This September, the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts will kickoff the 9/11 Arts Project, a citywide initiative to engage creative, social, interfaith and activist communities through the visual and performing arts to explore healing and recovery in response to the events of September 11th. The program will feature a full year of events and programs including dance and literary readings, facilitated dialogues, concerts and film screenings, interfaith services, and art exhibitions. The 9/11 Arts Project programs will be held at a variety of venues around Washington DC including the National Portrait Gallery, Phillips Collection, National Cathedral, Goethe Institut, Carroll Square Gallery, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Hillyer Arts Space, Center for Green Urbanism, and The Pepco Edison Place Gallery and more.
The following kick-off events will be held September 8-11, 2011.
- Sept. 8, 7-9pm - 10 Years After 9/11 Opening Reception at The Pepco Edison Place Gallery , 701 Ninth Street, NW, Washington, DC
- Sept 9, 7-9pm - Vessel Opening Reception at The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 1632 U Street, NW
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- Sept 10, 11am - 7pm - CREATE Arts Center's Interactive Arts as Healing at the Penn Quarter Arts on Foot Festival
- Sept 11 - 1pm - World Peace Interfaith Service at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 4pm - Kurt Steger's Burden Boat Project Ceremony at the National Portrait Gallery, Kogod Courtyard, 8th and F Streets NW., Washington, DC, 6pm - Rebirth Documentary at the National Portrait Gallery, Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 8th and F Streets NW., Washington, DC
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