Busy weekend at Catalogue nonprofits! Check out what’s coming up …
Dance Place (3225 8th Street NE)
SpeakeasyDC presents “The Story Showdown: A Storytelling Game Show” this Friday at 8:00 PM and Saturday at 7:00 & 9:00 PM. Audience members have the opportunity to be contestants row and win coveted prizes! Tickets this way.
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts (1632 U Street NW) – postponed
This one-day retreat for caregivers will explore stress management and self-care with yoga, nutrition and creativity, and the sharing of personal experience. Email darien@smithcenter.org for information about future dates.
Anacostia Watershed Society (Bladensburg Waterfront Park) – event full
Plant trees at the confluence of the Northeast and Northwest branches of the Anacostia River this Saturday at 10:00 AM; all tools and supplies needed will be provided, so just bring a friend and be prepared to have fun. Sign up here.
HomeAid Northern Virginia (2520 Wasser Terrace, Herndon, VA)
Warm up your weekend this Saturday at 6:00 PM at HomeAid’s Beach Blast Gala & Auction; enjoy some summery fun while helping to end homelessness in Northern Virginia. All the info is right here.
District of Columbia Arts Center (2438 18th Street NW)
A wide variety of events at DCAC this weekend: Nightmerica on Friday (followed by Topher & Joe’s Open Late at 10:00 PM), Saturday (followed by Day of the Dead burlesque at 10:00 PM), and Sunday at 7:30 PM. Full schedule right here.
The Black Student Fund (801 Mount Vernon Place NW)
BSF Annual Independent School Fair, now at its 40th anniversary, provides incredible networking opportunities for 5,000 area families to meet with representatives from over 60 private day and boarding schools on Sunday from 2:00-5:00 PM. Learn more right this way!
Iona Senior Services (4125 Albemarle Street NW)
Dr. Scott Turner, Director of Georgetown University Medical Center’s Memory Disorders Clinic comes to Iona to discuss current research on memory, the aging process, and maintaining memory on Sunday at 2:00 PM.
Washington Bach Consort (4101 Nebraska Avenue NW)
Concertmaster Andrew Fouts and guest soprano Elizabeth Futral, who performs two of Bach’s most brilliant Cantatas for solo soprano, join other supurb performers in “The Virtuoso Bach” this Sunday at 3:00 PM. Nab tickets right here.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (641 D Street NW)
This coming Monday & Tuesday: “Pay What You Can” for Woolly’s You for Me for You, a moving comic fantasy about two North Korean sisters who make a bargain with a smuggler to flee to the United States. Learn more right here.