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Rally for NIH (2/19), Mother Tongue Film Festival (2/20-2/23), Capital Checkers Goodbye Party (2/21), Ziwe (3/7), tunes: GloRilla (3/14), BHM film: Diminished Returns (3/15), tunes: of Montreal (3/21), tunes: Lane 8 (3/28), tunes: Rich Amiri (4/18), tunes: Lucy Dacus (4/19) tunes: Ortla Gartland (4/26), tunes: Sharon Van Etten (4/28), tunes: Bren Joy (4/28) tunes: Saint Motel (4/29-4/30), tunes: San Fermin (5/8), tunes: MJ Lenderman (5/16), tunes: Pixies (7/25)

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Wednesday February 12 

An apple a day keeps the Elon away

Elon just announced $900 million in cuts to the Education Department. Join the NEA to rally to protect students and public schools. This isn't just politics—it's a direct attack on students' futures. Head to the Capital to help protect students and teachers. (4pm)

My Letterboxd about to pop off

Love independent films? Support the work of indie filmmakers and the DC Independent Film Forum by checking out screenings of “God Is An Astronaut” and the documentary “North Putnam,” and look out for other films later in the week! (5pm)

2/12: fresh talk: hunter Harris & Peyton Dix, tunes: Hannah Cole, book talk: Marie Benedict, Queens of Crime, tunes: Mike Dawes, tunes: Bien, Salsa Meets GoGo, book talk: Marie Benedict, Hunter Harris and Peyton Dix!

Thursday February 13

The pug is 18? That’s a pretty old dog…

Your favorite H Street bar is turning 18! It can finally vote! Come celebrate with Whiskey and more. They opened during the 2007 ice storm so, of course, it’s fitting their birthday would be in another storm too. (all evening)

Male Loneliness Epidemic? More like Galentine’s Events Epidemic! 

  • Get ready to dress divine, dance the night away, and celebrate your inner Goddess of Love with Venus Party at Black Cat! (7:30pm)
  • There’s no better way to spend Galentine’s Day than by joining Catfish Comedy for a night of jokes from a line-up of hilarious lady comics!! (8pm)
  • Head to Olive & Arrow speakeasy for a comedy show from Batting Cage Comedy! Is it Galentine’s themed or does it just happen to be on the day before Valentine’s day? Find out for yourself! (8pm)
  • Reality TV gets even realer with this Galentine’s Day in Paradise event featuring a panel discussion with some of the ladies from Love is Blind DC! (8pm)

2/13: Sweet & Sour Valentines comedy show, Art Noigh @ Thundershark: DIY Valentines, tunes: Rachel Beetz / Berglind Tómasdóttir, NSO in TKPK, pawlentine’s party, talk: Polyamory for Dummies, talk: Another World is Possible, tunes: Pink Sweat$, spy chat, author talk: Natasha Hakimi Zapata, tunes: Blockhead, comedy: Abby Govindan, songwriters tribute to Swift, tunes: Hulvey, talk: the banks we deserve, write letters to Black political prisoners, tunes: Des Demonas

Friday February 14

Put on your dancing shoes!

Not sure what to do for Valentine’s Day? Head on over to Chevy Chase Ballroom for a night of social dance. Join in a group tango class, enjoy refreshments, and more. Come with a partner or alone. (8pm)

Move over Sundance, there’s a new film festival to watch

It’s the last day of Visions of Freedom, the Black Film Festival taking place at Howard. The last day of the festival will include an opening reception, a virtual readathon, films by Howard professors and alumni, and more! (11:30am-8:30pm)

2/14: StoryDistrict: Sucker for Love, Awkward Sex…and the City, NSO in Petworth, Valentine’s singles mixer, sound and light show, Julia Quinn (Bridgerton Author) at East City Bookshop, tunes: TAUK, tunes: Michael Marcagi, Broadway Rave, tunes: Max Frost, Sweet Spot Burlesque, tunes: Kelsy Karter & the Heroines, tunes: KWLLSWXTH, valentine’s at artechouse, Valentines at O st museum, Rock and Roll dance party, tunes: Washington Social Club

Saturday February 15

Nothing strange about this show!

DC local Bartees Strange will be headlining 930 Club. Strange has opened for musicians like Lucy Dacus, Courtney Barnett, Phoebe Bridgers, and more. His music truly rocks. (doors at 6pm

Get a new book! Do something good!

