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Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out 

Ed Helms book talk (5/1), tunes: DEVO (5/3), tunes: Bien (5/14), talk: Shepard Fairey (5/15), tunes: Ani DiRusso (5/24), tunes: Bobby Shmurda (5/27), book: Zoe Schlanger (5/30), tunes: Samia (5/31), tunes: Tennis farewell tour! (6/3), Pattie Gonia (6/4),  tunes: BettyWho (6/07), Register for sketch comedy classes ! (July), tunes: Perfume Genius (6/8), tunes: Rilo Kiley (9/10)

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Wednesday April 23

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I will not rest until “holding out for a hero” by the Fairy Godmother is on Spotify

Outdoor movie nights are back!! Go now before the mosquitos come out. Get out me swamp and get into to Milian Park for a showing of Shrek 2. (7:30pm)

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Hands off DC

If you want to be a part of Free DC’s fight to protect our communities and exert our right to self-determination, join their Campaign Orientation to learn how to get involved! (6pm)

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Also || book talk: Morgan Jenkins (with Rion Amilcar Scott), tunes: Water is the Sun / Requiem, jazz piano @ Strathmore, Green Drinks DC, Houston I'm the Problem/ Houston yo soy el problema by Óscar García Sierra, Anticapitalist Writing Workshop: Radical Queer Futures, reading party at Takoda, YIMBY happy hour,  talk: Chris Hughes, talk: revisiting the “borderlands”, joke workshop, Jazz is Dead, world pride community workshop, tunes: Beach Bunny (sold out), tunes: Cheekface

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Thursday April 24

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Best running song? Miami by Will Smith

About ten years into a routine of running every morning, music critic Ben Ratliff realized that listening and running have many things in common. Starting with the word track. But both running and music involve moving, rhythms, and more. So Ratliff set about writing Run the Song, a new book of interconnected essays on music, motion, criticism, the future, and the ways that cities reveal their divisions to a runner. (7pm)

• Come listen to José Andrés (iconic chef and World Central Kitchen) talk about his new book Change The Recipe with Guy Raz. (7pm) 
• Deputy Editor of the Atlantic Yoni Applebaum talks about his new book “How the Privileged and Propertied Broke the Engine of American Opportunity” (7pm)

• Or go to a different book talk! Hear journalist Faiz Siddiqui talk abou this new book Hubris Maximus a cautionary tale about the pitfalls of lionizing magnetic leaders (El*n M*sk) (7pm)

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Rooted in solidarity

Casey Trees Workers United are fighting against continuous furloughs/cuts and unfair labor practices and need your support at their public informational rally outside the organization’s awards party - which workers aren’t invited to. (6pm)

• Sign this petition to show Casey Trees Administration that you support workers as they head into negotiations!

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Also || cooking class: a trip to Belgium, art: Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, comedy: Will Purpura, DC Clean Water luncheon, sake & haiku, Earth Week Clothing Swap , dating show: CHAPERONE, DC Climate Career Fair, comedy madness: East vs. West, reddit AMA with DC Planning Director, tunes: Ariana and the Rose

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Friday April 25

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On Beauty!! 

Head to the National Gallery of Art, for a discussion on beauty and the divine in ancient Greece. Lead by Professor Mary Beard and author Hugo Shakeshaft (with a name like that you have to study something cool), they will discuss Plato, contemporary discourse, and more! (2pm)

• finding Awe at NGA

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You better co-WERK!

Want to cowork with your favorite newsletter writers, readers, and random people!? Great! Come join 730DC for our coworking day at Doubles! Have some coffee, make some friends, bond over your love for your silly little morning newsletter. (9am-12pm)

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Also || tunes: Helene Grimaud, piano, tunes: Walde Mar / Kevin Winter / Max Eastman, Rochelle Rice: Tell Her This, chemistry-themed burlesque show, chamber of comedy, comedy in Arlington, DC International Film Festival, extreme electric underground at Rhizome, tunes: Demons, register for 7Drum City’s demo day (12pm)

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Saturday April 26

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The sneak peak of every DC Foodie’s dreams

