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community week (10/14-21), tunes: Rebecca Black (10/15), JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9), Ilana Glazer (11/20), tunes: Victoria Monét (11/27)

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Wednesday October 7

Do you have a dream of buying a house with your friends and making art?

So did three women artists in the 1950s who made their far-fetched dream a reality. NMWA is screening Artists in Residence, followed by a cocktail hour and Q&A with the director. The film interviews the artists and their grown children, exploring the emotional complexities of being an artist and parent. (6:30pm)

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Seize the means of projection

Dive deep into craigslist missed connections at Marx Cafe’s powerpoint night. Maybe you’ll catch someone’s eye, and there’s a smile, and you’ll want to say something, but then they’ll leave early, and you’ll have nowhere to turn for answers but the internet. (7pm)

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Also || michael douglas at 6th & I, crafting the monochrome, dress for success DC, book talk: A Pinch of Magic, lunch at farragut sq, bartending takeover fundraiser, art of adventure, NW trash club, movie: Can You Stand The Rain (+ director talk), self-guided art at Living Room, documentary: The Art of Adventure, book talk: Roselyn Clark, Caps home opener!, new diary unlocked: Jervis McEntee talk at NGA

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Thursday October 8

From the frat house to the white house: No more sexual violence

Join the organizers of the Women’s March for a national day of action and protest against sexual violence. Protest meets near the Washington Monument. (6pm)

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Diary of a hardcore kid

Steve Niles played bass in the punk band Gray Matter, and now he’s turned the band’s story into a graphic memoir. At MLK Library, they’re discussing Take it Back, a story of friendship, anxiety, and coming up in the punk scene. Plus multiple members of the band will make a cameo to sign copies. (6pm)

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Also || cookbook talk at 6th&I, Coco Smith at Rhizome, art: Change Ringing, KINDA EVIL at Pie Shop, a night on the farm, turn hard into humor, tunes: El Colmo at Comet Ping Pong, talk on Black women and Shakespeare, fall back concert series, The 51st’s 2nd bday + print issue release, tunes: El Colmo, Soroche, Sex Faces, cheap beer and good comedy, patched hat class, skaaaa night at Wonderland, new juice bar just dropped, abstract art exhibit, ahs watch party

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Friday October 9

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What a way to make a lanyard

Craft night is meeting 9 to 5, the ‘80s classic where Dolly Parton and her two coworkers tie up their horrible boss and run the company better than he ever could. You’ll watch the movie, you’ll make something crafty, maybe you’ll leave a little radicalized. (7pm)

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BYOCPABYOB

Bring your own craft project and bring your own beer. Maybe you can get a head start on your craft work before attending the aforementioned Dolly Parton craft and movie night. Surely, you couldn’t fit two craft nights into one evening… that would be so crazy… unless? (5pm)

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Also || local tunes: Eliza Tebo w/ Integriti Reeves + Melanie McDowell, anti-capitalist coworking club, local noise at rhizome, author talk: find me where it ends, local tunes: emotional world, Michael Kosta at Howard Theatre, tween bike ride, from here(ish) comedy, collage night, tunes: Tliza Tebo w/ Integriti Reeves, Inner Loop Author’s Corner w/ Lenna Jawdat, junk journaling, friday night skate

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Saturday October 10

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Hex and the city

Ride your broom from bar to bar this weekend to sweep the street on 11th NW. Spooky vendors, tarot and astrology readings, and Halloween decor galore. Witchy costumes not required, but encouraged! (11am)

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Ever look at Dupont houses and think, ‘I wish I could afford that…’?

People in the past did, too. Snoop outside DC’s gilded-age mansions and learn why Mass Ave was the “most fashionable” address in the city in the late 1800s. (2pm)

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Music, comedy, dance, etc: hip hop: EPIK HIGH, screening: Primary, dance: stories that linger, benefit show for immigrants at Galactic Panther, Latinx Movement Festival, Soroche block party at Lamont Plaza, comedy show at someone’s home, pride night Operatico-Politco-Buffo-Satirico… MAKAdo

Art, etc: Painting in the Kreeger Sculpture Garden, all day art at living room, forget why poetry, Swiss Embassy x Opening Art Reception

Get outside: 5K/10K Pumpkin Pacer at Rock Creek Park, Black Georgetown walking tour

Learning and stuff that feels similar: rhizome writers retreat, risograph workshop, tour leading to the War of 1812, family day at house of sweden, plot twist: the villain is straight, Chelsea Wolfe at 6th&I, human design in dc: authority types, dupont book swap

Food and shopping: petworth food tour, good booty flea market, koreatown food tour

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Sunday October 11

Oedipus in Seattle (in DC)

Sleepless in Seattle meets Oedipus. If that isn’t enough for you, here’s more: Each night, new actors who haven’t read the script before receive live instruction through headphones. Equal parts improv, rom-com, and “moving philosophical experience.” (7pm)

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Pull up because the whole pamilya is invited

Umpukan means “a casual gathering” in Tagalog, and this one celebrates Filipino History month. You can spend the afternoon eating well, listening to OPM, and probably lose multiple games of Filipino-style mahjong. (12pm)

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Also || moony w Wall Carpets, screening: If You Lived Here You Would Be Home Now, Raul Midón at Strathmore, Washington's spookiest days, jack-o-lantern workshop, Two Door Cinema Club, R&B club: protest music, alleys of dc walking tour, art in the park, georgetown canal day, calico fall festival

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Monday October 12

A 90-year-old and a 50-year-old walk into a bar…

… for their birthdays! Malcolm X Park is celebrating 90 years, and your local radio station WPFW 89.3 is in it’s 50th year (H-early-BD). Celebrate all afternoon with performances in the park (jazz, reggae, salsa, and go-go), plus talks, art, and documentary screenings across the street at Josephine Butler Parks Center. It’s all free & all DC! (12pm-6pm)

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Visit Indigenous sites across the DMV

You can listen to this podcast about the Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples, DC’s first inhabitants. Then go on a self-guided tour of multiple heritage sites and museums that honor them around the District. (All day)

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Also || the italian job, tunes at rhizome, profs & pints: Witches of Antiquity, trivia at dew drop inn, book talk: the italian job: a memoir of an american reporter in rome

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Tuesday October 13

Soooo… anyone swapping the original taylor swift CD that before the lyric change that says “you’re gay?”

Trading physical media like books and records, etc THEN making zines inspired by the museum’s gallery ALL AT the portrait gallery open after hours FOR FREE and it’s PHONE FREE so my screen time is lower this week!? Heck yes! (5-7pm)

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Ghosts, and murders, and punk! Oh my!

For hard core comic fans, to those who are graphic-novel curious, this new release described as a “punk rock mystery set in DC’s suburbs” is not one to miss. Head to People’s Books for a talk with acclaimed author Oliver Mertz. (6:30pm)

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Also || grief quiltmaking, tunes at rhizome, author talk: The Gilded Rose, profs & pints: Horror in the East, author talk: Rachel Kitch, low-stakes dance at living room, BlackDoctor film festival

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OCTOBER

10/14: tunes at rhizome, hair workshop for girldads, violinist Itzhak Perlman, singer-songwriter Taisha Estrada, podcast launch: loving abroad, community week (through 10/21), Man or Astro-Man with Light Beams

10/15: 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

10/16: 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

10/17: local hip-hop: DFG Ju w/ Tolento Jones, screening: Maysles Films Inc., Tregaron Unplugged, textiles 101, rhythmic tales at rhizome, crochet 101, cluelesque: musical muder mystery burlesque, To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare, chevy chase art walk, bff ben franklin, yoga @ the sculpture garden, virginialicious walking food tour, jazz at kreeger, family day at kingman island, spooky town books, scored movie: the matrix,