Upcoming Events:
Saturday December 1, 2012
Event Time: 10:00am to 2:00pm (Doors open at 9:30am)
Howard Theatre Oral History Day, The Howard Theatre, 620 T Street, NW, WDC, 20001
Howard Theatre Restoration invites you Oral History Day, a special event this Saturday, December 1, 2012, featuring interviews with legendary performers: Dick Gregory, comedian, civil rights activist, humanitarian; Greg Gaskins, guitarist for Elvis Presley and The Manhattans; David Akers, singer and trumpet player with Wilson Pickett; Jimi Smooth, singer and former Howard Theatre usher; Sandra Bears, original member of The Jewels; and special guest Gloria Thomas Gantt, longtime Howard Theatre employee. The event will also feature video clips from documentaries about the Howard. The event is FREE and open to the public and is an opportunity to enjoy the beauty of the restored Howard Theatre and to connect with Theatre's history and community.
Oral History Day will launch the Howard Theatre Oral History Project, a long term initiative that will become a part of the exhibition to be installed at the soon to be built Howard Theatre Education and Cultural Center annexed to the Howard Theatre.
The Oral History Project will specifically document history of the Shaw/U Street neighborhood and Washington’s art and cultural community as it relates to the Howard Theatre. HTR will record oral history interviews with performers including Greg Gaskins, David Akers, and Jimi Smooth, previous theatre staff and audience members who experienced the Howard Theatre.
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Past Events
September 8, 2012
The Black Movie Classics Series presented by United Healthcare
August 22, 2012
Black Movie Classics Series/Medicare Seminar: Carmen Jones
July 25, 2012
Black Movie Classics Series/Medicare Seminar: Porgy and Bess
June 9, 2012
Black Movie Classics Series/Medicare Seminar: Stormy Weather
April 12, 2012
Grand Opening Gala and Benefit Concert
April 9, 2012
Event Time: 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Installation of "Jazz Man" sculpture to the facade of the Howard Theatre
Jazz Man by Brower Hatcher, Mid-Ocean Studio Inc., © 2012
Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Program
Unveiling of the Duke Ellington ENCORE Sculpture by Zachary Oxman, © 2012
Commissioned and the original owned by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Art in Public Places Program
Howard Theatre Community Day – Free and open to the public
Howard Theatre Ribbon Cutting Opening
September 2, 2010
Howard Theatre Restoration Groundbreaking Ceremony
August 23, 2008
The Fourth Annual DC Poetry Festival Celebrating the Howard
Theare
Carter Baron Ampitheater, Rock Creek Park
Washington, DC
September 12, 2008
6:00 PM -9:00 PM
Howard Theatre Lecture Series featuring Julian Bond, Chairman,
NAACP
Feb. 21, 2008
Founding Benefactor's reception (Private)
Feb. 22, 2007
Community Reception, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
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