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Concerts • General Interest • Music
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Hadag Nahash |
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010
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Books • General Interest • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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Ted Leonsis |
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
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7:00 PM
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More than a quarter century ago, at the age of 25, Ted Leonsis - now the owner of the Washington Capitals - was already a highly successful entrepreneur, but reflecting on his life after surviving a plane crash, he realized that he wasn't truly happy. Walking away from that plane crash, Leonsis was determined to discover the secret to happiness.
Using the same analytical skills that had brought him great business success, he began to study happiness in fellow business executives, successful entertainers, and professional athletes, as well as typical Americans.
View photos of this event here, compliments of Bruce Guthrie.
WATCH THE EVENT here.
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Families • History • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life • Religious Services • Social
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Sixth & I Families Purim Party |
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
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10:00 AM
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Make your own costume, decorate Purim cards, assemble mishloach manot baskets for your friends, and of course, nosh on some delicious hamentaschen. |
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Concerts • General Interest • Music
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Miguel Zenón Quartet and Aaron Parks Trio |
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
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8:00 PM
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Winner of a 2008 MacArthur Genius Award and veteran of the renowned SFJAZZ Collective and Mingus Big Band, alto sax giant and composer Miguel Zenón has it all—monster chops, a unique folkloric compositional concept, and bandleading acumen beyond his years.
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Discussion • Film • Film • General Interest • Health • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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A River Wild: Young Adults Fighting the Upstream Battle Against Cancer
Film Screening and Panel Discussion |
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
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7:00 PM
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Despite popular opinion, young adults can and do get cancer. Those affected by cancer in their teens, twenties, and thirties are an often overlooked and orphaned generation who need support and community to live meaningfully through their battle with and survivorship from the disease.
The short film, A River Wild, tells the story of four young adults battling cancer who spent seven days kayaking the Colorado in order to prove that cancer, no matter how aggressive, dormant, or advanced, would never be stronger than they were. Join us in support of the young adult cancer awareness movement.
Following the film, special guests, Brad Ludden (Founder, First Descents), Jack Bouffard (Founder, i[2]y), and Tamika Felder (Founder, Tamika & Friends), will discuss and answer questions about the film and movement.
About the organizations:
First Descents is committed to curing young adults of the emotional effects of cancer and empowering them through adventure sports in a supportive environment.
i[2]y, the I'm Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation, is the nation's leading grassroots advocate for the next generation of cancer survivors and their caregivers in their late teens, 20s, and 30s.
Tamika & Friends, founded by cervical cancer survivor Tamika Felder, raises awareness about cervical cancer and its link to HPV. |
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Comedy • Comedy • General Interest • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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The Raging Jews of Comedy |
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
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8:00 PM
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A fast paced, hang-on-the-edge-of-your-seat comedic revue. Five hilariously edgy comics give you two full hours of side-splitting entertainment. This is not your Borscht Belt comedy - they just happen to be Jewish and Raging. The brain child of entrepreneur Joel Marks, The Raging Jews of Comedy have been hand picked from the top of the crop of this generation’s most innovative and insightful comics, including:
Dan Naturman – Returning to Sixth & I after his first hilarious appearance supporting Orny Adams and Comedy For a Cause last June. Has appeared on Comedy Central Presents… Dan Naturman, The Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Tommy Savitt – Winner of Seattle Comedy Festival (2008), Winner of Boston Comedy Festival (2007), The Bob and Tom Show.
Gregg Rogell – Comedy Central Presents… Gregg Rogell, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
Sunda Croonquist – Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, VH1 – I Love Toys, Showtime with Gilbert Godfried, VH1 – So Jewtastic.
Joel Marks – Skipper Chuck Playhouse – Age 6, Schwartz Chanukah Party. Our MC for the evening!
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Books • Careers • Comedy • General Interest • History • Politics • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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All in the Family: Writing as a Showalter |
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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7:00 PM
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Here’s an event to prove that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. On the occasion of the paperback release of Elaine Showalter's tenth book, A Jury of Her Peers: Celebrating American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, the three very different writers in the Showalter family will get together to talk about how they became writers and how being part of this family influenced their work.
Mom Elaine Showalter is professor emeritus of English at Princeton University, and a journalist who has written for People, Vogue, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.
Daughter Vinca Showalter LaFleur is a former speechwriter for President Clinton, a partner in the Washington firm West Wing Writers, and an international speechwriter and ghostwriter.
Son Michael Showalter is a comedian, screenwriter, and comedy writer, whose series Michael and Michael Have Issues just finished its first season on Comedy Central. This will be Michael’s fourth appearance at Sixth & I, but the first anywhere with his mother.
View photos of this event here, compliments of Bruce Guthrie.
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6th in the City: for 20s and 30s • Food • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life • Religious Services • Social
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It’s Only Natural: A Tu B’Shvat Celebration |
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Thursday, January 28, 2010
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7:00 PM
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6th in the City: for 20s and 30s • Careers • Community Service • Current Affairs • Discussion • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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Inside the Activists' Studio |
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Sunday, January 17, 2010
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3:00 PM
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The 2nd annual Inside the Activists' Studio event features a panel of impressive, local Jewish activists, networking opportunities, and skill-based workshops. Join us to learn from and be energized by local Jewish change-makers and to celebrate the ways we are working to create a more just and equitable world.
