Events Calendar

Hen House presents Tiny Show 2, an all-female/trans/non-binary exhibit featuring grand concepts on a miniature scale. The artists challenged themselves to create works within the physical constraints of 5in x 5in, with the hope of confronting our society’s all-too-often narrow view of women and their place in the artistic continuum. As the concepts depicted transcend the boundaries of their physical size, so too does the courage, creativity and genius of women.

Join us opening night on November 15th from 7pm-12am at Good Fast Cheap DC (524 Rhode Island Ave NE). There will be live DJs, live painting, drinks and food available.

Gallery Hours on Saturday, November 16th and Sunday, November 17th are from12pm-5pm.

Sunday night, November 17th from 6pm-10pm we’ll be holding a fundraiser/Bingo night benefitting HIPS (find out more about their organization at www.hips.org)

Workshops:

Block Printing with Kate Parnell Tuesday 11/19|8pm-10pm $30

Screen Printing with Beth Hansen Wednesday 11/20|6pm-8pm $50

Marbling Workshop with Clara Cornelius Friday 11/22|6pm-9pm $75

Creative Writing Workshop with Zewiditu Saturday 11/23|1pm-3pm $15

Explore ARTECHOUSE’s newest exhibition, Lucid Motion, by globally renowned Japanese artist group Rhizomatiks Research and Daito Manabe. Opening September 28th in D.C., Lucid Motion aims to examine human motion from various standpoints using next-level technologies and expression methods to elaborate into three unique installations. Visitors will get to engage with dance performances themed on human motion, lights and shades as they experience these through multiple rooms. 

“An interdisciplinary digital Renaissance man”, Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe is known for his innovative approaches to the human body, programming, data, computers and other uses of arts and technology. Always future scentric, the Tokyo-based media artist and creative technologist uses programming, sound design and interaction design to develop groundbreaking production technology for major international events and art projects, from augmented reality videos for musicians to live interactive technology driven performances for dancers. 

On View September 29th – December 1st at ARTECHOUSE / DC

Tickets: $8-20 // Open to all ages

For tickets & details, visit: www.artechouse.com

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

**This show will have ASL interpretation**

Is your appetite simply insatiable? Food and sex are two of the greatest pleasures in life, and it’s irresistibly erotic to bring them together. Take a break from Turkey Day planning and join us for drinks and nibbles as we trade recipes for aphrodisiac encounters. Let’s get ravenous with stories about seductions that were finger-licking good!

(Not familiar with Smut Slam? It’s a storytelling open mic where audience members sign up for 5-minute slots to tell their best real-life, first-person, consensual sex stories. It’s queer-friendly, kink-friendly, lifestyle-friendly, body-positive, sex-positive, and wildly fun. No costumes, no notes, no gimmicks, just straight-up raw truth! See the full rules and how it works on our Rules of the Road page.)

This month, our theme is “Feast for the Senses”. We want to hear about how you got trussed and stuffed, or the night you wore nothing but whipped cream. Did those oyster shooters seal the deal on your happy hour hookup? Tell us about the dinner party where one of the guests was dessert, or the ways you’ve amused your bouche. Tonight, the chef’s special is raw sexuality served up in its own juices!

Your fabulous femme-cees are as always Smut Slam DC co-producers Mindi Mimosa and Diva Darling, joined by a panel of local celebrity judges who’ll have what you’re having.

Join us before the show to enjoy delicious pub fare, sample our exclusive cocktail specials, and browse collections of F*ckbucket confessions from past shows. Get swag, merch, and edutainment from our vendor and partner tables– including Smut Slam DC merch.

As always, the F*ckbucket (where audience members can throw in anonymous confessions or questions) is generously sponsored by nJoy sex toys. We’ve got some fabulous storytelling prize packs on tap for you from our show sponsors, Lotus Blooms, GlydeAmerica, Überlube, and Creamed and Sugared.

