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FUTURE EVENTS We continually update this page, please keep checking back!
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PAST EVENTS
Real People, Real Issues: ONE DC Mayoral Candidates' COMMUNITY Forum
ONE DC (formerly Manna CDC) and the
DC Employment
Justice Center (DCEJC) will be hosting a resident-led
Resident members of ONE DC’s Shaw Education for Action (SEA) and Equitable Development Initiative (EDI), as well as DCEJC's Injured Workers’ Advocates will address the mayoral candidates and demand answers on:
If your life is affected by some or all of these issues then come out and support your DC neighbors!
This event seeks to hold the city's next mayor accountable to the human rights of all residents to ensure that ALL lives are improved. There will be simultaneous translation in Spanish (and possibly Mandarin).
Come hear mayoral candidates speak on issues that matter to YOU!!
Click here for a PDF of the flier
Date: June 27, 2006 Time: 6:30 PM Location: Immaculate Conception School 711 N Street NW (near the corner of 7th & N St NW) Mt Vernon Square metro Across from the Convention Center
Sponsoring organizations include:
For more information on this event or to become a sponsoring organization, please contact Jessica Rucker at jrucker@onedconline.org or 202.232.2915
2006 Shaw Freedom School: Ask me about your Human Rights!
ONE DC continues holding its annual community learning conferences.
Last June, over 100 Shaw and local residents and activists—African American, Latino, Chinese and Caucasian—attended the day-long, tri-lingual Freedom School and participated in workshops, discussions, and a gentrification tour.
The 2006 Shaw Freedom School will take place on Saturday, June 10. It will be all day event with skills building and consciousness raising workshops, community dialogue, and special speakers.
JOIN US!!! As we explore our human rights in the District of Columbia and how to create laws that protect them!!
Workshops offered will include:
Saturday, June 10, 2006 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Freedom School 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM Community Dialogue & Dinner Celebration Immaculate Conception School 711 N Street NW (7th & N St NW) Mt Vernon Square metro Across from the Convention Center
*Breakfast, lunch and a celebration dinner will be served! *Childcare will be available throughout the day. *There will be simultaneous translation in Spanish, Cantonese and English.
Click here for a flier in English
Click here for a flier in Spanish
Click here for a flier in Cantonese
2006 Sponsors
Department of Housing & Community Development (DHCD) National Cooperative Bank Development Corporation (NCBDC)
Theater & Community Discussion
'Capers: A Solo Play About Forced Relocation and the Human Right to Housing This award-winning play chronicles the experiences of residents of the Arthur Capper/Carrolsburg public housing project in South East Washington. It portrays the struggle on the part of the residents to save their home while facing a federal Hope VI initiative. The themes and issue portrayed in 'Capers are some of the same ones that we face in the Shaw community and throughout the District. This is a great opportunity for newer residents who moved here 'for the diversity' to learn more about issues of gentrification, development and displacement and to discover how they can create neighborhood equity for all residents. Time: 6:00 PM Date: Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 Location: Bus Boys & Poets Cafe 2021 14th St NW U St/Cardozo Green Line Metro Station Cost: $10 per person For Reservations: Please contact ONE DC at 202-232-2915 "Audiences watching 'Capers find themselves experiencing a wide range of emotions, from anger and indignation to glee and determination, as the playwright/actress performs the roles of children, grandmothers, and even DC Housing Authority Director Michael Kelly. Laughter and tears come easily as families go through the stages of grief fighting for their homes against great odds." Alex Padro, ANC2C
We cordially invite you to... An End of Year Celebration!!
Join Us!! For an evening of dinner and live music celebrating all the successes that ONE DC (formerly Manna CDC) and its projects have had in Shaw. 2005 was ONE DC's most successful year to date. Without your leadership and support we would not be here!!
Thursday, December 15 6:30 - 8:30 PM Immaculate Conception School 711 N Street NW across from the convention center Mt. Vernon Square yellow/green line metro
Please RSVP to mvizueta@onedconline.org or 202-232-2915
Theater & Community Discussion for Shaw Neighbors :::ONE DC invites you to a showing of::: 'Capers: A Solo Play About Forced Relocation and the Human Right to Housing This award-winning play
chronicles the experiences
of residents of the Arthur Capper/Carrolsburg public housing project in
South East
The themes and issue portrayed in 'Capers are some of the same ones that we face in the Shaw community. This is a great opportunity for newer residents who moved here 'for the diversity' to learn more about issues of gentrification, development and displacement and to discover how they can create neighborhood equity for all residents. Time: 7:00 PM Date: Friday, Nov 4, 2005 Location: Lankford Auditorium, True Reformer Building 1200 U Street NW, 2nd floor (corner of 12th & U) U St/Cardozo Green Line Metro Station Refreshments will be provided.
