Events Calendar

*This event has been postponed due to COVID-19, and will be rescheduled for a later date.*

Calling everyone who is unapologetically, head over heels, absolutely in love with DC!

On Tap Magazine is relaunching as District Fray Magazine and we invite you to come celebrate with us.

See a live painting of the March cover by No Kings Collective
Dance to sounds from DJs DOMO Jerome Baker III and Mane Squeeze
Grab your limited edition, onsite screen printing
Pose and show your love for DC at the interactive photo shoot set
Explore the NKC curated “For the Love of DC” exhibit featuring 30+ artists
Watch live guest interviews and reactions led by GIRLAAA
Eat, drink and fall deeper in love with our city

Must be 21+ and RSVP to enter.

Profs and Pints presents: “The Art of Marcel Duchamp,” with Lisa Lipinski, assistant professor of art history at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and teacher of a graduate art history seminar on Duchamp and his legacy there.

The French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, leaving his mark on contemporary art and the institution of art itself as he sought “to put art back in the service of the mind.” Come hear an exploration of Duchamp’s career and his legacy, which will look at how he thought deeply about art and aesthetics. You’ll walk away distinctly prepared to take in the Hirshhorn Museum of Art’s current exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection.”

Duchamp focused the fundamental question of what art is, as well as the role of the art spectator, setting him apart from those who had focused on how art is made and on the genius of the artist. In 1913, he wondered: Can one make works which are not works of “art”? It was a typical Duchampian question, both serious and playful, revealing his delight in contradiction.

Four years later, Duchamp attempted to exhibit a men’s urinal with the title Fountain in an art exhibition which was organized by the newly established Society of Independent Artists in New York. Was this ordinary piece of plumbing a work that was not a work of ‘art’? For the artists on the organizing committee, the answer was yes, and they rejected it for reasons which may seem obvious today. Fountain is the most iconic readymade—Duchamp’s term for a piece made from an ordinary, found object—and the original was lost before ever being publicly exhibited.

This talk will leave you with much more knowledge and appreciation of the Duchamp works that remain accessible for our enjoyment. (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 any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Acclaimed pianist Thomas Pandolfi returns to amaze the audience with a scintillating performance of Rachmaninoff’s epic second Piano Concerto. Nineteenth century German composer Emilie Mayer’s brilliant third symphony will also amaze us with its contrasting Viennese styles, rich textures, and overall brilliance.
 
American Song Book selections performed by soprano Elizabeth Kluegel                 
EMILIE MAYER Symphony No. 3, Sinfonie Militair  
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No.2, Thomas Pandolfi, piano

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Profs and Pints presents: “Ask Eleanor Roosevelt,” a look at the iconic first lady’s long career as an advice columnist, with Mary Jo Binker, adjunct professor of history at George Mason University and a consulting editor for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University.

Advice columnist is not the first term that comes to mind when most people think of Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet, this transformative first lady and icon of female empowerment did exactly that in two major women’s magazines for more than 20 years.

Her answers to a wide range of reader queries—on everything from world peace and race relations to how to deal with rebellious teenagers and difficult mothers-in-law—are equally surprising. There was no filter and very little spin. In fact, her answers to readers’ queries were so honest, forthright, and insightful, that her editors felt compelled to issue a disclaimer saying her views were her own and did not represent those of the magazine or, in the column’s early years, the Roosevelt Administration.

This talk will introduce you to this other Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman whose wise, witty, and surprisingly sensible opinions remain as relevant as the latest tweet. The speaker, historian Mary Jo Binker, has spent almost twenty years studying Eleanor Roosevelt’s written and spoken record, primarily as an editor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University. Besides working as part of an editorial team that has published two volumes of Eleanor Roosevelt’s post-White House papers, she edited two collections of Eleanor Roosevelt’s writings, If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt and What Are We For: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Her talk represents an incomparable opportunity to learn about this pivotal American figure. (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 any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Stay warm all winter long in our cozy Winter Igloos. These heated igloos are located on the patio of the Next Whisky Bar and Kingbird Restaurant terrace. You and up to eight of your friends will be spoiled with special food and drink menus.

Special Valentine’s Day Igloo packages available including Galentines & Bromance packages. Enjoy your private igloo, shared plates and your choice of large-format cocktails & chocolates or whiskey flights & cigars! 

—Fees vary based on day of the week and timing—

Monday – Saturday

90-minute seatings from 5pm – midnight
Rental fee waived for all seatings on Mondays
Rental fee waived for 5pm seatings Tuesday – Thursdays

Sunday

Whisky Bar 90-minute seatings from 4:30pm-9:30pm
Kingbird Terrace Sunday brunch and mimosa seatings from 11:30am-4:00pm

If you would like more information please visit here or call us at  (855) 868-3062.

Profs and Pints presents: “The Science of Inspiration,” a look at how the brain creates, with Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University and co-author of The Molecule of More.

Creative ideas seem to come out of nowhere, often popping into our heads, fully formed, with no apparent work being done on our part. Sometimes creative ideas solve simple problems, other times they revolutionize an industry. Are they divine inspiration? The influence of a friendly muse? Or are they manufactured by hidden circuits within the brain that we’re ordinarily unaware of?

Come learn what neuroscience tells us about the creative process from Dr. Lieberman, who previously gave fantastic Profs and Pints talks on brain chemistry and politics based on his book The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race.

He will review five strategies that activate the creative parts of the brain, with illustrations from ancient history and modern life.

Our modern economy is no longer based on natural resources or physical labor. It’s based on ideas. Understanding creativity—what it is, where it comes from, and how to stimulate it—gives us the key to understanding progress in the 21st century.

Whether the next creative task in front of you involves coming up with a strategic plan, writing a book, or simply helping build a snowman, you’ll leave this talk with a much better understanding of how your brain will rise to the challenge. You might even find yourself better at such tasks than you had been before. (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 any orders and get seated and settled in.)

“A whirlwind of exhilaration… is any other ballet company as fit and athletic as this one?”—The Washington Post
with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra

The company’s powerhouse dancers continue to enrich an ever-expanding repertory brimming with works by ballet legends and today’s most exciting innovators.

Balanchine, Wheeldon, and Liang (Mar. 31 and Apr. 1 & 5)
This program includes two works by George Balanchine: Haieff Divertimento combines blues and American dance idioms with modern concert dance and classic ballet, while Stravinsky Violin Concerto peels away outer layers of symmetry to reveal two ingenious pas de deux. In Christopher Wheeldon’s Liturgy, set to music by Arvo Pärt, two dancers separate and re-connect with ever-increasing intensity. The company also brings Edward Liang’s new Lineage, which abstracts and deconstructs Georgian folk dance with choreographic patterning set to the vibrant Apollo by English composer Oliver Davis.

Peck, Cunningham, and Balanchine/Robbins (Apr. 2–4)
Justin Peck’s entrancing Principia, set to a score for full orchestra, is a collaboration with Oscar®-nominated composer Sufjan Stevens. For the centennial of Merce Cunningham, the company performs Summerspace with music by Morton Feldman; the late choreographer envisioned movement “like the passage of birds, stopping for moments on the ground and then going on.” Balanchine and Jerome Robbins’s ever-popular masterpiece Firebird, set to Stravinsky’s score, illustrates the fantastical Russian fairy tale.