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🔮 see the future // consult the WEEKLY SCHEDULER online for more events

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

tunes: FKA twigs (3/18), new exhibitions at the Glenstone (through March), volunteer for 2026 Wammie Music Awards (happening 3/28), tunes: Light Beams (3/28), tunes: The Last Dinner Party (4/07), national cherry blossom festival parade (4/11), tunes: PinkPantheress (5/3 & 5/4), tunes: Courtney Barnett (5/10), Bike to Work Day (5/15), St. Vincent with the NSO at Wolf Trap (6/25), tunes: Robyn night 2 (9/9)

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Wednesday March 11

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Shakespeare class for adults!

Something that never fails to impress friends is sharing Shakespeare knowledge (eg, in Paddington 2, Hugh Grant’s character says “exit bear pursued by actor” in reference to Shakespeare’s famous line in Winter’s Tale, “exit actor pursued by a bear”). Impressed much? You too could impress friends by attending Folger’s two-week class on As You Like It! Learn from curators, see Folger’s Shakespeare collection, and see As You Like It live! (5:30-7pm)

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Are you a poet and didn’t even realize?

Think you can replace a word better than that? Award-winning poet Maria Fernanda leads a workshop where participants will select a word, follow its etymology, and then replace each root word with an original poetic line. Craft your own poetic Ship of Theseus! (6:30pm)

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Also || sustainable urbanization happy hour, tunes: Chris Hon, dc library poetry workshop w/ María Fernanda, book club: Race After Technology, comedy fundraiser for families affected by ICE, gogo rnb yoga flow, tunes: The Compozers, talk on gardens, photography, and preservation, how to pack a hiking backpack 101, tunes: Lights, capitalism and catholicism, intro to embroidery, Haraka Run & Walk Club, ward 3 dems for statehood

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Thursday March 12

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The making of the rose

The National Cathedral’s architecture is awe-inspiring, especially its west-facing “Creation” Rose window. Catch the premiere of The Creation Rose, a documentary that details how artist Rowan LeCompte and master craftsman Dieter Goldkuhle pulled together the over 10,500 piece window against all odds. (6:30pm)

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The quaking of the rose toy

It’s Women’s History Month! In addition to appreciating all the wonderful ladies that you know, join Story District for She Comes First. It’s a comedy night featuring bold, honest, and above all, funny, stories told by and about women. (7:30pm)

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Also || SPRUNG! comedy festival, author event: The Encore, tunes: Amythyst Kiah, comedy: GREEN CARD!, writing socially-oriented suspense, tunes: Mia Asano, tunes: The Summer Set, book talk: Red Scare, folger salon: Shakespeare & popular television, Miguel Trindade Deramo Transit & Housing Meet & Greet (rescheduled)

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Friday March 13

I recently got eliminated from my friend’s spelling bee trying to spell mayonnaise, I guess if I was a bigger fan of the band Mayonnaise I wouldn’t have lost

DC Pop Punk and post-punk revival band Mayonnaise is headlining at the Pocket. With songs like “Inside” (written about the people who live in your wall), Mayonnaise is described as music for fans of Modest Mouse. (7:30pm)

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But I’d still be screwed since the next word was amalgamation

As in AMALGAMATION festival, a Rhizome classic! This medley of the arts features 6 key elements — live sampling, live music, live art, a vendor marketplace, an artist panel, and food —and local producers will showcase tracks composed live at the event. (6pm)

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Also || national refugee shabbat dinner, battle of the bands fundraiser, passio at dupont underground, book event: Medium Rare, pink tie party, dance place, classical piano: prelude to spring, Friday the 13th COVEN yoga, femme fatale party, 00’s live band dance party, punk rock karaoke, holi celebration, comedy in arlington

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Saturday March 14

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They said would you like some Pie, I said yes I would, they forgot I majored in math, they wouldn’t have said it if they did… I said 3.1415926535897932384626433

It’s more impressive if you know I did that from memory and didn’t google. Anyway, it’s Pi Day!!!! Let’s celebrate DC! Slice & Pie on 14th street will be serving $3.14 slices of pizza (all day!), All Purpose will have $3.14 drafts, Elle will give out Pie to those who know Pi, and more! (all day)

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What if we kissed during the Just Dance “Rasputin” Dance

Reset (cozy, no phone hangout) is once again taking over Pikio Taco. Join for 90s and 2000s video games like Wii, Just Dance, Nintendo and more. Plus there will cards, board games, and more. (Saturday & Sunday 5-9pm)

