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Art All Night: Made in DC is Washington, DC's free overnight arts festival. The festival will take place in seven DC Main Streets neighborhoods, bringing visual and performing arts, including painting, photography, sculpture, crafts, fashion, music, dance, theater, film, and poetry, to indoor and outdoor public and private spaces, including businesses. Learn more at http://www.artallnightdc.com/home.html […]
Step Afrika! The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence Washington Performing Arts opens its 50th season with the debut of a new and expanded production of Step Afrika!'s signature work, The Migration, based on American painter Jacob Lawrence’s iconic series (displayed at the Phillips Collection and at MoMA in New York). September 30-October 2, 2016: Step […]
Celebrate the coming of spring with Friends of Peirce Mill and the The Rock Creek Morris Women dancers. Morris Dancing is tradition from the Cotswold region of England where the dances were originally intended to celebrate the passing of winter and to promote the growth of crops, beasts, and humans. Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/events/180706492432226/
For more information: http://www.friendsofpeircemill.org/event/square-dancing-beside-the-mill/
Van Ness Main Street, in partnership with AARP, is transforming the west plaza at the Van Ness Metro Station into our very own town square. Join your Van Ness friends and neighbors for the first-ever ALL FREE Van Ness Social Club! Come see our newly created space and enjoy: Live Music! Dancing! Chess! Art! Community […]
The Rock Creek Morris Women will return to Peirce Mill for this command performance -- dancing in the Mill as they have done for 30 years. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to watch a 400 year old tradition of Morris Dancing and singing usher in spring! Free! Learn more: https://www.facebook.com/events/1997079136987682/
The Friends of Peirce Mill & the DC Square Dance Collective are joining forces to bring you an evening of outdoor music and square dancing in Rock Creek Park! People will fill the grounds of Peirce Mill with some sweet old-time string-band music and square dances. As always, no experience or partner needed. Everyone is […]
The Rock Creek Morris Women will return to Peirce Mill for dancing in the Mill as they have done for 30 years. Don't miss this exciting opportunity to watch a 400-year-old tradition of Morris dancing and singing usher in spring. Free.
Come see the world through the embassies of our global neighbors. Participants experience the food, art, dance, fashion, music, innovations, and manufactured goods from different countries. More than 50 embassies participated in 2018. The embassies that will host open houses during Around the World Tour 2019 include: Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, […]
Saturday, May 11, 2019, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Here's the list of participating embassies. Five are in the Forest Hills/Van Ness area: Austria: 3524 International Court Czech Republic: 3900 Spring of Freedom Street - just off Tilden by Pierce Mill Hungary: 3910 Shoemaker Street - just off Tilden across from Pierce Mill Netherlands: 4200 […]
Indulge your inner Francophile with French amusements from the 1700s in celebration of Bastille Day and Hillwood's French decorative arts collection. Learn more and buy tickets at https://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/events/french-festival
Postponed due to excessive heat. The Friends of Peirce Mill & the DC Square Dance Collective are joining forces to bring you an evening of outdoor music and square dancing in Rock Creek Park! People will fill the grounds of Peirce Mill with some old-time string-band music and live calling for a square dance. As […]
The annual Art All Night festival celebrates the visual and performing arts, showcasing the diverse talents of the city’s creative community. Public and private spaces along Wisconsin Avenue transform into pop-up galleries and performance stages for an evening of art in all its forms. And the best part? It’s all FREE! Information and schedule: https://tenleytownmainstreet.org/event/art-all-night/
Celebrate the festive winter season in traditional Russian style at Hillwood. Learn more at https://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/events/russian-winter-festival
For over 30 years, the Rock Creek Morris Women have welcomed spring at Peirce Mill with song, dance, and merriment. https://www.friendsofpeircemill.org/event/rock-creek-morris-women/