#WhyILoveAnacostia - Lots of FREE events in Anacostia today!

10AM - 5PM
ANACOSTIA RIVER & JAZZ FESTIVAL
ANACOSTIA PARK
FREE

10AM - 3:30PM

COMMUNITY BROADBAND SUMMIT

SAVOY ELEMENTARY (2427 MLK JR AVE SE)

FREE

12-5PM

LUMEN8Anacostia Pop-up shops & performance spaces

SEE BELOW FOR LISTING

FREE

Includes:

Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope RD SE

Honfleur Gallery is exhibiting local EotR artist Amber Robles-Gordon’s mix media and textile work, With Every Fiber of My Being.

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Anacostia Design Center
1231 Good Hope RD SE

Bruce McNeil and Misty Brown
Anacostia River Photography& Rolling on the River Gallery & Playhouse

Dino Almaguer
“Paperniture” paper furniture

Julian Weaver
visual artist- cigarbox guitars

Brian Evans
Ward 8 fashion designer

Michael Lynn Thompson
Green Nerd- Paper luggage & accessories

Serenity Players
Pamela Jafari – Performance, theater and coursework

Anacostia Business Center
1227 Good Hope RD SE

Sheila Crider
Mixed media artist
came; Enlightened
Site Specific Installation

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A juxtaposition of studies of the labyrinth form with  the poem “came;” written by Washingtonian Samuel Johnson

1918 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE

Ryan C. Doyle
Chaos
Doyles’ artwork can be described as huge, massive, loud, dangerous, and thought provoking. At 6ft 6inches and 264pounds his stature is intimidating and his smile is guaranteed to pull the audience into his multi layered artworks where they can physically manipulate and interact with his sculptures.

 Blank Space SE

1922 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE

Tendani Art Place
- Featuring original art by Tendani Mpulubusi El and Lewis Carroll
- Community Drop Cloth where the public participates in the artmaking process

Anacostia Bank Building
2021 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE

Street Level

Anacostia Gallery and Boutique

- African Diaspora Exhibition

Second Floor

Tommie Adams Photography

- Natural Light and the Male Nude

Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab and the Gallery at Vivid Solutions
2208 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE

Street Level
Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab:  VS Print Lab will be hosting an open house
from 2-6pm, your best shot from the day will be printed for free and
displayed inside for visitors to view

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions:  birdsdecay, a solo exhibit by Northern
Virginia artist Benjamin K. Nguyen will open at noon.

Second Floor

Sam Capies
portrait painting

Rachel Kerwin
mixed media

Nosheen Ahmad
sewing classes and demonstrations

12-5PM

SERENITY PLAYERS (EotR Theater Company)
ANACOSTIA DESIGN CENTER (1231 GOOD HOPE RD SE)
12-1PM Yasmin Bower's recycled glass jewelry
2-4PM Resume Writing & Head Shots with JoAnn Williams
FREE

12-5PM
TOMMIE ADAMS PHOTOGRAPHY
OLD ANACOSTIA BANK | 2ND FLOOR (2021 MLK JR. AVE SE)
How to photograph the male nude
2-3PM
FREE

12-6PM
ANACOSTIA ART GALLERY & BOUTIQUE
OLD ANACOSTIA BANK | MAIN FLOOR (2021 MLK JR. AVE SE)
FREE

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