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More and more photographers are moving away from compact cameras to either digital SLRs or mirrorless cameras. Both provide a full range of ISO, shutter, and aperture controls, which makes the process of taking pictures much more interesting, and the results far better. These cameras have better sensors than their compact counterparts, producing images that are clearer, sharper, and embodied with more delicate tones and colors.

Learning to use an SLR or mirrorless camera is not complicated. During the morning session of this hands-on class, features such as ISO, shutter speed, aperture, and depth of field are described, and participants learn how to control them on their cameras. Information on raw and jpeg files and white balance is covered, and shooting modes such as shutter and aperture priority are demonstrated. The afternoon is spent in a shooting session on the Mall, where the morning’s discussion is put into practice.

Participants need their camera and lenses, an empty card, and a fully charged battery. It may be helpful to have the camera manual as well. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes for the afternoon shooting session.

The class is suitable for anyone with a digital SLR or mirrorless camera who wants a solid introduction to its features and potential.

Instructor: Eliot Cohen

One 7-hour session

This workshop is also available on: Sept. 9, Oct. 14, Dec. 2. 

Heineken & Brightest Young Things Invite You To:

Heineken AfterWork: Treasure Island Edition!

PIRATE PEOPLE – We’re throwing a party dedicated to all of your friends who love (pirate) booty. You can drink beer with the rest of your mates, and make new friends to add to your crew. It will be like a trip down to Florida, except that you don’t have to be in danger of meeting crazy people. Shiver me timbers, it sounds like an awesome party because it will be!

