CANCELED: Life Since the Election: A One-Day Storytelling Intensive
with Story District
Using post-election D.C. as your storyboard, express your unique experience living in our nation’s capital in this one-day workshop, led by Story District’s expert teachers, where you will generate new story material, learn about narrative structure and storytelling techniques, and practice telling stories and hearing feedback in small groups.
- Date:
- Jun 4, 2017 • 9:30 am ET
- Category:
- 20s & 30s Programming
Senator Al Franken
In Conversation with Jake Tapper
Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, by the U.S. Senator from Minnesota and #1 New York Times bestselling author, is a book about an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that.
Dinner Unplugged
Exhausted from your over-committed schedule and increasingly fast-paced, go-go-go lifestyle? Detox from the nonstop technology mid-week with our recurring Wednesday night dinner – sans smartphones.
Richard Reeves
In Conversation with David Brooks
In Dream Hoarders, the Brookings Institution fellow argues that the real class divide is not between the upper class and the upper middle class: it is between the upper middle class and everyone else.
- Date:
- Jun 7, 2017 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
-
Ticket: $14
1 ticket + 1 book: $25
2 tickets + 1 book: $35
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Summer Toast
Cider Tasting and Grilled Cheese Bar
Celebrate the start of summer with cider from Blue Bee, Virginia’s first urban cidery, and a make-your-own grilled cheese bar.
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque
with Aaron Myers
The Grammy-nominated musician is known for her creative integrity, improvisational daring, and courageous artistry. Through her music, Burnett aims to explore different cultures and to express the universality of music. The talented pianist and saxophone player’s sound encapsulates Afro-Cuban melodies and embraces and showcases the rhythms and culture of Cuba. She has toured the world’s leading jazz festivals, displaying her versatility as an artist, as well as an educator, spokesperson, and social activist.
Man’s Attempt at Thoughtfulness
Combining spirituality, psychology, modern masculinity, and good scotch, Rabbi Scott brings a group of men together to attempt some thoughtfulness about life’s more important questions.
6th in the City Chorus Concert
The 6th in the City Chorus performs a mix of old and new songs with choirs from Turner Memorial AME Church (which worshiped in Sixth & I’s building for nearly five decades) and the Metropolitan AME Church.
The Rise of Populism and Nationalism
The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood—author of “His Kampf,” an article in The Atlantic’s June issue about Richard Spencer, leader of the alt-right movement, who happens to be Graeme’s high school classmate— White House Correspondent Rosie Gray, and Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg discuss the future of the movement in the era of Trump and what it means for our country, our allies, and our democracy going forward.
Sherman Alexie
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian comes You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, a powerful account of the author’s difficult childhood and complicated relationship with his mother, who was an alcoholic.
- Date:
- Jun 20, 2017 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
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Ticket: $16
1 ticket + 1 book: $30
2 tickets + 1 book: $40
- Category:
- Authors & Talks