Walking club, for aptness and improved health, co-sponsored by Sibley Memorial Hospital. 8:30-9:30 a.m. Thursdays and Tuesdays, Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Free, with giveaway parking. 202-364-7602.
Garden debate and kids in snugglers, volunteers take turns heading relatives or caring providers with one child in a snuggly for a 45-minute guided debate of a conservatory, no strollers. 10:30 a.m. Thursdays, by Oct. 30, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. Free; registration required. 202-225-8333 or www.usbg.gov .
National Cathedral behind a scenes, age 11 and older, see gargoyles and stained-glass windows and stand a lot of stairs for a breathtaking perspective of a city. Bring a camera. 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. weekdays, Washington National Cathedral, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. $25; ages 11-12, $21. 202-537-6200 or www.nationalcathedral.org .
Laugh café, take your favorite jokes, humorous stories, riddles or personal tales to incite others to laughter. Memorization not required; take your lunch, coffee and dessert served. Noon-1 p.m., Sibley Memorial Hospital, Level G, Private Dining Room 3, 5255 Loughboro Rd. NW. Free. Register: 202-364-7602.
U.S. Air Force Band concert, a Air Force Strings perform. 12:30, 1:30 and 2:30 p.m., National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Beginners’ mechanism class, learn how to emanate an e-mail account, hunt a Internet and use online library services. 1-3 p.m. Thursdays, Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 Seventh St. NW. Free. 202-727-1288.
American Art: after and before, museum conservators plead an pattern that has perceived diagnosis by Lunder Conservation Center staff afterwards go behind-the-scenes to see how staff request science, art story and learned hands to artworks before they are exhibited. 1 p.m., Smithsonian American Art Museum, G Street Lobby, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Memorials on a Mall, a National Park Service ranger leads a walking debate of a preference of memorials. 2-4 p.m. daily by Sept. 30, Lincoln Memorial, 23rd Street NW and West Potomac Park. Free. 202-426-6841.
“How to Breathe Under Water,” a librarian leads a contention of Julie Orringer’s book, a collection of 9 stories covering several subjects full of pointy insights and hard-won wisdoms. 2:30 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Room 219, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-0321.
Cathedral trembler tour, perspective a repairs that came from a bulk 5.8 upheaval of Aug 23, 2011. 3 p.m. Thursday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Washington National Cathedral, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. $20; children, seniors, troops and students, $16. 202-537-6200 or www.nationalcathedral.org.
Teen diversion time, for ages 12-18, play your favorite diversion on your possess or on a team. 3:30 p.m. Thursdays, Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. Free. 202-282-3139.
Origami nights, for ages 7-12, learn how to emanate paper cranes, frogs, foxes, ties and other designs regulating a Japanese art form. Beginners welcome. 4:30 p.m. Thursdays and Tuesdays, Francis A. Gregory Library, 3660 Alabama Ave. SE. Free. 202-698-6373.
Teen comic book club, for ages 13-19, for fans of manga, super favourite comics and more. 5 p.m. Thursday and a initial Thursday of any month, Northeast Library, Mezzanine turn contention room, 330 Seventh St. NE. Free. Register: northeastlibrary@dc.gov or 202-698-0183.
Music on a lawn, a opening of overhanging mainstream jazz by Larry Brown Jazz, move a cruise repast and a sweeping or grass chair. Volunteers needed. Gates open 5:30, Grace Episcopal Church, Georgetown, 1041 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Free; donations appreciated. 202-333-7100 or www.gracedc.org .
Wii dance-off, for ages 13-19, a weekly foe regulating Wii. 5:30 p.m. Thursdays, William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library, 115 Atlantic St. SW. Free. 202-243-1184.
Handi-hour, for age 21 and older, featuring all-you-can-craft activities with a comic book aptitude and qualification brews, live strain achieved by internal twin FarAway, includes dual splash tickets and light snacks. 5:30-8 p.m., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, third floor, Eighth and F streets NW. $20. 202-633-1000.
Dance concert, dancer and choreographer Adriane Fang presents her new dance work “Grains,
using movement, lighting, organic materials and a sound-score by Jeffrey Dorfman, formulating clever visuals that try a theme of time and a tie of a common tellurian experience. 6 p.m. Thursday-Friday, Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. 202-467-4600.
Making a many of your comparison year, college consultant Victoria Tillson Evans discusses how seniors should navigate their final year and college concentration routine though stress. 6 p.m., Cleveland Park Library, First Floor Meeting Room, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. 202-282-3080.
Anacostia Library chess club, for ages 10-16. 6 p.m. Thursdays, Anacostia Library, 1800 Good Hope Rd. SE. Free. 202-715-7707 or 202-715-7708.
