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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 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.

**This show will have ASL interpretation**

“At least this will make a great story someday.” Slammers, that day has come! Find the treasure in your pleasure-gone-pear-shaped stories of sexcapades that definitely did not go as planned, when you present your best tail fails to a roomful of sympathetic smutsters. Let’s raise a cup of cheer in honor of those so-bad-it’s-good sex stories!

(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 “Best Laid Plans”. What do you do when your erotic thriller turns into a bedroom farce? Maybe your missed connection led to a hot new hookup– or maybe your anal adventures landed you a spot in the EMTs’ Hall of Fame. Whether you rallied like a champ or threw in the towel, we want to hear why your tantric marathon fell short of the finish line. Let off steam from holiday planning with steamy stories of sex gone sideways!

Join us before the show to enjoy the luxurious Smut Slam Lounge, where you can sample delicious Asian small plates, enjoy our exclusive cocktail specials, and browse vintage erotica and collections of F*ckbucket confessions from past shows. Get swag, merch, and edutainment from our vendor and partner tables– including NEW 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 and Überlube— and including the exclusive Butt Slam DC paddle, made by our newest sponsor Creamed and Sugared, that will ONLY ever be available by telling a prizewinning story.

Doors: 7:00pm (for the upstairs lounge; seating at 7:30 PM)
Show: 8:00pm

21 venue, dress is casual-to-fabulous!

The Oh Hellos Present: The Oh Hellos Christmas Extravaganza

w/ Family Crest.

The Oh Hellos are siblings Tyler and Maggie Heath. Originally formed after writing a song for their mother’s birthday, the band has gone on to release six records, including their fan-favorite holiday album The Oh Hellos Family Christmas Album. This December The Oh Hellos will bring to the stage their “Christmas Extravaganza” – a unique holiday event mixing the band’s critically acclaimed live show with music from their Christmas Album, additional carols, bad jokes, sing-alongs, dancing, revelry, and all the holiday cheer you can squeeze onto one stage! 

Since forming in 2011, The Oh Hellos have earned a reputation as a very special live act. The sibling duo is surrounded on stage by a rotating cast of pickers and players, numbering as many as 13 at any given time, often spilling into the audience. The show, like the music itself, is at times delicate, intimate, affectionate; and at other times, soaring, towering and joyfully explosive.

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The Oh Hellos are siblings Tyler and Maggie Heath. Originally formed after writing a song for their mother’s birthday, the band has gone on to release four records, including their fan-favorite holiday album The Oh Hellos Family Christmas Album. This December, for the first time, the band will bring to the stage their “Christmas Extravaganza” – a unique holiday event mixing the band’s critically acclaimed live show with music from their Christmas Album, additional carols, bad jokes, sing-alongs, dancing, revelry, and all the holiday cheer you can squeeze onto one stage! 

Since forming in 2011, The Oh Hellos have earned a reputation as a very special live act. The sibling duo is surrounded on stage by a rotating cast of pickers and players, numbering as many as 13 at any given time, often spilling into the audience. The show, like the music itself, is at times delicate, intimate, affectionate; and at other times, soaring, towering and joyfully explosive. Paste praises the live show, saying it “sounds as big as it looks,” while The Wild Honey Pie furthers, “…the band absolutely explodes with magnetic energy, and the audience always follows suit.”

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.

Hallelujah Anyhow is the latest studio album from Hiss Golden Messenger, out September 22 worldwide on Merge Records. Its ten new songs, penned by HGM principal M.C. Taylor, were recorded with Brad Cook, Phil Cook, Chris Boerner, Josh Kaufman, Darren Jessee, Michael Lewis, and Scott Hirsch. Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Tift Merritt, Skylar Gudasz, Tamisha Waden, Mac McCaughan, and John Paul White provided vocal harmonies.

“I see the dark clouds. I was designed to see them. They’re the same clouds of fear and destruction that have darkened the world since Revelations, just different actors. But this music is for hope. That’s the only thing I want to say about it. Love is the only way out. I’ve never been afraid of the darkness; it’s just a different kind of light. And if some days that belief comes harder than others, hallelujah anyhow.” —M.C. Taylor

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.

Lindsey Jordan is on the brink of something huge, and she’s only just graduated high school. Her voice rises and falls with electricity throughout Lush, her debut album as Snail Mail, spinning with bold excitement and new beginnings at every turn.

“Is there any better feeling than coming clean?” sings the eighteen-year-old guitarist and songwriter halfway through the sprawling anthem that is “Pristine,” the album’s first single. You can’t help but agree with her. It’s a hook that immediately sticks in your head—and a question she seems to be grappling with throughout the record’s 10-songs of crystalline guitar pop.

Throughout Lush, Jordan’s clear and powerful voice, acute sense of pacing, and razor-sharp writing cut through the chaos and messiness of growing up: the passing trends, the awkward house parties, the sick-to-your-stomach crushes and the heart wrenching breakups. Jordan’s most masterful skill is in crafting tension, working with muted melodrama that builds and never quite breaks, stretching out over moody rockers and soft-burning hooks, making for visceral slow-releases that stick under the skin.

