Anacostia Community Museum

ACM Beyond The Exhibition presents a Growing Community Series together with Martha's Table

​​​​​​​Join ACM’s Growing Community at Martha’s Table Healthy Happy Hour, a free weekly community gathering that brings neighbors together for connection and wellness. Stop by the Commons to enjoy refreshing healthy mocktails, nutritious snacks, music, gardening activities, and hands-on wellness activities for all ages.  

Participants will prepare for the upcoming growing season by learning how to start a windowsill garden and properly plant seeds indoors. The session will focus on seed selection, soil preparation, and early-stage plant care, equipping participants with the knowledge and tools needed to transition confidently into spring planting. 

About ACM Beyond The Exhibition
Keeping engagement alive while our gallery transforms.
While we undergo an exciting exhibition installation from January through May of 2026, our work continues beyond the walls. Join us for a vibrant series based on History, Wellness and Culture hosted at partner locations throughout Ward 8, January through March 2026.
These free programs carry forward ACM’s program scope which fosters creativity, learning, and connection. Whether exploring history, or engaging in dialogue, you’ll discover meaningful opportunities to learn, share, and grow with neighbors of all ages.
ACM Beyond the Exhibition ensures that even while our gallery is closed, the spirit of community and engagement remains open to all.

ACM Beyond The Exhibition presents a film screening and discussion together with Allen Chapel AME, WETA and the ACC.
 
Follow music icon Roberta Flack from a piano lounge through her rise to stardom. From “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” to “Killing Me Softly,” Flack’s virtuosity was inseparable from her commitment to civil rights. Detailing her story in her own words, the film features exclusive access to Flack’s archives and interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Peabo Bryson and more.
 
She gave voice to a global soundtrack of beauty and pain, love and anguish, hope, and struggle. American Masters: Roberta Flack illuminates where reality, memory and imagination mix to present music icon Roberta Flack, a brilliant artist who transformed popular culture, in her own words. With exclusive access to Flack’s archives of film, performances, interviews, home movies, photos, hit songs and unreleased music, the film documents how Flack’s musical virtuosity was inseparable from her lifelong commitment to civil rights.
 
This film screening is offered courtesy of PBS, American Masters, and The WNET Group, in collaboration with WETA, Allen Chapel AME Church, and the Anacostia Coordinating Council.
 
Refreshments available from 5:30 to 6:30pm.
Film starts at 6:30pm.

About ACM Beyond The Exhibition
Keeping engagement alive while our gallery transforms.
While we undergo an exciting exhibition installation from January through May of 2026, our work continues beyond the walls. Join us for a vibrant series based on History, Wellness and Culture hosted at partner locations throughout Ward 8, January through March 2026.
These free programs carry forward ACM’s program scope which fosters creativity, learning, and connection. Whether exploring history, or engaging in dialogue, you’ll discover meaningful opportunities to learn, share, and grow with neighbors of all ages.
ACM Beyond the Exhibition ensures that even while our gallery is closed, the spirit of community and engagement remains open to all.

In honor of Women's History Month, Gather and Grow is an inclusive experience focused on wellness, connection and personal expression. Through wellness session with Grounded and Liberation Workshop session with Author, Christine Platt. Participants will explore practices that encourage presence, clarity and confidence based on her book, Less is Liberation: Finding Freedom from a Life of Overwhelm. Join us to slow down, connect with others and leave feeling "Grounded" and inspired.

Christine Platt is a writer and wellness strategist whose work centers the journeys of personal and collective liberation—inviting individuals and organizations to reassess, release, and reimagine the narratives that shape our lives. As the founder of Everyday Freedom Collective, Christine’s expansive body of work is anchored by an empowering throughline: understanding and achieving liberation as a lifestyle. From her national bestseller, The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living With Less, to her latest title, Less Is Liberation: Finding Freedom From a Life of Overwhelm, with each book Christine affirms what she knows to be true: liberation is not a destination—it's a lifestyle.

Capacity is limited. Early arrrival is suggested.

About ACM Beyond The Exhibition
Keeping engagement alive while our gallery transforms
While we undergo an exciting exhibition installation from January through May of 2026, our work continues beyond the walls. Join us for a vibrant series based on History, Wellness and Culture hosted at partner locations throughout Ward 8, January through March 2026.
These free programs carry forward ACM’s program scope which fosters creativity, learning, and connection. Whether exploring history, or engaging in dialogue, you’ll discover meaningful opportunities to learn, share, and grow with neighbors of all ages.
ACM Beyond the Exhibition ensures that even while our gallery is closed, the spirit of community and engagement remains open to all.
 

Join us as we hear from the curator of ACM’s upcoming exhibition, We Make History, opening May 30,2026.

About the exhibition:
As the nation commemorates 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, We Make History explores how history happens, is preserved and shared. In Washington, DC and places around the country, many people were quietly keeping the records, building the collections, and developing the skills that would create America’s historical narrative. These community-based stories serve as the building blocks for 250 years of American history.

Using the country’s anniversary as a milestone, the museum uses its community-driven practice to celebrate local civic engagement and encourage local history keeping. This exhibition is a tribute to celebrating our communities and making possible a better understanding of our shared past. These stories are important to mark the Semi quincentennial because they help show the legacy of how people make history one act, one document, one story at a time. By bringing these stories to the forefront in 2026, the exhibit inspires the next generation to keep and share their own stories and records to add to America’s historical narrative.

The exhibition is currently scheduled to open on May 30, 2026.

About ACM Beyond The Exhibition
Keeping engagement alive while our gallery transforms.
While we undergo an exciting exhibition installation from January through May of 2026, our work continues beyond the walls. Join us for a vibrant series based on History, Wellness and Culture hosted at partner locations throughout Ward 8, January through March 2026.
These free programs carry forward ACM’s program scope which fosters creativity, learning, and connection. Whether exploring history, or engaging in dialogue, you’ll discover meaningful opportunities to learn, share, and grow with neighbors of all ages.
ACM Beyond the Exhibition ensures that even while our gallery is closed, the spirit of community and engagement remains open to all.