Renaissance Sacred Music by the Tallis Scholars
• April 16, 2025

Delight in the music of the Tallis Scholars in a concert celebrating spring and the natural world. Program note from the Tallis Scholars The program “Glorious Creatures” is formed around […]

Easter Tour & Candy
• April 9, 2025

Don your favorite Easter bonnet and attire (you could win a prize!) and celebrate spring! Tons of fun for children of all ages. Embark on an exciting self-guided adventure through […]

Film: Little, Big, and Far
• March 25, 2025

Filmmaker Jem Cohen brings the same meditative elegance and intellectual curiosity he did to Museum Hours (2012) with his stargazing new feature, Little, Big, and Far. Again, he uses the […]

Celebrating Elizabeth Catlett with musicians from the Howard University Jazz Ensemble
• February 28, 2025

Treat yourself to music performed by a quartet from the Howard University Jazz Ensemble during opening day of Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, on view through July 6, 2025. […]

Capital City Symphony Presents: Let Inspiration Be Your Guide
• August 30, 2023

Journey from sorrow to triumph in mere moments with Brahms’ vivid Tragic Overture as CCS opens its penultimate concert of the season. The concert’s emotional adventure continues as Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade […]

In-Person Screening: Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
• June 26, 2023

Join SAAM’s celebration of artist Nam June Paik’s birthday with a screening of the 2023 documentary, Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (107 min) that debuted at the […]

Native American Veterans Film Screening: Corridor Four
• May 16, 2023

Saturday, May 27, 2 p.m. https://americanindian.si.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D166293693 Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/b72vxs9ccd6zbsj/CorridorFour_01.jpg?dl=0 Corridor Four challenges the image of the American hero in a heartfelt portrait of 9/11 first responder Isaac Ho‘opi‘i (Native Hawaiian) as he works […]

The D.C. Independent Film Forum
• February 9, 2023

The 24th annual film forum will showcase more than 50 independent feature films, documentaries, shorts, and animated films from filmmakers around the DMV and across the globe. In addition to […]

Viewfinder Virtual Film Series: Leslie Thornton on Surviving 
• July 23, 2021

August 5, 2021, at 5:30 p.m. ET Join the Smithsonian American Art Museum for an engaging virtual lecture with award-winning filmmaker Leslie Thornton. Learn how Thornton, with her decades-long episodic film […]