What do you know about DC’s Barry Farm community?
Enslaved people once worked this land. Later, the formerly enslaved purchased the land, and built one of DC’s first thriving Black com-munities. Here, the city constructed a sprawling public housing complex in the 1940s, beloved by insiders, if notorious to outsiders.
Here, the national movement for welfare rights took shape. Here, the Junkyard Band honed its chops on homemade instruments before turbocharging the city’s Go-Go music scene. Here, residents lived in the Barry Farms Dwellings up until 2019, when the final members were removed for redevelopment.
Film screening will be followed by a moderated discussion with the filmmakers and former
Barry Farm residents.
REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED
For more information contact Dr. Amanda Huron
amanda.huron@udc.edu
MASKS REQUIRED
D.C. History Film Series: “Barry Farm: Community, Land, and Justice in Washington, D.C.”
6pm – 8pm
UDC Theater of the Arts
4200 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008