OCTOBER 2024 NEWSLETTER
ESTHER TALKS
“The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write is and effort toward wholeness.: Madeleine L’Engle”
ESTHER PRODUCTION INC. was partially founded on the belief that the arts heal, inspire and empower. The organization, therefore, encourages its target audience of women and girls to be engaged each day with some form of art.
What did you do last week to involve your soul in the act of creating, in using its imagination to design the life and world you wish for yourself, for your family, for your community? What have your promised to do this week. What song will you write? What dance will you choreograph? what poem will you bring to life with metaphors?
What will you do share your voice, your spirit? You need to hear and feel them. So does the world.
SPOTLIGHT: MIDNIGHTROSE: A Reading Series of Poetry & Prose
Sometimes, the folks who call the District of Columbia home can take the city for granted, ignoring its rich cultural and arts history. They forget the musicians who didn’t just frequent the District as the rode the Chittlin’ Circuit of African American,
performing groundbreaking, original jazz that along with blues showcases the genius of Blacks in America. They forget, too, the creative literary minds who wrote poetry, short stories and novel, displaying incomparable imagination and richness of storytelling. But the fact is, before there was a so-called Harlem Renaissance there was an incomparably magnificent writing community in DC.
Fortunately, there still are talented writers in the District contributing to America’s deep and strong literary canon. MidnightRose: A Reading Series of Poetry and Prose showcases the splendor and sumptuousness of the city’s literary community. It features seasoned and emerging writers sharing new and collected works. The next reading is on Nov. 9 from 2-4 pm at the Tenley-Friendship Library. Presented in partnership with the Library, the event features three very different accomplished and award-winning writers who literary afficiandos would not want to miss. REGISTER NOW:
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THE GIFT: AN INTERACTIVE ARTSHEALING, RECONCILIATION AND RESILIENCY EXPERIENCE an exciting five-hour event designed to help women and girls 16. The event is presented in three parts with keynote speakers and distinctive, customed workshops led by seasoned healing artist, educators and clinicians with more than 50 years of combined experience. Participants are guided in the use the arts, including dance, drama and literature, to assist them in healing from unresolved familial trauma while locating their own unique magic and resilience well to enhance their personal and professional relationships and to achieve self-actualization.
THE GIFT premiered in 2015 as part of the Esther Productions Inc.’s Resiliency Discovered Project (formerly the Fatherless Daughters Empowerment Project), enabling the healing, empowerment, and self-actualization of more than 200 women, many of them women of color living in the Washington Metropolitan-DMV area
Esther Productions Inc. and THE GIFT team are excited to bring it back. It’s your turn to get the healing you want and need.
IF YOU’RE EXCITED ABOUT WHAT WE’RE DOING, JOIN US!
VOLUNTEER: Become a Member of the Governing Board. Sign Up for a Program Advisory Board .
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ESTHER PRODUCTIONS INC.
1629 K St. NW-Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
202-363-4647
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