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BAWA New Deals

The Brookland Area Writers and Artists* presents this Wednesday, January 13, 2010:

New Deals, a reading of beginnings bold projects and inspiration for challenging times.

WHEN: 7:00pm Wednesday November 11, 2009

WHERE: Brookland Visitors Center, 3420 9th Street, NE. 20017 Washington DC

1/2 block from Brookland/CUA Red Line Metro across Monroe Street, and right across 9th Street from Colonel Brooks’ Tavern.

This reading is free and open to all. For further information call (202) 540-TALE (8253), email info@bawadc.com or view the website www.bawadc.com.

Brookland Visitor’s Center

Greatest HipHop Cover Story Ever Told Flyer Front

The Greatest Hip Hop Cover Story Ever Told is a two day event at Dance Place celebrating over 30 years of hip hop from 1979 to 2009. The shows are Saturday Nov 21, 2009 at 8:00PM and Sunday Nov 22, 2009 at 4:00PM.

Tickets are $30 and can be purchased at Dance Place

DJs: DJ Roddy Rod, DJ Earth 1ne, DJ RBI & DJ Jav

The Cast: Asheru, Tabi Bonney, Hueman Prophets, Maimouna Youssef, XO, Gods’Illa, Syn the Villian, Head Roc, Rosetta Stoned, Tony Moon, The Package, Fatso, Bomani Armah, Mahoganee, Enoch the 7th Prophet, Natural Mystics, Ardamus, Flex Mathews, Ra the MC, Lyriciss, Laelo Hood, Princess of Controversy, Diallo Daheart Sumbry, Maisha Hyman Sumbry & Papi Kymone Freeman

Also be sure to go the after party – S.O.A.R (Samples, Originals And Remixes) by DJ Stylus and DJ 2 Tone Jones immediately following the Saturday night show at Almaz – 1212 U Street NW. $5 with concert tix stub all night and $10 before midnight.

Greatest HipHop Cover Story Ever Told Flyer Back

Dance Place
Web: www.danceplace.org Address: 3225 8th Street NE Washington, DC 20017
Phone: 202-269-1600

Lament for the Makers

The Brookland Area Writers and Artists* presents this Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Brookland Poetry Series #70:

Lament for the Makers: A Celebration of Departed Poets

Featuring poems by recently departed poets such as:

Mario Benedetti, Mahmoud Darwish, Kamala Das, Deborah Digges, Jane Mayhall, Hayden Carruth, Aime Cesaire, W.D. Snodgrass, Kamala Das, Deborah Digges, Robin Blaser, Angel Gonzalez, Jonathan Williams, E.A. Markham, Robert Fagles, Andrew Crozier, Paula Gunn Allen, Eugenio Montejo, Tom Disch, Reginald Shepherd, Donald Finkel, Dorothy Porter, Adrian Mitchell, Harold Pinter, Inger Christensen, John Updike, Kazys Bradunas, Don MacIennan, Bill Holm, James Purdy, Nanao Sakaki, U.A. Fanthorpe, Craig Arnold, Ann Darr, James Kirkup, David Bromige, Harold Norse, Alfonso Calderon Squadritto (Chile), Alistair Campbell (Scotland), Dic Jones (Welsh), and Jim Carroll.

Part of the Brookland Reading Series presented by BAWAdc.

WHEN:
7:00pm Wednesday November 11, 2009

WHERE:
Brookland Visitors Center, 3420 9th Street, NE. 20017 Washington DC
1/2 block from Brookland/CUA Red Line Metro across Monroe Street, and right across 9th Street from Colonel Brooks’ Tavern.

This reading is free and open to all. For further information call (202) 526-1632 or email mgushuedc@yahoo.com. Also see the website www.bawadc.com.

Brookland Visitor’s Center

Tickets for DC native, humorist, media gadfly, and contributor to Wait Wait .. Don’t Tell me Mo Rocca’s November 16th performance at CUA will be sold 10/19/2009 at the Pryzbyla Center from 10-2pm and from 5-7pm. Read more about Mo Rocca’s CUA performance.

Ticket Prices

Tickets can be purchased online from the CUA Program Board Store.

Contact information
Pryzbyla Center, Room 125
620 Michigan Ave NE
Washington, DC 20064
Main Office Line: (202) 319-5777
Executive Office Line: (202) 319-6006
Email: cua-programboard@cua.edu

Hours of Operation
Monday – Thursday: 10am – 5pm
Friday: 10am – 4pm

Fort Reno Summer Concert series has announced their 2009 schedule on their fancy new website designed and developed by the talented (and awesome) folks at Threespot.

As with previous years Fort Reno will be hosting great bands multiple times a week during the summer. If you have been in the past its always a good time to see some free music. The events start at 7:15pm and end at 9:30pm, they are kid and pet (i.e. dog) friendly and last most of the summer from the middle of June to the middle of August.

Fort Reno Park is a little ways away from Brookland but is metro accessible via a straight shot down the Red Line to the Tenleytown-AU stop, once off the stop walk two blocks north to the park.

The full Fort Reno 2009 schedule is located here. The Fort Reno Summer Concert Series is completely volunteer based and rely on donations, if you enjoy the series please donate so they can keep things running,

Also glass bottles, drugs and alcohol are strictly prohibited.

Fort Reno Park Map

Artomatic, Washington DC’s yearly(ish) local artist extravaganza started up its month long residency at Navy Yard in SE DC. This is Artomatic’s 10th anniversary to see all different types of DC based artists. There is a little for everyone with everything from photography to installation to video art.

Artomatic also has a large for number of events including Frank Warren of Post Secret on opening night and the Sonic Circuits Showcase on Saturday May 30th.

For the full schedule of events at Artomatic 2009 view the Event Calendar and follow Artomatic on Twitter or visit artomatic.org.

Artomatic Photos

Artomatic Peeps

Once again this Artomatic is hosting the finalists in the Washington Post Sunday Source Peeps III Diorama Contest A large number of great dioramas are on display this including peep versions of Pee Wee’s Playhouse, Guantanamo Bay, and DC Roller Girls. This is one Artomatic exhibit filled with sweet candy goodness and is not to be missed.

View the complete Artomatic photoset here

Artomatic Logistics

55 M Street, SE
Washington, DC 20003

May 29 – July 5, 2009
Fri-Sat: Noon-1 am
Sun, Wed, Thu: Noon-10 pm