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Noseda and the NSO: Bologne, Sibelius, and Mozart

Noseda Returns to the Concert Hall!

Watch Music Director Gianandrea Noseda lead NSO musicians in a program featuring the First Symphony by Joseph Bologne, the first known classical composer of African ancestry. Born the son of an enslaved woman and white plantation owner, Bologne was a violin virtuoso and famed fencer who rose to stardom in Paris during the French Revolution. The concert also includes Sibelius’s heart-wrenching Valse triste and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.

Arts Across America - Upcoming Performance

Arts Across America

NEW EPISODE SATURDAY AT 6 P.M. ET

Our free, online performance series returns with a focus on Cultural Leadership and public healing. Saturday's episode explores the world of Trans Women of Color in the arts. With Trans WoC artists reaching more audiences than ever before—and fatal violence still disproportionately affecting Black and Latinx Trans Women—we now arrive at a moment of reckoning: how do we heal from here?

Yasha Lelonek with self love and a smile

Art and Trans Liberation with Yasha Lelonek

Arts Across America

NEW EPISODE SATURDAY AT 6 P.M. ET

Our free, online performance series returns with a focus on Cultural Leadership and public healing. Saturday's episode explores the world of Trans Women of Color in the arts. With Trans WoC artists reaching more audiences than ever before—and fatal violence still disproportionately affecting Black and Latinx Trans Women—we now arrive at a moment of reckoning: how do we heal from here?

Featured Digital Events

Performances for Young Audiences Digital Subscription

New Events Now Through June

We’re bringing the fun, whimsy, and adventure of our Young Audiences season directly to you! This subscription gives you EXCLUSIVE access to digital performances of theater, dance, music, and more—featuring a cast of unforgettable characters and talented artists found nowhere else.

New York City Center

ABT Live from City Center | A Ratmansky Celebration

On Demand: March 23 - April 18

In partnership with New York City Center on its digital platform, Kennedy Center patrons can enjoy an on-demand film screening of American Ballet Theatre performing celebrated works by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, including a World Premiere.

Family Dance Workshop: Tap with Quynn Johnson

Sat. Apr. 17, 2021 10a.m.

This digital event is FREE and will take place via Zoom, but advance registration is required. Registration is open until April 16 at 3 p.m. All registrants will receive instructions on how to access the digital workshop via email on April 16.

Kennedy Center Book Club

MAY 4 - OCT. 12, 2021

Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran hosts a virtual book club examining themes of music, history, culture, and the performing arts through literature. Join engaging panel conversations featuring Grammy Award®-winning NEA Jazz Master vocalist Dianne Reeves, jazz saxophonist Mark Turner, poet and cultural advocate Elizabeth Alexander, and many more.

Announcing the 43rd Kennedy Center Honorees

Experience the 43rd Kennedy Center Honors

In a unique ceremony befitting our times, we will celebrate these legends of music, dance, theater, and film.

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Our world may have changed, but our commitment to share the arts has not!  Your gift today will provide vital support for our artistic and educational programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Watch Mozart's comic opera The Marriage of Figaro.

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Social Impact Initiatives at the Kennedy Center

New POdcast

Active Hope

Join us for episode 2 of our new podcast series, this time featuring CNN commentator and New York Times best-selling author Van Jones in conversation with arts leaders on the topics of incarceration, law, and politics, and the role of arts and culture in freedom design.

Active Hope is one of the Kennedy Center's Social Impact initiatives. Read more about our programs.

Kennedy Center Education

Arts education as a mechanism for change.

At the Kennedy Center, we strive to engage and uplift all learners through quality arts education—in ways that spark curiosity, build empathy, and embolden citizen artistry.

During this unprecedented year of learning, the Kennedy Center is focusing on developing digital education resources to ensure that students continue to have access to high quality arts education.

Learn How

Kennedy Center Education

Arts education as a mechanism for change.

At the Kennedy Center, we strive to engage and uplift all learners through quality arts education—in ways that spark curiosity, build empathy, and embolden citizen artistry.

During this unprecedented year of learning, the Kennedy Center is focusing on developing digital education resources to ensure that students continue to have access to high quality arts education.

Learn How

As we continue to prioritize the health and well-being of our patrons, artists, volunteers, staff, and community-at-large amidst the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have canceled all previously scheduled full-capacity programs through the summer.

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