Events Calendar

Step into a colorful digital world of 3D nature-inspired creatures and plant life that will react in real-time to your gestures and actions. New Nature at ARTECHOUSE, is the first solo exhibition for Polish born, San-Francisco based digital artist Marpi. The highly interactive exhibit inspired by early gaming platforms explores our organic world through interactive and immersive audio-visual experience, incorporating responsive technology, machine learning (A.I.), and sound. Marpi’s work harnesses the power of cutting-edge digital tools to offer new ways of interpreting the ecosystems and organic processes all around us.

4 rooms, Immersive projection setup, LED kelp forest, Responsive floors, 24ft tall evolving creature that responds to your touch, 3D digital petting zoo with 13 interactive terrarium stations and AR activations.

Open Daily for Daytime Sessions: All Ages (10am-4pm) and Evening Sessions: 21 (5:30pm-9:30/10:30pm).

TICKETS: $8-15 – www.artechouse.com

***Evening Sessions and weekends feature Augmented Reality Cocktails & Mocktails at ARTECHOUSE’s first AR Cocktail Bar in the country. Available for purchase separate from entry tickets.

Fall is here, bringing with it fresh challenges and changes—particularly to our skin. You may be wondering, what’s the best way to keep your skin smooth and hydrated now that the temps are getting cooler and drier? And, how are you actually supposed to groom your glorious No-Shave November facial hair?

Join Ivy Wild and Umar Khan on November 15th at 6:00pm to sip, sample and shop. We’ll give you the skinny on how to upgrade your skincare routine, and share our favorite products for fall and winter.

Ivy Wild carries a selection of the best clean skincare and grooming products from emerging and hard-to-find brands. Umar is a Pennsylvania native who recently moved to the DMV and is already inspiring us in all things fashion, lifestyle, grooming, and travel.

Spice up your Thirsty Thursdays and come hang with us! 

Join DC Fray at Union Market every Thursday for FREE bar bingo from 7-9pm.

Free to enter. Free to play. Free beer swag up for grabs. Sounds like a plan to us! Trivia is hard, Bingo is fun… See ya there!

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

If you live to eat, eat to live, or want to make a living feeding others, hear from Rose Previte—owner of Maydan and Compass Rose—and Chris Brady and Andrew Dana—co-owners of Timber Pizza—about their unexpected paths to becoming food entrepreneurs, lessons learned along the way, and tried-and-true advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. The conversation will be hosted by Daniel Pink, the author of several bestselling books about business, work, and behavior, including When, Drive, and To Sell Is Human.

Warning: This program could make you very hungry.

Sponsored by WeWork

“A virtuoso and a player of deeply intense sincerity…one of today’s preeminent violinists” – New York Times

Shaham’s “go-for-broke passion” and his “silvery tone, spot-on intonation and meticulously molded phrasing” (Washington Post) are perfectly showcased in an eclectic program ranging from the drama and fireworks of Avner Dorman’s Nigunim to the matchless harmonic intricacy of Bach. As the Baltimore Sun wrote of Shaham’s Bach in recital: “It’s hardly news that Shaham is an impeccable violinist, one capable of bringing out the mechanic and the majesty of Bach in equal measure. Still, it was great to be startled all over again by the brilliance of his playing, the penetrating power of his interpretations.”

This performance is made possible in part through the generous support of Mr. and Mrs. Eliezer H. Benbassat, and Frances and Leonard Burka.

Step into a colorful digital world of 3D nature-inspired creatures and plant life that will react in real-time to your gestures and actions. New Nature at ARTECHOUSE, is the first solo exhibition for Polish born, San-Francisco based digital artist Marpi. The highly interactive exhibit inspired by early gaming platforms explores our organic world through interactive and immersive audio-visual experience, incorporating responsive technology, machine learning (A.I.), and sound. Marpi’s work harnesses the power of cutting-edge digital tools to offer new ways of interpreting the ecosystems and organic processes all around us.

4 rooms, Immersive projection setup, LED kelp forest, Responsive floors, 24ft tall evolving creature that responds to your touch, 3D digital petting zoo with 13 interactive terrarium stations and AR activations.

