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The Director's Cut
In this new column, The Director’s Cut, Arlington Cultural Affairs' Director offers a behind-the-scenes peek at the people, programs and initiatives that have supported and nurtured Arlington’s thriving arts community for the last three decades. More
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Moving Words Competition Winning Poems
This year’s Moving Words Competition's six winning poems were selected from 211 poems by this year’s judge, Arlington’s 2nd Poet Laureate Holly Karapetkova, who also has a poem on display. View the poems online and on Arlington’s ART buses from February through September 2021. More
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Arts Enterprise Institute Spring Workshop:
Community Engagement for Artists
In this workshop, artists and arts organizations receive an overview of ways to engage with the community they serve. Instructor Sushmita Mazumdar will share her experiences with community art projects she has facilitated and observed, so participants can learn how to use art to achieve long-term outcomes, try out new processes, and build relationships. More
Tues, Mar 2 | 11am-1pm | via Zoom
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The Arlington Players:
Waiting for the Host
As the pandemic begins, everything closes down, people are searching for the new norm, a sense of closeness and...how to work technology.
The rector of a small church gathers a handful of parishioners via video conference to put on a Passion Play. Chaos ensues when the actors bicker and technology confuses, and this socially distant endeavor starts to fall apart. Yet being bitten by the “acting bug” and motivated to put on “updated” versions of medieval Biblical plays, the group comes together...with the help of an unexpected guest. More
Mar 6-13 | livestreamed online
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Arlington Philharmonic:
Celebration of Black History Month
Join the Arlington Philharmonic as they celebrate Black History Month with a tribute to Black composers.
Arlington Philharmonic Music Director A. Scott Wood will lead a discussion and interview with composer, conductor, songwriter and pianist Ahmed Alabaca. More
Sat, Feb 27 | 7-8pm | via Zoom
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Avant Bard: The Bard's Action Corner
Avant Bard will host the first Bard's Action Corner - a gathering place for important social and cultural discourse. This virtual panel discussion will focus on putting words into action in light of the reawakened call for equity, diversity and inclusion. The discussion will not only center on EDI issues in the theatre but will also challenge participants to detail actionable steps that will foster a more equitable and inclusive theatre in Arlington, the DC-area, and around the country.
Moderated by Avant Bard Theatre Producing Partner DeMone Seraphin, the panel will include artistic directors, composers, performers, choreographers, artists and educators from the DC metro area and beyond. The event is free but registration is required. More
Fri, Feb 26 | 7pm | online
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Arlington Public Library
Toni Morrison: Her Life & Work
A discussion of Toni Morrison, with a focus on "Beloved", led by Angelyn Mitchell, PhD, Associate Professor, English and African American Studies at Georgetown University.
The only African American to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, Toni Morrison expanded and enriched American letters by poetically inserting African American experience into the American narrative and, in so doing, made the American narrative more complex and complete. Her eleven novels as well as her editorial career recalibrated American letters. "Beloved" is her most well known novel, and it offers a unique perspective on a central American institution—slavery and its legacies. More
Thurs, Mar 4 | 7-8pm
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DC Homecoming for Safia Elhillo & a Debut of Her Young Adult Novel Home is Not a Country
Join Busboys and Poets for the virtual celebration of author and poet Safia Elhillo's debut YA novel, Home is Not a Country. Marjan Naderi, the 2020 D.C. Youth Poet Laureate featured in Arlington Arts' Visual Verse project, will open up the event with a reading, followed by a reading from Safia Elhillo from her novel. Special guests Elizabeth Acevedo and Clint Smith will join Safia for a lively in-conversation after the reading. A musical offering from Alsarah will close out the evening. The event is free but registration is required. More
Thurs, Mar 4 | 6pm | via Zoom
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Share Your County Logo
Arlington County is developing a brand-new logo and needs your help! Learn more about the process and submit your ideas. From now until Friday, March 14, submit what you think is a good logo concept for Arlington. Visit the logo submission page to read submission guidelines along with some ideas to get your creativity flowing. As you create your design, think about the images, symbols and feelings unique to Arlington and shared by people across neighborhoods. Be creative! Be bold! Have fun!
This logo would replace the current seal and logo that currently depict Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee Memorial. The new logo aims to more accurately represent the values and aspirations that are held by the residents of Arlington. More
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