It's a movie night! Come out on select Friday nights during the summer and watch one of our favorite movies highlighting the history of protest, struggle, and organizing in the US. A different film each week! Come and be surprised ... and learn a little too! Plus maybe there will be popcorn.

It begins to tell 'round midnight, midnight. These well-known lyrics of Bernie Hanighen, set to Thelonius Monk’s classic, pensive musical piece, “Round Midnight,” might evoke not only the sadness of missing someone, but a dread aroused in us as we face the constant evil this country’s rulers undertake. Can we, however, look toward “midnight” as a time, a state where we reset, where clear our minds and become renewed, by poetry and other inspirations, to bring about a new dawn?

The new documentary film NOT IN SERVICE dives into the history of Baltimore's dysfunctional public transit system and the recent cancellation of the Red Line. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

If you can’t stand, then you have to fly.

This free event brings together arts leaders from across the D.C., Maryland, and greater Virginia area to discuss the often invisible labor and creative processes behind arts administration. Through case studies and storytelling, the conversation will explore adaptive thinking and creative administrative practices.

Someone you love, maybe the person you love most in the world, is drowning. Should you jump in the water? Will you be able to bring both of you back to shore?

Gives voice to the Black women whose lives were devastated by the carceral system and sheds powerful light on its slavery-based roots to transform how we think about mass incarceration

Torches: an Emerging Writer's Circle is a monthly space for writers to hone their craft and create new work together in a community space.

Unsure how to start? We have answers!

A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of America.

Claudia Rankine has widened contemporary literature with her consciousness-raising, genre-defying works. In her first book after her celebrated American trilogy, presented with full-color visuals, Rankine shifts into sustained narrative, memory, criticism, and essay to offer her most personal and emotionally resonant writing yet.

A scathing investigation into the apocalyptic thinking of the Christian nationalists, tech-bro reactionaries, and populist survivalists who increasingly define the contemporary right—and a recipe for how to fight them.

NYC-based theater-maker Lizzie Olesker and filmmaker Lynne Sachs present HAND BOOK, a collection of writings and images from a performance and film set within a neighborhood laundromat, a microcosm of service work within our urban reality. Their performative reading and short film screening will take a deep, poetic dive into laundry and its history. The authors will be joined by Baltimore artist Laure Drogoul and film artist-curator Joanna Raczynska.

The story of how the mass mobilization for World War II catalyzed the national and international political movements and conflicts of the postwar period

As tech bosses fall in line with the right, tech workers are fighting back. This is the rousing inside story of their movement—and the way it spawned an anti-worker backlash now reshaping the industry.

A unique, conversation-starting essay collection about critical care work, kink practices, and how one might transform the other.

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present