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Also || Stand By Me 40 Year Anniversary, tunes: NIGHT HAWK, Free DC Southwest biz canvass, Free DC candidate forum, afternoon tea at Tudor Place, The Washington Chorus' final concert of the season, the science of blind wine tasting, pandoras boxx, Tunes at the Pocket: Sean Custer, the big draw, for the film studies majors, O Museum: Secret Gardens of Asia, family day at LOC, create your own map!, Dance Loft for kids, indigenous-made gucci dresses at the NMAI, film screening: Kindred Spirits, DC Queer Bike Ride, Black Georgetown walking tour

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Sunday March 15

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We come to this place

To walk the red carpet, have fun drinks, and cast an Oscar ballot. DC Movie Club presents their 3rd annual Academy Awards Watch Party. Dress code: Red carpet chic meets black tie aka that sparkly ensemble taking up space in the back of your closet. (5:30pm)

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Hard times require furious dancing (+ poetry)

Alice Walker’s poems over the course of a year cover sorrow and joy – global and personal. Seems appropriate for the time we’re in. Talk them over with a book club (3pm)

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Also || Transportation Community Town Hall, celtic myths, mushroom workshop, AMBIGUITY at multiple exposures gallery, Free DC orientation, 2026 mid-atlantic grain conference, dance: effervescence collective, brunch for women & community, women’s history tour, ceramic earring painting @ doubles, stamp carving and zine marking (for kids!), trans writing workshop, expats dinner theater at atlas, poetry book club, alleyway tour

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Monday March 16

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Watch a mystery movie

AMC is showing a mystery movie (rated R, run time 2 hrs 5 min) – show up and see what’s playing. If you like it, you’re welcome. If you hate it, caveat emptor. (7pm)

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2 shots of vodka, fast!

The DMV’s speediest bartenders don’t just spend their weekends turning out drinks at Madam’s or the Green Zone; they also train to be the best. See who’s at the top at Speed Rack Season 14, an all-femme high-speed bartending competition supporting those impacted by breast cancer. (5:15pm)

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Also || Free DC Ward 3 meeting, terrors of irish fairlylore, xoxo book club, soulful horns, tunes: Bone Bag / The M.F.C. / Powerband, collage making night, watch twin peaks on the big screen

Tuesday March 17

Bad Medicine grants your wish!

One of DC’s top sketch comedy group’s, Bad Medicine is performing “Wish World,” a brand new sketch show all set in one world where wishes are real… and many of them go wrong. (7:30pm)

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Frederick Douglass🤝 Irish Americans

Living in this city means stumbling across random secret histories that you had no idea about – like DC resident Frederick Douglass’s affinity for Ireland! Historian and author John Muller takes the Patty’s day stage to reveal how Douglass’s support for the Irish cause in related to his embrace of home rule. (8pm)

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Also || lecture on ireland's fight for freedom, analog night @ the portrait gallery, congressional football game for charity, line dancing + live country music, tunes: Solo5mon Gottfried, Jacob Sacks, & Connor Parks / José Luiz Martins Quartet, tunes: Bay Faction, st patricks day sustainability celebration

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MARCH

3/18: Flute Fest DC: Alex Hamburger Quartet / Samantha Kochis Quintet, tunes: Chris Hon, tunes: FKA twigs, horror book club, cocktails and tarot, book talk: The Complex, the irish & america's revolution, isabel coss at teresas table

3/19: tunes: Ravi Shankar Ensemble, book talk: The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War, ravi shankar ensemble, brew to the ppl, art talk on ceramics, yoga at stacks, chocolate tasting, burlesque + piano show, clay workshop, Y2K Hannah Montana party at HEIST

3/20: for women serving time, capital stonewall dems 50th anniversary, comedy + hookah, women's storytelling festival, polish film fest, comedy from here(ish), cupboards cabaret

3/21: tunes: Emmet Cohen, Washington Men's Camerata, seeding community at Common Good City Farm, in my mom era, healthy homes fair, flower potluck, play: The H Twins, unofficial late night, tunes at the pocket, opening ceremony of cherry blossom festival

3/21-22: meditation retreat, flowering 5k, national cherry blossom festival opening ceremony, cap hill chorale, intro to linocut, theater: H Twins

3/22: tunes: The Okee Dokee Brothers, candlemaking workshop, book swap, the power of folk horror, illusion of liberation

3/23: Greenland talk at Profs & Pints, new fiction book club, yoga for spring, digital device detox, book talk: The Second Death of Locke

3/24: tunes: Diana Krall, Cory Booker talks about his book Stand, book event: Indian Country, tarot workshop on grief, tunes at rhizome, scifi fantasy book club, profs & pints: sports betting, co-ops 101