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Wednesday May 31

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Working together for DC parks!

Did you know many District parks are operated by the National Park Service. It can be hard to maintaain and improve parks for district residents who use them day-to-day. (hmm wouldn’t statehood be nice). Come learn how we can better cooperate with the NPS to create public spaces that work best for everyone. (12pm-1pm)

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How does congress plan to fight record high temperatures?

By moving from fahrenheit to celsius! Anyway, come discuss the environment with other like-minded folks with green drinks DC at Public Bar! (6pm)

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Also || tunes: Matt Maeson, tunes: Goddess, Green Drinks DC, the sketch jam, beer tasting, that special agony

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Thursday June 1

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Edibles! (but the plant kind) (no not that plant kind) (the not weed type)

Join Wild Plant Allies in the DMV! Learn how to ethically harvest wild plants, ID’ing common plant allies, and recipes and medicines you can make at home. Taste and take home some foraged goods. Then next time you’re doing a park hang with your friends you can walk up to a tree, take a bite, and look cool! (6:30pm)

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Kayak spelled backwards is kayak

Come join Capital Riverfront BID and Ballpark Boathouse for community kayak nights! Enjoy paddling on the Anacostia at a discounted rate! (6pm and 7pm)

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A poem for Europa

At the Library of Congress, US Poet Laureate Ada Limon unveils her ode to the NASA Clipper mission to Europa, the smallest of Jupiter’s Galilean moons. (7 pm)

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Also || tunes: Native Sun, tunes: a night of guitar, Irish Theatre: Three by Yeats, NSO, Sasha Velour, intercountry adoptee voices, intercountry adoptees, Summer in the Park w/ DJ Reynolds, Disney Trivia, ChurchKey, Beethoven’s 9th, Sasha Velour, new leaders dc fundraiser, “The Revolution Will Not Be Funded”

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Friday June 2

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Paul Bufano! Paul Bufano!

Are you a jazz fan! You love Roy Donk or Mookie Kramer and the 8 balls! C’mon you know them! They’re jazz stars! Anyway, come to Capital Jazz Fest and celebrate jazz and the city. (7:30pm)

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ABOVE BELOW WATER

Join local DC artists exploring climate change related to rising sea levels and society. (6pm-9pm)

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Also || comedy: Brandon Wardell, Irish Theatre: Three by Yeats, Children of the Gospel, Absence of Proof, tunes: Windscour/Bonnie Kane & Tracy Lisk, Above Below Water, Beethoven’s 9th, Diverse DC, funny asians and friends comedy, tunes: Kinda Evil, tunes: Boy Meets Pearl, ABOVE BELOW WATER, WNBA: Mystics v. Sky

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Saturday June 3

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Sound Scene @ Hirshhorn

What comes after the end? Through interactive art installations, live performances and small group workshops, audiences may consider a future after white privilege, patriarchy, colonialism, ableism, climate catastrophe or just after breaking a habit or retiring of a particular turn of phrase. (5pm)

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“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap”

Come celebraate the iconic Dolly Parton with the Gay Men’s Chorus of DC. With a career spanning over 50 years, this salute to icon Dolly will be one you don’t want to miss. (8pm)

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SW Block Party!!

It’s a block party for flood awareness week! Only in DC. Come celebrate the new SW flood resilience strategy with free King Ribs BBQ, a skate party, foam festivities, lawn games, and more! (2pm-4pm)

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Art Out Loud

Three levels of art, performances, makers markets, and even craft stations, this Capital Pride x District Fray party shows off DC’s artsy side. (6pm)

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Also || invasive plant removal, tunes: Rosie, play: finding Neil Patrick Harris, tunes: Subhumans, faux wedding comedy showcase, comedy karaoke trivia show, queering sound, film @ NGA: Mary Cassatt, generation hope looking for volunteers, DC brunch club w/ Emma’s Torch, Demon Dogs, DanceAfrica DC, DoubleXXComedy, Comedy at Judy, SAAM’s Pride Family Day, Beethoven’s 9th, gay men’s chorus: Dolly, Journal for Wellness Workshop, tunes: Yussef Dayes, Capital Jazz Fest, launch party for a DC kid-written book, Chevy Chase Lake town square party, storytelling workshop, unwearied journey,

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Sunday June 4

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Sundays are for parties

It’s Wonderland Ballroom’s annual Sundress Fest. The event of the season for millennials, girlies, gays, punks, everyone. Happy hour for anyone in a sundress! (all day)
It’s the Clevland Park neighborhood party. Come for an afternoon of dancing, games, food, and fun! (12pm-4pm)

Go-go on the roof-roof! Come to the rooftop garden of the MLK Jr Memorial Library in celebration f Black Music Month. (2pm-4pm)

Also || tunes: Sampha the Great, tunes: Jasper Hobbs, tunes: Kaleta & Super Tamba Band, play: finding Neil Patrick Harris, Irish Theatre: Three by Yeats, Neighbor to Neighbor Day, queering sound, tunes: Alex Zhaang Hungtai & Leo Chang, Mermaid Tales, queer roots of hip-hop, gay men’s chorus: Dolly

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Monday June 5

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I HEARD HE LIVES DOWN A RIVER SOMEWHERE

Your favorite 2015 indie-star turned current Tik Tok icon Declan McKenna makes his big return (that’s the naame of the tour) to The anthem! (8pm)

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Have a beer and learn something

Join Profs & Pints for “Lost in the Middle East,” an examination of where the US approach to that region went wrong with former policy advisor Steven Simon. (6pm)

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Also || Trivia Mondays, Stage fright, dc half kickoff party, moreeee trivia, karaoke nights, volunteer at a farm, okay wow even more trivia

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Tuesday June 6

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Gay movie night!

Adams Morgan movie night is showing the iconic film Birdcage for Pride Month. Plus before the movie there will be local restaurants giving out food, a dc comedian opening the show, and more! (8:30)

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AIso || behind the canvass, Calvary DC, play: the soldier’s truth, out in STEM DC, new comedy material, chat with the Thai ambassador, Tacos and Karoeke, tunes: Caitlin Rose & Andrew Combs

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JUNE: https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/05/19/20-fun-festivals-to-check-out-around-dc-this-summer/

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6/7: US-UK Day at Nats Stadium, tunes: The Jo-Go Project, Horror as Queer, tunes: sondra n arkin et al, artist reception, knife skills for beginners, found

6/8: tunes: Cinema Hearts, art: for freedoms, Untold Brewing @ ChurchKey

6/9: tunes: Jessica Lea Mayfield, Capital Pride shabbat, “Let This Radicalize You” talk (Baltimore), play: Art at Bloombars, reception for new work by Rose Jaffe, Booty Rex dance party

6/10: tunes: Pixies, tree study, invasive plant removal, jazz outside, New Kitchens on the Block, film: Tove Jansson, Capital Pride

6/11: film: Finnish shorts, Indigo & Shibori 101, Art Works Now Spring Festival, talk: DC’s war memorials, talk: Canova’s sculpture, healing/movement/sound, sketching with Carlos, art: ABOVE BELOW WATER

6/12: Death Cafe, Six Wives of Henry VIII

6/13: Movie: Raising Arizona