Since its founding in 1967, the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Group Museum has been powered by the individuals and tales of the Washington, D.C., area. In celebration of the Museum’s 56th anniversary, the museum is internet hosting A Evening on the Museum on Friday, Sept. 15 from 7-10 p.m.

In celebration of ACM’s 2023 theme, “Our Surroundings, Our Future”, company are inspired to put on sustainable style that represents the weather of the atmosphere: Earth, Water, Hearth, and Wind.  Too A lot Expertise, native stay band that brings a contemporary and thrilling strategy to Hip Hop, R&B, Pop, Soul, Funk, and Jazz can be onsite performing all through the night. Friends may even get pleasure from mocktails by Sugar Rim Bar, small bites and candy treats by Fluffiness.

“To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.” is on view at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum until January 7, 2024. Photo Credit: Anacostia Community Museum, Matailong Du.
“To Reside and Breathe: Girls and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.” is on view on the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Group Museum till January 7, 2024. Photograph Credit score: Anacostia Group Museum, Matailong Du.

Friends of the occasion may even have an opportunity to expertise ACM’s present exhibition: To Reside and Breathe: Girls and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C., which explores how native girls of colour draw on an extended historical past of activism and advance environmental justice efforts not solely in D.C., however throughout the nation and past. On view till Jan. 7, 2024, the exhibition offers guests a possibility to study why girls have turn out to be leaders within the environmental justice motion, which pathways they’ve taken to reach there, and the way their efforts profit our native communities and the earth.

Make sure you go to, anacostia.si.edu to RSVP for this occasion.  This celebration is a 21+ event. 

We hope you’ll come have fun, A Evening on the Museum, with us!

A Evening on the Museum: Celebrating 56 Years of Group Tales
Smithsonian’s Anacostia Group Museum, 1901 Fort Place, SE, Washington, DC 20020
Friday, Sept. 15, 2023 | 7-10pm | 21+ solely | registration really helpful | anacostia.si.edu