Join us for an evening discussion with Preston Sampson, a figurative expressionist painter whose work captures the essence of Black people throughout US history. He will discuss themes from his solo exhibition, Respite, on view in Glen Echo Park Partnership's Stone Tower Gallery through November 15, 2020.

In the exhibition, he portrays Black Americans enjoying simple pleasures. During a time of civil unrest and the fight for Black lives, Sampson's portraits create an environment for rest or relief.

For more information about Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries visit our website

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A monthly Sunday morning Coffee and Critique is one of Photoworks’ most popular events.

Show photos for informal feedback by a Photoworks faculty member, or just attend to take part in a lively and thoughtful conversation about fresh work from fellow photographers.

The event is always free. It’s a great way to get feedback on your work and meet others who are passionate about photography.

Coffee and Critique is virtual until further notice. Join on Zoom! Get the Zoom room information when you register HERE SOON.

A monthly Sunday morning Coffee and Critique is one of Photoworks’ most popular events.

Show photos for informal feedback by a Photoworks faculty member, or just attend to take part in a lively and thoughtful conversation about fresh work from fellow photographers.

The event is always free. It’s a great way to get feedback on your work and meet others who are passionate about photography.

Coffee and Critique is virtual until further notice. Join on Zoom! Get the Zoom room information when you register HERE.

A monthly Sunday morning Coffee and Critique is one of Photoworks’ most popular events.

Show photos for informal feedback by a Photoworks faculty member, or just attend to take part in a lively and thoughtful conversation about fresh work from fellow photographers.

The event is always free. It’s a great way to get feedback on your work and meet others who are passionate about photography.

Coffee and Critique is virtual until further notice. Join on Zoom! Get the Zoom room information when you register HERE.

Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

April's event features a thematic open mic focusing on opposites, specifically beginnings and ends. Come prepared with at least 2 pieces (poetry or other), one on beginnings and one on ends, with an option of a third piece on a topic of your choice. Plan to adhere to a 4 minute time limit although this may need to be adjusted depending upon the number of people signing up. Screen sharing is always an option if you want to have your poems displayed

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Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

February's event features Derek N. Otsuji  and Mark Tarren.

Derek N. Otsuji is the author of The Kitchen of Small Hours, winner of the 2021 Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Open Competition.  It will be published by SIU Press in fall 2021.  His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, The Southern Review, Rattle, Poet Lore, and Pleiades.

Mark Tarren is a poet and writer who lives on remote Norfolk Island in the South Pacific.  A Pushcart nominee, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various literary journals including The New Verse News, The Blue Nib, Poets Reading The News, Street Light Press, Spillwords Press, Tuck Magazine and Impspired Magazine.

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Meeting ID:  876 4770 1054

Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

November's event features Burgi Zenhaeusem and Julie Danho.
 

Burgi Zenhaeusern is the author of the chapbook Behind Normalcy (CityLit Press, 2020), winner of the Harriss Poetry Prize, and she co-edited the translations of the bilingual poetry anthology Knocking on the Door of the White House (Zozobra Publishing, 2017, J. Ballesteros et al., editors).

Julie Danho’s first full-length poetry collection, Those Who Keep Arriving, won the 2018 Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press. Her chapbook, Six Portraits, received the 2013 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Award, and her poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, Alaska Quarterly Review, and New Ohio Review as well as featured on The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily.

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Meeting ID:  876 4770 1054

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Please join Words Out Loud, A Spoken Word Series, as they take their monthly event virtually via Zoom!  

December's event features Susana H. Case and Martha Addy Young.

Susana H. Case is the author of seven books of poetry. Dead Shark on the N Train, from Broadstone Books (2020), is her newest. It won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Awards Distinguished Favorite. Drugstore Blue, from Five Oaks Press, won an Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY). She is also the author of five chapbooks, two of which won poetry prizes. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies. Dr. Case is a Professor and Program Coordinator at the New York Institute of Technology in New York City.  See more at susanahcase.com. 

Martha Addy Young is the recipient of two Individual Artist Grants from the Washington D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities and a Poet Fellowship from the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. She was the runner-up for the Bellevue Literary Review’s poetry prize, and a finalist for the Larry Neal Writer’s Award and the Crosswinds Poetry Award. Her poem Dusk in Dupont Circle was recently featured in Poetry Daily. She holds an MFA from the University of Maryland.

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Meeting ID:  876 4770 1054

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Join Friday Night Dancers for a virtual contra dance! Live music from Reelplay with caller Perry Shafran. Dancing starts at 8pm on Zoom.

These Zoom dances take place weekly on Fridays at 8:30 pm. Check Friday Night Dancers' Facebook website for information about their virtual dances HERE.

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Join Friday Night Dancers for a virtual contra dance! Live music from Triple Helix. Caller & Host Perry Shafran. Dancing starts at 8:30pm on Zoom.

These Zoom dances take place weekly on Fridays at 8:30 pm. Check Friday Night Dancers' Facebook website for information about their virtual dances HERE.

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