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

Mark your calendars for 730 Day this year (August 3), Submit to Rhizome Mag! (deadline June 23), Pride all month, Register for sketch comedy classes! (July), Tiny Desk Contest on the Road (with TDC winner Ruby Ibarra) (7/19), tunes: Sierra Ferrell (9/7), tunes: Indigo De Souza (10/23) tunes: The Beths (12/10)

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Wednesday, June 18

Get your comedy fix in

Fresh Take comedy show, hosted by Eric Nwosu and Tre Solo, is a monthly comedy show offering hilarious perspectives on the latest news, trends, and cultural moments – tell us about your take on trendy “butter yellow” plz! (7:30pm)
Danielle She/Her is a 4-time award winner at Capital Fringe and will be performing with the “funkiest sketch comedy group around,” the RENS. (8pm)
NY-based comedian Seann Cantatore is hilarious, and she famously shaved her p*bes for nothing! Get a ticket to see her at DCAC. (9pm)

Banjo bonanza
Strathmore’s 2025 Artist in Residence, Gabby Cameron, is hosting a free workshop to explore the history and evolution of bluegrass banjo. (7:30pm)Also || rally: DC Budget for Workers Not Owners!, talk: Gaysians, talk: Honoree Fannone Jeffers, tunes: saxophonist Gary Bartz, daytime book club, tunes: Mannequin Pussy (sold out), queering the narrative, tunes in the triangle, ex-feds: get help w/ health insurance, volunteer w DC Zinefest, Mahjong at Lucky Danger, print & sprint: riso class, webinar: community development at a crossroads, history unlocked: Captain George Pointer, make polluters pay campaign launch, love was the lifeboat: Juneteenth Edition, reflections of a Japanese American theatre director, Black Techno Matters, film: the divine Sarah Bernhardt

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Thursday, June 19

Celebrate Juneteenth

Join Positive Force DC for their Racial Justice Rally, and come early to help assemble grocery bags for seniors. (10am-7pm)
Stop by Bryant Street Market for a wellness block party – get your yoga or HIIT on and support black-owned businesses. (10am-4pm)
To kickoff their Juneteenth Jubilee celebration, the Anacostia Renaissance Kollective is walking across the 11th Street Bridge to reenact the crossing made by enslaved people in 1852 to freedom. (10am-5pm)
Catch a free screening of Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé. (11:30am)
Parades/Festivals: Ward 7 Juneteenth Parade, Juneteenth community festival. Juneteenth cookout + conversation, literary jubilee & black author fest
Music: jazz & gospel festival, Backyard Band and Junkyard Band, live gogo band, ditch day dj beach party, live band karaoke

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Also || author talk: Anne Marie Chaker, summer solstice tarot, pitch a single friend, comedy open mic

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Friday, June 20

It was a rock Yacht Lobster

Are you a big fan of Yacht Rock? Well now’s your chance to celebrate with tribute back Yacht Lobsters at the Yards summer concert series! Featuring free captain’s hats, glitter tattoos, food and more. (6-8pm)

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Swedish Midsummer Celebration (hopefully not like the Swedish Midsommar Celebration)

Bring all your friends (except Florence Pugh) to this celebration on the mall. Featuring a maypole celebration, Swedish music, wreath making, and buring your bf at the stake trivia! (6-9pm)

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Also || jazz in the garden, coffee outside on the c&o, tunes: Seán Heely, learn to knit, The Armors at Rhizome, Sebastian Llosa, Belfast at Kennedy Center, Madams of DC walking tour, craft your own planter!, comedy: Dom Grayer, tunes: rook richards, tunes: This Could Go Boom! benefit, Positive Force benefit show for migrant solidarity

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Saturday, June 21

CaBi-B-Q

Worried you won’t have enough room in your stomach for the 33rd annual Giant BBQ Battle? No matter! Join WABA, DC Bike Ride, and Streets Calling Bike Club for a 10-mile ride across DC, culminating at the festival. (9:30am)

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A big ole weekend

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Also || yoga at NMWA, Juneteenth family day, Summer Soirée for Juneteenth, Pride zine swap @ Fantom, queer sabha!, the DC influence, queer variety cavalcade, hoodstock 2025, Juneteenth Community Day

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Sunday, June 22

Make new friends!!!!

Join Strawberry Match (an org helping folks in their 20s/30s make friends) for a hangout in Malcolm X park. Bring a snack and a game and meet some new people! (2pm)

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And keep the old!!!

Your favorite nonagenarian is going strong. Granny and the Boys (an iconic house band lead by a 93-year-old) will be playing at Showtime bar. Bring your cash and get ready for a good time. (5pm)

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Also || tunes: Lily Finnegan & gabby fluke-mogul, queer film series, family-friendly pride party, dye workshop, picnic for new friends, celebrating dad music,art studio cleanout sale, huitlacoche 101, R&B on the water & go-go on the rooftop, anti-imperialist summer school: USAID & NGOs

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Monday, June 23

Five jazz fingers on each hand

Cinco Soles in Columbia Heights hosts the Los Locos Quintet every Monday night for live jazz! Someone who’s not even affiliated (just a huge fan!) let us know, which means it must be incredible. Go enjoy live music and make friends! (9-11pm)

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Was your gay awakening also that one scene from Jennifer’s Body with the lighter?

Join Professor May Santiago to explore the history of queerness in horror films (and maybe find out why the Babadook is a queer icon?). (6pm)

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Also || tunes: Høly River / Valeska Populoh, tunes: Høly River / Valeska Populoh / Talk to Your Neighbor, federal contractors soiree, learn to play ultimate frisbee!, deadline to submit to Rhizome Mag, DC Chamber of Golf Classic

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Tuesday, June 24

Cute activity alert!

Head to MLK library to watercolor your own bookmarks! Because we all need better bookmarks than a CVS receipt from when you bought Ashwagansa because someone told you it would help you sleep. (4pm)

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The crust of the pizza is the best part

Chef Bertrand Brown-Orleans teaches you how to turn kitchen scraps and peels into a delightful (and sustainable) meal. (6pm)

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Also || tunes: Preoccupations, tunes: Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, drug legalization debate, Profs & Pints: The Great American Road Trip, book talk at East City, talk: Toni Morrison as editor, justice trivia night, Tudor tuesday, pitch your LGBTQ+ friend who is single

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JUNE

6/25: author talk: Lisa Murkowski, poetry for Palestine, tunes in the triangle, arlington pride hh + drag singalong, health insurance help for ex-feds, queer soup night, print & sprint: riso class, Shakespeare at the park, organizer training at AFGE HQ, YIMBY happy hour, tunes: gabby cameron & “new anthropology”

6/26: tunes: Gian Pérez, DC and the Poetry of AIDS, Salvadoran heritage night @ DC United, tunes: anees, stories from LGBTQ+ immigrants and refugees, antisemitism on the rise, DC and the poetry of AIDS, Green Drinks, art and autocracy, Cleveland Park night market

6/27: meet artist May Pang, jazz in the garden, tunes: Joyce Manor, tunes: B.A.D.G.E. / Grudge / Saafeway / Glycine, step Afrika!, tunes: The Nighthawks, Black joy comedy marathon, District Game Jam VI, charcuterie board workshop, chamber of comedy

6/28: Hill Family Biking Littles Edition, art: Vivian Browne, growing community at ACM, book swap at MLK library, World Pride: Colors of Culture, queer film series, step Afrika!, education & race in DC, walking tour: hidden infrastructure of Dupont, Gaza thrift at Rhizome, Open Streets Ride, open streets ride with Hill Family Biking