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🔮 see the future // consult the WEEKLY SCHEDULER online for more events

On sale now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out:

DC indie film fest (opens 2/11), Valentines flashband showcase at The Pocket (2/15), tunes: Broke Royals (2/21), tunes: Blood Orange (3/3), tunes: FKA twigs (3/18), volunteer for 2026 Wammie Music Awards (happening 3/28), tunes: Jordan Ward (4/19), tunes: PinkPantheress (5/3 & 5/4), tunes: Courtney Barnett (5/10)

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Wednesday February 4

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The Love Lecture

Philosophy professor Laura Papish has grown a considerable following with her annual talks exploring the brain, soul, and heart. Hear her share her thoughts on love (accompanied by her husband Chris on guitar) & maybe even fall in love at the event!? (6pm)

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I’m not asking for a lot

Just that in this city where everyone’s too good at trivia, you’re the best at trivia about this city. Kick off Black History Month with a special edition of Ask A DC Native, Live!. (6:30pm)

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Also || tunes: Summer Salt, Vivian Tu at Sixth & I, album release party, tunes: David Foster & Katherine McPhee, tunes: The Secret Trio, khaos karaoke, soulflow yoga, documentary: cutting through rocks, craftivism

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Thursday February 5

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Save The Post!!

The Washington Post Guild and Tech Guild will be hosting a rally outside WaPo headquarters (near Franklin Square Park) to support staff amid ongoing layoff threats. Even though keeping the Post’s staff running would cost .00001% of Bezos’ wealth, he’s threatening cutting critical jobs and desks. Head out on your lunchbreak and support journalism. (12-1pm)

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TranspoBINGO

Fill out your card by “Playing Your Way Through the City” in creative ways and making connections all week. (Apparently there are prizes at the closing reception…) (all week)

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Also || improv-a-ganza, arrangement and card making workshop, book talk: Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism, book club: Well Met, poetry showcase, girlgenius night @ pieshop, ordinary life in rural china, Eunoia Cinema House launch party at The Pocket, VDAY 101, comedy at Kelly's Irish Times, film talk: Mesa Soto, folk art is fine art, yarn & yap at the library, virtual poetry reading, Save the Post!, queer slow dance party, cookbook club

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Friday February 6

We all know you’re not really working on a Friday…

The National Gallery of Art is hosting a free online Art of Looking session. You’ll be examining Margaret Burroughs’ 1943 Still Life while honing skills in visual literacy and perspective-taking. (1pm)

No phones, just girls . . .

. . .who are looking for other girls. Alphabet Soup induces your best fever dream yet with this phone & picture-free dance party for single sapphics and luddites. (10pm)

Also || punk show at Rhizome, tunes: Matthew Shipp, The Kings Singers at WNC, club xcx, tech on tap, punk rock karaoke, if these walls could joke, family bike ride, tunes: Marilyn Hucek, fresh mozzarella experience, true funny stories!, lunar new year, community resource fair

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Saturday February 7

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A Community Farm fundraising for immigrants in Minneapolis? Sign me up <3

Edgewood Community Farm is hosting a pay-what-you-can fundraising dinner featuring food, snacks, a fire pit and more. There will be a short Know Your Rights training and plenty of time to connect with neighbors. (7pm)

Join the fight for living wages, affordable housing, and union rights at the Young Worker March on Washington. (11am)

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Absolutely gutted

Your knife game could use some work. Trimming, heading, gutting; it’s the fundamentals of seafood fabrication (and not to mention safe shucking). (10am)

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Also || sex ed pop-up, local theater: Cake Eaters, water color & books, sunrise dc open hub, puppet show, school of rock showcase, pre-code film series, chamber concert, international contemporary ensemble, cupboard’s cabaret, tunes: Stella Prince, goth vampire edm party, chi album release, suitland parkway volunteer day, closing reception: Fighting Shadows, gallery talk: The Washington Family, artist workshop: George A. Morton, walking tour: The Harlem Renaissance in DC, sing for survivors: Buko Buko / The Armors / Gigi Marie, tunes: RenRiot / Soul Meets Body / Oh, Violet, yes bikes no vines

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Sunday February 8

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“That’s a tree”

Me if I was attending Rhizome’s Winter Tree Identification class. If you’re lucky, maybe you’ll stumble upon the vaguely yonic old trunk that my roomies affectionately refer to as Mother. (10:30am)

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Get into the Olympic Spirit with everyone’s favorite bobsledding movie

Cool Runnings is playing at the Avalon Theatre. If you’re unfamiliar with this classic, it’s about four Jamaican Bobsledders whose dream is to make the Olympics. (10:30am)

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Also || fun-a-day showcase, brunch swap party, sunday jam, tunes: TRHÄ + BARBELITH / Mass Ego / Pilau, a little carbs baking party, artists conversation & heritage meal,

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Monday February 9

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Wear your heart on your mug

You may be single, you may be coupled up. You may be three stages too deep into a one-sided situationship. No matter what, though, you can have a cool mug you painted the Queen of Hearts on. (6:30pm)

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Garfield wouldn’t hate Mondays so much if he went to a Monday night concert

If you’re a fan of Wednesday, you’ll love Daffo – which makes sense, since they’ve toured with Wednesday, Annie Dirusso, and other icons. Listen to their music and catch them at DC9. (7pm)
Or if happy, vibey, dancing is more your… vibe? Check out Electric Guest at 930 Club. Dear To Me never fails to put me in a good mood. (7pm)

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Also || valentine’s terrarium workshop, profs & pints: so let’s talk about venezuela, level 1a & 1b salsa, tunes: LMB / Will Evans & Rinatt Montoya / Walsh Kunkel, restorative yoga, ranked choice voting education session

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Tuesday February 10

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Time for an indie film at Suns

Le silence de la mer is a superb film about resistance and occupation. A cultured, naively idealistic German officer is billeted in the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece. Their response to his presence—their only form of resistance—is complete silence. (7pm)

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Paging all pagans

Let’s go back to our roots and celebrate this late winter holiday season the way nature intended: Running naked through the city in pursuit of fertility. Medievalist Kat Tracy teaches us how Valentine’s Day and Mardi Gras came to be. (6pm)

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Also || galentine’s art night, tunes: ZZZZZZZZZZZ ft. Will Mulaney / Jonathan Williger & Alma Laprida / Naoco Wowsugi, talk: artworks on paper

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FEBRUARY

2/11: Slate Political Gabfest 20th anniversary, writing workshop: the modern fairytale, watercolor bookmarks, dc independent film fest opening night, scream breakup songs with a peoples’ choir, Brianne on Your Block, Nothing Up My Sleeve opens, growing orchids at home, comedy: stand up for your neighbors, art: both and

2/12: Bernstein, Bruch and Schubert, orchid arrangement workshop, lets talk about being single, but make it academic, also a dating workshop, awkward sex & the city, murder bimbo, cleveland park themed trivia, batting cage comedy, bmore symphony orchestra, galentines comedy, twice night, orchid care workshop, seltzer comedy show, spa night self care