Photo by Brian AllenSTORYTELLING: The theme is “Sticky” at tonight’s Story League story contest at Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street NW). Participating storytellers will have seven minutes to tell their true “sticky” tale, for the chance to win $150. 9-11 p.m.
BOOKS: Local nonprofit 826DC presents An Evening with Washington Journalists and Their Favorite Children’s Books at Bobby Van’s Grill (1201 New York Avenue NW) this evening. Bethanne Patrick (Books Editor, Washingtonian Magazine) will moderate the participants, who include Dana Bash (CNN), Glenn Thrush (POLITICO), Julie Mason (POTUS Press Pool/Sirius XM), Garance Franke-Ruta (YAHOO News), Helena Andrews (Washington Post), and Ron Charles (Washington Post). 6-8 p.m. $82.60 general admission, $50 young professionals, $30 826 volunteers.
ART TALK: Icelandic sculptor Katrín Sigurđardóttir, whose work “examines the embodiment of distance and memory in architecture, cartography, and traditional landscapes,” sits down with staff from the Phillips Collection and faculty from George Washington University at The Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art (1600 21st Street NW) this evening. 6:30 p.m. $20 general admission, $8 members, free for students.
FILM: The Hirshhorn’s (7th Street and Independence Avenue SW) 2014 Spring films kick off tonight with a screening of The Weather War, a Swedish “documentary/art film about man’s attempts to control the weather and harness it for his own purposes.” 8 p.m. Free
BOOK CLUB: Join the Georgetown Library’s new Twentythirtysomething Book Club, “for local readers between the ages of 21 and 35,” and meet up the last Thursday of each month in the Vinyl Lounge of Gypsy Sally’s (3401 K Street NW). Tonight’s discussion will be on The Love Song of Jonny Valentine by author Teddy Wayne. 7:30 p.m. Free.