Open Daily for Daytime Sessions: All Ages (10am-4pm) and Evening Sessions: 21 (5:30pm-9:30/10:30pm).

TICKETS: $8-15 – www.artechouse.com

***Evening Sessions and weekends feature Augmented Reality Cocktails & Mocktails at ARTECHOUSE’s first AR Cocktail Bar in the country. Available for purchase separate from entry tickets.

Authenticity isn’t something that can be manufactured in a studio. It’s not a craft that can be learned or artfully practiced. It comes from living life. It’s the byproduct of blood, sweat and tears and as the foundation for music, it elevates mere entertainment to compelling art. Every note, every word on the Randy Rogers Band’s new album Nothing Shines Like Neon rings with authenticity that makes each song linger with the listener long after the music fades.
“You’ve just got to be true to yourself and you can’t fool anybody,” Rogers states matter of factly of the band’s philosophy. “As a whole, our body of work is pretty consistent to our live show and the band that plays on the record is the band that you go see.”
The same line up has been performing together since 2002 and the music has evolved as they’ve soaked up life experience. “As men we’ve all matured and lived a lot of life together,” Rogers says. “We’ve had a few breakups happen to us. We’ve had babies. We’ve had life changes. We’ve been on the road 200 shows a year. I’ve been in this band 15 years so a lot has changed. I still listen to Merle Haggard every night. I mean that hasn’t changed, but a lot has changed for us musically and privately. We all are in a good spot and we all are just as good friends as when we started.”
Camaraderie and creativity have made Rogers and bandmates Geoffrey Hill (guitar), Johnny “Chops” Richardson (bass guitar), Brady Black (fiddle), Les Lawless (drums) and Todd Stewart (utility player) one of the top bands on the competitive Texas music scene. Nothing Shines Like Neon continues the momentum established by the band’s four previous albums—Randy Rogers Band, Burning the Day, Trouble and Homemade Tamales, each of which went to No. 1 on iTunes. Earlier in 2015, Rogers joined friend Wade Bowen to record the critically acclaimed album Hold My Beer Vol. 1. 
Produced by Nashville legend Buddy Cannon (Willie/Merle) at Cedar Creek in Austin, RRB’s news album Nothing Shines Like Neon showcases the band’s taut musicianship as well as Rogers’ earnest vocals and insightful songwriting on such instant classics as the groove laden “Rain and the Radio,” the heartbreak anthem “Neon Blues” and the playful “Actin’ Crazy,” a duet with Jamey Johnson. “Jamey and I wrote that song together,” Rogers notes. “I met a movie star a few days before Jamey and I were going to write. I was in LA playing at the House of Blues and he came out to the show. I was thinking about him …and thinking about being a struggling actor living in LA and having to put up with all the bullshit that LA is. I just wrote that song about him.”
The album opens with the fiddle driven shuffle “San Antone”. “That is a Keith Gattis song. He wrote by himself. Being from Texas and living so close to San Antonio, I don’t think that song is going to hurt me at all,” Rogers laughs. “It’s one of those songs when I heard it I was like, ‘Oh hell! Why didn’t I write this song?’” 
“Takin’ It As It Comes” features Lone Star legend Jerry Jeff Walker. “I’ve been a big fan of Jerry Jeff’s all my life,” Rogers says. “He came in the studio with us, got in there with the band, jumped around and played guitar and sang. We had a great time.”
“Rain and the Radio” is Rogers’ homage to Ronnie Milsap. “I wrote that with Sean McConnell. He and I have written a lot of songs through the years. I’ve always been a huge Ronnie Milsap fan and to me that song has a little Milsap feel to it, kind of a bluesy country thing, which we haven’t done before. Any artist that I look up to always tries to create something different and pushes the envelope a little bit. I think we do with that song in particular. It’s very country. It’s just very different. As a band, we’re trying to broaden our horizons and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. If we were all just stuck doing the same old thing, we would all be bored. We probably wouldn’t still be here. It’s just a matter of spreading your wings a little bit.” 
