Free Things To Do In D.C.

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, April 25 – Stop by the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse to catch Hail, Cesar for $2. The bear scene is 100% worth $2.
• Monday, April 25 – Capital Pride is screening Ghost Busters at Stead Field. There’s going to be a costume competition so this is the perfect opportunity to go all out and get weird on a Monday.
• Tuesday, April 26 – Go back to the Drafthouse to see The Revenant.
• Saturday, April 30 – NGA is holding a cine-concert for the 1920’s film Faust. I can’t imagine anything more beautiful / weird.

• Monday, April 25 – Sing a long with a bunch of strangers at DC9. What could go wrong?
• Wednesday, April 27  – If you’re looking for something a little more DIY, Triathalon, Earring, and Jauze are at Bathtub Republic.
• Wednesday, April 27 – Wrestlemania may have come and gone, but Wrestlebuddies is still here! Catch them at Black Cat to get your daily recommended dose of the squared circle.
• Thursday, April 28 – The National Parks, The Brevet, and Radio Birds are at DC9.
• Thursday, April 28 – Head to Songbyrd to catch Maryjo Mattea, Party Like It’s, and the Uptown Boys Choir.
• Thursday, April 28 – Hemlines, Shell Shag, Teenage Halloween (what a name!), and Foster Carrots are at Black Cat. This seems like it will be a good show.
• Friday, April 29 – The best band name of the week goes to Your Mother And I Are Separating. You can catch them at VFW Post 350 (in Tacoma Park!) with Blast, BUST OFF., and Skumboyz.
• Friday, April 29 – DC9 invites you to throw away your phone, drink some cheap beer, and dance.
• Friday, April 29 – Dance to some dark electronic music at the Black Cat! No one will see you crying.
• Saturday, April 30 –  Flag of Democracy, Soul Glo, Glittoris, Bidet, and Psychic Subcreatures are playing at The Pinch. I cannot get over that combination of band names. It’s so fantastic.
• Saturday, April 30 – 2nd Time Around is having an open house in Georgetown! Stop by for the free braid / lips / lashes bar (don’t forget to tip your stylist!). Also 10% of sales go toward Becky’s Fund so buy yourself a nice thing.
• Saturday, April 30 – Computer Club is back at the Black Cat! Dance your night away to Nag Champa and more.

• Monday, April 25 – Head to the Black Cat for the book release of Tim Follos‘ This Was My Night & This Was A Lot of Other Nights. Scanners and Mirror Motives will perform! It will be great.
• Monday, April 25 – The National Archives is hosting journalist Joshua Hammer as he talks about his book, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts.
  
• Monday, April 25 – Come to Busboys and Poets to here all about Ari Rabin-Havtto’s book Lies, Incorporated: The World of Post-Truth Politics.
• Tuesday, April 26 – Solve the Isreal / Palestine conflict with a bunch of strangers over beers!
• Thursday, April 28 – A guy named Kevin McCloskey loves pigeons so much he wrote an entire book about it called The Poop With Pigeons. Go hear him talk about it at Politics & Prose.
• Thursday, April 28 – If pigeons aren’t your thing, you could also check out this modern retelling of Pride & Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld.
• Saturday, April 30 – Or you can listen to Dana Cann talk about ghosts! Spooky.

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.