Get in line at the D.C. Arts Center

The D.C. Arts Center celebrates its 30th birthday this year. To kick off a year of celebration, artist John Ros has created a piece just for the DCAC’s headquarters in the heart of Adams Morgan. The work, _lineation_ is a piece of line-focused work that, according to the museum, is meant “to help visitors become more aware of their surroundings.” The exhibition opens Friday with a reception.
D.C. Arts Center, Friday-February 17, opening reception Friday, 7 p.m.-9 p.m.

Become a ping-pong master at SPIN

A date at a bar? Where you have to look at each other for like an hour straight and find something to talk about the entire time? There’s a better way: Try a bar-adjacent activity that lets you indulge your sense of competition, because the first rule of dating is that there’s nothing more important than winning. SPIN downtown has ping-pong tables, plush seating, and Instagrammable walls galore. Prep to volley the ball and flirty vibes back and forth with SPIN’s free ping-pong lesson this weekend. Use a game to gauge compatibility—after all, no one wants to date a sore loser.
SPIN, Saturday, 1 p.m.-3 p.m., register here. 

Actually try achieving your New Year’s resolution at VIDA

It’s mid-January, also known as Give Up On Your Resolution week. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone would give you a figurative kick in the pants to get back on track? Good news: VIDA Fitness wants to kick you. The gym’s Logan Circle, Gallery Place, and The Yards locations are hosting goal setting workshops this weekend. You’ll meet with dieticians and personal trainers in a one-on-one session where they will offer advice for your 2019 fitness and health goals—or give you the swift kick you need, who knows.
Various locations, Saturday, 2 p.m.-3 p.m., register here.

Dance the Sunday away at Showtime

We all know Granny rules Sundays at Showtime Bar in Bloomingdale, but on MLK weekend, she’ll be followed by another act. Chicago-born DJ Diaspora headlines Afrofunky MLK Sunday, a set of Afro-Latin funk, disco, and house music. In her tracks, Diaspora will be hiding samples of speech from black leaders, including Kwame Ture and Martin Luther King Jr. Tell her you you caught the hidden message, and your drink is on the house.
Showtime Bar, Sunday, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Snack locally at Union Kitchen

Out with the local groceries and beer and in with the … local groceries and beer. Union Kitchen is setting up shop in the space formerly occupied by Glen’s Garden Market in The Shay. At their opening night party, feast on samples of local snacks and sip beer from Atlas Brew Works.
Union Kitchen at The Shay, Monday, 5 p.m.-9 p.m.