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On sale now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out:
Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9), Pottery House temporarily reopening for holiday market (11/12-12/23), Ilana Glazer (11/20), tunes: Victoria Monét (11/27)
Wednesday October 21
Late night salsa
Salsa Con Condela is a weekly salsa night at Public Bar Live, starting with a workshop. Take the lesson or get right to the dancing. It lasts until 2am if you can handle a late weeknight. (7pm)
Get competitive about something new
A free three-week mahjong series is starting at The Stacks. Maybe you’ll get super into it and start fighting with all the new friends you make. (6:30pm)
Also || Raphael Rogiński at Rhizome, author talk: Jenifer Shoop, the images that made us, breath work and sound bath, tunes: Jesse Welles, tunes: THE DAMMED, tunes: Lexi Jayde, JPEGMAFIA, survivor watch party, build a better dc this week
Thursday October 22
Tree time
Learn about the trees of Malcolm X with fellow treethusiests, guided by educational arborist Sam Nelson. After, join your new treeiends for treeza at treeAndy’s treePizza. (5:30pm)
How many times can I tell my boss “the train was late?”
Maybe these lifelong Washingtonians can help you figure it out. Learn about our beloved transit system over trivia and cocktails. (7pm)
Also || local tunes: Theron William, midnight tea at strathmore (night 1), subjective map making, tunes at rhizome, Visual Feast artist talk, DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, library writing group, book talk: demystifying disability, fall harvest fest at fish shop, Community Journalism Program applications open, tunes: Rachel Bochner, AHS watch party, backrooms inspired drag, tunes: Helado Tropical release, comedy at cottage house, comedy with a drink in adams morgan, fairtrade chocolate at the farmer’s market, kids’ leaf printing at hillwood
Friday October 23
Oh yeah, your trivia is at a bar? Mine’s on a farm!
And that farm is Edgewood Community Farm. Come with a friend, come alone, bring drinks and snacks and have some fun on the farm. (7pm)
Homework from the universe
Each performer got a tarot reading earlier this month and had to turn it into a story, comedy, set, burlesque act, or film. Now they’re showing off their work to you at the Rhizome. (7pm)
Also || beatbox battle, give a shuck, anti-capitalist coworking club, midnight tea at strathmore (night 2), basement cabaret, macbeth, tarot: seven readings, comedy: Carson Olshansky, screening: Clue (1985), screening + talk: Black Zombie, tunes: Be Your Own Pet, queer history tour of U St, halloween cover band, Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, new SW DC film house opening
Saturday October 24
Look out for me (and everyone else you know)
Baltimore’s Turnstile is playing the Washington Monument for free, but you should make a donation here. It’s going to be insane, probably. (3pm)
Scream like it’s 1922
A silent horror classic, in 16mm, with a live score. A vampire with a storied history on screen. (7pm)
Tunes & art: tunes at rhizome, CONNEXION, new arts center opening festivities, book talk: art & water, linocut workshop, Niladri Kumaar at WPA, eye on the prize at NGA, Sphinx Virtosi & J'Nai Bridges, slut slam dc, disco at wunder garten, fiddle band Laura and the Lava Lamps,
Get outside! walking tour of penn quarter, old town crawl of womens’ businesses, forest bathing at hillwood, epic fall yardsale, mindfulness and sketching in the garden, walking korean food tour, walking tour of old town
Learn something: free science open house, nerd nite, community safety fair, community health fair, Palestinian Film and Arts Festival
Trick or treat: oak hill cemetery tour, halloween bike ride, halloween headbang concert, spooky dog hangout at hillwood mansion, outdoor screening: Hocus Pocus, coven: halloween dance party, spooky science festival,family friendly halloween
Sunday October 25
These are the wheel deal
Head to Eastern Market Pottery where students are selling their works of art, including plates, bowls, vases, and jewelry. There will be wheel demos all day so you can pick up a few tips or just enjoy the show. (10am)
Rachel, it’s your turn.
