Events List

Check out the following international embassy and cultural events happening from Monday, April 22^nd - Sunday, April 28^th .

Monday, April 22^nd, 2024

1. Profs & Pints DC: How Friendship Evolved in Nature (6PM - 8:30PM) ($16.89)

   • Description: Profs and Pints DC presents: “How Friendship Evolved in Nature,” an Earth Day talk on the biological origins of our social bonds, with Riva Riley, affiliate assistant professor of biology at the University of Maryland at College Park, stand-up comedian, and zoologist who researches animal behavior.

   • Host Organization: Profs and Pints DC/ The Penn Social

Tuesday, April 23^rd, 2024

1. Film Screening: “Unsilenced” (12PM - 1:50PM) (FREE!) 📽️ 

   • Description: Winner of the Audience Award at the 2021 Austin Film Festival, "Unsilenced" narrates the courageous journey of a team of innocent college students and the American journalist who strives to uncover the truth about the persecution of Falun Gong meditation group in China.

   • Host Organization: Private organization

2. Sudan's Path Forward: Peace, Transition, and Humanitarian Response Lecture (1PM - 2PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: A roundtable moderated by FPI Senior Fellow and North Africa Initiative Executive Director, Hafed Al-Ghwell

   • Host Organization: Johns Hopkins SAIS Foreign Policy Institute (FPI)

3. Women For The Planet: Building Green Businesses Lecture (6PM - 9PM) ($17.85) 🌎️ 

   • Description: Join us for a panel featuring inspiring female founders of green businesses. Happy hour and refreshments to follow!

   • Host Organization: DC EcoWomen

4. Film Screening: Fritz Bauer’s Legacy - Justice Has No Expiration (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-Institute Washington D.C.

5. Spanish Young Music Talents: Rosalía Gómez Lasheras Performance (6:30PM - 8:30PM) (FREE!)🎵 

   • Description: Spanish pianist Rosalía Gómez Lasheras gives a recital in Washington, DC as part of the “Spanish Young Music Talents" program.

   • Host Organization: SPAIN Arts & Culture

Wednesday, April 24^th, 2024 

1. Evacuation Campaigns in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War Lecture (12PM - 1:30PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: Dr. Lê Nam Trung Hiếu discusses evacuation campaigns and the case of children in Vinh Linh Special Zone.

   • Host Organization: Sigur Center for Asian Studies at GW

2. Embassies of the World Networking Event (6PM - 9PM) ($28.52)

   • Description: We are inviting diplomats to celebrate our Embassies of the World networking event with people interested in international affairs.

   • Host Organization: American-Eurasian Art Foundation

3. International Intrigue: Jack Beaumont Lecture (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’).

   • Host Organization: International Intrigue/Immigrant Food

4. Protecting Cultural Heritage Under Siege Lecture (6PM - 7:30PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: A panel discussion on protecting and preserving tangible cultural heritage and those who steward it in zones of armed conflict and violence.

   • Host Organization: National Museum of Asian Art

5. Ben’s Chili Bowl Co-Founder & DC Matriarch Virginia Ali in Conversation with Chef Jerome Grant and Ben’s Official Historian Bernard Demczuk (7PM - 9PM) ($10+)

   • Description: Over the years, Virginia and Ben have received countless awards and accolades including the prestigious America’s Classics Restaurant Award from the James Beard Foundation. They were inducted into the DC Hall of Fame in 2002 and were later given the Key to the City by Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty. More recently, the Smithsonian placed Ben’s Chili Bowl on its list of the 20 Most Iconic Food Destinations Across America.

   • Host Organization: Hill Center DC

Thursday, April 25^th, 2024

1. Guided Tour of Amazonia: A BioCreativity Hub Art Exhibit with @ChloeinDC (6PM - 8:30PM) (FREE!) 🎨 🔥 

   • Description: Join us for a guided tour of "Amazonia: A BioCreativity Hub" art exhibit with DC content creator @ChloeinDC on April 25, 2024!

