What's happening, updated every Wednesday.
Click here

‍

See this in a more scannable Google doc.

‍

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

tunes: Bad moves (farewell tour) (5/8), 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)

‍

Wednesday April 30

‍

Support local labels!

Head to Rhizome to celebrate two releases from DC-based label Outside Time, with live performances from composer-performers Zosha Warpeha and Heather Stubbins and art installations by local dance and textile artist Claire Alrich (featured on our blog recently!). (7pm)

‍

Midweek turn-up (but gay)

Appropriate that this is on a Hump Day: throw it back at Le Mont Royal partying with queer disco dance collective Disco Tits in a safe, fun, welcoming environment! (8pm)

‍

Also || comedy for a cause, Profs and Pints: Persephone, Kidlit in the district, talk: the Chinese in America, DC Climate Week, ward 5 public safety call, protest: courage not compliance, keep kids safe online, FedSupport Hub, guided pairings at Waldorf Astoria, survivor watch party, submit your 2D artwork, tunes: M.A.G.S.

‍

Thursday May 1

‍

Bikes & drinks

Head to the National Landing in Arlington for bike safety checks, a ride around Potomac yards, and then a happy hour! Sounds magical. (4:30-7pm)

‍

[insert literally any time period] - tough time to be a woman

In her book Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Sophia Gilbert highlights the rampant objectification of women throughout the early aughts. Hear her in conversation at East City Bookshop with a Q&A! (7pm)

‍

Also || tunes: Somi, O st. business networking, Ed Helms book talk, WPA Collectors Night, talk: the unexpected origins of gun violence, Cheb ou Jen, tunes: George Clanton, book talk: Girl on Girl, herbal medicine program, May Day solidarity march, Black, White, and All the Reds In-Between: Critical Theory of Color in Medieval Arabic Architecture, tunes: Miya Folick, tunes: Eric Gabriel

‍

Friday May 2

‍

What the fork!?

Community Forklift is the DC area’s nonprofit reuse center for home improvement supplies. Come celebrate salvage and the community that makes it work for Frist Friday. Head to their warehouse for live music, food and drink, local artists, face painting, and material discounts. (5-8pm)

‍

Call Her Salsa Daddy!

Rick Martínez will be speaking at Bold Fork Books about his newest book Salsa Daddy. Martínez’s last cookbook was IACP Best International Cookbook and a NYT best seller. His newest book dives deep into 74 types of salsas, showing that salsa isn’t just a condiment – it’s a lifestyle. (7pm)

‍

Also || 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, bike safety checks, Civil War Sex Workers walking tour, paint in Chevy Chase, tunes: Backyard Band, art a the YMCA: Take me to the Water, art: Color Lines Across the United States and Mexico, theatre: Kings and Commonwealth receives the political music of 16th and 17th cen. Eng, Warblerpalooza, tunes: Gringo Star

‍

Saturday May 3

‍

*airhorns* it’s time for … WARBLERPALOOOOOZA

It’s that time of the year again, Warbler migration season. Join DC Bird Alliance for their warbler bird walk through Columbia Heights. Learn about warblers and how to spot them. That way, next time your drunkenly leaving Wonderland and you see a small yellow bird and your friend goes “is that a common house finch,” you can respond “that’s actually a magnolia warbler, one of 120 types of warblers.” (8-10am)

‍

‘Cause chihuahuas like us, baby, we were born to run

Stop by the Wharf for the annual Running of the Chihuahuas, featuring chihuahua races, Pacifico beer garden, a parade of adoptable pets (!!), a dog costume contest, and more! (2pm)

‍

Tunes & theatre & art: DESA play: Lost and Found, tunes: Evgeny Kissin, piano, tunes: Devo, film: Georgia O’Keeffe, Pyramid Atlantic’s HyBall, project poetic justice (poetry & music in collaboration w/ DC Jail residents), First Saturday’s at NGA, tunes: Tim Hecker, tunes: Sir Woman

All weekend long: Star Wars Weekend on Barracks Row, International City Food Festival

Get outside: tudor place garden tour, Rockville arts festival, picnic at Kreeger museum, Bluemont community yard sale, Petworth Yard Sale,

Learn something: book talk: Amity Gaige, book talk: Chris Hedges, Black Georgetown,

Other highlights: Beats and Brews: a morning dance party (sold out), cupcake and bouquet workshop, Project Create, healthy food vision board, death doula workshop

‍

Sunday May 4

‍

I Knafeh have just one

If you, like me, are obsessed with Palestinian Knafeh and its syrupy, crispy, cheesy goodness, you can join Sitti’s House for a Knafeh Masterclass and learn how to make it yourself - it’s not that hard I promise! (2pm)

‍

Theatre and Yogurt!

Wooly Mammoth Theatre is back with a new play: Akira Kurosawa Explains His Movies and Yogurt (with live and active cultures!). Written and performed by Julia Izumi, the play is inspired by the iconic work of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Using both the filmmaker’s perspective and her own, Izumi shares with audiences a story of how art influences artists, centering on two brothers who love movies, and how identity evolves, much like yogurt. Use code DC20 for a discount! (8pm)

‍

Also || NMWA Makers Market, Attack on Titan event at Tysons, volunteer at Walk MS, burlesque + variety lunch, Old Glory rugby, concert in Tregaron Meadow, Pulitzer Prize winner Hisham Matar, pottery sale, american roots concert, F1 watch party, talk: A Month in Siena with Hisham Matar, Green Way Reading Series, Deep Space House band at Rhizome

‍

Monday May 5

‍

Dead On A Sunday… on a Monday

Led by vocalist and producer Ross Ryan, Denver-based Dead On A Sunday blends rock, emo punk, dark-wave, and goth music to push musical boundaries and create a unique sound. Catch their live show at DC9! (8pm)

‍

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s Rose?

It’s Romeo & Juliet but drunk! Five actors perform Romeo & Juliet, but one of them has 5 shots. Now watch as they try and keep the show on track. Me? I want to see drunk Friar Tuck. (7pm)

‍

Also || profs & pints: Encountering Cryptids, film: I’m No Longer Here, wines of Rioja Spain, tunes: SADNESS, BARBELITH, CURSE

Tuesday May 6

‍

Tunes and movies and books, Oh My!

Jordan Sand is a bassist, vocalist, improviser and composer weaving voice into the organ-like resonances of bowed double bass. Her solo music has been described as ""Joni Mitchell meets Ligeti"" (Omaha Under the Radar). (7pm)
Rachel Lynn Solomon will be at East City Books discussing her new romance, “What Happens In Amsterdam.” The plot follows a woman who moves to Amsterdam, runs into her high school ex, gets married to him so he can inherit a fortune, then… falls in love? (7pm)
Head to Suns Cinema for OLIVIA & THE CLOUDS, a dazzling animated film from the Dominican Republic that explores love's complexities by using different animation styles to convey a relationship's different perspectives. This show isn’t sold out, get tickets now! (7pm)

‍

Also || tunes: Bôa, free pilates in Farragut Square, Profs & Pints: Becoming Human, film: Major Taylor: Champion of the Race, book talk: Martha Anne Toll, sit in with Environmental Groups at House committee hearing, tunes: Florist

‍

MAY

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, book talk: Four Mothers, School Stories comedy show

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, Drive In at Union Market, free workout class at the Canadian Embassy (sure, why not lol)

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, musical: Falsettos, Youth Media Festival, tunes: Flashband!, language science fair at Planet Word