Feb
6
Thu
Tony Duquette’s Dawnridge @ Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Feb 6 @ 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Tony Duquette’s Dawnridge

Thursday, February 6, 2020, 5:30-8 p.m.

Internationally acclaimed designer Hutton Wilkinson will present an illustrated lecture about Dawnridge, the legendary home of designer Tony Duquette, his friend, mentor, and business partner.

Please note: This is the first program in the Great Homes and Gardens lecture series.

www.HillwoodMuseum.org 

4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008

Feb
7
Fri
Dina Hashem @ AMP powered by Strathmore
Feb 7 @ 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Presented by AMP & Comedy Zone
DINA HASHEM
Friday, February 7, 2020
8PM
Tickets: $14–$22

This comedienne mines her Arab-American heritage for hilarious observations delivered with a deadpan demeanor. The inscrutable Dina Hashem exploded onto the New York Comedy scene after winning her first appearance on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle. Subsequently, Hashem has been named one of Team Coco/TBS’s “Comics to Watch” for this year’s New York Comedy Festival and recently made her late-night debut on Conan. Her writing has been featured on Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and TV Land.

THRōW Social™ DC and Kick Axe Throwing® @ THRōW Social™ DC and Kick Axe Throwing®
Feb 7 @ 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

THRōW Social™ DC and Kick Axe Throwing® grand opening event on Friday, February 7

The event is open-to-the-public from 8 to 10pm and for $30, ticket holders will have access to one hour of open bar (ending at 9pm), passed bites, live music, sample game experiences and a meet and greet with US Olympic curling gold medalist, Tyler George.

Tickets are on sale here. Parking is available across the street at the Hecht Warehouse garage and is free for the first 90 minutes — valet will be available for $10 the night of the event.  

Feb
11
Tue
Beyond Gatsby: The Fabled Gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast @ Hillwood
Feb 11 @ 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Beyond Gatsby: The Fabled Gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast
Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 5:30-8 p.m.
Landscape architect CeCe Haydock will delve into the history and landscape design of the elaborate gardens of Long Island’s Gold Coast, once a favorite retreat of the rich and famous.

Please note: This is the second program in the Great Homes and Gardens lecture series.

www.HillwoodMuseum.org 

4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008

Feb
13
Thu
Love & Marriage & Murder @ AMP powered by Strathmore
Feb 13 @ 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

LOVE & MARRIAGE & MURDER
A MURDER MYSTERY COMEDY SHOW

Saturday, February 13, 2020
8PM
Tickets: $22–$37

Die Laughing Productions requests the honor of your presence at this hilarious and interactive wedding-themed whodunit. Love & Marriage & Murder features 98 Rock’s Justin Schlegel, Joe and Katie Robinson (real life newlyweds), and all your favorite Die Laughing Productions’ comedians. But the real stars of the show are all the wedding crashers in the audience, as there are plenty of roles ready to be filled by willing volunteers. The rest of the audience can sit back and enjoy the laughs as we try to crack this not-so-happily-ever-after case.

Feb
14
Fri
Valentine’s Day Lipsology @ Dirty Habit
Feb 14 @ 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Ariana Lightningstorm, one of only eight certified lipsologists and the first certified teacher of lipsology in the world, will hold complimentary lipsology readings at Dirty Habit on Friday, February 14 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Guests are invited to swipe on lipstick, kiss their one-of-a-kind card, and learn about their lip-print messages with Ariana’s signature humor and insight.

Valentine’s Day Gatsby Party @ The Mansion at O
Feb 14 @ 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

VALENTINE’S DAY GATSBY PARTY
When: Friday, February 14th, 2020 at 8PM
Where: The Mansion on O & O Museum,  2020 O Street NWDC
Tickets:  $125 per person.  Reservations required at omansion.org/valentinesday

This is your chance to party like Gatsby himself! Grab your dancing shoes and dress to impress in your flapper dresses, silk gloves, pinstripe suits, bow ties, and suspenders and revel the night away with the fanfare, and decadence that so defined the decade.  
It will be a marvelous evening full of lush costumes, vibrant music and fabulous dancing from that beloved era in our history.  And unlimited champagne.

