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All Future Is Festival Events Are Canceled

BYT at largeMarch 12, 2020

We're taking a break from hanging out in person....

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ANNOUNCING – Incrediball: The Capital Pride Honors & Kick-Off Party!

BYT at largeFebruary 7, 2020

A party so good it belongs in a museum!...

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Announcing! BYT PRESENTS: The Future Is Festival

BYT at largeFebruary 5, 2020

Spend a weekend with people that we can all agree on! March 26-29, 2020 - brought to you by BYT....

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Reading Recommendations From the BYT Winter Book Swap

Clarissa VillondoDecember 20, 2019

Great pictures of great books...

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BYT Festival Gift Guide

BYT at largeDecember 18, 2019

Give the gift of crime and comedy...

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Save The Date: Smithsonian Winter Family Festival

BYT at largeDecember 9, 2019

Cancel all of your plans this weekend...

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You’re Invited to the BYT Winter Book Swap

BYT at largeDecember 3, 2019

We want to read what you read, we want you to read what we read ...

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Amanda Knox, A Cat, No Hats

Jenn TisdaleNovember 5, 2019

"Mr. Fats is not much of a movie or podcast person, but he loves books"...

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Announcing BYT Presents: Friendsgiving Fest!

Tom HausmanNovember 5, 2019

Join BYT for a special Friendsgiving charity party with an open bar, food tastings, and more!...

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Lt. Joe Kenda looks back on his favorite episodes of Homicide Hunter

Jenn TisdaleNovember 5, 2019

"You don’t realize sometimes the affect you have on people, and you try to do your best, but you don’t know if it’s enough or not."...

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Your Bentzen Ball Pregaming Plan

BYT at largeOctober 22, 2019

Do you like drinking and helping people at the same time? ...

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Announcing: Death Becomes Us Festival Warm-Up Events and a True Crime Beer!

Jenn TisdaleOctober 15, 2019

True crime authors! A true crime climb! A true crime beer! ...

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Call For Volunteers: Bentzen Ball & Death Becomes Us

Tom HausmanOctober 11, 2019

Come volunteer with BYT and experience the true range of human existence – death AND comedy!...

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One Month Until Death Becomes Us! Lorena Bobbitt, Latrice Royale & More Announcements

Jenn TisdaleOctober 9, 2019

A pop-up DC Sniper exhibit, tribute to Nicole Brown Simpson and so much more...

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ANNOUNCING: W Hotel DC Programming at Bentzen Ball

BYT at largeOctober 9, 2019

A belly laughs brunch and a comedy-in-the-District conversation. See you soon!...

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You’re Invited to the BYT Fall Book Swap

BYT at largeSeptember 23, 2019

We want to read what you read, we want you to read what we read ...

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29mar2:00 pm4:00 pmProfs & Pints Matinee: The Art of Marcel Duchamp2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Bier Baron Tavern

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Profs and Pints presents: “The Art of Marcel Duchamp,” with Lisa Lipinski, assistant professor of art history at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design and teacher of a graduate art history seminar on Duchamp and his legacy there.

The French artist Marcel Duchamp is considered to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, leaving his mark on contemporary art and the institution of art itself as he sought “to put art back in the service of the mind.” Come hear an exploration of Duchamp’s career and his legacy, which will look at how he thought deeply about art and aesthetics. You’ll walk away distinctly prepared to take in the Hirshhorn Museum of Art’s current exhibition “Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection.”

Duchamp focused the fundamental question of what art is, as well as the role of the art spectator, setting him apart from those who had focused on how art is made and on the genius of the artist. In 1913, he wondered: Can one make works which are not works of “art”? It was a typical Duchampian question, both serious and playful, revealing his delight in contradiction.

Four years later, Duchamp attempted to exhibit a men’s urinal with the title Fountain in an art exhibition which was organized by the newly established Society of Independent Artists in New York. Was this ordinary piece of plumbing a work that was not a work of ‘art’? For the artists on the organizing committee, the answer was yes, and they rejected it for reasons which may seem obvious today. Fountain is the most iconic readymade—Duchamp’s term for a piece made from an ordinary, found object—and the original was lost before ever being publicly exhibited.

