Thank you so much for your incredible support of Mosaic Theater Company. Thanks to you, our weekday matinee audiences have been larger, more inclusive, more well-rounded, and more diverse than ever before. We are in awe of your continued commitment to our programming and mission.
Our Fourth Season was recently announced, and we would love to have you and your group back as part of our Mosaic.
So as a little thank you, we wanted to make sure you got information about our new Season Four weekday matinee schedule before anyone else. Tickets in Season Four are still affordable at $8 per ticket for groups of 10 or more only! This price is a bargain compared to other DC Theaters. We also have multiple weekday matinee performances for selected shows. All performances start at 11 AM. We hope you will take advantage of this deal to return for Season Four: How Hope Happens.
Please note: we have revised the weekday matinee performance dates for Shame and The Shooting Gallery. Please see updates below.
If you have any questions about purchasing group tickets, please email Maria Benzie, Patron Services Manager, at maria@mosaictheater.org.
Mosaic Theater at Atlas Theater Senior/Student Matinees 2018-2019
Marie and Rosetta
Integrating fierce guitar playing, swing and gospel music this musical set in funeral home in Mississippi, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a pioneer with a huge influences on Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix and Ray Charles
Student/Senior Matinee September 13 and 27 at 11 am
The Agitators
The tempestuous friendship between abolitionist Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony
Student/Senior Matinee November 8th and 15 at 11 am
We have 8 people signed up for the 15. Contact me and join us!
Oh God
Comedy about Ella – single mother of an autistic child gets a visit from GOD
Student/Senior Matinee December 20 at 11 am
SHAME
Portrait of the challenges facing Israelis and Palestinians who decide to work together.
Student/Senior Matinee Monday February 14 at 11 am
Native Son
Richard Wright novel about race, freedom and justice set in Chicago in 1930's.
Student/Senior Matinee April 4, 11 and 19 at 11 am
The Shooting Gallery
A cop, A surgeon, A social worker, A hunter, A legislator, concealed carry instructor, teenager, veteran and others deal with issues of guns and brutal consequences.
Student/Senior Matinee April 25 at 11 am
Sooner or Later
Single mother re enters the dating scene.
Student/Senior Matinee May 30 at 11 am
Twisted Melodies
To the background of the music of Donny Hathaway it is his story creating music and his struggle with mental issues
Student/Senior Matinee July 11 at 11 am
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Please see below for information on a D.C. Council hearing on Providence Hospital. This hearing is a result of Councilmember McDuffie's concern about Providence and his work with the chair of the Council Committee on Health, Councilmember Vincent Gray. The hearing will convene on October 10, 2018 at 10am.
Councilmember McDuffie is deeply concerned about the impact closure would have on our community and shared that at last night's community meeting on the topic saying:
"I don't support what's happening. I don't think this city, our patients, or the health care of the nation's capital can afford to have a hospital like Providence close." (Link: https://twitter.com/DCJWJ/status/1040432609136967683 )
(You can also read a full statement released by the Councilmember immediately after the closure of acute care services was announced on his website here: http://www.kenyanmcduffie.com/mcduffie-statement-regarding-providence-hospital-decision-to-end-acute-care-services/ )
Councilmember McDuffie encourages the residents to sign up to testify at the October 10 hearing in person, if possible. If residents are not able to attend in person, they can submit written testimony which is included in the permanent record of the hearing.
Hearing info:
Health Public Oversight Hearing
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
10:00AM
Room 500
The Committee on Health will hold a Public Oversight Hearing on the following Matter:
"The Department of Health's Role in Approving Providence Hospital's Proposed Elimination of Acute Care Services and the Impact on the District's Emergency Health Care System"
The Committee invites the public to testify at the hearing. Those who wish to testify should contact Malcolm Cameron, Committee Legislative Analyst at (202) 654-6179 or mcameron@dccouncil.us, and provide your name, organizational affiliation (if any), and title with the organization, preferably by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, October 8, 2018.
http://dccouncil.us/events/health-public-oversight-hearing7
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When you're surrounded by people who share a passionate commitment around a common purpose, anything is possible.
