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Join us at Northwest One for Wii game night.

We provide the Wii, Games and controllers, all you need to do is show up! Game nights are for an hour on Thursdays.

Explore groundbreaking artists, art forms, and art works each week at the Beneath the Surface Art Club! You will have an opportunity to create artwork of your own each week – art you then can enter in our summer long art contest happening on Monday, Aug. 12!

Check dclibrary.org/francis for more information on workshops topics. All supplies provided.

Ever dream of becoming a sculptor? Here’s your chance! Learn this legendary sculpting technique that utilizes readily available materials such as packing tape and is an excellent way to create life‐size molds of objects or human forms. The final result is hollow, light‐weight, transparent and easily installed.

Ages 13-19.

Find out about more Albus Cavus tape sculpture workshops at DC Public Library locations. 
Find out about all of this summer's Albus Cavus workshops at DC Public Library locations.

Albus Cavus is an international collective of artists and scientists who improve quality of urban life through arts and creativity. This goal is accomplished with community-based public art, participatory events, interactive environments and project-oriented education. “Beneath the Surface” workshops present innovative art techniques for exploring the world beneath the obvious and invisible to the bare eye.

Come join the Southwest Neighborhood Library for game nights!

Come play a host of Wii video games or enjoy a nice board game.

Game nights will be every Monday and Wednesday night.

Come and watch excellent selections of Anime features from the past and today!

On the third Tuesday of every month, Lamond-Riggs will be showing a different Anime film.  

Lyric Workshop -- Examining the Truths of Today's Radio Artist

Come explore the backgrounds of your favorite artists and singers at the library. Do they talk about where they are from in their music? What do you admire about them -- is it their sound, their look, or their lifestyle?

Attend this creative workshop and learn how to dissect your own realities and turn them into verse or song with the help of local spoken word poet Candice Danielle Iloh.

Ages 13-19.

Find out about more lyric workshops at DC Public Library locations. 

Candice Danielle is an educator, performance poet and teaching artist who’s been performing and facilitating workshops throughout the D.C. metropolitan area for the past 6 years. She likes to give special attention to independent thought and open conversation among women and young people. A personal advocate of finding self, she hopes to encourage and provide the tools for all to use their own voice and create their own world.

Do you have mad videogame skillz? Come test them out during our Wii Wednesday program, running twice monthly in the MLK Teen Space.

Show your platforming prowess in a Mario game, bust a move in Just Dance 3, or have some fun fencing in Wii Sports Resort. 

The possibilities are endless...

Head to the Teen Space for board games and Wii games.

Ages 12 - 19.

This workshop/performance with Christylez Bacon and Nistha Raj will present genres of music native to their cultural upbringings reflecting hip-hop, go-go and Hindustani Classical music.

The audience will get the opportunity to hear both distinct genres in their original forms, before learning about the specific techniques and components that will ultimately result in uniting both styles of music, creating an entirely new sound and intersection for people of Indian and African-American heritage to recognize their commonalities beneath the surface of our perceived differences.

Find out about more Southeast D.C. meets Southeast Asia performances at DC Public Library locations. 

For ages 13-19.