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.
Latest Past Events
DHH Dance Collaborative: “that’s how the light gets in”
Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street NE, WashingtonEvent Details: The DHH dancers are back for a ninth season and are inspired to bring more excitement, cutting-edge choreography, and heartfelt passion to the Lang Theater stage. Witness the creativity come alive in their production of "that's how the light gets in," a showcase of all new works choreographed, staged, and performed by the […]
Culture Series: Fighting For Home
Busboys and Poets 450 K St NW 450 K St NW, WashingtonEvent Details: The 1970s was a period of intense gentrification in DC — but the decade was also marked by the most effective and creative tenant organizing in DC’s history to date. Join Amanda Huron, an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Political Science at the UDC, and a panel of three people who organized […]
Oral History Interviewing Workshop
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 401c, Conference Center 901 G Street NW, WashingtonEvent Details: This core workshop in the DC Oral History Collaborative workshop series will provide participants strategies to make the interview experience rewarding for the interviewer and the narrator. The workshop will begin by further exploring what comes before the interview – connecting research and planning with building trust and rapport with narrators. Participants […]
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