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Join us for FREE film screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Scream of My Blood: A Gogol Bordello Story is an intimate, career-spanning portrait of Ukrainian immigrant and punk legend Eugene Hütz. Featuring a post-show film Q&A with directors Nate Pommer and Eric Weinrib, producer Beverly Chase, and Eugene Hütz.

Explore the themes of WNO’s Turandot through a special panel discussion and afternoon tea.

Calling all singers and gamers! Washington National Opera, in partnership with composer Christopher Tin and the Washington Metropolitan Gamer Symphony Orchestra, invites you to participate in this free “sing-in”!

Mateusz Krzyżowski is the winner of the International Competition for Young Pianists Arthur Rubinstein in memoriam (2021) and the International Piano Competition Ignacy Jan Paderewski (2022). In 2021, he reached the semi-finals of the International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition. In 2024, Mateusz Krzyżowski returns to the USA with a second concert tour (the previous one took place in 2023).

Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Royal Wood has established himself as a true musical talent. Since being proclaimed “Songwriter of the Year” by iTunes (2010), Wood has continued to evolve and hone his musical craft while maintaining a unique identity.

Join us for the debut performance from the third cohort of a national apprenticeship program for women and non-binary improvisers in jazz with the intersection of gender and race as a guiding principle. The mission of Next Jazz Legacy is to increase opportunities for musicians most underrepresented in the art form and to create waves of lasting change that benefit the whole community.

Curated by Chitra.MOVES Dancing Identities: Finding Self, Sanctuary, and Freedom, is a day-long series of free classes that explore dance as an act of authentic self expression, confidence, character, and unapologetic self-care. Classes are taught by incredible DC-based artists who carry these themes in their movement and practice, and build powerful community in our city.

Join us for the debut performance from the third cohort of a national apprenticeship program for women and non-binary improvisers in jazz with the intersection of gender and race as a guiding principle. The mission of Next Jazz Legacy is to increase opportunities for musicians most underrepresented in the art form and to create waves of lasting change that benefit the whole community.

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH. The Color Purple (2023) is a musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel. The film follows the lifelong struggles of an African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s.  

Launched as a partnership between Mark Morris Dance Group and the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, this program offers internationally acclaimed dance classes for people with Parkinson’s Disease in more than 250 communities and 24 countries. 

Join us in the heart of our Nation’s Capital to honor Jewish American Heritage Month (JAHM) with an electrifying concert featuring the rich tapestry of traditional Jewish music from Eastern Europe, Turkey, Cuba, South America, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula.

Only Make Believe performs interactive and accessible theatre for children in hospitals, care facilities, and schools dedicated to serving children with disabilities. Now is your chance to experience a rare public performance! Step under the Big Top into the magical world of the circus.

The Columbia Heights Educational Campus (CHEC) Music Department is proud to showcase its comprehensive arts programming featuring performances by our middle school choir, flamenco ensemble, honors instrumental ensemble, high school orchestra, and jazz ensemble.

The Moonshot Studio at the REACH celebrates creativity and the artist in everyone through hands-on art-making. The recommended age is 5 years old and above. Stop by anytime from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on (most) Saturdays & Sundays to explore our projects.

Life can be loud and busy, come to Millennium Stage in search of finding the quiet for a much-needed break. Join the Kennedy Center Youth council in an eye-opening, breathtaking evening. Through spoken word, music, and dance, youth artists will present their talents in a way that silences the noise.

Join us for FREE film screenings in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Champions centers on a basketball team training and competing in the Special Olympics, under the guidance of an imperfect but dedicated coach Marcus.

The Mongolian children of the diaspora in America will present a remarkable concert showcasing traditional Mongolian culture. 30 students from the Anura Music studio will participate in the concert, alongside Mongolian dancers and traditional long song singers.

Over the last three decades, Kristin Hersh’s prolific career has seen her heralded queen of the alternative release. She returns with a new solo record Clear Pond Road released in September 2023. The album is a cinematic road trip; it’s a series of personal vignettes from a fiercely independent auteur, plush with layers of atonal, edgy-dreamy strings and mellotron.

The formation of the School Without Walls Instrumental Music Department in the fall of 2007, the school’s first instrumental ensembles of any type in its over 70-year history, marked a new stepping stone in the pursuit of a better education. Along with being well-rounded in rigorous academic subjects, students in the instrumental music department now have the opportunity to learn what it is like to play in a band orchestra and various other ensembles.

