Highlights Post - Sunday, September 25
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FYI: For those with cars able to get to George Mason University in VA, the "Fall for the Book" Festival is on, with free events running through September 30. In addition to the events at Mason there are also events at venues in NoVa, MD & DC, with 150+ visiting authors throughout the festival. See full schedule here! Events today from 12:00pm - 8:00pm.
Yoga on the Mall 2016 & Global Mala for Peace
10:00am - 1:00pm
Free
Annual event by the Washington Monument, postponed from original date this summer.
Metro: Smithsonian
Karma Kitchen September Edition at Himalayan Heritage in Adams Morgan
12:00pm - 3:00pm
Pay-it-Forward/No-Set-Cost, Monthly Community Meal
by donation meal, Indian food, made by and served by a team of volunteers. Karma Kitchen is a volunteer-driven experiment in generosity started in Berkeley, California on March 31st 2007 based on the principles of a "gift economy." Your meal experience is gifted by volunteers: prepared, cooked and served from the heart to you. People of all backgrounds join together for a healthy vegetarian meal in a very set menu. You can eat as much or as little as you wish. All are welcome to join and to invite others to join as well.
Himalayan Heritage Restaurant
2305 18th St NW - at Kalorama
Metro: Woodley Park and walk or take the Circulator bus a bit closer to Adams Mill, cross over Columbia Rd and walk down 18th St a few block, or Dupont Circle and walk up 18th St or take the 42 bus the stop closest to Kalorama or Belmont and walk downhill one block to 18th St.
Perry Street Provisions launches this month at Recreative Spaces
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Free
Read more about the event on eventbrite
Explore local art, home goods, culinary delights, and tasty beverages in the heART of the Gateway Arts District at Recreative Spaces, including arts activities for all ages, face painting by Shanna Lim from 1pm-3pm, a summer blowout sale, $5 'All-You-Can-Fit' bags for ReCreative Party supplies (jars, candles, decorative branches), coffee from Zeke's Coffee and 10% off coupons for your next event @ ReCreative Spaces Perry Street. Vendors include: Cheryl Brown, Danielle Carter, Made by a Black Woman and Mixx & Measure Homemade Baking Company.
3501 Perry St - Mount Rainier, MD
Metro: See metro trip-planner for best bus access from metro
Luce Artist Talk with Nicole Salimbene, inside of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Chinatown
1:30pm talk, beverages served until 3:30pm
Free
"Luce Artist Talks" is a monthly series produced in partnership with CulturalDC's Flashpoint Gallery. This month they welcome Nicole Salimbene, whose art explores themes of mindfulness and conflicts between the internal and external worlds. She will discuss how she uses form and idea in her art to encourage contemplation and provoke dialogue.
Luce Foundation Center
3rd Floor, Smithsonian American Art Museum
8th & G St NW
Metro: Gallery Pl - Chinatown
Concert Celebrating the Music of Enrique Granados, at Catholic University of America in Brookland
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Free
The Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music presents a concert celebrating the music of Spanish composer, Enrique Granados (1867-1916) in Ward Recital Hall. The program, which is free and open to the public, includes selections from his piano music, chamber music, songs and his opera, Goyescas. The music will be performed by School of Music faculty, students and alumni, and several special guests.
Catholic University of America
Benjamin T. Rome School of Music
Ward Hall, 620 Michigan Ave NE
Metro: Brookland - CUA
DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency: Outdoor Open Mic in Dupont Circle
4:00pm - 6:00pm
Free
From the event page: "The DC Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency (GPI) Lyrical Ambush creates a space for artists to explore social justice, racism, campaign finance, international events, police brutality, war vs peace, corporate domination vs meaningful democracy, the “war on drugs,” and the misuse of fear to degrade civil liberties. 2016 is an unprecedented year in American politics and we KNOW this community is holding onto some bombs and fire – come kick it with us -- guerrilla style at Sunday Open Mics in (one more next month on Sunday, October 23 from 4:00pm - 6:00pm). We welcome families with bubbles, sidewalk chalk and encourage kids to share the mic alongside seasoned artists and passerbys. Musicians, drummers, percussionists would add spice. A GPI Ambush includes whoever shows up to listen and share their truth."
Dupont Circle, by the founatin
Metro: Dupont Circle
Reading with authors and poets from Stillhouse Press and Santa Fe Writers Project at Upshur Street Books
5:00pm
Free
From the event page: " Join us to hear the work of four writers from two great local presses, Stillhouse Press and the Santa Fe Writers Project, as part of the Fall for the Book festival, which runs from September 25-30. From Stillhouse Press: Bryan Borland, author of the poetry collection DIG and Matthew Fogarty, author of Maybe Mermaids & Robots are Lonely: Stories. From Santa Fe Writers Project, Elizabeth Hazen, author of the poetry collection Chaos Theories and Stephen G. Eoannou, author of the short story collection Muscle Cars.
Upshur Street Books
827 Upshur St NW
Metro: Georgia Ave - Petworth, walk north on Georgia Ave a few blocks, and keep to the right at Taylor St, walk one more block to get to Upshur
The DC Jazz Jam at The Brixton feature Saxophonist Leigh Pilzer
6:30pm-9:30pm
Free
Saxophonist Leigh Pilzer returns to headline the jam. Come sit in with Leigh and the rest of our terrific Fourth Sunday house band. No cover! Featuring the Brixton House Band of: Leigh Pilzer - sax, Peter Runk - keys, Alex Martin - guitar, Ethan Philion - bass and
Alan Kirschenbaum - drums.
The Brixton
901 U St NW
Metro: U St
Fall Reading 2016 at Upshur Street Books
7:00pm - 9:30pm
$10 cover "includes libations, substantial nibbles, and juicy words"
The Mid-Atlantic Bennington Reader's Series Returns. Featuring Alice Mattison (fiction) along with Danuta Hinc (fiction), William Vandegrift (nonfiction) and Martha Wolfe (nonfiction).
Upshur Street Books
827 Upshur St NW
Metro: Georgia Ave - Petworth, walk north on Georgia Ave a few blocks, and keep to the right at Taylor St, walk one more block to get to Upshur