Feb
20
Sat
Gilt City Warehouse Sale @ Dock 5 at Union Market
Feb 20 @ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
  • About the Gilt City Warehouse Sale:

    Dates: Friday, February 19, Saturday, February 20th

    Location: Dock5 at Union Market; 1309 5th Street NE, Washington, DC 20002

    Tickets on sale now at: https://www.giltcity.com/dc/gcwarehousefeb16

    • The most indulgent party of the season returns, complete with cocktails and hundreds of the hottest brands for women, men, kids and the home—all at up to 80% off retail.
    • Women can look forward to on-trend must-haves from ISSA, Temperley London, Maje, Sandro, Derek Lam, Helmut Lang, Lanvin, Prada and Valentino.
    • For men, think Tom Ford, Paul Smith, John Varvatos and GANT.
    • This sale will spotlight spring dresses for every occasion. Check out racks of little back dresses and Oscar-worthy gowns. You can also score dresses under $100 from your favorite designers.
    • As you explore the racks, sip on cocktails and prosecco. You can also enjoy several flavor combinations of popchips and Luna Bars.
    • Leave your bag and jacket at home, skip the coat-check line and head straight through the FastPass entrance to navigate the constantly replenished racks.
    • Guests can purchase tickets to shop at https://www.giltcity.com/dc/gcwarehousefeb1
Feb
28
Sun
Art Soiree Annual Red Carpet Party @ Malmaison
Feb 28 @ 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
ANNUAL RED CARPET PARTY

WHEN: Sunday, February 28 | 7pm
WHERE:
Malmaison, 3401 Water Street NW, Washington DC

TICKETS*: $35 Early Bird online only: https://redcarpet2016.eventbrite.com
Tickets include entry & one glass of champagne. Prices go up on 2/18/16

BE OUR VIP GUEST
Join Art Soiree & WFI to watch the Awards live on February 28, 2016 at the elegant Malmaison as we celebrate all the talented people in the movie industry and rally behind our favorite movies of 2015!

BE OUR VIP GUEST – walk the Red Carpet to the accompaniment of Camera Flashes, strike a pose in front of the Step-And-Repeat and get Interviewed on the latest fashion trends and your movie favorites as you make your way inside for a Star-studded Night.

Sip a Hollywood-inspired cocktail and enjoy Multiple Screens, Live Entertainment, and more in the company of movie and art lovers.

Think you know your films? Guess winners in several major categories, with the most accurate prediction eligible for a prize. And don’t forget to gather your friends and glam it up as we will have awards for “Best Dressed”

We look forward to seeing you!

This year’s event benefits Washington Film Institute’s (WFI) and Art Soiree’s local initiatives in support of arts and culture. 

The Washington Film Institute (WFI) was created to inspire audiences through film education and the cultivation of the cinematic arts. They do this by developing educational programs and programming film events throughout the year.

Art Soiree’s goal is to discover and support talented contemporary artists, by providing them unique and exciting opportunities to exhibit their work and showcase their talent to a wider audience, gaining local, national and international recognition. We do this by curating over 100 annual exhibitions, concerts, festivals and special events.

Mar
4
Fri
41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair @ Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge
Mar 4 @ 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM

41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair Returns

March 4-5, 2016 

On-Demand Poetry,

Rare Books, Demonstrations, Casual Appraisals, and More

Book lovers rejoice: the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair returns to our nation’s capital! Celebrating its 41st year, the Fair returns thisMarch 4-5, 2016 featuring new and longtime favorite exhibitors and collections. Over the course of two days, the fair will offer a chance for book lovers to celebrate and discover rare books and manuscripts, and connect with fellow enthusiasts for this rare opportunity to share conversations, discoveries, and experiences with the larger community.

Our exhibitors will have specially curated collections to showcase. Some highlights from these collections include:

  • Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Thomas Jefferson, First Edition, 1801;
  • Seventy Cantos, inscribed by T.S. Eliot, 1950; and
  • The Treasury of Ornamental Art: Illustrations of Objects of Art and Vertu, Lithographers to the Queen, 1856.

