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Rise + Rhyme:Featuring: Frolic The Fox 12.2.19

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    Dec 2, 2019
    9:30 am - 11:00 am
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 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!Featuring: Frolic The Fox Did you know that “Reading Makes Fairy Dust”? Time to imagine, play, sing, move, read and (more…)

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Rise + Rhyme MARSHA GOODMAN-WOOD 12.2.19

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    Dec 2, 2019
    9:30 am - 11:00 am
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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…)

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Rise + Rhyme: TUNES 4 TOTS 12.2.19

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    Dec 2, 2019
    9:30 am - 10:45 am
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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! Tunes 4 Tots® offers an engaging class that teaches research-based music concepts your kids can easily grasp. Get ready for (more…)

International Visitor Leadership Program Opening Lunch

International Visitor Leadership Program Opening Lunch

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    Dec 2, 2019
    12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Busboys and Poets welcomes FHI 360 to 14th and V for their International Visiting Leadership Program on Human and Civil Rights for Marginalized Communities.This is a private event in the Langston Room. To book your next event with us, click here! (more…)

In The Artist Studio: DC Arts Studio

In The Artist Studio: DC Arts Studio

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    Dec 2, 2019
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Come help celebrate the 40th Anniversary of DC Arts Studios and their exhibition at Busboys and Poets, Takoma — Monday, Dec. 2, 2019 from 6 to 8 pm. (more…)

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Busboys Books Presents: Jelani Favors for Shelter in a Time of Storm

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    Dec 2, 2019
    6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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This event is FREE and open to the public. Full menu and bar will be available during the event. For generations, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments not only provided educational advancement but also catalyzed the Black freedom struggle, forever altering the political destiny (more…)

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Monday Night Open Mic Hosted by KaNikki J 12.2.19

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    Dec 2, 2019
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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A Busboys and Poets event hosted this week by KaNikki J.Born KaNikki Jakarta, being interpreted as “great writer” at birth, KaNikki is living up to her name. She is an Award Winning Poet who has traveled the US and UK as a performance poet. KaNikki has founded, facilitated, and/or hosted 15 presentations in the last (more…)

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Monday Night Open Mic Hosted by Jael Benjamin 12.2.19

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    Dec 2, 2019
    9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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A Busboys and Poets event hosted this week by Jael BenjaminOriginally from Atlanta, Jael began honing in on her skills in the DMV poetry scenes in 2017. She’s worked, shared stages, featured and competed with some of the best poets in the country. With having only performed poetry in church or open mics, Jael stepped (more…)

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Private Event: Staff Retreat

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  • Event Start
    Dec 3, 2019
    12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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Private event in the Zinn room. 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. (more…)

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Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation End of Year Awards

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    Dec 3, 2019
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Busboys and Poets welcomes the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation to 14th and V for their annual end of the year awards ceremony!This is a private event in the Langston Room. To book your next event with us, click here! (more…)

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Busboys and Poets presents Comedy Night

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    Dec 3, 2019
    7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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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…)

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Open Mic Night in Anacostia. Hosted by Brandon Douglas 12.03.19

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    Dec 3, 2019
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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This Week’s Open Mic At Anacostia Hosted by: Brandon Douglas!Brandon Douglas is a product of the land known as Washington, DC. He began writing when he was 12, after discovering his ability to write raps. Through his teenage years poetry and hip-hop became one in his mind and soul as tools of self-expression. Since then (more…)