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On sale now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out:
tunes: Foo Fighters & Mannequin Pussy (8/17), tunes: Kehlani (8/27), tunes: Robyn, night 2 (9/9), Thee Sacred Souls (9/17), all things go (9/25-927), Two Door Cinema Club (10/11), tunes: Rebecca Black (10/15), JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9)
Wednesday July 29
Get trashy
Pick up litter with strangers around Logan Circle! Feel like a good citizen and wash your hands at Garden District to celebrate. (7pm)
Not at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
An artist reclaims a prison; a bookseller wields a machete; and an immigrant mother confronts ICE. Eunoia Cinema House screens short docs by three DMV filmmakers. (7:45 pm)
Also || 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, sundeck summer reads, tunes at rhizome, artist trading card swap, april + vista at songbyrd, conscious speed dating, Beyond ICE: DC Under Occupation Teach-In, BrownTown at DC Improv, apply to be a part of Survivor DC, substack writer wellness workshop, Say goodbye to looking glass lounge :(, observe the full moon
Thursday July 30
WILL U GO 2 PEARL STREET PROM W/ ME?
Pick up your tux from the dry cleaner! DC indie bands Birdcage, Erasergirl, and Doll Apartments are at the door, and the limo is about to leave! (8pm)
Snoop on historic family gossip
A guy is a famous war historian. He teaches work from a famous war photographer. That guy turns out to be his biological father?! Hear it from the man himself! (6pm)
Also || post-punk at rhizome, SYMAL for summer, tales of heat, heart, and hindsight, book artists at NMWA, book pop-up, outdoor summer concerts in adams morgan, joy of simplicity, free comedy happy hour, disability pride comedy night, midday jazz and swing concert
Friday July 31
Looking for a plus one to book club?
The apps are for dating, but East City Bookshop is for finding your next book bestie. Join them to speed date fellow readers over snacks until you find someone who loves litfic, romantasy, or whatever niche genre you’re into. (7pm)
Be very careful not to spill….
“Awaken your senses” at this tea-themed collage workshop and celebrate Teaism’s 30th anniversary! So maybe make a birthday card? (6pm)
Also || PSA free chips & guac at chiptole, Shedonist w/ Josee Molavi, experimental percussion at rhizome, tunes at rhizome, experimental tunes at rhizome, hopefully funnier than your friend's "really funny story i promise", a new brain reading, from the pit to the prom at pie shop, super gay book club, emo night
Saturday August 1
The doggy paddle is a totally valid stroke btw
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue is hosting a fundraiser and silent auction at the Potomac, with half of every dollar going to homeless dogs and cats. Your ticket gets you a kayak or paddleboard rental, plus there will be adoptable dogs on-site! (4pm)
Life imitating art, etc.
Ever felt like exploring philosophical conundrums while Live Action Role Playing with strangers? Rhizome is hosting a game where you face the choice of destroying your centuries-old church to save lives, or risking everything to preserve the art within. (1pm)
Also || Qigong community workshop, adopted enemy and friends, miro art workshops (sold out), sundeck summer reads, art at rhizome, zotto at rhizome, experimental tunes, local showcase at Phillips Collection, tour of Black Georgetown, Black Girls Govern mixer, no-buy august, sapphic picnic alert, tunes: Wild Child, tunes: Metric, Broken Social Scene, and more, summer storytime and face painting, tunes: Gina Young
Sunday August 2
He’s right behind me, isn’t he?
Automated license plate cameras (often made by a company called Flock) now log every passing car into a searchable database. This Profs & Pints talk covers who sees that data, how long it's kept, and what you can do about it. (6pm)
He’s writ(ing) behind me, isn’t he?
Hike in Rock Creek, listen to the birds, create a generative word bank, then spend an hour using those words to write. All that, and more, at words from birds – it’s only $5, and proceeds go to the Migrant Solidarity Fund. (7:30am)
Also || tunes at pocket, trapp laughs, yiddish movie night, crochet 101, drying and preserving flowers, alleyway tour, Lord Huron, jude bellingham lookalike contest, DC mixed-asian meetup, tunes: Weird Al, DC Open Finals
Monday August 3
Make a Zine Monday!!
Get your pen and paper and zine it up! When you’re done, submit it to DC Zinfest, applications are open until August 14th.
