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

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

celebrate 730 Day at the park with us! (7/26), fat swim pool party (7/30), Lord Huron (8/2), tunes: Foo Fighters & Mannequin Pussy (8/17), tunes: Kehlani (8/27), tunes: Robyn, night 2 (9/9), Thee Sacred Souls (9/17), all things go (9/25-927), Two Door Cinema Club (10/11), tunes: Rebecca Black (10/15), JPEGMAFIA (10/21), Beck (10/25), Dana and Alden (10/29), Slow Pulp (11/9)

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Wednesday July 22

You’re saying all my favorite words

Screenprinting? For free? In this economy? Come get anything! (yes anything!) screenprinted for free with a DC Statehood message at the Heurich House Museum... all while drinking local craft beer! (6pm)

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Floaties out for the DC Abortion Fund

You probably don't need convincing to hit up a pool party this summer, but here's a reason anyway. This one benefits DCAF! Sunshine, water, and a cause worth showing up for. (5:30pm)

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Also || Noah Kahan is sold out, so you can spend an arm and a leg on resale, or go see lovergirl at rhizome or a trio of local bands at the pocket (but also if you have an extra ticket email us bc my friend wants it), sundeck summer reads, Wharf movie night: Catch Me If You Can, farmer’s market at common good city farm, yoga at natl. Arboretum, finance workshop, First Allies: Polly Cooper and the Oneida Indian Nation, YIMBY happy hour, DC poetry scene documentary premiere

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Thursday July 23

Your paper plane is cute, but you can do better

Lucky for you, an origami artist wants to teach you how to fold real designs at the Museum of Illusions. All skill levels are welcome and your ticket gets you access to the museum before or after the lesson. (6:00pm)

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Yes to more night markets

You don’t have to wait 5-10 years for Cleveland Park to add shade or otherwise handle how hot the sidewalks get in the daytime. Just head over to the night market tonight to stroll through street vendors and shops as the sun goes down. (5-9pm)

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Also || Be the next Backrooms director, author talk: Come Undone, commit to connect, unplug at the playground, variety acts at blue note burlesque, intel talk at spy museum, tunes: CADENZA DUO, outdoor screening: Showing Up, gallery opening: where we once belonged, Washingtonian’s best of washington, tunes: Wunderhorse

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Friday July 24

Boooo, tomato, tomato

Comet Ping Pong is hosting Trashcan Cinema, a showing of 90 minutes of some of the worst film ever created. A comedian who's worked for Comedy Central and Adult Swim curated the whole mess. (7:30pm)

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Oh this old thing? This is just a portrait painted for me at a coffee hour

Allelo Coffee is hosting a free portrait drawing of you (and your friends)! Grab a coffee and sit down, and have your portrait drawn in real time. (9am-12pm)

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Also || folks its your last weekend to FRINGE (through the 26th), bootgaze at Pie Shop, you yes YOU can knit a sweater, Washington Improv Theatre show, friday night fishing!, tunes: Better Off Dead, tunes: Day We Ran

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Saturday July 25

Let’s go down to the tennis court

Join the crowds for day one of the Mubadala DC Open, the only combined men's and women's 500 tournament in the world (bit of a flex) and a Rock Creek fixture since 1969. This year's lineup as it stands is stacked with Frances Tiafoe, Trinity Rodman’s boyfriend, Nick Kyrgios, Jessica Pegula, and the illustrious Venus Williams.

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An event for everyone, except that uncle that always says “how do you get enough protein just eating tofu!?”

Tofu party at Malcolm X! Bring a vegan tofu dish, some tupperware to bring home some tofu, and get ready to tofu it up. (1pm)

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Also || OCCIPITAL Fashion Festival, maya delilah at atlantis, SubDistrick, hill family bike ride, scout out at the NMWA, sketch comedy: mothers pouch, boy meets pearl, smut slam, black broadway walking tour, film: Love Letter, tunes: Caamp, tunes: Alex Lahey

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Sunday July 26

730 Day on 7/26… yes we know… but a Sunday hang made more sense

Come hang out with your favorite newsletter! We’re your favorite right?! You better say yes!! We’ll be at Kalorama Park all afternoon, just bring a blanket, some snacks, and pals – or meet some new pals there. Plus: We’ll have some merch, local tunes CDs, zines, and more. (1-4pm)

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Is collage in the cards?

This workshop explores the meaning of The Magician, the first card of the major arcana in tarot. Riffing on that, you’ll have the chance to make your own cards, or other art inspired by it. (2pm)

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Also || parks flea market, gardening 102, tunes at pocket, owl wisdom, tunes: slime queen bingo, artists get your stuff up in the y!, vintage pop-up, highly recommend heartburn by nora ephron and this socialite walking tour of georgetown is different but potentially related, listening lounge, tunes: ford.

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Monday July 27

Idk if I’ve forgiven Colson Whitehead for how hard I bawled reading Nickel Boys

Did you know that Colson Whitehead is the only living 2-time Pulitzer winner for fiction!? Come see him live at 6th & I for a lecture and Q&A around his newest novelCool Machine. (7pm)

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The pupusa is just the appetizer

Salvadorans have shaped DC for four-plus generations, mostly off the record. Want the full story? Come toast the launch of Avocado Dreams, Ana Patricia Rodríguez's book on the Salvadoran artists who remade the city. (6:30pm)

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Also || unearthing family roots, America Me: 250 Years of Promise and Prejudice, book club: Loved One, tunes: Barstow Drive, Pauline Steinhorn at P&P, trivia at high lawn, georgetown spy tour, tunes: Honey Bxby

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Tuesday July 28

Dance in a line at Dew Drop

Hot Spur queer line dancing takes over the Dew Drop Inn. They’ve promised dedicated lessons at 7:30 and 8:30 and a sweaty dance floor. (7pm)

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On Tuesdays we go to Tudor

Georgetown’s Tudor Place is open late on Tuesdays. Relax on the lawn, enjoy free seltzer and popsicles, create art, or participate in Scottish Reel Dancing classes. A perfect date night with a crush, a friend, or yourself. (5:30pm)

Also || tunes: Muse, if you need a night in maybe make these old bay carmel cookies, book talk: Rashad Robinson, tunes: Oliver Hazard, Mt P library friendship bench, social network at MLK, Rock Hudson’s home movies, movie: The Celluloid Closet, can i kick it screening & dj, discounted tickets at Alamo

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JULY

7/29: Wharf movie night: Apollo 13, farmer’s market at common good city farm, book talk: Maggie and Arthur's Magic Moment, gong bathing at the national arboretum, sundeck summer reads, tunes at rhizome, sundeck summer read, artist trading card swap, april + vista at songbyrd, conscious speed dating, Beyond ICE: DC Under Occupation Teach-In

7/30: post-punk at rhizome, tales of heat, heart, and hindsight, book artists at NMWA, book pop-up, outdoor summer concerts in adams morgan, joy of simplicity

7/31: Shedonist w/ Josee Molavi, experimental percussion at rhizome, tunes at rhizome, experimental tunes at rhizome, tea collage workshop, book besties speed dating

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AUGUST

8/1: Qigong community workshop, adopted enemy and friends, miro art workshops, sundeck summer reads, paddle board with rescue pups, art at rhizome, zotto at rhizome, experimental tunes, LARPing at rhizome

8/2: tunes at pocket, road to mass surveillance, trapp laughs, yiddish movie night, crochet 101, drying and preserving flowers

8/3: sh!tomato, road to mass surveillance

8/4: book talk: murder bites, punk at rhizome, george washington & the civil war, knitting circle, songbyrd music trivia night