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Join CorePower Yoga at Hillwood Estate for a free 60-minute yoga class. Learn more and register at https://www.hillwoodmuseum.org/events/corepower-yoga-hillwood-3
Join Classical WETA host James Jacobs, Levine faculty artist Vasily Popov, and others in a broad-ranging lecture and conversation on the cello and the first Levine Presents presentation of 2019-20, Cello Stories. Learn more at https://www.levinemusic.org/performance/events-calendar/event/1935
Celebrate our canine friends at the 3rd annual Barks & Brews festival! Tickets are $30 in advance, $35 the day of the event. Ticketholders receive: Unlimited craft beer from sponsor […]
Come to Friends of Forest Hills Playground's next board meeting to plan the popular Halloween party and elect new officers. Thanks to incoming board members and new energy, we were treated to a concert by the extraordinary Christylez Bacon on Saturday, Sept. 7. More board members and helpers = more fun and a nicer park […]
Pianist and UDC Jazz Studies Director Allyn Johnson invites author and trumpeter Muneer Nasser for a session of conversation and performance. Muneer’s recording, A Soldier's Story, is the musical companion to the book he authored, Upright Bass: The Musical Life and Legacy of Jamil Nasser. The recording is a musical tribute to his father, the […]
The Institute of Politics Policy and History hosts a panel discussion, "A Nation Divided: Healing our Country by Bridging its Economic Gaps." One of the panelists, Stan Greenberg, will also […]
The rain garden next to the outdoor amphitheater has been rendered almost completely ineffective by an invasive species takeover. Two Girl Scouts have volunteered to adopt it as their Silver Award project and they will be leading a two-day cleanup effort. They and volunteers will be removing all overgrowth and invasive plants and replacing them […]
Maxine Gordon is an arts advocate, jazz historian, archivist, scholar, manager and producer with a lifetime career working with jazz musicians. Maxine will discuss her remarkable career and recently published book, Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon, with archivist, poet, writer and radio broadcaster Reuben Jackson who is the Jazz Archives Specialist […]
The meeting will include special guests for a discussion on DC statehood. Learn more at https://www.ward3democrats.org/get-involved
Join the National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF), Rock Creek Conservancy and the National Park Service to celebrate National Public Lands Day at Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. The event will focus on connecting people to public lands in their community, inspiring environmental stewardship, and encouraging the use of public lands for education, recreation, and […]
Celebrate the launch of the performance season with a lively evening of music featuring samples from the season's offerings. Learn more at https://www.levinemusic.org/performance/events-calendar/event/1887
Acclaimed percussionist, composer and recording artist Joe Chambers will share his expertise as a master performer and educator. Chambers has worked with some of the most influential jazz figures of the last several decades and is a recognized performer and composer whose works have been performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. As a sideman […]
A series of four lectures at Hillwood Estate: October 3 | Women Looking at Women: Life Magazine’s Female Photographers and their Images of American Women in the Context of World War II with Alissa Schapiro October 10 | Mid-Century Muses: Looking at Fashion in the Photography of Alfred Eisenstaedt with Megan J. Martinelli October 16 […]
The Austrian Cultural Forum Washington presents concert by the pianist Maria Prinz and clarinetist Reinhard Wieser, who pay tribute to the recently deceased American music legend André Previn, as well as to the Austrian composer Alfred Prinz, who died in 2014. The program features works by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, two household names in […]
The final phase of a Girl Scout project: Planting colorful, flowering native plants at one of the two Forest Hills Park rain gardens. Student volunteers can earn SSL hours. Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050848a4a929a6f49-silver