– First 50 people in the door get a free Heineken!
– Then it’s $5 Heinekens all party long!
– Treasure Hunt
– Pirate coloring station (because we are 5)

~~~ Croosh Deets ~~~
August 20th, 6:00pm
La Vie
88 District Square SW 5th floor, Washington, DC 20024
21+
#HeinekenAfterWork

Capacity is limited // RSVP required

Please note- there is a 6 ticket limit for this show per person. No refunds or exchanges.

Attention: Parking at Merriweather for 2017 has Changed! All ticketholders NEED to pre-select parking (or decline parking) once tickets have been purchased. Once you’ve completed your ticket transaction, you’ll receive a confirmation email with link to select your FREE parking. Please do so in advance so you have a parking lot assignment and ticket when you arrive for the show.

Note to ridesharers, walkers, bussers, carpoolers and cyclists: If you have made other transportation arrangements, there is no need to select parking.

Washington, D.C., may be a bustling urban center, but it is surrounded by green spaces and natural wonders that offer settings for every type of outdoor interest for participants of every fitness level. So many, in fact, that the choices may seem overwhelming.

Luckily, hiking fans (and would-be hikers) can turn to Renee Sklarew and Rachel Cooper, who share their expertise and advice on choosing just the right trails in the region in their book, the third edition of 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles of Washington, D.C. (Menasha Ridge Press). Join them for great suggestions on how to fill your fall with excursions to some of the most interesting, scenic, and historic hiking locations our area offers.

For example, do terrific views make your hike? Learn why you should head to Rock Creek’s Boulder Bridge trail right in the city or Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs. Looking for trails that offer a taste of history or notable attractions? Get the details on hiking Roosevelt Island and the amazing diversity of species that make their home in the McKee-Beshers Wildlife Management Area in Poolesville.

Hiking with the family? Find out why kids are fans of Black Hills Regional Park in northern Montgomery County, and why dog lovers head to Scott’s Run in McLean. Ready for a challenge? Difficult Run Trail rewards hikers with gorgeous views of the Potomac and the vista from Cow Hoof Rock on the Virginia side of Great Falls Park. Or perhaps the 8-mile loop at Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain Park is calling you.

Sklarew and Cooper provide many more valuable tips for hikers—and all participants take home a copy of their book.

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.

Get ready to up your Instagram game! Get great smartphone pictures every time with our photography workshop. You’ll learn some basic rules of photography, how to spot good lighting, composition, and more. The best part is the event takes place during golden-hour, the prime time for gorgeous photos with amazing lighting.

The workshop is 45-minutes followed by a 45-minute practice tour around Georgetown. You’ll have the chance to get your questions answered, and photos critiqued by Friend of the Fray and professional photographer, Mark Satter. (https://www.marksatter.com/) 

This fun event is the perfect place to meet like-minded friends and snap some amazing pictures. Come ready with a bomb outfit and plenty of camera storage for this afternoon around Georgetown. Our basics photography course is open to all skill levels and camera types! 

Cost: $49.00
Space is limited. 
Must be 21

Can’t Feel My Face: 2010’s Dance Party DJs Will Eastman and Ozker Visuals by Kylos

If you’ve seen Will Eastman and Ozker DJ together, you know they have no guilt about musical guilty pleasures.

(Neither do you. Don’t even deny it.)

Will, along with DJs/friends Brian Billion and Ozker, are the masterminds behind the wildly successful NO SCRUBS: 90’s Dance Party and HOT IN HERRE: 2000’s Dance Party. From 2Pac to Nirvana to Kanye to Rihanna, the parties play your favorite chart-topping hits, underground classics, and guilty pleasures from the past two decades, turning sold-out venues up and down the East Coast into sweaty, all-night sing-along sessions.

No Scrubs and Hot In Herre are now the largest and longest-running 90’s and 00’s parties in America. Rather than host them weekly or monthly, Will, Ozker, and Brian insist on keeping the parties occasional and as guilty a pleasure as your favorite summer pop anthem. 

In the spirit of the holidays, we’re helping our friends at Project Create DC with a special benefit called CAN’T FEEL MY FACE: 2010’s Dance Party.

At CAN’T FEEL MY FACE, you can expect to party to Adele, Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Calvin Harris, The Chainsmokers, DJ Khaled, Drake, Jason Derulo, Jay Z, Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Katy Perry, Kendrick Lamar, Liam Payne, Major Lazer, Maroon 5, Miley Cyrus, Nicki Minaj, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Zedd, 2 Chainz, and everyone 2010’s, all night long.

Get ready. We’re looking forward to seeing you on the dance floor!

Door proceeds benefit Project Create DC. Project Create provides accessible arts education to promote positive development in the lives of children, youth, and families experiencing homelessness and poverty in Washington, DC.

Run for Rhinos!

Join us at Freedom Plaza on Aug. 25 for Friends of the National Zoo’s inaugural The Fast & the Fierce 5K, sponsored by Aegis Project Controls!

After the race, runners can visit the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for an after-party on the Great Meadow, animal enrichment, musical entertainment, animal-themed games and more.

All runners will have the opportunity to fundraise, which will directly support the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Global Health Program in working with local partners in Kenya to standardize, improve and provide advanced veterinary care for ill, injured and orphaned rhinos. With so few individuals left in the world, the survival of each is critically important. In addition to helping rhinos, race fundraising will also support Conservation Nation’s 2018 priorities.*

