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OYSTERS: Enjoy an oyster and wine tasting as the Oyster Recovery Partnership teaches you all about the “Crassostrea Virginica, aka our native Eastern Oysters.” The Grilled Oyster Co. (3701 Newark Street NW) 7-8:30 p.m. $25

TREES: Watch a screening of the local documentary City of Trees, which follows the nonprofit Washington Parks & People as it works to reduce poverty and violence by offering “green” job-training. Our arts editor writes: “Elegantly filmed, City of Trees looks at the human side of policy, and the struggles of a community to revitalize itself. What makes this more than just a film about policy is its focus on the people of Ward 8.” Landmark Theatres Atlantic Plumbing Cinema (807 V Street NW) 7-9:30 P.M. Admission by donation.

GENDER: Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Susan Faludi discusses In the Darkroom, her “powerful and thought-provoking memoir about gender identity that begins when she learns that her estranged father has had a sex change.” Politics & Prose (5015 Connecticut Avenue NW) 7 p.m. Free

RUN TO BEER: H Street Runners is hosting a three-mile “fun run” to Atlas Brew Works, which recently opened a new tap room, with a short detour to Gallaudet’s outdoor track facility. The meeting point is Capital Bikeshare station at 11th and H Streets NE. 7 p.m. Free