Free & Almost Free Things To Do This Week In DC

Here we focus exclusively on the cheapest YET most satisfying entertainment to be found around DC. Every week we highlight free and almost free activities, a choice happy hour or two, food specials and hot tips for budget survival. PLEASE POST YOUR FREE EVENTS (FOR FREE!) ON OUR AGENDA PAGE or send us FREE TIPS to [email protected] for inclusion in the future FREE THINGS guide. So, time to plan the week! 

Outdoor movie season is beginning. That’s means there’ll be no end to the free movies showing throughout the city and into the burbs. Be sure to consult your outdoor movie guide, my friend, if this is your bag.

• Tuesday, June 9 – Whoopi Goldberg helped to make a movie about Moms Mabley. The film will be shown at Anacostia Community Museum and a discussion/Q&A with a museum educator will follow the film.
• Tuesday, June 9 – Rich Hill at AdMo.
• Wednesday, June 10 – Bride & Prejudice will be playing at the NoMa Summer Screen. Just ask yourself, ‘What would Jane Austin do?’
• Thursday, June 11 – Selma plays at the Capitol Riverfront.
• Friday, June 12 – The Rosslyn Outdoor Film Festival continues this week with Mean Girls.
• Friday, June 12 – The Social Network  plays at Golden Cinema in Farragut Park. Isn’t outdoor movie season just the best?
  
• Friday, June 12 –  It’s so good even if you live in Laurel you can get into the action. The city of Laurel kicks off its outdoor movie season with a screening of Frozen.
• Friday, June 12 – Or even if you live in Leesburg. Lansdowne Live! will be presenting a screening of Croods.
• Friday, June 12 – The Palisades Citizens Association will be showing the Goonies. Just grab a lawn chair and Baby Ruth and you’ll be set.
• Friday, June 12 – And Union Market’s drive-in movie will be Pretty Woman. If we could all be so lucky to go on a shopping spree courtesy of Richard Gere’s credit card.
• Sunday, June 14 – Lake Anne Plaza will be showing My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Which is an interesting choice, because I’d totally forgot that movie existed.
• Sunday, June 14 – The Korean Film Festival continues with a screening of Hill of Freedom and A Midsummer’s Fantasia at the Freer Gallery of Art.

• Tuesday, June 9 – Cheick Hamala’s griot residency continues, as he delivers stories, poetry and music from Mali at the Bossa Bistro Lounge.
• Tuesday, June 9 – Cold Beat, Olivia Neutron-John, and Sneaks will play at Comet Ping Pong; Cold Beat’s awesome San Fran rock is perfect compliment to the insanely warm weather this week.
• Wednesday, June 10 – The Summer Camp Show is back! It’s even grown bigger. Check the show out at the Wonderland Ballroom.
• Wednesday, June 10 – D.C. Bike Party is hosting its 2nd annul Pride Ride. Remember the theme is flashback so put on your flashiest retro gear and you’ll be all set.   
• Wednesday, June 10 –Adam Torres is at the Lily Torres Tea House Lounge.
• Wednesday, June 10 – Hometown heros The Pietasters have been doing there thing for forever. Lucky for you, you can see them for FREE in Lee District Park. This family friendly show will start early at 7:30.

• Thursday, June 11 – Give, Puff Piece, and the Maneuvers will be playing at the MLK Library to celebrate its brand new Punk Archives special collection.
• Thursday, June 11 – See W. Kamau Bell for free on the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage. Remember when that dude had a show on FX?
• Thursday, June 11 – There’ll be a Pornstache (you know what that means) party at the Satellite Room. Performances by hosts Heidi Glum (of Ru Paul’s Drag Race) and Salvadora Dali.
• Thursday, June 11 – Sundials and Lilac Daze are summertime band names if I’ve ever heard of them. See both bands  at the Lab.
• Friday, June 12 – The Embassy of Sweden and Dupont Festival are hosting a Women’s World Cup Festival in Dupont Circle Park. There will be a DJ and everything. It’s gonna be great.
• Friday, June 12 – The Bump n Grind presents: Sol Power Sound and Plaza Bolivar EP release party at the Tropicalia.
• Friday, June 12 – At the American Art Museum they’ll be a discussion about the art of collecting vinyl. The vinyl comeback is real.

• Friday, June 12 – Booty Rex Pride Party, the infamous queer Pride party, is back. Because you asked for it, so you best enjoy it. We know you will.
• Saturday, June 13 – Les Rhinoceros will be having an album release party at the Paperhaus. Black Lung and Jamaican Queens (who are a Detroit Trap Pop band?) will also be there.
• Sunday, June 14 – Romane and Lettuce present: Dads: a salutes to Dads. It’s very relatable stuff.
• Sunday, June 14 – Hemlines + Vagabonds + Bethlehem Steel + Default Handshakes will be playing a house show. Hooray for D.C. house shows.
• Sunday, June 14 – Romantic State, Beth Israel and Bless will be playing @ above the bayou. “$5 strongly strongly strongly suggested donation for the touring band,” says the Facebook page.

• Monday through Friday, June 8-12  – Graffiato Goes Jersey Shore. Milk will be making the food inspired by his childhood summers spent on the shore.

• Tuesday, June 9 – The Kennedy Center is hosting some event called Rep Ya Hood: The Untold Stories of D.C. That’s right the Kennedy Center is totally down with that hip slang lingo, fo’sur.
• Tuesday, June 9 – There’ll be a presentation about censorship in comics at Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library. As we all know censorship is wack, so this should be good.
• Wednesday, June 10 –Dolan Perkins-Valdez will be discussing her new novel, Balm, at the 14th Street Busboys and Poets. It’s sure to be very important. 
• Wednesday June 10 – At Politics & Prose Kate Blackwell will be reading from her collection of stories, You Won’t Remember This. You might remember this.
• Wednesday, June 10 – Ever wonder about the role of Russia in the American Novel, then boy do I’ve just the event for you. Man of letters, Dmitry Bykov will break it all down for you at Goethe-Institut Washington.
• Thursday, June 11 – The Fat and Greasy Citizen Brigade present free outdoor Shakespeare! To go with the obvious theme of summertime, they’ll be performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Don’t be a Bottom.
• Friday, June 12 – Beginning this Friday and running until September 11, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculputre Garden is teaching all levels of Vinyasa Flow yoga. Classes are FREE and open to the public, 9 a.m., BYOmat.
• Sunday, June 14 – Jane Franklin, of Jane Franklin Dance, will be offering a 30-minute mini-dance class at 11:30 Sunday, June 14 at the Athenaeum, and its totally FREE.

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