RFK Campus: February 2022 Newsletter | Events DC

REDISCOVER SPRING WITH THE NATIONAL CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL

Be a part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival March 20 – April 17 for four weeks of celebration filled with food, fun, and culture! The 2022 Festival is the 110th anniversary of the gift of trees from the Mayor of Tokyo to Washington, DC.

The Signature Events you know and love are back in person, along with a wide variety of ways to experience Washington, DC as you can only see it once a year. And if this is your first time at the Festival, this is the year to see it! Stay at partner hotels, dine at Cherry Picks restaurants, and check out Petal Porches and Art in Bloom installations across the city and surrounding areas.

Be sure to tag the Festival with #RediscoverSpring and sign up for emails to receive the latest updates!

9TH STREET RETAIL KIOSK INITIATIVE

We are proud to announce the 9th Street Retail Kiosk Initiative at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center! Committed to supporting small businesses throughout the District, this will give the opportunity for four (4) storefronts to be nestled in one of the busiest areas between Shaw and DC’s Central Business District. We encourage you to check it out this Spring!

For Retail, service, and non-vented food operators, if you are interested in submitting an application for your business to be considered for lease and occupancy of one of the Retail Kiosks, please access this LINK to access our Request for Proposal survey.

THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND

FRIDAY, MARCH 4

New Glass Now - The Renwick Gallery showcases the creativity and dexterity of architects, artists and designers who work in one of the world’s most challenging materials: glass. New Glass Now, which closes on Sunday, consists of objects, videos, installations and performances from 50 different artists in 23 countries, allowing visitors to marvel at the tremendous skill of contemporary glass-making.
Transient: Impermanent Paintings - This groundbreaking exhibition, originally composed as a live performance, presents a series of audiovisual paintings created by the artist in concert with generative algorithms. The exhibition, which closes this Sunday, employs technology as a lens to explore music for the 21st century audience and rethink the traditional techniques in the context of human-machine relationship. Projected on a large scale, hyper-realistic digital brushstrokes unfold like on canvas. Each brushstroke corresponds to a note, creating polyphonic synthetic landscapes. The same algorithms driving the hyper-realistic digital brushstrokes also materialize in the sound of piano via Yamaha Disklavier, experienced through 24-channel L-Acoustics L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound technology.

SATURDAY, MARCH 5

Written in Stone: A selection of America’s most exciting artists, musicians and composers have assembled to create four world premiere stories concerning four iconic monuments in the nation’s capital. The production is the crown jewel of the Kennedy Center’s 50th anniversary season. Inspired by the ideals of President Kennedy and DC’s majestic monuments, Written in Stone is a series of interwoven short works presented together in a single evening. Don’t miss your chance to miss this distinctly DC celebration.
Catch Me If You Can: Enjoy the Tony-nominated musical comedy based on the popular Steven Spielberg film inspired by a true story. You will be immersed in the world of Frank Abagnale Jr. in this rousing production that follows the deceptions, successes, trials and tribulations of the con man who posed as an airline pilot and lawyer and escaped police captivity, all before the age of 22.

SUNDAY, MARCH 6

Intersections Festival: This weekend, Atlas Performing Arts Center will host its Intersections Festival in-person again, an event that masterfully combines theatre, dance, poetry, music, film, writing, sculpture, photography and arts of all kinds into three weekends worth of intellectual excitement. Witness the finest creativity that DC can offer, and do so at one of the city’s most prestigious venues located in one of its most vibrant neighborhoods. Check out the full list of events for the 15th anniversary edition of this celebration of local artists.
FUTURES: Smithsonian's historic Arts and Industries Building has opened its groundbreaking new experience. On view through July 6, FUTURES is the Smithsonian’s first major building-wide exploration of the future and will temporarily reopen the Smithsonian’s oldest museum for the first time in nearly two decades. The part-exhibition, part-festival celebrates the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary with more than 150 awe-inspiring objects, ideas, prototypes and installations that fuse art, technology, design and history to help visitors imagine many possible futures on the horizon. Make sure to read our guide to the exhibit before you go.

COMMUNITY GRANT SPOTLIGHT: FH FAUNTEROY COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT CENTER

FH Faunteroy Community Enrichment Center (FCEC), based in Ward 7, empowers youth to be activists from a multi-generational approach. While FCEC has many programs, their primary focus is on youth development with a strong emphasis on health and wellness. As an Events DC Community Grant awardee (FY2021, Cycle 1), they were awarded for their Youth Enrichment Programming for DC youth in the Deanwood area to provide exposure to the outdoors and beyond their neighborhoods. To learn more about Faunteroy Community Enrichment Center, visit their website here.

SHAMROCK FEST RETURNS TO RFK FESTIVAL GROUNDS

ShamrockFest is DC's biggest St. Paddy’s Day festival! Join the crowd on March 12 from 12-5 and enjoy the sounds of Steve Aoiki, Kim Lee, Juicy M and more! It’s non-stop fun where the beer flows strong and everyone is Irish for the day.

Tickets are on sale now - choose from any of the three admission options; Main Event, VIP, and Emerald Packages.

Reserve your parking in advance here!