This is a Private Event in the Langston Room. To book your next event with us, click here to submit an event inquiry! (more…)
Featuring: FROLIC THE FOXRise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under with the goals of teaching children to engage with their community, learn to love performing and become rising artivists!Schedule9:30-10:00 Community Chat & Chew10:00-10:45 Children’s Performance10:45-11:00 Clean Up TimeWe ask that caregivers teach each child how (more…)
Featuring: Rise + Rhymes newest children’s performer, Miss TeresaMiss Teresa’s musical gatherings for kids and their families explore music and movement through song, rhythm, yoga, and breathwork Sing, dance, and play along in English and Spanish to new and traditional tunes; Get rooted in the practice of making music for happier days and fuller hearts!Rise (more…)
Featuring: Music 2Little Ears Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under with the goals of teaching children to engage with their community, learn to love performing and become rising artivists!Schedule9:30-10:00 Community Chat & Chew10:00-10:45 Children’s Performance10:45-11:00 Clean Up TimeWe ask that caregivers teach each child (more…)
Featuring: Culture QueenRise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under with the goals of teaching children to engage with their community, learn to love performing and become rising artivists!Schedule9:30-10:00 Community Chat & Chew10:00-10:45 Children’s Performance10:45-11:00 Clean Up TimeWe ask that caregivers teach each child how to begin (more…)
SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER, a man named Alice once said…Teachers, administrators, principals, school professionals of all stripes, or anyone that appreciates them, come on out to No Class: A School’s-Out, Teacher Appreciation Trivia Night! Play with your coworkers, make new friends, or go it alone for the chance to win fun prizes and everlasting glory.- Six (more…)
A Busboys and Poets event hosted this week by Angelique PalmerAngelique Palmer is a poetry slam doyen, a finalist in the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam and a member of The Beltway Poetry Slam Team in 2017. The Creative Writing graduate from Florida State University now calls northern Virginia home. She’s penned more (more…)
A Busboys and Poets event hosted this week by Kezia the PoetKezia Snipe grew up writing poems and short stories. With subject matters relative to her young life, she grew to develop a lifelong love of words. In high school, she discovered another love, the stage. While involved and thriving in this art, Kezia learned (more…)
Busboys and Poets welcomes Close Up Foundation for this private event in the in the Loft. To plan your event, complete our online form HERE or contact us at the events office @ 202-332-6432. (more…)
Bread & Roses is a monthly labor series that features a variety of events focused on workers and organized labor. Each month brings a new topic through interactive discussions, film screenings, and performances.Born out of the struggle of organizing African American workers in the “Black Belt” region of North Carolina and the South, more than twenty (more…)
Why so serious?! If you are like us, you have found it hard to find things to laugh about. Working to change the world is grueling and daunting work, but the pursuit of happiness is what we are fighting for! So we are making time to LAUGH! Busboys and Poets is pleased to introduce COMEDY (more…)
This week’s Tuesday Open Mic at Anacostia is hosted by: Miss Kiane Ink!Although she is a social worker by profession, she is a poet by passion. In 1997, Dinahsta launched KIANE INK. She wrote cards, poems and other writings for special events and as special gifts. In 2005, she expanded KIANE INK to include the (more…)