Our ’20s-themed bash spreads across the dazzling decor of O Museum in The Mansion that famously houses over 100 rooms, 70 secret doors and a history that includes J Edgar Hoover’s G-men.  

One of DC’s Most Unique Museums & event venues the cool factor of this former FBI hideout has definitely been noticed — it has been named “The Coolest Place In D.C.” by booking.com, featured on The Travel Channel’s show Mega Mansions, and was deemed one of the top 5 historic venues to explore — in the world by Smithsonian Magazine.  Party attendees will be free to tour the historic home—chock full of antiques and period furnishings, enjoy the live jazz music, take 20’s style dance lessons and party the night away Gatsby style.  

Included in Your Ticket Price:

— Unlimited Champagne (cash bar for everything else)
Whiskey Tasting with Bob Dylan’s Heaven’s Door Bourbon
— Decadent Desserts
— The Imperial Palms (World’s Best Swing Band – Forbes Magazine) 
— DJ
—– Dance Lessons with Julie Michelle Wilson Miss Ireland International 2020 & Toured with Dancing with the Stars

Must be 21+ to attend – ID required.

Feb
16
Sun
Big Stage Magic Show with Richard Bloch @ The Mansion at O
Feb 16 @ 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM

BIG STAGE MAGIC SHOW WITH RICHARD BLOCH
When: Sunday, February 16th at 4:00pm
Where: The Mansion on O & O Museum, 2020 O Street N.W., DC
Tickets: $30/person    Reservations required at: omuseum.org/magic    

Join us for a night of magic with Richard Bloch, one of the busiest corporate entertainers in the world. Rich is a frequent headliner on Las Vegas and Atlantic City stages, a motivational speaker (Rich is a two-time recipient of the coveted “Blackstone Award” from the International Platform Association), author and playwright. He has served as scriptwriter and magic consultant to the legendary Orson Welles (who once introduced Rich as “an Edison of Magic”) and to various theater companies, including the Folger Shakespeare Theater in Washington. He has been a five-time nominee for Stage Magician of the Year and is a 2006 Fellowship recipient at Hollywood’s famed Magic Castle.

Rich also has a long history in magic as an inventor, (out of magic, too — he holds a patent on a device to assist disabled ice skaters), builder and performer. He is the originator of more than a hundred effects used worldwide by professional magicians.  In 2010, Rich opened Dickens Parlour Theatre in Millville, Delaware, which has quickly become a favorite entertainment spot for both local residents and tourists, as well as a much desired venue for performing magicians from all over the world. And, he is the founder of the highly successful “Magic Castle At Sea” program, exclusive to Crystal Cruises, which provides their vessels with world class magic performers on every cruise.

Guests are invited to explore the museum’s themed rooms and secret doors, 60 signed guitars, memorabilia, art and much more before the event begins.  Be sure to bring a shopping bag — everything is for sale!

Cash Bar.

Proceeds of this event go to support the artist-in-residence, heroes and other programs at O Museum in The Mansion

Feb
18
Tue
Madam Walker’s Villa Lewaro @ Hillwood
Feb 18 @ 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Madam Walker’s Villa Lewaro

Tuesday, February 18, 2020, 5:30-8 p.m.

Author and journalist A’Leila Bundles will share the story Madam C.J. Walker, one of America’s first female self-made millionaires, and Villa Lewaro, the Italianate mansion that she built to be an inspiration to the African American community.

Please note: This is the third program in the Great Homes and Gardens lecture series.

www.HillwoodMuseum.org 

4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008

11th Annual NewsBash @ Pearl Street Warehouse
Feb 18 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Join in for a night of fun and fundraising at the 11th Annual NewsBash.

Hosted by the DC NewsWomen, a group of women in TV and Radio in the Washington DC area, NewsBash is a charity event to help bash breast cancer. Supporters, survivors and friends will come together to help raise awareness and critical funds for this year’s beneficiary, The Step Sisters.

Tuesday, February 18
7:00-9:00 PM

Pearl Street Warehouse
33 Pearl Street SW
Washington, DC