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Washington DC Artist Ira Blount

Uploaded: 2018-09-04T14:37:18.000Z

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Video Title: Washington DC Artist Ira Blount
Description: An interview with Washington, DC artist Ira Blount shortly before his 100th birthday. Blount's work spans quilting, cross-stitch, basket-weaving, and origami.
Video Duration: 3 min 56 sec

Creator: Anacostia Community Museums Collections and Research

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Topic: African Americans

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579Washington DC Artist Ira BlountAn interview with Washington, DC artist Ira Blount shortly before his 100th birthday. Blount's work spans quilting, cross-stitch, basket-weaving, and origami.3 min 56 sec

ACMA AV003096 d

Uploaded: 2016-09-08T19:53:30.000Z

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Video Title: ACMA AV003096 d
Video Duration: 1 hr 5 min 6 sec

Creator: Anacostia Community Museums Collections and Research

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Topic: African Americans

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Urban Gardening Series: Building a Sense of Unity: Gardening’s Important Role in Healthy Communities

Uploaded: 2021-06-28T22:57:44.000Z

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Video Title: Urban Gardening Series: Building a Sense of Unity: Gardening’s Important Role in Healthy Communities
Description: Saturday, June 26 | 10:30am – 12pm How does the presence of and access to green spaces shape our daily lives? We are excited to feature nationally known thought leader, Akiima Price, whose work explores the relationship between community well-being and nature. During this live session, we will first explore the ways that green spaces can contribute to a connection to place and strengthen the overall health of communities. Then we’ll get (virtually) dirty with garden facilitator Derek Thomas who will guide participants in garden housekeeping, the planting of corn, peppers, and tomatoes, and training plants as they grow. About the series “Growing Community: Connecting the How and the Why of Gardening” Gardens are more than seeds and soil. They can be unexpected and important sites of community empowerment. They allow us to connect with the land while feeding the people we care about. Gardens can mean financial security and even freedom. During this six-part series, virtual participants will learn techniques for growing vegetables and herbs at home and explore the history of gardening in DC’s East of the River communities.
Video Duration: 1 hr 32 min 53 sec
YouTube Keywords: "Anacostia Community Museum"

Creator: Anacostia Community Museum

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39Urban Gardening Series: Building a Sense of Unity: Gardening’s Important Role in Healthy CommunitiesSaturday, June 26 | 10:30am – 12pm How does the presence of and access to green spaces shape our daily lives?

Take Time Thursday 6 24 21 Encouragement for Your Soul

Uploaded: 2021-06-25T19:49:49.000Z

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Video Title: Take Time Thursday 6 24 21 Encouragement for Your Soul
Description: So you need a little encouragement and centering today? Although the country is opening back up, things are still far from normal. Join us as we hear from our host, Jenelle Cooper, as she encourages us all through poetry and song. Jenelle has worked at the Smithsonian Institution for over 33 years and has been at the Anacostia Community Museum since 1996. She is a woman of faith and has found that it has enabled her to get through anything. She is a minister in training and is determined to empower people to live their best lives. It is her faith that will drive this presentation as she switches hats for a moment. #Take Time Thursdays with the Anacostia Community Museum gives participants a chance to take time for wellness, health, and creativity with artists, thought leaders, performers, wellness practitioners and others. Take a 30-minute break with us from 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. every other Thursday and boost your mind, body and spirit.
Video Duration: 21 min 10 sec
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20Take Time Thursday 6 24 21 Encouragement for Your SoulSo you need a little encouragement and centering today? Although the country is opening back up, things are still far from normal.

