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Cultural Tourism DC's Calendar lists a broad range of activities and special events for all ages and interests. Browse Today's Events listed below, or plan ahead using the Search. To keep up-to-date on what's going on in Washington, DC, subscribe to our weekly "Events Update" calendar using the sign-up box on the left.
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Today's Events
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Dance: Deviated Theatre |
Location: Dance Place
In Aspiro, a girl with an umbrella finds herself in the center of a curious underworld where a twisted circus emerges from the darkness, and eventually... the fates come to call.
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Spy City Tour |
10:00 AM - 12:00 noon
Location: International Spy Museum
This tour features over 25 of DC's most notable sites used by some of the nation's most infamous spies. Everywhere you turn you can find offices, restaurants, and hotels that have been at the center of espionage activity for the past 65 years...if you know where to look!
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Walking Tour: Embassy Row |
10:00 AM - 12:00 noon
Location: Dupont Circle/Kalorama
The nouveau-riche crowd has made many an eyeball roll reflexively skyward. Call them robber barons or captains of industry, today you can revel in the Beaux-Arts grandeur of Washington’s Massachusetts Avenue, better known as Embassy Row.
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Walking Tour: Before Harlem, There Was U Street |
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location: U Street/Shaw
Take a walk along DC's "Black Broadway" - where Duke Ellington grew up and was inspired, where musical greats such as Cab Calloway and Dizzy Gillespie played local clubs, and where movie palaces mingled with pool halls, restaurants, and barber shops.
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Adams Morgan Art Market |
12:00 noon
Location: Western Market
Western Market is a weekly outdoor arts market in the heart of hip and lively Adams Morgan held every Saturday from noon to dark, rain or shine, from March through December.
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Walking Tour - Moveable Feast: A Taste of DC |
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Location: Downtown/U Street
Come along on this nibble-and-nosh fest to DC phenomena that celebrates the locally grown and locally invented. Enjoy tales of gastronomic history along the way - from the inaugural party turned food fight to Mrs. Terrell’s quiet milestone in civil rights.
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Walking Tour: Capitol Hill |
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Location: Capitol Hill
Most people think of Capitol Hill as a place where business is done, laws are passed, and deals are sealed. But "the Hill", as locals call it, represents much more. A neighborhood that has been alive and kicking since the 18th century, it still has the houses to prove it.
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Imaginasia Family Program: Royal Family Albums |
2:00 PM
Location: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Take a close look at the exquisite layouts and design of pages from the royal albums compiled for the great Mughal emperors Jahahgir and his son Shah Jahan. Use handmade papers to construct an album page in the Mughal style.
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Performance: Bhutan Song and Dance |
6:00 PM
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Bhutan: Land of the Thunder Dragon comprises Bhutanese religious festivals and traditional dances. The dramatic, masked dances date back to the 16th century.
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Walking Tour: Memorials by Moonlight |
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: National Mall
See the Washington Monument, the World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial, the Abraham Lincoln Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial by moonlight.
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Washington Improv Theater - Summer Brew: Jinx's Close Quarters |
8:00 PM
Location: Flashpoint
Let's face it: life has a way of zooming past. It can be hard to keep up. This summer, Jinx slams on the brakes and examines one moment in time. One event - many perspectives. They call it Close Quarters, and you're invited.
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Washington Improv Theater - Summer Brew: Deuce |
9:30 PM
Location: Flashpoint
Castor and Pollux. Ying and Yang. Scrap Iron and Tetanus. Yeah, Greg and Patrick are kinda like that. They're roommates. Long-time friends. And if one shows up dead, suspect the other first. I mean, look at their initials... freaky, huh?
Ongoing Events
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Exhibition - Directions: Amy Sillman, Third Person Singular |
Location: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
New York-based painter Amy Sillman produces works that are intimate, psychological, and full of humor and pathos. At the same time, they are remarkably analytical and intellectual investigations into the forms and qualities of painting as a medium.
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Exhibition - Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection |
Location: Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
This landmark exhibition traces the development of artist-made jewelry and honors its craft roots while also placing the work within a larger framework of seminal movements in 20th century art.
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Theater: Antony and Cleopatra |
Location: Sidney Harman Hall
Featuring some of the most sublime poetry ever written, Antony and Cleopatra is an intimate portrait of an ill-fated love affair. As Rome reasserts its claim on him, Antony struggles between his sense of duty to his country and his consuming love.
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Theater: Julius Caesar |
Location: Sidney Harman Hall
Fearing that Caesar’s growing strength threaten the Republic, a faction of politicians plots to assassinate him. But when Caesar is killed, chaos engulfs Rome. As enthralling as a political thriller, Julius Caesar portrays the life-and-death struggle for power in Rome.
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Theater: St. Mark's Gospel |
Location: Theater Alliance at the H Street Playhouse
One review of Michael Tolaydo's tour-de-force one-man performance stated, "Regardless of one's personal predilections or feelings about the gospels or the Bible itself, St. Mark's Gospel is an experience that should not be missed."
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Theater - Source Festival: Interdisciplinary Works |
Location: Source Theatre
The Source Festival seeks to unite DC artists by providing opportunities for new artistic challenges and collaborations while presenting timely, cutting-edge performances for greater DC audiences. This week see interdisciplinary works.
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Concert and Lecture: Music in Bhutan |
12:00 noon
Location: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Join Bhutanese singers and instrumentalists to learn about music in the Himalayas. Discover how their traditional collective songs play a role in farming, weaving, carpentry, and building homes.
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Performance: Masked Dances of the Monastery |
3:00 PM
Location: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Learn more about Bhutanese masked dancers and their costumes through close-up interactions with Buddhist monks and their interpreters.
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Dance: Deviated Theatre |
Location: Dance Place
In Aspiro, a girl with an umbrella finds herself in the center of a curious underworld where a twisted circus emerges from the darkness, and eventually... the fates come to call.
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Sixth in the City Trivia Night |
12:00 noon - 3:00 PM
Location: Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
From sports to pop culture, geography to movies, Israel to Sixth & I, test your knowledge of it all at the first of many trivia nights. Don't miss the chance to win some great prizes!