Doors at 7, show at 8. Our show is 18 but we must ask our under-21 friends to stay in the Slam space while they’re on the premises. Parking in the area is limited, so we recommend leaving extra time to park or taking Metro or ride-sharing. We’re a short walk from the U St. and Shaw Metro stops.

If not in fame, then in infamy…

Genius and jealousy collide in the opulent salons and opera houses of 18th-century Vienna in Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “Best Play,” Amadeus. Directed by Richard Clifford (Folger’s Mary Stuart), the production features Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes (Macbeth and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger) as the tortured composer Salieri, who does everything in his power to destroy his musical rival—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Samuel Adams).

Visit the Folger website for special related events.

Hen House presents Tiny Show 2, an all-female/trans/non-binary exhibit featuring grand concepts on a miniature scale. The artists challenged themselves to create works within the physical constraints of 5in x 5in, with the hope of confronting our society’s all-too-often narrow view of women and their place in the artistic continuum. As the concepts depicted transcend the boundaries of their physical size, so too does the courage, creativity and genius of women.

Join us opening night on November 15th from 7pm-12am at Good Fast Cheap DC (524 Rhode Island Ave NE). There will be live DJs, live painting, drinks and food available.

Gallery Hours on Saturday, November 16th and Sunday, November 17th are from12pm-5pm.

Sunday night, November 17th from 6pm-10pm we’ll be holding a fundraiser/Bingo night benefitting HIPS (find out more about their organization at www.hips.org)

Workshops:

Block Printing with Kate Parnell Tuesday 11/19|8pm-10pm $30

Screen Printing with Beth Hansen Wednesday 11/20|6pm-8pm $50

Marbling Workshop with Clara Cornelius Friday 11/22|6pm-9pm $75

Creative Writing Workshop with Zewiditu Saturday 11/23|1pm-3pm $15

Explore ARTECHOUSE’s newest exhibition, Lucid Motion, by globally renowned Japanese artist group Rhizomatiks Research and Daito Manabe. Opening September 28th in D.C., Lucid Motion aims to examine human motion from various standpoints using next-level technologies and expression methods to elaborate into three unique installations. Visitors will get to engage with dance performances themed on human motion, lights and shades as they experience these through multiple rooms. 

“An interdisciplinary digital Renaissance man”, Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe is known for his innovative approaches to the human body, programming, data, computers and other uses of arts and technology. Always future scentric, the Tokyo-based media artist and creative technologist uses programming, sound design and interaction design to develop groundbreaking production technology for major international events and art projects, from augmented reality videos for musicians to live interactive technology driven performances for dancers. 

On View September 29th – December 1st at ARTECHOUSE / DC

Tickets: $8-20 // Open to all ages

For tickets & details, visit: www.artechouse.com

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Battle for the Capital comes to the Entertainment and Sports Arena!

Events DC, the official convention and sports authority of the District of Columbia, and Russ Potts Productions, announced the first annual “Battle for the Capital” a clash of high-quality mid-major men’s college basketball programs to be played at the Entertainment and Sports Arena in Washington, D.C. on November 22 and 23.

The inaugural Battle for the Capital features four universities – University of North Carolina-Wilmington, Florida International University, Eastern Kentucky University and Cleveland State University. The two-day event will feature two games on each day, both at 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm.

For more information visit www.battleforthecapital.com

If not in fame, then in infamy…

Genius and jealousy collide in the opulent salons and opera houses of 18th-century Vienna in Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “Best Play,” Amadeus. Directed by Richard Clifford (Folger’s Mary Stuart), the production features Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes (Macbeth and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger) as the tortured composer Salieri, who does everything in his power to destroy his musical rival—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Samuel Adams).

Visit the Folger website for special related events.

Hen House presents Tiny Show 2, an all-female/trans/non-binary exhibit featuring grand concepts on a miniature scale. The artists challenged themselves to create works within the physical constraints of 5in x 5in, with the hope of confronting our society’s all-too-often narrow view of women and their place in the artistic continuum. As the concepts depicted transcend the boundaries of their physical size, so too does the courage, creativity and genius of women.

