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Exploring the Sky is a joint public observing program between the National Capital Astronomers and the National Park Service. They supply the telescopes and you supply the eyes! Meet in the field near Picnic Grove #13. September 3, 8:00pm: 56% Moon; Planets Saturn and Jupiter; Globular Clusters M22, M4, Open Clusters M44 and M45 October […]
The Carnegie Earth and Planets Laboratory (EPL) invites you to join astrobiologist, mineralogist, and author Dr. Robert M. Hazen, for a special presentation entitled, “Minerals: Earth’s Ultimate Time Capsules.” The free public lecture will take place on December 8, 2022, at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Broad Branch Road Campus in NW Washington, DC and […]
February 27th at 7 p.m., the artistic director of the DC Jazz Festival will lead a panel discussion on the book, Ain’t But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story. The book presents over two dozen candid dialogues with black jazz critics and journalists and includes an anthology section, which reprints classic […]
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Save the date for the first-ever Mid-Atlantic Grain Fair and Conference with Friends of Peirce Mill and UDC. Grain Fair: Sunday, October 22, 10:00am to 4:00pm at Peirce Mill Grain Conference: Monday, October 23 at the University of the District of Columbia
The next Carnegie Planets Neighborhood Lecture is all about the moon. By the end of this decade, humans should once again walk on the lunar surface. Dr. Stephen Parman will review our current understanding of how the Moon formed and its evolutionary journey. We will hear about NASA’s visionary plans for lunar exploration in the […]
April 20th 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Learn about the remarkable life of William Beckett, who was once the enslaved manager of Joshua Peirce’s nursery business on Linnaean Hill, now Rock Creek Park headquarters. New evidence reveals that Beckett was also Peirce’s son; his mother was an enslaved woman named Mary Beckett. Friends of Peirce Mill […]
City planners and developers who wanted to make Tenleytown a whites-only enclave displaced a Black middle-class community where Fort Reno Park stands today. "The Reno Community" is a program presented by Jackson-Reed High School students and Assistant Principal Marc Minsker in association with "Undesign the Redline." They will discuss how student engagement in local history […]
Saturday, May 4th is Passport DC's Around the World tour of local embassies (10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). The neighborhood embassies hosting open houses on May 4th include Bangladesh, China […]
Embassies for European Union members open to the public for tours during the May 11th EU Open House (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.). The closest European Union open houses are […]