“Look Out Yonder” is a poignant tune Rogers recorded in honor of his mentor, the late Kent Finlay. “Kent gave me my start in the music business. Up until the day that he died, we talked about songs and about music,” Rogers says. “We actually named the record, Nothing Shines Like Neon after a lyric in one of his songs as a tribute to him. Alison Krauss and Dan Tyminski are singing on ‘Look Out Yonder’, which was written by Earl Bud Lee, who is most famous for writing ‘Friends In Low Places’. He and I have been friends for 10 years and he has always wanted me to cut that song. I’ve never had a record where it fit and just thinking about losing Kent and Kent going to heaven and joining his mom, ‘Look out yonder coming down the road’ it just fit. I haven’t performed that song yet live, but I know I’m going to have a hard time getting through it. The day we started our record, I got a call that Kent passed away so this record is definitely dedicated to Kent. That song makes me think about all of us musicians and how we are crazy as hell and lead the most unorthodox lives. Most of us return back to our roots, so hopefully this is an album that glorifies Kent’s life and is also a nod to the traditional sounds that we all grew up loving.”
A native of Cleburne, Texas, Rogers grew up addicted to traditional country music. “I wanted to be George Strait when I was in the sixth grade,” he says with a smile. “And I grew up listening to Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, I’ve listened to them more than anybody else, my whole life. I always liked songs. I always wanted to find out who wrote the songs and what the songs were about. I always liked the art and the craft of being a songwriter. My dad’s Beatles records got played a lot and Michael Martin Murphy is another one I listened to a lot as a kid. My dad was a huge fan.”
Like many artists, Rogers got his start performing in church and then expanded to local venues. “I could write a song when I was pretty little, 11, 12 or 13,” he says. “It’s like a kid who could do calculus or something. It was just something that clicked in my brain for me. I went and finished college and got a degree in public relations and then started a band.”
Since then the Randy Rogers Band has steadily built a following that has spilled beyond their native Texas. For the past 10 years they’ve recorded for Universal Music Group, but on Nothing Shines Like Neon, Rogers again takes the reins, releasing the album on his own Tommy Jackson Records, named after a song he wrote for their very first album. “It’s a very obscure Randy Rogers Band song and to this day there is always this one drunk kid at a show that says, ‘Play “Tommy Jackson!” Play “Tommy Jackson!”’ It’s kind of a running joke within our band. It’s like, ‘How in the hell did this kid in Iowa City, Iowa remember that stupid song “Tommy Jackson?”’ It’s about a guy who is on the run from the cops, wanted for murder. It’s a story song and we just felt like it was a unique way to name a record label.”
Nothing Shines Like Neon is a stellar collection in an already impressive body of recorded material that owes a lot to the band’s potent live show. “You come to a show, you know what you’re going to get,” Rogers says. “We’ve worked hard at making ourselves better on stage and we care about our live show. It’s a way to come out and unwind, and we’ve stuck to writing songs that are about real life, about breakups or divorces, falling in love or babies being born, and in the case of this record even death, the ups and downs of life. People can relate. That’s what country music is supposed to be. Our band has been around for a long time because there’s no bullshit to us. We’re not in it to be rich and famous. We’re in it to make a living, provide for our families and do something that we all love. You can’t fool people and we haven’t ever tried. I think that’s the key.”

