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Congratulations to our very own Friendship News Network and its new documentary release of : How Gentrification Changed Chocolate City. A student produced project. Tonight was a special screening and panel discussion with participants in the film.
Fading Color was produced by Friendship News Network, the journalism program of Friendship Public Charter School in Washington DC. The film is sponsored by Friendship Public Charter
School and Humanities DC
To find out more about the film, go to
www.codefnn.com/documentaries.
Join Humanities DC and the DC Oral History Collaborative for “Beyond the Archives” a FREE performance art/storytelling event at the Anacostia Arts Center on December 15!
Learn more about this unique event and sign up today ⬇️
Within the Feb 2023 DC Theater Journalism conference there is an opportunity for new theater critics -- app deadline Dec 10, 2022 and details here
https://dayeight.org/application-open-for-new-theater-critics-program/ . This is an opportunity provided in partnership with Humanities DC, Arena Stage, Mosaic Theater Company of DC, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Studio Theatre, The DC Line, DCTRENDING.com, Studio Acting Conservatory, DC Theater Arts, Round House Theatre, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and Anacostia CoordinatingCouncil.
Pasada la euforia del hoy por hoy controvertible “Día de Acción de gracias”, continuamos con nuestras actividades y presentamos nuestra serie fotográfica “Simetría Citadina”.
https://holacultura.com/simetria-citadina-serie-fotografica/
DC Mayor's Office on Latino Affairs Washington Historical Society Humanities DC Herencia Hispana DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities WdC Photography Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum Art Museum of the Americas
Greetings, I hope all is well with you. Can you please share the below information with your network? Thanks
THE DISCOVERY SUMMIT AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS CEREMONY
TIME & LOCATION
Dec 10, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EST
Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA
ABOUT THE EVENT
Each year since 2019, Esther Productions Inc. has presented a unique scholarship essay contest that invites young ladies aged 13 through 18 to submit essays that tell their stories about growing up without their fathers and building their resilience as they face that challenge. A group of accomplished artists, educators, clinicians, business and civic leaders serve as judges. Cash prizes ranging from $1500 to $500 are given to the top winners during the Discovery Summit and Scholarship Awards Ceremony.
This year, the event is presented in cooperation with The Black Student Fund. The summit will include workshop presentations by therapists, coaches and healing artists that focus on providing greater understanding of the impact of father absence through the game charade, developing a robust self-care program, choreographing movements that minimize physical pain while allowing young ladies the opportunity to realize self-actualization and empowerment.
REGISTER NOW
www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/the-discovery-summit-and-scholarship-awards-ceremony
Thank you
We're excited to welcome The Dap Project!
The Dap Project brings its curiosity about the Black man’s nuanced gesture to the Anacostia Arts Center in a multi-media exhibit that, through photo and interview, appreciates the literal coming together of hands and the metaphorical extension of love for community.
“Dap is a Love Language” invites viewers to appreciate the familiar greeting, and consider how, just like we do, dap exists in multitudes.
Dap abounds in Chocolate City. We appreciate dap in three specific neighborhoods: Congress Heights, Parkview, and Stronghold (with a couple guest appearances by Anacostia and Edgewood). In these communities, we engage directly with Black people who shape and are shaped by these spaces: the barber shop, art galleries, playgrounds, and on the corners.
The Dap Project includes co-creators Rhonda Henderson and Aaron Stallworth. Photographers for this project are Joseph Edwards and Edward Underwood. This project is supported by a Community Heritage grant from Humanities DC.
1-Celebrating Humanities DC 2022 grantees at the annual 🎉DC Community Heritage Project Showcase🎉with 2-Rhonda Henderson: "Dap is a Love Language" the.dap.project 3-Cory Lee Stowers: To The East: The Rise of Public Murals in Wards DC Murals 4-Andrena Crockett: Georgetown African American Historic Landmark Project and Tour
https://www.gaahlp.org/ 5-Miriam Gusevich: Re/Know Reno: A Detective Story
https://www.gm2studio.com/ 6-Adeshola Akintobi: UDC Law Legacy Project UDC David A. Clarke School of Law 7-Kamilah Thurmon: Historic Lee's Flowers Celebrates 75 years Lee's Flower and Card Shop 8-Art&Culture, a special installation at the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service & Heritage
El Kennedy Center celebró al gran maestro de la música cubana Chucho Valdés con el show denominado “La creación” en el Concert Hall. Una noche mágica donde se escucharon no sólo ritmos bailables e inspiracionales, sino cantos místicos de origen cuasi religioso...
https://holacultura.com/don-chucho-valdes-celebracion/
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Greetings,
Hope all is well with you. Can you please feel free to share the below information along with a copy of the flyer about the workshop with your students, parents, teachers, and guests who visit your organization, church, community center and schools?
