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On sale now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out:
JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9), Pottery House temporarily reopening for holiday market (11/12-12/23), Ilana Glazer (11/20), tunes: Victoria Monét (11/27)
Wednesday October 14
This is definitely how a horror movie starts
Enjoy ghost stories read by local authors in the Rock Creek Cemetery. Bring your blanket, a flashlight, and maybe a wooden stake to ward off a vampire? (kids hour at 6pm, adult hour at 7pm)
Move over Salem, we burned witches too!
Head to People’s Books in Tacoma to hear author Trish Hoffman discuss her book Maryland Witches, a collection of stories about witchcraft in MD from colonial times to present day. (6pm)
Also || tunes at rhizome, hair workshop for girldads (sold out), violinist Itzhak Perlman, singer-songwriter Taisha Estrada, podcast launch: loving abroad, community week (through 10/21), Man or Astro-Man with Light Beams, Dead Inside at Wooly Mammoth, american art talk at NGA, skip the small talk, eisenhower birthday concert, mending at the living room, soundbath and breathwork, sake and izakaya, deep breathing workshop, play mahjong, yoga in georgetown, spanish club for socialists, dope calisthenics
Thursday October 15
The neighbors are talking
Homes Not Borders amplifies the voices of people with refugee and forced-migration backgrounds recounting unforgettable moments from their lives – funny, moving, and surprising. Go early to support the refugee artisans selling their work, then patronize the open bar like a good neighbor. (6:30pm)
Get out the vote, get in the pit
You’re stressed about the midterms and so are these three DMV punk bands. Come scream about it, and then make sure you’re registered to vote. Concert proceeds are going to HeadCount, a group that turns fans into voters. (8pm)
Also || print editions of the 51st, comedy at Sixth & I, local tunes: Boat Burning, virtual creative writing workshop, poiseis quartet, circus: gravity & other myths, book talk: Back Where We Started, what is happening w/ political art, art: out of bounds, comedy picnic, author talk: Home for the Homicides, library writing group, tunes: Rebecca Black, family friendly orchestra at miracle theatre, art: peace in broken pieces, american contemporary classical orchestra, The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary, raíces: a spanglish open mic, la petite swap, certified fresh stand-up, oxtail social, pro-housing HH
Friday October 16
DAN! They’re speaking to you.
Yes, Dan. Danny and Danielle, too. They know you’re reading this. It’s time to congregate. Dan’s cafe. (7pm)
Early for Halloween or extra early for Christmas
You can buy gifts at the mall before anything goes on holiday sale, too. Bring a comfy Hot Topic sweater for this classic emo Tim Burton screening. (5:30pm)
Also || parks line dancing, Black Women and Shakespeare, finding awe at NGA, anti-capitalist coworking club, 10 years of building solidarity, young professionals night at the folk-punk musical, Peabody’s American Music Festival, the wedding funeral, open mic at theatre lab, tunes: Current Blue, open craft night, DC movie clubs hosts the shining at Nat Geo Museum, madams of dc tour, behind the bar for a cause
Saturday October 17
Mega yard sale!
What else is there to say? Follow the digital map of all the participating houses across Capitol Hill. Sift through picture frames and grandma shoes to your heart’s content. (9am)
UGHHHHH AHHHHHHHGHHGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
STRANGERS SCREAM TOGETHER ON THE NATIONAL MALL FOR FIVE SECONDS AND THEN EVERYONE GOES HOME AND MAYBE FEELS A BIT BETTER. (5:45pm)
Get outside: yoga @ the sculpture garden, chevy chase art walk, Tregaron Unplugged,meet cute bordain style picnic at malcolm X, Fall Fest at Franciscan Monastery Garden
Tunes, art, etc: local hip-hop: DFG Ju w/ Tolento Jones, jazz at kreeger, rhythmic tales at rhizome, cluelesque: musical muder mystery burlesque, scored movie: the matrix,
Yum! virginialicious walking food tour,
Learn something: screening: Maysles Films Inc., To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, nerd nite at dc9, The Harlem Renaissance in DC
Make something: textiles 101, crochet 101, craft fundraiser, clay workshop for gaza
Family events: little makers at because science, bff ben franklin, the big build at natl. building museum, family day at kingman island,
Other highlights: spooky town books, creepypasties, peoplecon game market, district hunt
Sunday October 18
It’s not a phase, it’s 19th century American literature
Is it just me, or was Poe basically one of the original emo kids? In this edition of Profs & Pints, take a walk through his deepest darkest works over a nightcap. (5pm)
Your gluten-free friend’s worst nightmare
Learn all about the history and industry of grain processing in DC. Join a cooking workshop and bring some local flour home to start your sourdough journey (again). (10:30am)
Also || Simone Dinnerstein at WPA, Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital, jazz piano: Chucho Valdés, Wu Fei at Strathmore, dc bald meetup, maria grand quartet, study hall at rhizome, tea drying and blending workshop, music improv with WIT, tarot at the living room, american roots concert series, bald meet-up, petworth yard sale, spies in georgetown, ANC canvassing, dc community wealth builders
Monday October 19
We <3 community
It’s community week in DC with events all over the DMV helping you find community. Kickstart the week with a showing of “Join or Die,” an Emmy-winning documentary that shows why social clubs are more important than ever. (3:30pm)
Once I make my move, then you’re free to check the king!
