Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the Second of July, the day the Continental Congress voted for American independence, with music of the founding era. David and Ginger Hildebrand of the Colonial Music Institute perform eighteenth-century songs—including ballads, marches and French-inspired songs—in costume with period instruments.
Free
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Join City Tap Penn Quarter on Thursday, July 4, for its annual BeerBQ Battle, a competition with local breweries serving up the best barbecue with drink specials, patio games and live music. Sample barbecue offerings from City Tap, 3 Stars Brewing (DC), RAR Brewing (Maryland), and Port City Brewing (Virginia) and vote for the winner, while enjoying a barbecue platter ($20) with favorites like potato salad and coleslaw. Featured beers ($5) from each brewery as well as adult capri suns ($10) will also be available.
WHEN: Thursday, July 4
11:30am to 4pm (City Tap Penn Quarter)
Guests are invited to an all you can eat and drink experience at City Tap Dupont’s All-American Cookout, complete with cornhole on the patio. For $40, enjoy endless hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, coleslaw, and ice pops, paired with house wines, Founders Solid Gold Lager, Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT, Southern Tier Swipe Right, and other beer offerings. Available a la carte options include bourbon slushies ($6), grapefruit crushes and orange crushes ($7), and watermelon limoncello cocktails ($8).
Indulge your inner Francophile with French amusements from the 1700s at this celebration of Bastille Day and Marjorie Merriweather Post’s 18th-century French decorative arts collection.
Fairmont Washington, D.C., Georgetown is turning its courtyard into a Wimbledon Garden Party on Sunday, July 14th in honor of 2019 Wimbledon Championships. From 11:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., all players and spectators will love viewing the men’s finals on huge screens, trying out their backhand and forehand on a miniature tennis court, feasting on fabulous English fare and sipping champagne, Pimms cups and G&Ts. Wear the colors green, purple or white to youradvantage to win prizes for best garden party and tennis attire. Overnight stays, dinners and brunches are some of the prizes to be lobbed at the winners.
Executive Chef Jordi Gallardo and his team will ace an all you can eat $25 per person round robin that will be passed without any foot faults:
Traditional, Finger Sandwiches
Salad Buffet with Salmon, Smoked Trout and Sirloin Steak
Scottish Eggs
Lamb Chops and Sausages from the Grill
Fish and Chips
Mini Pork Pies
Singles and doubles will make a match point at Pastry Chef Charles Froke’s dessert buffet:
Strawberries and Cream Station
Scones with Clotted Cream
White Chocolate & Cherry Tennis Balls
Summer Berry Trifle
Sticky Toffee Pudding Cake
English shortbreads
Strawberry rhubarb crème
Go bottomless with Pimm’s cups and mimosas for $15 per person, or enjoy other specialty cups such as the Juniper G&T or Thiénot Brut Champagne at $10 each.
Live entertainment will be provided by the Dom Petrellese Quartet as they play British favorites without incurring tennis elbow.
There is no fee for Fairmont’s Wimbledon Garden Party. For reservations, please visit Eventbrite at: à https://fairmont-washington-
Want to leave London for Paris? It’s only a ten minute drive to Sofitel Washington DC Lafayette Square where they are celebrating Bastille Day with their second annual picnic in Opaline Bar & Brasserie from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Sousa on the Rez: Native American Brass Bands and Beyond
Thursday, July 18, 2 p.m.
Lecture
Rasmuson Theater
Native American jazz, classical and popular musicians have experienced artistic and commercial success since well before the turn of the 20th century. Many were first exposed to this music at boarding schools, where the regimented discipline of marching bands was a key component of the program of forced assimilation. Nevertheless, many Native Americans discovered a love of, and talent for, these genres of music and made them their own. Join us as Erin Fehr (Yup’ik), archivist at the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and John Troutman, curator of American Music at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, discuss the social, historical and artistic experiences of Native American musicians since the beginning of the 20th century. Additionally, there will be a screening of Sousa on the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum, which celebrates the continuing popularity of marching bands in Native American communities. This program is funded as part of the Smithsonian Year of Music.
Friday, July 19, 2019, 12:30-1 p.m.
Join Executive Director Jack Warren for a discussion of a treasure from our library — the 1786 published edition of the marquis de Chastellux’s account of his travels in America, which offers remarkable insights into how European intellectuals imagined the natural world at the end of the eighteenth century and how they related those ideas to the American Revolution. Chastellux was a major general in the French army and the liaison between George Washington and General Rochambeau.
Free
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Still Human, Friday, July 19; 7 p.m. -Veteran actor Anthony Wong and newcomer Crisel Consunji won Hong Kong Film Awards for performances in this moving dramedy about a grumpy wheelchair-bound pensioner (Wong) and the live-in maid (Consunji) hired to take care of him. Directed by Oliver Siu Kuen Chan, Hong Kong, 2019, 111 min., Digital Cinema Package, Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles. In person: Crisel Consunji, actress.
With complimentary cake, champagne, tequila rounds
& more surprises
$5 El Jimador shots
$5 16-oz Bud Lite
$8 Mission Margarita
$8 22-0z Dos Equis
Mission Navy Yard
1221 Van Street SE
@MissionNavyYard
Bar: Four bar areas, including the city’s longest bar at 150 feet long. The cocktail menu includes 16 draft lines- ten
for beer, three for wine/prosecco and three for margaritas and cocktails.
Menu: Tex-Mex inspired menu includes tacos, enchiladas, burritos, nachos and guacamole, as well as generous
salads and appetizers.
Design: With more than 10,000 square-feet, the two-level Mission Navy Yard is located directly across the street
from Nats Stadium. A two-story atrium entry leads to the first of Mission Navy Yard’s four bars. The downstairs bar
welcomes guests to the space, blending an indoor and outdoor courtyard feel. Guests climb a sprawling staircase,
anchored by a two-story tower overlooking the downstair bar. DC’s longest bar (150 ft) fills the middle of the
second floor, flanked by six garage doors leading to spacious outdoor balconies. As guests walk through the
second floor, they pass the dining room, which also has its own balcony and another bar wrapping up the
corner. Lastly, the private dining space has its own bar
On Saturday, July 20, City Tap Dupont will host a Christmas in July themed drag brunch from 11am to 3pm. Guests who bring new clothes and toys to donate to Martha’s Table will receive a complimentary beer or wine. Enjoy holiday decor and brunch specials like “Bad Santa” stuffed French toast for $10 and a “Tipsy Elf” specialty cocktail for $8. Reservations can be made at [https://www.citytap.com/
