Posts tagged Arts
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Events: Advocacy mentoring, placemaking in White Flint, summer bike rides, and more
Mentoring for young advocates, lots of bike rides, better blocks in White Flint, Year of the Anacostia, and more in this week's events. Keep reading…
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Events: Save the date for our April 26 happy hour!
Join GGWash for our happy hour at Dew Drop Inn, experience photos and sounds of DC from the 80s, tell Prince George's officials to legalize accessory apartments, learn how racially-restrictive deed covenants kept Bloomingdale off-limits to African Americans, and much more in events this week! Keep reading…
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DC planners have some ideas for making the arts a priority
1,500 artists, entrepreneurs, organizations, and students helped shape the DC Office of Planning's new cultural plan. It's an initiative to promote cultural heritage and arts in the city. Keep reading…
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DC’s old school and church buildings are getting a new life
We should applaud projects that aim to repurpose closed churches and schools for the benefit of the larger community, and recognize that such efforts can take many forms. Keep reading…
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Check out this artist’s sketches of Metro passengers
Nesbitt uses crayon for his Metro sketches, but he also does watercolor and collage (when he's not creating on the train, of course). Many are finished in the moments between Metro stations. Keep reading…
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Five ways DC rocks (and two ways it doesn’t) at social entrepreneurship
A DC-based business incubator looks at what draws social entrepreneurs to a given city, then ranks them by how friendly they are to ventures that work for social good. Here's what they discovered about the District. Keep reading…
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Public art isn’t just a way to fill space. It can turn whole communities around.
Last month, Ben’s Chili Bowl unveiled a new mural. The display brought a crowd of people outside to reflect on the bright colors, cultural touchstones, and iconic images that represent DC, U Street, and the history of the local black community. It also got me thinking about how public art fits into public space. Keep reading…
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Why dog parks are such a hot-button issue in the “Cappuccino City”
We are pleased to present a few excerpts from American University professor Derek Hyra's new book, Race, Class,and Politics in the Cappuccino City. This one looks at “cultural displacement,” where people who are able to keep living in their neighborhoods nevertheless feel less and less welcome. Keep reading…
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A giant jazz band will decorate Reston Town Center’s Metro station
By 2020, there will be six new Silver Line Metro stops in Northern Virginia. Metro plans to decorate at least five of the new stations with artwork, and this week released the design for the Reston Town Center station. Keep reading…
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Can a bookstore open east of the Anacostia River?
Wards 7 and 8 are rich with cultural institutions, from THEARC to Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum to the Gateway Pavilion at Saint Elizabeths East Campus. Yet there is not a single independent bookstore east of the Anacostia River. Can this change? Will it? Keep reading…