Learn what that’s all about at Chess Club at the Cleveland Park Library. All levels welcome, plus there’ll be an instructor from the US Chess Center to help you level up. (5:30pm)
Also || recording This Day at Howard Theatre, UMD at Rhizome, medieval monsters, byo pumpkin carving, the evil laugh contest continues, kids: touch a fire truck, book club: transient worlds
Tuesday October 20
The revolution will be harmonized
The Atlas is hosting a night featuring showtunes of protest and defiance. Be in the room where it happens: Numbers from Hamilton, Les Mis, and more. (7:30pm)
Let there be cake!
Love the Great British Bakeoff, but feel sad just watching it alone? Watch the latest episode at Duke’s in Dupont. Cake welcome! (6pm)
Also || cocktails for a cause, O.B. Hardison Reading with Cornelius Eady, revisioning internal rhetoric, jason calhoun at rhizome, inner loop monthly reading, untrue blue, diy terror-ariums
OCTOBER
10/21: Raphael Rogiński at Rhizome, author talk: Jenifer Shoop, mahjong at the stacks, the images that made us, breath work and sound bath
10/22: local tunes: Theron William, midnight tea at strathmore (night 1), subjective map making, tunes at rhizome, Visual Feast artist talk, DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, library writing group, book talk: demystifying disability, fall harvest fest at fish shop
10/23: beatbox battle, give a shuck, anti-capitalist coworking club, midnight tea at strathmore (night 2), basement cabaret, trivia on the farm, mount pleasant hamlet, tarot: seven readings, comedy: Carson Olshansky, screening: Clue (1985)
10/24: tunes at rhizome, book talk: art & water, linocut workshop, Niladri Kumaar at WPA, eye on the prize at NGA, mindfulness and sketching in the garden, Sphinx Virtosi & J'Nai Bridges, walking tour of penn quarter, slut slam dc, halloween bike ride, outdoor screening: Hocus Pocus, walking korean food tour, coven: halloween dance party, spooky science festival, disco at wunder garten, community safety fair, fiddle band Laura and the Lava Lamps, family friendly halloween, community health fair, walking tour of old town, turnstile at the washington monument
10/25: parks flea market, screening toni cade bamabra school of organizing, walking tour of walter reed, pottery sale at eastern market, choral arts performs caroline shaw, a guide to witches, unshushed film fest, grow ur own mushrooms, find your writing group, in search of home, women writers anthology panel, death cafe, uncork for a cause, hearts on the table, craft supply swap
10/26: alton brown at strathmore, profs & pints: the haunted house, local tunes at rhizome
10/27: profs & pints: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, humanities lab: to hear her speak, 17th annual high heel race, the lit show at keegan, digging up vampires, skip the small talk, for you film nerds, a screening of cabinet of dr caligari
10/28: Silas House at East City, tunes at rhizome, women in power & poetry, mahjong at the stacks
10/29: afro-cuban all stars at strathmore, The Renaissance of U, book launch: Stubborn Roots, library writing group, secrets of the seance society, halloween at rhizome with local rap: Wint, beetlemania
10/30: anti-capitalist coworking club, night of the living SHRED, Batik Showcase at GWU, crafting at Because Science, cleveland park halloween bar crawl, tunes at rhizome
10/31: screening: Titicut Follies and A Couple, halloween showcase: fight night live, screening with orchestra: coco, meditation in the galleries, tour of rock creek cemetery, miss adams pageant, halloween double feature: rocky horror + drag show, dupont circle fall festival, halloween vinyls and costume party