Don’t want to run? You can still sign up as a fundraiser and help save rhinos from the comfort of your own couch!

*Registration fee supports the Zoo’s mission. Fundraising directly supports conservation projects in the wild.

Super Excellent Seats are non-transferable. The ID of the person attending must match the purchaser’s name, which will be printed on the ticket face.

“We met in guitar class” is not a thing many people can say…but Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis performed together for the first time on the very same day they met…in guitar class.

Fast forward, following the international success of Striking Matches’ 2015 album “Nothing But The Silence”, produced by T-Bone Burnett, and 9 songs on TV’s “Nashville”, Davis and Zimmermann have teamed up with Kennedy Karate (BØRNS, Silver Sun Pickups) for their second LP, an album in a style they call “blues-pop” – an amalgamation of their blues and roots based guitar riffs, combined with pop melodies – due out this summer. 

Striking Matches are gearing up for an international tour with dates in the US, UK, and Europe all throughout the summer and fall, along with the release of the new record.

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.

U Street Music Hall presents the first-ever Blisspop Disco Festival, a two-day celebration of the evolution of disco featuring performances from some of the most recognized names in dance music. Giorgio Moroder, the pioneering producer who is rightly called the “Father of Disco,” and acclaimed German dance DJ/producer Claptone will headline separate shows at 9:30 Club while late-night festivities will take place at U Street Music Hall. The festival will let listeners appreciate disco’s past, present, and future, with performances by international superstars and sets from some of the area’s best disco DJs and producers. Don’t miss out, disco fans. 

In a now long forgotten world, many generations ago, a bird like shape emerged from wooded darkness, floating and fluttering, drifting and dreaming. Backlit by a bright glow of iridescent light, the undecipherable form wore a dazzling golden mask. Its long beak swooped down like an inverted horn and since then, people have referred to the mythical being simply as Claptone.

Years spending wandering medieval landscapes have informed Claptone’s view of the world, experiencing both magical mystery and muted melancholy he enchanted onlookers with occult instruments and beguiling sounds. Forever surrounded by a sense of intrigue, the world soon cottoned on to the elusive yet enchanting musical powers of this otherworldly beast. The results are that, today, his shamanistic sonic powers take him all around the world…

Yet despite the best efforts of the hungry masses, the mysterious Claptone still remains a mythical, little known figure who slips in and out of the shadows, leaving in his wake lasting musical experiences. Since hatching in 2012, he has continued to send people into a frenzy with his DJ sets, which are underpinned by supple grooves from the house world, are coloured with real soul and can jack you up or zone you out depending on the mood.

To stay so private and unknown in the visual modern world of likes and photos is no mean feat, especially considering he plays more than 260 shows around the world each year. In 2017 he brought his own immersive and otherworldly ‘The Masquerade’ events with special guests including Black Coffee, Claude von Stroke, MK and Pete Tong all joining the fun to various places around the world. Besides appearing in Los Angeles, Rio, Berlin, Paris, New York and Barcelona, Claptone brought ‘The Masquerade’ back to Ibiza, with highlights including two all night long joint venture shows with Elrow at Amnesia. They saw him spellbind the audience for seven straight hours and were the first sold out shows of the year for the club.

Furthermore there were ‘The Masquerade’ stages hosted in Brazil, at Melt Festival, and in LA for Halloween, and Claptone also hosted an arena at the giant Tomorrowland where four million people tuned in to the live stream that saw him play with invited guests and friends. Because of his strong shamanistic powers, Claptone always leaves people lost in music, rather than concerned about who or what it is they see before them. For that reason he still remains proudly anonymous.

In terms of studio work in the last year, Claptone has served up plenty of stylish remixes of huge and influential artists like Depeche Mode, New Order, Disclosure, Faithless, Bastille and Hurts, all of which show how in demand he is by those who know. His remix of Gorillaz was picked as the best of a star studded selection, and his track The Drums saw endless BBC Radio 1 support. It was one of the tracks of the summer at festivals around the world as well as across Ibiza. All this lead to him being invited by the BBC to perform live to the whole UK during the legendary BBC R1 Ibiza Weekender, and comes off the back of Claptone winning Best House Artist for the 3rd year in a row at the Ibiza DJ Awards, and scoring the highest placed house DJ position in DJ Mag’s celebrated Top 100 DJs Poll (next to being the second highest ‘underground’ artist in the same poll, after Carl Cox).

2018 is sure to be just as busy for Claptone and rewarding for his fans, because it will bring with it ‘Fantast,’ a brand new and hugely anticipated album out in June, which sees Claptone dive deeper into his very own musical realm. With plenty of charismatic vocalists’ help, the album is enchantingly beautiful, dreamy and at times naive in a liberating way. If you think you knew everything about Claptone let him prove you wrong.

To keep his now more than one million Facebook fans enthralled, Claptone appeases them with musical trails, such as his weekly Clapcast podcast, which is broadcast on more than 70 radio stations and has been downloaded more than six million times in just 2017 alone. He also allows them into a little corner of his ephemeral world by offering up his own self-designed magical t-shirts and masks, while continuing to win them over with musical offerings for club, radio and home streaming alike.