Guitars not guns, for ages 8-18, a inhabitant module that uses strain as a matter to enthuse children and teenagers and fosters youths to use their creativity to obstruct themselves from self-destructive influences; accede from a primogenitor or defender required. 6:30 p.m., Thursdays by Sept. 25, William O. Lockridge/Bellvue Library, 115 Atlantic St. SW. Free. 202-243-1185.
Global proceed to fighting lethal diseases of wheat,Cornell University’s Ronnie Coffman discusses a branch decay that has tormented wheat farmers for millennia with new superstrains opening out of East Africa and a intensity for overcoming 80% of a world’s wheat, surveying a hurdles faced by a consortium of scientists and some of a successes in securing a world’s wheat crop. 6:30-8 p.m., U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. Free, registration required. 202-225-8333. www.usbg.gov.
Book talk, a librarian leads a contention about Erik Larson’s novel “In a Garden of Beasts ,” set in 1933 Berlin, about America’s initial envoy to Hitler’s Nazi Germany during a branch indicate in history. 7 p.m., West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. Free. 202-724-8698.
“Old Dog ,” Pema Tseden’s 2011 film about an aged shepherd on a Himalayan plains struggling to keep his Tibetan mastiff, an ancient multiply preferred by pet dealers and dog thieves, in Tibetan with English subtitles. 7 p.m., Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Poetry reading during a library, poets Doritt Carroll and Maritza Rivera review from their works. 7 p.m., Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. Free. 202-727-0232.
Meditation and mindfulness, a monitor teaches and leads techniques that assistance those whose highlight response is triggered by a new cancer diagnosis; cancer patients, their family members and caregivers are welcome. 7-8 p.m. Thursdays, Sibley Medical Building, Conference Room 4, second floor, 5215 Loughboro Rd. NW. Free. 202-364-7602.
Game night during a library, for teens, come play Wii video games or one of a residence games or work on a craft. 7 p.m. Thursdays, Southwest Library, 900 Wesley Pl. SW. Free. 202-724-4752.
Job seekers support group, get new ideas for networking and rise strategies for anticipating jobs. 7 p.m. Thursdays by Sept. 18, Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. Free. megan.mcnitt@dc.gov or 202-727-0232.
“Spark,” by Obie Award-winning playwright Caridad Svich, a dirty play about a maestro returning from fight and a mercantile challenges, romantic dispute and ghost of fight that haunts her and her family, best for age 16 and older. 8 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, continues by Sept. 28, Anacostia Playhouse, 2020 Shannon Pl. SE. $35; seniors and students, $20. 202-241-2539 or www.theateralliance.com .
“Shear Madness,” a comedy-mystery set in Georgetown, with assembly appearance to assistance solve a ridicule murder. 8 p.m. Thursday-Friday, 6 and 9 p.m. Saturday, 3 and 7 p.m. Sunday, 8 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, Kennedy Center, Family Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $50. 202-467-4600.
“Moneyball ,” Bennett Miller’s 2011 film about a Major League Baseball manager who contingency digest ways to win when his players are lured divided from his organisation by large money, starring Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Wright. 8:15 p.m., Canal Park, Second and M streets SE. Free. www.capitolriverfront.org .
Seniors line dancing, age 50 and older. 10 a.m. Fridays, Woodridge Interim Library, 1790 Douglas St. NE. Free. 202-541-6226.
“The Hundred-Foot Journey ,” a film about a culinary ingénue with a gastronomic homogeneous of ideal pitch, replaced with his Indian family to a old-fashioned encampment in a south of France and on a margin of opening an Indian grill that rivals a Michelin-rated restaurant, starring Helen Mirren, Charlotte Le Bon and Manish Dayal. 11:30 a.m., 2:15, 5 and 8 p.m. by subsequent Thursday, Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. $11.50; students, $9; seniors, $8.75; troops and age 12 and younger, $8.50. 202-966-6000 or www.theavalon.org .
Helping Our People Engage, in a suggestion of revitalizing a ancestral cinema theaters of Anacostia, such as a Carver, Anacostia, Naylor and Congress theaters, a Anacostia Neighborhood Library presents weekly film matinees on Friday mornings, a contention organisation follows. 11:30 a.m., Anacostia Library, 1800 Good Hope Rd. SE. Free. 202-715-7707 or 202-715-7708.
Pipe organ recital, Charles Pugh performs works by J.S. Bach, Louis Vierne, José Lidon, Edward Elgar and Eugene Gigout. 12:15-1 p.m., National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Cir. NW. Free; donations welcome. 202-797-0103.
