This is a DONA approved birth doula workshop. This is one step towards becoming a certified doula. Check HERE for a full listing of requirements.
Come hear from feminist author, scholar, and activist Silvia Federici as she presents two of her latest books, Witches, Witch-Hunting and Women and Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons.
Be sure to register! Tickets are sliding scale $5 to $20
The Holiday season is here and The Potter's House is bringing local Artists and Vendors together to offer the surrounding communities one-of-a-kind, affordable gifts that your loved ones are sure to cherish! From original works of art, to handmade jewelry, organic yoga apparel and more, this is a two-day event that will be the talk of the city
Love's Way is a map through and around the pain of changing circumstances. Families will turn to it again and again for practical solutions, information, and hope in responding to the challenges of aging.
Join us for the Recovery Café Open Mic! All DMV recovery communities, musicians, artists, supporters, families, friends are invited! This event is open to all.
In partnership with The Potter's House of Washington, DC, Recovery Café has a vibrant and much loved history. Let's reignite the hope that anyone going through recovery of any type, has a place to come and express themselves as they find their way. You will be supported at this open mic.
How can you use astrology to create the life you want? Join us for a star-studded evening and find out as astrologer and author, Mecca Woods, shares tips from her new book Astrology for Happiness and Success. Mecca will also be sharing what each zodiac sign can expect for 2019 and how to make the new year one of your best.
Plan Colombia: U.S. Ally Atrocities and Community Activism narrates the story of a rural Colombian community in a conflict area that declared itself a peace community, a massacre that occurred there in 2005, and U.S. grassroots and government responses. Parallel to this, the book recounts and analyzes the multi-billion U.S. program known as Plan Colombia and the impact of U.S. military involvement on killings by the Colombian military, as well as the many grassroots initiatives that have resisted war and injustice.
Frostlands is about a splintered world on the edge of climate catastrophe and the one woman who might just be able to save it.
“Art Between Us” is the DMV's quarterly all-women’s event for an all-women audience. (All persons who identify as women are welcome!) In an effort to create safe spaces for ladies from marginalized arts communities, “Art Between Us” aims to encourage creativity, develop sisterhood within the arts, and build a support network for women and girls of all backgrounds to connect with each other over artistic expression and celebrate our diverse voices and experiences in a space that's just for us.
A Political Education is the story of Black activists, educators, parents, and students who navigated, challenged, and contributed to the urbanpolitical and educational landscape from mid-twentieth century civil rights struggles through the more recent corporate reorganization of the public sphere. The book analyzes transformations in Black politics, shifts in education organizing, and the racial politics of education reform from the 1960s to the present.
Join us every third Monday of the month (Starting October 15), from 6:30 – 8 pm at Potter’s House in Adam’s Morgan, Washington DC to discuss and practice the concepts of COURAGEOUS CIVILITY.
Join us for a night of poetry with three fascinating poets
Kauffman, Bichlbaum, and Roychoudhuri will discuss the nature of the resistance to Trump, a blueprint for people-powered organizing in the wake of the midterm elections, and visions of a robust post-Trump policy agenda.
Join us for the Recovery Café Open Mic! All DMV recovery communities, musicians, artists, supporters, families, friends are invited! This event is open to all.
Focusing on the experiences of the first black students to desegregate Atlanta's well-known The Westminster Schools and national efforts to diversify private schools, Michelle A. Purdy combines social history with policy analysis in a dynamic narrative that expertly re-creates this overlooked history.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” -- Audre Lorde
This Death Café will provide an opportunity for individuals of any background, religion, culture or belief to meet together in a non-judgemental environment to discuss death and dying - one of our biggest conversational taboos.
Join us at the Potter’s House Community Room on Sundays
from 6:00–7:30 pm for a mindfulness meditation class.
"Kondwani Fidel is a brilliant and bold voice of a generation of hummingbirds. This book of essays and lyrics sing baritone form the depth , from the complexities of the young Black experience in America. It is relevant. It is regal. It is real."
-Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
In A Place to Call Home, Ernesto Castañeda offers a uniquely comparative portrait of immigrant expectations and experiences.
Plants offer many ways to enrich our connection to nature and place, but it can be difficult to sort out meaningful practices in the context of commercialization, commodification, and cultural appropriation. Join local herbalist Holly Poole-Kavana to explore the creation of thoughtful rituals based on respect for plants, cultures, and our own selves.
Holly Poole-Kavana is a DC-based herbalist of northern European descent practicing in the Western herbal tradition. Her practice, Little Red Bird Botanicals, focuses on using locally grown plants as medicine.
Admission: sliding scale $5 to $20
To register: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Courageous-Civility-Meetup/events/shmfgqyxnbtb/
Join us every third Monday of the month (Starting October 15), from 6:30 – 8 pm at Potter’s House in Adam’s Morgan, Washington DC to discuss and practice the concepts of COURAGEOUS CIVILITY.
This event is open to all who are interested, regardless of beliefs or political affiliation. Tell all your friends! Drop in for one event, or come on a regular basis.
Our current political and social climate has made it clear that it is more challenging to have civil, respectful discourse and that we’ve stopped listening to one another, particularly to those who hold different views. Many of us know that this needs to shift in order to create lasting change, yet we don’t seem to know how or where to begin.
This meet-up is for those who are looking to:
• break the polarity of our current political and social climate
• find internal practices to cultivate more resilience and inner peace
• step into more authentic ways to express personal power
• gain support from others who share similar values
• develop the courage and skills to advocate for a work, social and political environment that is in alignment with values of civility, respect, equality for all and compassion.
This regular meet up will be lead by Joe Weston - international trainer, coach, author and advocate for peace. He will share concepts and practices from his book Mastering Respectful Confrontation, as well as create the space for respectful dialogue amongst those present in order to explore ways to sort through some of the confusion of our time and also take these concepts into action.
To register: https://www.meetup.com/DC-Courageous-Civility-Meetup/events/shmfgqyxnbtb/
You can learn more about Joe Weston's work at his website:
http://respectfulconfrontation.com/
Jubilee Jobs is one of the longest-serving and best non-profit workforce development providers in the Greater Washington Region. Jubilee Jobs programs offer hope for jobseekers all over Washington, DC. At Jubilee Jobs, we pride ourselves on encouraging every applicant throughout the entire job process, which begins with initial meetings with job counselors, moves to workshops (interviewing skills, conflict resolution, goal-setting) and ends with the individual obtaining a job. The vision of the Next Step program helps currently employed clients move towards stabilization and greater economic self-sufficiency.
A joint-author event, Kristian Williams and Eric Laursen will be sharing their work on George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Williams' book, Between the Bullet and the Lie, highlights the relationship George Orwell saw between aesthetics, ethics, and politics; the difference between honesty and integrity; the corruption of language; the importance of observation and evidence; and the many failures of the Left.
Laursen examines the arguments that divided George Orwell and Alex Comfort, poet, biologist, anarchist-pacifist, and future author of the international bestseller The Joy of Sex—during WWII.
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae will be speaking about her book, Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, which provides a historical perspective on white women’s roles in white supremacist politics.
Jubilee Jobs is one of the longest-serving and best non-profit workforce development providers in the Greater Washington Region. Jubilee Jobs programs offer hope for jobseekers all over Washington, DC. At Jubilee Jobs, we pride ourselves on encouraging every applicant throughout the entire job process, which begins with initial meetings with job counselors, moves to workshops (interviewing skills, conflict resolution, goal-setting) and ends with the individual obtaining a job. The vision of the Next Step program helps currently employed clients move towards stabilization and greater economic self-sufficiency.
Healing justice, as a philosophically-grounded political orientation, intends to prepare, support, and maintain the well-being and wholeness of justice movement ecosystems. It is the “healing inside liberation” that makes the prospect of liberation for all of us even possible.
Join us every first Monday of the month for free yoga hosted by Embrace Yoga DC
