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The (Georgetown) Dog Days of Summer
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Onstage, Georgetown: September
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JazzFest Underway; Meet the Artists at Arena Stage
Weekend Roundup
Weekend Roundup, August 29 through September 2
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City Tavern Club to Close Aug. 31, Will Sell Historic Building
The National Gallery of Art, From a Different Angle
August 22, 2024
•The Champs-Élysées is in ruins. Though the Arc de Triomphe is intact in the distance, on each side of Paris’s grand avenue the walls of elegant apartment buildings are exposed […]
Weekend Roundup: July 18-21
July 17, 2024
•Another weekend is upon us during these sweltering days of summer. Learn about 18th century entertainment at Mount Vernon, see Carly Rae Jepsen post Nationals vs. Reds, see a new […]
Cauleen Smith – In Space, In Time
April 17, 2024
•Three-part film series. Free. Registration required. Since the early 1990s, Cauleen Smith has created over two dozen short films and videos that move between genres and media with remarkable fluidity […]
Weekend Roundup: Feb. 29 – March 3
February 28, 2024
•March, as it always does, will come in like a lion with lots of things to do. Enjoy a kickoff to Women’s History Month at the National Gallery of Art, […]
Artswatch : Rubenstein Leaves KenCen; NGA’s Cornell Trove; Helen Hayes Nominations
February 14, 2024
•Rubenstein to Conclude Kennedy Center Chairmanship Chair of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees since 2010, philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlyle Group global investment firm, will step […]
Photojournalism Now: Students Respond
February 8, 2024
•How has photojournalism changed over the last century? Join us in the exhibition Dorothea Lange: Seeing People for talks led by photojournalism students from the Corcoran School of the Arts […]
Weekend Roundup, Jan. 11 – 15
January 11, 2024
•Happy weekend! Now that we’re well into 2024, there are lots of interesting things to do this weekend. Remember to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy over the weekend […]
Weekend Roundup, Jan. 4 – 7
January 4, 2024
•Happy New Year! If you’re looking to get back into some weekend fun, we’ve got lots to do. Don’t miss the last weekends for Georgetown Glow, an exhibit from the […]
Shakespeare in the Library: Will’s World and Today’s Theatre
November 28, 2023
•Join us in our Library for a discussion with special collections librarian Yuri Long and guests from the Shakespeare Everywhere festival. They put early modern literature into conversation with contemporary […]
Keynote Address: Joy Harjo and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
November 21, 2023
•Join us for a conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, curator of The Land Carries Our Ancestors, about the exhibition theme of reverence, […]