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my body my festival w/ Yaya Bey & Nourished by Time (5/28), 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 13
See Laura Dern in her iconic fit
It’s Jurassic Park outside on the big screen. Bring your chair, blanket, and head to Alethia Tanner Park in NoMa for this legendary film. (7:30ish)
The local-ist of local farmers market
Common Good City Farm in Le Droit Park is hosting a weekly Wednesday farmer’s market. Pay what you can for local produce grown on the farm and from local sellers. (3:30-6:30pm)
Also || iona senior services celebration, work out in Milian Park, Farragut Fun Days (music, games, pets), evening with casey trees, African American Women and Style, Damario Solomon-Simmons Discusses Redeem a Nation, sound healing meditation
Thursday May 14
What to do if you’re too shy…
Everyone tells you to network, but what if you’re too anxious? This writer has definitely faced that hurdle (let’s just say the baton did not get passed). Join a training to learn how to overcome butterflies and get some practice in doing better (6pm)
Discover your new fav band!
Frail Talk is a soft indie-folk band with notes of Sufjan Stevens. Their music is silly, but beautiful and a joy to see live. Catch them playing “squiggly music for squiggly people” at the Fridge. (7pm)
Also || standing with immigrants, tunes at rhizome, comedy in takoma, game night at DCPL, when washington burned, funny farm, blue note burlesque, Annual Taste of the Garden, producers open mic at The Pocket, book club: What is Internet, story time: story district: Freaks and Geeks, spring night market, D.C. delegate to congress debate, writing circle at the living room, comedy lounge, dc statehood & louisiana v. callais
Friday May 15
Get in loser, we’re biking to work
It’s Bike to Work Day! Find your local pit stop (mine always has free coffee, massages, and more!) and then bike on down to work. (all day)
Make your kid the most dramatic on the playground…
… and take them to “Ulysses” the play! This 45-minute production combines live performance, intricate paper design, an original score and Joyce’s odyssey, this is theatre enjoyable for everyone. (7:30pm)
Also || local experimental rock at rhizome, rock raise, learn to play frisbee, give pottery a try, tunes: Cash on the Nail, book talk: Anna Badkhen, tunes: HIGH-BRID, Warrior Sled Hockey Tournament, Madams of DC walking tour
Saturday May 16
Street yo self
If you can believe, there’s more untapped yards in the city for you to scavenge. Petworth and Cap Hill host their own yard sale extravaganzas. See what people are selling and when, respectively. (9am-4pm)
Or see how the streets have changed
Explore H Street corridor with Justice Walks DC and learn how it became what it is today, through gentrification, development, and displacement. (10am)
Get outside: Anacostia River Festival, yoga in the sculpture garden, 11-mile guided hike, Wangari Gardens Spring Festival
Tunes n’ art n’ more: tunes at pocket, Julia Hamos (piano) at WPA, jazz at kreeger, new art at Gallery Neptune & Brown, tunes at ernie’s place, Ballads of Earth and Ore, 800 pages of Ulysses into a 45-min play
Buy something nice!: vintage day at femme fatale, spring pottery sale
Learn something: workshop: ode to the gardens, The Search for Self in the Diaspora: An Evening with Bsrat Mezghebe, book launch: talking classics, guided wine and charcuterie experience
Other highlights: Hawaiian celebration at NMAI, Warrior Sled Hockey Tournament, food bank for sports equipment, (re)wild west desert plant sale, doll making at the living room, Rally: Nakba Day
Sunday May 17
Get local mac n’ cheese, pupusas, dosas, cotton candy and more!
Crossroads provides affordable kitchen space and free, bilingual business support to equip food entrepreneurs in DC. Join them as they host a food fair in Takoma Park with food and more from 15+ of their local kitchen alumni. Yum! (10am-2pm)
Why be out of pocket when you can be in Pocket?
