Date: 11/13/2014
Time: 7:00 PM TO 8:00 PM

1015 N. Quincy Street
Arlington, VA 22201

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Event Description: The Arlington Historical Society (AHS) will host the filmmakers and photographers behind the Columbia Pike Documentary Project at its next public program on Thursday, November 13. The Columbia Pike Documentary Project (CPDP) is a team of photographers and interviewers who have portrayed the contemporary life of people and sites along the exceptionally ethnically diverse and rapidly changing Columbia Pike corridor in Arlington. Columbia Pike is one of the most culturally mixed neighborhoods in the Washington, DC metro area. Five photographers – Lloyd Wolf, Duy Tran, Xang Mimi Ho, Aleksandra Lagkueva, and Paula Endo – have been collaborating on the visual materials since 2007. The team has made thousands of powerful documentary photographs of the faces and places along the Pike, and has compiled a number of oral histories. The photographs are available for viewing on the project’s blog: www.pikedoc.org. Arlington Video Network (AVN) produced an Emmy-nominated video about CPDP, which is viewable online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rEDZeb3FY The record CPDP has created of this rich melting pot has been undertaken in a thorough, insightful and aesthetically powerful way. Its meaning to the community has continued to grow as this section of Arlington County gentrifies and redevelops. Older established ways of life are still in place, alongside large numbers of new citizens from every continent on the planet. Buildings and businesses from earlier eras coexist with new development, much as the people do, in relative harmony.


Directions:
The hour-long program will begin at 7:00pm at Arlington Central Library Auditorium (1015 N. Quincy Street). A question-and-answer session will follow. The program is free and open to the public. For additional Central Library information, please contact 703-228-5990.

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