Please join us at the Arts Club of Washington for the sixth event of it’s film and lecture series “Democracy, the Voting, and the Rule of Law.”  Monica Jahan Bose will be the featured speaker and will talk about her socially engaged art practice and her ongoing projects with the nonprofit Arts & Democracy.  This will be an in person outdoor socially distant event.

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Curated and hosted by local EMMY Awarded Producer, Todd Clark, this timely series will provide its
audiences with a weekly brief panel presentation and film screening that will showcase inspirational,
entertaining, and educational classic American films whose storylines and characters will help its
audiences to explore, celebrate and reaffirm the urgency and historic legacy of informed civic
engagement and the protection of cherished constitutional liberties. Prior to the film screening will be a
brief presentation by a representative from a leading constitutional and voting rights advocacy
organization who will describe their efforts to preserve, defend and promote civic engagement and the
right and ability to vote.
Monica Jahan Bose, Artist, & Member, Arts & Democracy. Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American
artist, lawyer, and activist whose work blends art, policy, and science. She uses participatory installation,
film, printmaking, painting, advocacy, and performance to speak to women’s experiences. Since 2016,
Monica has worked with Arts & Democracy on several long-term socially engaged art and culture projects
in Brooklyn, NY, and she will be the lead artist on a new Arts & Democracy project this spring, funded by
the Asian Women’s Giving Circle. Arts & Democracy links arts and culture, participatory democracy, and
social justice. Monica shares Arts & Democracy’s goal of cultural organizing as a vehicle for increasing
participation in civic life. Monica lives and works in Washington DC. Every election, Monica dedicates
hundreds of volunteer hours to voter registration, getting out the vote, and voter protection at the polls
in swing states.
Wag the Dog. Two weeks prior to reelection, the United States president lands in the middle of a sex
scandal. In need of outside help to quell the situation, presidential adviser Winifred Ames (Anne Heche)
enlists the expertise of spin doctor Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro), who decides a distraction is the best
course of action. Brean approaches Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Dustin Hoffman) to help him
fabricate a war in Albania — and once underway, the duo has the media entirely focused on the war.
For more information: Todd Clark (Todd@theDCPlace.com) 202-236-8468