New to the Fair this year is Typewriter Rodeo, who will bring custom, on-demand poetry written on vintage typewriters. In five minutes or less, this Austin, Texas-based travelling quartet will write ticket holders an original and personal poem as a keepsake.

What: 41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair

When: March 4, 2016; 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

March 5, 2016; 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Where: Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge

1900 North Fort Myer Drive; Arlington, VA 22209

Website: Additional information can be found at wabf.com.

Social Media: Twitter: @theWABF

Facebook: Facebook.com/thewabf

Hashtag: #WABF16

Event

Information: Tickets available for purchase at WABF.com. $14 for Friday and Saturday, $8 for Saturday only. $5 for students and librarians with valid identification. Members of the public who have questions should call 202-363-4999 or email bcampbell@wabf.com.

Mar
5
Sat
41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair @ Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge
Mar 5 @ 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair Returns

March 4-5, 2016 

On-Demand Poetry,

Rare Books, Demonstrations, Casual Appraisals, and More

Book lovers lovers rejoice: the Washington Antiquarian Book Fair returns to our nation’s capital! Celebrating its 41st year, the Fair returns thisMarch 4-5, 2016 featuring new and longtime favorite exhibitors and collections. Over the course of two days, the fair will offer a chance for book lovers to celebrate and discover rare books and manuscripts, and connect with fellow enthusiasts for this rare opportunity to share conversations, discoveries, and experiences with the larger community.

Our exhibitors will have specially curated collections to showcase. Some highlights from these collections include:

  • Manual of Parliamentary Practice, Thomas Jefferson, First Edition, 1801;
  • Seventy Cantos, inscribed by T.S. Eliot, 1950; and
  • The Treasury of Ornamental Art: Illustrations of Objects of Art and Vertu, Lithographers to the Queen, 1856.

New to the Fair this year is Typewriter Rodeo, who will bring custom, on-demand poetry written on vintage typewriters. In five minutes or less, this Austin, Texas-based travelling quartet will write ticket holders an original and personal poem as a keepsake.

What: 41st Annual Washington Antiquarian Book Fair

When: March 4, 2016; 4:00 pm – 8:00 pm

March 5, 2016; 10:00 am – 5:00 pm

Where: Holiday Inn Rosslyn at Key Bridge

1900 North Fort Myer Drive; Arlington, VA 22209

Website: Additional information can be found at wabf.com.

Social Media: Twitter: @theWABF

Facebook: Facebook.com/thewabf

Hashtag: #WABF16

Event

Information: Tickets available for purchase at WABF.com. $14 for Friday and Saturday, $8 for Saturday only. $5 for students and librarians with valid identification. Members of the public who have questions should call 202-363-4999 or email bcampbell@wabf.com.

 

 

Mar
12
Sat
Gala 1941 @ Mayflower Hotel
Mar 12 @ 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM

On Saturday, March 12, DC arts supporters will come together to celebrate the Cathedral Choral Society and its mission of inspiring the community through the joy of choral singing with Gala 1941 at The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel.  This gala is the Cathedral Choral Society’s most significant annual fundraising event, and supports the organization’s artistic and community engagement initiatives.

In celebration of the Cathedral Choral Society’s founding year, attendees will enjoy a ritzy evening of 1940s fun with big band swing, guest performers, dancing, and a silent auction. This gala will be “reception style,” with an open bar, food stations, and passed hors d’oeuvres. The sixteen-piece Brooks Tegler Band performs.

“Our spring gala is our most important annual fundraising event,” said Ernie Abbott, President of the Cathedral Choral Society’s Board of Trustees. “On the eve of our 75th anniversary season, this gala is the perfect opportunity to celebrate the artistic programming and community engagement initiatives of this organization. Support from our gala attendees will help ensure artistic vibrancy in our 75th season and beyond.”