"Audiences watching 'Capers find themselves experiencing a wide range of emotions, from anger and indignation to glee and determination, as the playwright/actress performs the roles of children, grandmothers, and even DC Housing Authority Director Michael Kelly. Laughter and tears come easily as families go through the stages of grief fighting for their homes against great odds."
Alex Padro, ANC2C
Theater & Community Discussion for Shaw Neighbors
:::ONE DC invites you to a free showing of::: 'Capers: A Solo Play About Forced Relocation and the Human Right to Housing This award-winning play questions gentrification, development and displacement by chronicling the experiences of residents of the Arthur Capper/Carrolsburg public housing project in South East Washington. It portrays the struggle on the part of tenants to save their home while facing a federal Hope VI initiative. Time: 7:00 PM Date: Friday, Sept 23, 2005 Location: Immaculate Conception School Auditorium, 711 N Street, NW (across from the Convention Center. Mt. Vernon Station, Green/Yellow Metro Line) No tickets or reservations required. Refreshments and childcare will be provided.
"Audiences watching 'Capers find themselves experiencing a wide range of emotions, from anger and indignation to glee and determination, as the playwright/actress performs the roles of children, grandmothers, and even DC Housing Authority Director Michael Kelly. Laughter and tears come easily as families go through the stages of grief fighting for their homes against great odds."
Alex Padro, ANC2C What's Cooking in Shaw?
COME!
To a neighborhood celebration of the first Community Benefits Agreement in
the
What's Cooking in Shaw? will feature speakers, information about the project (including how residents can access these benefits), children's games, and free food. The event will be held from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Saturday, October 1st at the future development site, on the corner of 7th and S Streets, NW. For more information contact David Haiman at dhaiman@onedconline.org
2005 Shaw Freedom School: Where will you be in 2007? ONE DC hosted the first Shaw Freedom School on Saturday, June 11, 2005. A day-long session, it featured local and nationally recognized speakers, trainers and facilitators that provided workshops for local and city-wide residents on the following topics:
Click here to read more on the 2005 Freedom School.
Center for Community Based Art Exhibition:
The Shaw Redemption
ONE DC has been a key sponsoring organization of CCBA and their work. The Center for Community Based Art (CCBA) engages youth and adults in community building arts projects that help transform and heal lives, bolster youth academic achievement, and add significant value to the renewal of the Shaw neighborhood. CCBA exhibited artwork made by a community of Shaw artists from April 16th to June 30th at the Potter's House in Columbia Heights (1658 Columbia Road NW). For more information on CCBA contact Rachel Dickerson at ama1016@yahoo.com
Shaw Education for Action/SEA: Living Wage Jobs Campaign Kick-Off SEA had a successful Living Wage Hotel Jobs Campaign kick-off on March 19, 2005. Over 75 Shaw residents attended and lent their support to the locally led campaign for training and hiring requirements at the new Embassy Suites Hotel at 10th and K Streets, NW. DC Council Member Kwame Brown was a featured speaker and fully supported the demands of the local community as well as community benefits—including living wage jobs—that will help low-income residents thrive. DC Council Member Jack Evans also sent words of support for the organizing work of SEA. For more information please click here, or contact David Haiman at dhaiman@onedconline.org
Building by Building: A Tenant Leadership Manual Book Launching On Friday, January 21, 2005, ONE DC celebrated the launching of it's second publication Building by Building: A Tenant Leadership Manual. With the support of the Public Welfare Foundation and Karibu Books, ONE DC hosted Dr. Mindy Fullilove author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It. Anu Yadav, also performed excerpts from her play, Capers: A One Woman Show About Gentrification, Displacement and Hell-Raising. With the support of its constituents, ONE DC also unveiled it's new Performance Challenge.
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mayoral candidate forum to raise candidates’ awareness of the real issues
affecting DC’s low-income residents and workers.
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DC invites you to a showing of::: 
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being signed for the future development of the vacant
land at 7th and S Street, NW. The agreement, negotiated by residents in
ONE DC's
