Photo by Ray Fitzgerald.

BEER: Join the Devil’s Backbone family for the release of the 2016 Adventure Pack Collaboration Sampler, featuring collaborations with NoDa Brewing Company, Sun King Brewing Company, Surly Brewing Company, Thunder Road Brewing Company, and Wicked Weed Brewing Company. Meridian Pint (3400 11th Street NW) 7 p.m. *Same event will also be held at Virtue Feed & Grain in Alexandria at 6 p.m.*

DANCE: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to The Kennedy Center for seven performances from now through Sunday. (2700 F Street NW) 7 p.m. $59-79

DOCUMENTARY: Watch a screening of ABC Africa, a documentary by Abbas Kiarostami that captures the “faces of a thousand orphans” struggling to survive “the ravages of AIDS and civil war in Uganda.” Busboys and Poets (2021 14th Street NW) 6-8 p.m. $11.54