MONDAY, MAY 9
VEG OUT: Celebrate D.C.’s first ever vegetarian restaurant week, with restaurants around D.C. participating with vegetarian specials, dedicated menus, and other promotions. Restaurants across the District, including Shouk, El Tamarindo, DC Harvest, DC Vegan, Busboys and Poets, Equinox, Rasa, and more, will feature their finest plant-based dishes. (Various locations)
SPRING CONCERT: Enjoy a free springtime concert at the La Maison Française at the Embassy of France. Cellist Julie Sévilla Fraysse, a graduate of the prestigious National Superior Conservatoire of Paris, will perform several pieces. (Embassy of France; 7:30 p.m.; donations welcome)
MORE: UP For Adventure Week (Climb UPton; 4 p.m.; $49.95), Spring Cocktail Tasting (Ciel Social Club; 5 p.m.; $80), Art & Sip – Mother’s Day Gift-May Flowers Print (Palette 22; 7 p.m.; $57), Dancing Diamonds – Solo show by Jean Offutt Lewis (Gallery Underground; 10 a.m.; FREE), Lucius with Celisse (9:30 Club; 7 p.m.; $45)
TUESDAY, MAY 10
HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION: Join Mayor Muriel Bowser for an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month celebration. Enjoy performances from local AAPI performers honoring community organizers and volunteers. (Lincoln Theatre; 6:30 p.m.; FREE)
SKATING RINK: Looking for lessons to brush up on your roller skating skills? Head to the Anacostia Park roller skating pavilion for lessons from The Linkup DC. All skill levels are welcome to get their skate on! (Anacostia Park; 7 p.m.; $10)
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING: Join the 1882 Foundation, Asian American Journalists Association, and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Library for a sneak preview of the new documentary “Dear Corky” on the unofficial Asian American photographer laureate and journalist Corky Lee. A panel with the filmmakers will follow. (MLK Library; 6:30 p.m., FREE)
MORE: Books for a Better World (Strand Books; 7 p.m.; virtual; FREE), Hellenic Heads: George Petrides exhibit (Embassy of Greece; 11 a.m.; FREE), Understanding Structural Racism online seminar series (NAACP Arlington Branch; 7 p.m.; FREE), Golden Triangle BID TriFit 2022 (Farragut Square; 5:30 p.m.; FREE), Justin Tinsley Discusses It Was All a Dream w/Derrick A. Young (MahoganyBooks Anacostia; 6:30 p.m.; FREE), Ignite with Don’t Sleep, Celebration Summer (Pie Shop; 7:30 p.m.; $15)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
JAZZ LECTURE: Learn more about ragtime revivals and the jazz artists of the revival period of the later 1940s at this Potomac River Jazz Club virtual event. “Perfessor Bill” Edwards will discuss the driving musicians and provide audio-visual examples. (Virtual; 7 p.m.; FREE)
HAPPY HOUR: The Yards kicks off a monthlong walking campaign with a happy hour at Bammy’s and Agua 301. Participants can win gift cards by walking five specially mapped-out routes throughout the waterfront neighborhood in May. (Navy Yard; 5 p.m.; FREE)
OUTDOOR MOVIE: Kick off the start of outdoor movie season with NoMa BID’s own CiNoMatic movie nights. The nostalgia throwback theme brings up Mrs. Doubtfire for the first screening. Make sure to bring your own chair! (Alethia Tanner Park; 8:20 p.m.; FREE)
MORE: Crossroads, Detours, and Exits: A Solo Show by JR “Nexus” Russ (Busboys and Poets 14th Street; 7:30 p.m.; $20), 1939 Studios DMV Short Film Festival (Crown and Crow; virtual; FREE), Professors and Pints’ “Camus and Crisis” (Little Penn Coffeehouse; 6 p.m.; $12), Queer Trivia (Dew Drop Inn; 7 p.m.; FREE), Hurdle’s Second Annual Black Mental Health Roundtable (Rayburn Congressional Office Building; 10 a.m.; FREE), 2022 Night of Ideas (Martin Luther King Jr. Library; 6:15 p.m.; FREE), Screening of Vincent Who? with Director Curtis Chin (Eaton DC; 6:30 p.m.; FREE), Caitlin Krisko & The Broadcast with The Junior Bryce Band (Pearl Street Warehouse; 7 p.m.; FREE)
THURSDAY, MAY 12
READ-ALONG: Tune into a virtual read-along from Busboys and Poets featuring children’s book author Adrea Theodore. Theodore will share “A HISTORY OF ME,” her mother’s account of her experience as the only Black child in school, followed by a conversation with fellow children’s author Leah Henderson. (Virtual 4:30 p.m., FREE)
NEW EXHIBIT: Experience the latest addition to the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden: Kara Walker’s “The Katastwóf Karavan.” Walker’s sculpture parade wagon, which is meant as a temporary memorial for an enslaved holding area, holds a steam calliope, an instrument that plays by forcing steam through pipes. Stop by to hear a new playlist of Black resistance and celebration songs or see a Jason Moran performance on May 14 or 15. (National Gallery of Art; 11 a.m., FREE)
DRAG PERFORMANCE: Capo Deli’s speakeasy hosts haus of bambi, a movement-based dance company that produces “gender-less and gendermore performances,” for a live performance. Performers will invoke the drag deities of D.C. nightlife. (Capo Deli; 8 p.m.; pay what you can)
OPENING PARTY: Celebrate rooftop bar Top of The Gate’s reopening for the season with a cocktail party. The public event features the D.C. debut of Belvedere Organic Infusions in the offered cocktails, alongside light bites. (Watergate Hotel; 5 p.m., FREE)
MORE: Road to COMMUNE: DC charity dinner (The LINE Hotel DC; 7 p.m.; $195), Acclaimed String Quartet ETHEL Performs (Kennedy Center; 6 p.m.; FREE), Chef Nicholas Stefanelli Invites Chef Katsuya Fukushima into the Masseria Kitchen for a Collaborative, Six-Course Dinner (Masseria; 6:30 p.m.; $162), Star Wars: Return of the Jedi – In Concert (The Music Center at Strathmore; 8 p.m.; $45), Jennifer Saint, Elektra and Ariadne, with Yangsze Choo (East City Bookshop; virtual; 6 p.m.; FREE), Virtual Conversation on A Revealing Portrait: Discovering Lloyd Patterson (Hillwood Museum; 6:30 p.m.; $10) SuperBlue: Kurt Elling featuring Charlie Hunter (The Hamilton Live; 7:30 p.m.; $25-40), Young Relics free outdoor show (The State Theatre; 8 p.m.; FREE)
