What we’re about
What we’re about
Learning is free, and necessary, and the Virtual Academy makes a variety of learnings possible -- environmental and social issues, historical and archeological walks about East Coast social histories, Specifically DC and the Hudson Valley, about its First Peoples, enslaved histories, and current issues.
Street learning at its most varied
The DC Mobile Academy often sponsors in site visits sites of cultural significance in the wider District of Columbia and in Catskill environs. These short (60-75 min) conversations explore the archeology of enslavement -- often invisible -- at specific unmarked sites, corners, buildings. These sessions invite another look at a landscape that is, largely, still a washed-white memorial.
Its online version, The Virtual Academy, provides a wider-range of intellectual content for adult learners -- across environmental, ethical, social history, Indigenous Peoples, and Spoken Arts presentations.
Together, both elements of the Academy features online live-streams, and in-person guerrilla lectures, walks, explorations, and other forms of street-learning. Join us! The Mobile and the Virtual Academies are a communual work: we say the names that are hidden, removed, effaced. Together we work to True-Up the District's history.
Everyone is welcome, everything is free. Be at peace. Be respectful. Be here.
Prof. Ed Ingebretsen
Organizer
