Events Calendar

Beer pong with Uncle Sam, a hula hooping drag Statue of Liberty, sexy Benjamin Franklins, naked drunk history lessons, Price is Right-style gaming, and many more UNREDACTED antics await you at AMERICA THE GAME SHOW. F*ck Yeah!

In this glitzy and outlandish production, VOLUNTEER audience contestants come on down for 8 EPIC GAMES inspired by good ‘ole American hearsay, hanky-panky, and history.

21 (sorry kids)

ABOUT ASTRO POP EVENTS
Astro Pop has been bringing artists and audiences together for over a decade to create unique and off-beat entertainment. The group specializes in short-run, high-impact, event-style theater.  Their credits include America The Game Show (since 2016), Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club (since 2011),  and Countdown to Yuri’s Night (2008 – 2015). They have also done wacky side stuff like concocting crazy floats for DC’s Funk Parade.

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

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

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Paul Scheer (The League, Black Monday), Jason Mantzoukas (The League, Brooklyn 99) and June Diane Raphael (Grace & Frankie, Long Shot) are experts in the best of the worst of cinema. On the award-winning HOW DID THIS GET MADE, they gather their funniest friends and subject themselves to a cinematic nightmare. HOW DID THIS GET MADE live episodes are a truly unique experience. The audience participates through questions to the hosts, creating impromptu songs for segments, and viewing one of a kind clips.  Featuring Body of Evidence, starring William Defoe, Madonna, Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer.

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

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

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Profs and Pints presidents: “The Great American Road Trip,” with Allen Pietrobon, adjunct professor of modern American history at American University and visiting professor at Trinity Washington University.

Perhaps no genre of book is so typically American than the travel narrative. From the Underground Railroad to the Settlement of the West to the modern cross-country road trip, travel narratives have infused American history and popular culture.

Many of these stories are written by people who found themselves to be “outsiders” along the way. From Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi, to John Stienbeck’s Travels With Charlie, to Jack Kerouac’s On The Road, in most of these stories the protagonist is positioned as an explorer in an exotic place—whether that be Jim Crow Alabama or the American West—on a journey of self-discovery to encounter the “real” America.

What is so compelling about travel stories? What can they teach us about American history, culture, and society? And why are there so few female road narratives?

Just in time for the summer vacation season, join Allen Pietrobon for a trip into America. After exploring the nature and impact of American travel stories, we’ll look at one specific treacherous journey in 1753; a 10-week hike into the interior of America through the wilderness in what was then enemy territory. This “road trip” to deliver a single letter would spark a war that would redraw the map and change the fate of North America forever.

Come along for a journey with a detour into a crucial turning point in American history. You’ll have a blast without spending money on tolls and gas. (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please give yourself plenty of time to place any orders and get settled in.)

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

For Tickets & Details visit: https://www.dc.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: “Caught Up in Gettysburg,” a look at the civilians near the historic battle’s front lines, with Theodore Hirt, professorial lecturer at George Washington University’s law school and licensed Gettysburg town guide.

Much attention has been focused on the military aspects of the Battle of Gettysburg, widely regarded as a turning point of the Civil War. But Union and Confederate soldiers were hardly the only ones whose fates hung in the balance during those harrowing days in July 1863.

Many residents of this Pennsylvania crossroads town endured the battle and its after-effects. Some hid in their cellars to avoid snipers and cannon fire. Others tended to the wounded in churches and their homes. A few attempted childish pranks and paid the price with their lives. The town gained more renown when Lincoln dedicated its National Cemetery in November 1863, with the Gettysburg Address having a distinct meaning to those who literally resided at a Gettysburg address. Come hear their stories and learn what it was like to have one of the nation’s bloodiest conflicts fought just outside your door.

Hirt, a member of the Gettysburg Licensed Town Historians and Guides, also will tackle a host of common questions related to the battle. Was Union victory inevitable? Could the Confederacy have prevailed if its generals had been more decisive? It is true that Lincoln “jotted down” notes for the Address on scrap paper during his train ride from Washington, and that he and the media regarded the Address as a failure? (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself plenty of time to place any orders and get settled into place.)

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

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

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Take a break from the summer heat to explore the newly reinstalled Connections: Contemporary Craft at the Renwick Gallery for inspiration. Then head to the Rubenstein Grand Salon to make a basket from fiber or paper for your summer souvenirs. Enjoy beer from Denizens Brewing and music by From Pebble to Pearl while you work. Ticket price includes two beers, souvenir glass, crafting supplies, live music, and light snacks. Must be 21 or older to purchase tickets and present valid ID at the door for entry. Tickets ($25) are available beginning July 8.