Parker McCollum comes from a no-nonsense, hard-working family. His was the sort of upbringing where “if you’re going to do something and you’re not going to do it one-hundred percent; you shouldn’t do it all.” It’s why this 25-year-old treats each song he writes with a painstaking level of dedication, reverence, and — as he readily admits — even a bit of obsession. 

Parker says when a particular melody, lyric or emotion tugs at him he might stay in his room for days working on it. He can’t help himself.

That’s because, for the Austin-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, the result is worth the painstaking process. Parker — who broke out with the revealing and critically adored 2013 debut The Limestone Kid and returned with the acclaimed, Probably Wrong — says, “its like the songwriting muse takes over. I don’t choose when it hits me, but when it does, I pay attention — and it’s always worth the focus it asks of me.“

Probably Wrong (Nov. 10, 2017), pulls back the curtain to reveal Parker’s depth of artistry. The 10-track LP, written after the dissolution of a long-term relationship, is equal parts self-flagellating and transcendent. It is also the most honest he has ever been in song. There’s an inherent pain that bleeds through in the raw transparency of stunning songs including “I Can’t Breathe” and “Hell of a Year.” For Parker, putting his most intimate thoughts and feelings to song is more of a welcome relief than an act of bloodletting. “I don’t talk about my feelings very often,” he notes. “I keep a lot of things in most of the time, and I don’t want anybody else to have to deal with my stuff. So, I write songs instead.” 

Los Angeles quintet Young the Giant expertly juxtapose their adventurous spirit with fearless grace on their new single “Simplify,” the first release since 2016’s critically acclaimed album Home Of The Strange .
“Simplify,” produced by Alex Salibian (Harry Styles), comes at a time when we are engulfed in points of conflict and scrutiny, yet with this song Young the Giant have found some space to breathe. Expressed through genuine and poignant lyrics, focusing on the unequivocal peace of mind that accompanies true love.
Lead singer Sameer Gadhia explains “Everything in modern life is complicated. Each decision divides into possible alternatives, reflections multiplying within themselves endlessly, like a room of a thousand mirrors. We construct images of how life should be lived: how to act, dress, tweet, and vote, and often times it is easy to lose your true self to the images we create for all to see.
But love is simple, and to love someone is to love all of humanity. It is the closest thing to truth, and even though love can be compromising, painful, and exhausting, we can only see our truest selves in the eyes of another. This is the essence of “Simplify.”
Young the Giant first broke through with their 2010 self-titled debut album, which featured the RIAA-gold certified hits, “My Body” and “Cough Syrup.” This was followed by the release of 2014’s Mind Over Matter, which was both a commercial and critical success and prompted The New York Times to call [Lead singer Sameer Gadhia] “one of the great contemporary rock voices.” Young the Giant continued to brave new themes and sonic landscapes with their wildly adventurous third album, Home of the Strange, anchored by the perspective of the modern American immigrant as most members of the quintet are immigrants or first-generation Americans. Gadhia had an in-depth conversation with NPR’s Ailsa Chang on the topic (see here ). The album features hits “Amerika,” “Something to Believe In,” and “Silvertongue.”
Young the Giant is composed of Sameer Gadhia (vocals), Jacob Tilley (guitar), Eric Cannata (guitar/vocals), Payam Doostzadeh (bass), and Francois Comtois (drums/vocals). They’ve sold out performances at historic venues such as Radio City Music Hall, The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, The Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, and more.
They have become a festival mainstay at high profile outings such as Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, and Governor’s Ball among others. Over the course of their career, Young The Giant has charted 5 singles on the Billboard Alternative Top 10.
For more information and artist updates, visit youngthegiant.com.

Join Charles “Chuck” Cook, a journalist and photographer specializing in writing about Belgian beer, as he surveys some of the country’s can’t-miss breweries and tasting cafes, some of which date back 200 years. Based on his visits to more than 175 breweries during 35 trips to Belgium, Cook offers a personal guide to hidden gems, must-see sites, and tips and tricks for making the most of a beer-focused trip through Flanders, Wallonia, and Brussels. He also examines regional differences among breweries, including brewing styles. Then Tom Peters, the owner of the iconic Monk’s Café in Philadelphia who has been dubbed the “Godfather of Belgian Beer,” offers suggestions on places in America to enjoy authentic Belgian brews if you can’t make it to Europe. He explores how the evolution of American craft beer has influenced Belgian makers, talks about his collaboration with Brussels brewery Brasserie de la Senne, and leads a tasting that contrasts the fruit of their Belgo-American collaboration, a special new double saison labeled Major Tom, with a more traditional saison.

Member $35, General Admission $50. For tickets and further information call 202-633-3030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org

Journalist, author, and producer Vikki Tobak participates in a panel discussion celebrating her new book, Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, which takes readers on a chronological journey from old-school to alternative Hip Hop and from analog to digital photography. The discussion will feature Chuck D and special guests including music historian/DJ Adrian Loving, along with industry legends Ernie Paniccioli, Janette Beckman, Danny Hastings, Fab 5 Freddy, Barron Claiborne, and Rhea L. Combs.

