Space4: Arts Community Kickoff

Event Date: 
Saturday, October 21, 2017 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Free Event
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Join CulturalDC and Ward 6 community members as we celebrate the launch of SPACE4: Visual Arts, DC's first-ever mobile arts gallery! We turned a 40-ft shipping container into a fully-renovated, solar-powered exhibition space for local DC artists and can't wait to share vibrant artistic experiences with communites across DC. The Yards Park kickoff event will feature food, music, family-friendly performances and an interactive installation by Salvatore Pirrone.

Performances by:
- Tyler Elementary School All-Star Steppers
- Open Box Project (Orange Grove Dance + Rogue Collective)
- Christylez Bacon and Nistha Raj
- Brass Connection Band

Speakers include:
- Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
- DCCAH Executive Director Arthur Espinoza, Jr.
- CulturalDC Executive Director Tanya Hilton
- Artist Salvatore Pirrone

Food Trucks:
- DC Slices
- CapMac

An appearance from Screech, the Washington National's Mascot!

GOT YARN? If you're around Ward 6, drop by our collection sites and donate your yarn to be a part of Pirrone's exhibit! Pirrone is literally tying the community into his SPACE4: Visual Arts installtion by embedding crowd-sourced yarn into the exhibit's plaster walls. Visitors to the SPACE4: Visual Arts gallery will be able to pull the colorful yarn from the walls, altering the space and creating an entirely new work. Find out where to donate your yarn by following this link (http://bit.ly/2xD0cvA) or by emailing space4arts@culturaldc.org

SPACE4: Visual Arts will remain open to publics at Yards Park until Nov. 15, after which it will move to the Smithsonian National Zoo for ZooLights!

**The gallery will be located in Yards Park at 301 Water St SE, next to District Winery.

**The event is free, but we would appreciate you RSVPing through Eventbrite!

For more information on CulturalDC's SPACE4 projects (visual AND performing arts) visit our website, www.culturaldc.org.