The Arts : Features

Art can not only heal minds but can heal communities after disaster. Our latest panel discussion showed how improv can help typhoon survivors, painting can help protestors, and photography can help rebuild a landmark.

The District's film scene is alive and kicking, as our interviews with these four filmmakers show.

Mary Tyszkiewicz is using improv to help people prepare for  and recover from disasters. 

In recognition of September as National Emergency Preparedness Month, the panel will explore the importance of the arts and humanities during community pre and post-recovery efforts following natural and man-made disasters.

 The conversation engaged community partners who incorporate the arts in programs for at-risk young people, the elderly, people living with and caring for those with life-changing and life-ending conditions, and various members of the arts and non-profit community.

Thanks to a new law, D.C.'s airwaves are about to get a lot more local.

Please join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for a conversation exploring how local D.C. organizations are using the arts as an outlet to heal and explore the minds and bodies of those within our community.

A new job-training program for vendors of D.C.'s street newspaper is taking the nonprofit into new media, and taking viewers on a wild ride.

Elevation DC and the DCCAH's event on arts access Wednesday was designed to get people talking about the city they wanted to see.

“Hip-hop is all grown up now. KRS-One is 50. I’m forty....[But] hip-hop is an approach, a world view, and hip-hop-heads are in academia, in corporate life.” 

A number of arts organizations—many of them less than a decade old—are slowly turning Wards 7 and 8 from “art deserts” to art destinations. But the change of pace is slower than many would like.

These Howard University student musicians aren't your average buskers.

What does the future hold for the District? Elevation D.C. looks forward for our last issue of the year.

What does a great neighborhood need? Parks? Retail? Grocery stores? Elevation DC's panel discussion with former D.C. mayor Anthony Williams and other experts, in a space overlooking the Capitol Riverfront, aimed to figure that out.

When cookie-cutter buildings replace historic ones, something is lost. Here's how preserving D.C.'s landmarks can enrich our neighborhoods.