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Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023
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Humanities Truck Film Festival 2023; a Humanities Truck hosted film festival showing the work of five project fellows from the past few years.
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Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
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The Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration and rally took place on October 17, 2020 at Malcolm X Park. The event highlighted Indigenous people's activism and visibility along with cross-cultural partnerships through speeches and musical performances. This collection features interviews and images from the 2020 Indigenous Peoples' Day celebration.
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Jornaleros: Manos Invisibles / Day Laborers: Invisible Hands
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Faculty Fellow Ludy Grandas worked with Trabajadores Unidos de Washington, DC (TUWDC) to document "hard to count populations" (by the Census Bureau) specifically, day laborer and Afro-Latino immigrant lives.
One component of this project, Jornaleros: Manos Invisibles / Day Laborers: Invisible Hands, is a group exhibition of ten day laborers who photographed their own everyday lives as jornaleros using their cell phone cameras. Through their eyes, the day laborers’ goal was to open an invisible yet all too present world to us; to take us through their day, to share their reality, one that for some is hopefully temporary but for others is a whole way of life. Put together, the photos take us from morning to evening and all that happens in between.
The other part of this project aims to make more visible Afro-Latinos in DC through panel discussions and interviews.
This collection contains documentations from the various exhibit showings and related events.
This collection contains documentation from the different exhibit showings and related events.
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Knickerbocker Theater Disaster Anniversary
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On January 29, 2022 at the Adams Morgan Plaza, the Humanities Truck joined Adams Morgan neighborhood residents for a memorial ceremony commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster, during which the theater's roof caved in and crushed nearly 100 people. The Truck will hosted a photo exhibit of the disaster and its aftermath, curated by Nancy Shia. People also gave speeches about the disaster's impact on their ancestors and the community. Collection contains photos and an interview from the event.
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"Let's Go-Go Back" Family Late Skate in Anacostia Park
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The Humanities Truck joined the National Park Service for Late Skate at Anacostia Park Roller Skating Pavilion. During the event, community members, neighbors, family, and friends host cookouts and gather at the pavilion to skate and do family-oriented activities including face painting. At three separate events, in June, July, and August, we conducted brief interviews with community members about the importance of Anacostia Park to the neighborhood including themes about go-go music and skating. After recording, we would play the interviews on the opposite side of the truck to quickly allow narrators and passers-by and spectators to see themselves and hear their story.
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Lunar New Year Festival 2020
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The 1882 Foundation and the Humanities Truck celebrated the Year of the Rat at DC’s Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown. This year’s parade was sponsored by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, an organization devoted to supporting Chinese-Americans and Chinese immigrants in the DC area. The Humanities Truck presented a portion of the Anacostia Community Museum’s “A Right to the City” exhibit, telling stories of community change and organizing in Chinatown. We also partnered with the 1882 Foundation and Jenn Low for her “Project PDA: Love Letters to D.C.’s Chinatown.” Visitors stopped by the Truck to create a love letter to Chinatown and shared their stories of the neighborhood for our “Mobilizing Memories” initiative. The 1882 Foundation also presented the “Chinatown Archives” project, a local effort with Humanities DC to collect documents and images about Chinatown.
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MALCOLM X PARK: CELEBRATING 50 YEARS
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Fifty years ago, in the fall of 1969, Angela Davis spoke at Meridian Hill Park and called for it to be renamed to Malcolm X Park. This exhibition celebrates that history through the photography of Nancy Shia, local photographer and activist, during the Sunday drum circle. Find the truck on 15th St. to see the history and everyday life moments Shia has captured 1974-2014, from the everyday drum circles of the 1970s, to protests, cultural festivals and performance art presentations. The park is known for its beauty, art, and recreation, but it also has an illustrious history as a space in the city for free speech, especially for local African-American communities. Mobilizing Memories: share your story. We will be conducting short, video interviews with community members who want to share their memories of the park and the District. This exhibition is part of a related National Park Service project to collect oral histories about Malcolm X/ Meridian Hill Park.
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March on Washington 2021
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On August 28, 2021, the Humanities Truck joined with DC Sparkle Squad to commemorate the 58th anniversary of the March on Washington. The Humanities Truck and Sparkle Squad Truck were parked in Penn Quarter at the intersection of 8th and D Streets NW to conduct interviews, advocate for voting rights, and share joy. Truck project fellow Naoko Wowsugi worked with DC Sparkle Squad’s Kate Damon and Maps Glover to organize the event. Justice Black, host of “Just Talks with Justice” conducted interviews with event attendees inside the Truck, while Chelsea Soronen-Ritter and others from Chalk Riot decorated the surrounding sidewalks with voting-themed chalk art. A DJ from TwistedEgoz supplied the event with music all day.
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Miu Eng Poster Day 2021
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On Saturday, October 16, the Humanities Truck participated in an event hosted by Jenn Low of the 1882 Foundation, Dear Chinatown, D.C., AAPIDC, and The Urban Studio. These organizations provided art supplies and invited participants to customize and create their own artwork based on an original poster designed by artist Miu Eng. The Truck, stationed outside of the MLK Jr. Memorial Library, displayed prints of Miu’s original 1981 poster titled “A People Emerging,” and her other past work designed to celebrate Asian American Heritage Week in the 1970s and 80s. Visitors—including Miu Eng herself—participated in short-form interviews discussing their connections to Chinatown and their posters.
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Paul Robeson 2023
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For the second year in a row, The Humanities Truck partnered with several community partners to host “Artists are the Gatekeepers of Truth: Paul Robeson’s 125th Birthday Celebration.” Parked on the corner of Georgia Ave and Kansas Ave, speakers including special guest Uzikee Nelson joined to celebrate black art, community, and culture.
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Penn Ave East Neighborhood Plan
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More than $450,000 in funds were recently allocated to Penn Ave SE to revise the Neighborhood Small Area Plan, and for a Main Street Program. Ben Stokes and other project partners travelled around the Penn Ave SE neighborhood, interviewing residents for stories and feedback about their neighborhood with the goal of the neighborhood being provided more funding and infrastructural support from the city.
Collection contains photos and videos from the Ice Cream Listening tour along Penn Ave East Corridor on July 16, 2021, as well as from the Hard Choices game at Art all Night on October 5, 2021.
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Petworth Library 2019 - "It’s a Small World After All"
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This is the second event in "It's A Small World After All," a series hosted by the Petworth branch of the DC Public Library that explores D.C. history, public art and storytelling. Community historian Peter Stebbins discussed the Art Wraps on Historic Georgia Avenue, ties to the Lebanese, African and Caribbean diaspora, and community-based archiving. The Humanities Truck team gathered oral histories of Petworth community members about the neighborhood's history and change over time as part of the “Mobilizing Memories” initiative.
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