NOVEMBER
11/1: Mary in Ecstasy at NGA, maryna krut at strathmore, screening with orchestra: coco, dmv-based noise, local tunes: restives, film screening: Powwow People, GOTV at Rhizome
11/2: tunes: Frank Maza, Cooperative Movement Teach-in, dia de muertos candlelight ceremony
11/3: benefit show: The Dream Eaters
11/4: sound at rhizome, alex edelman at strathmore
11/5: Tapestry Vocal Ensemble at Strathmore, alex edelman at strathmore, the witness tree, the crooked witness, tunes at pocket: dusty rug
11/6: OFFSITE duo at rhizome, finding awe at NGA, the freelance table, book talk: Clear Water
11/7: nervous verbs, local tunes: Boilersuit, film screening of Mary Oliver, art: i come from the fields, icelandic christmas market, 50th anniversary science cafe @ natl. arboretum, riot grrrl doc
11/8: finding awe at NGA, making art through grief, las micas at strathmore, tour of rock creek park
11/9: Rick Steves at Sixth & I, book talk: spy school, food book talk: The Lotus Blooms Twice
11/10: Julia Jacklin, american ballet theatre, earth's greatest enemy, new orthodox at rhizome, skip the small talk
11/12: makers holiday market, turn hard into humor workshop, burlesque piano bar
11/13: finding awe at NGA, comedy: love isn't blind, makers market, indie showcase: 4la7la
11/14: Red Brick Weekend, comedy for a cause, finding awe at NGA, Ellington Carthan at Strathmore, minsoo sohn at WPA
11/15: monet: life in letters, finding awe at NGA, old saw at rhizome, death cafe, DMV tunes: Absent Habits
11/16: women writers anthology reading, talk and cookie tasting at 6th&I
11/17: tunes: big head todd and the monsters, salsa at the portrait gallery, contemporary folk at rhizome, aga khan master musicians
11/18: tunes: frances of delirium, local architecture, assemblage poetrics
11/19: virtual creative writing workshop, Amarilis Dueñas Castán at Kreeger, tunes: Sirintip, teen publishing project, doc premiere: Creating While Black
11/20: tunes at rhizome, winter wonderland at nats park
11/21: try writing a song, metal showcase at the pocket, tunes at strathmore, tour of march on washington, punk rock flea market
11/22: Germán López at Strathmore
11/23: latin dance competition
11/27: washington wilderness hike
11/28: echoes of doubt at rhizome, tunes: Emmett & the Dead Ends, smut slam
11/29: parks flea market, film screening: Powwow People, embodied thanksgiving decompression
DECEMBER
12/1: celtic christmas carols, collage at the portrait gallery
12/2: skip the small talk
12/3: voctave a cappella christmas carols
12/4: HUMP! Film Festival, finding awe at NGA
12/5: HUMP! Film Festival, pas musique at rhizome, leslie odom jr at strathmore, local tunes: Bitter Stems, holiday walking tour
12/6: cookbook talk at 6th&I: Rebekah Lowin
12/8: hbd emily dickinson
12/9: sneak peak at folger's english christmas, jazz: Dave Koz
12/10: Andrew Yee and the Rothko String Quartet
12/11: English Christmas for the Ages, tunes at rhizome
12/12: finding awe at NGA, christmas carols, local tunes at strathmore, christmas with the camerata
12/13: Christmas with the Camerata (2/2), holiday walking tour
12/17: virtual creative writing workshop, Haley Heyndrickx at 6th&I
12/18: christmas jazz orchestra, local tunes: ammonite
12/19: tunes: ADRENALINE!
JANUARY 2027
1/24: dakhabrakha quartet from kyiv
1/26: music and poetry: a hard rain
FEBRUARY 2027
2/23: praise song for the body
MARCH 2027
3/2: hamlet at folger
3/4: access as revision
MAY 2027
