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Special Event: Fair/Festival, Food/Tasting
13th Annual Washington DC Wine & Food Festival
Returning this year with 600+ wines, exciting cooking demos from DC's top culinary stars and a lively cocktail kick-off competition, the 13th Annual Washington DC International Wine & Food Festival (IWFF) will celebrate the world of wine, food and culture ...
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
Washington, DC

Sat 2/11-Sun 2/12 at 2pm-6pm
Art: Drawings/Works on Paper, Gallery, Painting
150th Commemoration of the Civil War: The Death of Ellsworth
This exhibition recounts the death of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth in Alexandria, VA. Ellsworth, a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, was the first Union officer to be killed in the four-year-long struggle. Throughout the Civil War his name, face and heroi...
National Portrait Gallery
Washington, DC

Fri 2/10-Sun 3/18 at 11:30am-7pm
Special Event: Design, Benefit/Fundraiser, Tour
2012 DC Design House Bare Bones Tour
Tour the 2012 DC Design House before the designers transform the 24 spaces in the 10,000-square-foot Spring Valley home. All proceeds of the DC Design House go to Children's National Medical Center.
2012 DC Design House
Washington, DC

Sat 2/25 at 10am-3pm
Special Event: Talk/Lecture, Class/Workshop, Fair/Festival, Film, Seminar
2012 DC Independent Film Festival
DCIFF is an all-volunteer non-profit launched in 1999 to nurture independent film. As the oldest independent film festival in Washington, the DC Independent Film Festival has a storied history of presenting extraordinary films. They have showcased cutting ...
United States Navy Memorial and Naval Heritage Center
Washington, DC

Thu 3/1 at 6:45pm
Fri 3/2 at 7pm
Sat 3/3 at 12pm
Sun 3/4 at 11am
Special Event: Benefit/Fundraiser, Community Event, Health & Wellness/Nutrition, Walking
2012 Walk for Wishes – Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic
The first annual Walk for Wishes will be a community-wide celebration for Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic, an organization that helps grant the wishes of children with life-threatening diseases in Maryland, Delaware, Washington, D.C. and Norther...
University of Maryland – Comcast Center
College Park, MD

Sat 4/14 at 8:30am-12pm
Special Event: General
21st Annual National Capital Region Job Fair
More than 70 professional and high tech companies from Virginia, Maryland and DC will be recruiting for all levels and disciplines. There is no cost to attend and all job seekers are welcome. Parking is very limited so please take Metro to the West Falls C...
Virginia Tech – Northern Virginia Center
Falls Church, VA

Tue 3/6 at 2pm-6pm
Music: Museum, Classical
21st Century Consort – Multiplicity
The acclaimed 21st Century Consort continues their 2011-12 season with performances that celebrate exhibitions on view in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The concept of repetition that is so integral to printmaking is also evident in contemporary clas...
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Washington, DC

Sat 2/11 at 5pm
Special Event: Auction, Benefit/Fundraiser
23rd Annual Casino Night
Casino Night 2012 is expected to raise $120,000 to fight kidney disease in the Washington, DC area. A signature event of the National Kidney Foundation, Casino Night attracts a diverse group of guests from the business, medical and philanthropic communitie...
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
Washington, DC

Sat 3/3 at 8pm
Special Event: Community Event, Green/Environmental, Nature, Volunteer Event
24rd Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup
Join the Potomac Conservancy for the 24rd Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup, organized by the Alice Ferguson Foundation. Help thousands of volunteers of all ages pick up trash from different cleanup sites around the region.
Hard Bargain Farm Environmental Center
Accokeek, MD

Sat 4/14 at 9am-12pm
Art: Drawings/Works on Paper, Museum
25 x 25: Artists' Books From the NMWA Collection
The exhibition celebrates the generosity of donors who helped NMWA to build a foremost collection of artists' books. The collection now comprises more than 1,000 unique books and limited editions in a variety of formats, from scrolls and accordions to codi...
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC

Fri 2/10-Sat 2/11 at 10am-5pm
Mon 2/13-Sat 2/18 at 10am-5pm
Mon 2/20-Sat 2/25 at 10am-5pm
Mon 2/27-Sat 3/3 at 10am-5pm
Sun 2/12 at 12pm-5pm
Sun 2/19 at 12pm-5pm
Sun 2/26 at 12pm-5pm
Sun 3/4 at 12pm-5pm
    

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