Profs and Pints presents: “Britain Beneath the Frosting,” a look at Brexit, baking shows, and other ingredients of a troubled empire, with Sam Wetherell, lecturer on British and World History at the University of York.

Through TV shows, tourist attractions, children’s books, and royal marriages, Britain has done a clever job of rebranding itself and making its history and character more palatable to other nations. For most Americans, references to its past conjure up visions of steam trains and drafty country where deferential servants looked after dim-witted aristocrats. The Great British Baking Show, with its verdant settings, prominent flags, and carefully cultivated niceness, represents the epitome of how today’s Britain has been idealized.

Could it be, though, that almost everything Americans understand about Britain, its history, and its place in the world is wrong? Is a nation what created the world’s most gigantic empire, and spent centuries violently remaking the world in its own image, maintaining a positive reputation through sleight of hand?

With the sunset of its industry and empire, and with its attempted imminent departure from Europe, Britain is a country unsure of what to do with itself. The purpose of its large cities, which sprang up during the industrial revolution, is increasingly unclear. Its economic prospects are uncertain, its place in the world in doubt. It turns to baking as spectator sport to keep its mind of its growing irrelevance. Its own relationship with its history is distorted by nostalgia and amnesia, with its imperialism celebrated, its past racism forgotten.

How did we get here? And what does any of this have to do with biscuits, crumble, and tarts? Hear such questions tackled by Sam Wetherell, the author of a forthcoming book on how Britain’s urban landscape and culture were reimagined throughout the twentieth century. If you find yourself craving dessert, the Bier Baron serves up delicious fried Oreos. (Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself plenty of time to place any orders and get settled into place.)

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.

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

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

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

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

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

If you like the internet, you are going to like this show! The Free Wifi Comedy Show is bringing together some of the Washington, D.C. area’s best and brightest comics and blending them together for a great monthly showcase. Don’t miss this juicy lineup at the Colony Club in the District.

Show will start at 8:00 pm sharp and end at 9:30 pm. Doors Open at 7:30 PM. No bull just the juice hence the name (No Pulp Comedy). A weeknight fun thing you can enjoy and get up early

Also if you want to avoid the service fee from Eventbrite, buy tickets for a flat fee on Venmo: https://venmo.com/Adrian-Rodney . If using Venmo put name and email and how many are coming in your party.

Also on the show:

Natalie McGill (Redacted Tonight)

Quentin Hardy (Comedy Festivals)

Saw Walton (Underground Comedy)

Christian Escoto (Exiles)

Host:

Adrian Rodney (Producer of No Pulp Comedy)

Step inside Infinite Space, the first major retrospective of the work of award-winning, artist Refik Anadol, and open your senses to the endless transformation and infinite possibilities at the intersection of man and machine.

How to perceive or imagine infinity has always been one of the central questions of representation in art. ARTECHOUSE’s Summer exhibition attempts to answer it through data sets from memories, culture and space.

The exhibition explores memories and dreams through the mind of a machine by using the tools available to twenty-first-century artists – datasets ranging from human memories, photographs of Mars, cultural archives and sea surface activity as data sculptures and paintings. As part of the exhibition visitors will get to experience Anadol’s world traveled immersive installation titled “Infinity Room” seen by more than a million people around the world, including a half million during a tour in China alone last year, three infinity boxes and a selection of multimedia works spanning his celebrated career.

Recommended Ages 6

On View June 13 – September 2 at ARTECHOUSE / Washington, DC

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

Daytime Admission:

Daily // 10AM – 5PM

After Hours Admission (21 ):

Sun – Thu // 5PM – 10PM

Fri & Sat // 5:30PM – 11:30PM

Acuña Acuna is a one person comedy show based on the real life of comedian Erick Acuña, a Peruvian latino living in America. The show is a series of true and hilarious monologues and sketches that follows his arrival in the US.

The show debuted in November 2018 at Dojo Comedy (Washington DC) with a sold out run. The show has also been performed at The Peoples Improv Theater’s solo comedy festival ‘Solocom’ (New York), and the Good Good Comedy Theatre (Philadelphia). 

In addition, out of 500 applications around the country, ‘Acuña Acuna’ was a finalist at the Yes And Laughter Lab in partnership with Comedy Central.