City Offices and Facilities will be closed on Thursday, July 4, 2024, in observance of the Independence Day holiday.
Takoma Park Elections Will Take Place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Devoted to Nature: The Religious Roots of American Environmentalism
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 PM
Evan Berry, Associate Professor at American University, discusses the development of the American environmental movement, raising questions about how values, science, and religious ideas have been combined throughout the movement’s history.
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The Son with Two Moms Book Reading
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, April 9, 4:00 PM
Local author Anthony Hynes will read passages from his self-published memoir, which chronicles his childhood as a black boy adopted by two white mothers in D.C. in the ‘90s. When cancer afflicted one of Hynes’ mothers, and the courts threatened his legal guardianship, Hynes had to decide what his identity and his definition of family looked like. Copies of “The Son with Two Moms” are available at the Takoma Park Maryland Library, Busboys and Poets, Politics and Prose, and on Amazon. A Q&A with the author will follow the reading.
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DREAM: An American Story Screening
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, April 14, 7:30 PM
Docs In Progress presents the story of Juan Gomez, one of thousands of undocumented young people who, despite living in this country since infancy, has no permanent right to stay in the U.S. Juan speaks flawless English, is academically gifted, and believes in the American Dream. Despite a future at Georgetown University and a promising career on Wall Street, the polarized political climate around immigration reform presents him, and so many others, with road blocks. Director Aldo Bello, a 2013 Docs in Progress Fellow, will hold a Q&A after the screening.
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We Share the Planet with Animals
The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, April 16, 4:00 PM
In this spellbinding and participatory performance, storyteller Candace Wolf spins tales from the ancient storytelling traditions of world cultures. The stories in “We Share the Planet with the Animals” celebrate the relationship people have shared with animals since the beginning of human memory. This performance is recommended for families with children over 6 years old.
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The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, May 5, 7:30 PM
Jeanne Drewes, Chief of BCCD at the Library of Congress, discusses Cuban art and culture through Ediciones Vigia, a book collective in Matanzas, Cuba. Drewes will examine this independent publishing house, founded in 1985 and will offer some of her personal book collection for viewing and discussion.
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The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, May 7, 7:30 PM
The Immigration Film Festival will pre-screen one of its fall 2016 films, 120 Days, with Takoma Park. 120 Days documents a life-altering crisis in the lives of a family of undocumented immigrants. After living and work in the United States for twelve years, father and husband, Miguel Cortes faces deportaition as a result of his immigration status. He is given four months to get his affairs in order before leaving his wife and two daughters in the U.S. to continue their educaiton. Miguel has 120 days to work hard and weigh his options about returning to Mexico alone or disappearing into another U.S. city illegally with his family.
Visit ImmigrationFilmFest.org for information on the fall screenings, and watch the trailed for 120 Days.
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The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, May 12, 7:30 PM
Based on the creation process of MacArthur Genius Award-winning choreographer Liz Lerman’s theatrical dance piece Healing Wars, “Parables of War” uses dance, documentary, and drama to pose the question: how can civilization bind the wounds of war?
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The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, May 14, 8:00 PM
Uzbekistan, located at the heart of Central Asia, boasts a rich heritage of folk and classical dances. The award-winning Silk Road Dance Company’s “Dance Treasures of Uzbekistan” celebrates traditional women’s dances from the region and provides a glimpse into a culture unfamiliar to most Americans.
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The Takoma Park Community Center
7500 Maple Avenue
Saturday, May 21, 7:30 PM
Quiet Life Motel: 20912 is a serendipitous multimedia show featuring audio artist and violinist David Schulman, whose music has been described as “mysterious and beautiful” by The Washington Post, and has been heard nationally on NPR. As a montage of evocative field audio creates a shifting sense of place, David performs on electric violin. He uses live looping to create rich textures, jazz soundscapes, and frolicsome grooves. The performance features field audio recorded by international sound gatherer Félix Blume. Music at quietlifemotel.com.
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The Takoma Park Community Center Atrium Gallery
7500 Maple Avenue
Thursday, March 10 at 6:30 PM
An exhibit featuring artwork by Mike Guy, mother-daughter duo Helen Higgins and Mary Welch Higgins, Gladys C. Lipton, and Emalie Lorens. Exhibit opens with a reception on Thursday, March 10, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. The exhibit will run through May 2.
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