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my body my festival w/ Yaya Bey & Nourished by Time (5/28), The North Country single release + Dylan Rockwell, Kinda Evil (5/29), Pattie Gonia (5/31), Kali Uchis (6/4), hemlocke springs (6/9), Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso (6/17), Dorian Electra (6/19), St. Vincent with the NSO at Wolf Trap (6/25), tiny desk contest on the road (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), Olivia Rodrigo (10/3 & 10/4), Two Door Cinema Club (10/11), JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Slow Pulp (pre-sale 5/13; show 11/9)
Wednesday May 20
Cap off this hot mess of a Survivor season with some friends!
All three floors of DC9 will be playing the live Survivor finale. Watch to make sure Flopathon and flopjoe don’t win! (7pm)
Did “Night At The Museum” pass the Bechtel test?
Well, this night would! It’s after hours at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and inspired by Shah Garg Collection. Dress in your boldest look and join for a night of food, drink, stick-and-poke tattoos, dancing, and more! (5:30pm)
Also || bike ride of silence, spring garden party at Tudor Place, popstar playbook dc, interfaith couples workshop, burlesque benefit, work out in Milian Park, outside film in NoMa: Goonies, farmer’s market at common good city farm, under 3 DC rally
Thursday May 21
Do doo dooo, do do dooo, do doo doo dodododoo doo doo doooo do do dooo do do dooooooooo
Rocky is playing in Adams Morgan for their outdoor movie night! Bring your chair, blanket, maybe takeout from one of the local restaurants offering deals… and enjoy “Rocky” on the big screen! (after sunset, ~8:20)
We’re up all night to make lattes
Up your at home espresso game: Doubles’ Coffee Director Sam teaches you how to steam milk and make your own gorgeous latte art. (6pm)
Also || JAM the revue, book club: KIN, Here & Now: A Phone-Free Experience, art talk at NMAI: Water's Edge, art talk at NGA: Victoria Sambunaris, ward 1 mutual aid, comedy on Georgia Ave,
Friday May 22
Social Change 🤝 Comedy
Apply for the Comedy Catalyst Program. A 5-233k training program that teaches folks how to blend humor and advocacy. Soon you’ll be just like Ava in “Hacks!” (Apps due by midnight)
Generate your perfect night
Learn from some of the best: join three acclaimed Irish writers for a generative workshop & collab between Banshee Press and DC Writers’ Salon. (6pm)
Also || dmv rap at pocket, queer magic dance party at black cat, tunes: Ritmo Enfermedad, night of club, bass, house, & techno, tunes: Robber Robber, intro to rug tufting, read the room poetry series, Bruce Lee night ft. book talk (Water Mirror Echo) & film (The Big Boss), memorial day weekend yoga retreat, race in america panel
Saturday May 23
Not to be overshadowed
Komorebi is the Japanese concept of dappled light filtering through leaves. Captures this beautiful quality as seen in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood at this workshop on painting plant shadows (hosted by one of 730DC’s own writers!). (11:30am)
It feels right
It feels right to see Femi and the Foundation, a DC-based funk rock/hip-hop group play their new EP Feeling Right at DC9 with fellow local fav Rock Creek Kings. It feels right. (7:30pm)
Also || walking whiskey tour in mt. pleasant, alice in wonderland burlesque, heaux in wonderland, tunes at rhizome, honoring Indigenous service members, bowl arts workshop at Kreeger, meditation in the galleries, tunes: Lesson Zero, MTP block fest , natl tap dance day, NIH Community Chorus, volunteer to place 200k flowers at Arlington National Cemetery, 3D mapping to rewild a vacant lot, performance art about ice, documentary about 1999 protest against WTO conference
Sunday May 24
You may be flexible, but JLG’s morals aren’t
Yogis for Janeese is holding a fundraiser, combined with a gentle yoga session, in Petworth. Always good to see people using what they have to reach the public. (9am)
Orchestra, but chill
Where else but Rhizome would be hosting this awesome bespoke Orchestra, it’s part jam sesh, part symphony, part meditation. Sit, or stroll around, while you listen to Regenerate, a piece inspired by summer rain storms. (7:30pm)
Also || live karaoke at pocket, Taste of History, trapp laughsss, tunes: Dino Gala / Ajola / Two Thumbs Down, film screening: Calls From Home, film: Funny Face, free outdoor yoga, Paul Thurston 5k (signup ends 5/23 @ 8pm), sunday stories rooftop party
Monday May 25
Got junk in the trunk?