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.

W/ Electric Love Machine

A 6 piece powerhouse with a sound that is both unique and timeless, Big Something fuses elements of rock, pop, funk, and improvisation to take listeners on a journey through a myriad of musical styles. It’s no secret why this group has quickly become one of the most exciting new bands to emerge from the Southeast. Soaring guitars, EWI (electronic wind instrument), synths, horns and alluring vocal hooks rise to the top of their infectious collection of songs and represent a sound that has caught the ears of such revered stalwarts as Umphrey’s McGee, Moon Taxi, Galactic, moe., Robert Randolph, and even The B52s, who have all tapped Big Something as direct support.
Recently, the band released their 5th studio album The Otherside on April 20th, 2018 as a follow up to their 2017 album Tumbleweed. The Otherside was recorded at Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, NC with the help of Grammy-nominated producer and Carolina Music Awards Lifetime Achievement recipient – John Custer (Corrosion of Conformity) who has produced all 5 of the bands albums.
On The Otherside, Big Something continues to build upon the post-apocalyptic peyote trip imagery from Tumbleweed, concluding the story of a nomad who has made it to the other side of his journey wandering through the night towards a desert sunrise. The album also showcases a different musical side of the band with a heavier, more focused and soulful collection of 8 songs including “Smoke Signal,” and “Wildfire.”
Big Something is Nick MacDaniels (vocals, guitar), Casey Cranford (sax, EWI), Jesse Hensley (lead guitar), Ben Vinograd (drums), Doug Marshall (bass), Josh Kagel (keys, trumpet), and Rhett Huffman (keys).

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.

Politics and Prose Bookstore and Washington Performing Arts’ Mars Urban Arts Initiative are teaming up to offer a series of holiday pop-up concerts at P&P’s flagship store throughout the 2018 holiday season. The featured performers all work and live in the D.C. area and represent a variety of musical traditions, including Latin, classical, a cappella, Gospel, and more. These events are part of Washington Performing Arts’ global programming initiative, The World in Our City, which provides perspective on what it means to be a citizen of the world through a unique arts-based lens.

KOMITAS TRIO
Christine Kharazian, violin
Peter Fields, guitar
Ivan Navas, percussion

Komitas Trio performs holiday classics arranged for violin, guitar, and percussion. The trio’s leader is an active violinist and music educator in Washington, D.C. Kharazian is a concert violinist, a graduate of the Komitas State Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Advanced School of Music in Yerevan. She studied violin with Prof. Edward Dayan, a pupil of David Oistrakh. Her early performance experience includes 5 years with the Armenian National Opera’s Symphony as a member of the first violins, and with the Sharakan Ensemble of Ancient and Medieval Music of Armenian TV and Radio, as a soloist. As a soloist, she has performed in concerts at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Hall, Dumbarton House, the Gallery at The Ellipse, and various Embassies in Washington, among other venues. Christine is an experienced educator. An alumna of the Inspired Teaching Institute, she teaches at Sidwell Friends School and Fillmore Arts Center in Washington, D.C., and is a Washington Performing Arts teaching artist for the Capitol Strings program.

This event is free to attend with no reservation required.

Washington Performing Arts’ Mars Urban Arts Initiative is generously supported by Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars, Incorporated.

w/ War On Women

For more than 27 years, the NYC-based and critically acclaimed Slackers have been touring the world with their blend of Ska, Reggae, and Soul. Since the early 1990s, the Slackers have released fifteen records and countless singles while their live performances feed their fans with their energetic sets of ecstatic music. And the press agrees: Modern Vinyl says “For some bands, hitting 25 years together seems light years away. For The Slackers, it’s a cause for celebration. The band is deeply rooted within the ska movement, while their self-proclaimed “Jamaican Rock n’ Roll” sound sets them apart from many bands today.

Other press state that the Slackers are “the best ska band in the world” (Rude International), “the pick of the US crop” (Metal Hammer), “the sound of New York’ (New York Times), “is about as close to perfect as it gets” (Ink 19), and “one of the best bands in the United States” (axs.com).

Their festival performances have included Punk Rock Bowling, Fest Florida, Boomtown Fair, Santa Monica Pier Twilight Concert Series, Rebellion Fest, Summerjam, Mighty Sounds, Ruhrpott Rodeo, Shamballa, Pouzza Fest, Montreal Jazz Festival, Austin Reggae Fest, Dour Fest, Lowlands, and many others.

