Coolidge high school band director Ben Sands, who grew up in Near Southwest, will be among the guests of the Southwest Neighborhood Assembly’s (SWNA’s) Black History program Monday, Feb. 27 at 7 p.m. at Arena Stage. Sands will be interviewed by Southwest resident Ian Callender, co-founder of Blind Whino Arts Club at Delaware Ave. […]
Upcoming Events at Arena Stage
You can’t escape international affairs when you live in Washington, DC. In February, Arena Stage will present two productions, written almost 70 years apart, that bring that point home. WHAT: Watch on the Rhine WHERE: Arena’s Fichandler Stage WHEN: Feb 3 – March 5 Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine […]
Visit Grant Hall on Fort McNair!
Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall announces its next quarterly public open house of Grant Hall’s historic third-floor courtroom from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Feb. 4. Located on the Fort McNair portion of the joint base, the courtroom is the site of the military tribunal, held from May through June […]
Community Forum on Leo Lionni Mosaic Mural Restoration
On Saturday, Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., the Potomac Place Condominium Mural Committee will host a community forum in the Potomac Place Community Room on the restoration of the Leo Lionni Mosaic Mural, which sits behind 800 4th St. SW. In 1959, landscape architect Dan Kiley commissioned a mosaic […]