They’re calling it the best event since last week’s OnlyDans. It’s Rachelpalooza!!!!! (4:30pm)
Also || parks flea market, screening toni cade bamabra school of organizing, walking tour of walter reed, choral arts performs caroline shaw, a guide to witches, unshushed film fest, grow ur own mushrooms, find your writing group, in search of home, women writers anthology panel, Death Over Drafts, uncork for a cause, hearts on the table, craft supply swap, Rocky Horror at DC9, Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, mount pleasant paper lantern walk, blagden alley walking tour, 21st annual unity walk, tunes: beck
Monday October 26
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball-bowl-o-rama
It’s the real name of the movie playing at Comet Ping Pong, and as someone who read the Wikipedia plot (read: too scared to watch any horror movie), it looks good campy. Plus drinks and curated pre-movie trailers. (6:30pm)
A Party of Books and Releases
Romantasy lovers, RSVP for a glass of champagne, crafts, face painting, and a new book! (10pm)
Also || alton brown at strathmore, profs & pints: the haunted house, local tunes at rhizome, tunes: Nice As Fuck (early show for sleepyheads)
Tuesday October 27
Racers, start your engines!
For the 17th annual high heel race. Head over to 17th Street NW to watch your fav drag queens and kings race to the finish line (maybe even race yourself?!) or compete in the costume contest! (6pm)
Interview with the bioarchaeologist
This edition of Profs and Pints brings in Georgetown bioarchaeologist to trace where beliefs in vampires really came from, before Hollywood made them sexy. (6pm)
Also || Yuri Party at Fantom Comics, profs & pints: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, humanities lab: to hear her speak, the lit show at keegan, skip the small talk, for you film nerds, a screening of cabinet of dr caligari, trivia and a book launch, watch Bootstraps with the DC Guaranteed Income Coalition
OCTOBER
10/28: Silas House at East City, tunes at rhizome, women in power & poetry, mahjong at the stacks, korean food tour, film screening at NGA: Danton, fall festival, gardener's focus tour, screening: The Pajama Game (1957), deep history tour of adams morgan
10/29: afro-cuban all stars at strathmore, The Renaissance of U, book launch: Stubborn Roots, library writing group, secrets of the seance society, halloween at rhizome with local rap: Wint, beetlemania, Black Love in All Its Forms, haunted hall, camila kerwin at solid state, gardener's focus tour, play: SPOTLIGHT, Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound School, movement in the living room
10/30: anti-capitalist coworking club, night of the living SHRED, Batik Showcase at GWU, crafting at Because Science, cleveland park halloween bar crawl, tunes at rhizome, spooky night at comet
10/31: screening: Titicut Follies and A Couple, halloween showcase: fight night live, screening with orchestra: coco, meditation in the galleries, tour of rock creek cemetery, miss adams pageant, halloween double feature: rocky horror + drag show, dupont circle fall festival, halloween vinyls and costume party, family friendly halloween, yoga & wine & candy, hirshorn halloween, District Horror Creatives Short Film Showcase
NOVEMBER
11/1: Mary in Ecstasy at NGA, maryna krut at strathmore, screening with orchestra: coco, dmv-based noise, local tunes: restives, film screening: Powwow People, GOTV at Rhizome, clay bead workshop, 17th century women painters, celeste rogers exhibit at rhizome, dover quartet at NGA, facing fascism, community tree walk, palestinian olive harvest
11/2: tunes: Frank Maza, Cooperative Movement Teach-in, dia de muertos candlelight ceremony
11/3: benefit show: The Dream Eaters, tunes at rhizome, fashion talk, election night watch party
11/4: sound at rhizome, alex edelman at strathmore, gardener's focus
