World Arts Focus at Joe's Movement Emporium
Open seven days a week and twelve hours a day for classes, rehearsals, performances, and arts education programs, Joe's is a hub of cultural and community activity in the Gatesway Arts District of metro DC. Home to five international groups that rehearse and present their work, including two African dance companies, a Balinese Gamelan orchestra, a modern dance troupe, and a classical Thai dance company, Joe's draws 30,000 visitors and patrons a year. It also invests heavily in both after-school and in-school programs that are otherwise simply not available: 3,500 children and their families learn, play, and discover at Joe's--in an area that is otherwise poor in resources. Youth programs create safe havens, and offer quality arts experiences for kids; they also provide jobs for adult artists and engage them in the life of the community--a synergy between audiences and artists that makes Joe's unique. But all this activity has created a shortage of space and inspired Joe's first capital campaign--to turn a renovated warehouse into a new, community performing arts center. PG County "Arts Organization of the Year," and winner of the "Excellence in Community Building" award from 2001-2003, Joe's builds kids, community, arts, and artists--for everyone's greater good. You can join in the action!
IN THE MEDIAAdults Get Back Into the Swing of ThingsPosted Fri Apr 24 2009 by World Arts Focus at Joe's Movement Emporium It's an icon of warm weather and youth: a circular hoop that, when you rock your hips just so, goes round and round. Remember those rotations? Competing with other kids in the neighborhood to see who could keep the hoop up longer? What simple, satisfying bliss that was. Flash forward 25 or 30 years. Maybe you recently picked up your daughter's hula hoop or you tried the Wii version, only to realize your groove is gone. It doesn't have to be. On the last Saturday of each month, Joe's Movement Emporium in Mount Rainer hosts a hoop jam.
Gateway EcoArts Festival Celebrates the Green LifePosted Thu Oct 23 2008 by World Arts Focus at Joe's Movement Emporium Reggae band Proverbs, guitarist and composer Michelle Webb and electro-acoustic trio Flying Eyes will be the featured performers in the second annual Gateway EcoArts Festival, an environmentally friendly block party celebrating "green" living in the Gateway Arts District.
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