Echo Bloom at Hill Country Live:
“November 26 @ 8:30 pm
Hill Country Live
410 7th St NW
Echo Bloom, a chamber pop group hailing from Brooklyn, plays songs from their new album ‘Blue’ at Hill Country Live November 26th. The album, hailed as ‘a masterpiece’ by No Depression magazine, is a blend of Americana, Classical, an Jazz – for fans of Sufjan Stevens and Joni Mitchell”
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“Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th St NW
November 23 @ 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
The Mexican Cultural Institute, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and the Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Museums present the exhibition Man at the Crossroads: Diego Rivera’s Mural at the Rockefeller Center, opening the 21st of November.
The exposition centers around the mural Rivera painted in New York City, reconstructing its history with unedited material, including letters, telegrams, contracts, sketches, and documents, following Rivera’s commission, subsequent tension and conflict, and finally, the mural’s destruction.”
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“Chocolate Crust
5830 Georgia Ave NW
November 23 @ 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Like a pub crawl, but with donut shops in Washington, DC. Join us on Saturday, November 23 @ 10am as we bike to different donut shops to find out who has the best donuts in DC.”
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Pleasant Plains Workshop 3rd Bday Happy Hour!
“November 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Venue: Mothership
3301 Georgia Avenue NW
Join us at Mothership on Tuesday 11/19 for a birthday happy hour in celebrations of Pleasant Plains Workshop’s third anniversary!
We’ll be unveiling a group exhibition in the space, and a portion of drink sales will go to PPW. We’ll also have a 50/50 raffle and other fun activities (really, just hanging out in our presence is enough, right??)
Hope you can make it as we toast to three years on Georgia Avenue! xoxo, PPW crew”
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“While it’s still under construction, this morning crews installed two large pieces at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Because the pieces are so large, continued construction of the building will be built around them.
Weighing 80 tons, a segregated railway train care made by the Pullman Company in 1922 was delivered to DC this morning as well as a prison guard tower from Angola, the Louisiana State Penitentiary. It’s an item illustrating the incarceration of black people in the 20th century.”
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Plaid Ride & Lumberjack Games:
“ November 16 @ 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Here’s to flannel! Plaid is the everyman’s fabric– at once warm, comfortable, and colorful. A perfect look for those who are just a little rough and tumble.
To all the Lumberjacks and Lumberjills out there:
We invite you to don your most tasteful tartan and join us for an unforgettable bike ride through Washington DC as the season tips into winter. We’ll criss-cross past some of the city’s beautiful sites while making quite a site ourselves.
Ultimately, we will proceed to Kingman Island– a perfect spot to let loose your competitive side and vie for the respect of your burly brethren. You will have a chance to demonstrate your skills at playing a selection of rigorous games, telling tall tales, and consuming large amounts of food.
Plaid for the people! Accessorize with trucker caps, beards, sturdy boots, suspenders, hairy armpits, and hatchets. Are you ready to put your toughness to the test?
If you think you have what it takes, please register right away and also RSVP to our Facebook invite so you can share this with friends.
At Kingman Island, Expect:
Lumberjack Games: Timber Chase, Log Roll, Lumber Lug 2×4 Carry, Sap Spill Hill Climb, Top of the Pines, Lumberjack Ring Toss, The Woodsman’s Wardrobe, Wooden Kettleballs, Flapjack Eating Contest
Also, Jamis will provide Mountain Bikes that you’ll be able to try on our Stumpy Stunt Course as well as in our Splinter Sprint Competition.
Another exciting event will be to select the Lord and Lady of the Games– we will seek to find who most embodies the spirit of the Lumberjack Games.
Food- Purchase a hearty Lumberjack Slam meal at the “Lunch Wagon”
Also.. Dance, Photobooth, Bike Parking!”
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Catherine’s Friends with Benefits:
“Oakwood Terrace Mansion
3423 Oakwood Terrace NW
November 16 @ 8:00 pm – 11:55 pm
Tickets $10
The Mudpatch Family Band and NXNWpresents are hosting a night of music and dancing to benefit the recovery of much-loved DC musician, journalist, and friend: Catherine Woodiwiss. [The woman who was badly injured in a bike accident on Quincy Street back in September.]
