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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.

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 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.

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.

See one of Zimbabwe’s most popular bands! Mokoomba is based in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Living in a border city that attracts tourists from all over the world gave Mokoomba’s music an international perspective from the beginning, incorporating everything from soukous to ska and salsa, along with local musical traditions.

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

This week’s Extraordinary Cinema is curated in conjunction with the Kennedy Center’s upcoming engagement of 10,000 Dreams: A Celebration of Asian Choreography. This week’s film screening presents a series of short films—some dance films, others dance documentaries—all led, directed, choreographed, or featuring the stories of Asian creatives in dance.

Pride Anthems is a show for all ages to come together in song and celebration of where the LGBTQ+ has come from, and how far it has come since Stonewall! Featuring singers Kevin Smith Kirkwood, Amy Jo Jackson, Marty Thomas, and musical direction by Brian J. Nash.

We Move In Color: See and Feel the Journey is an immersive performing and visual art experience chronicling the inspirational journey of African Americans from pre-slavery to Afro-futurism.

Boston’s Tall Heights thinks the sound of togetherness is profound right now. Childhood friends Paul Wright and Tim Harrington (cello/guitar harmony duo), once street performed 100 days straight to fund their earliest recordings. In the time since, Tall Heights has released three studio albums to critical acclaim. They recently helped Ben Folds write and record his latest album What Matters Most.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in collaboration with the Kennedy Center, presents Danny Ocean—Venezuelan artist and UNHCR high profile supporter. For World Refugee Day, Danny dedicates this concert to the millions of people forced to flee war, violence, and persecution. He also calls for greater solidarity to help them find hope away from home.

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

At the center of the intergenerational, heartwarming film, Elemental is a story of inclusion and welcome—and a family building a new life and thriving community while they learn, together and with the help of friends, how to have the strength to burn bright.

Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers has spent the better part of a decade tracing the path of Joni Mitchell, the popular music icon as elusive as she is revered. Now, written in a lyrical style as captivating as Mitchell’s own songs, Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell arrives at a moment when Mitchell’s impact has never been more widely acknowledged. This event will be moderated by NPR's Tom Huizenga. 

Etran de L’Aïr (or “stars of the Aïr region”) welcomes you to Agadez, the capital city of Saharan rock, and the name of their 2022 album. Playing for over 25 years, Etran has emerged as stars of the local wedding circuit. Beloved for their dynamic repertoire of hypnotic solos and sun schlazed melodies, Etran stakes out a place for Agadez guitar music.

Courtney Marie Andrews is a Grammy®–nominated songwriter and musician who’s released a series of acclaimed albums including Old Flowers, which the New York Times called “luminous.” Her latest record Loose Future, the sounds of summer flow through her writing—the romance, and possibility, and the free sounds.

Tinya Raíz is the embrace and celebration of the Andean roots. The Argentine musician Nadia Larcher delves into her Andean roots to honor her Daiguita Calchaquí lineage and celebrates the music of her region: the great Argentine north.

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

In this charming, animated family fare, Remy is a rat who dreams of becoming a gourmet chef despite his family’s wishes. He teams up with Linguini, an inexperienced kitchen worker at a top Parisian restaurant.

Evelyn Harris and Kim Jordan reunite at Sisterfire after 40 years. They are joined by Be Steadwell, Marcia Gomes, and Yasmeen Williams. Sisterfire is a cross-generational celebration of resistance, coalition, and emancipatory imagination, creativity, and performance in the arts.

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

See a movie musical by Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes! In the Heights follows a hot summer tear through the streets of Washington Heights, where music and dreams drive the pulse of a multifaceted Latinx community.

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

In this heartwarming adventure, Zak (Zack Gottsagen), a young man with Down syndrome and no family, escapes the facility he’s been institutionalized in and teams up with Tyler (Shia LaBeouf) a troubled fisherman who finds him hiding in his boat.

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

In this idyllic picture directed by Robert Redford, the Maclean brothers Paul (Brad Pitt) and Norman (Craig Sheffer) grow up in rural Montana. Based on Norman Maclean’s 1976 novella, the film is about the passage of time and man’s place in nature.

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

Jack Black strikes all the right chords in this cheeky yet heartfelt comedy as a teacher who turns his private-school pupils into a classic-rock band.

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 storybook classic, Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is a colorful animated film that includes prescient themes of climate change, corporate creed, and conservation. Prior to the film screening, Casey Trees will be hosting interactive learning opportunities about the environment and the importance of preserving the District of Columbia’s tree canopy!

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

Perhaps Hitchcock’s greatest achievement in film, Rear Window delves into the paranoia of a New York magazine photographer (James Stewart) confined to his apartment who thinks he’s witnessed looking in on his neighbors from across a courtyard.

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

From directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin comes Free Solo. It’s a stunning, intimate, and unflinching portrait of free soloist climber Alex Honnold as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream: climbing the face of the 3,200-foot El Capitan in Yosemite National Park… without a rope.

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

Directed by Steven Spielberg, Lincoln centers on Abraham Lincoln’s arduous struggle to outlaw slavery by fighting for the passage of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. It’s a character study in fortitude and resolve.

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

Vianne (played by the ethereal Juliette Binoche) is an enigmatic woman who opens a chocolaterie in a 1950s French village, and immediately causes a stir—both romantically and societally—among the uptight townsfolk.