Exploring the intersection of art, culture and spirituality in the nation's capital.
Earlier this year, audiences at the Woolly Mammoth experienced a vision of Islam seen through the lens of queerness in Adil Mansoor’s touching “Amm(i)gone,” a solo performance about how he’s been translating Sophocle’s “Antigone” into Urdu with his Pakistani mother. (“Ammi” refers to “mother” in…
It wouldn’t be far-fetched to say that DC is built on top of bones–the bones of first nations people, and later, of kidnapped African citizens. One desecrated burial site around Bethesda’s River Road about a mile northwest of DC is sacred to the descendants of…
Last week, Karen Agro traveled from Toronto to the DMV to lead workshops on healing and music. A classical guitarist, Agro is also a pharmacist, so her claim that music is “sonic medicine” is not just metaphorical. It’s also personal–she witnessed music’s healing power when…