Waterfront Art Festival
Join us at Bladensburg Waterfront Park for a day filled with creativity and inspiration.
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Join us at Bladensburg Waterfront Park for a day filled with creativity and inspiration.
Dissonance Dance Theatre celebrates its 20th season at the Publick Playhouse with a powerful evening of movement and meaning rooted in the African American experience.
Ticket Price: $25; Senior/Student $20 (Assigned Seating)
Artist Michele Banks' ink and watercolor paintings on yupo explore the invisible forces that shape our world.
Ticket Price: Free
This collaborative mixed media exhibition by husband-and-wife artists Jeff and Kristin Bohlander explores intimacy, material memory, and the slow accumulation of lived experience.
Ticket Price: Free
Dissonance Dance Theatre celebrates its 20th season at the Publick Playhouse with a powerful evening of movement and meaning rooted in the African American experience.
Ticket Price: $25; Senior/Student $20 (Assigned Seating)
International Bandoneonist, prolific tango composer, and Argentinian Emmanuel Trifilio brings a fresh perspective to the traditional tango sound.
Ticket Price: $22/person
Join musician Ken Avis for a four-part workshop series to learn new chords, fusions, and history spanning jazz, folk, and country.
Ticket Price: $60 for the full, four-part series
Ceramicist and sculptor Jeremy Wright explores the concept of identity and the interplay between the actual and the perceived.
Ticket Price: Free
This vibrant celebration of Native American culture, heritage, and traditions offers diverse Native communities a space to honor and share their rich cultural legacy.
Ticket Price: Free
Ceramicist and sculptor Jeremy Wright explores the concept of identity and the interplay between the actual and the perceived.
Ticket Price: Free
The Craftsmen Group: A Visual History serves as a foundational opening to our Icons of the DMV season, exploring the intersection of technical mastery and communal legacy.
Ticket Price: Free
Founded in 2001, the Washington Glass School has evolved from a local studio into a definitive pillar of the DMV arts landscape.
Ticket Price: Free
Enjoy a warm and uplifting afternoon concert starring Janine Gilbert-Carter, an artist known for her graceful presence, expressive vocals, and heartfelt musical style.
Ticket Price: $22/person
Step into the prehistoric world with Dino Academy! This action-packed adventure uncovers fascinating dino facts that will wow even the biggest dino fans.
Ticket Price: $6 Child; $8 Adult; $6/person for groups of 20+
Join musician Ken Avis for a four-part workshop series to learn new chords, fusions, and history spanning jazz, folk, and country.
Ticket Price: $60 for the full, four-part series
Leigh Pilzer brings her dynamic small group to Montpelier for a night of straight-ahead jazz.
Ticket Price: $25
Celebrate fall with a pumpkin decorating party! Carve, paint, or embellish your pumpkin with fun and spooky designs
Ticket Price: Free
Rakiyah blends alternative R&B with cultural fusion and intimate storytelling, creating a sound that feels both forward-thinking and deeply personal.
Ticket Price: $30 General; $25 Senior & Student
Celebrate world cultures and folktales from all around the globe with this fun, high-energy show.
Ticket Price: $6/child; $8/adult
Mezzo-soprano Abbegael Greene has already built an illustrious career, with her voice described as having “emotional intimacy through her velvet voice” (The Millbrook Independent).
Ticket Price: Free; $5/person donations appreciated.
Join musician Ken Avis for a four-part workshop series to learn new chords, fusions, and history spanning jazz, folk, and country.
Ticket Price: $60 for the full, four-part series
Enjoy a creative and relaxing “Snack-and-Paint"-style workshop using our easy-to-use brush pens. Costumes encouraged!
Ticket Price: Free
Experience a powerful fusion of history, ritual, and storytelling in this staged reading of Crossing a Deep River: A Ritual Drama in Three Movements.
Ticket Price: $20 Residents & Montpelier Members / $26 Non-Residents
Treat yourself to a morning filled with expressive vocals and soulful musical storytelling.
Ticket Price: $5
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