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THEARC Theater

A project of Building Bridges Across the River, is home to THEARC Theater (365 seat) state of the art performance venue and THEARC Black Box (configurable) venue space hosting multidisciplinary events for cultural and artistic enrichment and creative gathering space for the east of the river communities in Ward 7 & 8.

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Young, Gifted, And Black Podcast's Pour Girls & YOU-th Takeover "Pilot of Possibilities"

Young, Gifted, And Black Podcast’s Pour Girls & YOU-th Takeover “Pilot of Possibilities”

THEARC Theater’s Young, Gifted, and Black podcast get a season takeover! Join our city’s teen hosts Eric, Tiny, Python, and Talia as they explore the fundamentals of community in Washington, DC through Creative Safe Space. Coined by Pour Girls, Creative Safe Spaces are any environment intentionally constructed to strengthen, support, and acknowledge the intersections of creative approach for communal progress and identity.

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Young, Gifted, And Black Podcast's Pour Girls & YOU-th Takeover "Pilot of Possibilities"

Digital Library

Click here to check out content you’ve missed or content you would like to see. – Young, Gifted, And Black Podcast’s Pour Girls & YOU-th Takeover “Pilot of Possibilities” – WILD: These Walls Can Talk – Catch up on SOULVERSATIONS (Hosted By Angela Stribling & Russell Taylor) – Sign Up for Black History Month Programming – iCAN Virtual Production Challenge 2021 – THEARC Theater Patreon

Young, Gifted, And Black Podcast's Pour Girls & YOU-th Takeover "Pilot of Possibilities"

WILD: A Conversation about Juvenile Justice through Dance

Digital library screening of WILD, WILD, Inspired by Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s novel Where the Wild Things Are, WILD follows the journey of several young men as they struggle to break free from the systemic injustices that permeate Black and Brown communities. The Marshall Project Review Wild: If These Walls Could Talk. February 22nd-27th WILD: Birds of Paradise. PARENTAL ADVISORY for imagery and graphic depictions of incarceration and violence.