This talk will leave you with much more knowledge and appreciation of the Duchamp works that remain accessible for our enjoyment. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Time

(Sunday) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location

Bier Baron Tavern

1523 22nd St NW Washington DC 20037

Cost

Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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29mar3:00 pmWashington Metropolitan Philharmonic concertRachmaninoff Piano Concerto3:00 pm The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

29mar3:00 pm6:00 pmThe Future Is Festival Presents: (A DAYTIME) Lizzo Dance Party3:00 pm - 6:00 pm WILD DAYS at Eaton Rooftop

29mar4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

30mar4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

30mar6:30 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: Ask Eleanor Roosevelt6:30 pm - 8:30 pm La Pop, a cultural salon

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Profs and Pints presents: “Ask Eleanor Roosevelt,” a look at the iconic first lady’s long career as an advice columnist, with Mary Jo Binker, adjunct professor of history at George Mason University and a consulting editor for the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University.

Advice columnist is not the first term that comes to mind when most people think of Eleanor Roosevelt. Yet, this transformative first lady and icon of female empowerment did exactly that in two major women’s magazines for more than 20 years.

Her answers to a wide range of reader queries—on everything from world peace and race relations to how to deal with rebellious teenagers and difficult mothers-in-law—are equally surprising. There was no filter and very little spin. In fact, her answers to readers’ queries were so honest, forthright, and insightful, that her editors felt compelled to issue a disclaimer saying her views were her own and did not represent those of the magazine or, in the column’s early years, the Roosevelt Administration.

This talk will introduce you to this other Eleanor Roosevelt, a woman whose wise, witty, and surprisingly sensible opinions remain as relevant as the latest tweet. The speaker, historian Mary Jo Binker, has spent almost twenty years studying Eleanor Roosevelt’s written and spoken record, primarily as an editor at the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University. Besides working as part of an editorial team that has published two volumes of Eleanor Roosevelt’s post-White House papers, she edited two collections of Eleanor Roosevelt’s writings, If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt and What Are We For: The Words and Ideals of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Her talk represents an incomparable opportunity to learn about this pivotal American figure. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Time

(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

La Pop, a cultural salon

1847 Columbia Rd NW, Washington, DC 20000

Cost

Advance tickets; $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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31mar4:30 pmWinter Igloos at the Watergate Hotel4:30 pm The Watergate Hotel

31mar6:00 pm8:30 pmProfs & Pints: The Science of Inspiration6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Church Hall

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Profs and Pints presents: “The Science of Inspiration,” a look at how the brain creates, with Dr. Daniel Z. Lieberman, professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University and co-author of The Molecule of More.

Creative ideas seem to come out of nowhere, often popping into our heads, fully formed, with no apparent work being done on our part. Sometimes creative ideas solve simple problems, other times they revolutionize an industry. Are they divine inspiration? The influence of a friendly muse? Or are they manufactured by hidden circuits within the brain that we’re ordinarily unaware of?

Come learn what neuroscience tells us about the creative process from Dr. Lieberman, who previously gave fantastic Profs and Pints talks on brain chemistry and politics based on his book The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity―and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race.

He will review five strategies that activate the creative parts of the brain, with illustrations from ancient history and modern life.

Our modern economy is no longer based on natural resources or physical labor. It’s based on ideas. Understanding creativity—what it is, where it comes from, and how to stimulate it—gives us the key to understanding progress in the 21st century.

Whether the next creative task in front of you involves coming up with a strategic plan, writing a book, or simply helping build a snowman, you’ll leave this talk with a much better understanding of how your brain will rise to the challenge. You might even find yourself better at such tasks than you had been before. (Advance tickets: $12. Doors: $15, save $2 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later. Please allow yourself time to place any orders and get seated and settled in.)

Time

(Tuesday) 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Location

Church Hall

1070 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20007

Cost

Advance tickets: $12. Door: $15, save $2 with a student ID.

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31mar7:00 pmKat Dahlia9:30 Club Presents7:00 pm U Street Music Hall