This special Dance Sanctuaries serves as a kick off to the Conflux events from National Black Theatre. Over three classes, learn the technique and history of the Ring Shout from Master Instructor of the Gullah Geechee Ring Shout, Griffin Lotson.

Ann Savoy comes to our nation’s capital to celebrate the release of her new album on Smithsonian Folkways, Another Heart. Joined by the album’s producer/musician Dirk Powell as well as other top Louisiana musicians, the concert will take you on a trip of Ann’s life on the east coast (Richmond, VA) in the 1970s as well as original songs and other favorites.

Join us at the Kennedy Center for a screening of Social Practice Resident Angelina Spicer’s comedy special, The Waldorf Hysteria. Featuring a post-screening panel with Angelina Spicer and other maternal health advocates.

Join us for a FREE film screening in the Justice Forum at the REACH. Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, get separated after her family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they reunite in New York City for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and life choices.

After dealing in mostly Latin tropical styles for over a decade, with the psychedelic cumbia of his band Chicha Libre in particular, Brooklyn–based Olivier Conan now leads Combo Daguerre, a group that performs original French tunes with a psychedelic edge and a mostly Latin crew.

Join in an evening of performances by graduating seniors of the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship program as they take the stage performing a wide range of solo and chamber pieces.

Join us for Sound Health Fridays at The REACH for activities prior to 11:30 a.m. NSO coffee concerts. Arrive at 9:30 a.m. and purchase coffee at the Hyannis Port Coffee Bar, and wander the REACH. At 10 a.m., participate in a Morning Sing, attend a health-inspired talk and performance, or join a wellness-inspired workshop.

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play an assortment of chamber music.

Join us for free film screenings outdoors on the REACH Video Wall. Films start at sundown or around 8:30 p.m.

The master of the blockbuster, director Steven Spielberg, applies his big screen magic to Jurassic Park. When a billionaire invites a select group of scientists to an island-based theme park, they come face-to-face with genetically engineered dinosaurs.

Watch a FREE livestream of The Gathering: A Collective Sonic Ring Shout. Join Nona Hendryx, Abby Dobson, Toshi Reagon, Joel Thompson, Carlos Simon, Courtney Bryan, Troy Anthony and more as they take you on a sonic melodic quest to “The Gathering.”

Washington, D.C. native Leigh Pilzer is a baritone saxophone specialist, composer, arranger, and educator. Her performance resumé includes appearances with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and more.

Under the direction of Jason Moran, Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead is an international two-week jazz residency performance and composition project discovering and presenting the next generation of jazz greats.

Under the direction of Jason Moran, Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz, Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead is an international two-week jazz residency performance and composition project discovering and presenting the next generation of jazz greats.

Join us for free film screenings outdoors on the REACH Video Wall. Films start at sundown or around 8:30 p.m.

Based on the hit Broadway musical and inspired by the Supremes, Dreamgirls follows Deena (Beyoncé Knowles), Effie (Jennifer Hudson), and Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose) as they form an R&B trio in the 1960s.

The AAMS presents emerging young artists from career development and professional empowerment workshops. This final performance will complete a weeklong workshop at the REACH at the Kennedy Center.

Across the last 15 years, Ryan Gustafson of The Dead Tongues has emerged as one of modern folk’s most distinct voices. As idiosyncratic and spectral as the songs have sometimes been, Gustafson has always tied his visions and verses to the kinds of hooks you tuck away like talismans, pulled out in case of emergency.

Join award-winning clown Ania Upstill on a heartfelt and surreal journey through and around gender norms, full of joy and buoyancy. In a time when the conversations around gender are so tender and often heated, Ania’s clowning brings some much-needed beauty and humor to the subject.

Transhumance is the flagship production of Butch Mermaid Productions, which believes that visible joy is a political act in the struggle for equality.

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Explore music, dance, theater, opera, visual and media arts at home and in the classroom through informative and engaging Kennedy Center Education digital learning resources. Browse the highlights listed here, or access the complete collection (below).

Experience our collection of 45 years of tribute performances, interviews, and memories captured on film.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presents the 24th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to Adam Sandler. Watch interviews from the red carpet and performance highlights from the star-studded cast of special guests.