Events Calendar

The DC Oral History Collaborative will be at popping up at the Mt. Pleasant Library to help library 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 will be […]

DC Zinfest is Saturday, November 1st from 11am–4pm at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in downtown DC. DC Zinefest is an annual, one-day independent event designed to provide a space for zine-makers, self-published artists, and writers to share their work with each other and the Washington, D.C., community. This year, we’ll have 80+ […]

This introductory workshop will help participants define oral history in relationship to the history of the practice and other forms of interviewing and storytelling. Participants will learn what motivates oral historians to do their work and what might motivate them to initiate projects of their own. Participants will also learn how to discover archival oral […]

Have you ever wanted to spend a cozy fall evening reading in a museum? Grab your book and join fellow bibliophiles for a relaxing and enlightening evening of reading and discovery. Explore our exhibitions, find a quiet nook to read, hear from book lovers (including our staff) about what they?re currently reading, and participate in […]

We’re delighted to invite you to the fall DC Works-in-Progress Screening, a community event celebrating documentary storytelling in progress. DC offers directors and producers at all experience levels a rare opportunity to receive thoughtful feedback on their works-in-progress—whether feature-length or short. The screening is followed by a moderated conversation, giving filmmakers the chance to gather insights from […]

November 7, 2025 | Ward 8 | Busboys and Poets Anacostia Mosaic partners with Busboys and Poets Anacostia for a night uplifting local spoken word and hip hop artists and highlighting Young John Lewis? hip-hop roots.

Join Shout Mouse Press youth authors plus guest author Ebony LaDelle to discuss The Light Looks Like Me.

What does it take to become a humanist, and what is lost if we fail to preserve DC’s stories? HumanitiesDC Presents Culture Series: Documenting Culture - How to Be a Humanist, a thoughtful conversation featuring three public historians exploring what it means to be a humanist in the nation's capital. Featuring Paul Grant, Creative Director […]

Food brings people together but not always how you'd expect. Behind every favorite dish, there's tension, tradition, chaos, or comfort. Sometimes all of it at once. This show is about what happens when meals go sideways, recipes carry history, and family shows up with opinions. Come for real stories about how food stirs things up, […]

Calling 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, November 17 at 6 pm to be in community with other oral historians. During the meetup we’ll share ideas, talk through challenges and obstacles, and […]