 

Mar
13
Sun
13th Annual Blue Jeans Ball @ Marriott Marquis Hotel
Mar 13 @ 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

13th Annual Blue Jeans Ball Raises Funds to Support the Capital Area Food Bank’s

Delivery of 37 Million Healthy Meals in 2016

 

Just Announced:

  • Auction items from noted American food writer Mark Bittman, and award winning pastry chef Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar, plus trips to Brazil, the French Riviera and more!
  • The Allen Chapel AME Church Gospel Choir will kick off the program with a live performance
  • 40+ savory and sweet tasting stations to include:

 

o   Cabot Creamery Cooperative

o   Café du Parc

o   Café DuPont

o   City Perch Kitchen + Bar

o   Congressional Seafood

o   Del Campo

o   Fig and Olive DC

o   Ghibellina

o   Lavagna

o   Meat Crafters

o   Oyamel Cocina Mexicana

o   Penn Commons

o   Pinch

o   Pizzeria Paradiso

o   Restaurant Eve

o   Ristorante Tosca

o   Sodexo

o   Sonoma Restaurant & Wine Bar

o   Sotto

o   Stanton & Greene

o   Stonyman Gourmet Farmer

o   Sweet Pearlz Cheesecakes

o   The Fourth Estate at the National Press Club

o   The Melting Pot

o   The Palm Restaurant

o   Thrive DC

o   Two Acre Farm

o   Union Kitchen

o   Vidalia/Bistro Bis/Woodward Table

o   Zeke’s Coffee of DC

 

 

Who:

  • Restaurant co-chairs: Chef Ruth Gresser of Pizzeria Paradiso, Chef Sherry Yard of City Perch Kitchen + Bar, and Chef Jeff Buben of Vidalia, Bistro Bis, and Woodward Table.
  • Emcee, Scott Thuman, ABC7/WJLA-TV and News Channel 8
  • Live entertainment by DJ John Jazz and Miss H.E.R.

 

When:  Sunday, March 13, 2016

                                        5 pm: VIP reception

6 pm: tastings, cocktails and silent auction

8 pm: program & live auction.

 

Where: Marriott Marquis Hotel

                                        901 Massachusetts Avenue, NW

Washington, DC  20001

Hotel valet parking available for a fee

How:     $200; the amount the CAFB uses to feed a family of four for almost two weeks 

 

Why:          The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest organization in the Washington metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic undernutrition, heart disease and obesity. By partnering with nearly 450 community organizations in DC, Maryland and Virginia, as well as delivering food directly in hard to reach areas, the CAFB is helping 540,000 people each year get access to good, healthy food.  That’s 12 percent of our region’s mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, and grandparents. Visit: capitalareafoodbank.org, or find the CAFB at facebook.com/CapitalAreaFoodBank, and Twitter at @foodbankmetrodc.

 

 

Mar
15
Tue
N Street Village Annual Gala (w/ Richard Gere!) @ Ritz Carlton Hotel
Mar 15 @ 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM

N Street Village, the award-winning social services agency that provides shelter and support to homeless and low-income women in the Washington, DC metro area, is hosting its Annual Gala to honor the clients, volunteers and supporters of the organization on Tuesday, March 15 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Golden Globe winner and active philanthropist, Richard Gere, will be presenting the awards to the N Street Village client honorees.  Tom & Hillary Baltimore are Co-Chairs together with Honorary Co-Chairs Congressman and Mrs. Kasey Crowley and Congressman and Mrs. Royce.

N Street Village will be honoring Melissa Maxfield with Comcast for her incredible and continuing support of N Street Village.  Those efforts have provided new opportunities for the most vulnerable in our society.

WHEN:

Tuesday, March 15, 2015

6:00pm EST: Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres

7:00pm EST: Program and Dinner

 

WHERE:

Ritz Carlton Hotel

1150 22nd Street, NW

Washington, D.C. 20037

 

About N Street Village:
N Street Village empowers homeless and low-income women to claim their highest quality of life by offering a broad spectrum of services and advocacy in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. N Street Village is recognized as an innovative and exemplary leader on issues related to the prevention and elimination of homelessness among women. The N Street Village community emphasizes and promotes a client’s strength, dignity, ability and personal responsibility. We support, motivate and empower our clients through active and compassionate engagement.  Clients are offered caring relationships as well as concrete resources and services through their interactions with dedicated and responsive staff and through the careful cultivation of an inclusive and hospitable community.
www.nstreetvillage.org

