Events Calendar

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ARTECHOUSE’s new seasonal exhibition celebrates the cherry blossom season and brings the iconic, fleeting beauty of Sakura into the digital realm, with interactive and immersive digital art installations.

Enter a sweeping, ever blooming world of digital spring. Watch and listen as your presence, movements and connection to others cause everything around you to bloom to life. Discover hidden folklore messages as you animate the environment of the enchanted garden using ARTECHOUSE’s unique augmented reality mobile app.

In Peak Bloom​ celebrates both the awe-inspiring beauty of the cherry blossom and its ephemeral nature. Highlights of this year’s exhibition include five installations created by women artists and female-led art collectives. Working with a variety of interactive media, the artists featured bring the cherry blossoms’ symbolism to life in new ways, updating the time-honored concepts for the 21st century while simultaneously paying homage to traditional themes, such the transient nature of life (​hakanai)​, and artistic genres like Ukiyo-e.

On View March 20 – May 27 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

For Tickets & Details visit: https://www.dc.artechouse.com

All Ages:

Sun – Thu // 10AM – 7PM

Fri & Sat // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 7PM – 10PM*

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11PM*

The Midnite BBQ is the first and only FOOD FESTIVAL FOR THE CULTURE, uniting a unique blend of music, food & culture, while also bringing attention to the city’s food disparities.

Partial Line Up Includes:

ARTECHOUSE’s new seasonal exhibition celebrates the cherry blossom season and brings the iconic, fleeting beauty of Sakura into the digital realm, with interactive and immersive digital art installations.

Enter a sweeping, ever blooming world of digital spring. Watch and listen as your presence, movements and connection to others cause everything around you to bloom to life. Discover hidden folklore messages as you animate the environment of the enchanted garden using ARTECHOUSE’s unique augmented reality mobile app.

In Peak Bloom​ celebrates both the awe-inspiring beauty of the cherry blossom and its ephemeral nature. Highlights of this year’s exhibition include five installations created by women artists and female-led art collectives. Working with a variety of interactive media, the artists featured bring the cherry blossoms’ symbolism to life in new ways, updating the time-honored concepts for the 21st century while simultaneously paying homage to traditional themes, such the transient nature of life (​hakanai)​, and artistic genres like Ukiyo-e.

On View March 20 – May 27 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

For Tickets & Details visit: https://www.dc.artechouse.com

All Ages:

Sun – Thu // 10AM – 7PM

Fri & Sat // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 7PM – 10PM*

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11PM*

ARTECHOUSE’s new seasonal exhibition celebrates the cherry blossom season and brings the iconic, fleeting beauty of Sakura into the digital realm, with interactive and immersive digital art installations.

Enter a sweeping, ever blooming world of digital spring. Watch and listen as your presence, movements and connection to others cause everything around you to bloom to life. Discover hidden folklore messages as you animate the environment of the enchanted garden using ARTECHOUSE’s unique augmented reality mobile app.

In Peak Bloom​ celebrates both the awe-inspiring beauty of the cherry blossom and its ephemeral nature. Highlights of this year’s exhibition include five installations created by women artists and female-led art collectives. Working with a variety of interactive media, the artists featured bring the cherry blossoms’ symbolism to life in new ways, updating the time-honored concepts for the 21st century while simultaneously paying homage to traditional themes, such the transient nature of life (​hakanai)​, and artistic genres like Ukiyo-e.

On View March 20 – May 27 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

For Tickets & Details visit: https://www.dc.artechouse.com

All Ages:

Sun – Thu // 10AM – 7PM

Fri & Sat // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 7PM – 10PM*

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11PM*

Staying in the city this Memorial Day Weekend?  Come Shuck with us Monday, May 27th!

$1 Raw Oysters

$14 Fried Oyster Po’Boy, $15 Louisiana Fried Oysters

Dogfish Head Brews, Narragansett Cans, Frose, Grapefruit Crush & Orange Crush 

Live Acoustic Music from 12pm – 3pm 

Cornhole & fun games on the patio!

Profs and Pints presents: “Investigating Sherlock Holmes,” with Kris Mecholsky, English instructor and scholar of crime fiction and film at Louisiana State University.

Sherlock Holmes is the most adapted figure in film and television history, testifying to the weight of his lasting legacy. But as original as the Great Detective is, he did not spring fully formed from the head of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The mystique surrounding such writers’ genius often shrouds the complicated cultural and biographical forces that led them to produce great works.

Come join crime fiction expert Kris Mecholsky to trace Conan Doyle’s steps and examine where the great writer lifted ideas and what writers, in turn, pilfered from him. We’ll knock on the doors of some of the many characters that Sherlock Holmes was modelled upon, including the French criminal-turned-detective Eugène François Vidocq and Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin. Mecholsky will connect the dots to show the pervasive influence that Conan Doyle and his creation have had on literature, television and film, and forensics.

You’ll learn whom to credit for the contribution of footprint forensics to both Holmes and real-life detection; which real-life person performed Holmes’s “parlor trick” of guessing a person’s history based on small personal details; and how Jean Valjean and Holmes are connected. You’ll also find out how patterns of Sherlock have surfaced in every narrative medium since his appearance, even in characters—Byomkesh Bakshi, Nero Wolfe, Spock, House—that you may not have known or guessed about.

