A-RTS AT ROCKVILLE TOWN SQUARE THE AFFORDABLE ARTS FESTIVAL

April 11, 2018

A-RTS, the Affordable Arts Festival, at Rockville Town Square is a premier event in a spectacular venue organized and managed by the Bethesda Row Arts Festival team. The Sixth Annual […]

Investing in the Arts, Humanities

March 21, 2018

Since my first term serving Ward 2 on the Council, Washington has transformed from a city with few good restaurants and limited entertainment options to a destination with world-class art […]

Peggy Cooper Cafritz: A Life in Arts and Education

February 21, 2018

Washington, D.C., is a city of some who — with ambition and originality — are champions of both beauty and justice. When we lose such champions, the loss is felt […]

Holiday Card Crafting

November 21, 2017

Drop by the Georgetown branch of DC Public Library for an afternoon of seasonal crafting, where we will be making holiday-themed greeting cards and gift tags. All materials will be […]

Plant Nite for Puerto Rico Disaster Relief

October 31, 2017

Calling all Creative Spirits! Discover your green thumb skills while raising money for the Hispanic Federation: UNIDOS, a hurricane relief fund for Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico. https://hispanicfederation.org/unidos/ At […]

The Apollo Orchestra with Metropolitan Opera Stars

October 4, 2017

The Apollo Orchestra will perform with Metropolitan Opera luminaries Elizabeth Bishop, mezzo soprano, and Barry Banks, tenor on November 3 at 7:30pm. Admission is free. The program will open with […]

FALL PREVIEW ARTS: Performance

September 13, 2017

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me,” says Shakespeare’s Cleopatra (see below), before taking her own life. But a less drastic way to […]

FALL PREVIEW ARTS


“Politically and socially, we are at the edge of another precipice. And those of us who are artists must charge into the fray, leading a charge to turn a tide.” — […]

Weekend Round Up August 10, 2017

August 10, 2017

Getting timelier every day, “The Second City’s Almost Accurate Guide to America: Divided We Stand” will end its Kennedy Center run this weekend.

This Summer’s Free For All: ‘Othello’

August 9, 2017

“Othello” is coming, Aug. 15-27, to Sidney Harman Hall in a Shakespeare Theatre Company Free For All production. Before we get to that, let’s discuss. In theater, audience questions have always […]