Feb
27
Sat
Chance for Life Poker Tournament @ Online
Feb 27 @ 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

DC’s anticipated charity poker event, Chance for Life, returns this Saturday (2/27) … with a twist! Hosted by 13-time World Series of Poker Champion, Phil Helmuth, and founded by Brad Nierenberg (CEO of RedPeg Marketing), Chance for Life (CFL)’s mission is to save kids’ lives by funding vital childhood cancer research.

With the help of sponsors around the DMV, CFL’s annual poker tournament and taste experience has raised over $10 million to date and this year’s event has already raised $1.3 MM. This year, the event is going virtual with the most innovative online poker platform on the market, Poker 501– bringing surprise celebrity guests, entertainment and an exclusive taste experience directly to your home. To register, purchase tickets, and for more information, please click here.

DateSaturday, February 27th

Time: 6:00PM

Venue: Virtual tournament on Poker 501

Price: $500 per player (100% of all proceeds go directly to funding vital pediatric cancer research)

Mar
2
Tue
THE RULES OF THE BREW: SAKE REGULATIONS & THE FUTURE OF THE SAKE INDUSTRY @ Online
Mar 2 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

THE RULES OF THE BREW: SAKE REGULATIONS & THE FUTURE OF THE SAKE INDUSTRY

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021

7:00PM-8:00PM USA/Eastern Time

Sake brewers and entrepreneurs often face a bewildering array of laws that strictly regulate how their products are produced, distributed and sold across North America. SBANA Board Member Bernie Baskin will lead a discussion on the regulatory landscape facing the industry, followed by a discussion on the future direction of the sake market in North America with industry insiders Ms. Sachiko Miyagi of Tippsy and Mr. Jamie Graves of Skurnik Wines and Spirits. The webinar will be simultaneously translated in English and Japanese and will include a Q&A session with the audience.

Mar
3
Wed
THE RULES OF THE BREW: SAKE REGULATIONS & THE FUTURE OF THE SAKE INDUSTRY @ Online
Mar 3 @ 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

THE RULES OF THE BREW: SAKE REGULATIONS & THE FUTURE OF THE SAKE INDUSTRY

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021

9:00AM-10:00AM Japan Time

Sake brewers and entrepreneurs often face a bewildering array of laws that strictly regulate how their products are produced, distributed and sold across North America. SBANA Board Member Bernie Baskin will lead a discussion on the regulatory landscape facing the industry, followed by a discussion on the future direction of the sake market in North America with industry insiders Ms. Sachiko Miyagi of Tippsy and Mr. Jamie Graves of Skurnik Wines and Spirits. The webinar will be simultaneously translated in English and Japanese and will include a Q&A session with the audience.

Click here to register for the event.

Mar
5
Fri
The Tea: Black Alley @ Online
Mar 5 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

The Tea: Black Alley
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.  The Tea proudly welcomes Washington, D.C.-based band Black Alley.

Black Alley has been pushing the art of music to its rhythmic limits. Determined to create a unique musical elixir, Black Alley has taken the finest ingredients of rock, hip-hop and go-go to create their own genre-bending sound called “hood rock.” The band is one, each musician surrendering to the union of sounds, each delivering music from their soul, while in dialogue with one another through their instruments. Each member of this collective is essential to the workability and funkability of the unit.

WHERE
Online, via Facebook and nmwa.org

WHEN
Friday, March 5, 12–1 p.m.

PRICE
Free. No reservations required. Add to your calendar here.

MEI CREATORS’ CORNER WITH INAUGURAL GUEST, HIAM ABBASS @ Online
Mar 5 @ 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
The Middle East Institute’s Arts and Culture Center is proud to feature Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, currently starring in the Hulu television series Ramy and the HBO series Succession, in conversation with Emmy-nominated journalist and producer Rhana Natour on Friday, March 5 from 2pm-3pm ET.
Natour will be discussing the evolution of Abbass’ long and eclectic career in cinema, television and theater, her approach to the craft of acting, as well as how her cultural background informs her work.
The event marks the debut of Creators’ Corner, an interview series hosted by Natour, in collaboration with MEI. Creators’ Corner will feature conversations with leading Arab and Arab-American actors, comedians, directors, writers and other ground-breaking creators highlighting their important contributions to the global cultural scene.
Mar
9
Tue
N Street Village Gala @ Online
Mar 9 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

N Street Village Virtual Gala & Auction
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 | 7:00 p.m. ET

Join us for this special event as a moment to gather in solidarity with our neighbors in need, and in celebration of N Street Village.