Mecholsky previously gave a great Profs and Pints talk on ethnic crime films. By the time he sums up where the clues on Holmes lead, your past knowledge of the famous fictional detective will seem quite elementary. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place orders and be settled in.)

Illustrating the dynamic variety of artistry happening across American companies today, the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series returns for a weeklong festival with a spotlight on women’s creativity and leadership in ballet. This season’s engagement showcases companies led by distinguished Artistic Directors Virginia Johnson and Lourdes Lopez with their respective companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Miami City Ballet. Each company will present a full program, with a shared celebration uniting them on May 31 to feature a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by renowned choreographer Pam Tanowitz.

What are you seeing and hearing in each ballet? Read our helpful guide.

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM PROGRAM (May 28–30)
Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director
Conducted by Tania Leon

Valse Fantaisie (Glinka/Balanchine)
Change (Spirituals “By and By” and “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Round”/McIntyre)
Passage, a new Claudia Schreier commission (Montgomery/Schreier)* with live music
Dougla (León and Holder/Holder) with original percussive band

Performance Timing: Approximately 2 hours, including two 20-minute intermissions.

Get over the midweek hump with DC Fray and Maddy’s Bar and Grille for FREE bar bingo every Wednesday at 7-9 PM!

Free to enter. Free to play. Free drinks swag up for grabs. Nothing to lose. Sounds like a plan to us! 

Trivia is hard, Bingo is fun… See you there!

Visit dcfray.com/bingo for more locations, nights, and info.

Illustrating the dynamic variety of artistry happening across American companies today, the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series returns for a weeklong festival with a spotlight on women’s creativity and leadership in ballet. This season’s engagement showcases companies led by distinguished Artistic Directors Virginia Johnson and Lourdes Lopez with their respective companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Miami City Ballet. Each company will present a full program, with a shared celebration uniting them on May 31 to feature a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by renowned choreographer Pam Tanowitz.

What are you seeing and hearing in each ballet? Read our helpful guide.

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM PROGRAM (May 28–30)
Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director
Conducted by Tania Leon

Valse Fantaisie (Glinka/Balanchine)
Change (Spirituals “By and By” and “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Round”/McIntyre)
Passage, a new Claudia Schreier commission (Montgomery/Schreier)* with live music
Dougla (León and Holder/Holder) with original percussive band

Performance Timing: Approximately 2 hours, including two 20-minute intermissions.

Illustrating the dynamic variety of artistry happening across American companies today, the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series returns for a weeklong festival with a spotlight on women’s creativity and leadership in ballet. This season’s engagement showcases companies led by distinguished Artistic Directors Virginia Johnson and Lourdes Lopez with their respective companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Miami City Ballet. Each company will present a full program, with a shared celebration uniting them on May 31 to feature a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by renowned choreographer Pam Tanowitz.

What are you seeing and hearing in each ballet? Read our helpful guide.

DANCE THEATRE OF HARLEM PROGRAM (May 28–30)
Virginia Johnson, Artistic Director
Conducted by Tania Leon

Valse Fantaisie (Glinka/Balanchine)
Change (Spirituals “By and By” and “Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Round”/McIntyre)
Passage, a new Claudia Schreier commission (Montgomery/Schreier)* with live music
Dougla (León and Holder/Holder) with original percussive band

Performance Timing: Approximately 2 hours, including two 20-minute intermissions.

Illustrating the dynamic variety of artistry happening across American companies today, the Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America series returns for a weeklong festival with a spotlight on women’s creativity and leadership in ballet. This season’s engagement showcases companies led by distinguished Artistic Directors Virginia Johnson and Lourdes Lopez with their respective companies, Dance Theatre of Harlem and Miami City Ballet. Each company will present a full program, with a shared celebration uniting them on May 31 to feature a world premiere Kennedy Center commission by renowned choreographer Pam Tanowitz.

What are you seeing and hearing in each ballet? Read our helpful guide.

SHARED CELEBRATION PROGRAM (May 31)
Conducted by Tania Leon and Gary Sheldon

Walpurgisnacht Ballet (Gounod/Balanchine)
Passage, a new Claudia Schreier commission (Montgomery/Schreier)* with live music
Gustave Le Grey No. 1, a new Pam Tanowitz commission with music by Caroline Shaw**
Dougla (León and Holder/Holder) with original percussive band

Performance Timing: Approximately 2 hours, including two 20-minute intermissions.

*D.C. premiere
**World premiere

DuPont Brass, a 2018/19 Mars Urban Arts Initiative Ensemble-in-Residence, performs selections from their recent “Eclectic Soul” and “Halftime” projects. DuPont Brass is a unique, soulful, brass ensemble hailing from the D.C. metropolitan area. Originally composed of five music majors from Howard University trying to raise money for tuition during the Christmas season, they have now grown to an 8-piece ensemble consisting of brass, a rhythm section, and vocalists. Gaining popularity from playing at local Metro stations, DuPont Brass started out professionally playing for weddings, banquets, and other private events in the surrounding area. Thanks to the foundation laid in their earlier years, DuPont Brass has had the opportunity to perform in conjunction with the D.C. Jazz Festival, Washington Performing Arts, and on the prestigious Kennedy Center Millennium Stage.

Free, registration required (Suggested donation: Pay what you can at the door)