Leading up to the 2024 national election, we launched FREEDOM ADVANCES, a nonpartisan civic campaign aimed to encourage full voter participation. Click below to learn more. And scroll down to view Nolan Williams, Jr's award-winning civic anthem, "Rise Up & Fight!"
Nolan Williams, Jr's award-winning civic anthem, "RISE UP & FIGHT," features illustrations by Willie Cordy, Jr.; animation by Gabrielle Genesis; music production by Nolan Williams, Jr., Warren Jones, and Phil Lassiter; and vocal performances by Rayshun LaMarr, Benjamin H. Moore, John Riddle, Teriauna Duran, Nova Payton, and the NEWorks Voices of America. Click below to learn more about the work's 39 international film honors and more.
Don't miss this annual concert celebrating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2025 will mark NEWorks' 20th year as music producer!
Stay tuned for more program information.
NEWorks will again be teaming up with the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, FL, to present 6th & Jazz!
2025 dates to be announced soon!
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
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!
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...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.
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.
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)
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!
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.
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.
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.