FRIDAY: >> The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception offers its annual Christmas Concert for Charity tonight. The Basilica’s professional choir (featuring our very own DCist Charles!) will perform, followed by the choirs and orchestra of Catholic University. Admission is free, with a free-will donation to benefit the Spanish Catholic Center, a haven for immigrants to the Washington, D.C., area since 1967. The center provides services at locations in Mount Pleasant and…

Now’s the time to get your ticket to the Third Annual Transformer Silent Auction and Benefit Party. Held on Saturday, November 4, at the Edison Place Gallery, the night promises to be an evening of creative company, great food, and a celebration of local talent. The five-year-old Transformer Gallery is hosting the event, which will start with a silent auction between 7 and 9:30 p.m. for original works from over eighty artists. Step up and…

>> Free tonight? Check out the opening reception at Flashpoint of Ken Ashton’s De Aqui al Paraiso. The collection of photographs documents working-class neighborhoods as they are constantly affected by urban sprawl and the “ever-changing imprints of human existence.” Thursday, June 1, 6 to 8 p.m. >> Warehouse provides us with some mind-boggling art to kick off the weekend with the opening of Charbel Ackermann’s installations The New Geometry and Monumnent2. The first manipulates a…