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This Month's Events

Sun 05

FREE Fitness Memberships 12:00am @ Bowie Curves

Curves memberships for women 65+ years old are now being fully paid by Healthways/SilverSneakers insurance. Call your insurance company to find out if you can...


Sun 05

The Seagull on 16th Street 03:00am @ DC Jewish Community Center

To end the 2008-2009 season, Theater J presents, for the first time, one of Anton Chekhov's major plays in a new adaptation created by Artistic Director Ari Roth, based on a translation by Carol


Sun 05

Handmade Sterling Silver and Gemstone Jewelry 08:00am @ online

This event is forever!!


Sun 05

Bird Walk 08:00am @ George Washington Memorial Parkway

Members of the Friends of Dyke Marsh lead bird walks, weather permitting, starting at the Belle Haven Picnic Area. Leaders assist visitors in observing birds along the Potomac River and adjoining isla


Sun 05

Olney Art Association - Members' Exhibition 08:00am @ Bohrer Park

The City of Gaithersburg hosts a collection of works by the members of the Olney Art Association at the Activity Center at Bohrer Park. The show features works spanning the spectrum of styles, subject


Sun 05

Judges Desk and Chairs From American Idol 08:30am @ Smithsonian Castle

On display at the Castle are the judges desk and chairs from the Fox television show American Idol.


Sun 05

New Tools / Your Dance 09:00am @ Liz Lerman Dance Exchange

New Tools/Your Dance with Ben Wegman Emphasizing one-on-one mentorship, New Tools/Your Dance offers a specialized track of study and practicum for a select...


Sun 05

40th Anniversary Art & Photo Exhibit 09:00am @ Brookside Gardens

This exhibit features botanical paintings and colorful photographs of selected Brookside Gardens' plants that will illustrate a new book to be published in fall of 2009, as part of the Gardens 40


Sun 05

Garden Tour 09:00am @ Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens

Take a walk with a ranger and discover the magic that changes mud and water to a star studded green haven for fish, birds, and people.


Sun 05

Quilts for Obama: Celebrating the Inauguration of Our 44th President 10:00am @ Historical Society of Washington DC

This exhibit is being presented by the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. in collaboration with The Group for Cultural Documentation, Inc., with guest curator Roland L. Freeman.


Sun 05

Lily Spandorf: Washington Never More 10:00am @ Historical Society of Washington DC

This exhibit features watercolors, gouache, pen lines or lines in sepia.


Sun 05

Portraying Lincoln: A Man of Many Faces 10:00am @ Historical Society of Washington DC

Spanning from early nineteen hundreds through the present day, the portraits include a mix of media and range from historically accurate renderings, to highly interpretive works. Appropriate for visit


Sun 05

Artful Animals 10:00am @ National Museum of African Art

This family-friendly exhibition of artworks presents the animals of Africa in a new light, dispelling myths and stereotypes and highlighting where and why they are represented in community performance


Sun 05

Customers and Communities 10:00am @ National Museum of American

In this gallery, a series of exhibits examines the evolution of mail delivery to vastly expanding urban and rural populations in the 20th century.


Sun 05

The Tale of Shuten Doji 10:00am @ Arthur M Sackler Gallery

This exhibition explores modes of visual narration through the museums' exceptional collection of works that illustrate tales surrounding the demon Shuten Doji. Presented together for the first t


Sun 05

Walead Beshty - Directions 10:00am @ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Walead Beshty works in variety photographic formats, including stereographs, photograms and oversized color prints that reflect the artist's commensurate interest in the medium's historical,


Sun 05

Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake 10:00am @ National Museum of Natural History

Human anatomy and forensic investigation provide intriguing information on people and events of America's past. This exhibition will examine history through 17th-century bone biographies, includi


Sun 05

Ants! 10:00am @ National Museum of Natural History

Get a look at life from an ant's point of view with large-format photographs of ants going about their daily business, a cast of an underground ant city and a live ant colony.


Sun 05

Golden Seams: the Japanese Art of Mending Ceramics 10:00am @ Freer Gallery of Art

This small exhibition presents thirteen ceramics from China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan mended and enhanced by a distinctive Japanese technique.


Sun 05

Strange Bodies: Figurative Works From the Hirshhorn Collection 10:00am @ Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

This exhibit brings together some of the most praised and popular examples of figuration from the collection to show how expressionistic and surrealistic impulses toward human representation have evol