Upcoming Free Events at Busboys & Poets, Langston Lofts
BOOK: Friday, September 26 6PM - Porter Shreve will sign and discuss When the White House was Ours, a story of a family's struggle to stay together against great odds. It's 1976, and while the country prepares to celebrate the bicentennial, Daniel Truitt's family is falling apart. His father, Pete, has been fired from yet another teaching job, and his mother, Valerie, is one step away from leaving for good. But when Pete lucks into a crumbling mansion in the nation's capital, he makes a bold plan to start a school under his own roof where students and teachers will be equals.
MUSIC: Friday, September 26 11PM - Live Musical Performance with PS24. Following the presidential debates, the Busboys and Poets resident house band PS24 will perform live. Free and open to all. Donations encouraged. Dinner service available .
FILM: Sunday, September 28 8PM - Focus In! Cinema for a conscious community screening of Migration of Beauty, the story of Ethiopian/Americans understanding the power of the U.S. citizenship by engaging the U.S. political process in order to affect foreign policy towards their native homeland. Some came to the U.S. running from horrible political oppression and genocide.
Busboys & Poets is located at 2021 14th Street, NW 202.387.POET
More info and VA events listed at: www.busboysandpoets.com
Metro: U St
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