New Kitchens On The Block is back for the 11th iteration of its food festival, offering a unique opportunity to try dishes and drinks from 8 of DC’s hottest, most anticipated restaurants before they open. (12pm or  3pm)

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All the porch’s a stage

It started off as a pandemic reprieve and now it’s one of my favorite parts of spring - Petworth PorchFest is here! Explore the neighborhood while enjoying community and live music from local musicians! (2pm)

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Have fun outside: Hill Family Biking, Washington Spirit Game, Earth Day at ECO city farms, earth day yoga 

Tunes/theatre/dancing etc.: Upshur Spring Art Market, tunes: Ortla Gartland!!! And FIGHTMASTER !, “must see” Sketch Night at DC Improv!,  Forget Why poetry series, local play!, tunes: Diamine, film restorations from Chicago Film Society, art opening of Jaguar Moon and My Tiny Castles

Independent bookstore day: indie bookstore crawl & Shepherd Park Library Book Sale 

Other highlights: clothing swap, DC Dyke March earth day crafternoon, 65 years of Potters House, Yoga at Kreeger Sculpture Garden, Living Earth Festival @ NMAI, ACM community walking tour, community coffee & town hall at Rhizome, community healing space, linkedIN glowup

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Sunday April 27

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Bop ‘til you drop

Celebrate DC’s thriving jazz scene at CapitolBop’s 15th anniversary party, with live performances from Kweku Sumbry’s Trio War feat. Fara Percussion Ensemble, plus screenings and a silent auction! (6pm)

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Friendship Heights lives up to its name

Start your morning off with fresh food, baked goods, and drinks at Sunday Commons, a new weekly gathering in Friendship Heights where neighbors can come together over delicious food, live performances, and more! (9am)

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Also || tunes: Horszowski trio, Mozart’s Requiem, Parallel Play at Rhizome, tunes: Carrie Elkin, Danny Schmidt, Free DC Ward 7 meeting, nature @ NPG, talk: Victorian literature & climate collapse, DC International Film Festival, pro wrestling is back in DC, Sacred Music by the Tallis Scholars, henna class, justiceacess yard sale, DC Arts Center inaugural Poetry Series, vegetable gardening 101, Takoma Writers: Story! Story! Story!, sip and kid clothes’ swap

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Monday April 28

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Second Chances from the Far Side

Join Ally Theatre Company for an evening of storytelling and conversation about redemption, justice, and the fight for second chances. This show is written by incarcerated writers serving extreme sentences in Maryland share their powerful words, performed by a group of actors. A panel will follow the show! (6:30pm)

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Calling all budding sewists!

DC’s hottest fashion club is in… a library? That’s right! If you’ve been wanting to try making your own clothes and accessories, join Fashion Club at MLK Library - all skill levels are welcome! (6pm) 

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Also || tunes: Sharon Van Etten (sold out :( ), tunes: New Orthodox, DC Climate Week begins, tunes: Olive Klug, tunes: Myles Smith, Cannabis Policy Summit, podcast: Kara Swisher live, tunes: iann dior, registration opens for NGA at night

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Tuesday April 29

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Don’t let Washington Gas raise your energy bills!

Washington Gas is looking to increase gas rates by an average of 12%, or 15$ for every customer. Don’t let this happen, join CCAN in testifying at the Public Service Commission’s upcoming community hearing. When you RSVP you’ll get a testimony guide. (6pm)

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After the gentrification of the mind

Sarah Schulman’s 2013 memoir examined the devastating impact of the AIDS crisis on New York’s cultural heritage, a must-read for urban and queer studies. Her new book examines the “fantasy and necessity of solidarity.” (7 pm)

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Also || tunes: Frost-Tamestit-Wosner, the atlantic’s on the future @ planet word, Profs & Pints: Trump vs Free Speech, dc foraging, communities first at RFK, tunes: Melanie Fiona, tunes: Palmyra

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APRIL

4/30: comedy for a cause, Profs and Pints: Persephone, Kidlit in the district, tunes: Zosha Warpeha / Heather Stebbins / Naoco Wowsugi , talk: the Chinese in America, DC Climate Week, disco tits!!!

