Events

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Experience the powerful narrative of resilience and hope in “The Color Purple” at Harmony Hall Arts Center. Directed by Blitz Bazawule, this adaptation delves deep into Celie’s struggles against adversity in the American South. Featuring a stellar cast including Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks, this musical period drama depicts Celie’s journey through adversity.

Beyond Networks: Work by The New Image Artists, curated by Mary Welch Higgins, seeks to create a conversation about meaning and personal expression in a complex, wired, and networked world. The exhibit highlights work by New Images Artists that explores the meaning of networks and is intended to draw attention to how the processes inherent in the creation of textile art as well as the “encoding of meaning” have been mirrored in the invention and development of digital social networks. New Image Artists is a group of professional fiber and mix media artists including B.J. Adams, Mary Beth Bellah, Linda Colish, Joan Dreyer, Candace Edgerely, Cathy Kleeman, Verena Levine, Dominie Nash, Ginny Smith, Andrea Uravitch, and Saaraliisa Ylitalo.

The Sound of DC: A Visual History of Punk explores the emergence of the punk rock subculture in 1976 in the Washington, D.C. area, leading out of a historically rich jazz scene and into subcultures distinct from other large music scenes such as New York City and London.