“Jealousy,” Philippe Garrel’s film about a male who leaves his mother and daughter, a story of a relations that teeter and flower in a arise of such a decision, in French with English subtitles. 1:15, 3:20, 5:30 and 7:45 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. $11.50; students, $9; seniors, $8.75; troops and age 12 and younger, $8.50. 202-966-6000.
“Rock Me to a Moon,” Huang Chia-Chun’s 2013 film about Taiwan’s many surprising stone band, Sleepy Dads, a organisation of 6 middle-age fathers, all with children pang from incorrigible singular diseases, who find comfort in their strain until they try to perform during a rarely rival Hohaiyan Rock Festival, in Mandarin with English subtitles. 2 p.m., Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. Free. 202-633-1000.
200 Years ago: a Star-Spangled Banner, a National Park Service ranger leads a walking debate and discusses a blazing of Washington and either Baltimore was in danger during a War of 1812. 3-5 p.m., Washington Monument Lodge, 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. Call Lowell Fry, 202-438-9603.
Basic Internet safety, learn how to equivocate a many extreme fraud, a many gross errors and a many inauspicious misjudgments of online etiquette. 4 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Digital Commons, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-0321.
Join a STEAM team, for ages 6-12 with an seductiveness in science, technology, engineering, art and/or arithmetic and a enterprise to design, construct, learn or create. 4 p.m. Fridays, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-0321.
Southwest church potluck and diversion night, for all ages, move games to play with family or friends. Bring a potluck plate for cooking to share, sponsored by St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church. 6:30-9 p.m., Tiber Island Community Center, 429 N St. SW. Free. 202-554-3222, rector@staugustinesdc.org or www.staugustinesdc.org .
Working from a figure, drop-in figure drawing, work on drawings or paintings in front of a live indication in a eventuality though an instructor. Bring sketch materials; easels available. 6:30-9:30 p.m., initial and third Fridays, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 Seventh St. SE. $20; $76 for a four-class pass. 202-547-6839 or www.chaw.org .
Dave Matthews Covers concert, a opening by Crowded Streets. 6:30-8:30 p.m., Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. Free. 202-289-0111 or www.yardspark.org .
“Stray Dogs,” Tsai Ming-liang’s 2013 film, a elegant mural of an alcoholic father and his immature children flourishing in modern-day Taipei, eating leftover supermarkets dishes and looking for safety in deserted buildings until they come on a lady from a past, in Mandarin with English subtitles. 7 p.m., Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Memorials of a Mall by night, a National Park Service ranger leads a walking debate of America’s front yard. 8-10 p.m. daily by Sunday, National World War II Memorial, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. Ranger station, 202-426-6841.
“The Shoplifters,” Morris Panych’s satirical comedy about society’s haves and have-nots and how many they competence indeed have in common in this high-stakes conflict of wills involving a career shoplifter whose life of sparse crime is halted by an overzealous rookie confidence ensure and his changeable mentor. 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sundays, 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays by Thursdays, continues by Oct. 19, Arena Stage, Kreeger Theater, 1101 Sixth St. SW. $45-$90, theme to change and formed on availability. 202-488-3300 or www.arenastage.org .
Shakespeare’s Globe: “King Lear,” Bill Buckhurst leads Joseph Marcell, Gwendolen Chatfield, Bethan Cullinane and Alex Mugnaioni in a William Shakespeare tragedy. 8 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Sept. 11; other shows, 8 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, continues by Sept. 21, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE. $50-$85; reduce prices for partial-view seating; discounts for students, seniors, troops and educators. 202-544-7077 or www.folger.edu/theatre .
Ward 8 farmers market, uninformed fruits and vegetables, cooking demonstrations, yoga. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays by Nov. 22, 1901 Mississippi Ave. SE. 202-889-5901 or www.thearcdc.org .
Geology lover’s beam to a Mid-Atlantic, Callan Bentley, an partner highbrow of geology during Northern Virginia Community College, discusses 4 Maryland and Virginia sites and their geological histories. 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. $130. 202-633-3030. www.smithsonianassociates.org .
Yoga for adults, taught by an instructor from Yoga Activist; wear gentle wardrobe and move a mat, some mats might be available. 10 a.m. Saturdays, Dorothy I. Height/Benning Library, 3935 Benning Rd. NE. Free. 202-281-2583.
Fascinating star of insatiable plants, preparation proffer Todd Brethauer discusses a instrumentation and ability of these 700-plus plant species, permitting them to constraint and digest insects and other tiny animals, enabling them to grow in nutrient-poor soils, sum their evolution, history, ecology and physiology and gives hints on gripping them healthy and happy during home. 10:30 a.m.-noon, U.S. Botanic Garden, Conservatory Garden Court, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. Free; registration required. 202-225-8333. www.usbg.gov .