Head over to Rhizome DC for a book swap. Bring at least one book in good condition and exchange it for as many books as you like. That sounds like a good deal to me! Sliding registration fee and all proceeds benefit the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. (1-4pm)

2/15: Celebrate Black Art & History on Screen: Dohomey, BHM film: Diminished Returns, jazz: Greg Boyer, tunes: William Hooker Trio, tunes: LESSON ZERO, NSO chamber concert + flower arranging, “you should meet my friend”, fashion/food/Tet, learn to make body butter, crochet 101, Panda Cookie Decorating at Captain Cookie, history of Black Georgetown Walking Tour, creating your own comic with Yuki Clarke, story of chocolate at museum of the American indian, Polar Bear Plunge!, know your rights street law training, photography: BlackHair, U St. Time Travel, sci fi talk: Michael Nayak, Valentines Day at Metrobar, comedy: Tom Segura, Mortified DC Live, Nerd Nite

Sunday February 16

Here for the chapbook resurgence

Join DC based writer Kristen Zory King at AdMo fave Potter’s House for the launch of her chapbook Ladies, Ladies, Ladies, with additional readings from local literary ladies! (3pm)

Rockville renters unite

Whether or not you’re a renter in Rockville, advocating for fair housing practices there can help renters across the region! Support Rockville Renters United and their community forum for stable rents. (1pm)

  • While we’re on the topic of Rockville community aid, bring your lesser-utilized clothing to 7 Locks Brewing for a clothing swap party! (1pm)

2/16: Black Art & History on Screen: Compensation, Samba at Glen Echo, tunes: Dono Dono, create your own chunky bag, soap making class, story of chocolate at museum of the American indian, book club: Freedom Farmers, Oye DC: Eng/Sp Storytelling night, historic alleyways walking tour, R&B Club 7th Anniversary: New Jack Swing, Francisco Ramos, tunes: The Beanstalk Library, LVRS & FRNDS, 90s dance party at DC9, tunes: Ghosts Exist

Monday February 17

See Panda Bear… no not that Panda Bear

Toro y Moi and Panda Bear (co-founding member of Animal Collective) will be bringing incredible dancing vibes to 930 Club. With terrible news all around us, this is the perfect place to dissociate. (6:30pm)

  • Don’t forget, you can see the zoo Pandas every day for free! (all day)

Asal fun and games

Get into Canadian singer-songwriter Asal’s moody bedroom pop and catch her sad bops (my faves are ‘Headache’ and ‘at least I mean something to you’) at her Union Stage show!

2/17: NSO at Raymond Rec Center, Profs & Pints DC: George Washington and Executive Power, costumed life drawing, tunes: Rocknoceros, tunes: Midrift

Tuesday February 18

Read to me so I know it’s real 

This month’s Inner Loop reading features cinephile, author, and film critic J.M. Tyree presenting his work alongside nine local writers! Stop by to hear from DC’s local literary community and get inspired! (7pm)

If I don’t make it to this concert I’ll never ‘Recover’

If you’re not already a fan of singer-songwriter Lauren Mayberry as the lead of Chvrches, you’ll fall in love with her solo music with her show 930 Club, the perfect venue to showcase her talents! (7pm)

2/18: book talk: Roxanne Gay (rescheduling), NSO at Moreland’s (for real!), translation salon, piano: Seong-Jin Cho, Profs & Pints: Medieval Sex, tunes: Lunar Vacation, tunes: Lauren Mayberry, tunes: ZZZZZZZZZ iiiiii, meet cute blind dating show, Ward 4 Dems meeting, make stamps at MLK library, tunes: Bay Faction

FEBRUARY

2/19: tunes: Jupiter Quartet, daytime book club, curling & cocktails, Green Drinks, ceramics courses, theater: Out Of the Vineyard, tunes: Travis, Gay Love Letters reading, Art Comics & Anime at O St, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, rally for NIH, Ekiben popup, tunes: DC the Don, tunes: The Mallet Brothers Band, Funk the Facts

2/20: tunes: Rebecca Berlin / Leo DiSanto / Broommaker, talk: Crime Fiction in the DMV, poetry at LoC, Phillips Collection free entry, Fire & Ice immersive show, film: singing back the buffalo, event: barriers to better mental health policy, film: Singing Back the Buffalo, Sketch Comedy Happy Hour, Mother Tongue Film Festival, Washington Roast comedy show

2/21: tunes: Alma Laprida / Stephen Santillian, 2000s dance party, Capital Checkers Goodbye Party, Thank Me Later Comedy Show

2/22: tunes: Lalah Hathaway, Smiths x Cure dance party @ Black Cat, showtunes sing-along, All Hat No Cattle, book talk: Homes for Living,Timeless Mucha: the Magic of Line, Hill Family Biking & picking up litter, arlington library makerspace open house, garage racing national championships, Sip & Swap, Flurry Fest, Salute: The Powerful Woman, Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression, candle making workshop, tunes: Bon Entendeur, Black Ink, history of AdMo tenant organizing walk, Queer Black Broadway walking tour, Forget Why poetry series, Garage Racing National Championships, Black artist-centered open house at Pyramid Atlantic, children’s story time at Potter’s House, BHM book swap at Potter’s House

