The Uptown Art House is a pop-up community creative space open to support the People's Climate March arts-making. The People's Climate March is April 29th, 2017.
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The Uptown Art House is a rapidly-evolving community and arts space in Cleveland Park, DC. Our nightly events and workshops highlight DC's rich artistic, cultural, and activist scene. Check our weekly calendar for upcoming events. To book an event, or if you have any inquiries, email [email protected]
During the afternoon, our doors are open to the community as a creative coworking space for art projects (music, visual, etc.) and community organizing work (wifi). We seek organizational and other partnerships that would enrich and sustain this space. Donations are always welcome to keep this unique space open, cash preferred.
OUR VISION
Since the Peoples Climate March, the Uptown Art House has evolved into a hub for grassroots activists and artists throughout the DC area. With rising rent costs and tight occupancy in the District, it is one of few creative spaces with open doors. Previous events have produced stunning works of visual art, with and without a cause; highlighted diverse musical traditions alive and well in DC, from funk to Andean folk to hip hop; and supported the local indigenous nation’s work for environmental justice.
A facility like the Uptown Art House—large, open, accessible, and woke—is a missing organ in our city’s creative body. Led by a group of local POC artists and activists, it’s our vision to house and build DC’s flourishing social justice movements and independent arts scene. We believe that by incubating relationships and sharing space, we support the powerful symbiosis that exists between creativity and activism. We’re building an intersectional movement in the nation’s capitol.
We are working to recruit a board of seasoned community leaders and artists who can keep the space accountable to the needs of local DC communities as they emerge, and help ground our programming in values of equity, justice and collective liberation. We dream the space will be home to mobilization efforts both large and small, educational and cultural programming (workshops, classes, and demonstrations), community events, and art creation/exhibition that will further engage and empower our communities to make lasting change outside these double doors.
Our communities are rallying in support of this space, and we feel it’s necessary to sustain the energy, turning this moment into a movement.
