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Common Good city farm needs volunteers (all month!), tiny desk contest winner: Cure for Paranoia (7/11), tunes: Death Cab for Cutie (7/21), Colson Whitehead at 6th & i (7/27), Lord Huron (8/2), tunes: Robyn, night 2 (9/9), Thee Sacred Souls (9/17), Mt. Joy (9/18), Charli XCX (9/28; signup for presale 6/12), Olivia Rodrigo (10/3 & 10/4), Two Door Cinema Club (10/11), JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9), Julia Jacklin (11/10)
Wednesday July 1
the zine scene
Head over to Merry Pin for a night of zine making, they’ll have paper, markers, pencils, collage materials, and more. For those still confused about zines (it’s okay!), a zine is a DIY self-publication made on paper about whatever topic you are an expert on! For me? How love island is showing the real-time red-pillification of young men nowadays. (6pm)
Yeah, I’m lit! Gaslit!
See Jane Fonda’s newest documentary, Gaslit, following her as she treks through Texas oil fields and Gulf Coast communities, meeting those on the front lines, fighting back against the oil and gas extraction boom. Plus, stay after the screening for a Q&A with the director. (2:20/7pm)
The only reason I’m tuning in is because there’s no love island on Wednesdays
Anyway, here’s a non exhaustive list of USA men’s world cup watch parties:
Also || Wharf movie night: National Treasure 2, farmer’s market at common good city farm, root to rise yoga, yoga!!, friendship bench at MLK library
Thursday July 2
“Part wrestling, part civic hallucination”
Sign us up for Wrestlemagnia at The Black Cat. This “performance art fever spike” features some iconic anti-ICE protestors X comedians like Robby Roadsteamer, Jolly Good Ginger, Chelsea Gods and more in this uncategorizable event. (7:30pm)
Yeah, it is halloween in July because Freedom 250 is SCARY!
DJ Cinema Hearts (mixtape’s #1 surf dj, okay!?) will be spinning vinyl at Tiki on 18th, including rare 1950s Halloween Vinyl. Theme is: summerween! Dress in your favorite goosebumps inspired outfit, or take inspo from the iconic fits of Jaws and get ready to dance. (7-11pm)
Also || america: the innovation, stories of independence, comedy loft dc, Phillips After 5, local tunes: Cherub Tree album release!
Friday July 3
If you want Americana but not depressing Americana like the Great American State Fair
Catch some tunes and some feel-good-not-depressing Americana vibes at Union Stage’s free Bluegrass and beer night featuring Gravel Roads and AlgoRhythms Bluegrass Unit (7pm)
Air conditioned playground, yes please
The new playground exhibit at the National Building Museum opens today! Bring the child or the child-like in your life to let them run around 9 stations of this reimagined indoor playground experience.
Also || immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, JDHD with Alan Ward, indie rock karaoke
Saturday July 4
For the few, the brave, staying in DC
And local orgs are also doing stuff! God bless them!
Also || immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, slavery and freedom tour, vampire party
Sunday July 5
Birds the word
Beat the heat with an early morning birding and writing session in Rock Creek. Local writer Foley O’Brien will lead the group on a short hike and bird watch where the group will generate words to use in a writing session. Once you’re back at Pierce Mill, you’ll be led in an hour-long generative writing workshop! (7am)
Wow! They made ‘battle of the bands’ from Freaky Friday a real thing
Did anyone else think battle of the bands would be a bigger part of your life? With School of Rock, Lemonademouth, Camp Rock 2 all talking about them? Well, now you can watch a real life battle of the bands. Watch 6 local acts compete and maybe cheer for your favs! (6pm)
Also || heavy tunes at rhizome, bouquet crafting and flower design, indigo & shibori 101, america 250 at Tudor Place, Georgetown Library book club discusses of mice and men & train dreams, Logan Circle vintage market, tunes: Jack Flower & The Petal tones, NOVA Organizing Fair, walking tour: alleyways of washington
Monday July 6
Join the bug club
Welsh duo The Bug Club will be tearing it up with their basslines, great lyrics (check out ‘quality pints’), and garage-pop music. The band has released 6 albums in 4 years and are staying true to their weirdness (creating a fake band, releasing a full spoken word album!) and taking the US by storm. (7pm)
We have Sundance at home
Take a break and head to the National Museum of the American Indian for screenings of selections of animated short films by Indigenous filmmakers. (11am & 1pm)
Also || screening: The Toni Cade Bombara School of Organizing, calling Latine/Latinx artists, tunes: Madison Beer
Tuesday July 7
Hockey smut girls this one’s for you
If you were into Scott and Kip, we’re betting you’ll be into Lana Fergusonto’s newest romance novel about a frisky hockey player and grad student. The Final Score comes out today, and you can join the author for a talk at East City books. (7pm)
Also || tunes: Kevian Kraemer, tunes: Louis Tomlinson, tunes: Yuuf, puzzle swap, no cost eye exams, friendship bench at Mt Pleasant library, watch the world cup at the library
JULY
7/8: Wharf movie night: Hamilton, farmer’s market at common good city farm, improv tunes at rhizome, markers market at wundergarten, Sundeck Summer Reads
7/9: book talk: Wasp's Nest, comedy on the farm, the role of color, something rotten!