Scheduled for release in October 2018, the book features rare outtakes from more than 100 photoshoots, interviews, and essays from industry legends such as Bill Adler, Rhea L. Combs, Fab 5 Freddy, Michael Gonzales, Young Guru, DJ Premier, and RZA, in addition to a foreword by Questlove. This event is curated by Vikki Tobak and Adrian Loving.

All ticket buyers will receive a copy of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop included in the price of their ticket. 
Following the performance, panelists will sign books in the States Gallery.

Hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock following the breakout success of 2016’s Puberty 2, Mitski returns with Be The Cowboy, out August 17th via Dead Oceans, and presents the album’s lead single “Geyser,” with an accompanying video directed by Zia Anger. Mitski’s carefully crafted songs have often been portrayed as emotionally raw, overflowing confessionals from a fevered chosen girl, but in her fifth album, Mitski introduces a persona who has been teased before but never so fully present until now—a woman in control.

“For this new record, I experimented in narrative and fiction,” comments Mitski. Though she hesitates to go so far as to say she created full-on characters, she reveals she had in mind “a very controlled icy repressed woman who is starting to unravel. Because women have so little power and showing emotion is seen as weakness, this ‘character’ clings to any amount of control she can get. Still, there is something very primordial in her that is trying to find a way to get out.”

In Be The Cowboy, Mitski delves into the loneliness of being a symbol and the loneliness of being someone, how it can feel so much like being no one. Lead single “Geyser” introduces us to a woman who can’t hold it all in any more. She’s about to burst and unleash a torrent of desire and passion that has been building up inside. While recording the album with her long-time producer Patrick Hyland, the pair kept returning to “the image of someone alone on a stage, singing solo with a single spotlight trained on them in an otherwise dark room. For most of the tracks, we didn’t layer the vocals with doubles or harmonies to achieve that campy ‘person singing alone on stage’ atmosphere.”

There is plenty of buoyant swagger on Be The Cowboy, but just as much interrogation into self-mythology. Throughout these 14 songs, the music swerves from the cheerful to the plaintive. Mournful piano ballads lead into deceptively uptempo songs. “I had been on the road for a long time, which is so isolating, and had to run my own business at the same time. A lot of this record was me not having any feelings, being completely spent but then trying to rally myself and wake up and get back to Mitski.”

Step into a colorful digital world of 3D nature-inspired creatures and plant life that will react in real-time to your gestures and actions. New Nature at ARTECHOUSE, is the first solo exhibition for Polish born, San-Francisco based digital artist Marpi. The highly interactive exhibit inspired by early gaming platforms explores our organic world through interactive and immersive audio-visual experience, incorporating responsive technology, machine learning (A.I.), and sound. Marpi’s work harnesses the power of cutting-edge digital tools to offer new ways of interpreting the ecosystems and organic processes all around us.

4 rooms, Immersive projection setup, LED kelp forest, Responsive floors, 24ft tall evolving creature that responds to your touch, 3D digital petting zoo with 13 interactive terrarium stations and AR activations.

Open Daily for Daytime Sessions: All Ages (10am-4pm) and Evening Sessions: 21 (5:30pm-9:30/10:30pm).

TICKETS: $8-15 – www.artechouse.com

***Evening Sessions and weekends feature Augmented Reality Cocktails & Mocktails at ARTECHOUSE’s first AR Cocktail Bar in the country. Available for purchase separate from entry tickets.

Get ready to explore DC in the most delicious way possible. Come join us on November 17th from 2-6PM for the Wine Walk Event with DC Fray. You will discover new Bars and restaurants in the DC area, as you go from one establishment to the next filling your tastebuds with different wines and foods. 

Each participant will receive their own custom DC Fray Wine Glass and their DC Fray Wine Guide which will be used to help navigate participants through the city. Each participant will be given the freedom to make their own route. The DC Fray Wine Guide will be used to keep track of the free samples of wine that participants will receive at each bar. It will also have food specials listed that pertain to each individual bar. Come enjoy this unique and fun experience with your friends and family.

