Frank Higgins’ play is set in Depression-era Texas and, while based on some of the early musicologists’ collecting folk songs, imagines a meeting between a White musicologist from the Library of Congress and a jailed […]
Day: February 12, 2019
Live Jazz from Akua Allrich + The Tribe $ Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC) 3200 MLK Ave SE Washington DC 20032 AKWAABA returns this February to Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center (CHACC) and NationHouse […]
12Feb What Was, What Is, and What Will Be: A Cross-Genre Look at Afrofuturism 7:30pm $
Tananarive Due, N.K. Jemisin, & Airea D. Matthews Folger Theatre $ 201 East Capitol St SE Washington, DC 20003 Main (202) 544-4600 Box Office (202) 544-7077 Cultural critic Mark Dery coined the term “Afrofuturism” in […]
12Feb 30th Annual Black Film Festival 6pm
30th Annual Black Film Festival at Georgetown Library BlacKkKlansman A Black detective sets out to infiltrate the Colorado chapter of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his Jewish colleague. Starring John David Washington and Adam […]
12Feb Phelps Brass Band Returns! 5pm
Join Woodridge Neighborhood Library as we welcome Phelps ACE High School Brass Ensemble back for a second year to help us celebrate Black History Month! Listen to the band and enjoy a post-show discussion with them about their experience as […]
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