Thursday June 19 Brookland Arts Walk – 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Third Thursdays in Brookland, one may visit over 29 open studios in the Arts Walk at Monroe Street Market. Two of the spaces, the Washington Drawing Center and The Wild Hand Workspace will host opening receptions (see details below). Enjoy food and…
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Weekend East City Event Round Up: Super Saturday June Edition
Friday, June 13 CHAW – 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Ellen Cornett and Sheppard Bear are back for another Paint and Sip at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. Create your own masterpiece on Friday while enjoying snacks and wine. $30 includes all materials and refreshments. For more information, click here. CHAW is located at 545 7th…
Clunk Clunk Clunk Goes the Trolley
Despite strides to complete the work needed to begin operation, the H Street/Benning Road streetcar line has been delayed yet again. Projected to open as far back as three years ago, there’s always been something to trip it up. Late last year, Mayor Gray’s public promise that service would start by ‘no later than February’…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Summer Openings
Friday, June 6 Touchstone Gallery – 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Touchstone Gallery with the support of the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France presents Les Chemins de Memoire (The Paths of Memory) by Charles Goldstein. This exhibit has its roots in the holocaust and the disappearance of 84 close members of his family….
May 14: Pay-What-You-Can Preview of Pallas Theatre Company’s She Stoops to Conquer
DC Style Is Real always recommends Pay What You Can (PWYC) performances. It’s a way to go see something new for not a lot of money. So go out and support some local theater! Read on for the release from Pallas Theater Company’s new show at the Anacostia Arts Center. A play that parodies extremes….
Weekend East City Event Round Up: 2014 Gateway Open Studio Tour Edition
Friday, May 9 Honfleur & Vivid Solutions Galleries 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The Anacostia galleries are showing their feminine side this Friday with two concurrent exhibitions by women artists. In Parallels: Sculptures and Installations, Nara Park uses water as an artistic medium. Be prepared to see cascades, aquariums and other water features. Upstairs at…
Hill Center Concert Series Features Redline Graffiti
District Sounds, hosted by Washington Post pop music critic Chris Richards, features conversation and concert with Redline Graffiti. Think garage rock mixed with electronica and R&B. Named for a stretch of graffiti art that runs along Washington’s oldest public train line, the quartet’s sound has been described by reviewers as “somewhere between Passion Pit and…
Hill Center Concert Series features Dandy Wellington
Hill Center welcomes New York entertainer Dandy Wellington and his Band to the Hill Center Concert Series. Inspired by the jazz of the big band era, the band has taken the sounds of the 1930’s and 40’s and created a world of well dressed music. With a passion for obscure songs steeped in the Jazz…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Black & White Edition
Friday, April 25 Mount Rainier Better Block– 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Mount Rainier’s Better Block Project kicks-off its third year of festivities featuring Lesole’s Dance Project, Urban Eats Arts and Music Café, Adinkra Cultural Arts Studio, Beloved Community Mosaics, artist Kenny George and Patrick McDonough’s Chard/Hops spot, a Hoop Jam by Noelle Powers to…
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