Take Five Series
Our Take Five series, held at 5:30 on select Tuesdays, fuses performance and discussion.
Try something new at these free, enriching and insightful events.
Tuesday, September 13 . 5:30PM — Writer, composer and director Rinde Eckert performs a solo concert of song, dramatic monologues, lecture and video from his anthology of theatrical loners.
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Tuesday, September 20 . 5:30PM — Join Dr. Ysaye Barnwell for a two-hour community sing of rhythms, chants and songs from African and African-American traditions.
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Tuesday, October 4 . 5:30PM — These two composers discuss Subotnick’s pioneering role in the birth of electronic music, with audio examples and projected historical photographs.
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Tuesday, October 18 . 5:30PM — The premier brass band from Anacostia’s United House of Prayer for All People performs choir-based brass band music.
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Tuesday, October 25 . 5:30PM — A West African historian in the Griot tradition and a master of the ngoni, Hamala shares the oral history, music and song of his culture.
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Tuesday, November 15 . 5:30PM — This award-winning poet performs his pioneering brand of spoken word poetry and leads the audience through the process of creating their own poems.
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Tuesday, February 28 . 5:30PM — Singer, songwriter and musician Toshi Reagon has “a profound ear for sonic Americana — from folk to funk, from blues to rock” says critic/blogger Eva Yaa Asantewaa (InfiniteBody).
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Tuesday, March 6 . 5:30PM — Dr. Barnwell explores what the lyrics of spirituals have to tell us about the African experience in American history.
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Tuesday, March 13 . 5:30PM — No notes, no scripts, no actors — seven storytellers get seven minutes each to tell a true, personal story about a specific theme.
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Tuesday, April 3 . 5:30PM — Before embarking on a 500-mile walk from her home to a mountainous coal-mining region, choreographer Cassie Meador questions how we consume natural resources.
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