunt and niece. The screening is in conjunction […]

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 Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, and many more. The talented cast of a solid and mind-blowing vocalist will mesmerize you with their […]

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 sidewalk to share with their neighbors, and the relationships they cultivated as a result. In D.C. we?re surrounded by museums that celebrate famous moments in […]

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 five Tony Awards in 1997 including Best Musical, Titanic by Maury Yeston is a thrilling historical drama with strikingly human and relatable characters. From the […]