Mar
11
Thu
Virtual Tour of Hillwood’s Orchid-Filled Greenhouses @ Online
Mar 11 @ 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Virtual Tour | Orchid-Filled Greenhouses

Thursday, March 11, 2021, 1:30-2 p.m.

Horticulturist Drew Asbury brings Hillwood’s orchid-filled greenhouses to you, sharing the history of the greenhouses, Marjorie Post’s infatuation with orchids, and the exotic blooms and fragrances on display now.

www.HillwoodMuseum.org 

 

In Dialogue: Smithsonian Objects and Social Justice  @ Online
Mar 11 @ 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

In Dialogue: Smithsonian Objects and Social Justice 

Thursday, March 11, 5 p.m.

Online via Zoom

Heighten your civic awareness through conversations about art, history and material culture. Each month, educators from the National Portrait Gallery will partner with colleagues from the Smithsonian and other institutions to discuss how historical objects from their respective collections speak to today’s social justice issues.

What are the qualities of great leadership? Together with educators from the National Air and Space Museum and the National Women’s History Museum, we will celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring this key question in relationship to portraits of activists Sojourner Truth and Sylvia Rivera, and pilot Bessie Coleman.

Free— Registration required

FGIDC Virtual Women in Business Event @ Online
Mar 11 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Join FGI DC as the organization sits down with three local business women to discuss their accomplished careers, in celebration of Women’s History Month.

About this Event

Join us March 11 as FGI DC sits down with three local business women to discuss their accomplished careers, in celebration of Women’s History Month.

Get an inside look into the long careers of our industry leaders:

Anne De Santis – Store Manager, Paul Stuart City Center

Lynda Erkiletian – President, T∙H∙E Artist Agency

Pamela Harvey – Founder, Pamela Harvey Interiors

We’ll discuss their varied career paths, career success, the challenges they have faced in regards to equality on many levels, and more!

Thursday, March 11

7:00-8:00 p.m. ET

Registrants will receive Zoom link via Eventbrite email.

Moving Verse @ Online
Mar 11 @ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Moving Verse
Thursday, March 11, 7:00–8:00 pm EST
Join us for an intimate poetry reading with Venezuelan authors Franklin Hurtado, Graciela Yáñez Vicentini, and Luis Moreno Villamediana to reflect on the forces that traverse and influence our relationships and our experience of language. The poets will each read excerpts exploring the “touch of instability” that comes with foreignness.
This program is free to attend and open to the public. It will be held online via Zoom in Spanglish.
About the Authors:
Franklin Hurtado is a poet and educator. He has taught literature at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and worked as a copywriter and editor. In 2012, he won the award for new authors in poetry by Monte Ávila Editores with his first book, Sal (Salt), which was published in 2013. That same year, he got a special mention in the II Premio Equinoccio de Poesía Eugenio Montejo for a first version of Miel negra (Black Honey), published in 2020. His poetry has been included in anthologies such as destinos portátiles, muestra de poesía venezolana reciente (portable destinations, sample of recent Venezuelan poetry).
Graciela Yáñez Vicentini is a writer, editor, cultural promoter, proofreader, translator, and bookseller. She was editorial coordinator to the Papel Literario of El Nacional newspaper. She is now cultural manager at Ediciones “Letra Muerta”, assistant editor at Fundación La Poeteca, and co-editor to the collection Los rostros del futuro (The Faces of the Future) by Banesco. Her heteronym Egarim Mirage has published the poetry books: Espejeos al espejo (Mirages to the mirror) and Íntimo, el espejo (Intimate, the mirror). Her work has been featured in anthologies, journals, and magazines in Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela. Yáñez Vicentini’s poems were translated into English for the bilingual sample of Venezuelan poetry Lectura de la diáspora (Readings from the Diaspora) from Latin American Literature Today by Oklahoma University.
Luis Moreno Villamediana is a poet, narrator, essayist, critic, translator, and professor at the University of Los Andes. His poetry has been published in Cantares digestos (1996), Manual para los días críticos (2001), En defensa del desgaste (2008), Eme sin tilde (2009), Laphrase (2012), and Otono (sic) (2017). As a narrator, he published El edificio fantasma in 2015. He has received the José Rafael Pocaterra Biennial Poetry Prize (1992), Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde International Poetry Prize (1997), and Eugenio Montejo Equinox Poetry Prize (2011).