Politics & Art, now in its fourth year, is an annual event presented by Washington Performing Arts’ Mars Urban Arts Initiative and Councilmember David Grosso.
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Inshallah. The Arabic word means “God willing,” and reflects surrender to what we cannot control and what divine fate ordains. We hear it often working with refugees seeking sanctuary in Greece.
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Pop-Up Magazine is what happens when a diverse group of artists decides to create a live magazine.
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Driving up the lush, tree-lined road leading to Alison Friedman’s house, I arrive at this much-anticipated interview.
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For its 2017/2018 season, Arena Stage has focused on producing “Power Plays,” performances that are focused on each decade of American history.
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The masterwork of Irish playwright, Brian Friel, is brought to the stage of the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C. in the performance of Translations.
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D.C. has fully embraced Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, August Wilson’s, masterpiece drama, Two Trains Running.
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March is Women’s History Month, and in solidarity, the Melrose Georgetown Hotel is joining the fight for women’s equality in the workplace.
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For some of us, our understanding of indigenous peoples of North America begins the romanticized tales of the first Thanksgiving and Walt Disney’s Pocahontas and ends with the Trail of Tears or a story about cowboys and Indians on the American frontier.
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With sexual exploitation dominating entertainment and political headlines recently, newly empowered women are talking publicly and candidly about their personal experiences that were once silenced.
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It’s hard to believe that just a few neighborhoods down from the White House are communities that are struggling against hunger. “Food hardship” and “food insecurity” are terms that unfortunately describe too many households in the district.
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Your work to inspire global and local action against modern slavery goes back many years.
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The dictionary defines the word miscegenation as a marriage or the cohabitation and all that it encompasses (sexual relations, and/or procreation) between two people of different racial groups.
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“I’m accepting the structure, but I couldn’t fit in it. I had to break it.”- Ebtisam Abdul Aziz
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Arriving early to this hugely popular exhibit is critical as the lines start forming around 9 AM.
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Women hanging handkerchiefs on barbwire.
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You feel as though you’re walking into sacred space upon entering the She Who Tells As Story exhibition.
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DC isn’t short of smart, innovating, entrepreneurial women and Monica Gray and Annie Medaglia are just that.
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This past Tuesday was International Women’s Day and I had the honor of attending New York Times’ Women in the World event at the Park Hyatt in Washington, DC.
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Last week the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced a gift of over 35 seminal works by artist Marcel Duchamp, donated by D.C. collectors Aaron and Barbara Levine.
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