Please join us at our Chess Scholarship for Girls Golf Tournament
October 5, 2018
Website is: https://chessscholarshipforgirls.org/
Please visit www. chessgirlsdc.com
https://www.facebook.com/chessgirldc
to find upcoming Chess events and tournaments go to dcscholasticchess.org
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Thanks KPW,
D.C. To Host First-Ever Black Restaurant Week in November
The event spotlights black culinary and bar talent and seeks to shape the next generation of black business owners.
Photo of Andra Johnson by Darrow Montgomery, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Atlanta have one thing in common. They've all hosted a Black Restaurant Week to highlight black culinary and bar talent as well as black-owned restaurants. This fall, D.C. joins the movement with its first ever celebration from November 4 to 11.
Imagine it like Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington's Restaurant Week, where restaurants offer discounted lunch and dinner prix fixe meals, but with an ambitious slate of programming throughout the week designed to empower up-and-coming talent.
"We're bringing in people from all over to come and talk about the issues plaguing this industry and more specifically this city with the lack of [black] ownership here," says Andra "AJ" Johnson, one of the three co-organizers. She's a bar consultant and the author of forthcoming book White Plates, Black Faces. The book addresses the African-American experience in local restaurants and the lack of pipelines to help service industry workers graduate from employee to employer. "I think five or ten years ago a Black Restaurant Week wouldn't have existed at all," Johnson adds.
Johnson is collaborating with Dr. Erinn Tucker, a professor at Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies. She's been in the academic space for 15 years teaching hospitality and was the one to bring the idea of a D.C.-based Black Restaurant Week into fruition. "There is such a large opportunity for food and beverage jobs that are a huge part of the local economy," Tucker says. "It's a seven-day opportunity to expose African American and allied businesses and help them promote their business to the city by inviting in customers throughout the week."
Tucker highlights some of the events, such as a bartender competition on Nov. 5; mixology classes on Nov. 6-8; a conference on Nov. 10 about entrepreneurship, financing, and other topics; and an awards brunch honoring local hospitality professionals on Nov. 11.
Furard Tate is also working on Black Restaurant Week with Johnson and Tucker. He's had several careers including preparing meals for D.C. charter schools and running Inspire Barbecue on H Street NE.. They all share one thing in common—preparing marginalized communities for employment in the food service industry. Tate made national news for offering job training to veterans and at-risk youth there before the restaurant closed and became condos.
Now Tate is gearing up to open a new business called Love Market in Brookland in 2019 that will address unemployment and homelessness by training cohorts of people ages 19 to 25 in a fast-casual restaurant setting. Participants will live above the establishment. "We need to have young people ready to go into these new hospitality businesses," he says.
As for his involvement in Black Restaurant Week, Tate says, "Anyone should be able to come into your establishment and get a fair price for a quality meal. Black Restaurant Week will do that. It will shine a light on existing restaurants, where a lot of them haven't been able to participate in other restaurant weeks for lots of reasons." Some of the D.C. area's black-owned restaurants aren't set up to offer a three-course meal as is customary with RAMW's restaurant week. Organizers are finagling a way for different kinds of eateries to participate.
The full roster of participating restaurants, bars, food trucks, and more will be announced closer to November, but the organizers are seeking the public's help in identifying participants in D.C. and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. Allied restaurants, or those who want to show their support for the black community, are also invited to participate.
Johnson is asking people to take a picture with their favorite black restaurant owner or chef and tag #DMVBRW.
Tucker explains that Black Restaurant Week in November will kick off a full year of programming throughout the region. "We're going to have a continuing discussion in this space," she says. "Once a quarter we'll do programming for hospitality professionals and the public." One of the first topics will be health and wellness due to the demanding nature of the hospitality industry.
Find updates on participants and scheduling at dmvbrw.com.
To: Democrats and especially Ward 5 Residents last night Mrs. Lillian Huff, one of the true fighters in our community passed
Shirley Rivens Smith
President of US Africa Sister Cities
DC-Dakar
President of North Woodridge Citizens
NAACP DC Membership Chair
Ward 5 Dems Parliamentarian
DC Cameo Club Parliamentarian
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