{Photograph} courtesy of The Wharf.
Completely satisfied Monday, DC!
DC has a Go-Go Museum & Café! You may go to Anacostia’s latest museum starting this week to study all issues concerning the music style. Plus, it’s Mardi Gras season and the Wharf is throwing a giant celebration and parade.
Finest Issues to Do This Week and Weekend
February 24–March 2
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- Go-Go Museum & Café grand opening. To mark the five-year anniversary of go-go being the official music of DC, the long-awaited Go-Go Museum & Café will open its doorways to the general public this Wednesday. The brand new historical past and tradition museum positioned within the coronary heart of Anacostia has displays, quick movies, and interactive installations that showcase the energetic historical past of go-go, together with a synthetic intelligence hologram of veteran musician EU, a documentary on former LGBTQ-street-gang-turned-activists Test It, and a timeline that traces the style again to African ancestry (open Wed, Sat, $15, free for DC residents, Anacostia).
- Mardi Gras on the Wharf. The Wharf’s Mardi Gras parade goes to be a giant occasion: There shall be jugglers, stilt walkers, adorned floats, and a Mardi Gras king and queen. The parade will kick off on Market Pier and head a mile down Wharf Road. To finish the evening with a bang, there shall be a fireworks present and reside performances throughout 4 phases by native go-go and funk teams the Expertise Band & Present, Too A lot Expertise Band, Crush Funk Brass Band, and others (Sat, free, Wharf).
- “Uncanny” exhibit at NMWA. The brand new “Uncanny” exhibition on the Nationwide Museum of Girls within the Arts is purposefully unsettling. The works—by such surrealist artists as Sama Alshaibi, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Louise Bourgeois, and Leonora Carrington—presents dummies and different objects in each dreamlike and nightmarish depictions of ladies, as a examination of patriarchal traditions (Fri by August 10, free, $16, $13 for DC residents, Downtown).
- The Age of Innocence at Area Stage. DC playwright Karen Zacarías brings Edith Wharton’s basic novel The Age of Innocence to life on Area Stage. The timeless 1870s story is a New York love story about societal norms, privilege, and fervour (Fri by March 30, $59+, Southwest DC).
- DC Black Historical past Movie Pageant. This annual pageant celebrates Black tradition by artwork and movie on the Lincoln Theatre. The 2025 film-athon—hosted by actor Lamman Rucker—options 5 hours of documentaries, shorts, and dramas about African American history-makers comparable to poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, and civil rights tales on voting and training (Fri, free, U Road Hall).
Need Extra Issues to Do?
Arts and tradition:
- Learn a e book by civil rights chief Pauli Murray at Black Voices E book Membership (Mon, free, Takoma Park).
- Finest-selling writer David Grann visits Sixth & I to advertise the paperback launch of The Wager: A Story of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Homicide (Tues, $25+ for in-person, $12+ for digital, Downtown).
- Be taught a brand new craft on the Paper Architect Workshop (Tues, $51, Capitol Hill).
- The Pozez Jewish Neighborhood Middle of Northern Virginia backs the ReelAbilities Movie Pageant, the place moviegoers can watch movies about individuals with disabilities (by March 6, free+, DC and Northern Virginia).
- Watch the premiere of season 48 of Survivor at DC9 Nightclub (Wed, free, Shaw).
- Solas Nua’s premiere-packed Capital Irish Movie Pageant boasts 17 titles directed by girls, and 12 written or co-written by girls (Thurs-Solar, $15 for particular person passes, Silver Spring).
- {Couples} can compete in a sport of chess in opposition to grasp participant David Bennett at Gerrard Road Kitchen (Thurs, free, Downtown).
- Brides-to-be can store marriage ceremony attire, vintage jewellery, equipment, and extra at a classic pop-up (Solar, $15+, Union Market).
- Paint Your Pet at District Canines (Solar, $75, Arlington).
Neighborhood and heritage:
- At this Profs & Pints DC lecture you’ll be able to learn the way psychology impacts sexual conduct (Tues, $17, Penn Quarter).
- African American professionals within the intelligence group mirror on their careers on the Worldwide Spy Museum (Thurs, free, digital, Southwest DC).
- Be taught concerning the heritage of go-go music and the connection to the ’90s DC public well being disaster (Thurs, donations welcome, Anacostia).
Theater and exhibits:
- Corn-filled musical comedy Shucked arrives on the Nationwide Theatre (Tues-Solar, $69+, Nationwide Theatre).
- The Eventualities—a world premiere from playwright Matthew Capodicasa—opens this week at Studio Theatre (Wed by April 6, $42+, Logan Circle).
Music and live shows:
- Native indie people singer Patrick Budd performs at The Pocket (Wed, $14+, Truxton Circle).
- Have an intimate people music night with singer-songwriter Jason Isbell (Thurs, $91+, Warner Theatre).
- Rap stars and R&B vocalists Latto, Bryson Tiller, Hunxho, Jacquees, Skilla Child, and Large Boogie share the DMV Winter Fest stage (Fri, $59+, Capital One Area).
- The ABBA Glitter Disco dance celebration is again with gold, sparkles, and retro music at Union Stage (Fri, $25+, Wharf).
- Hear Brooklyn Rider’s modern classical melodies reside at Sixth & I (Sat, $45, Downtown).
Bites and drinks:
- Report bar and cocktail lounge Press Membership is hosing a pop-up tasting expertise that includes Mexican-inspired bites and drinks by Vertical (Mon, $115, Dupont).
- Choose up a complimentary chocolate deal with from the library (Wed, free, Northeast DC).
- In case you’re a fan of the fact TV present Survivor—and half-price wine—don’t miss this watch celebration at Immigrant Meals (Wed, free entry, Arlington).
Issues to do with youngsters:
- Artwork and books come to life at Merry Pins’ Artful Tales workshop for youths (Sat, free, Takoma Park).
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