DCJCC Volunteer Day of Service 2011

For the 25th year, over 0ne thousand volunteers from the DC Jewish Community Center helped out across the city on Christmas day. This was my 20th year documenting the effort.

Please visit:
www.washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer
for more information, and for learning about opportunities to serve.

Thank you again to the leadership and energy of Erica Steen, Randy Bacon, and Gena Schoen of the DCJCC, and to Ruth Stromberg, who assists me with gathering captions, good cheer, and kindness.

More photos are online here.

Pictured sites include the Father McKenna Center, Loaves and Fishes, DC Central Kitchen, CCNV, Change Inc., activities helping the homeless in Franklin Square Park by JAM-DC (Jews and Muslims DC, and the DCJCC blood drive.

Arlington Photographic Documentary Project | Parkington

The Arlington County Library's blog has just posted one of my images from the Arlington Photographic Documentary Project. It depicts the former Hecht department store's annual Christmas display in front of the old Parkington Shopping Center in December 1979, at the corner of N. Glebe Road and Wilson Boulevard (on the site currently occupied by the Ballston Common Mall).

The Arlington County Documentary Project is an extensive black-and white record of Arlington, Virginia, created in 1979 and 1980, funded by a National Endowment for the Arts Survey Grant. I collaborated with photographer Paula Endo in this work. A book, Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s chronicling the work done in the survey grant program, including information about the Arlington project, is available through Amazon.

Exhibition: GIVING THANKS | חסד

Come to a reception and view photographs by Lloyd Wolf from the past two decades of the Washington DC Jewish Community Center's annual December 25th (D25) Days of Service.

These compelling images depict volunteers over the years at many DC area sites preparing food for the hungry and needy, repairing and upgrading homeless shelters, schools, and low-income housing, comforting the sick, cheering the elderly shut-in, and directly aiding others in need, as well as depicting some of the sites and people being served on this annual Christmas day service event.

The photographs will be on display from November 29, 2011 through January 31, 2012.

The reception will be from 6:30 to 7:30 PM on Wednesday December 14th, at the DCJCC.
1529 16th Street NW, Washington DC 20036 | (202) 518-9400
http://www.dcjcc.org
The exhibition is hosted by the Morris Cafritz Center for Community Service at the DCJCC.
http://washingtondcjcc.org/volunteer


Light refreshments will be available.

Many thanks to the DCJCC's volunteer director Erica Steen, and program manager Joshua Ford, for their sponsorship, direction, and encouragement.

View the Facebook invitation.

Jay Krasnow has kindly commented on this work on his blog, ArtomaticVoyage. Take a look.

University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble

Frank London, Grammy-winning composer and renowned klezmer musician, was the guest artist this year for workshops and a concert by the University of Virginia Klezmer Ensemble. The Ensemble, now in it's sixth year, is led by UVA's Director of Music Performance, virtuoso clarinetist Dr. Joel Rubin.