Join us opening night on November 15th from 7pm-12am at Good Fast Cheap DC (524 Rhode Island Ave NE). There will be live DJs, live painting, drinks and food available.

Gallery Hours on Saturday, November 16th and Sunday, November 17th are from12pm-5pm.

Sunday night, November 17th from 6pm-10pm we’ll be holding a fundraiser/Bingo night benefitting HIPS (find out more about their organization at www.hips.org)

Workshops:

Block Printing with Kate Parnell Tuesday 11/19|8pm-10pm $30

Screen Printing with Beth Hansen Wednesday 11/20|6pm-8pm $50

Marbling Workshop with Clara Cornelius Friday 11/22|6pm-9pm $75

Creative Writing Workshop with Zewiditu Saturday 11/23|1pm-3pm $15

Explore ARTECHOUSE’s newest exhibition, Lucid Motion, by globally renowned Japanese artist group Rhizomatiks Research and Daito Manabe. Opening September 28th in D.C., Lucid Motion aims to examine human motion from various standpoints using next-level technologies and expression methods to elaborate into three unique installations. Visitors will get to engage with dance performances themed on human motion, lights and shades as they experience these through multiple rooms. 

“An interdisciplinary digital Renaissance man”, Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe is known for his innovative approaches to the human body, programming, data, computers and other uses of arts and technology. Always future scentric, the Tokyo-based media artist and creative technologist uses programming, sound design and interaction design to develop groundbreaking production technology for major international events and art projects, from augmented reality videos for musicians to live interactive technology driven performances for dancers. 

On View September 29th – December 1st at ARTECHOUSE / DC

Tickets: $8-20 // Open to all ages

For tickets & details, visit: www.artechouse.com

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

If not in fame, then in infamy…

Genius and jealousy collide in the opulent salons and opera houses of 18th-century Vienna in Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “Best Play,” Amadeus. Directed by Richard Clifford (Folger’s Mary Stuart), the production features Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes (Macbeth and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger) as the tortured composer Salieri, who does everything in his power to destroy his musical rival—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Samuel Adams).

Visit the Folger website for special related events.

No dance or movement background necessary. All ages welcome. Appropriate for adults, families, and children.

Have you ever been wowed by the sky? Want to connect your own experience with scientific discovery? Join Margot Greenlee and Tom Di Liberto for a movement workshop exploring light pollution, dark sites, and luminous artifacts. Light pollution is a macroscopic phenomenon which will transform the history of astronomy for future generations. The sky has been gradually re-shaped by luminous objects set in orbit in the last century: satellites, planes, artifacts. How will our representation of the sky change as humans populate it with more and more luminous artifacts?

If not in fame, then in infamy…

Genius and jealousy collide in the opulent salons and opera houses of 18th-century Vienna in Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “Best Play,” Amadeus. Directed by Richard Clifford (Folger’s Mary Stuart), the production features Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes (Macbeth and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger) as the tortured composer Salieri, who does everything in his power to destroy his musical rival—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Samuel Adams).

Visit the Folger website for special related events.

Hen House presents Tiny Show 2, an all-female/trans/non-binary exhibit featuring grand concepts on a miniature scale. The artists challenged themselves to create works within the physical constraints of 5in x 5in, with the hope of confronting our society’s all-too-often narrow view of women and their place in the artistic continuum. As the concepts depicted transcend the boundaries of their physical size, so too does the courage, creativity and genius of women.

Join us opening night on November 15th from 7pm-12am at Good Fast Cheap DC (524 Rhode Island Ave NE). There will be live DJs, live painting, drinks and food available.

Gallery Hours on Saturday, November 16th and Sunday, November 17th are from12pm-5pm.

