Roadwork: Building Multi-racial Coalitions Through Women’s Culture

There must be a ceasefire in Gaza — NOW!
(Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)
Sisterfire Reunion - Kennedy Center June 29th, 2024
Evelyn Harris and Kim Jordan reunite at Sisterfire after 40 years. They are joined by Michelle Lancaster, Marcia Gomes, and Yasmeen Williams. Sisterfire is a cross-generational celebration of resistance, coalition, and emancipatory imagination, creativity, and performance in the arts.

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We warmly invite you to come together in community to grieve the passing and celebrate the life and legacy of our beloved Urvashi Vaid - an influential and unstoppable activist who spent years here in DC. For more information, contact or Ericka Jones-Craven at (267)322-9085. Click to register to attend via Zoom.
Sisterfire Love Songs - Kennedy Center March 4th, 2023
Powerful Black, queer musicians from the DMV share their take on love songs in this round-robin style show. Featuring Rebekah Lau’ren, Spirit McIntyre, and Like Water. Curated by Be Steadwell. Click for event page.
Sisterfire@40 - Kennedy Center June 17th
We invite you to join us on June 17th, 2022 for a gathering: Sisterfire @40 Fired Up to Transform the Future featuring Be Steadwell, Roya Marsh, and a special guest appearance by Sweet Honey In The Rock, with moderator Netsanet Negussie.
2021 Sisterfire - Smithsonian Folklife Festival (click)
Roadwork joins the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to focus on two Palestinian women, verse and food makers, Zeina Azzam and Reem Kassis, to continue Roadwork's presentation of Palestinian culture.
Conversations with Barbara Dane
In Fall 2020, Roadwork sat down with Barbara Dane as she reflected on her life as a woman, singer, mother, and life partner -- taking the opportunity to speak to a new generation of women Artist Activists
Sisterfire - Roadwork 40th Anniversary Concert (2018)
The Movement That Put Women's Culture On The Road - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival joined Roadwork in celebrating its fortieth anniversary as a D.C.-based multiracial coalition that puts women artists on the road globally.
Sisterfire - Roadwork 40th Anniversary Concert (2018)
The Movement That Put Women's Culture On The Road - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival joined Roadwork in celebrating its fortieth anniversary as a D.C.-based multiracial coalition that puts women artists on the road globally.
Roadwork Documentary
We are producing a documentary film drawing on the archival materials in and the interviews conducted as part of the Oral History Project. The film will exhibit how the connections and communities Roadwork created continue to this day; across race, gender, sexuality, class, age, and culture.
Digital Archives
Help us build our digital archive. Your memories! They could help us build a timeline of events. Did you have a relationship with Roadwork? If so, tell us about it!

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James Early and Amy Horowitz on Bernice Johnson Reagon, 2023 – Read the Article

Read the Roadwork Statement on Systemic Racism

There must be a ceasefire in Gaza Now, by Alexis De Veaux and Amy Horowitz – Read the Article

The movement that put women’s culture on the road.

Sisterfire

In 1982, Roadwork produced the first Sisterfire Festival at Takoma Park Middle School in Maryland.

Roadwork Artists

During the 1970’s and 1980’s, Roadwork produced and booked numerous artists.

There must be a ceasefire in Gaza — NOW!

(Washington Blade photo by Michael Key)

Sisterfire Reunion - Kennedy Center June 29th, 2024

Sisterfire Love Songs - Kennedy Center March 4th, 2023

Powerful Black, queer musicians from the DMV share their take on love songs in this round-robin style show. Featuring Rebekah Lau’ren, Spirit McIntyre, and Like Water. Curated by Be Steadwell. Click for event page.

Sisterfire@40 - Kennedy Center June 17th

We invite you to join us on June 17th, 2022 for a gathering: Sisterfire @40 Fired Up to Transform the Future featuring Be Steadwell, Roya Marsh, and a special guest appearance by Sweet Honey In The Rock, with moderator Netsanet Negussie.

2021 Sisterfire - Smithsonian Folklife Festival (click)

Roadwork joins the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to focus on two Palestinian women, verse and food makers, Zeina Azzam and Reem Kassis, to continue Roadwork's presentation of Palestinian culture.

Conversations with Barbara Dane

In Fall 2020, Roadwork sat down with Barbara Dane as she reflected on her life as a woman, singer, mother, and life partner -- taking the opportunity to speak to a new generation of women Artist Activists

Sisterfire - Roadwork 40th Anniversary Concert (2018)

The Movement That Put Women's Culture On The Road - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival joined Roadwork in celebrating its fortieth anniversary as a D.C.-based multiracial coalition that puts women artists on the road globally.

Sisterfire - Roadwork 40th Anniversary Concert (2018)

The Movement That Put Women's Culture On The Road - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival joined Roadwork in celebrating its fortieth anniversary as a D.C.-based multiracial coalition that puts women artists on the road globally.

Roadwork Documentary

We are producing a documentary film drawing on the archival materials in and the interviews conducted as part of the Oral History Project. The film will exhibit how the connections and communities Roadwork created continue to this day; across race, gender, sexuality, class, age, and culture.

Digital Archives

Help us build our digital archive. Your memories! They could help us build a timeline of events. Did you have a relationship with Roadwork? If so, tell us about it!

The movement that put women’s culture on the road.

Sisterfire

Roadwork Artists

Archives

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