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MAY

5/1: tunes: Somi, O st. business networking, Ed Helms book talk, WPA Collectors Night, author talk: Yumna Al-Arashi, talk: the unexpected origins of gun violence, Cheb ou Jen, Community Bike Ride & Happy Hour, tunes: George Clanton

5/2: Washington Spirit Game, 2025 Washington Writers Conference, Black Cat half-Halloween party, Queering Sound fundraiser, book talk: forever chemicals, DESA play: Lost and Found, DC International Film Festival, cookbook talk: SALSA DADDY, Forklift First Friday, bike safety checks, Civil War Sex Workers walking tour, paint in Chevy Chase, art: Take Me to the Water

5/3: tudor place garden tour, DESA play: Lost and Found, tunes: Evgeny Kissin, piano, Rockville arts festival, picnic at Kreeger museum book talk: Amity Gaige, book talk: Chris Hedges, Beats and Brews: a morning dance party, Bluemont community yard sale, cupcake and bouquet workshop, Project Create, healthy food vision board, Black Georgetown, Petworth Yard Sale, running of the chihuahuas, Pyramid Atlantic’s HyBall, tunes: Devo

5/4: NMWA Makers Market, Attack on Titan event at Tysons, volunteer at Walk MS, burlesque + variety lunch, Old Glory rugby, theater: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Films with Yogurt, concert in Tregaron Meadow, Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar, homemade Knafeh workshop, pottery sale, american roots concert,  theater: Akira Kurosawa Explains…,

5/5: Cinco paint + sip, profs & pints: Encountering Cryptids, film: I’m No Longer Here

5/6: tunes: Bôa, free pilates in Farragut Square, Profs & Pints: Becoming Human, film: Major Taylor: Champion of the Race, tunes: Jordan Sand

5/7: author talk: Isabel Allende, tunes: Ronnette Rollins, spring book club/swap, tunes: Ronnette Rollins, talk: Washington Review of Books, Sorkin Summit, tunes: Lifted, Androgynous Bulge, Overlight Pechant, profs and pints: A Second Term, an Early Assessment, Capital Harvest on the Plaza, Capital Arts Collective on the Plaza

5/8: NGA @ Night (preregistration required), Meredith Hayden - Sixth & I, reading: DC Women Writers, Inner Loop reading, tunes: Bashi Rose & Lemuel Marc, Thai flavors cooking class

5/9: Katt Williams, tunes: Roger Clark Miller / Tag Cloud, art: Disappear, book talk: Craig Mod, Dance Like a Mother, Congress of Jugglers, tunes: Cinema Hearts, teacher appreciation happy hour, deadline to apply to get married at Little Gay Chapel

5/10: tunes: Rachel Chinouriri, comedy: Maria Bamford, hula hooping, Samba at Glen Echo Park, climbing in VA, tudor place tea tour, musical: Modern Warrior, Gateway studio tour, Healthy Homes, Mom’s Day Out, growing community: connecting with the past, tunes: Nikki Nair, language science fair, musical: Falsettos, Books in Bloom, art workshop at Kreeger, one day writers retreat, learn to hula hoop at NMWA

5/11: tunes: Amber Rubarth, Xin Ni & Hideo / Charlotte Richardson-Deppe / Emi Kawashima

5/12: Profs & Pints: Human Origins, tunes: Bone Bag / Femurs / Opposite Tiger

5/13: evening fiction book club, Justice Stephen Breyer - Sixth & I, tunes: Elka Bong / Irman / Patrick Cain

5/14: Free community day at NMWA, book talk: capitalism & its critics, Farragut Field Days, talk: Assault on America’s Cultural Institutions

5/15: tunes: Jlin, JUXTAPOSE | A Theatrical Shadow Box by Happenstance Theater, art talk: Shepard Fairey at Phillips (requires registration), author talk: Ron Chernow, art talk: Shepard Fairey, Bike to Work Day, climate writing/climate action, Capitol Book Fest, solidarity economy social hour

