{"id":101,"date":"2018-08-08T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityphonebooth.net\/dc\/?p=101"},"modified":"2018-09-05T12:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:33:26","slug":"adams-morgan-day-w-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityphonebooth.net\/dc\/2018\/08\/adams-morgan-day-w-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"Join us at Adams Morgan Day on September 9, 2018 — with our new truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"We will preview our new storytelling system, including a special truck, at the 40th-annual\u00a0Adams Morgan Day<\/a> on September 9th. Find us in the “Know Your Neighborhood<\/a>” section.<\/p>\n

This is the first public showing of\u00a0our Humanities Truck<\/a>, an experimental recording and exhibition space on wheels from American University.\u00a0\"\"The truck will distribute digital and interactive stories on historic Adams Morgan from the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s “A Right to the City” exhibition<\/a> as well as photographs from the long history of the festival itself from the Nancy Shia Collection, Washingtoniana<\/a>, DC Public Library.<\/p>\n

NEW PRESS RELEASE<\/span> (added Sept. 5):<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cKnow Your Neighborhood\u201d History Activities at Adams Morgan Day 40th\u00a0<\/sup>Anniversary\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

WASHINGTON, September\u00a04,2018\u00a0<\/strong>\u2014To honor the 40th<\/sup>Anniversary of the\u00a0Adams Morgan Day Festival<\/a>, a series of activities to \u201cKnow Your Neighborhood\u201d will be featured at the event. Festival\u00a0visitors can learn about the neighborhood\u2019s past by viewing photographs at the new \u201cHumanities Truck,\u201d listen to oral histories and watch live interviews with neighborhood activists\u00a0Marie Nahikian, Topper Carew, and Ronald and Mary Pierce.<\/p>\n

The content of these activities planned as part of the festival is drawn from several recent exhibits and projects, including the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum\u2019s \u201cA Right to the City\u201d exhibition\u00a0about neighborhood organizing, and historic photos spanning 40 years of Adams Morgan Day festivals from DC Public Library\u2019s Nancy Shia Collection.\u00a0The event will also launch the\u00a0Humanities Truck, an experimental recording and exhibition space on wheels from American University that can share neighborhood history in new ways.<\/p>\n

Several local groups are coming together to highlight the history of Adams Morgan through exhibitions, activities, voices and performances. The coalition includes the DC Public Library, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum and American University. \u201cIn honor of the decades of creativity, activism and diversity of Adams Morgan that continue to shape the community today, we thought it important to engage the public with historical resources and activities at the city\u2019s longest running neighborhood festival,\u201d said Michele Casto, special collections librarian at DC Public Library.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first public showing of our Humanities Truck, with our storytelling system to bring history into public streets,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Dr. Benjamin Stokes, assistant professor in the School of Communication at American University. The truck combines large screens with public programming, including a playful activity for festival attendees to visit key locations and text a hotline to receive historic photographs and learn about the sites.<\/p>\n

DC Public Library is celebrating the culture of the neighborhood and the city by sponsoring some of the performers on the festival stages and at space adjacent to the Humanities Truck. This \u201cKnow Your Neighborhood\u201d stage will highlight the Latino heritage of the neighborhood through music, dance and storytelling, and also feature live on-stage interviews with significant Adams Morgan activists of the 1960s, \u201870s and \u201880s. \u201cThe Library has been engaged in ongoing initiatives showcasing local music and neighborhood history and we are excited to work with partners to bring music, dance and storytelling to Adams Morgan Day,\u201d says Casto. The Columbian rhythms of La Marvela, the poetry and storytelling of Quique Aviles, and the dancers and drummers of Vava United School of Samba will perform. Hola Cultura,a D.C. Latino arts and cultural nonprofit organization,will join the Library to offer tours highlighting the Latino history of the neighborhood. The Library has also partnered with festival music organizer Songbyrd Music House, Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, and Multiflora Productions to sponsor music that reflects Adams Morgan as a cultural crossroads, bringing global sounds to all the festival stages.<\/p>\n

The collaborative exhibits and performance space at 18th<\/sup>Street NW and Belmont Street NW will explore new ways to engage the public in local history. Visitors to the Humanities Truck can see historic photographs of the neighborhood over the years on one of the truck\u2019s screens.\u00a0Visitors can also win prizes by following the History Map Postcard developed collaboratively by American University and the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum. \u201cWe\u2019re providing a fun and creative way for people to meaningfully engage with the neighborhood\u2019s rich\u2014but too often overlooked\u2014history,\u201dsays Dr. Samir Meghelli, chief curator at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum.<\/p>\n

Bringing stories of neighborhood organizing and activism from the \u201cA Right to the City\u201d exhibition to the festival is one way the Museum will be continuing its five decades of community-building work. The festival kicks off a larger collaboration that will bring elements of the \u201cA Right to the City\u201d exhibition to DCPL neighborhood libraries this fall.<\/p>\n