Mid City DC Magazine – May 2022

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NEIGHBORHOOD

Shaw Streets by Pleasant Mann Live Art workshops. Seventh Street is a particularly appropriate location for an Open Streets event. It is one of the oldest commercial corridors, offering the city’s first streetcar route during the Civil War. The 1937 WPA guide to DC, “Washington: City and Capital,” gave Seventh Street its own chapter. “A lively street with a “distinct individuality of its own,” said the guide, noting that “on Saturday nights Seventh Street’s stores, movies, restaurants and almost every place where money can be extracted from customers are wide open.”

Shaw Gets Another Mural!

People have been noticing a recently completed mural at the intersection of Rhode Island Avenue and Seventh Street NW. Admiring a new Shaw mural,“She Got We,” by artist Cita Sadeli, aka Miss Chelove. Photo: Alexander Padro, courtesy Shaw Main Streets Celebrating the initiative of women, “She Got We” features photo-realistic gramming planned exclusively for Seventh Street. portraits of multiethnic, multigenerational women, Open Streets is designed for people of all ages On Saturday, June 4, Seventh Street between Pennwhose expressions and postures support a feeling of and backgrounds. Want to ride uninterrupted across sylvania Avenue NW all the way up to Florida Avstrength, pride, interdependence, resilience and condifferent neighborhoods? Care to join a dancing or enue NW will be closed to vehicular traffic from 9 fidence. fitness class with your friends? Prefer to sit back and a.m. to 3 p.m. The closure will be part of the DisArtist Cita Sadeli, also known as Miss Chelove, is enjoy the lineup of diverse musical performances? trict Department of Transportation’s Open Streets a Javanese-American muralist who has created murals How about bringing the kids out to enjoy familyinitiative. Started in 2019, Open Streets closes main Shaw and other parts of the District. Her work is friendly activities in one of downtown’s most popjor thoroughfares for part of a day to devote streets also featured in a short documentary, “Miss Chelove,” ular corridors, without having to dodge cars? The to the people and to demonstrate how they can be that was just screened at the 2022 DC Film Fest and programmed activities include a Children’s Traffic enlivened by reduced auto traffic. This one-and-athe Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore. Garden, Double Dutch competitions, a demonstrahalf-mile route will connect Shaw, Mount Vernon “She Got We” was funded by a DC Commistion creating a curb extension mural and parklet, fitSquare, Chinatown and Penn Quarter as people sion on the Arts and Humanities Public Art Buildness classes, a Transportation Oasis, an eBike demride, bike, walk, socialize and participate in proing Communities grant to Shaw Main Streets, onstration along with (of course) a go-go band and

Shaw Joining Open Streets June 4

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