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Monday Night Open Mic Hosted by Angelique Palmer

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  • Event Start
    Jan 20, 2020
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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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…)

Dinner with the CEO

Dinner with the CEO

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  • Event Start
    Jan 21, 2020
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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This is a private event in the Marion Barry Room. To book your next event with us, click here! (more…)

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Busboys and Poets Comedy Presents: You Must Be Joking! Shirlington

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    Jan 21, 2020
    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! Come out to Shirlington and get your ribs tickled, (more…)

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Open Mic Night in Anacostia. Hosted by Miss Kiane Ink. 1.21.20

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  • Event Start
    Jan 21, 2020
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Tuesday Open Mic at ANA 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 artistry of poetic performance (more…)

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Tuesday Night Open Mic Hosted by Droopy the Broke Baller 1.21.20

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  • Event Start
    Jan 21, 2020
    9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Droopy the Broke Baller “Oh, we’ve got a live one here! HAHAHA!” – Jack Nicholson as The Joker, Batman (1989)Drew Anderson, known lovingly as “Droopy the Broke Baller” and “The Black Weird Al Yankovic”, has been hosting at the flagship Busboys and Poets 14th & V (more…)

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Climate Action Coffee

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  • Event Start
    Jan 22, 2020
    7:30 am - 9:30 am
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Building Equity and Promoting Drawdown in Our Regional Food SystemsTPSS Co-op is joining Busboys and Poets and the Takoma Alliance for Local Living Economy (TALLE/Takoma Park Mobilization), to co-host the Climate Action Coffee series for the month of November.Please join us for a discussion on ‘Building Equity and Promoting Drawdown in our Regional Food Systems’. (more…)

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Busboys Books Presents: Dana R. Fisher in conversation with Matt Rogers

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  • Event Start
    Jan 22, 2020
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available in the bookstore and full, menu and bar will be available for purchase during the event.Since Donald Trump’s first day in office, a large and energetic grassroots “Resistance” has taken to the streets to protest his administration’s plans for the United States. (more…)

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Focus In! Film Series and ITVS present The First Rainbow Coalition

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  • Event Start
    Jan 22, 2020
    6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Join Busboys and Poets Focus-In! Film Series: Cinema for a Conscious Community for screening and discussion of the film The First Rainbow Coalition.In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form a multi-ethnic coalition with the Young Lords Organization and the Young Patriots. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in post-war (more…)

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Wednesday Night Open Mic Hosted by Dwayne B.

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  • Event Start
    Jan 22, 2020
    9:00 pm - 11:00 pm
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A Busboys and Poetry Event hosted this week by Dwayne B.Dwayne B! aka the “Crochet Kingpin” is a homegrown DC native poet, activist, break-dancer, and fashion designer. He is one of the hosts of DC’s longest running open mic series, Spit Dat, as well as a member of the Busboys and Poets hosting team for (more…)

2020 Collins & Howard University Luncheon

2020 Collins & Howard University Luncheon

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  • Event Start
    Jan 23, 2020
    11:30 am - 1:30 pm
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Busboys and Poets welcomes Collins Aerospace and Howard University to 14th and V for their Luncheon.This is a private event in the Langston Room. To book your next event with us, click here! (more…)

Company Meeting

Company Meeting

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  • Event Start
    Jan 23, 2020
    1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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AUTHOR EVENT: Karina Manasseh’s “Entre Cabul e a Danca das Borboletas”

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  • Event Start
    Jan 23, 2020
    6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Book signing with Brazilian author KARINA MANASSEH. Her first novel “Entre Cabul e a Dança das Borboletas” is a romance, that will take readers to Afghanistan where Maria, the main character, a Brazilian diplomat has to make a tough a choice with impossible consequences. The book, in Portuguese will be available for sale during the (more…)