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

Common Good city farm needs volunteers (all month!), tiny desk contest winner: Cure for Paranoia (7/11), tunes: Death Cab for Cutie (7/21), Lord Huron (8/2), tunes: Robyn, night 2 (9/9), Thee Sacred Souls (9/17), Mt. Joy (9/18), Charli XCX (9/28; signup for presale 6/12), Phoebe Bridgers (9/29), Olivia Rodrigo (10/3 & 10/4), Two Door Cinema Club (10/11), JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9), Julia Jacklin (11/10)

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Wednesday June 24

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Fit? Fresh. Produce? Fresher.

Common Good City Farmer’s Market is going strong this summer with their pay what you can model. Get fruit, veggies, lemonade, and more from your favorite city farm. (3:30-6:30pm)

Common Good is looking for volunteers until August 12. Join them to help stock the Fresh Fridge (food bank of fresh food), repackage goods, and more. (sign up here!)

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Dibs on the monkey bars

Don a hard hat and wear closed toed shoes for this behind the scenes tour of the National Building Museum’s hottest summer installation, THE PLAYGROUND. Which is exactly as its name suggests. (6pm)

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Also || tunes in the triangle, deep canvassing training with rising organizers, tunes: Keiyaa, phone-free experience, outdoor yoga, Fanfiction Theater, tunes at the garage, Extreme Weather Survivors presents Stolen Summers: The Next 250, gay little charm making, phone free meetup, queer outdoor yoga, punk at rhizome

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Thursday June 25

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Hell is other people? Name three of your other favorite lines from “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre

“No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the classics of modern theatre. The one act philosophical play proposes that “hell is other people” – rather than a state created by God. See the chilling, funny, erotic play at Atlas Performing Arts Center so that next time your friend says “hell is other people” you can flex on them with your knowledge of the source material. (7:30pm, until July 19)

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Are you really friends until you see each other naked?

The human form is underappreciated. Improve your line drawing skills and honor the art of the body at this (nude) live figure drawing. (6:30pm)

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Also || outside movie night in AdMo: Kangaroo (sponsored by the Australian Embassy), summer harvest dinner, single release: Foot Traffic, book talk: United States of Rejection, tunes: Cailin Russo, vintage vibes comedy night, gaming fundraiser for DCAF, tunes at rhizome, book event: Freedom Lost, Freedom Won, artist talk: Rose Jaffe, USA v. Egypt Dacha watch party, sober pride, gaming for abortion access, vintage and comedy, cleveland park night market, local news day in alx, vintage and comedy, St. Vincent with the NSO at Wolf Trap

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Friday June 26

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Male NOliness epidemic

Move over male loneliness, guys are making friends! Head to the DC Area Guys’ Happy Hour to meet other guys trying to make friends. Hosted by the app Choros (but you don’t need to join!) this is an intentional meetup to make friends. (6pm)

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Spread your seed

How would our sidewalks look if every yard had a native pollinator garden? DC Natives wants to find out; support their efforts to build pollinator pathways and celebrate Pollinator Week 2026 at this cozy happy hour fundraiser. (5:30pm)

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Also || movie double feature: Little Mermaid & Barbie, book talk: Scandal of the Summer, queer crafting workshop, immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, comedy at Karma Hookah Bar, Ride to Catboat Pizza Bar, West African Spirits Tasting, lecture on burlesque, tunes at union stage, yoga summer, chamber of comedy, jewelry workshop, standup and hookah

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Saturday June 27

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Lanternflys? Stomped! Slumlords? Stomped!

It’s Stomp Out Slumlords’ monthly anti-eviction canvas. It’s not enough we got DSA candidates in office, now let’s keep doing the work. Organizers will provide training, a canvas partner, materials for you to help DC residents fight evictions and stay in their homes. (1:30pm)

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How great can this state fair be if DC’s not a state?

As visitors from across the country come to the National Mall for America250 related events, this is our chance to engage them about the urgent need for DC statehood. Sign up to canvass with Rising Organizers (and make sure to attend a training sesh first!). (10am-12pm or 4-6pm)

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Music, dancing, theatre, & more: local tunes: Spark Isle Spark Isle, tunes at rhizome, tunes: LESSON ZERO, queer linedancing, tunes at the pocket, this dance party is out of this world!!!, immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, No Exit at Scena Theatre, MONSTERS! at Thundershark Gallery, tunes: Thee Phantom and Illharmontic Orchestra, Dinner & a show and (post show discussion)

Yoga & outdoors: yoga & tarot workshop, prenatal yoga workshop,

Comedy: sketch night by Bad Medicine

Activism and learning: walking tour of queer history in Dupont Circle, harlem renaissance in dc, DC FreedomFest

Other highlights: wine & watercolors 8 hour excursion, the science of sparkling wine, pickleball social

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Sunday June 28

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Doesn’t have to be just the lord’s day

Curious about how different religions intersect and diverge? Want to read some cool old texts? Sacred Texts, Shared Thoughts, a book club exploring and discussing religious texts, hosts its first meeting (today’s focus: Hinduism). (11am)

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Paul Atriedes puts the mess in messiah

Dune: Part Three is incoming this December. Study up on the function of messiahs in times of uncertainty with Dr. Peter Herman, a trained theologian and scholar of religious themes. (6pm)

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Also || dc makers club, tunes: Sun Within, parks flea market, immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, queer linedancing at pitchers, District Creates Festival, tunes: an evening with Goose, socialites and spies of georgetown, fire flow yoga, artwork in the living room, sunday dj best

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Monday June 29

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Distilled, not brewed

A fifth-gen toji inherits a distillery from his father and explores the future of their signature shochu, a traditional Japanese spirit made from rice or barley. Follow the journey at this documentary screening of The Spirit of Japan and stay for a special Q&A with the director. (7pm)

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Jurassic playdoh

Preserve a pterodactyl or forge the perfect fossil at this air-dry clay dino workshop (materials provided excluding asteroids). (6pm)

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Also || book talk: squirming, RAMMYS Awards Gala, tunes: Knox Engler quartet, knife skills 101, author talk: Long Island Girls, rooftop trivia

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Tuesday June 30

Talking trees

In 2023, author and activist Mike Tidwell kept a record of the growing impacts of climate change on his one urban block on the border of DC – from extreme heat and rain that were killing trees, lyme disease, solar panels, and more, this book shows how one community close to home is dealing with climate change. (6pm)

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It’s the part of heated rivalry where Shane and Ilya meet at the beginning and just have some tension

The Capitals season may be done but you can still come to watch their top prospects take the ice for DevCamp! It’s free and open to the public at the Capitals Iceplex. (2:30pm)

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Also || bling it on at the library, Wicked screening at the library, conversation Spanish class, poetry talk: Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida, Busboys and Poetry open mic

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JULY

7/1: Wharf movie night: National Treasure 2, farmer’s market at common good city farm, root to rise yoga

7/2: america: the innovation, summerween, stories of independence

7/3: the playground opens at national building museum, immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, JDHD with Alan Ward

7/4: immersive documentary: By George: It All Comes Down, Fourth of July on the Farm

7/5: heavy tunes at rhizome, words from birds, bouquet crafting and flower design, indigo & shibori 101

7/6: screening: The Toni Cade Bombara School of Organizing, calling Latine/Latinx artists, tunes: Madison Beer

7/7: author talk: The Final Score, tunes: Kevian Kraemer, tunes: Louis Tomlinson

7/8: Wharf movie night: Hamilton, farmer’s market at common good city farm, improv tunes at rhizome