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

tunes: PinkPantheress (5/3 & 5/4), tunes: Cobrah (5/7), tunes: Courtney Barnett (5/10), Bike to Work Day (5/15), Pattie Gonia (5/31), Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso (6/17) St. Vincent with the NSO at Wolf Trap (6/25), tunes: Robyn night 2 (9/9)

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Wednesday, April 15

Submit a Haiku

At the DC Library

Or Online Is Fine

It’s National Poetry Month and DC is celebrating with a haiku contest. Submit your haiku (2 per person) in person at any library or online. Winners get free swag! (all day)

Speaking of haikus, watch survivor at DC9 and see if my girl Tiff can get her revenge (8pm)

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Catch a concert

Wallice is an indie pop icon with hits like “Heaven Has To Happen,” she is headlining at Atlantis for her new album The Jester. (6:30pm)
Alice Phoebe Lou is an incredible singer and songwriter, check out She (Live) and get tickets to see her at the Lincoln Theatre. (8pm)
If you BLINK you might miss it, even if Everything Glows. Bob Moses & Cannons tour together. (7pm)

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Also || tunes: Natalia Lafourcade, Kate Bowler at 6th&I, tunes: Whitney, Forked Podcast live taping, cozy mystery book club, horror book club, seedling sale, movie at Milian: Harriet, musicians from marlboro, NMWA night, learn about ranked choice voting from the DCBOE, tunes: The Braymores / Echo Plum, tunes: Quinn XCII, talk: rehab city, indie rpg one-shot, post on social media because we still have taxation without representation

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Thursday, April 16

A super valid reason to up your screen time

It’s the opening night at the 40th annual Filmfest DC! Celebrate Filmfest DC’s legacy of showcasing over 3,600 feature and short films to the DC area by catching one of the 65 feature premieres happening over the next week and a half. Tonight’s option: Colours of Time (in French with English subtitles). (6:30pm)

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Behind the Headlines

Black journalists are at the frontlines of the news, telling stories, uncovering perspectives mainstream media misses, and holding power accountable. Yet, across the country, outlets are pushing Black journalists out, often abruptly and in large numbers. Come hear from Black DC journalists about the stories they’re proud of telling. (7:30pm)

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Also || The Future is Peace with Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon, funny farm, author talk: a night at the disco, third thursday at Phillips Collection, artist talk: both/and, 4 years of comedy at Kelly's Irish Times, artist talk, book club: City of Stardust, yoga at the stacks, tunes at rhizome, author talk: Going for Zero, book talk and signing: This Queer Arab Family, tunes: Sam Sample at the Pocket, local tunes: The Backing Tracks

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Friday, April 17

The thing about art? Once it clicks, you’ll see

DC-based artist Imar Lyman’s new exhibit, Echo/Location, opens tonight at the Kreeger Museum. The collection, named after the biological sonic radar some animals use to see, explores how “echoes” from the past illuminate the future using mixed media collage, painting, and printmaking. (10am)

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Cabaret with puppets in drag

Need we say more? Spring time is the best time for some odd theatrical productions, and that’s what the Cupboard Cabaret is promising is in store (7:30pm)

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Also || comedy + hookah, reagan is a demon, reagan is a drag queen, for you garden geeks out there, author talk: My Father's Orchards, tunes: Fresh Out Da Kitchen Vol. 1, techno at transmission, 2000s dance party, tunes: The Chameleons, tunes: Cut Worms, tunes: GoldFord, tunes: Two Feet, ASL open mic, tunes: Sir Chloe, playtime: As You Like It, on stage: Young John Lewis, tunes: Buffalo Traffic Jam (sold out), burbank comedy festival, open mic night, music in the park, book talk: Academies of Art

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Saturday, April 18

Move over overpriced vintage markets… it’s time for an old fashioned YARD SALE

It’s the Columbia Heights spring cleaning yard sale with over 46 houses to shop at (view here)! Buy something fun or just be nosy and see what your neighbors are auctioning off. (10am-2pm)

