Events/Things To Do

Celebrate the holidays with loved ones from afar this season with a special Atlas Brew Works virtual tasting on New Year’s Day. On Friday, January 1, the solar-powered craft brewery will offer an intimate online tasting for guests to safely join the fun.

Tasting kits start at $20 and include the guided tasting, a mixed six-pack of Atlas’ core and limited release craft beers, with the option to add additional six-packs, tasting glasses, hand sanitizer, koozies, and other swag for an additional fee. Atlas Ivy City Brewery & Tap Room General Manager Alec Rivera and Head Brewer Daniel Vilarrubi will walk fans through the brews while answering any tasting questions they might have.

This New Year’s Day tasting will be the first of monthly guided virtual tastings Atlas Brew Works will hold in 2021. For other holiday happenings, or to learn more about Atlas’ Craft Beer Club subscription, check out the brewery on Instagram at @AtlasBrewWorks.

WHERE:  Purchase your virtual tasting packages through Atlas Ivy City on ToastTab. Order kits for delivery or pickup at either DC Tap Room location:

• Atlas Ivy City: 2052 West Virginia Ave NE, #102, Washington, DC 20002
• Atlas Half Street: 1202 Half Street SE, #120, Washington, DC 20003

Virtual tasting link will be sent closer to event date.

WHEN:  Friday, January 1 (New Year’s Day)

Tasting will take place from 3pm to 4pm

BMA x NMWA: Here and Now
Join us for BMA x NMWA, a livestreamed monthly talk show co-presented by The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA).

For the first episode of 2021, educators from both museums consider artworks grounded in a particular place at a specific moment in time. They welcome UK-based, Nigerian-born artist Mary Evans to discuss her ephemeral, site-specific silhouettes. Evans’s works often reference historical events, including the Atlantic slave trade and enslaved labor, and their impact on contemporary culture. Her work Prospect was included in NMWA’s special exhibition Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020.

WHERE
Online on both BMA and NMWA Facebook pages

WHEN
Tuesday, January 12, 12–12:45 p.m.

PRICE
Free. No reservations required. Add to your calendar here. For more information, email education@nmwa.org.

Wind Down Wednesday: Hygge and Home

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 5 p.m.

Instagram Live @smithsoniannpg

During this long, cold winter, we invite you to wind down with a free virtual program that fosters creativity and mindfulness. In partnership with independent mixologists, crafters, artists and other experts, Wind Down Wednesday offers an optimistic approach to the middle of the week.

January is all about at-home comfort as we celebrate hygge and the serene portrait of author Marilynne Robinson from the exhibition “Her Story: A Century of Women Writers.” First, Megan Segarra of Meganda Kitchen will demonstrate her cocktail (or mocktail) recipe for infused spiked tea. Sip away while we discuss the portrait and read excerpts from Robinson’s beloved books. Then learn about candles and aromatherapy and center yourself through a meditative botanical watercolor workshop inspired by Robinson’s portrait.

Navy Yard’s newest luxury apartment building Crossing is partnering with local coffee-favorite Slipstream for an exclusive virtual tutorial from Slipstream baristas on the art of coffee cupping on Friday, January 29th at 9am

Participants can reverse and pick up a FREE box at Crossing’s model unit and tune into the virtual demo on practice of cupping with two samples from the comfort of your home.

Each complimentary coffee box includes:

• Two coffees
• Two tasting glasses
• Slipstream Coffee spoon

The Tea: Courtney Dowe
In this online series, women musicians perform original work on the first Friday of the month. Conducted over a cup of tea, each session includes a short interview exploring the artist’s creative process. Join us and local singer Courtney Dowe. 

Courtney Dowe is a unique combination of human rights advocate, vocalist and lyricist. Whether she is exposing the persecution of Falun Gong under the communist regime in China or denouncing police brutality in the United States, her love for life and dedication to her craft emanate from every note she sings. Find out where her latest journeys have taken her in this performance.

WHERE
Online, streaming on Facebook and nmwa.org

WHEN
Friday, February 5, 12–1 p.m.

PRICE
Free. No reservations required.

Virtual Mansion Tour: Marjorie Post’s Life and Collection at Hillwood through the Prism of Black History

Tuesday, February 9, 2021, 12-1 p.m.

This docent-led tour explores Post’s life and collections at Hillwood while weaving in select objects and stories through the prism of Black history. View photos, collection highlights, and archival images, while asking questions in real time.

Thursday, February 11, 2021, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Stephen Byrns, founder and president of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, explores the magnificent design of what was once called the most spectacular garden in America and the story of the garden’s founders, glory, ruin, and rebirth.

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

On Thursday, February 11 at 7:30pm EST, the Folger’s O.B. Hardison Poetry Series presents poet Maurice Manning sharing his work alongside recent Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for a virtual reading from President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington D.C.

Tickets for this virtual event are currently on sale. The suggested ticket price is $15, with a minimum, pay-what-you-can price level at $5. Tickets can be purchased at the Folger Box Office at 202.544.7077 or by visiting www.folger.edu/poetry.

After the virtual tour of the Cottage, Manning and Smith will read from their work in a round-robin
fashion (a few poems each in response to the other poet). Manning’s latest collection Railsplitter is
told in the posthumous voice of President Lincoln. Smith’s most recent book, Wade in the
Water takes an unflinching look at the ravages of slavery, the lives of Black Civil War soldiers and
America’s history on race, gender, immigration, and more.

Tracy K. Smith is the author of Wade in the Water; Life on Mars, winner of the Pulitzer
Prize; Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award; and The Body’s Question, winner of the Cave
Canem Poetry Prize. She is the editor of an anthology, American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time,
and the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, a finalist for the National Book Award. From 2017 to
2019, Smith served as Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.
Maurice Manning’s first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was selected by W.S. Merwin for
the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Manning’s other collections include The Common Man, a finalist
for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011, and One Man’s Dark. His current book, Railsplitter, is his seventh
collection of poetry. A former Guggenheim fellow, Manning teaches at Transylvania University in
Lexington, Kentucky and for the MFA Writer’s Program at Warren Wilson College.

Single tickets and subscriptions to the 2020/21 season of Folger Poetry—through May 2021—are
currently on sale. Subscribers have virtual access to all 2020/21 readings and to the archive of those
readings.

Floral Design How-To: Passionate Purples

Friday, February 12, 2021, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Rethink the traditional Valentine’s Day arrangement and join Ami Wilber, floral and event décor designer, via Zoom to create a romantic purple bouquet featuring lisianthus, stock, and more.