Community Engagement
NSO In Your Neighborhood 2025: Uptown
February 13–19, 2025
Takoma | Sixteenth St | Shepherd Park | Petworth | Brightwood | Crestwood
This February, the National Symphony Orchestra will collaborate with communities in Ward 4 and Takoma Park, Maryland to amplify joy, unity, and shared humanity through music and the arts. Partnering with local schools, community spaces, and organizations, we will honor the history of these neighborhoods, while also building new connections and relationships.
Sound Health
Working with music therapists, social workers, and medical professionals, the NSO performs at the National Institue of Health and offers Sound Health Fridays, which combines music, singing, and dance as a healing practice.
Notes of Honor
The NSO’s Notes of Honor initiative aims to recognize and express our gratitude to active duty and prior service members, veterans, and retired service members through free programming at the Kennedy Center.
Cartography Project
Inspired by the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a visual interpretation of the moral trauma of our history, The Cartography Project seeks to use music as both a source of healing and a way to open dialogue about the future of anti-racism. The NSO, WNO, and Kennedy Center will be commissioning composers and librettists from regions spanning the entire country to create work that responds to an event that has occurred in that region and also asks, “Where do we go from here?”
This year focuses on the future of Black Dignity in Detroit, Seattle, Houston, and New Orleans.
