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Lauri Willialmson Book Signing
O Museum in the Mansion 2020 O Street, NW, Washington, DCABOUT LAURI WILLIAMSON: Lauri is the Chief Experience Officer at DC Tours and Events. She wears many hats - author, tour guide, event planner, gifting company owner, & storyteller & she wouldn't have it any other way. With a passion for connecting with people & sharing the hidden stories of Washington, DC, she's built a […]
$40.45Film Screening and Panel Discussion: “It’s All About Palestine”
Alliance for Peacebuilding 1800 Massachusetts Ave NW # 401, Washington, DC, United States"It Is All About Palestine" documents the courage of student activists confronting repression and the moral clarity of a generation refusing silence. Please join the Museum of the Palestinian People as they screen this powerful documentary featuring local student activists followed by a discussion with the film's director, Dina AbouZeid, and a special panel including […]
Echoes of Activism: Using Oral History Interviews to Craft a Lesson Plan
Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS 200 Douglas Street NE, Washington, DCSari Leigh will present the Mind, Body and Justice Oral History project at the Social Justice Curriculum Fair. The workshop will help educators to design a lesson plan for health activism using oral history archives in the DC DIG Library. In this 50-minute interactive session, participants will engage with excerpts from the Mind, Body, and […]
$15The Light Looks Like Us: An Intergenerational Conversation
1827 Wiltberger Street Northwest Washington, DC 20001 1827 Wiltberger Street Northwest, Washington, DCProminent DC-based poet and author Tony Keith Jr. will be reading and in conversation with local LGBT+ youth authors Hakim Rose, Oliver Lin, and Lauryn Ciardullo, whose work has been published in Shout Mouse Press? first LGBTQ+ anthology, The Light Looks Like Me. Shout Mouse Press is a DC-based nonprofit organization that coaches young people […]
Lilac Peril Book Launch
Lost City Books 2467 18th St NW, Washington, DCCelebrate the launch of Lilac Peril's Issue 01, a collection of 30+ trans contributors writing on the topic TABOO. When the fact of our existence is taboo, what do trans people still not want to talk about, even amongst ourselves? Issue 01: TABOO gestures towards this question, taking a hard look at what we would […]
DC Oral History Collaborative Community Meetup
DC History Center 801 K St NW, Washington, United StatesCalling 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, September 8 at 6 pm to be in community with other oral historians. During the meetup we’ll share ideas, talk through challenges and obstacles, and […]
KICKOFF EVENT! Salon Redux: In the Spirit of Georgia Douglass Johnson
The Writer's Center at Howard University 2441 6th Street NW, Washington, DC, United StatesYou are invited to attend the launch of Salon Redux: In the Spirit of Georgia Douglas Johnson, a citywide public humanities project honoring DC's literary and cultural history on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 6PM at the Howard University Writing Center. Inspired by Johnson?s iconic S Street Salon, where she hosted Zora Neale Hurston, Langston […]
At Issue: The Erasure of Black History Featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian Marcia Chatelain and New York Times White House Correspondent Erica L. Green
Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE, WashingtonLearn more here: https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/at-issue-the-erasure-of-black-history-featuring-pulitzer-prize-winning-historian-marcia-chatelain-and-new-york-time-white-house-correspondent-erica-l-green/ Registration link
The Poetry & Folklore of Sterling A. Brown
Trinity Washington University Main Hall 125 Michigan Ave NE, Washington, DC, United StatesSterling A. Brown's preeminence as a poet, author, literary critic and folklorist is unchallenged. He was also Washington, DC’s first poet laureate, a famed educator for 40 years at Howard University-- teaching some of the country's most popular writers-- and the controversial Editor for Negro Affairs of the Federal Writers Project, which was part of […]
Photography 2025 Opening Reception
Hill Center DC 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE, WashingtonThe annual Photography Gallery is back. Juried by Philip Kennicott. Philip Kennicott is the Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic of The Washington Post. He has been on staff at The Post since 1999, first as classical music critic, then as culture critic. In 2011, he combined art and architecture into a beat focused on visual […]
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