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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 […]
Friends of Peirce Mill is hosting its popular fall festival for the first time since 2019. Activities will include a blacksmithing demonstration and a visit from Dr. Stonestreet, who will show how milling injuries were treated in the 19th century. There will be plenty of hands-on activities, including rope making and children's crafts. And a […]
Van Ness Main Street + Friends of Forest Hills Playground present: The Return of the Spooktacular! Everyone's favorite kid-friendly Halloween event is returning to Forest Hills Playground on Sunday, October […]
The Metropolitan Police Department (Second District) hosts a Community Fall Festival with music, food, popcorn/cotton candy, arts & crafts, pumpkin decorating, face painting, police cars, a fire truck, and more. […]
Celebrate Councilmember Mary Cheh's service to the Ward 3 community for the past 16 years. Learn more at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebration-for-councilmember-mary-cheh-tickets-430552252377?aff=ebdssbdestsearch
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 […]
Author Kurt Bednar discusses his book Transatlantic Relations and the Great War, which explores the relations between the Danube Monarchy of Austria-Hungary and the modern US democracy and how that relationship developed over decades until it ended in a final rupture. Learn more at https://www.austria.org/events/kurt-bednar-transatlantic-relations-and-the-great-war
Celebrate Rock Creek at an event that will feature Music by DC Lance Readings from DC Public Libraries Soul Trak Outdoors Bird walks led by DC Audubon S'mores, hot chocolate, […]
Listen to and learn about some of your favorite jazz standards with one of the DC area’s favorite jazz singers. Learn more at https://www.levinemusic.org/event/levine-presents-alison-crockett-sings-classic-jazz/
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 […]
JAZZforum - Aidan Levy in Conversation with Reuben Jackson - Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins Wednesday, February 8, 2023 • 7:00 p.m. Saxophone Colossus is Aidan […]
Join Rock Creek Conservancy and Rock Creek Park in a virtual conversation at the intersection of race, history, and Rock Creek Park. Register here. During personal and national tragedies, social […]
UDC's music program celebrates Women’s History Month with a lecture-recital on the piano music by Black women composers. Dr. Leah Claiborne, coordinator of UDC Keyboard Studies and Music of the […]
Meet the Artist on the Bandstand – Davey Yarborough Wednesday, March 29, 2023 • 7:00 p.m. Woodwind specialist, composer-arranger, bandleader, and educator Davey Yarborough will be at UDC for a […]
Join the Carnegie Science Earth and Planets Laboratory for a talk with Staff Scientist Dr. Conel Alexander titled "A new golden age for sample return missions." During the talk, attendees will get firsthand updates on recent sample return missions from space and learn how they are enabling a new era of discovery. Dr. Alexander will […]