Hey there, local DC artist. Hoping to show your art? Check out this open call from Anacostia Arts Center. Not an artist? Forward this post onto a friend. Support local art! Anacostia Arts Center is now accepting submissions from DMV artists for a group show featuring works under $500. Visual artists who work in any…
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Weekend East City Event Round Up: Early Bird Edition
Anacostia Art & Reggae Saturday – 4 p.m. to 10 p. m. This Saturday East City Art and the Anacostia Gallery and Boutique team-up to bring you a self-guided tour of Anacostia’s cultural assets culminating in an Art & Reggae festival located at 2806 Bruce Place SE. For more information including details on the self-guided…
Do More 24: Support a Local Non-profit Today!
Do More 24 brings together nonprofit organizations, companies, and people committed to making a difference on one day to make the National Capital Area a better place for all. It provides an opportunity to showcase the amazing and critical work of nonprofit organizations serving our region. Anacostia Gracious Arts Program (AGAP) provides arts education to inner-city students…
East City Art Round Up: Brookland Third Thursday Edition
Thursday June 19 Brookland Arts Walk – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Third Thursdays in Brookland, one may visit over 29 open studios in the Arts Walk at Monroe Street Market. Two of the spaces, the Washington Drawing Center and The Wild Hand Workspace will host opening receptions (see details below). Enjoy food and…
Punk Jews Premieres at Sixth & I
The Washington, DC premiere of Punk Jews is Sunday, June 22nd, 7pm at the historic Sixth & I synagogue. Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists, and more, Punk Jews is a documentary that explores an emerging movement of committed Jews and provocateurs who are asking, each in his or her own way, what it means to be…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Super Saturday June Edition
Friday, June 13 CHAW – 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Ellen Cornett and Sheppard Bear are back for another Paint and Sip at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Create your own masterpiece on Friday while enjoying snacks and wine. $30 includes all materials and refreshments. For more information, click here. CHAW is located at 545 7th…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Summer Openings
Friday, June 6 Touchstone Gallery – 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Touchstone Gallery with the support of the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France presents Les Chemins de Memoire (The Paths of Memory) by Charles Goldstein. This exhibit has its roots in the holocaust and the disappearance of 84 close members of his family….
World Premiere Comedy The Totalitarians Arrives at Woolly Mammoth
If you worship at the altar of Colbert, if you religiously watch The Daily Show, you won t want to miss this riotous comedy! Pay-What-You-Can Performances start on June 2, with performances continuing through June 29. Shows starts at 8:oo. Francine, the ambitious speechwriter for a rich housewife s vanity campaign for public office, has…
Blue Note Records: The Role of Music in Cultural Diplomacy
This discussion accompanies the Blue Note exhibition at the Goethe-Institut. Panelists: Wolfram Knauer, director, Jazz Institute Darmstadt Penny Von Eschen, professor of history and American culture, The University of Michigan Larry Appelbaum, Senior Music Reference Specialist, Library of Congress Since the 1950s, the U.S. State Department has sent black and white musicians around the globe….
DC Style Is Real 