A Farewell to Cherry Blossoms in DC 🌸

Events List

Check out the following international embassy and cultural events happening from Monday, April 15^th - Sunday, April 21^st .

Monday, April 15^th, 2024

1. The Africa Dialogues (4PM - 7:30PM) (FREE!)  

   • Description: Bringing thought leadership for Africa's rising to Washington D.C. to spark connections, collaborations, and conversation!

   • Host Organization: The Africa Dialogue

2. Profs & Pints DC: The Secrets of Runes (6PM - 8:30PM) ($16.89)

   • Description: Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Secrets of Runes,” on the origins, development, and interpretation of the runic script, with Lilla Kopár, runologist and a professor of medieval literature and culture at Catholic University.

   • Host Organization: Profs & Pints DC

3. Steven Lin Piano Performance (6:30PM - 10PM) ($161.90 for general admission, $81.88 for students 21 years of age or under) 🎵 

   • Description: Steven Lin, one of the finest pianists today, plays an enchanting program, exhibiting amazing virtuosity and talent. A great experience!

   • Host Organization: The Embassy Series

Tuesday, April 16^th, 2024

1. Russia’s Rupture and Western Policy Conference (9AM - 5PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: Join The Jamestown Foundation and the Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum in examining the possibility and implications of Russia’s rupture!

   • Host Organization: The Jamestown Foundation

2. JICA's Cooperation in Southeast Asia Lecture (4:30PM - 6PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: How does JICA work to strengthen connectivity in the Indo-Pacific?

   • Host Organization: Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies

3. Opening Night: Imagining Post-Anthropocene (6PM - 7:30PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Join us for the second show of our Nature's Echo series exhibition and get the chance to meet one of the featured artists!

   • Host Organization: Korean Cultural Center Washington D.C. (KCCDC)

Wednesday, April 17^th, 2024 

1. Democracy Denied: Political, Human Rights, and Policy Implications Conference (9AM - 4:30PM) (FREE for students to $150 for on the spot registration)

   • Description: The CSID Annual Conference is the international conference on Islam & Democracy, held in Washington DC, attended by experts & policymakers.

   • Host Organization: Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID)

2. Opening Reception: Textile Art by Victoria Muniagurría (6PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Join us at the Embassy of Argentina for the opening reception of “Textile Art” by Victoria Muniagurría.

   • Host Organization: Embassy of Argentina

3. The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors Book Talk (6PM - 7PM) (FREE!) 📕 

   • Book Description: A masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies that investigates our connection with deer—from mythology to biology, from forests to cities, from coexistence to control and extermination—and invites readers to contemplate the paradoxes of how humans interact with and shape the natural world.

   • Host Organization: People’s Book

4. Hellhounds and Salty Dogs: Dudley Memorial Lecture with John Troutman (6:30PM - 8:30PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: The Dudley Memorial Lecture features John Troutman, curator of Music and Musical Instruments at the National Museum of American History.

   • Host Organization: The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at GW

5. On the Adamant Film Screening (8PM - 10PM) ($10.38 - $13.68) 📽️ 

   • Description: The Adamant is a unique day-care centre. A floating structure located on the Seine in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering the kind of care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or keep up their spirits. The team running it tries to resist the deterioration and dehumanisation of psychiatry as best as they can

   • Host Organization: The Avalon Theatre

Thursday, April 18^th, 2024

1. EDC/NAFSA Networking Reception (4:30PM - 7PM) ($17.85)

   • Description: Join us for a special evening welcoming new Cultural and Educational attachés at the Embassy of Malaysia. It's a great opportunity to network with diplomats, university administrators, non-profit professionals and government officials that administer international, educational and cultural exchanges.

   • Host Organization: The Embassy Dialogue Committee on Education (EDC)

2. Live! at the Library: Kronos Quartet Performance (8PM - 10PM) (FREE!) 🎵 

   • Description: Celebrating 50 years of extraordinary performances, the Kronos Quartet will offer a dizzying array of pieces originally written for them. With over 70 recordings to its credit and thousands of performances under its belt, the Kronos Quartet is an elite ensemble that is also one of the most open-minded, as evidenced by the wide range of music they play.

   • Host Organization: Library of Congress (LOC)

3. Third Thursday (5PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Visit America's first modern art museum for free during our extended hours on the Third Thursday of every month.

   • Host Organization: The Phillips Collection

4. Austrian Embassy Viennese Waltz Lessons and Dance Soiree (6PM - 10PM) ($39.09 - $44.27) 💃 

   • Description: Each year, we celebrate the arrival of spring with Viennese Waltz lessons in time for our magical Viennese Ball. This year, you are cordially invited to join us at the Embassy of Austria to indulge in an evening of Viennese Waltz lessons and learn to dance one of the most elegant and romantic dances of the world!

   • Host Organization: International Club of DC

5. Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border Book Talk (7PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 📕 

   • Book Description: American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction--following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.

   • Host Organization: Politics and Prose Bookstore

Friday, April 19^th, 2024

1. Sustainable Fashion Show @Artomatic 2024 | Earth Day Edition (1PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 👗 

   • Description: Join our Earth Day celebration featuring a runway show highlighting sustainable collections of handmade fashion and other wearable art.

   • Host Organization: Artomatic and Rendered Brand

2. Red Bull Showrun DC: Friday Fan Fest (2PM - 7PM) (FREE!) 🏎️ 

   • Description: Activations including RB19 Static Car, RB7 Fireups, Oracle Red Bull Racing team Q&A, Red Bull Pit Stop Challenge, racing simulators, merchandise sales, and more!