   • Host Organization: IDB Cultural Center

2. Standing with Immigrants 2024: Ayuda's Signature Spring Event (6PM - 9:30PM) ($294+)

   • Description: Join Ayuda to celebrate immigrants and honor those who have gone and beyond to hear our mission.

   • Host Organization: Mexican Cultural Institute (MCI)

3. Live! at the Library: Powerful Arts Collaborations: Artists & Cultural Leaders in Conversation (6PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Celebrated artists Helen C. Frederick and Phil Sanders and cultural leaders Juanita and Mel Hardy will discuss the powerful benefits of collaborative art and ways to leverage artists’ stories that expand fresh American narratives. There will be a display of related artworks from the Library's collections from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. before the panel discussion in Mahogany Row. 

   • Host Organization: Library of Congress (LOC)

4. On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice Book Talk (7PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 📕 

   • Book Description: Emanuel will be in conversation with Ashley Minner Jones, a community-based visual artist and folklorist from Baltimore, Maryland where she has lived on the same block her entire life. Her interdisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in place—usually within the context of the U.S. South—and is focused on honoring and celebrating everyday people by lifting up their stories. Ashley is an enrolled citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.

   • Host Organization: Politics and Prose Bookstore

5. Fabien Enger and Justin Griggs Jazz Concert (7:30PM - 9:30PM) ($16.82 for students admission with valid 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 Washington DC

Friday, April 26^th, 2024

1. Ambassador Shigeo Yamada, Japanese Ambassador to the United States Lecture (4PM - 5:30PM) (FREE!) 🇯🇵 

   • Description: Join us for a lecture chronicling the Japan-US relationship being global partners for the future.

   • Host Organization: Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies

2. Spring Open Doors: Session 01 (5:30PM - 8:30PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Explore the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, and immerse yourself the current exhibitions!

   • Host Organization: SPAIN Arts and Culture

3. "Libere" Film Screening by Rossella Schillaci (6PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 📽️ 

   • Description: Film screening of the film-documentary on the role of women in the Italian Resistance, during World War II.

   • Host Organization: Italian Cultural Institute of Washington (IIC)

4. Film Screening: Painting Dhaka (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. Evening at the Embassy of North Macedonia with the Ambassador (7:30PM - 10PM) ($64+)

   • Description: Tonight, the Ambassador and his diplomats welcome us to a special cultural celebration with Macedonian food, open bar, diplomats, visiting Macedonian musicians and much more! Celebrate a Friday Night in Macedonia as we step onto foreign soil to sample a country rich in culture and history.

   • Host Organization: Embassy Experiences/Things To Do DC

Saturday, April 27^th, 2024

1. Georgetown French Market (10AM - 5PM) (FREE to attend!) 🇫🇷 

   • Description: The Georgetown BID is hosting their 21st annual Georgetown French Market April 26 - 28, 2024. This popular open-air market - originally inspired by those often seen in France - will feature sidewalk sales and specials from more than 40 locally-owned boutiques, cafés, and galleries along Wisconsin Avenue from O St to Reservoir Rd., plus live music, stilt-walkers, face painting, a mime, and more. Neighborhood restaurants will also offer food and drink specials featuring French cuisine and beyond - from pastries, croissants, and macarons, to lunch items grilled outside, and wine discounts. 

   • Host Organization: Georgetown BID

2. Commemoration of National Arab American Heritage Month at the MLK Library (2PM - 5PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: Commemorate Arab American heritage and culture with us at our event on April 27th, 2024.

   • Host Organization: Arab America Foundation/Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library

3. The 7th DC Chocolate Festival (10:30AM - 5:30PM) (FREE for kids aged 12 years and younger, $30.23 for ages 12+) 🍫 

   • 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

4. Spring Open Doors: Session 02 (10:30AM - 1:30PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description:  Explore the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, and immerse yourself the current exhibitions!

