Dec
18
Wed
Hillwood Air Plant Wreath Workshop @ Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Dec 18 @ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Air Plant Wreath Workshop

Sunday, December 18, 10 a.m.-noon

Create a fresh and festive wreath featuring live air plants to adorn your home this holiday.

$75, $60 Hillwood member.

Dec
19
Thu
Boundary Stone’s Fifth Annual Toy Drive @ Boundary Stone
Dec 19 @ 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Boundary Stone’s Fifth Annual Toy Drive – Thursday, December 19 @ 5pm to 11pm

Join the Atlas Brew Works team at Boundary Stone (116 Rhode Island Ave NW) on Thursday, December 19, for the pub’s annual Toy Drive. Bring an unwrapped gift for the drive and receive a complimentary Atlas beer. All toys will be donated to St. Martin’s Catholic Church to be handed out to children in the neighborhood for the holidays. Rumor has it Santa will even make an appearance. For more information, visit here.

Dec
21
Sat
Photos with Santa at Atlas Brew Works @ Atlas Brew Works
Dec 21 @ 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Photos with Santa at Atlas Brew Works – Saturday, December 21 @ 11am to 2pm

Photos with Santa returns to Atlas Brew Works (2052 West Virginia Ave NE) on Saturday, December 21. Take as many photos as you like with your own device for a minimum recommended donation of $25. Come out and support a good cause as all donations will go directly to St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Any guest that brings an unwrapped toy for the toy drive will receive a complimentary beer.

Dec
24
Tue
MATZOBALL @ Ultrabar
Dec 24 @ 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM

This year will mark the 33rd year that Jewish singles and their friends come together in one place for what is considered the nation’s #1 holiday party, the MATZOBALL. The MATZOBALL will be held in select cities around the country, making it the event of the year. This year, they have partnered with the organization Gift of Life Marrow Registry, providing attendees with the chance to save a life this Hanukkah. This is a fun annual bash that singles will not want to miss out on. Whether meeting up for a fun-filled night, or finding someone that turns out to be their soul mate, MATZOBALL has a long reputation of bringing Jewish singles together.

By partnering with Gift of Life Marrow Registry, MATZOBALL is giving people the option to help those who have blood cancer. The organization will have a table set up at the events and those who would like to be potential lifesavers can easily join the marrow registry with a simple cheek swab. At some point, they may be contacted regarding being a match for someone who needs a blood stem cell or marrow transplant.

 

Dec
29
Sun
Big Stage Magic Show with Richard Bloch @ O Museum in the Mansion
Dec 29 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

BIG STAGE MAGIC SHOW WITH RICHARD BLOCH

When: Sunday, December 29th at 4:00pm

Where: O Museum in the Mansion, 2020 O Street N.W., DC

Tickets: $25/person.   On-line reservations required: http://www.omansion.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.

Dec
31
Tue
New Year’s Eve at Atlas Brew Works @ Atlas Brew Works Ivy City Tap Room
Dec 31 @ 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM

New Year’s Eve at Atlas Brew Works – Tuesday, December 31 @ 1pm to 8pm

Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the Atlas Brew Works team at the brewery’s Ivy City Tap Room (2052 West Virginia Ave NE). Stop by between 1pm to 8pm to see Founder and CEO Justin Cox and Director of Operations Corey Poole behind the bar. For more information, visit www.atlasbrewworks.com.

Jan
3
Fri
Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club @ Gala Hispanic Theatre
Jan 3 @ 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM

2020 marks the 10th year of one of DC and Baltimore’s most bizarre and exciting traditions: celebrating Elvis Presley’s birthday with a show of back alley fisticuffs and burlesque. The 10th Annual Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club takes place at DC’s Gala Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th Street NW) January 3 and 4th at 7:30 and 10 pm.Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club (EBFC) is hosted by “The King” and femcee Kittie Glitter who provide hilarious color commentary for an action-packed, punch-drunk, below-the-belt, hilarious night of lowbrow theater.

Seven rounds of flimflam fisticuffs are the centerpiece of the action, and in between, bouts of burlesque performances offer a sexy reprieve from the cartoon-esque violence. EBFC’s fight card is always a closely-guarded secret, and trying to anticipate who, or what, might be on the roster is half the fun. For year 10, five past fighters have been invited back to take part in a grand finale Royal Rumble. Past match ups have ranged from the topical (the Franken-Weinstein monster vs. a vagina) to the intensely absurd (My Little Pony vs. Leatherface). 

The show has a number of dedicated fans who return each year and induct new audience members into the insanity.

“People brag about how many years they have been coming,” says Kate Taylor Davis, one of the show’s producers. “They email me months in advance of the event to confirm dates because their out-of-town friends want to come too. This is a strange annual touchstone, and people LOVE it!”. 

 

The show’s origin was somewhat happenstance, created when the producers were assigned a date to put on an event that happened to coincide with The King’s birthday. Originally intended as a one-off event, the popularity of an evening that centered around Elvis, the toilet he died on (known as “Commodious”) and mistaking his dying wish for a commemorative nightclub, as a “fight club”, became a huge hit.