   • Host Organization: Union Market and Red Bull

3. Austrian Embassy Viennese Ball: A Night in Vienna (7PM - 11:30PM) ($136.56 - $357.95) 💃 

   • Description: You are cordially invited to experience a magical evening at the Austrian Embassy -- one of the grandest diplomatic venues in Washington DC for an unforgettable Viennese celebration of music, wine, dinner, desserts and dancing.

   • Host Organization: International Club of DC

4. Exit Racism: Exploring Critiques of Racism in the US and Germany Lecture (6PM - 8PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: Join us for a conversation with STABLE Arts director Maleke Glee, artist Stephen Lawson, and racism criticism expert Tupoka Ogette.

   • Host Organization: Goethe-Institut Washington D.C

5. Expresiones: An Evening with the John Santos Sextet and Hugo Cruz & Caminos (7PM - 10PM) (FREE!) 🎵 

   • Description: A Latin Jazz concert free to the public at the National Museum of Natural History

   • Host Organization: National Museum of the American Latino

Saturday, April 20^th, 2024

1. Earth Day Family Festival (11:30AM - 3PM) (FREE!) 🌎️ 

   • Description: Join the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum and craft workshops while you learn how art and science can help protect the earth. Attendees of all ages can enjoy nature-themed activities and there will be face painting for children 12 and under. A scavenger hunt in the galleries features works from both museums that highlight the Earth’s natural wonders and the various ways artists help care for our planet.

   • Host Organization: National Portrait Gallery

2. Red Bull Showrun DC (1PM - 6PM) (FREE!) 🏎️ 

   • Description: Join us for an action-packed day of motorsports action on Pennsylvania Ave on Saturday!

   • Host Organization: Red Bull

3. “No one can tell it for you” with Nana Abuladze (2PM - 5PM) ($33.85)

   • Description: Project "Home" is delighted to hear Nana in conversation with gender studies scholar and PhD candidate Ninutsa Nadirashvili, speaking about elements of queerness, identity, gender, and more in Georgian lives and literatures.

   • Host Organization: Georgian-American project "Home"

4. Being in a Place Film Screening (2PM - 4PM) (FREE!) 📽️ 

   • Description: Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material, including sound recordings, film rushes, offcuts and unpublished notebooks, Luke Fowler’s new feature film focuses on Margaret Tait, one of Scotland’s most enigmatic filmmakers.

   • Host Organization: National Gallery of Art

5. Todo Tango Performance (7:30PM - 9PM) ($65 - $85) 💃 

   • Description: PASO, under the direction of Maestro Sergio Alessandro Buslje presents its signature tango show, featuring 30 musicians, Javier Sanchez on bandoneon, and three pairs of award-winning international tango dancers.

   • Host Organization: Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

Sunday, April 21^st, 2024

1. French Book Festival (11AM - 4PM) (FREE to attend!) 📕 

   • Description: Come meet French language authors living in the Washington DC area and discover wonderful books in French and in English.

   • Host Organization: Bonjour Books DC

2. Tombs and Tomes Book Festival (11AM - 4PM) (FREE to attend!) 📕 

   • Description: Calling all bookworms! Join us this Spring at HCC’S first ever Tombs & Tomes Book Festival! Experience the enchantment of books, stories, and the written word in our unique and historic cemetery venue in Washington D.C.

   • Host Organization: Congressional Cemetery

3. Artisan in Residence Workshop: Japanese Kintsugi with Yuko Gunji (1PM - 3PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Kintsugi artisan and expert Yuko Gunji will discuss the techniques and cultural significance of Japanese kintsugi.

   • Host Organization: National Museum of Asian Art

4. Sankofa "Beyond Beyond" Benefit 2024 (2PM - 6PM) (Donate as much as you want!) 🎵 

   • Description: From live music to handmade goods join us on April 21st and help us build a thriving model village at Sankofa's Beyond Beyond Benefit!

   • Host Organization: The Ven at Embassy Row /Sankofa International Nonprofit

Looking Ahead! 👀 

1. Film Screening: Fritz Bauer’s Legacy - Justice has no Expiration (Tuesday, April 23^rd) (6PM - 9PM) (FREE!) 📽️ 

   • Description: The Goethe-Institut Washington, in collaboration with the German Embassy Washington, presents an exclusively curated selection of films.

   • Host Organization: Goethe-Institut Washington D.C.

2. International Intrigue IRL (Wednesday, April 24^th) (6PM - 8PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: Join International Intrigue on Wednesday, April 24, at 6:00 pm ET as we kick off our first of many events in DC. Co-founder Helen Zhang will host a conversation with special guest and spy-turned-author, ‘Jack Beaumont’ (‘The Frenchman’ and ‘Dark Arena: The Frenchman Returns’). A reception will follow.

   • Host Organization: International Intrigue

3. Fabien Enger and Justin Griggs Jazz Concert (Thursday, April 25^th) (7:30PM - 9:30PM) ($16.82 for students admission with ID, $27.37 for general admission)

   • Description: We are thrilled to host the duo Fabien Enger and Justin Griggs for a Jazz Concert. Experience the duo's rich and innovative sound.

   • Host Organization: Villa Albertine

4. Film Screening: Painting Dhaka (Friday, April 26^th) (6PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 📽️ 

   • Description: The documentary "Painting Dhaka" takes the viewer on an artistic journey through one of the poorest areas in the world.

   • Host Organization: Goethe-Institut Washington D.C

5. The 7^th DC Chocolate Festival (Saturday, April 27^th) (10:30AM - 5:30PM) (FREE for kids under 12 years old to $30.23 for people above 12 years old) 🍫 

   • Description: The DC Chocolate Festival is 7 years old! Please join us for a day of chocolate education, samples, and enjoyment at La Maison Française.

   • Host Organization: The Chocolate House DC

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