For rock music with heavy riffs, the musically unexpected, and danceable beats, this trio of bands has you covered. (8pm)
Also || walking tour along Penn Ave, birdhouse workshop, cathedral choral society, doc screening of FIFA 1995 World Cup, profs & pints in VA talking AI and thinking, Warrior Sled Hockey Tournament, the city speaks: D.C. native poetry performance, arab american festival (maysoon zayid, yasmin elhady, and more!), community altar building, r&b club: janet jackson, history of jewish washington walking tour, museum activity: herb bundles workshop, youth art gallery opening
Monday May 18
Learn more about co-ops beyond that one “Broad City” episode
Rhizome is hosting their co-op film fest, ($5 includes a drink and popcorn!) Watch and discuss “We The Owners” a documentary capturing stories from the founders and employees of three employee-owned businesses. (7pm)
I liiiiive for live cooking
The only thing harder than grocery shopping on an empty stomach is watching three of DC’s most talented chefs cook in front of you while waiting for a taste. Celebrate Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month doing just that with RASA’s Rahul Vinod, Lucky Danger’s Tim Ma, and Toimoi Bakery’s Shurou Pu. (6pm)
Also || book talk: Tears From the Mother of the Sun, DC profs & pints on AI and thinking, Writing the Future of Journalism in DC, book talk: Carryout, largest live band open mic in dc, improv: Red Grant, book talk: The Comeback Era, tunes: Between the Buried and Me
Tuesday May 19
O.B. Hardison Poetry Series Finale Reading
Poet Laureate of Jamaica Kwame Davis reads select pieces from his body of work. (7:30pm)
Let’s talk art
As part of the Hirshhorn’s 2026 distinguished artist series, internationally acclaimed sculptor Thomas Houseago joins curator Anne Reeve to talk about his creative practice, influences, and vision, as well as his breathtaking sculpture Minotaur. (6:30pm)
Also || tunes at Pie Shop, poetry series finale at folger, local rock: Knave, women-led rock bands at Songbyrd, virtual panel: book banning, film at suns: Holy Trinity, tunes: Drayton Farley, book talk: Score, tunes: Emerson Woolf & the Wishbones, on stage: The Great Gatsby (musical), tunes: Billy Childs Trio, tunes: The Black Angels, on stage: LOST MY WAY, poetic selfies
MAY
5/20: 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, nights at NMWA
5/21: JAM the revue, book club: KIN, outside movie night in AdMo: Rocky, Here & Now: A Phone-Free Experience, art talk at NMAI: Water's Edge, art talk at NGA: Victoria Sambunaris, ward 1 mutual aid
5/22: doom and dinos, dmv rap at pocket, queer magic dance party at black cat
5/23: natural dye workshop, walking whiskey tour in mt. pleasant, alice in wonderland burlesque, heaux in wonderland, tunes at rhizome, tunes: femi and the foundation + rock creek kings, honoring Indigenous service members, bowl arts workshop at Kreeger, meditation in the galleries, tunes: Lesson Zero, painting plant shadows (with one of 730’s writers!), MTP block fest , natl tap dance day, NIH Community Chorus
5/24: live karaoke at pocket, yogis for Janeese, Taste of History, trapp laughsss
5/25: punk at rhizome
5/26: experimental introduction to Judaism, sax et al at rhizome, collage workshop
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
5/28: advocacy in action, outside movie night in AdMo: East Side Sushi, Asian and Pacific Islander Poetry
5/27: Wharf movie night: EEAAO
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
5/30: accessory swap, improv at WIT, tunes at Pocket, tunes at rhizome, film workshop at rhizome
5/31: Act of Serviceberry Day, Washington Men's Camerata, bouquet crafting workshop, big cake exchange, tunes at pocket, pigment workshop
JUNE
6/1: tunes at rhizome
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
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
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
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
6/7: elevation yoga, words from birds, yoga + potluck, crochet 101
6/8: tunes at rhizome
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
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
6/12: movie double feature: Loving & Birdcage
6/13: Sing Democracy 250
6/14: podcast recording: MS NOW, book talk: How We See It, audience talk back at Keegan
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
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
6/21: dad noise at rhizome, Duanwu DIY at Rhizome, yacht race
6/23: local singer-songwriter at Rhizome
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
6/26: movie double feature: Little Mermaid & Barbie
6/27: local tunes: Spark Isle Spark Isle, tunes at rhizome, yoga & tarot workshop
6/28: dc makers club
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
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
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
8/5: 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
8/19: Wharf movie night: F1, farmer’s market at common good city farm
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
OCTOBER
10/8: cookbook talk at 6th&I
10/15: comedy at Sixth & I
