November 2, 2022

Happy Transgender Awareness Month!

This month, LGBT Meeting Professionals Association is honoring Transgender Awareness Month! During the entire month of November, LGBT MPA's Weekly Insider will provide articles and resources all about Transgender Awareness Month!

How to Celebrate Transgender Employees on TDOV and Year-Round

"Visibility, both in the workplace and beyond, plays a key role in shaping the narrative around how trans and nonbinary individuals can be their full, authentic selves and thrive both inside and outside of the workplace.”

Out and Equal | March 15, 2022

Calling for Committee Volunteers!

Are you wanting to get more involved with LGBT MPA or looking to connect, empower, and advance the LGBT+ Meeting Professional? Look no further! LGBT MPA is seeking individuals to become involved in shaping our organization and enhancing our value to the meetings and events industry. Become involved and make an impact! We are currently accepting applications for Committee Volunteers for the 2023 Calendar Year!

Applications are due Wednesday, November 30th at 12PM EST! Apply at the form below!

South Africa Cities Install Continent’s First Pride Crosswalks

The Need for Belonging

"In this episode of the Event Manager Podcast Megan Henshall, Global Events Strategic Solutions Lead at Google, joins to discuss inclusivity and the importance of belonging."

Skift Meetings| October 14, 2022

COP27’s Coca-Cola Deal Causes Controversy Over Corporate Sponsorship

"Activists slammed the company for its outsized role contributing to plastic pollution, and pointed to the deal as an example of corporate 'greenwashing'."

Northstar Meetings Group| October 24, 2022

Destination DC: What’s Going On

On October 29, the Rubell Museum, a sister museum to the contemporary Rubell Art Museum in Miami, Florida opens in the historic Randall Junior High School on I Street in the Capital Riverfront neighborhood. The school has been transformed into light-filled galleries with exposed brick, arched doorways and honey-colored wood floors. The Randall School’s redevelopment will include a 492-unit apartment building called “Gallery 64,” where 20% of the units will be dedicated to affordable housing and feature a bookstore and a café with indoor and outdoor dining.

The new, 32,000 square-foot Rubell Museum at Capital Riverfront

Green Scene

Finding new uses for old buildings significantly reduces the energy consumption associated with demolishing a structure and building a new one to replace it.



DC Artists Hang with the Populars

Museum features include 24 galleries showcasing contemporary art that Don and Mera Rubell (below) have collected since 1965.The collection includes works by Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, as well as DC artists such as Paintings from the “Shell" series, by artist Sylvia Snowden, who studied at Howard University. The series focuses on Snowden’s daughter and is the companion to “Malik, Farewell 'til We Meet Again,” pieces inspired by the 1993 shooting death of her son that were exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 2000.  

DC’s Brother, Brother

The inaugural exhibition, What's Going On, draws its title from the groundbreaking 1971 album by Randall Junior High School alumnus and singer Marvin Gaye that provided a powerful condemnation of the Vietnam War and the destructive realities of social injustice, drug abuse, and environmental negligence. It also references the cornerstone of the exhibition: Keith Haring's Untitled (Against All Odds), 1989, a series of 20 works inspired by Gaye's revolutionary lyrics. What's Going On brings together more than 190 works by 37 artists who are responding to pressing social and political issues that continue to affect society today

Spotlight

Kehinde Wiley’s monumental painting “Sleep” (below). The 11-by-25-foot work, based on an 18th-century painting by Jean-Bernard Restout, is one of Wiley’s series that explores Black identity by situating contemporary subjects in old settings. Wiley painted Barack Obama’s presidential portrait for the National Portrait Gallery.

School Days

Built in 1906 as Cardoza High School (named after the celebrated African American educator, 1836-1907), the historic I Street building became Randall Junior High School in 1927. Its expansion met the educational needs of Southwest DC’s African American community. Although no longer functioning as a school, the original building and its 1927 wings illustrate an important aspect of the history of African American education. The building joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.



Say What?

“Contemporary art is a catalyst for serious conversation,” Don Rubell said, noting that artists grapple with the most pressing issues of the day, including race, immigration, violence and identity. “Where better to have these conversations than in the shadow of the Capitol.” (Wash. Post)

Pro Tip

The residents of DC receive free admission. 

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