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FREE Costume Sale

We’re spring cleaning our costumes, props, and classroom supplies, and it’s time to purge! We’ll be opening our office to the community to take items off our hands. Most garments are one-sized or size inclusive. First come, first served. ALL ITEMS FREE. Bring your own bags to carry away your new treasures!

At Only Make Believe, we create interactive theatre with children in hospitals, care facilities, and special education settings. Inspiring joy and imagination, our professional actors engage children with medically fragile conditions and developmental disabilities, fostering social and emotional growth.

Craft for a Cause with Only Make Believe

Allow yourselves to unwind and create super hero masks, hats, and other kid-friendly giveaways. Everything you create will be used to help children escape into the world of “make believe” during our performances in hospitals, care-facilities, and schools dedicated to serving children with disabilities. No art degree required! Volunteers under 16 years old must be accompanied by an adult. Please RSVP at the link provided.

Feeding the Body: Astral and Physical | Bushmeat, On Ka’a Davis, and Jamal Moore in Concert

Bushmeat Sound Presents
A Concert of New Music for Contemporary Jazz Trio
served with Vegan Bushmeat Stew

Featuring Live Painting by Khalid Thompson

suggested donation is $20

yummy stew* is limited to availability

Doors: 5:30pm
Meal: 6:00
Music: 7:00

(We will play one long set or
two shorter ones depending
on how we feel.)

>> Drawing inspiration from outer realms of Blackness, guitarist On Ka’a Davis channels Sun Ra, P-Funk, Hendrix, Fela Kuti and more into the survivalist politics of the East Village underground arts community. Full with cosmic light, his playing rings with lyricism and polyrhythmic complexity. On Ka’a Davis arrived onto the jazz scene in the early 80s, most notably playing with the Sun Ra Arkestra as well as Don Ayler’s Septet. Over the years, Davis has recorded and or worked with a vast array of great artists including Luther Thomas, Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw, Matt Shipp, Simone Weissenfel, William Parker, Jemeel Moondoc, Kenny Wollesen, Juni Booth, Sabir Mateen, Daniel Carter and as a member of Avram Fefer’s Rivers on Mars, which featured the late Greg Tate on laptop. He is also a bandleader, having created the critically acclaimed Famous Original Djuke Music Players.
>> Multi-instrumentalist Jamal R. Moore is a native of Baltimore Maryland and a composing performer and educator whose imprint on 21st Century jazz has been huge. His educational background includes California Institute of The Arts, Berklee College of Music, the Eubie Blake Jazz Orchestra, and historically acclaimed Frederick Douglass High School where fellow Baltimore notables Thurgood Marshall, Cab Calloway, and Ethel Ennis also went.
Jamal has worked and recorded with are Wadada Leo Smith, Roscoe Mitchell, Nicole Mitchell, Archie Shepp, David Ornette Cherry, Tomeka Reid, Dr. Bill Cole, DJ Lou Gorbea, George Duke, Sheila E, David Murray, JD Parran, Ras Moshe, Hprizm (Antipop Consortium), Tatsuya Nakatani, Hamid Drake and the late Yahyah Abdul Majid (Sun Ra Arkestra). Moore is an affiliate of the late Horace Tapscott’s Pan African Peoples Arkestra, David Boykin’s Black Praxis, a member of Konjur Collective, and co-creator (with Luke Stewart) of Ancestral Duo. Jamal Moore currently leads Akebulan Arkestra, Napata Strings, Black Elements Quartet, Organix Trio, and Mojuba Duo.
>> Thomas Stanley lives a short distance from the Chesapeake Bay where he is co-parenting two school-aged sons. As an artist, author, and activist deeply committed to audio culture in the service of personal growth and noetic (r)evolution, Stanley has performed and curated musical sound for most of his adult life. From 2008-2022, Dr. Stanley hosted Bushmeat’s Jam Session, a weekly FM music show, arguably the world’s first and only blackadelic radio program. Stanley is the author of The Execution of Sun Ra (Wasteland Press, 2014), a critical response to the cosmic prognostications of the late jazz iconoclast. Dr. Stanley has spent three decades exploring the ramifications of Alter Destiny, Sun Ra’s unique construct for an authentically survivable Future. He has written and lectured extensively on emergent musical cultures and their connection to struggles for social justice and psychosocial liberation. He is co-author of George Clinton and P-Funk: An Oral History (1998). His doctoral work at the University of Maryland (2009) examined Butch Morris’s Conduction method as an extended meta-instrument offering unique opportunities for musical pedagogy and ensemble consciousness. Dr. Stanley is currently an associate professor of Sound Art, Sound Studies, and Consciousness at George Mason University.