Their headline dates include venues such as a 3-night stand at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, Slim’s in San Francisco, House of Blues in Anaheim, Irving Plaza in NYC, a 2 night stand at the Bell House in Brooklyn, 3-night stand at Reggie’s in Chicago, and a 3-night stand at the Flamingo Cantina in Austin.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

Broke Royals have been praised by Billboard for their “sing-along, arena-ready sound,” named an Artist On The Rise by Southwest Airlines, called one of the best live bands in DC by CBS and receive thousands of monthly plays on Spotify. On December 28 & 29, Broke Royals will return to Jammin’ Java for two nights of premium rock & roll. Last December, Broke Royals and the Brindley brothers teamed up for the very first concert at Union Stage, the Brindley brother’s brand new 450-capacity venue at The Wharf in Washington DC. This year, they are expanding to a two-night event at the legendary Northern Virginia rock club Jammin’ Java. Sub-Radio, Luke James Shaffer, Reed Appleseed and Leffty (fka Virginia Man) will also be performing.

w/ Big D and the Kids Table • The Forwards • DJ Selah

The seed was planted in 1990. A bunch of friends started a band with no pretensions: the idea was to make music for house parties, not to make a career out of music. These guys and a girl grew up in and around Washington, D.C. The scene was small and all the Punks, Skins, and Mods intermixed in those days. You were as likely to see a Mod at a Scream show as you were to see a Punk at a Toasters show. This varied influence is what informed the covers that the Pietasters played and the originals they wrote trying to emulate their favorite bands. From Two-Tone Ska, to Jamaican crooners like Alton Ellis, to Stax, Motown, harDCore, and British Punk, the Pietasters played what they liked to play and the house partiers appreciated the mix and crammed into basements and living rooms for sweaty all night keg drinking and dancing.

Playing on weekends and during the summer they slowly expanded their touring area, made new friends, and gained the notice of music fans up and down the east coast. The influence of D.C.’s DIY punk scene informed the band of how you should tour, on your own terms. After releasing a self-titled album in 1993 they hit the road in an old school bus and headed west. Relentless touring through the early 90s got them friends all over the U.S.A. MOON Records took notice and the band released two albums, Oolooloo, and Strapped LIVE, on that storied label during the magic days of third wave ska alongside bands like Hepcat, The Slackers, Toasters, etc.

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.

Broke Royals have been praised by Billboard for their “sing-along, arena-ready sound,” named an Artist On The Rise by Southwest Airlines, called one of the best live bands in DC by CBS and receive thousands of monthly plays on Spotify. On December 28 & 29, Broke Royals will return to Jammin’ Java for two nights of premium rock & roll. Last December, Broke Royals and the Brindley brothers teamed up for the very first concert at Union Stage, the Brindley brother’s brand new 450-capacity venue at The Wharf in Washington DC. This year, they are expanding to a two-night event at the legendary Northern Virginia rock club Jammin’ Java. Sub-Radio, Luke James Shaffer, Reed Appleseed and Leffty (fka Virginia Man) will also be performing.

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.

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.

“STEEL PULSE may have explored various styles of music since they started out in 1975, but when it comes to the message, the UK’s Grammy – Winning reggae band has remained close to their roots. The Group have continued their commitment to fighting injustice, educating the masses, and promoting positive messages through spiritually uplifting music.

“We just can’t ignore the politics, because every life and soul that’s born on this earth is a political manoeuvre for someone, at some stage”, Hinds explains. “From a spiritual aspect, it’s really an upliftment through facing reality – what’s out there. We deal with positive spirits. It means putting aside the guns, the drugs and all of the things that are ailments of society – especially the black communities right now”.

STEEL PULSE have always taken their causes to heart, filing a $1 million class action lawsuit against New York City’s Taxi & Limousine Commission. The group charged that cabbies refused to pick up blacks and Rastafarians throughout the streets of New York.”

rombone Shorty’s new album opens with a dirge, but if you think the beloved bandleader, singer, songwriter and horn-blower born Troy Andrews came here to mourn, you got it all wrong. That bit of beautiful New Orleans soul—”Laveau Dirge No. 1,” named after one of the city’s most famous voodoo queens—shows off our host’s roots before Parking Lot Symphony branches out wildly, wonderfully, funkily across 12 diverse cuts. True to its title, this album contains multitudes of sound—from brass band blare and deep-groove funk, to bluesy beauty and hip-hop/pop swagger—and plenty of emotion all anchored, of course, by stellar playing and the idea that, even in the toughest of times, as Andrews says, “Music brings unity.” As for why it’s taken Andrews so long to follow 2013’s Raphael Saadiq-produced Say That to Say This, the man simply says, “I didn’t realize so much time passed. Some artists don’t work until they put a record out but I never stopped going.” Truly. In the last four years, Andrews banked his fifth White House gig; backed Macklemore and Madonna at the Grammys; played on albums by She & Him, Zac Brown, Dierks Bentley, and Mark Ronson; opened tours for Daryl Hall & John Oates and Red Hot Chili Peppers; appeared in Foo Fighters’ Sonic Highways documentary series; voiced the iconic sound of the adult characters in The Peanuts Movie; inherited the esteemed annual fest-closing set at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in the tradition of Crescent City greats like the Neville Brothers and Professor Longhair; and released Trombone Shorty, a children’s book about his life that was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 2016.

Adding to that legacy, his Blue Note Records debut Parking Lot Symphony finds Andrews teamed with Grammy-nominated producer Chris Seefried (Andra Day, Fitz and the Tantrums) and an unexpected array of cowriters and players including members of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, The Meters, Better Than Ezra, and Dumpstaphunk. Considering Andrews’ relentless schedule, it’s all the more surprising that this LP began with him in a room, all alone, back in New Orleans.