Ticket stubs, doodles by your friend, half of a sticker you split with a friend; it’s all worth remembering! District Riso shows you how to collage your scraps into stories at this junk journaling sesh. (5pm)
Punk for the summer
An additional day in your weekend means an additional day to rage. Stop by Rhizome to soak up some NC garage punk, MD fastcore, DC hardcore, and DC punk. (7:45pm)
Also || jazz vocals: Barry Moton, moony album 2 listening party, christian speed dating, support group for caregivers of trans youth, runway of the world, summer rooftop party ft. rnb & afrobeats, memorial day parade and festival, crochet club, red spike and blue
Tuesday May 26
Get your MBA in funny business
Are you down to clown? An aspiring clown teaches you about the history of clowning, its different schools, and helps you adopt your very own balloon animal. (6:30pm)
Or unleash your inner fool
In tarot, it’s good to be a fool. Learn more about the first major arcana of the deck and make your own version of the card. (6:30pm)
Also || experimental introduction to Judaism, sax et al at rhizome, trans night @ aya, analog night @ the portrait gallery: origami bouquets, book talk: Poverty Abolitionists, profs & pints: artemis II & beyond, birdwatching playdate, learn to read to a dog, learn to make jiaozi (Chinese dumplings), jazz sax: Dee Lucas, tunes: Jason Mraz, tunes: Steve Earle, local book launch: 111 Places for Kids in Washington by Austin Graff, book talk: It Happened One Murder
MAY
5/27: tunes at rhizome, Crisis of the Common Good, work out in Milian Park, outside film in NoMa: National Treasure, farmer’s market at common good city farm, eunoia screening 3 features, Wharf movie night: EEAAO
5/28: advocacy in action, outside movie night in AdMo: East Side Sushi, Asian and Pacific Islander Poetry, book talk: An Inconvenient Widow, mothlight at the pocket, Capital J Mainstage talk: David Wallace Wells
5/29: punk benefit at black cat, pottery workshop, WPA children of the gospel choir, The North Country single release + Dylan Rockwell, Kinda Evil, tunes at pocket, comedy in arlington, comedy & hookah
5/30: accessory swap, improv at WIT, tunes at Pocket, tunes at rhizome, film workshop at rhizome, DC Bird Alliance Raptor Event, art talk at Kreeger, Miracle Spring Recital, tree tour in marvin gaye park!
5/31: Act of Serviceberry Day, Washington Men's Camerata, bouquet crafting workshop, big cake exchange, tunes at pocket, pigment workshop, art talk: Mining and American Photography, Church of Two Worlds
JUNE
6/1: tunes at rhizome, Horror as Queer
6/2: Inside the World Cup
6/3: tunes: Andrew Bird (with national philharmonic), 1960s comedy at Tudor Place, tunes: Penanggalan / Crows Foot, Dr. Jill Biden at 6th&I, outside film in NoMa: Night at the Museum, Wharf movie night: Shrek 2, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga on the farm, book talk: 111 Places for Kids in Washington by Austin Graff
6/4: tunes: Andrew Bird (with national philharmonic), outside movie night in AdMo: Hamilton (sing along), Precarious: A comedy at Mosaic Theater, pride at phillips collection, comedy at Mosaic: Precarious, Profs & Pints: Understanding Honor Violence, book talk: The Bear and the Nightingale
6/5: 1960s comedy night at Tudor Place, pottery workshop, movie double feature: To Wong Foo & Mamma Mia, fishing school, pride shabbat at 6th & I, trivia on the farm, Drawn From Life: Microbes, Art, and the Story of Science, Taste of America