Featuring: Carl Anderson of Charlottesville, VA, DC’s own Jonny Grave, and a funky, Catherine-inspired dance party.
Your $10 donation at the door ($11 if you are paying with debit/credit card) supports Catherine’s ongoing recovery from a recent bike accident. Chances are you’ve attended a benefit concert given by ever-generous and wonderfully talented Catherine, so we’re especially enthusiastic about doing this for her!
Carl Anderson: https://www.facebook.com/thecarlanderson
Jonny Grave: http://www.jonnygrave.com/
RSVP here.”
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Exclusive DC Screening of Film Mortified Nation:
Washington District of Columbia Jewish Community Center
1529 16th Street NW
November 9 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Tickets: $15
“YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD AN AWKWARD PHASE. Mortified Nation is a documentary about adults who share their most embarrassing, private childhood writings… in front of total strangers. Transporting viewers back to a time of awkward firsts– first love, first rejection, first total freak out– the film captures the adolescent experience in a way few of us truly remember and most of us tried to forget.
Come see the one time exclusive DC screening of the film. Q&A with the filmmakers and the founder of the stage show Mortified afterward.”
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“Pieces of Amber opens at doris-mae on November 8 and will have a limited run through November 17
$10
1716 14th St NW
One day in the summer of 2010, Amber deserted her shared Columbia Heights apartment without warning, never to return. Months later, her diaries were discovered by her roommate, Josef Palermo, as he tried to make sense of this person who had quite literally left her life behind.
PIECES OF AMBER, DC’s first immersive art experience, is intended to enable an audience to uncover, identify, and question the many complex identities of Amber through artistic multidisciplinary presentation of the fugue in her diaries. The audience (of no more than 15) will enter and interact within an exploratory set of artifacts and other personal effects installed as an abandoned domestic space, and the abstract representation of Amber will be presented via experiential engagement of her diaries to build a character while framing inquiries of storytelling versus performance, narration versus enactment, and conceptual art installation versus theatrical set design while questioning to what extent one is capable of assembling a cohesive story and/or character from the abandoned pieces of ephemera that once constituted a life.
As the lead generative artist behind PIECES OF AMBER, actor/director/producer Josef (“Sef”) Palermo has spent nearly three years developing this work. Joining his creative team for the show are co-director Jennifer Restak, producer James Alefantis, and production designer Andrew Herndon in addition to conceptual artist Bahar Bamdad Jalehmahmoudi, genderfuck performance artist Jason Barnes, and first-time performer Blaire Boston.
PIECES OF AMBER opens at doris-mae on November 8 and will have a limited run through November 17. Tickets available now.”
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“Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
1632 U Street, NW
November 8 – December 21
Yarn, thread, and fabric were historically associated with “women’s work” and hence works made from such materials were often relegated to the category of mere craft, yet with the 1960’s feminist movement these once humble materials began to enter the realm of contemporary art worldwide. With each knot, stitch, and loop the artists of Against the Bias continue to work against the grain and masterfully transform these once “domestic” materials and methods—sewing, crocheting, knitting, embroidering, and quilting—into contemporary reflections on community, historical legacy, identity, and even the sacred. They vividly disrupt our collective expectation of what traditional materials can do; images of homemade holiday sweaters and Gran’s baby blanket are daringly replaced with avant-garde works that speak to the present moment. Featuring a contemporary spin on traditional textiles in the form of retro fabric sculptures, gestural thread drawings, crochet audio installations, and large-scale yarn portraiture Against the Bias highlights the work of Emily Biondo, Hannah Brancato, Stacy Cantrell, Lily deSaussure, Jo Hamilton, Jesse Harrod, Jimmy Miracle, and Amber Robles-Gordon. Extending beyond the Gallery’s interior, the exhibition will also include a large-scale, crochet and knit installation wrapping our U Street building façade in a Yarn- Bomb Garden, created by our local community and a team of expert yarn-bombers. Don’t miss your chance to be entangled in Against the Bias!”
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