Sunday Jazz & Verse Open Mic Poetry & Jazz Night! A Busboys and Poetry Event. Every second Sunday, cap off brunch with two hours of incredible music and poetry! Audiences can expect a diverse array of spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians and more with a Jazz soundtrack! It will feature the sounds of (more…)
Busboys and Poets welcomes The Youth Resiliency Institute to the Zinn Room for this private event. To book your next event in one of our private spaces click HERE and fill out our online form or call the Events and Marketing team at 202-332-6432.This event is Celebration of Januwa Moja: Honoring her 51 years of Cultural Arts (more…)
Featuring: Rise + Rhymes newest children’s performer, Miss Teresa at the Anthony Bowen YMCA.Miss 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 (more…)
Featuring: Oh Susannah!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 how to (more…)
Featuring: MARSHA GOODMAN-WOODRise + 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…)
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…)
Put your phones down, unplug from the digital world and meet new people during Busboys and Poets’ Speed Conversations Social Hour!Speed Conversations Social Hour is a new collaboration between Lifestyle Entertainment Host Krystal Glass and Busboys and Poets, created as an outlet for DMV’s 30-something professionals to interact during 1-on-1 5 minute conversations. Not to (more…)
This event is free and seating is first come, first served. Books will be available for purchase in the bookstore and full menu and bar will be offered during the event. Still the Promised Land is the fascinating and deeply personal story one man’s perseverance and how he achieved the American Dream. Author Natwar Gandhi was (more…)
A Busboys and Poets event hosted this week by 13 of Nazaretha multifaceted creativeliving with epilepsya dry sense of humorand peace of mind over everythingpursuing the evidence of things not seenin hopes of becominga worthy accoladeFEATURING: KANIKKI J. – ALEXANDRIA, VA POET LAUREATEGiven the name KaNikki, being interpreted as “great writer” at birth, KaNikki is (more…)
A Busboys and Poets event hosted this week by Regie CabicoRegie Cabico is the first Asian and Queer poet to win the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam, later taking top prizes in the 1993, 1994 & 1997 National Poetry Slams He took a first place prize with New York’s Bowery Poetry Club. His work appears (more…)
Throughout life, love can come at us fast and stay for ages, but sometimes although it’s there some don’t feel it or see it enough.“The Senior Breakfast Day Party” is a twice-monthly observance that honors the Senior residents in Ward 6,7, and 8. “The Senior Day Party” celebrates the Wisdom, Experience, Knowledge and the Resilience (more…)
Busboys and Poets welcomes the Arlington Senior Democrats to the Shirlington Location.This is a private event in Paul’s Den. Click here to book your next event with us! (more…)