2/23: The Spirit and Strength of Nathalie Joachim, tunes: Granny & the Boys, Gretchen Whitmer at 6th and I, take and bake King Cakes, magic show at O museum, learn about wild plants!, Profs & Pints: Buying Sustainable Seafood, Chili Cook Off, suncatcher workshop, pottery charcuterie workshop, solidarity economy happy hour, experimental jam, Mother Tongue Film Festival, Listening is Resistance - Palestinian Sound Archive, Craft & Cry, book talk: The Sustainability Class

2/24: Profs & Pints: How The Metro Made Washington, fab five in dc 

2/25: author talk: David Grann, writing workshopProfs & Pints: Psychology of sex, tunes: Lime Cordial, crash course in facilitation, tunes: Anne-F Jacques & AJ Cornell / Claire Alrich / Blind:Out:Dated (Gary Rouzer), book talk: The Sustainability Class

2/26: tunes: ¡FIASCO! / Throwaway / ZĀM, Christ House open house, talk: race & American sculpture, Co-ops 101

2/27: tunes: Baghed / Saafewaay / Power Pants / Evil Weevil, line dancing at LoC, spy Musuem: The Heavy Water Sabotage Raid, tunes: Town Mountain, talk: GoGo in the 90s, journaling with crystals and tarots, Profs & Pints: The Single Lesson, tunes: Kids Table

2/28: tunes: Eric Prydz, dance: Amelia Estrada & Gabriel Mata, tunes: Jose James, film: Elevator to the Gallows, tunes: Witch's Mirror / Stygian Mind / Drugs of Faith, book talk: Homes for Living, Mardi Gras Shabbat - Sixth & I, theater: Gallows Humor (award winning local youth play), talk on code switching, Taxilandia: Anacostia

MARCH

3/1: My Body My Festival, tunes: Father John Misty, Mardi Gras at the Wharf, tunes: Chuck Bettis & Jerry Lim / Mick Barr / Breath of the Magi, Needlework Show at Pope-Leighey, string quartet Brooklyn Rider, theatre: Hand to God, tunes: Marc Broussard, tunes: Tuxedo, tunes: Good June / Night Hawk / Heading North, art: Torture Garden @ Thundershark, beer!, art: Torture Garden, Taxilandia: Anacostia

3/2: Gospel Music at O St., free community day at NMWA, DC Movie Club Oscar’s watch party, Taxilandia: Anacostia

3/3: preregistration for NGA at night, Parallel Play @ Rhizome

3/4: O St. Museum, Augmented Reality Hunt, tunes: Jessica Baio, Michael Shannon & Jason Narducy and friends play R.E.M.'s 'Fables of the Reconstruction', theater: A Room In The Castle

3/5: cookbook talk: Super Italian, Bushra Rehman in Conversation with Patricia Park, tunes: Brass Against

3/6: tunes: Hour / Adelyn Strei, CJM After Hours, cook book talk: Molly Yeh, tunes: The Hip Abduction, techno takeover @ Phillips Collection, Wild & Scenic Film Festival

3/7: Shannon Beveridge, Ziwe, tunes: Ray Bull, tunes: Nathy Peluso, tunes: Ceremony East Coast / Osmia / Caustic Hologram, tunes: LESSON ZERO

3/8: Alton Brown live, pinhole camera workshop, tunes: Anthony Braxton, theater: AJAX, Women's History Month Trivia Night, tunes: God Street Wine, Chappell Roan Dance Party, pinhole pics at NMWA, femme fatale dance party, EqualiTEA at Tudor Place, NMWA: Pinhole Pics, tunes: Credit / Nice Breeze / Hatchetface 

3/9: talk: Jews in comics, tunes: Ron Pope, vase crafting workshop, tunes: The Abe Mamet Septet

3/10: women’s biography bookclub

3/11: evening fiction book club, tunes: Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid, and Savannah Harris, tunes: Tiffany Day, Lecture: Enslaved at Tudor Place

3/12: Book Talk: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (author of Americanah), tunes: Bootcamp / Psyop / Tripper / Out to Destroy, tunes: The Main Squeeze, free community day at NMWA, theater: Your Name Means Dream, Purim at 6th and I

3/13: tunes: Hovvdy, NGA @ Night (preregistration required)

3/14: author talk: Charlotte Taylor Fryar, tunes: Brandee Younger, harp, film: The Heat’s On, Shabbat Night Live, dance: Nejla Atkin, tunes: CHYL, 2000s dance party, tunes: GloRilla, poetry at Rhizome

3/15: author talk: Amy Latta, tunes: Kim Deal (Pixies, Breeders), Ireland at the Wharf, Thomas Circle Singers, Natural Dye Workshop, Dan + Claudia Zanes w/ Tyree Austin at Joe's!, tunes: Quicksand, tunes: Wilder Woods, tunes: K.Flay, tunes: The Delarcos / Cash on the Nail, 6 week ceramics course, tribute to Alice Parker, Women’s History at LOC