11/5: Tapestry Vocal Ensemble at Strathmore, alex edelman at strathmore, the witness tree, the crooked witness, tunes at pocket: dusty rug, art talk: cosmic mirrors, Arts & Humanities Advocacy for FY28, gardener's focus tour, deep sea disco
11/6: OFFSITE duo at rhizome, finding awe at NGA, the freelance table, book talk: Clear Water, bed maker at rhizome
11/7: nervous verbs, local tunes: Boilersuit, film screening of Mary Oliver, art: i come from the fields, icelandic christmas market, 50th anniversary science cafe @ natl. arboretum, riot grrrl doc, lacemaking demo, author talk: Pat Tanumihardja, the humpty experience, community grief gathering, seed saving 101, larping at rhizome,
11/8: finding awe at NGA, making art through grief, las micas at strathmore, tour of rock creek park, korean food tour, dune and messiahs
11/9: Rick Steves at Sixth & I, book talk: spy school, food book talk: The Lotus Blooms Twice, tunes at haydee's
11/10: Julia Jacklin, american ballet theatre, earth's greatest enemy, new orthodox at rhizome, skip the small talk, author talk: Crash Into You
11/11: poetry & music at rhizome
11/12: makers holiday market, turn hard into humor workshop, burlesque piano bar, Community Journalism Program applications close, book talk: The Squatters
11/13: finding awe at NGA, comedy: love isn't blind, makers market, indie showcase: 4la7la, screening: Ghost in the Machine, garden tots
11/14: Red Brick Weekend, comedy for a cause, finding awe at NGA, Ellington Carthan at Strathmore, minsoo sohn at WPA, boots on the boardwalk, Hanukkah Spectacular, film screening: The Last Foray
11/15: monet: life in letters, finding awe at NGA, old saw at rhizome, death cafe, DMV tunes: Absent Habits, aquaponics 101, screening at NGA: The Promised Land
11/16: women writers anthology reading, talk and cookie tasting at 6th&I
11/17: tunes: big head todd and the monsters, salsa at the portrait gallery, contemporary folk at rhizome, aga khan master musicians
11/18: tunes: frances of delirium, local architecture, assemblage poetrics
11/19: virtual creative writing workshop, Amarilis Dueñas Castán at Kreeger, tunes: Sirintip, teen publishing project, doc premiere: Creating While Black
11/20: tunes at rhizome, winter wonderland at nats park
11/21: try writing a song, metal showcase at the pocket, tunes at strathmore, tour of march on washington, punk rock flea market, tunes: Petrichor, BRNDA at Comet, birthday jazz, Not So Grand Prix, film screening at NGA: The Wedding
11/22: Germán López at Strathmore, film screening at NGA: The Shadow Line
11/23: latin dance competition, peter kerlin at rhizome
11/24: traditions of textiles
11/27: washington wilderness hike
11/28: echoes of doubt at rhizome, tunes: Emmett & the Dead Ends, smut slam
11/29: parks flea market, film screening: Powwow People, embodied thanksgiving decompression
DECEMBER
12/1: celtic christmas carols, collage at the portrait gallery
12/2: skip the small talk
12/3: voctave a cappella christmas carols, wreath making workshop
12/4: HUMP! Film Festival, finding awe at NGA
12/5: HUMP! Film Festival, pas musique at rhizome, leslie odom jr at strathmore, local tunes: Bitter Stems, holiday walking tour
12/6: cookbook talk at 6th&I: Rebekah Lowin, book talk at NGA
12/8: hbd emily dickinson, gardener's focus tour
12/9: sneak peak at folger's english christmas, jazz: Dave Koz
12/10: Andrew Yee and the Rothko String Quartet
12/11: English Christmas for the Ages, tunes at rhizome
12/12: finding awe at NGA, christmas carols, local tunes at strathmore, christmas with the camerata, forget why poetry
12/13: Christmas with the Camerata (2/2), holiday walking tour
12/17: virtual creative writing workshop, Haley Heyndrickx at 6th&I
12/18: christmas jazz orchestra, local tunes: ammonite
12/19: tunes: ADRENALINE!
JANUARY 2027
1/10: book talk on roy lichtenstein
1/24: dakhabrakha quartet from kyiv
1/15: Banff film festival
1/26: music and poetry: a hard rain
FEBRUARY 2027
2/5: art talk at NGA
2/23: praise song for the body
MARCH 2027
3/2: hamlet at folger
3/4: access as revision
MAY 2027