Women in Environmental Leadership (WEL) Series with Abra Lee 6-12-21

Uploaded: 2021-06-22T13:40:17.000Z

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Video Title: Women in Environmental Leadership (WEL) Series with Abra Lee 6-12-21
Description: Saturday, June 12 | 1 – 3pm Join Public Horticulturalist Abra Lee in an exploration of her approach to engaging audiences on issues of access to and celebration of garden spaces. We’ll discuss Abra’s connection to and rediscovery of her cultural and ecological heritages, her navigation of predominately white spaces, and the importance of meeting and respecting people where they feel most comfortable in their connection to garden spaces.
Video Duration: 1 hr 59 min 21 sec
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44Women in Environmental Leadership (WEL) Series with Abra Lee 6-12-21Saturday, June 12 | 1 – 3pm Join Public Horticulturalist Abra Lee in an exploration of her approach to engaging audiences on issues of access to and celebration of garden spaces.

#TakeTimeThursday 2-25-21 One-Woman Performance: "Ms. Sarah's Wedding Dress" with Mama Ayo

Uploaded: 2021-06-16T22:20:22.000Z

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Video Title: #TakeTimeThursday 2-25-21 One-Woman Performance: "Ms. Sarah's Wedding Dress" with Mama Ayo
Description: Thursday, February 25 | 2:30 – 3pm Author and Storyteller, Ayo Handy-Kendi, brings us a story-performance of an enslaved women’s determination to marry before her community and supported by her white slave master. Ms. Handy-Kendi created this story as the imagined backdrop of a treasured homespun wedding dress made by the mistress of Sarah Tate, an enslaved person born in 1824. Through the lens of enslaved persons of that time, this story touches on issues that threatened their relationships. While Sarah's mistress watches the friendship between two enslaved persons grow into love, she suggests they marry, defying the anti-bellum South's anti-marriage laws. These decisions placed all concerned in great danger but the rewards, for them, far outweighed the danger. #Take Time Thursdays with the Anacostia Community Museum gives participants a chance to take time for wellness, health, and creativity with artists, thought leaders, performers, wellness practitioners and others. Take a 30-minute break with us from 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. each Thursday and boost your mind, body and spirit.
Video Duration: 32 min 22 sec
YouTube Keywords: "Anacostia Community Museum"

Creator: Anacostia Community Museum

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Intro to: "Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington"

Uploaded: 2021-06-10T20:40:27.000Z

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Video Title: Intro to: "Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington"
Description: This video serves as an introduction to the outdoor portion a new outdoor exhibition at Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum. Featured: Samir Meghelli, Chief Curator ACM Dominique Hazzard, Curatorial Researcher Xavier Brown, Founder, Soilful City and Pippin Hot Sauce Beverly Wheeler, Director, DC Hunger Solutions Rebecca Lemos-Otero, Founder City Blossoms Christylez Bacon, Grammy-nominated, DC-based hip hop artist Across our nation and region, we have both an overabundance of food and a staggering number of people who struggle to find their next meal. This reality has only worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Food for the People outdoor exhibition—which will be joined by an indoor exhibition when the museum reopens its building—asks us to confront this reality by meaningfully considering where our food comes from, who produces, processes, and prepares it, who has access to it, and what impact it has on our collective health. The exhibition offers a safe, outdoor experience where visitors can be introduced to food justice issues we face in the Washington, D.C. area, as well as local people and ideas that are making our food system more just and sustainable. Also featured in the exhibition is a sculptural tribute to the food workers whose labor makes our food possible, from the farmworkers and meat processors to the grocery store and restaurant workers. Indoor Portion of Food for the People opening August 6th!
Video Duration: 19 min 10 sec
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Creator: Anacostia Community Museum

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507Intro to: "Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington"This video serves as an introduction to the outdoor portion a new outdoor exhibition at Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum.

