Centro Cultural Peru | Bangladeshi Street Festival

A number of traditional Peruvian dancers from the Centro Cultural Peru performed recently at the Prio Bangla street fair, a Bangladeshi festival in the 2900 block of S. 9th St. of Arlington VA, just off Columbia Pike.  

Photography by Lloyd Wolf

Yang Gre - Chinese dancers | Bangladeshi street fair

A Chinese dance troupe, Yang Gre, performed a traditional handkerchief dance at the Prio Bangla street fair, a Bangladeshi festival in the 2900 block of S. 9th Street, in Arlington VA, just off Columbia Pike.

 Photography by Lloyd Wolf

Mexican dancers - Bangladeshi Street fair

Traditional Mexican dancers performing at the Prio Bangla street fair, a Bangladeshi festival

in the 2900 block of S. 9th Street in Arlington VA, just off Columbia Pike.

Photography by Lloyd Wolf

Cambodian-American Heritage Dance Troupe | Bangladeshi Street Festival

The Cambodian-American Heritage Dance Troupe recently performed at the Prio Bangla street fair, a Bangladeshi festival in the 2900 block of S. 9th Street in Arlington, just off Columbia Pike.

Photographs by Lloyd Wolf

CPDP compilation video

This compilation of images was created by team member Aleksandra Lagkueva.

Pictures at an exhibition

Views of the exhibition at GMU.

Thanks to Mathilde Speier, Richard Kamenitzer, and Lori Cohen Scher of GMU, Kristian Whipple, Takis Karantonis of CPRO, and the Arlington Community Foundation, whose support and energy have helped make this particular exhibition possible. We also wish to thank the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, and the Arlington Commission for the Arts, who have also been there for us along the way.

City Paper Article on CPDP exhibition at George Mason University

Article about our work in the Washington City Paper.

CPDP exhibition at George Mason University

The Columbia Pike Documentary Project is exhibiting AT FOUNDERS ART GALLERY George Mason University 3351 Fairfax Drive Arlington, VA 22201 one block from Virginia Square Metro

Join us on Monday, September 10, 2012 at 5:00PM for the opening reception of From Pupusas to Microbrews, an exhibit of photographs from the Columbia Pike Documentary Project.

The multidisciplinary Columbia Pike Documentary Project (CPDP) started as an initiative to give this vibrant community, currently counting over 132 ethnicities, a “face” and “voice” through photography.

Program: 5:00PM - Welcome by Prof. Kamenitzer and introduction of the artists behind the project: Paula Endo, Lloyd Wolf, Mimi Xang Ho, Duy Tran, Aleksandra Lagkueva and others.

Enjoy a wine & pizza reception, followed by a panel discussion at 6:00PM
“From Pupusas to Microbrews: Gentrification and Columbia Pike.”
Panelists: Takis Karantonis, executive director of the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization (CPRO); Chris Zimmerman, Arlington County Board Member; Nina Janopaul, President of the Arlington County Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH); Christian Dorsey, community activist, political commentator & Pike resident.

For more information about this event or how to register please contact Mathilde Speier at 703-993-8926

On view through Friday, October 27, 2012

 THIS EXHIBITION AND EVENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SUPPORT OF UNIVERSITY LIFE OF THE ARLINGTON CAMPUS AND SUCCESSION, AND CPDP'S SPONSOR, THE COLUMBIA PIKE REVITALIZATION ORGANIZATION. 

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Signs and signs of of business / Pike

Various businesses along Columbia Pike.

Mr. Buu; couple on the street

Mr. Buu, a native of Vietnam, is the friendly parking attendant at the Fillmore Center.

The other couple are folks who the photographer met walking on the Pike.

Photography by Lloyd Wolf