6/6: guided garden tour at Tudor Place, weekend weeders at Tudor Place, beer bourbon and bbq fest, alt pop at the pocket, flea market at library, pottery class: coil building, opening night: The Play That Goes Wrong, block party with NGA, jazz in the parks, Song of Sakuntala, picnic day in the sculpture garden, yappy hour, rhizome screening: Outside Time
6/7: elevation yoga, words from birds, yoga + potluck, crochet 101, bouquet crafting on the farm, Cleveland Park Day, Words from Birds, puzzle swap
6/8: tunes at rhizome, book talk: Courtney Maum
6/9: tunes: Michael Foster's Ghost
6/10: outside film in NoMa: Princess Bride, Wharf movie night: Hairspray, farmer’s market at common good city farm, improvised music at rhizome, improvised tunes at rhizome
6/11: tunes: Cécile McLorin Salvant: Book of Ayres, Sitar Arts Center Family Night, grammy-winning artist at WPA, game night at MLK Library, DC/DOX, Advice from Your Favorite Guy Friend, comedy and magic: Bess Kalb, meetcute comedy, Miró art at Kreeger, book talk: Tom Lin, laughing leaves at the funny farm
6/12: movie double feature: Loving & Birdcage, happy hour at the parks
6/13: Sing Democracy 250, R&B and picnic festival
6/14: podcast recording: MS NOW, book talk: How We See It, audience talk back at Keegan, bee the change, tunes at rhizome, indigo and shibori 101
6/15: book talk: Dearly Departed
6/16: Lisa See at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center
6/17: Wharf movie night: Sinners, farmer’s market at common good city farm, student night at Keegan, humanities lab: imagining shakespeare
6/18: outside movie night in AdMo: MILK, silvervox: film and music festival
6/19: movie double feature: Mufasa & Wicked
6/20: curator talk at NMAI, pride clothing swap, FOR 2026, pride mini ball at the pocket
6/21: dad noise at rhizome, Duanwu DIY at Rhizome, yacht race
6/23: local singer-songwriter at Rhizome, LBGTQuiz comedy
6/24: farmer’s market at common good city farm
6/25: outside movie night in AdMo: Kangaroo, summer harvest dinner, single release: Foot Traffic, book talk: United States of Rejection
6/26: movie double feature: Little Mermaid & Barbie, book talk: Scandal of the Summer
6/27: local tunes: Spark Isle Spark Isle, tunes at rhizome, yoga & tarot workshop
6/28: dc makers club, sacred texts at rhizome
JULY
7/1: Wharf movie night: National Treasure 2,farmer’s market at common good city farm
7/8: Wharf movie night: Hamilton, farmer’s market at common good city farm
7/11: tunes at rhizome, heroic measures: a rhizome LARP, yacht rock at the pocket, jazz in the parks
7/14: How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World
7/15: Wharf movie night: League of Their Own, farmer’s market at common good city farm, hardcore at rhizome
7/17: 80s happy hour
7/19: local tunes at Pocket
7/22: Wharf movie night: Catch Me If You Can, farmer’s market at common good city farm
7/25: Cafe Love on the Clock
7/27: Colson Whitehead at 6th & I
7/29: Wharf movie night: Apollo 13, farmer’s market at common good city farm
AUGUST
8/1: Qigong community workshop
8/5: Wharf movie night: Roman Holiday, farmer’s market at common good city farm
8/12: Wharf movie night: 10 Things I Hate About You, farmer’s market at common good city farm
8/14: local tunes at DC9
8/15: energizers speaker ball, panda fest
8/19: Wharf movie night: F1, farmer’s market at common good city farm
8/22: jazz in the parks
8/26: Wharf movie night: Project Hail Mary, farmer’s market at common good city farm
SEPTEMBER
9/2: Wharf movie night: When Harry Met Sally & First Wives Club, farmer’s market at common good city farm
9/18: caribbean happy hour
9/26: jazz in the parks
OCTOBER
10/8: cookbook talk at 6th&I
10/15: comedy at Sixth & I
10/16: parks line dancing