More details to come!

This is a 21 event. (ID Required at event)

With current events giving us daily reminders about the mistreatment and abuse suffered by women, as well as their underrepresentation in positions of power, this Flashband looks to help stand with women at this point of crisis by celebrating and giving voice to female artists.

In a singular collaboration between the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center and James Blachly’s Experiential Orchestra, audience members will be invited to experience the provocative art of Jim Sanborn through a curated soundscape that pairs the simulated antiquities in Without Provenance: The Making of Contemporary Antiquity with millennia-old musical compositions, all of which are “sine nomine,” or “without a name.” These anonymous compositions will each be paired with a contemporary Cambodian replica of ancient Khmer art, creating a dialogue about art and identity, maker and craft when confronted with creativity that bears no title. Tickets are $25 per person. Free for all students with valid ID. Register at www.tinyurl.com/AUMtix

Hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock following the breakout success of 2016’s Puberty 2, Mitski returns with Be The Cowboy, out August 17th via Dead Oceans, and presents the album’s lead single “Geyser,” with an accompanying video directed by Zia Anger. Mitski’s carefully crafted songs have often been portrayed as emotionally raw, overflowing confessionals from a fevered chosen girl, but in her fifth album, Mitski introduces a persona who has been teased before but never so fully present until now—a woman in control.

“For this new record, I experimented in narrative and fiction,” comments Mitski. Though she hesitates to go so far as to say she created full-on characters, she reveals she had in mind “a very controlled icy repressed woman who is starting to unravel. Because women have so little power and showing emotion is seen as weakness, this ‘character’ clings to any amount of control she can get. Still, there is something very primordial in her that is trying to find a way to get out.”

In Be The Cowboy, Mitski delves into the loneliness of being a symbol and the loneliness of being someone, how it can feel so much like being no one. Lead single “Geyser” introduces us to a woman who can’t hold it all in any more. She’s about to burst and unleash a torrent of desire and passion that has been building up inside. While recording the album with her long-time producer Patrick Hyland, the pair kept returning to “the image of someone alone on a stage, singing solo with a single spotlight trained on them in an otherwise dark room. For most of the tracks, we didn’t layer the vocals with doubles or harmonies to achieve that campy ‘person singing alone on stage’ atmosphere.”

There is plenty of buoyant swagger on Be The Cowboy, but just as much interrogation into self-mythology. Throughout these 14 songs, the music swerves from the cheerful to the plaintive. Mournful piano ballads lead into deceptively uptempo songs. “I had been on the road for a long time, which is so isolating, and had to run my own business at the same time. A lot of this record was me not having any feelings, being completely spent but then trying to rally myself and wake up and get back to Mitski.”

Overcoats is the New York-based female duo of Hana Elion and JJ Mitchell. Their debut album YOUNG captures a sound rich in minimalism and melody: songs of connection and tension, on the depths of love and challenges of family.

Overcoats’ music draws strength from vulnerability, finding light through darkness, and the catharsis of simple, honest songwriting. YOUNG is about a transformation: the passage into womanhood, sung through the shared experience of two best friends.

On their first single “Hold Me Close,” Hana and JJ’s melodies are purity in unison, providing two distinct but entwined perspectives on the complexity of love. In their words, “the song is about finding solace in the present when the future and past seem impossible to understand. It’s about loneliness and disillusionment that we can feel in relationships, and how we must persevere anyway in hopes of finding the beauty in love.”

Elion and Mitchell were drawn to each other when they first met in 2011, finding connection in their diverse love of music and an immediate closeness that verges on sisterhood. Their meeting was transformative emotionally as well as creatively. Both halves of Overcoats describe the first time hearing each other sing as an epiphany: the harmony of their voices leading to personal, individual discovery. This bond forms the foundation of Overcoats, and it fills the ecosystem of YOUNG with its stunning sound and sentiment.

Wonder-FULL™ returns to DC for the 10th Anniversary
presented by Keistar, DJ Spinna & Shine On Me Productions

DJ Spinna & DJ Jahsonic

All Things Stevie Wonder, All Night Long

New Venue -> City Winery @ the newly opened Wine Garden 

Discounted “Early Bird” tickets in limited quantity.