3/16: The Music of Bernice Johnson Reagon, talk: Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Girl Scout Day at O St Museum, tunes: WILLIS, ethel smyth’s mass in D, Inner Loop monthly reading, Women’s History at Tudor Place, NMWA Nights, tunes: HIDE / Whiphouse / Struggle 

3/17: tunes: Austin Larkin / Theodor Kentros / Heather Stebbins

3/19: tunes: Grupo Fundo de Quintal, daytime book club, Max Johnson Trio, art workshop, Chuck Schumer at Sixth & I, O St. Museum: Secret Gardens of Asia, NMWA nights

3/20: gallery opening: Arpita Singh, Erinys Quartet, book talk: Abundance

3/21: dance: Claire Alrichtunes: of Montreal 

3/22: tunes: Horsegirl, EqualiTEA at Tudor Place, Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra

3/23: Samba at Glen Echo Park, Bach Consort, pottery planter workshop

3/24: tunes: Wheatus, tunes: Maude Latour

3/25: tunes: Tara Clerkin Trio / The Caribbean

3/26: talk: Brahms’ unwritten Melusine opera, Mother of All Comedy Shows, tunes: Jules Reidy / The Soft Pink Truth / Nate Scheible

3/27: tunes: Lila Downs, Funnier Than Fiction, rare coins & collectibles, Tudor Place: Evolution of Timekeeping, intuitive tarot for beginners

3/28: author talk: The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue, Desi Comedy Night, The Originals: All Native Comedy Show, Law & Order comedy, tunes: Lane 8 

3/29: Healthy Homes Fair, Comedy as a Second Language, Joke Sistas, DC Science Comedy Night, tunes: Kyle Gordon, Forget Why poetry series, Indigo & Shibori 101 workshop

3/30: The Sound of (Black) Music, women’s history at Tudor Place

3/31: Women and Words book club, Rabbi Shira Stutman - Sixth & I

APRIL

4/1: Nights at the Seder Table

4/2: tunes: Boney James

4/4: tunes: The String Queens, tunes: Ballister, Bach cello

4/5: NMWA Slow Art Day, tunes: The Weather Station, Capital Art Book Fair, A Cultural Arts Gala: Garden of Art, tunes: Brìghde Chaimbeul / Henbane

4/8: tunes: Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin, evening fiction book club

4/10: NGA @ Night (preregistration required)

4/11: NMWA Spring Gala, tunes: The War & Treaty, tunes: Jennifer Koh, violin, Poetry Slam at O St Museum, tunes: Assholeparade / Triac / Pilau / Skallar

4/13: Samba at Glen Echo Park

4/14: tunes: Ty Segall, women’s biography bookclub

4/17: Easter Tour at O St

4/18:  tunes: Rich Amiri

4/19: tunes: Lucy Dacus

4/21: Zoh Amba Sun Ensemble / Mark Cisneros & Nik Francis

4/22: tunes: Beach Bunny

4/24: book talk: Ben Ratliff

4/25: tunes: Helene Grimaud, piano

4/26: Hill Family Bikingtunes: Ortla Gartland, Forget Why poetry series

4/27: tunes: Horszowski trio, Mozart’s Requiem, Parallel Play at Rhizome

4/28: tunes: Sharon Van Etten, tunes: New Orthodox

4/29: tunes: Frost-Tamestit-Wosner

MAY

5/1: tunes: Somi, O st. business networking

5/4: NMWA Makers Market, Attack on Titan event @ Tysons, volunteer at Walk MS

5/6: tunes: Bôa

5/8: NGA @ Night (preregistration required)

5/9: Katt Williams

5/10: comedy: Maria Bamford, hula hooping, Samba at Glen Echo Park

5/13: evening fiction book club

5/14: Free community day at NMWA

5/15: tunes: Jlin, JUXTAPOSE | A Theatrical Shadow Box by Happenstance Theater

5/16: tunes: MJ Lenderman 

5/17: Hill Family Biking

5/20: tunes: Five For Fighting

5/21: daytime book club

5/22: Hill Family Biking

5/28: tunes: Wet

5/30: tunes: loadbang (classical), Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride

5/31: tunes: trilogy for pianos, Project GLOW

JUNE

6/3: dance: Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski

6/4: Judy Collins

6/5: talk: Marvin Gaye, melancholy and genius in Black culture

6/12: comedy: Ian Bagg

6/14: Samba at Glen Echo Park

6/16: Pub Choir

6/18: tunes: saxophonist Gary Bartz, daytime book club

6/21: Point Break Music Festival

6/27: meet artist May Pang

JULY

7/14: Spy Camp

7/25: tunes: Pixies 

SEPTEMBER

9/7: tunes: Sierra Ferrell

9/17: daytime book club

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