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 continues. Be sure to consult our Outdoor Movie Guide. Promise me you will.
• Tuesday, September 1 – The Black Cat is screening Romantic Warriors: Canterbury Tales, a roc-doc about those oddball mid-sixties avant-grade rock groups from Canterbury, namely Soft Machine, Caravan and Gong.
• Wednesday, September 2 – Tangled will be screening in Alexandria. Which is cool because everyone loves Disney movies. Everyone.
• Thursday, September 3– The Sound of Music will close up the outdoor movie season at the Capitol Riverfront.

• Friday, September 4 – A screening of Ghostbusters will begin Columbia Heights outdoor movie season. A little late to the game there Columbia Heights, but we’re still cool.
• Sunday, September 6 – It’s viewer’s choice night at the National Harbor. And the viewer have chosen, the winner is Remember the Titans. If you don’t like it, tough tits, that’s democracy for you.

• Wednesday September 2 – Bust Off, Husky Bundles, Permanent Makeup and Nuclear Age will be at Electric Maid
• Thursday, September 3 – Bosley will be backstage at the Black Cat. The opening act is M.H. & His Orchestra. This’ll no doubt be a delightfully evening, especially if you like white dudes singing soul.
• Friday, September 4 –  You, Me, Them, Everybody Live is happening at the Wonderland Ballroom. Come see Brandon Wetherbee and his friends talk, laugh and just be plain entertaining.
• Friday, September 4 – Sick Fix, Leather Daddy, Exit Order, Sedative @ Studio 69. Leather Daddy is one hell of a band name.
• Friday. September 4 – THE GODZ, Chain and the Gang, Metrorail, Tomato Dodgers @ The Void. You should try to see Chain and the Gang every chance you get.
• Friday, September 4 – Beauty Pill, Paperhaus, Redline Graffiti @ Black Cat. Tickets for only $12.
• Friday, September 4 – I like Ezra Mae & The Gypsy Moon, and you should too. See Ezra plus Chris Santa Ana, Gender Studies (NYC) @ the Pinch.
• Friday, September 4 – Noisem, Condemn The Infected, Ragana, Correspondences, Ampallang Infection @ Raw Ink Tattoo Studio. That’s right, it’s a concert in a tattoo parlor.
• Friday, September 4 – DC9 is hosting a discnothque. “The idea of Discnothèque is to remove yourself from the constant barrage of every day life and reconnect the music,” says DC9. Which is a nice way of saying, the point is to get turnt up and dance.

• Saturday, September 5 – If you have some leftover drugs from the Discnotheque, DC9 is hosting another dance party. This time its called Rapture
• Saturday, September 5 – Above the bayou hosts its 1 year anniversary (boy, doesn’t time just fly) with performances by Princess Reason, Half Waif, CrushnPain and Pisca.
• Saturday, September 5 – Color Palette, Louis Weeks, The Duskwhales, +TBA @ Baxter BLDG.
• Saturday, September 5 – Cigarette, Olivia Neutron-John, Pill (NY), Lugweight (RVA) @ Studio 69

• Sunday, September 6 – Frankie & Betty, Grogan Social Scene, Len & J @ the Pinch.
• Sunday, September 6 – WING DAM, THE SPLIT SECONDS, UNDERLINED PASSAGES @ WMUC. This event was posted in ALL CAPS, so I’m sure it’ll be epic.
• Monday, September 7 – Babe City Record is at it again. They’re putting on another dope show, this time with Big Hush, Advaeta and Two Inch Astronaut @ 453 FLORIDA AVE 

• Thursday, September 3 – Station Kitchen & Cocktails is giving away free french toast. I don’t care if you prefer waffles or pancakes, we’re talking free french toast people. How amazing is that?
• Saturday-Monday, September 5-8 – The Town Tavern asks you to take a staycation this Labor Day Weekend. Saturday there’s an open bar from 8-10 P.M. Sunday funday there’s $5 Bloody Marys & Mimosas until 5 P.M. On Monday is complete madness with $3 bottles, $5 drafts and 1/2 selected bites all day until 9 P.M.

• GO TO THE POOL!!! They’re still operating with summer hours because it’s still summer and why is it this hot in September?

• Thursday September 3 – At the Museum of Women in the Arts, come here artists talk about the influence Maria Sibylla Merian had on their own work. The program is entitled: Artist Conversation: Merian’s Daughters.
• Friday, September 4 – It’s first Friday this week which means that gallery all over Dupont Circle will be hosting openings of all kinds. 
• Friday, September 4 – Phazefest is back at 9:30. If you don’t know what Phazefest is its a festival featuring D.C.’s queer music. YasQueen will be there. Bet there’s a few of you out there that wish you too could be called Yas Queen.  
• Friday September 4 – Speakeasy Electro Swing Washington DC has partnered with a couple local burlesque performers to put one crazy show/dance party. Eletctro Shimmy Speakeasy will be at the Black Cat. Tickets are $12 in advance.

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