Come out to sing with live piano accompaniment or just enjoy the music! Join the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC for “Sing Out: GMCW Open Mic Night.”
It is the early 1990s in New York City, a decade into the horrific AIDS epidemic. Far beneath the national radar’s concern for the massive deaths of vital, young white men within the gay community, and the anxious, lingering myths and unknowns about the disease, Black, poor folks of all persuasions are suffering and dying at proportionately higher rates – and intergenerationally.
Marjorie Prime follows octogenarian Marjorie, battling dementia, as her daughter Tess and son-in-law Jon introduce cutting-edge technology to their household called a Prime.
Discover how the Arab-Islamic world fused with the culture of Granada in Spain to help give birth to the gypsy dance form of flamenco. Furia Flamenca dancers will be joined by Barrio Andalusi, a string and percussion ensemble under the direction of Guillermo-Juan Christie, including oud, piano and Middle Eastern percussion with a special guest appearance by Middle Eastern Yillah Natalie.
The GenOUT Youth Chorus, under the direction of GMCW Associate Conductor C. Paul Heins, will present its annual Youth Invasion concert in the Lang Theatre of Atlas Performing Arts Center. This year, GenOUT will collaborate with the chorus of Jackson-Reed High School, under the direction of Ronté Pierce.
Join us for UNEARTHED, an evening performance featuring young artists of The VIVA School. UNEARTHED is a thought-provoking and visually stunning dance production inspired by the power of human potential. Merging dynamic storytelling, music, and movement, UNEARTHED illuminates humanity’s deep desire to express, to seek and to grow. In this compelling performance, audiences are invited to look beyond the surface and explore their innate light.
The Well is a musical memoir that explores addiction and the hope of forgiveness. Rex Daugherty shares the hilarious and the heartbreaking in this intimate story and song cycle of all original singer-songwriter material.
LINKED is a starting point for another new chapter exploring themes of disconnection and isolation, and the unrelenting joy we feel when we find where we are meant to be. Taking on a collective exploration in this work, LINKED draws from personal experiences, stories, and places that hold that magical thread that is so vital for us and that is all too often missing in our communities.
Jacques is a drag queen. Touchstone thinks she should stop taking things so seriously. Oliver doesn’t “get” pronouns. And Rosalind is pretending to be the divine hero Ganymede as a performance art piece for her MFA thesis. But maybe she doesn’t want to stop. And maybe she’s not so sure it’s pretending.
Through ritual, nothing living dies! This interactive multi-media performance will tell the story of syBLINGS!’ inherent desire to deconstruct religion, venerate their Ancestors and exemplify creative expression as an undergirding force for transformation.