Panelists:
Lauree Hayden, a Heeb100, has been described as "the most formidable female to rally for labor since Rosie the Riveter."
Zack Rosen is a DJ, advocate, and founder of the "Alternative Queer" blog TheNewGay.net.
Ari Alexander is a social entrepreneur, co-founder of Children of Abraham, who now works at the Office of Faith Based Initiatives.
View photos of this event here, compliments of Emily Goodstein.
    
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Cross Culture Awareness • General Interest • History • Interfaith • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life • Religious Services
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MLK Shabbat: Visions of Justice and Freedom |
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Friday, January 15, 2010
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7:30 PM
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Sixth & I and Turner Memorial AME Church will join together to commemorate the spirit and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel for the sixth annual MLK Shabbat service.
In addition to a traditional Shabbat service, the evening will include inspirational readings, song and dance by the Turner Memorial Gospel Choir and Agape Liturgical Dancers, and a keynote address by Professor Peter Edelman. A dessert reception will follow the service.
As a way of capturing the essence of Rabbi Heschel’s phrase, “praying with my legs,” a statement he made when asked what it was like to march with Dr. King in Selma, Alabama, we are holding a shoe drive.
WAMU 88.5 is the official radio sponsor of this event.
WATCH A VIDEO of a past MLK service here.
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Books • General Interest • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Thursday, January 07, 2010
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7:00 PM
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Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love, examines questions of compatibility, infatuation, fidelity, family tradition, social expectations, and divorce risks in her new memoir, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage.
At the end of Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, under any circumstances, get legally married. (Both were survivors of previous horrific divorces.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government, which after unexpectedly detaining Felipe at the America border crossing, gave the couple a choice: they could either get married, or Felipe would never be allowed to enter the country.
View photos of this event here, compliments of Bruce Guthrie.
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Families • Hobbies and Crafts • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life
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Happy Challah-Day |
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Friday, December 25, 2009
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12:00 PM
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Join us for our second annual Challah-Day celebration! This indoor family carnival will feature games, crafts, yoga, science experiments, and a special concert by Jewish rocker, Sheldon Low.
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Discussion • General Interest • Jewish Culture • Jewish Life • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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My So-Called Jewish Life |
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
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7:30 PM
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Spend Chanukah with Sixth & I and SpeakeasyDC, Washington's premier storytelling organization, for a night of funny, poignant, powerful, and peculiar autobiographical stories about all things Jewish, not-so-Jewish, and wanna-be Jewish. Featured performances by Ezra Klein, blogger for The Washington Post; Vijai Nathan, one of the leading Indian American female comedians; David Plotz, Editor of Slate; Hanna Rosin, founding editor of DoubleX and contributing writer at the Atlantic; Hadar Susskind, Director of Policy and Strategy for J Street; and Amy Saidman, Artistic Executive Director of SpeakeasyDC.
View photos of this event here and here, compliments of Bruce Guthrie.
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6th in the City: for 20s and 30s • Cooking • Food • Social
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Holy Chef: Battle of the Spuds |
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
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7:00 PM
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Do you think you have what it takes to reach sacred levels of gastronomy and be hailed as a notorious “holy chef”? Join Sixth & I for its inaugural cook-off event and prove it! In celebration of Chanukah, we will pay homage to the ever-popular and starchy special ingredient, the POTATO. With over five thousand potato varieties worldwide, chefs may opt to cook any dish as long as it involves the tuberous “patata.” Think latkes, gnocchi, potato vodka…the possibilities are endless!
Not a chef? Come test your foodie knowledge and sample the divine dishes. Rate them based on taste, creativity, and of course, overall holy awesomeness.
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Books • General Interest • History • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations
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The Enemy I Knew: German Jews in the Allied Military in World War II |
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
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7:00 PM
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In the decades since World War II, one question has arisen again and again: “Why didn’t the Jews fight back?” In The Enemy I Knew, author Steven Karras shows that not only did they fight back, many Jews also played key roles in bringing an end to the Nazis’ reign of terror.
Helping dispel the myth that the Jewish experience leading up to and during World War II was one solely of victimization, The Enemy I Knew contains twenty-seven, first-person narratives of courageous German and Austrian born Jews who fled the Nazis and, not long after finding safety in the U.S. and Great Britain, were inducted into the Allied Armed Forces to fight the countries of their birth. The Enemy I Knew is a tribute to the often overlooked men and women who risked everything to serve their new countries and help rid the world of an unparalleled human evil.
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Film • General Interest • Jewish Culture • Not Your Bubbe's Sisterhood • Special Guests: Talks, Lectures, Conversations • TV
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Blossoming in Hollywood
Mayim Bialik: Jewish Actress Unplugged |
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Monday, December 07, 2009
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