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For some reason, our friends at the Washington Area Bicyclist Association are hosting a yoga class? Still seems like a vibe, although maybe shavasana on a bike isn’t the move. (1:30pm)

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Also || LiberTEA, danish string quartet, sketchbook swap, beekeeping for bee-ginners, District Sounds (save 50% on tickets: FAMDS2026), guided hike of RCP, third culture kids, hbd shakespeare, lecture on shakespeare, artist talk: Everyday People, plant and herb sale, brake light repair clinic, potomac river cleanup, vvvintage, trash pickup at Rock Creek Park, yoga with sculptures (not yoga sculpt!), jazz at the kreeger, district sounds fest, lego architecture, visit the NMAI, yoga in bloom, family day on earth day, dance: Aperture by Patrick Casimir, family square dance, GLOW block party, RFK Stadium campus community walk, free art supply swap, a poetry garden, collage workshop for remembrance, tunes: Landowner (MA)/BRNDA/Drawn at Rhizome

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Sunday, April 19

Ronald Reagan as a demon drag queen? Why not!

When a group of friends summon a demon, they’re surprised when Ronald Reagan arrives, as a demon drag queen. Go see Everything, Devoured in AdMo. The play is part ghost story, part exorcism, part drag show! (2pm)

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Okay but is it pronounced Lanier Heights or Lanier Heights?

Learn about the history of Lanier Heights with DC YIMBYs. Learn about the housing history of the neighborhood and get pissed – downzoning, lack of building, and too much street parking – and learn how to take action. (2pm)

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Also || tunes: Eliades Ochoa, architecture of Tudor House, paint your own garden sign, retelling and reframing shared national history, tunes talk: Best bridges and choruses, tell out my soul, book club: Poetry is Not a Luxury, author talk: Jill Santopolo, profs & pints: Goddess of Spring and the Underworld, tunes at the pocket, tunes: Rec Hall / Summerdrive, tunes: Concrete Boys, MtP Puzzle Swap, cyanotype printing for teens

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Monday, April 20

What if the grass needs to touch you?

It’s Earth day (almost)!!! Head to Columbia Heights Green for a free yoga class that will connect you back to mother. Honor the space you inhabit and feel the fresh spring air. (6:30pm)

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STELLAR!

Is what critics are saying about The Streetcar Project, a stripped-down take on Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire that takes place in the Dupont Underground. Experience how a focus on the gripping dialogue exposes new insights into the relationship between Blanche and Stella. (7pm)

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Also || book club: Where Wildflowers Grow, profs & pints: Facing Fascism, tunes at rhizome, book talk: The Inner Passage, tour the house of sweden, tunes: L.B. / Henna Chou & Joshua Thomson / Reddick Duo / Ivan Liptak, videopunk live remix & rescore, tunes: HEALTH :: AFTERS, tunes: Frog, tunes: Curren$y and Friends, van gogh sip & paint, calligraphy and tea ceremony

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Tuesday, April 21

*patrick voice* CHOCOLATEEEE

Head to Bold Fork Books for food & conversation with (spoiler alert) Great British Bake Off Season 1 Winner Edd Kimber about his latest book, CHOCOLATE BAKING! Learn about over 100 different chocolate baking recipes and how to make your own chocolate masterpiece in your kitchen. (7pm)

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Gleaner? I hardly even know ‘er!

Director Agnès Varda takes us into the little known world of modern gleaners: People who make their means through collecting what others throw away. In her 2000 documentary The Gleaners and I, Varda considers how she herself gleans images and ideas in her film-making process. (9:45pm)

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Also || 101 lessons from the dugout, 2019 Shakespeare screening at Folger (sold out), book talk: Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves by Stuart Schrader, sunsoaked at femme fatale dc, profs & pints: Appalachian Trail, no phones: Here & Now, planting seeds analog night (sold out), tunes: Grace A. Keller / Tiberius / Rain Shears, earth, wind, & choir sing along, tunes: Magnolia Park, film: The Secret Agent, an evening of play for a good cause