Busboys Book Club in Hyattsville meets to discuss Miracle at St. Anna’s by James McBride This book club meets on the last Saturday of the month at 9am in the Zinn Room. Free and open to all. (more…)
Private Event in the Loft (more…)
CaSh Jane (aka CaShandra J) brings her infectious and energizing to the Busboys and Poets stage. A graduate of Howard University, where she studied Jazz, CaShandra has been sewing her seeds of music-art-love into the DC community for years with the fans to prove it. Her first major EP, The United States , is nearing (more…)
Busboys and Poets presents “Potluck Poetry: Voices of African and Asian Diasporas” in partnership with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and the Smithsonian Center for Asian Pacific American Center! Join us at the Smithsonian 2014 Folklife Festival from 4:15-5:30 pm on Sunday, June 29, 2014 in the Teahouse Commons, adjacent to the Washington Monument. Feast on (more…)
Event hosted by TASSC (more…)
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Film Screening: Hill Street – Irish Popcorn Film Series presented by Solas Nua This exciting documentary profiles the rise of skate culture in Ireland since the 1980s. Hill Street features interviews with some of the best-known Irish and American skaters. Film screening followed by a Q&A by Hill Street director J.J. Rolfe! Watch the trailer (more…)
A Busboys and Poets in-house series! Rise + Rhyme is a weekly morning storytelling and performance series for children ages 5 and under, stay-at-home parents, and early rising families of all kinds. Today?s featured performer Liz DeRoche is “The Singing Lizard” She has been playing music all her life. Her vast musical experience includes scoring soundtracks for (more…)
Join author Yasmeen Premji as she signs and discusses her book “Days of Gold and Sepia” This is the saga of Lalljee Lakha as he rises from his humble beginnings as a penniless orphan in his desert homeland of Kutch to amass a large fortune as Bombays Cotton King. Set against the eventful period between (more…)
A Busboys and Poetry Event! For two hours, audiences can expect a diverse chorus of voices and a vast array of professional spoken word performers, open mic rookies, musicians, and a different host every week. Expect to be moved, expect a packed house, expect the unexpected, but above all, come with an open mind and (more…)
Bread & Roses: A Conversation about Social Innovation and Workers’ Rights with Coexist Campaign and Divine Chocolate Join two of DC’s most innovative social enterprises for a discussion on social innovation and workers’ rights! Workers’ rights and unions are usually discussed within the context of traditional sectors (such as education, construction, and factories), but what (more…)
Private event in the Langston Room. To plan an event at Busboys and Poets, please click here. (more…)