* Bushmeat Stew is vegan and free of peanuts and tree nuts, but may contain coconut milk.

Jonathan Roth’s Graphic Novel Workshop

Comics/Graphic Novels are a fun and meaningful way to tell stories using both pictures and words. In this workshop, author-illustrator Jonathan Roth (ROVER AND SPECK, BEEP AND BOB) will give helpful tips and fun exercises for kids who want to create comics of their own. For ages 6-12. Paper and pens/pencils will be provided or bring your own.

Carroll Cafe presents Phil Wiggins w/ Hubby Jenkins!

Carroll Cafe is so happy to be re-opening our venue with two amazing performers – Phil Wiggins, who will rock the house with his nationally recognized harmonica playing, and Hubby Jenkins, formerly of The Carolina Chocolate Drops. Appearing together recently, they are bringing their talent to our stage. Mark your calendars and make your reservations for what is sure to be a sold out show on Friday, October 13th! Reserve your seat/s: https://carrollcafe.seekerschurch.org/2023/09/phil-wiggins-hubby-jenkins/ Door will open at 7.

Please note: we will no longer be serving food & drinks. You are welcome to bring your own, drinks should be non-alcoholic please, and you must bring your own containers to take home with you – thanks for your understanding.

Congressman Jamie Raskin for Unthinkable

In this searing memoir, Congressman and Takoma Park resident Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life—and his family’s—as he confronted the painful loss of his son to suicide, lived through the violent failed insurrection and attack on the Capitol, and led the impeachment effort to hold Donald Trump accountable for inciting the political violence

“Extraordinary . . . [an] astonishing story of tragedy and redemption. . . . May this book and Tommy’s example inspire us all to rescue our gravely beleaguered democracy.”—Guardian

On December 31, 2020, Tommy Raskin, the only son of Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin, tragically took his own life. Seven days later, on January 6, 2021, Congressman Raskin returned to the House to help certify the 2020 presidential election results, when violent insurrectionists led by right-wing extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol. As a reeling nation mourned the loss of life and lamented the injuries of more than 140 police officers in the attack, Congressman Raskin, a constitutional law professor, was called upon to channel his overwhelming grief—both personal and professional—into leading the second impeachment effort against President Trump.

In Unthinkable, Congressman Raskin discusses this unimaginable convergence of personal and public trauma. Going inside the Capitol, he recounts the horror of January 6, a day that he and other Democrats had spent months preparing for under the correct assumption that they would encounter an attempted electoral coup—not against a president but for one. And yet, on January 6, he faced the one thing he had failed to anticipate: mass political violence designed to block Joe Biden’s election. With an inside account of leading the team that prosecuted the outgoing president in the Senate, Congressman Raskin reveals just how close we came to losing our democracy while reckoning with the loss of his brilliant, remarkable son whose values and memory continually inspired the congressman to confront the dark impulses unleashed by Donald Trump.

ASL interpretation provided.

Reflections From the Inside

TAKOMA PARK, MD – CorrespondARTS presents Reflections from the Inside, an exhibition spotlighting the incredible work of artists involved in the Justice Arts Coalition program. Running from February 18, 2023 until April 1, 2023, the exhibition will be open to the public at the organization’s new headquarters at 7112 Willow Ave.
CorrespondARTs is an arts engagement program started through Justice Arts Coalition in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic which brought in-person programming in prisons to an immediate halt. This program currently provides people incarcerated at the Howard County Department of Corrections with instructional packets for creating artwork in three disciplinary realms: theater, visual arts, and creative writing. Teaching artists Lori Pitts (Theatre), Carien Quiroga (Visual Arts), and Leslie Bumstead (Creative Writing) have led this program since its inception in 2020, engaging over 75 individuals at 5 Maryland prisons.
While providing incarcerated artists with an opportunity for creative expression during a period of unprecedented isolation and uncertainty, the CorrespondARTs program guides participants through a variety of themes, such as community, trust, and respect, which shape the art they produce each week. The range of styles, mediums, and voices artists use in addressing these themes is what makes Reflections from the Inside particularly unique.
A reception for this exhibition will take place on February 18, 2023 from 3-5 PM EST at JAC’s Takoma Park office Attendees will be able to see theatre performances by Voices Unbarred and hear directly from former CorrespondARTS participant Anne Kirsch. Food from Olive Lounge and refreshments will be provided.

Photo Caption: “All Kings” by TReligion, Watercolor on Paper, 2022.