Dance it out with Doonya
Head to Union Market for a Doonya class, the high-energy Bollywood style dance. All levels welcome! (6pm)
Also || sh!tomato, road to mass surveillance, virtual ESL conversation circle, friendship bench at Anacostia Library, LGBTQ+ yappy hour, book talk: Shakespeare’s Margaret, join a stranger from craigslist at a concert, visit the watermelon house for national watermelon day
Tuesday August 4
If “Best In Show” was a murder mystery
Join East City Bookshop for a discussion with Mimi Montgomery around her debut novel “Murder Bites.” When a local dogwalker is murdered, Margot Cartwright is the main suspect, even though she swears she didn’t do it – uh oh! (6:30pm)
A Spotify and cassette listener walk into a bar
…And both leave with new random music trivia facts. Test your knowledge and listening ears at Songbyrd’s Music Trivia Night. (6:30pm)
Also || punk at rhizome, george washington & the civil war, knitting circle, tacoma park puzzle swap, "rowdy screening” of Wuthering Heights at the library, book talk: The Blue Flame, panda birthday party at the National Zoo, finishing projects in the living room
AUGUST
8/5: Wharf movie night: Roman Holiday, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at the national arboretum, after hours at the Hillwood Museum, yoga on the farm, tunes at pocket, a gay little history of MD
8/6: grrrrl jam, assassination of trotsky, field day at the playground, microcinema at rhizome, jazz at the phillips collection, last minute comedy, Chicago: Teen edition, talk: liberation summer
8/7: MD tunes at Pocket, anti-capitalist coworking club, tunes: Foot Traffic at DC9, sex ed trivia, twelfth night at theatre lab, author talk: Grace Viall, reiki meditation
8/8: DC Roller Derby Double Decade Double Header (say that 5 times fast), indigo & shibori 101, art workshops at kreeger, showcase to support Girls Rock!, unearthed: mining on film, ammonite at rhizome, HTML Day
8/9: physical media swap, harvest your own foliage, tunes at rhizome, Suspicious Cheese Lords, social media to social reckoning
8/10: when nazis prowled our coasts
8/11: book talk: a hard habit to break, the goofing lecture, make tonight analog
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, solidarity story microgrants, punk at pocket, curious about DSA?
8/13: new faces in comedy in Takoma, book talk: lost and found, richmond punk comes to rhizome, ainae last tour show is in dc, BYOB comedy, tomato party!
8/14: local tunes at DC9, Bronte Sister House Party, African Diaspora International Film Festival, Panda Fest, tunes at rhizome, tunes at pocket
8/15: energizers speaker ball, panda fest, yoga at the sculpture garden, pocket tunes, NADIE NADIA at Pie Shop, tunes at rhizome, jazz at the kreeger, Back-to-School Community Bash, virginialicious, throw horns for history, rhizome writers retreat
8/16: comedy incubator for underrepresented genders, fighting words civil war
8/18: YIMBY HH, iron joy at rhizome, hell and gone
8/19: Wharf movie night: F1, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at the national arboretum, tunes at pocket, cookbook club, Observatory DC
8/20: pocket tunes, book talk: War Boys, soundscape at phillips collection
8/21: tunes at rhizome
8/22: jazz in the parks, Summer Abundance Forest Bathing at the National Arboretum, guided meditation at Kreeger, crab at pocket, Mt Plantry, not so grand prix
8/23: friday night fishing, pollinator festival in mt. pleasant, grow your own mushrooms, summer restaurant week, tunes at pocket, encountering cryptids, DC Modular Meetup
8/25: Annie Lowrey at 6th & I, becoming a better ally
8/26: Wharf movie night: Project Hail Mary, farmer’s market at common good city farm
8/27: own your experience
8/28: tunes at pocket, BYOB trivia
8/29: freelance sweatpants at pocket, disco in the district, graftings at rhizome
8/30: honey harvest festival, parks flea market, home is where the bat is, Survivor DC, tunes at pocket
8/31: sour tooth at rhizome
SEPTEMBER
9/2: Wharf movie night: When Harry Met Sally & First Wives Club, farmer’s market at common good city farm, tunes at rhizome
9/4: tunes at pocket
9/5: youth in government at pocket
9/6: indigo & shibori 101, friday night fishing, Ladybird w/ Dylan Rockwell + Little Lungs
9/9: author talk: R.F. Kuang, punk at pocket
9/10: somewhere over the border
9/11: Camp Merry, tunes at pocket
9/12: book of stories, DMV girls hockey weekend
9/13: steph phest 2026
9/17: book talk: Kristin Hannah, soundscape at phillips collection
9/18: caribbean happy hour, PARK(ing) Day, Mt. Joy
9/21: the critical musician
9/22: Psalmayene 24 at Folger Theatre
9/23: Taylor Tomlinson at 6th&I
9/24: tunes at rhizome
9/25: comedy: Body Language
9/26: jazz in the parks, tunes at pocket
9/27: parks flea market, tunes at pocket
9/28: Charli XCX
9/30: music improv at rhizome
OCTOBER
10/2: eli winter trio at rhizome
10/8: cookbook talk at 6th&I
10/9: tunes at the pocket
10/10: Chelsea Wolfe at 6th&I
10/11: moony w Wall Carpets
10/12: the italian job, tunes at rhizome
10/14: tunes at rhizome
10/15: comedy at Sixth & I
10/16: parks line dancing, Black Women and Shakespeare
10/20: cocktails for a cause
10/23: beatbox battle, give a shuck
10/24: tunes at rhizome
10/25: parks flea market
NOVEMBER
11/4: sound at rhizome
11/6: OFFSITE duo at rhizome
11/9: Rick Steves at Sixth & I
11/10: Julia Jacklin
11/13: love isn't blind
11/28: echoes of doubt at rhizome
11/29: parks flea market