This is that party that we KNOW you don’t wanna miss.

21 w/ valid ID


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“WONDER-Full™ – Tribute To The Wonder Of Stevie”a concept created by KeiStar Productions honoring the legendary genius Stevie Wonder… which featured DJ Spinna & *Bobbito who back in 1999, were asked to spin at a party paying tribute to Stevie Wonder’s “Songs In The Key Of Life” album. At this event, we quickly realized we all had a mutual love for ‘Little Stevie’s’ music and judging from the atmosphere on the dance floor that night, we knew we had a good thing going. * (Bobbito has moved on to pursue other ventures since 2008).
KeiStar Productions has successfully produced the WONDER-Full event since 1999 starting in its hometown of New York City. From then on KeiStar Productions and DJ Spinna have traveled and hosted the WONDER-Full™ event nationally and internationally from NYC to Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington DC, London, Berlin, Sweden, Canada, Japan, and Amsterdam.

Step into a colorful digital world of 3D nature-inspired creatures and plant life that will react in real-time to your gestures and actions. New Nature at ARTECHOUSE, is the first solo exhibition for Polish born, San-Francisco based digital artist Marpi. The highly interactive exhibit inspired by early gaming platforms explores our organic world through interactive and immersive audio-visual experience, incorporating responsive technology, machine learning (A.I.), and sound. Marpi’s work harnesses the power of cutting-edge digital tools to offer new ways of interpreting the ecosystems and organic processes all around us.

4 rooms, Immersive projection setup, LED kelp forest, Responsive floors, 24ft tall evolving creature that responds to your touch, 3D digital petting zoo with 13 interactive terrarium stations and AR activations.

Open Daily for Daytime Sessions: All Ages (10am-4pm) and Evening Sessions: 21 (5:30pm-9:30/10:30pm).

TICKETS: $8-15 – www.artechouse.com

***Evening Sessions and weekends feature Augmented Reality Cocktails & Mocktails at ARTECHOUSE’s first AR Cocktail Bar in the country. Available for purchase separate from entry tickets.

Create one-of-a-kind holiday greeting cards while learning the tips and techniques of professional card making from expert crafter Karen Cadogan. Explore embossing, debossing, masking, and creative paper folding. Learn the Bokeh technique to create soft, diffused effects with inks. The workshop focuses on every aspect of your holiday cards, from learning how to incorporate memorable greetings on the inside to practical tips on how to use tape to create an entirely new set of ink stamps. Beginners and experienced card makers are welcome. All card-making supplies are provided, and participants leave with a generous assortment of premium cardstock paper, stamps, ink and inkpads, collage papers, ribbon, and other embellishments to continue crafting at least 20 holiday cards. Students are welcome to bring in personal embellishments or to upcycle old holiday cards, if they choose.

Member $75, General Admission $85. For tickets and further information call 202-633-3030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.

Join Washington Performing Arts for this seasonal concert bearing messages of hope and gratitude for the gifts that fill our lives with meaning and joy.

Showcasing a wide range of repertoire, With a Grateful Heart shines a spotlight on the artistry of our local gospel community, as the Washington Performing Arts Men and Women of the Gospel Choir features works by Stellar Award–winning composer/performer Phillip Carter and by Stellar nominees Patrick Lundy and Roderick Giles. The choir will be joined on stage by Lundy and Giles and by special guest soloist Thomas Allen.

Now more than ever, with divisiveness on the rise, the gospel choir is a powerful reminder of how people from all backgrounds can lend their voices to a common cause and literally sing as one. Join us as we celebrate a grateful spirit!

Gateway Student Tickets: $10 student tickets are available for this performance. Contact Ticket Services at (202) 785-9727 to order.

Gospel music programs at Washington Performing Arts are made possible in part by the Beech Street Foundation and Mr. Jeffrey Bauman and Ms. Linda Fienberg; the Dan Cameron Family Foundation, Inc.; Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman; and Reginald Van Lee.