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Town of Riverdale Park: Screen on the Green
Sep
20
7:00 PM19:00

Town of Riverdale Park: Screen on the Green

  • Riversdale House Museum Historic Site (map)
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage with Us!

Join us for a special movie event showcasing Hispanic culture’s rich and vibrant stories. From captivating dramas to heartwarming comedies, our amazing Screen on the Green aims to highlight the diversity and talent of Hispanic filmmakers and bring together all the members of our community to learn more.

Bring your friends and family for a night of unforgettable films and cultural appreciation. Let’s unite to honor and enjoy the beautiful narratives shaping our Hispanic heritage.

Free admission and snacks are provided! Don’t miss out on this fantastic cultural experience.

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Story Pirates
Sep
15
6:00 PM18:00

Story Pirates

The Story Pirates believe that kids are creative geniuses. All of them.

Story Pirates is an award-winning media company that provides hilarious and inspiring entertainment for audiences of all ages. With more than 85 million downloads, the Story Pirates Podcast takes stories submitted by kids and turns them into sketch comedy and songs with help from celebrity guests like Kristen Bell, John Oliver, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles, Seth Meyers, Bowen Yang, and more. Story Pirates has also produced the Looney Tunes podcast and co-created Game On, a sports podcast for families, with Stephen Curry’s Unanimous Media. In addition to podcasts, Story Pirates has released three critically acclaimed middle grade books and five award-winning albums. In partnership with Story Pirates Changemakers, their non-profit arm that brings life-changing arts and literacy tools to under-resourced schools and communities, Story Pirates produces the PBS show Story Pirates Presents: SPTV.

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Girl Tales Celebrates Women’s History Month!
Mar
26
10:00 AM10:00

Girl Tales Celebrates Women’s History Month!

  • John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Moonshot Studio (map)
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Dates: March 25 & March 26 @10am

Girl Tales, a kids’ podcast of feminist stories, invites you to come celebrate Women's History Month with us in the Moonshot Studio. There will be a live reading of two Girl Tales stories featuring two American women activists, Helen Zia and Ruth Charlotte Ellis. Kids will be able to build paper airplanes in honor of Bessie Coleman and Amelia Earhart, draw with pastels in honor of Frida Kahlo and Georgia O'Keefe, take pictures in a feminist photobooth, record intros for a future Girl Tales episode, get a custom Girl Tales t-shirt made, and help us write a Girl Tales story to air on the show!

Recommended for ages 5-10 years old.

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Betty
Dec
15
7:30 PM19:30

Betty

Ring in the holidays with BETTY and party like there’s no tomorrow! Longtime indie band BETTY returns hometown again with their seasonal celebration of songs, stories, and harmonies as smooth as a road paved with good intentions. Fronted by Alyson Palmer and sisters Elizabeth and Amy Ziff, for 35 years BETTY’s distinct vocals have been heard on radio, film, TV and the Internet, including: the Michael J Fox holiday classic, Life With Mikey; HBO’s Encyclopedia and Real Sex; Showtime’s The L Word; Pringles ads nationwide and ten albums. For more backstory, listen to BETTY: Girlband, the Podcast, available everywhere. US Arts Envoys who travel in non-Covid times to empower girls, women and marginalized communities worldwide, BETTY is thrilled to be back in real life to spread mighty cheer with their Holly Jollypocalypse… and sleigh!

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Bookworm Garden
Jun
18
11:00 AM11:00

Bookworm Garden

Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.

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Bookworm Garden
May
21
11:00 AM11:00

Bookworm Garden

Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.

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Bookworm Garden
Apr
16
11:00 AM11:00

Bookworm Garden

Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.

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Bookworm Garden
Mar
19
11:00 AM11:00

Bookworm Garden

Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.

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Bookworm Garden
Feb
19
11:00 AM11:00

Bookworm Garden

Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.

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Bookworm Garden
Jan
15
11:00 AM11:00

Bookworm Garden

Stretch your bodies and join us outdoors for a new nature-inspired theme and related children’s story and craft each month this spring. Little ones and their caregivers can learn, create, and grow together while taking a closer look at what is blooming in Riversdale’s beautiful gardens.

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Death Becomes Us - A True Crime Festival
Nov
8
to Nov 10

Death Becomes Us - A True Crime Festival

  • Lisner Auditorium - George Washington University (map)
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Shows: Nov 8 @7pm: Side Stories

Nov 9 @1pm: Capturing the DC Sniper

Nov 9 @3:30pm: The Homicide Hunter Retirement Party: Celebrating 9 Seasons w/ Joe Kenda

Nov 9 @5:45pm: Jensen and Holes: The Murder Squad Live

Nov 9 @8:30pm: Throwing Shade Live – True Crime Edition w/ Latrice Royale of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the documentary Gays in Prison

Nov 10 @2:45pm: BuzzFeed Unsolved Live

Nov 10 @5:15pm: The Truth About True Crime with Amanda Knox w/ Special Guest Lorena (Bobbitt) Gallo

What can you expect at the festival? Podcasts, experts, maybe some screenings, authors, weird stuff! All shows are general admission so get there early!

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