Explore the history of music/sound in ancient Mesoamerica & the Andes through instruments in the Pre-Columbian collection, listening to recordings & imagining how they were used in ritual, celebration, & […]
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Chocolate: The Columbian Exchange in a Cup
Explore the intertwined histories of cacao and sugar across the Old & New Worlds, examining trade and culture. Students begin with a tour of the Pre-Columbian Galleries and the “Stimulant […]
Mural Painting at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens
Discover the wonders of Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens through a collaborative mural painting workshop! This field trip invites students in grades 4-8, and their guardians, to explore the gardens by transforming […]
Bright Before Us Like a Flame
Bring the poetry of Langston Hughes to your school for Black History Month! Bright Before Us Like a Flame is a 45-minute theatrical performance celebrating Black history and Black excellence. […]
DC Poets for DC Schools
Bring past finalists and winners of the DC Poet Project to perform and teach in your classroom this spring. The DC Poets for DC Schools program provides a poet/educator to […]
Cemetery Grave Hunter: Discover DC History
This 90-minute program asks students to explore U.S. and Washington history through the lives of those buried at Historic Congressional Cemetery. Guided by an educator, students will locate gravesites, working […]
Trees as Witness: Ancestor, Property, Archive
Explore the layered histories of DC, from the perspective of witness trees at Dumbarton Oaks Gardens. Students will tour historic trees in the gardens & consider the history a tree […]
Music Through the Ages
Music Through the Ages is an interactive concert which gives children a front row seat to the development of tonal music, helping them appreciate music from every culture and era. […]
Black Boy
Black Boy is both the unashamed confession of a proud non-conformist, and a profound indictment—a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. Wright describes his youth in […]