Sunday night, November 17th from 6pm-10pm we’ll be holding a fundraiser/Bingo night benefitting HIPS (find out more about their organization at www.hips.org)

Workshops:

Block Printing with Kate Parnell Tuesday 11/19|8pm-10pm $30

Screen Printing with Beth Hansen Wednesday 11/20|6pm-8pm $50

Marbling Workshop with Clara Cornelius Friday 11/22|6pm-9pm $75

Creative Writing Workshop with Zewiditu Saturday 11/23|1pm-3pm $15

Explore ARTECHOUSE’s newest exhibition, Lucid Motion, by globally renowned Japanese artist group Rhizomatiks Research and Daito Manabe. Opening September 28th in D.C., Lucid Motion aims to examine human motion from various standpoints using next-level technologies and expression methods to elaborate into three unique installations. Visitors will get to engage with dance performances themed on human motion, lights and shades as they experience these through multiple rooms. 

“An interdisciplinary digital Renaissance man”, Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe is known for his innovative approaches to the human body, programming, data, computers and other uses of arts and technology. Always future scentric, the Tokyo-based media artist and creative technologist uses programming, sound design and interaction design to develop groundbreaking production technology for major international events and art projects, from augmented reality videos for musicians to live interactive technology driven performances for dancers. 

On View September 29th – December 1st at ARTECHOUSE / DC

Tickets: $8-20 // Open to all ages

For tickets & details, visit: www.artechouse.com

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Profs and Pints presents: “Turkey, Syria, and Kurds in Crisis,” a look at political players in that region and the allies the United States left behind, with Dr. Lisel Hintz, assistant professor of international relations and European studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and expert on politics in Turkey and Kurdish regions.

President Trump shocked many in the foreign-policy realm—including some of his own Republican allies—with his bizarre recent decision to acquiesce to suggestions by President Erdoğan that he withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria. The result was an immediate Turkish invasion of the region and substantial bloodshed among the northern Syrian Kurds who had been staunch allies of the U.S. in its fight against ISIS, and now continue to find themselves in Turkish and Russian crosshairs.

Come to a timely talk that will provides insight into the puzzling decision-making dynamics on the Syrian conflict from both the US and Turkish government perspectives. You’ll learn how Turkey’s recent incursion into Syria is a much more than a foreign policy choice, with domestic political concerns playing a powerful role in motivating the actions of Trump and Erdogan. You’ll also become familiar with how Russian President Vladimir Putin factors into US loss of leverage in the region.

Dr. Hintz will outline the rapid unraveling of the US foreign policy decision-making process on Syria and examine Turkey’s assertions that the US’s Kurdish allies are part of a terrorist network carrying out violent attacks on Turkish soil. She’ll also discuss Ankara’s plans to relocate some of the nearly 4 million Syrians in Turkey into the safe zone Erdoğan negotiated first with the US and then with Russia. Finally, she’ll look at how Turkey’s Syrian campaign and the nationalist sentiment it rallied may have hindered attempts by Turkey’s opposition to unite with Kurds against Erdoğan.

You’ll emerge with solid understanding of a complex and rapidly changing political situation, and a much better basis for evaluating US actions in that region. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15. Save $2 with student ID. Time listed is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please arrive in plenty of time to place any order and be seated and settled before the talk begins.)

If not in fame, then in infamy…

Genius and jealousy collide in the opulent salons and opera houses of 18th-century Vienna in Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “Best Play,” Amadeus. Directed by Richard Clifford (Folger’s Mary Stuart), the production features Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes (Macbeth and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger) as the tortured composer Salieri, who does everything in his power to destroy his musical rival—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Samuel Adams).

Visit the Folger website for special related events.

The inherently musical songs and soaring grace of birds have long inspired symphonic composers. Join us for this special musical celebration of our feathered friends, conducted by Capital City Symphony’s Assistant Conductor Tiffany Lu and featuring esteemed violinist James Stern performing “Spring” from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. The program also includes Sibelius’s tone poem The Swan of Tuonela, Wagner’s impressionistic Forest Murmurs, and Rautavaara’s Cantus Arcticus, which incorporates recordings of birdsong near the Arctic Circle and in Finland.

