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Come partner with LUMEN8ANACOSTIA to be apart illuminating Anacostia

We are offering a select number of branding and sponsorships opportunities for the most exciting “illuminating” arts project to ever happen in Washington, DC.

Call: (202) 468.5277 | Visit: www.lumen8anacosita.com

What is LUMEN8ANACOSTIA?

The DC Office of Planning (OP) was awarded a $250,000 grant from ArtPlace to be administered in four neighborhoods across the city, including Anacostia.OP and ARCH Development Corporation will create Arts and Culture Temporiums in four emerging creative neighborhoods where vacant and/or underutilized storefronts. The goal is to transform these empty lots into an artist showcase/village for 3 months. The target neighborhoods are: Anacostia, Brookland, Deanwood, and Central 14th Street, NW. OP is partnering with Arch Development Corporation to implement the Arts and Culture Temporium project in Anacostia.

LUMEN8Anacostia (www.lumen8anacostia.com), a first of its kind 3-month arts
initiative that will transform a section of the historic Anacostia Business District
into a beacon of light, art, and creative expression. Local and international artists and arts organizations have committed to participating in this historic event. LUMEN8Anacostia will turn a bright spotlight on the Anacostia community using the creative economy.

LUMEN8Anacostia will also coincide with the Arts and Humanities Council “5×5” public art projects in Anacostia.

Please see the attached PDF for more detalied information or call: (202) 468.5277 or visit: www.lumen8anacosita.com for more info.

lumen8_sponsorbrochure.pdf

Blue Monday Blues @Westminster Church 400 I Street, SW ~ Washington, D.C. 20024 ~ 202.484.7700 swrenaissance.com BLUE MONDAY BLUES March 5th, 2012 Mondays 6 – 9pm ~ $5 admission Danny Blew &the Blues Crew Danny Blew, harmonica, vocals Sol, guitar, vocals Charles Solomon, bass, vocals Wes Lanich, keyboard Emmitt Kittrell, drums, vocals Always alot of special guests who show up when Danny Blew comes by. Please join us for another great evening of the Blues! Blue Monday Blues is a project of Southwest Renaissance Development Corporation launched in 2006. It welcomes a great many of the area’s finest electric, down-home artists to lead incredible live performances every Monday evening without any exception. The BLUES is a truly great American art form. With distinct influences from African, Caribbean and Southern origins it has expressed the passions of people very familiar with adversity and hardship. Perhaps this is why it has such a compelling appeal: the very common human experience of transcending these difficulties and reclaiming a new harmony. Blues is anything but sorrowful; it leaves you with a renewed sense of vitality and offers a new way of seeing things. We hope you will enjoy these experiences and find something inspiring every time you come. Danny Blew

Please join Busboys and Poets, Teaching for Change and Provisions Library for an evening with author Kellie Jones, who will read and discuss her book, Eyeminded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art on Saturday, October 15th, from 6-7:30 p.m. at Busboys and Poets (5331 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781).

A daughter of the poets Hettie Jones and Amiri Baraka, Jones grew up immersed in a world of artists, musicians, and writers, absorbed in Black nationalist ideas about art, politics, and social justice across the river in Newark. The activist vision of art and culture that she learned in those two communities, and especially from her family, has shaped her life and work as an art critic and curator. Featuring selections of her writings from the past twenty years, Eyeminded reveals Jones’s role in bringing attention to the work of African-American, African, Latin-American, and women artists who have challenged established art practices.

This event is free and open to the public.

Kellie Jones Flier 10-15-11.pdf

Grand Opening Celebration!

The African American Civil War Museum is back in the business of telling the stories of slaves’ and freed blacks’ participation in that conflict. The museum, which first opened in 1999 with about 700 square feet, has moved across Vermont Avenue to 5,000 square feet in a former school building. The $5 million move and renovation, funded by the city, will be celebrated with three days of activities, ending with a ribbon-cutting July 18.

The museum now fits into the school gymnasium, which gives it high ceilings and a gleaming wooden stage. Arranged in one room are thematically organized panels with reproductions of illustrations and documents and some original objects that are used to tell stories from the war.

In addition to its exhibits, the museum provides space for other cultural activities.

Read the rest of the Washington Post article!

Register now for the Grand Opening Celebration (Saturday, July 16 – Monday, July 18, 2011)!

East River Jazz
presents
Carl Grubbs Ensemble in concert

Sunday June 26 2011 | 4 PM

Anacostia Art Gallery & Boutique

$25 day of event | Online $20 advance sales and a limited number of $15 “Early Bird” tickets available.
Catered Lite-Fare Included

Carl Grubbs, saxophones
Steve Novosel, bass
Eric Allen, drums

Carl Grubbs
A 2009 Recipient of the Maryland Sawyers Baker Award, Baltimore Magazine voted “2009 Best Musician – Jazz” and the Rosa Pryor Scholarship Fund 2009 Award, Carl Grubbs performs on alto, soprano and tenor saxophones. He is also a composer, educator and recording artist. A native of Philadelphia, he received early extensive training from John Coltrane.

Carl Grubbs is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Contemporary Arts Inc., a nonprofit arts organization. The organization’s programs Summer Activity Extraordinaire (SAX):Music and Dance Camp and Summer Arts Academy, provides music and dance education to youth ages 4 – 17 in the Baltimore metropolitan area. A member of the MSAC Artist in Education program, Carl has twice been the recipient of the MSAC/Maryland Traditions award as a jazz master, working with an apprentice to pass on the traditions of improvised jazz music.

Steve Novosel

Bassist Steve Novosel, who began his jazz career in 1961 while stationed in the Washington DC area, has performed with just about every major jazz artist playing and recording with Andrew White, Roland Kirk, Stanley Cowell, David “Fathead” Newman and Eddie Harris. He has performed with Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner, Hank Jones, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Harry “Sweets” Edison, James Moody, Archie Shepp and Blue Mitchell. Steve is also in great demand as an accompanist for singers; he has played with everyone from Billy Eckstine, Joe Williams and Donny Hathaway to Anita O’Day, Roberta Flack, Betty Carter and Shirley Horn.