Events Calendar

Explore our city’s upcoming humanities events from performances and lectures to celebrations and multi-media experiences. These public events are created and hosted by either HumanitiesDC, our grantees or local partners. To submit an event for consideration, please complete this form.

Creativists In Dialogue Podcast

Creativists in Dialogue is a podcast embracing the creative life, with hosts Elizabeth Bruce and Michael Oliver. In this weekly podcast, the hosts interview people from all walks of life […]

Free

Rhizome Is Home: Documentary Screening + Musical Performance

Mt. Pleasant Neighborhood Library 3160 16th St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join LA-based filmmaker Tatev Sargsyan for a screening of the 40-min. documentary on the Takoma Park fixture for experimental arts programming. Plus Q&A and an appearance form the band Drawn. […]

Free

CJM After Sunset: The Notorious RBG

Capital Jewish Museum 575 3rd Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

Discover the exhibition Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg after hours at the Capital Jewish Museum. Dig deeper into exhibit stories with Spotlight Talks with CJM […]

$25 – $36

AARON BURR, SIR: The Duel for Democracy

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC, United States

This Theater and Policy Salon tells a story of parallel turning points in America's troubled journey to a more perfect democracy - the 1804 Hamilton-Burr duel and the January 6 […]

Free

The Camouflage Kippa: 40th Anniversary of the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing

National Museum of American Jewish Military History 1811 R St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Join us at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History as we remember the 40th anniversary of the tragic 1983 Beirut barracks bombing with Rabbi Arnold Resnicoff. On October […]

Free

Family Spooky Disco

Dance Place 3225 8th St NE, Washington, DC, United States

Dance Place's Family Spooky Disco is a celebration of dance, costumes and families. This intergenerational dance party is for both the young and the young at heart. This event will […]

$15

Culture Series: Kindred Spirits Film Showing

Busboys and Poets 450 K St NW 450 K St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell Join us at the intersection of art and local history as we screen and discuss filmmaker Cintia Cabib’s documentary, “Kindred […]

Free

ISM II by Visionaries of the Creative Arts (VOCA)

Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC, United States

ISM II, conceived and directed by Michelle Banks, is another episode of the original ISM created by the VOCA Ensemble. The new VOCA Ensemble of Deaf and Hard of Hearing […]

$25 – $35

Culture Series: DC Poetry Scene in the 90s

Busboys and Poets Monroe 625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC, United States

This event will consist of a reading of poems by Kenny Carroll, Quique Aviles, Patrick Washington and Sami Miranda. Following the reading we will show clips from oral histories that […]

Free

Atlas Presents: Keng Siong Sim – Peace for Ukraine

Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H Street NE, Washington, DC, United States

Why are we not able to name any Ukrainian composers despite the existence of high-quality music? Pianist Keng Siong Sim tells stories and plays works of Mykola Lysenko, Sergei Bortkiewicz, […]

$22

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