Welcome
to our first edition of Weekly Spotlight! The Writer’s Center is dedicated to supporting and promoting the local
literary community. Below are upcoming readings and events that are happening
in the D.C. area in the next week.
Saturday,
June 20, 7:00 p.m.
Upshur
Street Books is hosting a reading and launch party to celebrate (guns & butter), the new poetry
collection by Montana Ray out from Argos Books! Food and drinks provided. Featuring
readings by: Abdul Ali, Cacayo Ballesteros, Kyle Dargan, Tanya Paperny, Montana
Ray.
Upshur
Street Books
827
Upshur St. NW
Washington,
D.C. 20011
Sunday,
June 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m .
Share
your best poetry and prose at The Writer’s Center Open Mic. Sign-up for readers
will begin at 1:30 pm and the reading will begin at 2:00 pm. The readings will
be followed by a reception. Free admission.
The
Writer’s Center
4508
Walsh Street
Bethesda,
MD 20815
Sunday,
June 21, 2:00 p.m.
Writer
and photographer, Sally Mann, will be at the National Gallery of Art to read
from her book, Hold Still: A Memoir with
Photographs. In this new book, Mann weaves images and narrative to piece
together a memoir that documents both her family and her personal story. Free
admission.
National
Gallery of Art
401
Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington,
DC 20565
Sunday, June 21, 3:00 p.m.
All readings are on third Sundays at 3 PM, Admission $5, FREE for DCAC members
D.C. Arts
Center
2438 18th St.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)
Sunday,
June 21, 5:00 p.m.
The
sixties were a great time for revolution, especially among America’s youth.
Author Howard Gillette captures stories from this era in one hundred interviews
with people from the Yale Class of 1964. These interviews are documented in his
new novel, Class Divide: Yale 64 and the
Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties, which he will be discussing at Politics
& Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse. Free admission.
Politics
& Prose Bookstore and Coffeehouse
5015
Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington,
D.C. 20008
Tuesday,
June 23, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
Author of Sixteen
for ’16: A Progressive Agenda for a Better America, Salvatore Babones, will
speak about his book at Busboys & Poets. Moderator and IPS Director John
Cavanagh along with respondents Fred Azcarate and Karen Dolan will join him as
they discuss Babones’ book and how to move the 2016 election debate from false
promises to active change. The program will be followed with a book signing. Free
admission.
Busboys
& Poets
2021 14th St, NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
Wednesday, June 24, 12:00 p.m.
Emilie
Raymond will be at the National Archives for a program on her recently
published book Stars for Freedom:
Hollywood, Black Celebrities, and the Civil Rights Movement. Her book looks
at how several celebrities advocated for racial equality with a focus on the “Leading
Six” celebrity civil rights leaders: Harry Belafonte, Ossie Davis, Sammy Davis,
Jr., Ruby Dee, Dick Gregory, and Sidney Poitier. The program will be followed
with a book signing. Free admission.
National
Archives
Constitution
Avenue, NW, between 7th and 9th Streets
Washington,
D.C. 20408
Wednesday,
June 24, 6:45 p.m.
Co-host
of Travel Channel show American Grilled,
David Guas will be at the Hill Center for a program and dinner. Guas will also
be signing copies of his newest cookbook, Grill
Nation: 200 Surefire Recipes, Tips, and Techniques to Grill Like a Pro. The
menu for the evening is TBD. Tickets for this event are $75-$90 and can be purchased
here.
Hill
Center at the Old Naval Hospital
921
Pennsylvania Ave. SE
Washington,
D.C. 20003
Wednesday,
June 24, 6:45 p.m.
David
Roberts, co-author of The Mountain: My
Time on Everest will be at the Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center to
discuss the top-five Mt. Everest summits. Among these top-five includes Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s 1953 climb, the very first successful Everest
summit. Roberts will also look at Thomas Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld’s 1963
expedition, the 1975 climb led by Chris Bonington, Reinhold Messner’s 1980 solo
ascension, and the 1983 climb of the Kanghung Face led by James D. Morrissey.
Tickets for this event are $30-$42 and can be purchased here.
Smithsonian
S. Dillon Ripley Center
1100
Jefferson Drive, S.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20560
If you have a reading or literary event you
would like posted, please contact vanessa.mallorykotz@writer.org.
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