| |  | | |  Affiliate Spotlight Recent new and renewed Cultural Tourism DC affiliates include: · Madame Tussauds Washington DC
· Tenleytown Main Street
· The O Street Museum Foundation
· Hostelling International - Washington, DC
· Smithsonian American Art Museum/Renwick Gallery We encourage you to learn about the programs and projects of these organizations. They are an integral part of the fabric of this community. Whether you are a tourist or resident, get to know them and enjoy all that they offer. | |  | |  Blessing of the Animals
at Franciscan Monastery On Saturday, September 29, the friars of the Franciscan Monastery invite you to bring your pets for a blessing at 10:00 am, in the gardens, weather permitting. Situated in northeast Washington, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land contains replicas of Holy Land shrines, as well as Roman catacombs. Free garden tours are held every Saturday at 11 am and noon; tours are lead by docents from the Franciscan Monastery Garden Guild. | |  Community Block Party Join the annual Community Block Party at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum on Saturday, September 29. The event begins at 11:00 am with live music performances, arts and crafts, vendor marketplace, community information tables, food trucks, and more! There will be free shuttle service to and from the Anacostia Metro Station. Merchandise vendors from neighborhoods represented in the current exhibition, A Right to the City (Shaw, Anacostia, Adams Morgan, Brookland, Chinatown and Southwest DC) will attend, and local community organizations will host information tables as well. | |  Art All Night: Made in DC Art All Night: Made in DC is Washington, DC's free overnight arts festival. The event starts at 7:00 pm on Saturday, September 29, and continues until 3:00 am the following morning. The festival takes place in six DC Main Streets neighborhoods, and brings visual and performing arts, including painting, photography, sculpture, crafts, fashion, music, dance, theater, film, and poetry, to indoor and outdoor public and private spaces, including businesses. This free event is held rain or shine. RSVP here. | |  Gandhi Jayanti Join the 149th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi in the Golden Lotus Temple, across the street from the Gandhi Memorial Center, on Tuesday, October 2nd at 7:30 pm. Special remarks will be offered by the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Indian Embassy, and by the Director of the Gandhi Memorial Center. Devotional music and dances will be performed in commemoration of the life message of Mahatma Gandhi. Please RSVP to info@gandhimemorialcenter.org | |  Friday, September 28
Event - Elena & los Fulanos
Dupont Underground
Film - Views of Taiwan: Love Education
Freer|Sackler Theater - Turn Me Loose
Arena Stage Exhibit - Traveling Full Circle
Zenth Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Exhibit - Alec Dubro: Hearts in Atlantis
Hill Center
Exhibit - Bringing the War to Our Doorsteps
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Saturday, September 29 Film - Cinema in the Circle: Double Idemnity
Dupont Festival Event - Unveiling Fashion: Conversations About Fashion and Sustainability
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum Event - Annual Flavors of AdMo Food Crawl
Adams Morgan Partnership BID Film - One Vote
Newseum
Tour - Museum Highlights
Hirshhorn Museum
Tour - Investigation: Dectective McDevitt
Ford's Theatre Sunday, September 30 Exhibit - The Plane of Tomorrow, Today!
College Park Aviation Museum Concert - Dee Dee Sharp: Teen Icon, and Phillys First Lady of Soul
The Mansion on O Street
Exhibit - Postmen of the Skies
Smithsonian National Postal Museum Exhibit - The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
President Woodrow Wilson House Monday, October 1 Event - Open House
The L. Ron Hubbard House Exhibit - A Nomad's Art: Kilims of Anatolia
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
Exhibit - Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014-2016
Hirshhorn Museum Tour - Museum Highlights
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Tour - Wicked Georgetown
DC by Foot Tuesday, October 2
Theater - Born Yesterday
Ford's Theatre Exhibit - Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project
National Building Museum Exhibit - No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man
Smithsonian Renwick Gallery Exhibit - Jackson Pollock's Mural
National Gallery of Art Exhibit - Your Community, Your Story
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Wednesday, October 3 Exhibit - Dead Letter Office
Smithsonian National Postal Museum Event - The Spy Who Couldn't Spell
International Spy Museum
Exhibit - A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen
Freer|Sackler Event - Vintage Game Night
President Woodrow Wilson House Tour - Memorials & Moonlight
DC by Foot Thursday, October 4 Event - Insights from the Deep Earth Oman's Amazing Geological Heritage
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Exhibit - Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
Exhibit - Wall Flowers: Botanical Murals
U.S. Botanic Garden Exhibit - Next Generation Architects: 5th Annual Thesis Showcase
AIA|DC
Event - Images of War: Self-censorship Versus a Search for Truth
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum
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