 

Featuring: Jared Davis as “Elvis,” Jei Spatola as Kittie Glitter, Andrew Wodzianski as

Commodious, Bebe Bardot, Lucrezia Blozia, Carlos Bustamante,  Patrick M. Doneghy, Matt Grant, Callie Pigeon, Candy Del Rio, Cherie Sweetbottom, Stephon Walker, and more. Fight choreography by James Finley, sound by Mehdi Raoufi, lights by Camille Kashaka, and general direction by Kate Taylor Davis.

For audiences 21+. Tickets are $28 in advance. Ticket link and information at fightclubshow.com

Jan
4
Sat
Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club @ Gala Hispanic Theatre
Jan 4 @ 7:30 PM – 11:59 PM

2020 marks the 10th year of one of DC and Baltimore’s most bizarre and exciting traditions: celebrating Elvis Presley’s birthday with a show of back alley fisticuffs and burlesque. The 10th Annual Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club takes place at DC’s Gala Hispanic Theatre (3333 14th Street NW) January 3 and 4th at 7:30 and 10 pm.Elvis’ Birthday Fight Club (EBFC) is hosted by “The King” and femcee Kittie Glitter who provide hilarious color commentary for an action-packed, punch-drunk, below-the-belt, hilarious night of lowbrow theater.

Seven rounds of flimflam fisticuffs are the centerpiece of the action, and in between, bouts of burlesque performances offer a sexy reprieve from the cartoon-esque violence. EBFC’s fight card is always a closely-guarded secret, and trying to anticipate who, or what, might be on the roster is half the fun. For year 10, five past fighters have been invited back to take part in a grand finale Royal Rumble. Past match ups have ranged from the topical (the Franken-Weinstein monster vs. a vagina) to the intensely absurd (My Little Pony vs. Leatherface). 

The show has a number of dedicated fans who return each year and induct new audience members into the insanity.

“People brag about how many years they have been coming,” says Kate Taylor Davis, one of the show’s producers. “They email me months in advance of the event to confirm dates because their out-of-town friends want to come too. This is a strange annual touchstone, and people LOVE it!”. 

 

The show’s origin was somewhat happenstance, created when the producers were assigned a date to put on an event that happened to coincide with The King’s birthday. Originally intended as a one-off event, the popularity of an evening that centered around Elvis, the toilet he died on (known as “Commodious”) and mistaking his dying wish for a commemorative nightclub, as a “fight club”, became a huge hit.

 

Featuring: Jared Davis as “Elvis,” Jei Spatola as Kittie Glitter, Andrew Wodzianski as

Commodious, Bebe Bardot, Lucrezia Blozia, Carlos Bustamante,  Patrick M. Doneghy, Matt Grant, Callie Pigeon, Candy Del Rio, Cherie Sweetbottom, Stephon Walker, and more. Fight choreography by James Finley, sound by Mehdi Raoufi, lights by Camille Kashaka, and general direction by Kate Taylor Davis.

For audiences 21+. Tickets are $28 in advance. Ticket link and information at fightclubshow.com

Jan
8
Wed
Marjorie Post and Marie Antoinette: A Story of American Taste @ Hillwood Museum and Gardens
Jan 8 @ 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Marjorie Post and Marie Antoinette: A Story of American Taste
Wednesday, January 8, 2020, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Chief Curator Wilfried Zeisler will explore the lesser known early collecting period of Marjorie Merriweather Post in the context of American taste, shedding new light on several works from Hillwood’s French art collection.

www.HillwoodMuseum.org 

4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20008

Veuve Cliquot Tasting at The Graham Georgetown @ The Graham
Jan 8 @ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Join The Graham on the tented and heated Rooftop for a very special evening tasting with our friends from Vueve Cliquot.

About this Event

The Graham’s last event with Veuve Clicout was a sell out. They’d love to welcome you and your friends to the Rooftop with special pricing on Veuve Yellow Label at $18 per glass, and Rose Label at $24 per glass. There will be a complimentary Cheese & Chartercuterie display as well as a display of Gourmet Grilled Cheese and Fried Chicken Sandwiches from the winter Rooftop EATS menu.

We’ll also be popping off the 15 Litre Veuve Nebuchadnezzar bottle we’ve secured for the night. Come early to secure your seating!

While there is no cost for entry, this is a ticketed event. Your RSVP will help to staff appropriately and ensure prompt and friendly service.

This is a 21+ party. Valid US Drivers License or Passport is required for entry. Foreign ID’s or Drivers Licenses will not be accepted and you will not be admitted regardless of age.

We will enforce a strict No Athletic Wear Policy, Business Casual attire is suggested and admission is ultimately at the discretion of the Rooftop host.

Event Valet Parking is $32 for the evening. There are limited Street Parking options available on Thomas Jefferson ST NW. We highly recommend using a ride-sharing service or Metro.