If not in fame, then in infamy…

Genius and jealousy collide in the opulent salons and opera houses of 18th-century Vienna in Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award-winning “Best Play,” Amadeus. Directed by Richard Clifford (Folger’s Mary Stuart), the production features Helen Hayes Award-winner Ian Merrill Peakes (Macbeth and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger) as the tortured composer Salieri, who does everything in his power to destroy his musical rival—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Samuel Adams).

Visit the Folger website for special related events.

Explore ARTECHOUSE’s newest exhibition, Lucid Motion, by globally renowned Japanese artist group Rhizomatiks Research and Daito Manabe. Opening September 28th in D.C., Lucid Motion aims to examine human motion from various standpoints using next-level technologies and expression methods to elaborate into three unique installations. Visitors will get to engage with dance performances themed on human motion, lights and shades as they experience these through multiple rooms. 

“An interdisciplinary digital Renaissance man”, Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe is known for his innovative approaches to the human body, programming, data, computers and other uses of arts and technology. Always future scentric, the Tokyo-based media artist and creative technologist uses programming, sound design and interaction design to develop groundbreaking production technology for major international events and art projects, from augmented reality videos for musicians to live interactive technology driven performances for dancers. 

On View September 29th – December 1st at ARTECHOUSE / DC

Tickets: $8-20 // Open to all ages

For tickets & details, visit: www.artechouse.com

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Profs and Pints presents: “The Story of American Cooking,” an examination of our nation’s culinary and eating habits over time, with Allen Pietrobon, assistant professor of global affairs at Trinity Washington University.

Want to be a big hit at the dinner table this Thanksgiving? Impress folks with your deep knowledge of American food history! Prepare by hearing award-winning Professor Allen Pietrobon tell the strange tale of what people have been cooking and eating here since the Mayflower arrived on our shores. You’ll learn how immigration, economic forces, politics, religion, gender, race, culture, foreign policy, and debates over national identity all have played a role in determining what went into our bellies.

In his special encore talk, Professor Pietrobon will start out by telling the real story of the first Thanksgiving. He’ll seat us at a table at the world-renown American restaurants of the 1890s and trudge with us through the bread lines of the 1930s. We’ll push a wonky-wheeled shopping cart through the 1950s dark ages of American cuisine with its cavernous supermarkets peddling frozen TV dinners and Jell-O salads. We’ll join the protests at the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s and venture into the edgy new “ethnic” restaurants in the 1980s. For dessert, we can all scoff at today’s $15 avocado toast.

He’ll discuss how, over the course of the past century, the United States went from being revered for having one of the best food cultures in the world a cuisine so deliciously unique that in the early 1900s wealthy Europeans would travel to America simply for culinary tours to today being (however unfairly) the subject of international ridicule for our junk foods, fast foods, and processed frozen meals. String cheese and SPAM anyone?

What caused this change? Does cuisine really reflect a nations culture? You’ll learn what food can teach us about a nation’s history. (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please give yourself adequate time to place orders and get seated and settled in.)

Explore ARTECHOUSE’s newest exhibition, Lucid Motion, by globally renowned Japanese artist group Rhizomatiks Research and Daito Manabe. Opening September 28th in D.C., Lucid Motion aims to examine human motion from various standpoints using next-level technologies and expression methods to elaborate into three unique installations. Visitors will get to engage with dance performances themed on human motion, lights and shades as they experience these through multiple rooms. 

“An interdisciplinary digital Renaissance man”, Rhizomatiks founder Daito Manabe is known for his innovative approaches to the human body, programming, data, computers and other uses of arts and technology. Always future scentric, the Tokyo-based media artist and creative technologist uses programming, sound design and interaction design to develop groundbreaking production technology for major international events and art projects, from augmented reality videos for musicians to live interactive technology driven performances for dancers. 

On View September 29th – December 1st at ARTECHOUSE / DC

Tickets: $8-20 // Open to all ages

For tickets & details, visit: www.artechouse.com

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM