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On Sale Now! Events in the ~ future ~ that you may want to buy tickets for before they sell out

Mother Tongue Film Festival (2/20-2/23), Free DC campaign orientation (2/26) tunes: Granny and the Boys (3/9), podcast: Odd Lots Live (3/12), tunes: GloRilla (3/14), BHM film: Diminished Returns (3/15), tunes: Lane 8 (3/28), tunes: Rich Amiri (4/18), tunes: Lucy Dacus (4/19), tunes: Sharon Van Etten (4/28), tunes: Bren Joy (4/28) tunes: Saint Motel (4/29-4/30), tunes: San Fermin (5/8),tunes: Rachel Chinouriri (5/10), tunes: Tennis (6/3) tunes: Pixies (7/25)

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

Wednesday February 19

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Get in losers, we’re supporting the NIH

Join researchers and academics to stand up for research, education, and jobs to tell them to fund, not freeze DC. Federal attacks on science and academia put all our futures at risk – stand up to these attacks at the HHS. If you chant loud enough maybe RFK’s brainworm will hear you and finish the job. (12pm)

Or if you can’t make it out during work, join the Stop Musk, Save Our Services march on SpaceX DC headquarters. (5:30pm)

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Queer yearning, anyone?

One thing about queer folks is we’re gonna write love letters to one another, which is why Gay Love Letters decided to make a night out of it! Join for an evening of readings featuring queer correspondence, old and new, ranging from lusty to yearning. (7pm)

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Also || tunes: Jupiter Quartet, daytime book club, curling & cocktails, Green Drinks, ceramics courses, theater: Out Of the Vineyard, tunes: Travis, Art Comics & Anime at O St, Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, Ekiben popup, tunes: DC the Don, tunes: The Mallet Brothers Band, Funk the Facts, RENS sketch comedy

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Thursday February 20

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Everywhere you hop I’ll be watching you

Ok, obsessed with this! Learn to be a Frog Watcher at Kingman Island. This volunteer training will teach volunteers how to observe the Kingman amphibians and contribute to science. (6:30pm)

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Singing Back the Buffalo

It’s the tenth annual Mother Tongue Film Festival featuring free in-person film screenings and Q&As with directors. Come see “Singing Back the Buffalo,” a film by Tasha Hubbard (Plans Cree) that shares Indigenous visionaries, scientists, and communities rematriating buffalo to the heart of the North American plains they once defined. (7pm)

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Also || Twin Peaks Night at DC9, tunes: Rebecca Berlin / Leo DiSanto / Broommaker, talk: Crime Fiction in the DMV, poetry at LoC, Phillips Collection free entry, Fire & Ice immersive show, event: barriers to better mental health policy, Sketch Comedy Happy Hour, Mother Tongue Film Festival, Washington Roast comedy show, Free DC Ward 6 meeting, book talk: Eric Puchner, tunes: Alexa Rose, comedy: Colin Quinn, hot 8 brass band, tunes: Pack Light

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Friday February 21

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It’s not goodbye, it’s check you later

Capital Checkers is on the move. Their building is for sale and their lease is not being renewed. To thank the community for their support they will be throwing a goodbye party with food, games, and souvenirs. (6pm)

You can also donate to Capital Checkers Go Fund Me to help them find a new home

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Punk pioneers

King Face debuted in the DC hardcore punk scene in 1984, releasing music along the likes of Fugazi and Rites of Spring before disbanding in 1989. Now the band is back together - more than 40 years later! Catch them and their updated sound at the Black Cat. (doors at 8pm)

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Also || tunes: Alma Laprida / Stephen Santillian, 2000s dance party, Thank Me Later Comedy Show, Stephen Sol & The Wrizzards, Live Comedy Starring Patrice DeVeaux, Stanley Cup Plaque Unveiling at Washington Harbour Ice Rink, Kpop Night, tunes: The Vices, DC9 turns 21

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Saturday February 22

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Let’s ride!

The Garage Racing National Championships are happening! Anyone can enter this unconventional biking competition. From fixed-gear to costume-friendly races, come watch (or compete) as people race through two levels of a parking garage in this fast-and-furious style competition! (11am-7pm)

Or if chill biking with your family is more your thing, join Hill Family Biking for their clean-up ride to ride and pick up trash. (10:30am)

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Art-film-talk on a local multi-hyphenate

Join NGA for the premiere of Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression, a documentary exploring the life and legacy of an under-recognized DC-area painter, printmaker, art historian, and curator who served as a mentor to many local artists.

Check out our 730DC article from last summer to learn more about Kainen and the history of the DC arts scene!

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Also || tunes: Lalah Hathaway, Smiths x Cure dance party @ Black Cat, showtunes sing-along, All Hat No Cattle, book talk: Homes for Living, Timeless Mucha: the Magic of Line, Hill Family Biking & picking up litter, arlington library makerspace open house, Sip & Swap, Flurry Fest, Salute: The Powerful Woman, candle making workshop, tunes: Bon Entendeur, Black Ink, history of AdMo tenant organizing walk, Queer Black Broadway walking tour, Forget Why poetry series, Black artist-centered open house at Pyramid Atlantic, children’s story time at Potter’s House, BHM book swap at Potter’s House, Free DC Ward 2 kickoff, launch party for comet x right proper collab, Community Shabbat with New Synagogue Project + Free DC, comedy: Bruce Mcculloch, Ward 4 listening session with JLG, we power DC wheatpaste, talk/theater: history & health inequity in America, Black Cat Cryfest, tunes: Macseal, tunes: Moein

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Sunday February 23

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Listening Is Resistance

The Palestinian Sound Archive preserves the audiovisual legacy of Palestine by compiling vinyl records and tapes and the stories of their production and relevance to Palestinian history. Head to Rhizome for a listening session, where vintage Palestinian albums will be played, sampled, and remixed! (4:30pm)

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For fans of Parable of the Sower

Worried about the future? Be prepared for whatever dystopian hellscape lies ahead by taking a Wild Plants class and learning how to identify and forage local plants! (12:30pm)

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Also || The Spirit and Strength of Nathalie Joachim, tunes: Granny & the Boys, Gretchen Whitmer at 6th and I, take and bake King Cakes, magic show at O museum, learn about wild plants!, Profs & Pints: Buying Sustainable Seafood, Chili Cook Off, suncatcher workshop, pottery charcuterie workshop, solidarity economy happy hour, experimental jam, Mother Tongue Film Festival, Craft & Cry, book talk: The Sustainability Class, puppet and song show in Mt P, tunes: Antje Duvekot, tunes: Bryce Vine, tunes: Charlie Adams, tunes: The Hails

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Monday February 24

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Shocked this isn’t hosted at Metrobar!?

Head to Penn Social for Profs and Pints. Learn how the metro made DC. Gain an in-depth understanding of DC’s transit system, the politics surrounding it, and how it affected our communities. Hosted by Professor Zachary Schrag, an award-winning urban historian who devoted an entire book to the subject. (6pm)

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Stand up, fight back

Live in Ward 3 and ticked off about this administration’s threats to home rule? Join Free DC in mobilizing your community and standing up for your rights at their Ward 3 Team meeting, or check out their calendar to get involved in your neighborhood! (6:30pm)

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Also || Profs & Pints: How The Metro Made Washington, fab five of queer eye in dc, tunes: Jady, tunes: Chris Travis

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Tuesday February 25

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It gets better (and by it, we mean your writing)

US Book Award winner Alice McDermott is hosting a free writing workshop at the Clevland Park Library! This is why we love libraries! Open to all, this workshop will focus on revision in writing: when does not good enough become not bad, when does not bad become brilliant, and when does the pursuit of brilliance become the dawn of despair? (6:30pm)

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Power to the people… to the power?

Socialist Night School and We Power DC are joined by Sandeep Vaheesan for a discussion of his book Democracy In Power, exploring the history of America’s energy industry and envisioning a publicly led path to decarbonization. (6pm)

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Also || author talk: David Grann, Profs & Pints: Psychology of sex, tunes: Lime Cordial, crash course in facilitation, tunes: Anne-F Jacques & AJ Cornell / Claire Alrich / Blind:Out:Dated (Gary Rouzer), book talk: The Sustainability Class, Free DC Ward 4 meeting, Black History Power Hour, tunes: Ike Reilly, tunes: Skinny Lister, tunes: Ghost9, talk: Democracy in Power (electricity, that is), tunes: Neriah