Cemetery tours, a docent leads a debate of a tomb that provides a final resting place for John Philip Sousa and other famous people. 11 a.m.-noon Saturdays by Nov. 1, Congressional Cemetery, 1801 E St. SE. Free. 202-543-0539. www.congressionalcemetery.org .
Yoga, a clergyman from Yoga Activist leads amateur classes for teenagers and adults. 11 a.m. Saturdays, Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free. 202-243-1188.
Author talk, Justin Martin discusses his book “Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians ,” that explores Whitman’s time during Pfaff’s Saloon in Manhattan and a colorful organisation that convened there, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Mark Twain; accommodate during a mural of Walt Whitman. Noon, National Portrait Gallery, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Book talk, National Park Service Ranger Scott Einberger discusses his book “A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness and Washington, D.C. ,” from a cabin of individualist producer Joaquin Miller to a city’s oldest house. Noon, National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. Free. 202-272-2448. www.nbm.org .
Imaginative play time, for age 12 and younger, use imagination to dress up, build with blocks, perform with puppets and solve puzzles. Noon Saturdays, Francis A. Gregory Library, 3660 Alabama Ave. SE. Free. 202-698-6373.
Carillon recital, carillonneur Edward M. Nassor performs. 12:30 p.m., Washington National Cathedral, Bishop’s Garden and other outside areas, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. Free. 202-537-6200 or www.nationalcathedral.org .
Portrait story days: John James Audubon, listen to a story about a American wildlife artist who attempted to paint and report all of a birds of America and emanate a square of art desirous by his life and portrait. 1-4 p.m. Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Sunday, National Portrait Gallery, initial floor, preparation center, Room E151, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
2014 Herb of a year: artemisia, members of a Herb Society of America and Arboretum staff denote a uses and enlightenment of a rarely perfumed and easy to grow herb used in cuisine, cosmetics, aroma therapy and dusty arrangements. 1-4 p.m., U.S. National Arboretum, 3501 New York Ave. NE. $15. Free. 202-245-4521.
Staying connected, a three-week array of technologies including Facebook and Twitter, D.C. Online and Google Tools, curriculum and training by ByteBack. 2:30 p.m. Saturdays by Sept. 20, Lamond-Riggs Library, 5401 South Dakota Ave. NE. Free. Registration recommended. 202-529-3395.
Meet the author: Lynn Goldsmith, accommodate a mural photographer best famous for her images of stone icons Prince, Bonnie Raitt and Patti Smith, and listen to her tales of their encounters. 2 p.m., National Portrait Gallery, “American Cool” vaunt entrance, second floor, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Workshop: “Pollinators, Parasites, Predators Pests: Managing a 4 P’s,” Rex Dufour discusses how to emanate an civic medium for a operation of pollinators, parasites and predators and how to safety those that are essential and support a opposite medium by a deterrence of poisonous chemicals. 2-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, U.S. Botanic Garden, Conservatory Classroom, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. Free, registration required. 202-225-8333. www.usbg.gov .
Guided bike ride, about 3 hours, led by a National Park Service ranger, with stops to plead moments in American history; move your bike, H2O and snacks. Helmets required. 2-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, Thomas Jefferson Memorial, 900 Ohio Dr. SW. Free. 202-426-6841.
Tango lessons, for adults, learn and use a Argentine tango with Rendezvous Tango’s Bahman Aryana, all ability levels welcome. 2 p.m. Saturdays by Sept. 27, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-0321.
Building a Lincoln Memorial, a National Park Service ranger discusses a inside story of a pattern and construction of a Mall’s initial memorial. 3 p.m., Lincoln Memorial, 23rd Street NW and West Potomac Park. Free. Peter Winfrey, 202-426-6841.
Case of a Murdered Archduke, a National Park Service ranger leads a walking debate and discusses how a murder of an successor to a bench started World War we and done a star of 2014. 3-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Washington Monument, Lodge, 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. Call Lowell Fry, 202-438-9603.
Okinawan behaving arts, a opening of Ryukyu normal dance, normal karate and so-saku Eisa. 6 p.m., Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, 2700 F St. NW. Free. 202-467-4600.
Palisades farmers market, locally grown anniversary produce, strain by Sherier Mountain. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays, 48th Place and MacArthur Boulevard NW. www.palisadesfarmersmarket.com .