5/16: tunes: MJ Lenderman, My Body My Festival, theater: Ethiopia

5/17: Hill Family Biking, dance: Spring Youth Showcase, Washington Spirit Game, spanish guitar performance, tunes: Isaac Mizrahi, art exhibition: Essex Hemphill, talk: Dave Barry, history of Black Georgetown, Bourbon and Bluegrass, Ethiopia “living newspaper”, Isaac Mizrahi at 6th and I, art: Charles Lunn

5/18: piano: Janice Carissa, talk: Carl Hiaasen, tunes: Chanticleer, historic alleyways tour, Profs & Pints: Psychology of Conspiracy Theories, silent auction benefit for Baldwin House, Why Don’t We Duet?, tunes: Don Zientara / Fred Hof / The Don Z Scheme, Bourbon & Bluegrass, tunes: Duende Camarón, piano: Janice Carissa

5/19: Ocean Vuong - Sixth & I, tunes: Caroline Davis / Janel Leppin, Profs & Pints: Ancient Magic in DC

5/20: tunes: Five For Fighting, The Inner Loop, tunes: Luciane Dom, Profs & Pints: DND and Mental Health

5/21: daytime book club, Bra and Order burlesque, B. Dylan Hollis 

5/22: Hill Family Biking, A Night on the Farm, Jake Tapper: Biden’s cover-up, Moroccan Cuisine cooking class

5/23: book talk: forever chemicals, jazz in the garden, tunes: Mannequin Fight / Berra / Lean Tee

5/24: Essex Hemphill film screening

5/25: Warm Data in Malcolm X Park, craft and cry

5/27: community arts in MoCo, experimental jam at Rhizome

5/28: tunes: Wet

5/30: tunes: loadbang (classical), Decolonized Beatz Indigenous World Pride, WoCo Fest, book: Zoe Schlanger,  jazz in the garden, tunes: The North Country

5/31: tunes: trilogy for pianos, Project GLOW, legacies in gardening, Food not Bombs Garbagefest, art workshop at Kreeger

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JUNE

6/1: Warm Data in Malcolm X Park

6/3: dance: Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski, tunes: Tennis, tunes: Griefcat and Sex Monster

6/4: Judy Collins

6/5: talk: Marvin Gaye, melancholy and genius in Black culture, The Vision is Yours forum, author talk: Jacinda Ardern, Expanded Microcinema: Liz Downing / Alicia Puglionesi & Carrie Fucile / Erik Ruin, World Pride at Phillips collection, Yes Queen comedy

6/6: author talk: Denise Robbins, tunes: RDGLDGRN, jazz in the garden

6/7: DC Youthquake

6/8: Washington Spirit game

6/10: tunes: Deady / Material Objects / Ducts / Spring Silver

6/12: comedy: Ian Bagg

6/13: dance: Everyone I (N)Ever Loved, jazz in the garden

6/14: Samba at Glen Echo Park, Seventh Stanine Festival, KeyCon 2025 (tickets 80% sold!), Notes on Essex, composting, art workshop at Kreeger

6/16: Pub Choir

6/17: tunes: Kahil El'Zabar & David Murray, author talk: Maria Avgitidis

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

6/20:  jazz in the garden

6/21: Point Break Music Festival

6/22: tunes: Lily Finnegan & gabby fluke-mogul

6/23: tunes: Høly River / Valeska Populoh

6/24: tunes: Preoccupations

6/26: tunes: Gian Pérez

6/27: meet artist May Pang, jazz in the garden

6/28: Hill Family Biking Littles Edition, art: Vivian Browne, growing community at ACM

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JULY

7/8 : Harry Potter & the Cursed Child opens

7/11: dance: Heart Stück Bernie, jazz in the garden

7/14: Spy Camp

7/25: tunes: Pixies, dance: Christina Robson and guests

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SEPTEMBER

9/6: National Book Festival

9/7: tunes: Sierra Ferrell

9/17: daytime book club

9/20: cookbook talk: Samin Nosrat 

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OCTOBER

10/3: Stardew valley symphony 

10/10-12: Because They’re Funny Comedy Festival