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.

City Cast DC and DC Office of Planning Live Podcast Taping

Metrobar 640 Rhode Island Ave, Washington, DC, United States

Event Details: Join us for a live taping of the City Cast DC podcast at metrobar on July 13th! Host Bridget Todd will be joined by DC Office of Planning […]

Free

Oral History Interviewing Workshop

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

Event Details:   This core workshop in the DC Oral History Collaborative workshop series will provide participants strategies to make the interview experience rewarding for the interviewer and the narrator. […]

Free

Culture Series: Fighting For Home

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

Event Details: The 1970s was a period of intense gentrification in DC — but the decade was also marked by the most effective and creative tenant organizing in DC’s history […]

Free

DHH Dance Collaborative: “that’s how the light gets in”

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

Event Details: The DHH dancers are back for a ninth season and are inspired to bring more excitement, cutting-edge choreography, and heartfelt passion to the Lang Theater stage. Witness the […]

$20 – $24

In Zora’s Footsteps: Narratives of DC

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

EVENT AT CAPACITY. Join a FREE 4-week writing workshop series: "In Zora's Footsteps: Narratives of DC" led by Tracy Chiles McGhee. Whether you're a budding writer or a seasoned scribe, […]

Free

Alliance for New Music-Theatre: The Man Ray Project: Caesar & The Mannequin

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

Inspired by the Man Ray painting "Shakespearean Equation: Julius Caesar," in the Phillips collection, Composer Andrew E. Simpson and Librettist Susan Galbraith have concocted a Dadaist fantastical story of a […]

Free

Culture Series: District of Cats

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

Event Details: Every year, dozens of cyclists periodically meet up for “alleycats”: unsanctioned scavenger hunts-turned-races sprung by daring local bike couriers onto DC streets. They make for an eclectic, if […]

Free

The Inner Loop September Reading

Sonny's Pizza 3120 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States

Celebrate the written word with us featuring Sarah McCammon and 9 local writers incl. September Author's Corner Spotlight, Mai Sennaar! Mark your calendar, grab your friends, and head to the […]

Free

LGBTQ History Walking Tour of East DuPont and 17th St

Dupont Circle Fountain Dupont Circle, Washington, DC, United States

RHP's Director of Archiving has created a walking tour of the east side of DuPont neighborhood and the 17th Street corridor. Do you know about the Gay Liberation Front in […]

Free

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