   • Host Organization: SPAIN Arts and Culture

5. Furia Flamenca Dance Company: Recordando La Alhambra (5PM - 7PM) ($37+) 💃 

   • Description: Furia Flamenca Dance Company, an award-winning dance company, brings the ferocity and passion of flamenco to the stage and transports audiences to Southern Spain in technically refined, emotionally explosive, and dynamically choreographed dancing.

   • Host Organization: Atlas Performing Arts Center

Sunday, April 28^th, 2024

1. Spring Open Doors: Session 03 (10:30AM - 1:30PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Explore the Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, and immerse yourself the current exhibitions!

   • Host Organization: SPAIN Arts & Culture

2. Georgetown French Market (12PM - 5PM) (FREE! to attend) 🇫🇷 

   • Description: The Georgetown BID is hosting their 21st annual Georgetown French Market April 26 - 28, 2024. This popular open-air market - originally inspired by those often seen in France - will feature sidewalk sales and specials from more than 40 locally-owned boutiques, cafés, and galleries along Wisconsin Avenue from O St to Reservoir Rd., plus live music, stilt-walkers, face painting, a mime, and more. Neighborhood restaurants will also offer food and drink specials featuring French cuisine and beyond - from pastries, croissants, and macarons, to lunch items grilled outside, and wine discounts. 

   • Host Organization: Georgetown BID

3. On the Road: A Search for American Character Lecture (2PM - 3PM) (FREE!)

   • Description: Explore performance as a way of knowing with award-winning actress, playwright, and professor Anna Deavere Smith. 

   • Host Organization: National Gallery of Art

4. Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet Performance (4PM - 4:45PM) (FREE!) 💃 

   • Description: It’s Earth Month! In conjunction with the Portrait Gallery’s “Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism” exhibition, Moveius Contemporary Ballet will present "Glacier: A Climate Change Ballet" in the Kogod Courtyard.

   • Host Organization: National Portrait Gallery

5. Celebrating Puccini: A Centennial Reflection on His Life, Art, and Legacy (5:15PM - 7:30PM) ($49.87) 🎨 

   • Description: Lecture on the world of Giacomo Puccini, as we honour the 100th anniversary since his passing, with ICS Music Instructor Diego Rodriguez.

   • Host Organization: Italian Cultural Society

Looking Ahead! 👀 

1. Film Screening: Forest - A Garden We Cultivate (Monday, April 29^th, 6PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 📽️ 

   • Description: The documentary portrays the link between forests and Indigenous communities, highlighting their pivotal role in addressing climate change.

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

2. Richard Cockett Book Talk (Tuesday, April 30^th, 7PM - 9PM) (FREE!) 📕 

   • Book Description: Book talk with Richard Cockett, senior editor at The Economist, and author of VIENNA - How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World.

   • Host Organization: Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF)

3. Conference at Evian: Staged Reading (Thursday, May 2^nd, 7PM - 9:30PM) (FREE!) 📕 

   • Book Description: Mark your calendars for an evening of enlightenment, empathy, and exploration. Join us for a staged reading of CONFERENCE AT EVIAN by Leon Weintraub, directed by Yvonne Paretzky, and let history's echoes guide us towards a more profound understanding of our shared humanity.

   • Host Organization: Austrian Cultural Forum (ACF)

4. ArtWalk Dupont (Friday, May 3^rd, 6PM - 8PM) (FREE!) 🎨 

   • Description: Join the Dupont Circle Business Improvement District on the first Friday of every month from 6-8 PM for ArtWalk Dupont!

   • Host Organization: Dupont BID

5. The Life of Spring - A Recital of French Art Songs (Saturday, May 4^th, 7PM - 9PM) ($81.88) 🎵 

   • Description: L’Opéra Comique de Washington proudly presents “The Life of Spring,” an intimate evening of French art songs at the Pen Arts Building in DC.

   • Host Organization: L'Opéra Comique de Washington

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