Finale Programs 2025 and Future Plans

From February 2025 until May 2025 we will run and support the following programs and classroom initiatives. Our aim is to bridge projects and themes from year to year to incorporate elements of old programs into new ones as a way of sustaining the practice of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE for our past, our present and our future. Steven Luu's 2024 photo above of a woman who was in high school during the 1960s, viewing the Nothing Personal exhibition, in a space filled with students and young people, creates a conduit for us to view the multigenerational span of time as an artifact of the present moment. By capturing the present moment in 2024 when a photo was taken, we reflect in our constantly changing present on the impact of community and memory. 

FEB 14 2025: JUST LOVE: BRINGING JAZZ AND POETRY FROM BLACK AND PALESTINIAN ARTISTS AND PERFORMERS TO Washington DC. See here. 

MARCH 4: THE PRICE OF THE TICKET, SCREENING, DISCUSSION AND RECEPTION WITH DIRECTOR KAREN THORSEN in Fairfax VA. See here.

JAN-APRIL 2025: NOTHING PERSONAL, A COLLABORATION IN BLACK AND WHITE: MASON EXHIBITIONS IN ARLINGTON - with multiple programs, celebrating amongst other things, the collaboration between black and Jewish artists in the 1960s. See here. 

MARCH CLASSROOM VISITS: STEVEN LUU'S MASK MAKING PROJECT with a March 22 open house. Sign up here. 

SEMESTER LONG TEACHING: Dr Keith Clark & Prof. Leeya Mehta teach James Baldwin with classes around campus also teaching Baldwin.

THE BROADSIDE PROJECT as part of the Cheuse Center's new initiative creating continuity and collaboration across project years, generations, and writers/artists. 

Photo credits: Steven Luu & Mason Exhibitions.