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FREEDOM ADVANCES is our 2024 nonpartisan civic campaign aimed to increase voter participation this national election cycle. Click below to learn more about this initiative and to like & share our media assets, including Nolan Williams, Jr's award-winning civic anthem, "Rise Up & Fight!"
Three ways to join our Freedom Advances Campaign!
#1 Confirm your voting plan
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#2 Share our "Rise Up..." video
#2 Share our "Rise Up..." video
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#2 Share our "Rise Up..." video
Copy and paste our YouTube video link on your social media platforms using the hashtags: #RiseUpandFlight
#FreedomAdvances #Vote2024
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
#3 Join our Rise Up Song Challenge
With our Rise Up Song Challenge, we are incentivizing young creatives to use our musical assets to create voter participation messaging that reaches their peers.
Visit our DC Home Rule @ 50 Exhibit
50 years of home rule is something to celebrate! That's reason enough to check out our exhibit currently on display at the DC History Center. Click below to learn more and plan your visit.
Pictured: "Freedman" by Kamryn Olds
View our award-winning documentary
Curious about the history of the found of nation's capital? Our documentary chronicles the long and complicated journey towards Washington, District of Columbia becoming our 51st state, Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. Winner of ten media prizes!
Kudos to our NEWorks Voices of Inspiration
...for their recent Kennedy Center Opera House performance with the American Composers Orchestra [ACO] as part of The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout, a program co-produced by the National Black Theatre, The Apollo, ACO, and Kennedy Center.
DC Full Democracy Champions Luncheon
For a 2nd year, NEWorks produced DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's Full Democracy Champions Luncheon in commemoration of DC Emancipation Day. The event, held on Monday, April 15, 2024, was hosted by Symone Sanders-Townsend, MSNBC Co-host of "The Weekend," and featured The Honorable Max Frost as keynote speaker.
NEWorks + Andrea Bocelli + Baltimore Symphony Orchestra!
Congratulations to our NEWorks Voices of America for their recent concert performance with celebrated tenor Andrea Bocelli and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. (PHOTO: Courtesy of NEWorks Productions)
6th & Jazz @ the Dr. Phillips Center
For a second year, NEWorks has collaborated with the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, Florida to present 6th & Jazz, an educational performance series that annually introduces over 16,000 sixth graders in Orange and Osceola Counties to the jazz genre!
‘Let Freedom Ring’ at The Kennedy Center
Monday, January 15, 2024 at 6 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Featuring Jordin Sparks, Nolan Williams Jr., Cécile McLorin Salvant, and more
NEWorks is honored to co-produce this free, ticketed musical tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., jointly presented by Georgetown University and the Center.
Two award-worthy videos
Our collaboration with dancers from Dallas Black and Alvin Ailey has won a 2023 Telly Award Silver Prize for Best Social Video (Dance & Performance) and the WETA/PBS feature story on our musical GRACE has been nominated for a regional Emmy Award. Click below to access both videos.
GRACE, the Musical captures eleven Broadway World DC Awards
The votes are in and GRACE is clearly the people's choice!
Special thanks to the many fans and industry insiders who have honored us with 12 nominations and 11 wins, including Best Musical and Best New Musical!
Become a Friend of GRACE today to track our journey forward.