U.S. Air Force Band concert, a Air Force Strings performs 19th-century French and American strain in respect of a “Degas/Cassatt” exhibit. Noon and 1 p.m., National Gallery of Art, Sculpture Garden, Seventh Street and Constitution Avenue NW. Free. 202-737-4215.
“The Jungle School,” Riri Riza’s 2013 film that follows Butet Manurung as she evolves from an anthropologist to an clergyman afterwards an romantic who teaches a genealogical child who motivates her to learn a children in his remote clan, in Bahasa Indonesia and Orang Rimba chapter with English subtitles. 1 p.m., Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Family MESS, for ages 3-12 to learn about math, engineering and scholarship in a star around them by experiments, building and other activities; parental/caregiver appearance encouraged. 1 p.m., William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library, 115 Atlantic St. SW. Free. 202-243-1184.
Knitting and needlework workshop, make equipment for those in need, instruction, needles and chronicle are accessible for formulating children’s hats, scarves and booties for organizations such as Bright Beginnings, that offer homeless children and their families. 1-3 p.m. Sunday and a third Sunday of any month, Washington National Cathedral, fourth building of a South Tower, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. Free. 202-537-6200 or e-mail Mila Michael, knitting@cathedralcongregation.org .
Yoga during Georgetown Library, teachers from Yoga Activist lead a classes. 1:30 p.m. Sunday, 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. Free; registration required. erika.rydberg@dc.gov or 202-727-0232.
Petworth Pacers, walkers age 50 and comparison should move a H2O bottle and face towel; dress in comfortable, weather-appropriate wardrobe for a low-impact 60-minute travel around a neighborhood. 1:30 p.m., Petworth Library, second-floor Program Room, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free. Register: 202-243-1187.
Join a STEAM team, for ages 6-12 with an seductiveness in science, technology, engineering, art and arithmetic and a enterprise to design, construct, learn and create. 2 p.m. Sundays, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-1278.
Board games in a afternoon, for age 10 and older, play residence games with your friends or learn to play chess. 3 p.m. Sundays, Northwest One Library, 155 L St. NW. Free. 202-939-5946.
Smooth jazz and Scrabble, relax to a sounds of many opposite artists. 3-5 p.m., William O. Lockridge/Bellevue Library, Lounge in a Main Meeting Room, 115 Atlantic St. SW. Free. 202-243-1184.
Shaw needlework and needlework circle, all believe levels welcome, move needles and chronicle for a take-home project. 3 p.m. Sundays, Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 Seventh St. NW. Free. 202-727-1288.
“The Missing Picture ,” Rithy Panh’s 2013 film that reimagines his childhood memories and a Khmer Rouge’s power of apprehension over Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. 4 p.m., Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, Jefferson Drive and 12th Street SW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Cathedral organ recital, Christopher Betts performs works by Dietrich Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Cesar Franck, Gerald Near, Percy Whitlock and Charles-Marie Widor on a 10,650-pipe organ. 5:15 p.m., Washington National Cathedral, Great Choir, Wisconsin and Massachusetts avenues NW. Suggested donation, $10. 202-537-6200 or www.nationalcathedral.org .
Gospel and ceremony music, Alexandria’s Alfred Street Baptist Church Young Adult Praise Team performs contemporary gospel, regard and ceremony songs. 6 p.m., Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. 202-467-4600.
Yoga for tots and tykes, for age 4 and younger with an adult, no yoga believe or mats required; rhymes, songs, games and yoga poses geared toward their development. 10 a.m., Southeast Library, 403 Seventh St. SE. Free. 202-698-3377.
English review classes, proffer teachers from a Washington English Center promote classes twice a week. 10 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. Free. 202-727-0232.
“Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas ,” author and often-cited authorised academician Cass R. Sunstein discusses his gathering of famous, insightful, applicable and inflammatory pieces and offers logical, evidence-based solutions to today’s many severe questions. Noon, National Archives, McGowan Theater, Constitution Avenue and Ninth Street NW. Free. 202-357-5000.
U.S. Botanic Garden lunchtime tour, museum volunteers lead a debate of plants and plead what manila folders, Chanel No. 5, vanilla and hoary fuels have in common. Also, a contention of probable breakthroughs in medicinal plant research. Noon, Mondays and Wednesdays by Oct. 29, U.S. Botanic Garden, Conservatory Garden Court, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. Free. 202-225-8333 or www.usbg.gov .
Mental health and HIV trusted group, for people with HIV and mental-health problems, sponsored by MetroHealth. Transportation tokens and refreshments provided. 3:30 p.m. 1012 14th St. NW. Free. 202-638-0750.
Yoga during West End, Smita Kumar from Yoga District teaches a weekly class, move a pad or use one of a library’s. 12:30 p.m. Mondays, West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. Free; registration required. teresa.sakon@dc.gov or 202-724-8698.
