July 27

Location: Center For Green Urbanism

6:00pm-7:45pm Featured Artist Exhibition Opening Reception “#myDeanwood: Honoring the Past to Create the Future” Zandra Chestnut, Amber Robles Gordon, Sherry Ways, Esther Iverem, Aaron Brown. FREE

Location: The Fishing School

8:00pm-930Pm Film/Discussion of MLK Streets Project by Straight No Chaser Films -Birthed out of a well-known Chris Rock joke making fun of the violence and poverty often found on the streets named for the non-violent activist, this revealing documentary follows 13 high-school students from 5 Washington, DC high schools as they travel cross-country to observe and record, first-hand, the condition of America’s MLK streets. Narrated by Rain Pryor, the film keeps the comedy-to-cultural-commentary connection alive as it looks critically at the street-naming phenomenon, King’s legacy, and the effects of gentrification on the streets he once marched through. For a generation which has heard the “”I Have A Dream”” speech like a broken record, the film serves as a radical remix.” FREE TIX