Kenya Allmond (me)

The Country Shook and the Children Hollered Outstanding young artists revisit and rework the American conversation as posed by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye and more, seizing their own distinctly American tradition.

Joy of Motion Dance Center’s adult hip-hop company unleashes their passion for jazz, tap, modern and pop-fusion AND their amazing hip-hop moves.

I’ll be out of town for SXSW this weekend and won’t be able to attend the INTERSECTIONS festival for its final weekend.  If I was attending INTERSECTIONS, though, I would check out the following performances:   3/8 Thursday 7:30 Cafe Concert: Andrea Wood 8:00 Bohemian Caverns Orchestra: The Re-Write of Spring 9:30 Dance/Metro DC 11th [...]

Students and representatives of Critical Exposure were on hand to talk about their photography exhibit at the Atlas. The organization seeks to empower youth through photography.  On this larger view of the image featured above you can read what the student wrote.  Critical Exposure has worked w/ more than 800 students in DC, Baltimore, New [...]

Music, dancers, aerialists, theatre and happy hour: what more could you ask for?  Here are my picks for the upcoming weekend: Thursday 3/1 6:00 Art at the INTERSECTION: Critical Exposure 7:00 Cafe Concert: Marc Avon Evans 7:30 Duke Ellington School of the Arts: The Country Shook and the Children Hollered 8:00 B-Fly Entertainment: Liner Notes [...]