REMEMBRANCE OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered (GLBT) Arts Consortium will offer a Remembrance of Martin Luther King, Jr., Tuesday, January 19, 2009, 7 PM, Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church (CHPC), 4th and Independence Avenue SE, near the Eastern Market and Capitol South Metro Stations.

The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by a grant from the Capitol Hill Community Foundation. The Church is accessible and the event will be interpreted for the deaf.

The national theme for Martin Luther King Jr. Day is "Remember! Celebrate! Act! A Day On. Not a Day Off."

Participants in the Remembrance include:

  • Fortissima (formerly Bread & Roses Feminist Singers),
  • Capitol Hill Youth Chorus,
  • Lesbian & Gay Chorus of Washington, D.C.,
  • Not What You Think,
  • Nuance,
  • Rock Creek Singers of Gay Men's Chorus of Washington,
  • Jubilee Singers of All Souls Unitarian,
  • and others, including individual artists Pamela Jafari and Peter DiMuro.

Participants in the King Remembrance reflect the broad range of artists and presenting groups that collectively make up the GLBT Arts Consortium, a voluntary collaboration of varied arts organizations from the Washington, D.C. metro area which works to raise the visibility of GLBT arts.

For more information about the King Remembrance, contact: 202-547-4102 or dcglbtarts(at)yahoo.com

IOLANTHE: Or the Peer and the Peri

This was the ninth collaboration between the Consortium and CHAW.

Thanks to our audiences for another successful production.

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Resources:

The production was a joint project of the
GLBT Arts Consortium
and the
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop.