Things to Do in the DC Area This Week

Blissful Monday, everybody!

Keep heat this week and discover numerous indoor exhibitions or a brand new play at Enviornment Stage. In case you are searching for one thing enjoyable to do open air, then sport your greatest Capitals gear and rock the ice-skating rink at a hockey-themed celebration.

Finest Issues to Do This Week

1. “I Dream a World” on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery. The primary set up of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Brian Lanker’s classic black-and-white photograph assortment is ready to shut this month. I Dream a World: Choices from Brian Lanker’s Portraits of Exceptional Black Ladies options an empowering photograph assortment of impactful ladies of shade together with Maya Angelou, Lena Horne, and Oprah Winfrey (by means of January 29, free, Northwest DC).
2. Rock the Rink. Calling all Washington Capitals followers: DC’s beloved hockey crew is taking up the Wharf by means of February with team-decorated igloos, game-viewing events, Capitals-inspired drinks, and music. This week the Rock the Rink get together is internet hosting followers for a skate round the Wharf Ice Rink that includes a DJ and giveaways; the away recreation shall be broadcast on the jumbotron on the Transit Pier floating stage. Put on your greatest Caps gear to obtain $5 off ice rink admission (Wed, $13 for adults, $10 for youth below 12, Wharf).
3. “Trip the Cyclone.” A brand new quirky musical in regards to the afterlife opens this week at Enviornment Stage. Trip the Cyclone entails an attention-grabbing and edgy narrative about six teen chamber choir singers whose lives abruptly finish in a curler coaster accident. The one manner for the kids to make it again to life is to sing (by means of February 19, $66+, Southwest DC).
4. Workplace Expertise pop-up. The favored Dunder Mifflin workplace is leaving city. In case you haven’t made it to this Instagram-worthy pop-up expertise—or perhaps you loved the two-story exploration a lot you wish to go to once more— then try the interactive Workplace Expertise and relive your favourite episodes earlier than it closes (by means of January 16, $35+, Northwest DC).

Need Extra Issues to Do?

Funds-friendly. Sit it on a dialog with artist Eva LeWitt and Hirshhorn curator Anne Reeve about making distinctive artwork experiences (Wed, free, however registration required, digital). Take an structure or nature stroll on the up to date artwork museum Glenstone (weekly Thurs-Solar, free, Potomac). The opening reception of Nyugen Smith’s “Bundlehouse: Historical Future Reminiscence” options stay music, meals and drinks (Thurs, free, Southeast DC). Work on these new yr Beneficial properties and Targets (Thurs, free, School Park).

Arts and tradition. Escape the work week and be part of romance creator Sarah Echavarre Smith in a dialogue about her e book, The Boy With the Bookstore (Wed, free, however registration required, digital). Hear artist Katharina Cibulka and her collaborator Margarethe Causen talk about the cross-stitch “Solange #27” piece featured on the facade of the Nationwide Museum of Ladies within the Arts, together with different tasks (Tues, free, however registration required, digital). View “Let Them Youngsters Be Youngsters” by artist Lex Marie (by means of January 22, free, Arlington). That is the final month to see the exhibit “Meeting” (by means of January 29, free, Arlington). Browse the “Earlier than Nollywood … The Ideally suited Picture Studio” images gallery (day by day, free, Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of African Artwork). Are you a James Bond fan? Be a part of a dialogue in regards to the creation of Ian Fleming’s common e book and movie character (Wed, $25, digital).

Historical past and heritage talks. Study the historical past behind sailors singing whereas working at sea from creator Jessica M. Floyd (Solar, $13+, Southeast DC). Or, take a look at the early lifetime of Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Profs and Pints DC presents: “RBG earlier than she was ‘Infamous” (Mon, $13+, Penn Quarter). Busboys and Poets is internet hosting native creator H.H. Leonards for a dialogue about her latest title, Rosa Parks Past the Bus (Mon, free, Cardozo).

Theater and reveals. Don’t miss Theater J’s opening of Two Jews Stroll Right into a Warfare (by means of February 5, pay-what-you-can $5+, Northwest DC). Chuckle with buddies on the Comedy Shuffle (Mon, free, Northwest DC). Hearken to tales about welcoming the brand new and eliminating the previous at Story District’s Firsts & Lasts present (Tues, $25, Southwest DC). The Elvis’ Birthday Struggle Membership manufacturing is again and exhibiting at Gala Hispanic Theatre (Fri-Sat, $30+, Northwest DC).

Music and concert events. Versatile DC musician Ari Voxx kicks off a four-week residency at DC9 (each Wed by means of February 1, $5, Cardozo). Native teams: Inside Voices, Purple Medication, and Chief Circulation are performing stay at Pie Store (Wed, $15, Northeast DC). Dance to Latin music carried out by the Meridian Brothers at Songbyrd (Wed, $18+, Northeast DC). Seong-Jin Cho performs Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 (Thurs-Sat, $39+, Kennedy Middle). A world breakdancing group of disabled dancers is on the town for a particular efficiency, No Excuses, No Limits (Fri-Solar, $20, Kennedy Middle). The Put up Classical Ensemble presents Wonderful Grace: Music for the Spirit (Wed, $45, Kennedy Middle).

Dry January. Discover ways to make spirit-free cocktails at this two-hour mixology class (Solar, $50, Georgetown). Attend a specialty cocktail-making class that includes an optionally available mocktail menu at Lena’s Wooden-Fired Pizza & Faucet; dinner is included (Mon-Tues, $170, Alexandria).

Issues to do with children. Your youngster can have story time with a canine on the library (Mon, free, Alexandria). Youngsters can put collectively a collage of images and make their very own 2023 imaginative and prescient boards (Sat, free, Alexandria). Watch a Pokemon film (Wed, free, Mount Nice).

Become involved. In honor of Martin Luther King Day of Service, Shirlington Library is internet hosting a volunteer honest that includes nonprofit organizations that help animals and nature (Mon, free, Arlington).

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Briana A. Thomas is an area journalist, historian, and tour information who specializes within the analysis of D.C. historical past and tradition. She is the creator of the Black historical past e book, Black Broadway in Washington, D.C., a narrative that was first revealed in Washingtonian in 2016.