Homework help, for ages 12-18, move your propagandize assignments, other materials or papers to be reviewed. 3:30 p.m. Mondays, Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. Free. 202-282-3139.
Reader’s theatre, for those in grades 2-5, move stories to life, review aloud scripts from renouned children’s books and file your behaving “chops,” primogenitor appearance encouraged. 4 p.m. Mondays, Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th NW. Free. 202-671-3121.
Teen open-mike night, come and showcase your talent. 4 p.m., Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free. 202-243-1188.
Sandaraa in concert, a New York-based rope performs South Asian strain blended with a sounds and sensibilities of Eastern Europe, a Balkans and New York. 6 p.m., Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. 202-467-4600.
Socrates Club: how censorship endangers a freedoms, a monthly contention of philosophical topics. 6:30 p.m., Francis A. Gregory Library, 3660 Alabama Ave. SE. Free. 202-698-6373.
“Situation Rooms,” a film screening from a eccentric museum organisation Rimini Protokoll about a fight courtesy and a effects, hear a voices and stories of people whose lives have been done in one approach or another by war. 6:30 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh St. NW. Free. 202-289-1200.
Yoga for adults, led by a clergyman from Yoga Activist, mats provided. 6:30 p.m., Francis A. Gregory Library, 3660 Alabama Ave. SE. Free; registration requested. 202-698-6373.
James McNeill Whistler: anticipating a male and a artist, biographer Daniel E. Sutherland discusses his book “Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake ,” about a male with a repute for theatrics, outspokenness and eccentricity, an intense, contemplative and formidable male tormented by self-doubt and condemned by an unconstrained bureau of soundness in his portrayal and drawing. A screening of a PBS documentary, “James McNeill Whistler a Case for Beauty,” follows on Sept. 12. Lecture. 6:45-8:45 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. $42. 202-633-3030. www.smithsonianassociates.org .
Yoga for beginners, taught by an instructor from Yoga Activist. 7 p.m. Mondays, Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. 202-282-3080.
Computer classes, for adults, topics change from week-to-week. Tuesday: e-mail basics. Sept. 16: introduction to Microsoft Word. Sept. 23: introduction to Microsoft Excel. Sept. 30: introduction to Microsoft PowerPoint. 10 a.m.-noon, Southwest Library, 900 Wesley Pl. SW. Free. 202-724-4752.
Computer classes, a hands-on category for adults with tiny or no mechanism experience, learn about a mechanism collection and terminology, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2010 and borrowing and downloading from a D.C. Public Library. 10:30 a.m. any other Tuesday. Woodridge Library, 1790 Douglas St. NE. Free; registration required. 202-541-6226.
Yoga during noon, led by normal yoga clergyman and therapist Heather Ferris, move a mat. Noon Tuesdays, Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 Seventh St. NW. Free. 202-727-1288.
Classical piano concert, pianist Martin Labazevitch performs works from France, Hungary and Poland. 12:10 p.m., Church of a Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. Suggested donation, $10. 202-347-2635, Ext. 20.
Yoga for seniors, for age 55 and older, taught by instructors from Yoga Activist. 12:30 p.m., Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. Free; registration requested. erika.rydberg@dc.gov or 202-727-0232.
Computer basement class, for beginners, learn about a computer, simple rodent techniques, a Internet, e-mail, opening and exiting programs; move a peep expostulate to save category documents. 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays, William O. Lockridge/Bellvue Library, 115 Atlantic St. SW. Free. 202-243-1185.
Sketching workshop, move pencils and a tiny sketchbook, work with objects on arrangement in a center. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
Hook and needle club, for ages 10-19 who always wanted to learn how to weave or crochet, all believe levels welcome, yarn, needlework needles and crochet hooks provided. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and a second Tuesday of any month, Northwest One Library, 155 L St. NW. Free. 202-939-5946.
Back-to-school party, for ages 6-12, listen to stories about going to school, make a special qualification and play Lego Bingo. 4 p.m., Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free. 202-243-1188.
HIV/STI screening, for teenagers and immature adults, ages 13-24, by Metro TeenAIDS, with information on how to live a healthy life. 4:30 p.m., Anacostia Library, Meeting Room 2, 1800 Good Hope Rd. SE. Free. 202-715-7707 or 202-715-7708.
D.C. Youth Slam Team poetry, for ages 13-19, a communication workshop, move your imagination. 4:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free; registration required. Jonathan Tucker, 202-787-5279.
Teen advisory group, move your ideas for destiny library programs and events including a formulation of a teen party. 5 p.m., Francis A. Gregory Library, 3660 Alabama Ave. SE. Free. 202-698-6373.