7/10: Spirit, Sanctuary, Silence & Sound, Mura Masa DJ set, art talk: Making a Statement, dc legendary musicians celebration, who did it improv, nyc circus project in dc, art of truman lowe
7/11: tunes at rhizome, heroic measures: a rhizome LARP, yacht rock at the pocket, jazz in the parks, hometown DC on stage: Step Into the Story, COPA Tysons Soccer Watch Party
7/12: fermenting basics, music workshop: Committing Ourselves to Freedom, tunes at rhizome, jazzy sundays in Anacostia, profs & pints: folktales of summer forests, nyc circus project in dc, Japanese spirits tasting
7/13: tunes at rhizome, moth story slam
7/14: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
7/15: Wharf movie night: League of Their Own, farmer’s market at common good city farm, hardcore at rhizome, novel talk: The Broken Hearts Agency, firefly yoga, night at the wine bar, sundeck summer
7/16: author talk: Sisterhood Above All, improv-a-ganza, tunes: birthday girl
7/17: 80s happy hour, trivia at 51st wick, Sarah Gross at Pocket
7/18: lotus and lily fest, arts and crafts swap, the youths are jamming, yoga at the sculpture garden, jazz at kreeger, supreme chord: acapella
7/19: local tunes at Pocket, art of drying and preserving flowers, punk at rhizome, intro to cyanotype printing, mayonnaise at songbyrd
7/20: fundraiser at franklins, tunest at rhizome
7/21: author talk: Thighs Wide Shut, designing belonging
7/22: Wharf movie night: Catch Me If You Can, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at natl. arboretum, lovergirl at rhizome, tunes at pocket
7/23: author talk: Come Undone, commit to connect, unplug at the playground, variety acts at blue note burlesque, origami workshop, intel talk at spy museum
7/24: bootgaze at Pie Shop
7/25: Cafe Love on the Clock, OCCIPITAL Fashion Festival, maya delilah at atlantis
7/26: parks flea market, gardening 102, tunes at pocket, owl wisdom
7/27: Colson Whitehead at 6th & I, unearthing family roots
7/29: Wharf movie night: Apollo 13, farmer’s market at common good city farm, book talk: Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment, gong bathing at the national arboretum
7/30: post-punk at rhizome
7/31: Shedonist w/ Josee Molavi, experimental percussion at rhizome, tunes at rhizome
AUGUST
8/1: Qigong community workshop, adopted enemy and friends, miro art workshops
8/5: Wharf movie night: Roman Holiday, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at the national arboretum
8/6: grrrrl jam, assassination fo trotsky, field day at the playground
8/7: MD tunes at Pocket
8/8: DC Roller Derby Double Decade Double Header (say that 5 times fast), indigo & shibori 101, art workshops at kreeger
8/11: book talk: a hard habit to break
8/12: Wharf movie night: 10 Things I Hate About You, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at the natl. Arboretum, what to cook when you don't feel like cooking
8/13: new faces in comedy in Takoma, book talk: lost and found
8/14: local tunes at DC9
8/15: energizers speaker ball, panda fest, yoga at the sculpture garden
8/19: Wharf movie night: F1, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at the national arboretum
8/22: jazz in the parks, Summer Abundance Forest Bathing at the National Arboretum, guided meditation at Kreeger
8/23: friday night fishing
8/25: Annie Lowrey at 6th & I
8/26: Wharf movie night: Project Hail Mary, farmer’s market at common good city farm
8/27: own your experience
8/30: honey harvest festival, parks flea market
SEPTEMBER
9/2: Wharf movie night: When Harry Met Sally & First Wives Club, farmer’s market at common good city farm
9/6: indigo & shibori 101, friday night fishing
9/11: Camp Merry
9/12: book of stories
9/17: book talk: Kristin Hannah
9/18: caribbean happy hour, PARK(ing) Day
9/26: jazz in the parks
9/27: parks flea market
9/30: music improv at rhizome
OCTOBER
10/8: cookbook talk at 6th&I
10/11: moony w Wall Carpets
10/12: the italian job
10/15: comedy at Sixth & I
10/16: parks line dancing
10/25: parks flea market
NOVEMBER
11/4: sound at rhizome
11/29: parks flea market