Mar
16
Wed
DCPL StoryTime Gala @ MLK Memorial Library
Mar 16 @ 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Please join the DC Public Library Foundation 
for our inaugural
Story Time
Gala Reception
 
Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 6:30 PM
 
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G Street NW, Washington D.C.
Lead Sponsor
Smoot/Gilbane
Sponsors
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Bill Alsup*
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
EastBanc/JBG/Clark
Exelon
Google
Pepco Holdings Inc.
Venable LLP
Hosts
Neil Albert** Jenny Backus & Ed Pagano* Nick Baldick Derek Brown*
Jon S. Bouker* Bonnie & Lou Cohen* ** Virginia Grace & Eli Cohen
Sara Cormeny & Pete Miller* Joy Dorsey* Elizabeth & Tom Fox
Gail & John Harmon* Susan B Haight* Jennifer Hemingway*
John W. Hill** Haley Kaufman & Jeff Alpher* Sam Kilpatrick & Doug Barker  Betsy Harvey Kraft Honorable Anthony & Diane Williams*
Federation of Friends of the DC Public Library Amanda Leiter & Sam SankarRichard H. Levy & Lorraine Gallard** James W. Lewis* ** Valerie Mallet**Gregory McCarthy** MLK Library Friends Erin Harkless Moore*
Myrna Peralta* Marquett Smith* Subject Matter Sharon Paez White
Rachel Wilder & Phil Lerman
 
*Current or former DC Public Library Foundation Director
**Current or former DC Public Library Trustee
Please join us as leading chefs, bartenders, artists, performers and D.C. notables reinterpret classic stories at this exciting event to celebrate and support the critical children’s programs at DC Public Library.
Business Attire
Apr
16
Sat
Fashion for Fighters Gala @ Army and Navy Club
Apr 16 @ 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Join the Navy Safe Harbor Foundation (NSHF) for the second annual Fashion for Fighters Gala – an evening to raise funds for wounded, ill and injured U.S. Navy, Coast Guardsmen and their families. NSHF is dedicated to supporting the recovery of Sailors, Coast Guardsmen, and their families by assisting them with resources not currently provided by government or community resources.
The chicest black tie event of the season, Fashion for Fighters is a night for comradery, support and giving back. Guests will enjoy fashion shows by athletic wear giant Under Armour, NSHF supporter The Admiral’s Daughters, Alpha Industries and more!

When:

Saturday, April 16, 2016
7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

Where:

The Army and Navy Club

901 17th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20006

What:

Multiple fashion shows featuring Under Armour, Alpha Industries, The Admiral’s Daughters and Lucia Riofrio, a silent auction, raffles and music by DJ Carrie Nation.

RSVP:
Tickets must be purchased in advance.  Register here.
Apr
21
Thu
Friends Night Out at the Smithsonian Craft Show @ National Building Museum
Apr 21 @ 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Friends Night Out at the Smithsonian Craft Show

Washington, DC. . . Cocktails and shopping? Of course!

Take a break from politics, grab some friends and head over to the Smithsonian Craft Show, 5PM—8PM, Thursday, April 21, at the National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.

Tickets for Friends Night Out are $25, which includes admission to the show, a cocktail, and light hors d’oeuvres.  Click here to order your tickets: http://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?ID=234494

The fun evening shopping event will include a DJ, four of DC’s top mixologists, who will whip up your favorite cocktails featuring Green Hat Gin, and an opportunity to hear a lively presentation by an expert on our exclusive Dale Chihuly art glass installation.  The 12 works of art will be on display for four-days only and have never before been shown in the DC area.

This is a great opportunity to browse and shop for one-of-a-kind, hand-made objects created by 120 of the top U.S. fine craft artists.  The artists will be on hand to talk about their work.

Our celebrity mixologists:

Adam Bernbach – 2 birds 1 stone

Gina Chersevani – Buffalo & Bergen

Victor Dooley – The Red Hen

Tyler Hudgens – The Dabney

Curated by:  Sebastian Zutant, The Red Hen and All Purpose