Anacostia library chess club, for ages 10-16. 6 p.m. Thursdays, Anacostia Library, 1800 Good Hope Rd. SE. Free. 202-715-7707 or 202-715-7708.
Hoba Hoba Spirit concert, a reggae, stone and gnawa (a brew of African, Berber and Arabic eremite songs and rhythms) rope formed in Casablanca, Morocco, performs. 6 p.m., Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. 202-467-4600.
Keystone Society program: Perkins+Will open residence for rising professionals, join associate immature professionals during a D.C. bureau of tellurian pattern organisation Perkins+Will as they open their doors to a Keystone Society, an dusk of networking, an bureau debate and veteran insights from Perkins+Will staff members, refreshments will be served. 6-8 p.m., National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. $10, prepaid; registration required. 202-272-2448 or www.nbm.org .
Art open discussion, a staff member discusses complicated and contemporary art, enlivening teeming conversation. 6 p.m., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Lincoln Gallery, Third Floor Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
21st-century astronomy: expanding a star and knowledge, Sten Odenwald, a NASA astronomer and researcher during a Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, discusses how a frontiers in astronomy and space scholarship are being stretched and a collection that will assistance researchers serve try and know a cosmos. 6:45-8:45 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. $42. 202-633-3030. www.smithsonianassociates.org .
Charters of freedom: debating a Declaration of Independence and a Constitution, Rosemarie Zagarri, a highbrow during George Mason University, vocalization on interest of a Constitution, and Richard Bell of a University of Maryland’s story department, vocalization on interest of a Declaration of Independence, move a aptitude and fast influences of these seminal papers to life with a assembly personification a pivotal role. 6:45-8:45 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. $42. 202-633-3030. www.smithsonianassociates.org .
Yoga for beginners, for adults and teens, taught by an instructor from Yoga Activist, no believe required. 7:30 p.m., Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free. 202-243-1188.
Embassy concert, violinist Lana Trotovsek and pianist Anna Shelest perform works by Beethoven, Skerjanc, Franck and Gershwin, smorgasboard with booze served. 7:30 p.m., Embassy of Slovenia, 2410 California St. NW. $95. 202-625-2361. www.embassyseries.org .
Total physique workout, for active seniors, a category led by Carolyn Gichner, move a pad and light weights, sponsored by Sibley Senior Association. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays by Nov. 14, Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, Vestry, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. $90 for one day per week; $170 for dual days per week. 202-364-7602.
Conversation piece: “Thread Routes — Chapter 1,” arch curator Kathryn Wat facilitates a review about a video by artist Mariko Mori. Noon-12:30 p.m., National Museum of Women in a Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. Free. 202-783-5000.
History talk, historian Edward E. Baptist discusses his book “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and a Making of American Capitalism ,” about a enlargement of labour in a decades after American independence, how it gathering a country’s enlargement and modernization, and how a South grew to turn a continental string sovereignty and a U.S. grew into a modern, industrial and entrepreneur economy perplexing to find ways to make labour some-more profitable. Noon, National Archives, McGowan Theater, Constitution Avenue and Ninth Street NW. Free. 202-357-5000.
Bereavement support, for people who have mislaid a associate in a past dual years, sponsored by Sibley Senior Association. 2-3:30 p.m., Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. Free; registration requested. 202-364-7602.
Lunder behind a scenes, a staff member discusses how museum conservators use science, art story and learned hands to safety objects from a museum’s collections in a Lunder Conservation Center. 3 p.m. Wednesdays, National Portrait Gallery, Luce Foundation Center, third floor, Eighth and F streets NW. Free; registration compulsory during a Luce Foundation Center information desk. 202-633-1000.
Chess for kids, instruction for all ages. 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. Free. 202-282-3080.
D.C. Youth Poetry Slam Team workshop, for teens, bi-weekly communication and oral word workshops designed to enthuse teenagers to pronounce adult about issues of amicable justice. 4:30 p.m., Dorothy I. Height/Benning Library, 3935 Benning Rd. NE. Free. 202-281-2583.
Beyond Grief gallery tour, sculpture curator Karen Lemmey leads a debate of comparison sculptures that demonstrate anguish and concentration on works highlighted in Cynthia J. Mills’ new book “Beyond Grief: Sculpture and Wonder in a Gilded Age Cemetery .” 5:30 p.m., Smithsonian American Art Museum, G Street Lobby, Eighth and F streets NW. Free. 202-633-1000.
U.S. Marine Band concert, a opening of cover music. 6 p.m., Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, 2700 F St. NW. Free. 202-467-4600.