Everyone, even teen girls-- or maybe especially teen girls--have stories to tell. Esther Productions Inc. and The Black Student Fund, nonprofit organizations based in Washington, DC began their four week writing institute on October 1, 2022 and it is designed to help each participant discover her inner story while learning how to present it using the personal essay. It continues on October 15, 2022 and ends on October 22, 2022 at the Park Hyatt Hotel located at 1201 24th St NW in Washington, DC from 10:30am - 12noon.
Award-winning journalist and author jonetta rose barras will lead the workshop. She has expertly used the art of personal essay to take readers inside her world, hoping to help them understand and assess important local and national issues. Her writings have appeared in the Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, the Washington Examiner, Essence Magazine and the New Republic. She has written three nonfiction books and two collections of poetry. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals.
“The personal essay is not just a high school writing assignment or one more item for a college application. When executed with thoughtfulness, skill and passion, it can be a powerful work of literary art,” says barras, citing the works of Joan Didion, James Baldwin, Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf as classic examples. More contemporary examples might include Mindy Kaling and Zadie Smith.
Participants in the INSIDE JOB: The Art of Personal Essay Writing may not be on the best-seller list yet, but the stories they tell can be just as compelling and engaging. No one will know for certain until they craft that first sentence, the first paragraph, the first essay.
INSIDE JOB: The Art of Personal Essay Writing is free, but registration is required, and seating is limited. (The workshops are being presented by Esther Productions Inc and The Black Student Fund)
https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/inside-job-writing-institute-the-art-of-personal-essay-writing-2022-10-15-10-30?fbclid=IwAR3C1hheWvJT38ERX1TzI7kI0fvKsDheXXwHaj-Xz__BjYocqYFGb5mauUk
https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/inside-job-writing-institute-the-art-of-personal-essay-writing-2022-10-22-10-30?fbclid=IwAR3C1hheWvJT38ERX1TzI7kI0fvKsDheXXwHaj-Xz__BjYocqYFGb5mauUk
For more information email your questions to
[email protected].
Esther Productions, Inc. is dedicated to using a variety of vehicles—traditional and nontraditional—to develop communities throughout the United States and Europe. It was created in 2004 by Jonetta Rose Barras, award-winning journalist and author of Whatever Happened to Daddy’s Little Girl? - estherproductionsinc.com
"The Black Student Fund (BSF) provides essential advocacy, academic and retention support to academically motivated African American and other underserved students to facilitate their access, admission and successful matriculation and graduation from member schools. BSF partners with member schools to provide financial assistance, as well as instruction, evaluations, feedback and monitoring necessary to facilitate the creation and maintenance of a supportive and responsive environment." -
https://blackstudentfund.org/
Thank you very much for your time and assistance in advance. Hope to hear from you soon.
K**A DC is excited to announce that it has accepted a Capacity Building Grant from Humanities DC, a local organization providing grants, youth leadership, and civic engagement programs to advance cultural, educational, and community-based initiatives.
This grant will help K**A to expand its unique immigrant-led programming and classes that are open to all DMV area residents and help maximize the potential of K**A DC’s volunteer team!
Learn more here:
https://buff.ly/3fOU2T7
Greetings,
I hope all is well with you. I would like to inform you about an event that is presented by Esther Productions, Inc and the Black Student Fund. If you can please share the below information, I would appreciate it.
Everyone, even teen girls-- or maybe especially teen girls--have stories to tell. Esther Productions Inc. and The Black Student Fund, nonprofit organizations based in Washington, DC, are presenting a four-week writing institute designed to help each participant discover her inner story while learning how to present it using the personal essay.
INSIDE JOB WRITING INSTITUTE: The Art of Personal Essay Writing WORKSHOP
Oct 08, 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
Washington, 1201 24th St NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA
Questions:
[email protected]
https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/inside-job-writing-institute-the-art-of-personal-essay-writing-2022-10-08-10-30
Thank you