#TakeTimeThursday Writing & Performing Tasty Songs with Christylez Bacon

Uploaded: 2021-04-28T00:52:13.000Z

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Video Title: #TakeTimeThursday Writing & Performing Tasty Songs with Christylez Bacon
Description: We hear from Christylez (Chris-Styles) Bacon, GRAMMY® Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist, as he leads a workshop using Hip-Hop songwriting to create a snapshot of cultural culinary staples. Workshop participants gain an understanding of the timing, song structure, rhythm, history, and rhyming that led to the globalization of Hip-Hop and its influence on other musical styles. This month our Take Time Thursdays will be about food in conjunction with ACM’s year-long theme, “Our Food Our Future.” This year long examination of food history, culture, and justice includes the exhibit, “Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington” and related programs designed to educate and encourage audiences to take action to create a more equitable future. As a performer, Christylez multi-tasks between various instruments such as the West African djembe drum, acoustic guitar, and the human beat-box (oral percussion), all while continuing the oral tradition of storytelling through his lyrics. With a mission towards cultural acceptance and unification through music, Christylez is constantly pushing the envelope – from performances at the National Cathedral to becoming the first Hip-Hop artist to be featured at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival or recording a Folk/Hip-Hop children’s album. He is the recipient of multiple honors awarded by the Washington Area Music Association including 2013 Artist of the Year, and the Montgomery County Executive Award for Excellence in the Arts and has even been honored as a 2012 “Library Superhero” by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County. #Take Time Thursdays with the Anacostia Community Museum gives participants a chance to take time for wellness, health, and creativity with artists, thought leaders, performers, wellness practitioners and others. Take a 30-minute break with us from 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. each Thursday and boost your mind, body and spirit.
Video Duration: 49 min 51 sec
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18#TakeTimeThursday Writing & Performing Tasty Songs with Christylez BaconWe hear from Christylez (Chris-Styles) Bacon, GRAMMY® Nominated Progressive Hip-Hop artist and multi-instrumentalist, as he leads a workshop using Hip-Hop songwriting to create a snapshot of cultural culina

Women of The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit

Uploaded: 2021-03-09T13:32:09.000Z

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Video Title: Women of The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
Description: The first of 4 in the Women in Environmental Leadership Series in honor of Women's History Month. An important environmental justice reunion and focus on female activism. This community forum brings together several women who were participants in the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit of 1991. How did this summit impact their work? What lessons were learned in the past that can be applied to efforts today? About the original Summit: Over the course of four days in October of 1991, more than 500 participants gathered in Washington, D.C., to challenge myths that communities of color were not concerned about environmental issues. Participants represented civil rights, environmental health, community development, and faith organizations from across the U.S., Canada, Central and South America, and the Marshall Islands. Conversations, negotiations, and moments of solidarity produced the 17 Principles of Environmental Justice. These principles forever transformed future notions of “the environment” and “environmentalism.” They energized and supported the efforts of Environmental Justice networks and spurred reflection within mainstream environmental organizations who sought to address charges of exclusivity and a lack of diversity. ACM is pleased to have the support of PEPCO as a Contributing Sponsor of WEL for the 2021 fiscal year. Panelists: Susana Almanza, Director PODER Dr. Mildred McClain- Founder/Executive Director, Harambee House Vernice Miller-Travis, Executive Vice President, Metropolitan Group
Video Duration: 2 hr 35 min 40 sec
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291Women of The First National People of Color Environmental Leadership SummitThe first of 4 in the Women in Environmental Leadership Series in honor of Women's History Month. An important environmental justice reunion and focus on female activism.