“Home from Home — Chronicle of a Vision,” plan manager Peter Roloff introduces a Edgar Reitz film that revisits a German State in America, about a hundreds of thousands of Europeans who emigrated to mislaid South America in a unfortunate bid to shun a famine, misery and domination that ruled during home in a mid-19th century, and tells a adore story set opposite a loyal backdrop of this mislaid tragedy, about dual brothers who comprehend that usually their dreams can save them. 6 p.m., Goethe-Institut, 812 Seventh St. NW. $7; seniors and students, $4. 202-289-1200.
“Don’t Eat a Baby: Adventures during Post-Katrina Mardi Gras ,” a screening that shows a city of New Orleans banding together to chuck a Mardi Gras jubilee 6 months after a whirly and flooding decimated a city, suitable for observation by teenagers and older. 6 p.m., Francis A. Gregory Library, 3660 Alabama Ave. SE. Free. 202-698-6373.
Sing along to “Annie,” a story of a red-headed waif who trades in her hard-knock life for a new family, microphones for a brave, snacks for everyone, prizes for film trivia gurus. 6:30 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-1291.
Star Trek’s Never-Ending Voyage: How TV Future Became Real-Life Present, Margaret Weitekamp, a curator in a Space History department, discusses how a illusory array focusing on space scrutiny helped conclude and enthuse real-world parallels, including a approach attribute between a opposite expel of Star Trek and a boost in field among women and people of tone to NASA’s wanderer module in a 1970s. 6:45-8:15 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. $25. 202-633-3030. www.smithsonianassociates.org .
Making schools improved for D.C., Amanda Ripley moderates a row contention on a attempts done to tighten a feat opening in a propagandize system. 7 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. Free; registration required. www.eventbrite.com or 202-727-0321.
Zumba class, led by a approved instructor, no believe necessary, though all participants contingency pointer a waiver; wear gentle clothing. 7 p.m., Southeast Library, 403 Seventh St. SE. Free. 202-698-3377.
“Broken Harbour ,” a librarian leads a contention of Tana French’s bestselling psychological thriller. 7 p.m., Northeast Library, 330 Seventh St. NE. Free. 202-698-0058.
Yoga for adults and teens, taught by Yoga Activist’s Sandra Flores, mats provided. 7:15 p.m. Wednesdays, Southwest Library, 900 Wesley Pl. SW. Free. 202-724-4752.
“Behind a Beautiful Forevers ,” a librarian leads a contention of Katherine Boo’s book, a work of account nonfiction that tells a story of families essay toward a improved life in one of a 21st century’s great, unsymmetrical cities in India. 7:30 p.m., Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. Free. 202-243-1188.
Evening with Stephen Costello and Ailyn Pérez, a sparkling immature singers, a father and mother duo, perform a desirable dusk of stories and song, piano accompaniment by Danielle Orlando. 7:30 p.m., Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater, 2700 F St. NW. $60. 202-467-4600.
“Her Aim is True,” executive Karen Whitehead’s film about Jini Dellaccio, in 1964 a prime educated photographer who grabbed rare portraits of Neil Young and early performances by bands such as The Who, Rolling Stones and Mamas Papas, a bequest mislaid and found in an fast story about love, creativity and indie spirit; a question-and-answer eventuality follows; deduction advantage Carolyn’s First Decade Scholarship. 8 p.m., Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. $11.50; students, $9; seniors, $8.75; troops and age 12 and younger, $8.50. 202-966-6000.
Mexican folk music, master artists and their apprentices from Northern and Southern California perform son jarocho, folk strain from Veracruz, Mexico. Noon, Library of Congress, Coolidge Auditorium, 10 First St. SE. Free. 202-707-5510.
Roald Dahl moviethon, “James and a Giant Peach ,” 3:30 p.m.; “The BFG ,” 5:15 p.m.; “Matilda ,” 7 p.m. Deanwood Library, 1350 49th St. NE. Free. 202-698-1175.
Chess for teens, learn how to play and master strategies. 4 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Teen Space, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-0321.
Degas and Cassatt: an artistic dialogue, Aneta Georgievska-Shine, a University of Maryland art lecturer, discusses a many poignant facets of their tighten loyalty and operative relationship. 6:45-8:45 p.m., S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr. SW. $42. 202-633-3030. www.smithsonianassociates.org .
“An Ideal Husband ,” review Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy theatre play about extort and domestic corruption, plead the book with others and see a film that stars Rupert Everett and Julianne Moore. 7 p.m., Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Room 207, 901 G St. NW. Free. 202-727-0321.
— Compiled by Gerri Marmer
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