Enjoy a day of fun for the family with arts-and-crafts workshops, Zydeco music, an adornment workshop, storytelling, and other activities. Dress in your best festive attire and be judged on your costume. Costumes will be judged in the following age groups: ages 2 to 5, 6 to 10, 11 to 14, 15 to 17, 18 to 54, and seniors 55 and older. Winners take home a prize from the Smithsonian and are highlighted in our March e-newsletter.
Those who do not come in festive apparel can participate in the adornment workshop with Januwa Moja to dress up for fun only and take away a personal photo.
This tour delivers the goods. Being raised just outside of washington d.c. (Bethesda), I've gone on innumerable DC sightseeing tours in my lifetime. Every time a family friend or relative visited from out of town meant another trip down to the Mall, another sightseeing tour. Monument tours, ghost tours, "Duck" tours, you name it I've done it. But out of all the DC tours I've been on this was one of the best. I went last weekend with my nieces and nephews on the Capitol Hill tour, which lasted a little over two hours. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable of the historic sites and presented the information in a fun and lively manner. His enthusiam for the subject was infectious. He had my nieces and nephews in rapt atttention from start to finish. Highly recommend.