Knowing Our Past, Creating Our Future: Youth Leadership in DC Activism

Uploaded: 2021-02-26T22:22:12.000Z

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Video Title: Knowing Our Past, Creating Our Future: Youth Leadership in DC Activism
Description: Recorded February 25, 2021 The first in this year's Right to the City panel discussions. Young people have been at the forefront of social movements across the generations, acting as important forces for change. Join us for an intergenerational conversation with Washington, DC organizers—past and present—about the power and role of youth leadership in Black-led social movements in the city. Hosted by organizers Katie Petitt (Current Movements) and Matt Birkhold (Visionary Organizing Lab), the conversation will feature Courtland Cox (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Chi Hughes (Sapphire Sapphos), and Dion Harris (Black Swan Academy). BOUT THE SERIES: “Knowing Our Past, Creating Our Future” Washington, DC is widely seen as a site of large national protests but also has a long and overlooked history of local activism. In the 1960s, activists in Washington, DC created new schools, successfully organized to stop freeway construction in neighborhoods, created neighborhood governance when the city had no local elected officials, stopped urban renewal projects, and created parks, youth centers, and cooperative food stores. DC activists also organized to establish home rule and gain representation in Congress. In partnership with the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, two DC-based organizations that support activists who seek to deepen their work—Current Movements (CM) and Visionary Organizing Lab (VOL)—are collaborating to understand why DC was fertile ground for this kind of institution building. We believe that by bringing generations together to explore this question, younger and elder activists alike can grow in their work and see themselves as part of a multigenerational movement history unique to DC.
Video Duration: 1 hr 52 min 53 sec
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Topic: African Americans

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850Knowing Our Past, Creating Our Future: Youth Leadership in DC ActivismRecorded February 25, 2021 The first in this year's Right to the City panel discussions.

"Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets" Panel discussion with Omar Jimenez

Uploaded: 2021-02-15T19:22:17.000Z

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Video Title: "Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets" Panel discussion with Omar Jimenez
Description: This virtual panel discussion, moderated by CNN Correspondent, Omar Jimenez, kicks off ACM’s outdoor installation of the "Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets" exhibition. https://anacostia.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Men-of-Change-Taking-it-to-the-Streets-6533 This poignant discussion includes the perspectives of Jonathan Jackson, Men of Change architect and founding partner at WSDIA; Dr. Rob Gore, ER physician, founder of KAVI Brooklyn and featured Man of Change; and Tariku Shiferaw commissioned Men of Change artist. The social unrest of 2020 has illuminated the active presence of institutionalized racism in America and its impact on the Black community. As Black men continually fight to prove their humanity, Men of Change creates space for them to have agency over their own multifaceted narratives that shift paradigms and dismantle negative racial tropes. Panelists will share how they wield power through creativity and resistance to make an impact in their respective fields and their communities. About the exhibition "Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets" As COVID-19 continues to severely impact museum visitation, the Anacostia Community Museum has quickly and creatively reimagined their upcoming exhibition, Men of Change. Formerly slated for display inside the museum, the exhibition has been redesigned for installation outdoors. Men of Change, which features the vibrant stories of more than two dozen African American male leaders, will create a stunning visual presence of Black male positivity along ordinary pedestrian walkways at a time when optimism and inspiration is needed.
Video Duration: 1 hr 11 min 31 sec
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221"Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets" Panel discussion with Omar JimenezThis virtual panel discussion, moderated by CNN Correspondent, Omar Jimenez, kicks off ACM’s outdoor installation of the "Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets" exhibition.

"A Right To The City" Symposium | Keynote Conversation with Dr. Scott Kurashige

Uploaded: 2018-11-28T15:39:33.000Z

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Video Title: "A Right To The City" Symposium | Keynote Conversation with Dr. Scott Kurashige
Description: Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum presents... "A Right to the City: The Past & Future of Urban Equity" Symposium KEYNOTE - Conversation with Dr. Scott Kurashige October 26, 2018 A discussion of Dr. Kurashige's book, "The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit" (University of California Press, 2017). Dr. Scott Kurashige is a professor of American & Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. He is also co-author (with Grace Lee Boggs) of "The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century." MODERATOR Dr. Samir Meghelli, Senior Curator, Anacostia Community Museum
Video Duration: 56 min 19 sec
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109"A Right To The City" Symposium | Keynote Conversation with Dr. Scott KurashigeSmithsonian Anacostia Community Museum presents... "A Right to the City: The Past & Future of Urban Equity" Symposium KEYNOTE - Conversation with Dr.

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