Learn to organize your collections digitally! This workshop will cover the digitization of photographs, videos, documents (correspondence, diaries, etc.); how to organize the digital files; and how to make them useful to researchers.

This workshop is FREE, but space is limited. Register by visiting http://dcdigitalpreservationworkshop.eventbrite.com, emailing msmith@wdchumanities.org, or calling 202-387-8391.

Karim Ali, Partner, ADG ProVision LLC, will train participants in camera operation, effective interview techniques, composition, audio quality, building a visual narrative, editing basics, formatting, and distribution.

This workshop is FREE, but space is limited. Register by visiting http://dcvideographyworkshop.eventbrite.com, emailing msmith@wdchumanities.org, or calling 202-387-8391.

Linda J. Ferren, Executive Director of the Historical Society of the DC Circuit Court, will train participants in effective interview techniques, recording, finding narrators, preliminary research, legal issues, and finding an appropriate repository.

This workshop is FREE, but space is limited. Register by visiting http://dcoralhistoryworkshop.eventbrite.com, emailing msmith@wdchumanities.org, or calling 202-387-8391.

Reportero, a film, follows a veteran reporter and his colleagues at Zeta, a Tijuana-based independent newsweekly, as they stubbornly ply their trade in one of the deadliest places in the world for members of the media. In Mexico, more than 40 journalists have been slain or have vanished since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderón came to power and launched a government offensive against the country’s powerful drug cartels and organized crime. As the drug war intensifies and the risks to journalists become greater, will the free press be silenced?

An evening of short plays at the Beltway Drama Series at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville, MD, on Wednesday, January 16 at 7 pm: The plays will include Catherine O'Connor's Joan and Jihad, Jack Novak's Ultimate Success Story, Robert Montenegro's The Laundryman, and NWU-DC Chapter member John Feffer's piece Live from Abu Ghraib. Please come out and support DC-area playwrights! There's a suggested donation at the door, but it's definitely pay-what-you-will. RSVP on Facebook.

NWU-DC Chapter member John Feffer will be doing a free class on Wednesday, January 9, at 6:30 pm at Knowledge Commons DC on doing theater pieces. He'll be talking about how to go from idea to page and from page to stage. He'll talk a bit about some of his previous productions, but he'll be focusing on his current project, which will be based on the interviews he's conducting in Eastern Europe. Participants will also do some workshopping of projects from participants.