Arts Event: Before/After
NYU Washington DC 1307 L Street NW, Abramson Family Auditorium, Washington, DCA new play by IPS' John Feffer is a multimedia portrait of the transformation of East-Central Europe told by the people who made it happen.
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Arts Event: Before/After
Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DCThe latest play by IPS' John Feffer is a multimedia portrait of the transformation of East-Central Europe told by the people who made it happen.
Arts Event: Before/After
Goethe Institut 812 7th St, NW, Washington, DCThe latest play by IPS' John Feffer is a multimedia portrait of the transformation of East-Central Europe told by the people who made it happen.
The 5th Annual DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
Goethe Institut 812 7th St, NW, Washington, DCFour days that include an opening reception, several feature-length and short films, in addition to panels with filmmakers, photographers and novelists.
Split This Rock Poetry Festival 2016
Various Venues Below Albany, NYJoin one of IPS's closest allies, Split This Rock, for a four-day festival celebrating poetry of witness and resistance, featuring some of the most visionary voices of our time.
How Poetry, Policy, and Playwriting Dance for Change
Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DCJoin IPS poets, playwrights, and other allied artists in discussing the power of combining a social justice mission with artist activism.
Play: Pray for the Dead-A Musical Tale of Morgues, Moguls and Mutiny
Busboys & Poets - Hyattsville 5331 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MDA musical comedy about political and corporate corruption told through a story of a morgue workers’ union contract campaign that leads to an unlikely uprising.
$15 – $25
Play: Paper
Petworth Neighborhood Library 4200 Kansas Ave NW, Washington, DCA public reading of a new play by IPS Fellow John Feffer, about two people trapped by the misunderstandings generated by race, class, and gender,
DC Library MLK Celebration: When We Fight We Win!
Petworth Neighborhood Library 4200 Kansas Ave NW, Washington, DCAn "Author Talk, Performance & Community Discussion" with Deymirie Hernandez, Jorge Diaz Ortiz, Greg Jobin-Leeds and other local activists and artists.
DC Youth Slam Team Grand Slam Finals 2017
Arena Stage - The Mead Center for American Theater 1101 Sixth Street SW, Washington, DCJoin us in celebrating the power of youth poetry to bear witness to injustice and provoke social change!
Telling Tales in the Time of Trump
Woman's National Democratic Club 1526 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DCA lunchtime presentation and book signing by IPS’s John Feffer on his book Splinterlands, that is part of the Woman's National Democratic Club’s Social Role of the Arts Series.
Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism 2017
Arts Club of Washington 2017 I Street, NW, Washington, DCPlease join Split This Rock and The CrossCurrents Foundation for an inspiring reception, ceremony, and reading.
$10 – $25
Book Event: Ralph Fasanella: Images of Optimism
Busboys and Poets - Takoma 234 Carroll Street NW, Washington, DCCome to the book launch with co-author Marc Fasanella, whose new book showcases the vibrant images of social conscience of his renowned father, Ralph Fasanella the activist whose megaphone was his paintbrush.
Poetry, Social Justice & Beer: A Reading & Conversation with Sarah Browning & Tope Folarin
Institute for Policy Studies 1301 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DCCome out for a book signing and discussion of the role poetry plays in movements for social change with drinks and light appetizers.
Book Event: Hip Hop in Africa
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe 2714 Georgia Avenue, NW, Washington, DCCome out for this talk and book signing with Msia Clark about the use of hip-hop in protest, both as a means of articulating social problems and as a tool for mobilizing listeners around those problems.