Event Schedule
Poet-a-Tete
Thursday, July 24, 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM · [+]
No dance partner or previous experience required!
Scott Holland and Beth Rinaldo Duo
Friday, July 25, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM · [+]
Washington, DC based folk/country/roots rock duo
Beth Rinaldo (vocals, six and twelve- string guitars) has been singing, playing guitar and writing songs for many years and was a founding member of Beth-Allison & The Well-Strung Boys and The Big Sky. She came to the DC area 16 years ago from Wyoming and Colorado. Her musical influences include her parents (who enjoyed big band swing and classical music), Gordon Lightfoot, the Eagles, Neil Young, Gillian Welch, Julie and Buddy Miller, and EmmyLou Harris.
Scott Holland (guitar, lap steel, mandolin, harmonica, vocals) has been playing in bands around the D.C. area for over 30 years. Over the course of that time he has played with country rock innovators The Coyote Band, folk-rock pioneer Cassie Culver, the Teresa Gunn Group, One Nite Stand, 6L6, Beth-Allison & The Well-Strung Boys, and The Big Sky. He has also worked with local artists such as Patty Reese, Ruthie Logsdon, Mark Noone and Ty Braddock. His musical influences range from ‘60s folk music to The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Gram Parsons, The Police, U2, and Ry Cooder, among others.
As We Forgive - Film Screening
Monday, July 28, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM · [+]
SYNOPSIS
Could you forgive a person who murdered your family? This is the question faced by the subjects of As We Forgive, a documentary about Rosaria and Chantal—two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The subjects of As We Forgive speak for a nation still wracked by the grief of a genocide that killed one in eight Rwandans in 1994. Overwhelmed by an enormous backlog of court cases, the government has returned over 50,000 thousand genocide perpetrators back to the very communities they helped to destroy. Without the hope of full justice, Rwanda has turned to a new solution: Reconciliation.
But can it be done? Can survivors truly forgive the killers who destroyed their families? Can the government expect this from its people? And can the church, which failed at moral leadership during the genocide, fit into the process of reconciliation today? In As We Forgive, director Laura Waters Hinson and narrator Mia Farrow explore these topics through the lives of four neighbors once caught in opposite tides of a genocidal bloodbath, and their extraordinary journey from death to life through forgiveness.
“As We Forgive” won Best Documentary at the 2008 Student Academy Awards.
Call + Response - Film Screening
Friday, August 1, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM · [+]
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in 2007, Slave Traders made more money than Google, Nike and Starbucks combined.
Luminaries on the issue such as Cornel West, Madeleine Albright, Daryl Hannah, Julia Ormond, Ashley Judd, Nicholas Kristof, and many other prominent political and cultural figures offer first hand account of this 21st century trade. Performances from Grammy-winning and critically acclaimed artists including Moby, Natasha Bedingfield, Cold War Kids, Matisyahu, Imogen Heap, Talib Kweli, Five For Fighting, Switchfoot, members of Nickel Creek and Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, Rocco Deluca move this chilling information into inspiration for stopping it.
CALL+RESPONSE’s chilling undercover footage, stunning performances and life-changing interviews exposes audiences to the world’s 27 million most terrifying secrets and culminates in a single question: “What Will Your Response Be?”