Here we focus exclusively on the cheapest YET most satisfying entertainment to be found around D.C. 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!
- Monday, May 9 – If you loved Lincoln, the National Archives’ William G. McGowan Theater is screening Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural, a documentary based on the best selling book.
- Monday, May 9 – Watch Purple Rain for the first time or for the 12,394th time at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse.
- Thursday, May 12 – London Has Fallen is also playing at Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse. Go for Morgan Freeman.
- Monday, May 9 – Mondays mean Underground Comedy at Big Hunt.
- Monday, May 9 – Nueve de Mayo is the new Cinco de Mayo at The Royal. The MVP of this month’s Royal Knight’s is agave. There will be mezcals and tequilas and tacos and piñatas.
- Monday, May 9 – Support the DMV Metropolitan and Suburban Communities, Schools, and Families stand up for Peace & Love at Songbyrd with a performance by Charming the Singer.
- Tuesday, May 10 – It’s free comedy night at Songbyrd, hosted by Brittany Carney and Andrew Bucket.
- Wednesday, May 11 – The Wonderland Ballroom is hosting their Summer Camp Show XVIII. Think live action Wet Hot American Summer (with music).
- Thursday, May 12 – The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria’s monthly after hours event is a celebration of PETS. There will be dos and there will be songs (people performing music).
- Thursday, May 12 – It’s rock/funk/dance night at the Veterans Park Summer Concert Series. Maybe if you wish hard enough, the weather will get better.
- Thursday, May 12 – It’s Barrelhouse Social Hour at Petworth Citizen’s Reading Room. Drink and be social!
- Friday, May 13 – Cityswing DC is hosting a DJ dance party at the Church of the Pilgrims Fellowship Hall from 9 p.m. – 11:3- p.m.
- Monday, May 9 – Saturday, May 14 – Silent Disco is back in Shaw for the summer. Dance your heart out at the Cambria Hotel & Suites rooftop.
- Monday, May 9 – War reporters Janine Di Giovanni, Christina Lamb, and Kim Barker are coming together for a panel discussion at Sidwell Friends, presented by Politics and Prose. GO.
- Tuesday, May 10 – Cub Run Pond is a NEW exhibition of photographs by E.McCollum at the Multiple Exposures Gallery. Go to look at the photography and to decipher the title.
- Tuesday, May 10 – Meg Jacobs is coming to Politics and Prose to talk about her book Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s.
- Tuesday, May 10 – Massumeh Farhad and David Hogge are hosting a discussion on Iran’s Achaemenid Empire at the Freer Sackler Gallery.
- Saturday, May 14 – EU Open House Day! It’s the most wonderful day of the year! As long as it’s not raining.
- Saturday, May 14 – Cathedral Commons is hosting a Spring Festival (!!!) curated by Art Soiree. There will be lots of art, music, and food consumption.
- Sunday, May 15 – The Bethesda Fine Arts Festival is free and outside. We all want to go outside.
- Saturday, May 13 – Sunday, May 15 – Take a guided garden walk through the Ponds at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens to reacquaint yourself with the outside world! (You know, because of the shitty weather).
That’s all, remember – 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. Feel free to leave us your suggestions in the comments. Sharing is the new caring.
