CHEROKEE: Pay What You Can performances: Feb 9 & 10, 8PM Lisa D’Amour’s latest work a companion piece to last season’s hit, Detroit takes a disparate group of Americans to the brink… and even beyond. What does it mean to lead an authentic life? What are we willing to give up to have our lives transformed?…
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Freer and Sackler Galleries Launch “Open F|S” Initiative, Smithsonian’s First Complete Digitized Collection
Even if one of your New Year’s resolutions is not to create not-for-profit work using archived Asian and American art, this is still pretty cool. Read on for more about the new free and open direction for the Freer Sackler Galleries. Become a beta tester to receive extra access, involvement, or untold Smithsonian treats. …
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Artists Have the Best Holiday Parties Edition
Thursday, December 11 Washington Project for the Arts – 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The latest installment of the Lobby Project brings artist JD Deardourff’s B and E to DC. Deardourff’s collages and screen prints mimic the comic book influences of his work. For more information about the exhibition, click here. The exhibition is located…
Penn Quarter: Do Good…Shopping
Penn Quarter offers two ways to swing into the holiday season: Spy Museum Coat Drive: Help Spy Win the Cold War! Donate a new or gently used coat and enjoy $7 OFF General Admission! The Spy Museum and One Warm Coat invite you to join our first annual coat drive to “Help Win the Cold…
Bacon & Bourbon Festival November 19
Pardon the puns and come out to support a great cause, the fight against Alzheimer’s, to the tune of bluegrass, bacon and bourbon. Join Washington City Paper for an evening of bacon, bourbon, beer and bluegrass. (Now that’s a mouthful. A delicious mouthful.) Your ticket provides you the opportunity to taste over 30 top whiskies…
Weekend East City Event Round Up: Outside on the Inside Edition
Saturday, October 11 Art Enables – 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The ninth annual installment of the area’s largest folk and self-taught art exhibition, Outsider Art Inside the Beltway hosts artists from across the country and welcomes visitors to view works selected from over 300 submissions. For more information about the exhibition, click here. The…
Southwest Arts Fest Surrounds (e)merge Art Fair
If you’re headed to the Southwest Waterfront for the (e)merge art fair this weekend, make sure to also check out these free events. Arena Stage: National Hand Dance Association (Sunday, 12-5pm) 1101 6th St. SW Join the National Hand Dance Association from noon to 5 PM for Hand Dance demonstrations, lessons in basic hand dance…
Banned Books Week Celebrates with Black Out Poetry
This Thursday at 7pm, come re-purpose old magazines and newspapers to create poetry and art. Blackout poetry is a form of found poetry created by erasing or covering up pieces of text to make poems out of the remaining words. The library is hosting a number of events discussing issues of censorship for Banned Books Week,…
Marie Antoinette Opens at Woolly Mammoth
Marie Antoinette opens Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s 35th season with a burst of high fashion and shaky morals. In a world of empty celebrity and economic crisis, how’s a teen queen to keep her head? Cake enthusiast and infamous one-percenter Marie Antoinette opens Woolly’s 35th season with a burst of high fashion and shaky morals….
DC Style Is Real 