Active Citizens Training is located this year at American University, October 5-7. Space is very limited. Apply today! For more about Active Citizens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiZNO_Lca8k

Are you fired up to make great things happen? Passionate about immigration, food security, education, homelessness, unemployment, or something else? Join AMP Global Youth and the British Council for the next Active Citizens training! Through a series of fun and challenging workshops, you'll gain the skills, knowledge and tools you need to be a more confident leader and changemaker in your community.

Through fast-paced and small-group workshops participants will:

• Gain a better understanding of the concepts of identity, culture and community, as well as the beliefs, behavior and attitudes of themselves and other people.
• Learn methods of dialogue as a tool for building empathy, trust and understanding within and across cultures.
• Identify a problem they would like to address and plan a Social Action Project to do so.
• Meet new people, build confidence, develop their CV and make a difference in their community.

The Washington Post wrote an article about local art galleries and included a showcase of Terence Nicholson’s “Home” at the ArtReach GW Community Gallery at THEARC. The Washington Post wrote:

Most of the artworks in Terence Nicholson’s “Home,” at ArtReach GW Community Gallery at THEARC, were in his Willow Street Gallery show early this year. These autobiographical assemblages are worth revisiting or seeing for the first time. Perhaps the most evocative is “Safety Jacket: A Mourning in Chinatown,” which incorporates the partly shredded banner of the downtown martial-arts school the artist frequented before its 2016 eviction.

Among the pieces exclusive to this show are “Mother Figure,” an embodiment of domestic refuge that glows from inside, and “Daisy Cutter (Dreamsicle Cemetery).” The latter is a wall-mounted memorial for children killed in overseas wars or on American streets, with half-eaten ice pops substituting for graves on a green turf-covered outcropping. For Nicholson, who grew up not far from the location of his current show, the idea of home contains both comfort and menace.

Check out the full article here and check out more ArtReach information here.

Sponsored by the Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), the Innovation in Affordable Housing Student Design and Planning Competition (IAH) challenges multi-disciplinary graduate student teams to respond to a real life affordable housing design and planning project.

More information about the competition can be found here and you can sign up for updates on the competition here.

The Sentencing Project is hosting a panel entitled, "Race, Class, and the Criminal Justice System" at Busboys and Poets on Wednesday, September 12th from 7 to 9 p.m. Join criminal justice reform advocates such as Marc Mauer, Executive Director of the Sentencing Project, for an engaging conversation. For more information, click here.

The Gender Equality Initiative & the Culture in Global Affairs Program presents this book talk by author and professor Rosalynn A. Vega, which will take place on Tuesday, September 18th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

She will discuss her recent anthropological scholarship on "new midwifery" using ethnographic accounts in Mexico. For more information and a free RSVP, click here.

Fiscal Sponsorship Workshop July 11th 2018 6-7pm

According to the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, "Fiscal sponsorship has evolved as an effective and efficient mode of starting new nonprofits, seeding social movements, and delivering public services." This session will introduce participants to the practice of fiscal sponsorship. Content will include the various models of fiscal sponsorship, best practices of a fiscal sponsor, comparisons and contrasts to obtaining a 501©3 tax-exempt status, and additional resources for participants.

Location: Whitman-Walker Health, 1525 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005

The session is free and open to all but you must register.

Please contact Sara Mutnick, smutnick@mfa.gwu.edu, to register.

A Right to the City explores the history of neighborhood organizing and civic engagement in D.C. With a focus on a diverse range of neighborhoods across the city, the exhibition tells the story of how "ordinary" Washingtonians have helped shape and reshape their neighborhoods through the fight: for quality public education, for healthy and green communities, for equitable transit and equitable development, and for a genuinely democratic approach to city planning.

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