Catch Up on News From The James and Janie Washington Cultural Center
March is National Women’s History Month
Tamara J. Madison Washington Artist Residency Events, March 12th & 13th
Tamara will serve a poet/Writer Residency in a few weeks at the Washington House, Seattle Washington, beginning March 8. Call to reserve your space at her reading and workshop . . . 206-709-4241.
Mary T. Henry at Elliott Bay Book Co. Friday, February 25th
February 25th at 7:00 p. m. join the African-American Writers Alliance (AAWA) at Elliott Bay Book Co. where members will read and sell their books.
Thoughts from Rev. Dr. LaVerne C. Hall, Executive Director
This month, the Washington Foundation recognizes and expressly thanks James and Janie Washington for their hindsight, insight, and foresight in establishing in 1997, the Dr. James W. Washington Jr & Mrs. Janie Rogella Washington Foundation. The express purpose of their creativity and thoughtfulness is extracted in part from their Last Will and Testament and delineated here:
2019 Presentation of Young Laureates at Our Annual Garden Party
Participants are recommended to the Washington Foundation by NAACP-ACT-SO. However, The Washington Foundation reserves the right to recruit, nominate and select participants other than NAACP ACT-SO participants.
2018 Washington Young Laureates
2018 NAACP ACT-SO GOLD MEDALISTS
. . . Art is the holy land wherein initiates seek to reveal the spirituality of matter. As such, art can be counted as one of the supreme sources of the triumph of the spirit . . .”
James W. Washington, Jr., Passing the Torch of Enlightenment (unpublished manuscript)
Back Porch Talk Series Conversations with Women * by Women * for Women with . . Rev. Tiji Murphy
You are invited to greet, meet, discuss with Rev. Tiji, her book “There is No Hurt Like Church Hurt”
SUNDAY AFTERNOON – AUGUST 27, 2017