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D.C. readers gathered inside Sidwell Friends School’s oak-paneled meeting room, last month, to hear author Zadie Smith read from her latest novel, The Fraud.
According to the Romanian Cultural Institute, this three-day event is “the biggest Romanian cultural and public diplomacy program in the United States.” Organized by the Embassy of Romania and the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, with the support of the Maramureș County Council, this festival showcased wide-ranging arts, culture, and customs. It took place on District Pier from July 7 to 9, 2023 and was free and open to the public.
The House of Sweden, aka the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., promised their event celebrating Sweden’s 2023 EU Presidency would be a “magical evening.” It most definitely was.
Born and raised in the Linthicum neighborhood, just north of the home of the storied Baltimore Cardinals, Rafael Alvarez has spent most of his life living and working in the heart of Charm City (Alvarez calls it Crabtown USA).
Carrie Callaghan’s historical novel Salt the Snow is so rich in detail that I found myself transported to the streets of 1930s Moscow. The frigid cold of the Russian winter is palpable—along with the stark living conditions, the nineteenth century mansion that’s been repurposed as a newspaper office …
While other American girls were joining girl scouts and sports teams, Keena lived in a tent and learned to track and watch out for wild animals, like elephants, leopards, hippos, impala, kudu, and even lions. Except, that is, whenever her parents needed to return to Philadelphia.
The Havel Project reminds us that the stubborn determination of the individual can undermine totalitarian systems, and that revolutions can be born of childlike imagination and whimsical fun.
This is what Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer | Sackler Gallery commented when asked about the American media’s portrayal of the exhibit, My Iran: Six Women Photographers, currently on view at the gallery.
Still vocally vibrant and pushing artistic boundaries, Meredith Monk and her vocal ensemble performed her piece Cellular Songs at the Rasmusen Theater located in the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC.
“I’m accepting the structure, but I couldn’t fit in it. I had to break it.”- Ebtisam Abdul Aziz
When you start reading Maryland native Rion Amilcar Scott’s new short story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You, you realize, almost from the first page, that this is something special.