Roadwork’s 40th Anniversary Launch Party

Roadwork’s 40th Anniversary Launch Party

Date and Time

Feb 11, 2018 4:00 pm

Location

Takoma

235 Carroll St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20012

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Description:

Busboys & Poets Cafe - Takoma Park is pleased to co-host Roadwork’s 40th Anniversary Launch Party! Please join us as we celebrate 40 years and hear about our upcoming historic summer concert Sisterfire Concert at the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Special guests: Ysaye Barnwell, In Process, and Alicia Partnoy. Roadwork Center has put women’s culture on the road from Sweet Honey In The Rock, and Holly Near, to the Sisterfire Festival, and more! 

ROADWORK was founded in 1978 as a multiracial coalition that put women’s culture on the road. From Sweet Honey In The Rock to Holly Near, from Toshi Reagon to the Sisterfire Festival and more! Roadwork launched the Roadwork Oral History & Documentary Project in 2016. This multi-year and multimedia project aims to document this legacy to inspire next generations of resister-activists, and produce up-coming historic summer concert at the 2018 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.

ROADWORK: http://www.roadworkcenter.org/roadwork-oral-history-project/

2018, Roadwork is a women-of-color led tax-exempt organization dedicated to creating a trail for new generations of resister-activists.

Host Committee:

Susan Allee*, J. Bob Alotta, Alexis DeVeaux*, Sandy Douglass, James Early, JaBen Early, Miriam Early,

Denise Ellerbee, Mary Farmer, Dottie Green, Susan Hester, Amy Horowitz, Michelle Lanchester*, Tina

Lunson, Sarna Marcus, Deb Morris, Toshi Reagon*, Madeleine Remez, Pam Rogers, Ruby Sales, Boden

Sandstrom, Andy Shallal, Urvashi Vaid*, Claudia Wayne, Juanita Weaver, Yvonne Welbon

*Denotes Roadwork Board Member

Please consider donating to Roadwork via LINK or mail check to:

Roadwork - 69 Murray Street, #6 - New York, NY 10001

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