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THEATRE	Matinee Meet-Up: "Variations on Night"	13 Jul	2:00 PM	LEARN MORECLOSE
Event Overview: The Drama Committee is organizing a meet-up for Members and guests at a one-act play festival featuring the work of committee member Jon Tycko, followed by refreshments and a post-performance discussion with the playwright. The Variations Project is Baltimore's original ten-minute play festival. Each year since 2005, the event has created a collection of world-premiere plays based on an audience-chosen theme. Tickets for general admission seating are purchased directly from the venue by clicking here and selecting the July 13, 2 p.m. performance. While an RSVP is not required to attend, it is helpful for us in reserving preferred seating and planning the post-performance discussion. Interested attendees should be in the theatre lobby by 1:45 p.m. for the 2 p.m. curtain if you wish to sit with the Arts Club group. The 2025 plays: "Light Strikes a Deal" by Meri Robie "Night Crawlers: A Coming-of-Age Story" by Isaiah C. Evans "Son of My Son's Son" by Dwight R.B. Cook "Night Hawks" by Jalice Ortiz-Corral "Who is She" by Kristen Wheeler "Bar Noir" by Jonathan Tycko "Fanann" by Tad Cleaves "Meeting at Midnight" by Janis Hannon "Another Dark Night of the Soul" by Clarinda Harriss "Thank Myrnis" by Felicia Barr "The Switch" by Iman Michele Dancy "The Nicest Hotel in All of Iceland" by Allegra Hatem View details TICKETS: RSVP: $ 0 RSVP View details

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A HOME FOR THE ARTS IN A UNIQUE WASHINGTON HOUSE

Since its founding in 1916, the Arts Club of Washington has promoted and celebrated the visual, performing, and literary arts in the nation’s capital. Arts Club members come from a wide range of artistic disciplines and professional backgrounds, joined by their shared enjoyment and appreciation of the arts.

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BECOME A MEMBER—AND PART OF THE TRADITION

The Arts Club of Washington has long held a distinctive profile among Washington’s clubs. Founded in 1916 by a group of prominent local artists and modeled on New York’s National Arts Club and the Chelsea Arts Club in London, the Arts Club was the very first in the city to have women in leadership roles and as members from its very start. Its arts-focused, innovative, and bohemian character provided a unique contrast to the city’s more traditional, all-male private clubs.

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The Arts Club is both a private membership organization and a 501(c)3 nonprofit, and public programming spotlighting the full range of the arts is a significant part of the club’s activities. The club welcomes visitors to four gallery spaces; free weekly concerts; events focusing on writing, dance, and theatre; and studio classes in visual arts. Much of the public programming is free.

The club draws much of its character and tradition from its home, the center of which is an historic Federal-era mansion that once served as the residence of James Monroe—and for a time, as his official presidential residence.

The club’s mission also includes promoting the importance of historic preservation through the ongoing restoration and preservation of the club’s headquarters, which encompasses significant 19th-century structures designated as a National Historic Landmark (the James Monroe House) and on the National Register of Historic Places (the General Robert MacFeely House).

The creative and generous spirit of those founders endures in the warm, welcoming, and lively organization that is today’s Arts Club of Washington. We welcome people who engage in the arts (both professionally and for the love of it), or simply enjoy and support the arts, to consider the many benefits of membership and to join us as the Arts Club continues to make Washington history.

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THEATRE	Matinee Meet-Up: "Variations on Night"	13 Jul	2:00 PM	LEARN MORECLOSE
Event Overview: The Drama Committee is organizing a meet-up for Members and guests at a one-act play festival featuring the work of committee member Jon Tycko, followed by refreshments and a post-performance discussion with the playwright. The Variations Project is Baltimore's original ten-minute play festival. Each year since 2005, the event has created a collection of world-premiere plays based on an audience-chosen theme. Tickets for general admission seating are purchased directly from the venue by clicking here and selecting the July 13, 2 p.m. performance. While an RSVP is not required to attend, it is helpful for us in reserving preferred seating and planning the post-performance discussion. Interested attendees should be in the theatre lobby by 1:45 p.m. for the 2 p.m. curtain if you wish to sit with the Arts Club group. The 2025 plays: "Light Strikes a Deal" by Meri Robie "Night Crawlers: A Coming-of-Age Story" by Isaiah C. Evans "Son of My Son's Son" by Dwight R.B. Cook "Night Hawks" by Jalice Ortiz-Corral "Who is She" by Kristen Wheeler "Bar Noir" by Jonathan Tycko "Fanann" by Tad Cleaves "Meeting at Midnight" by Janis Hannon "Another Dark Night of the Soul" by Clarinda Harriss "Thank Myrnis" by Felicia Barr "The Switch" by Iman Michele Dancy "The Nicest Hotel in All of Iceland" by Allegra Hatem View details TICKETS: RSVP: $ 0 RSVP View details


ARCHITECTURE	Tour of the “Brewmaster’s Castle” Heurich House Museum	17 Jul	11:00 AM	LEARN MORECLOSE
Event Overview: Photo: Heurich House Museum Members of the History Committee invite interested members and a guest to join our new docents* on a visit to the Heurich House Museum in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and learn about the lifestyle of the Club's early members as we near our 110th anniversary. The Gilded Age mansion was built for Christian and Amelia Heurich, long-time members and patrons of The Arts Club of Washington. Heurich was the founder and owner of Washington's, largest brewery, and his “Brewmaster’s Castle” retains most of its original architectural features and interior furnishings. The tour is free and lasts approximately one hour. Attendance is limited to 10 people, so reserve early! We will assemble for the tour in the garden immediately behind the mansion, accessible via Sunderland Place, between 19th and 20th Streets, N.W. Learn more *Volunteer docents lead public tours of The Arts Club of Washington most Fridays September-May at 11 a.m. and also conduct group tours on request. To learn more about the docent program, contact Club Historian Martin Murray. View details TICKETS: Members and Guests: $ 0 RSVP View details


ART	Special Hirshhorn Museum Tour & Happy Hour	17 Jul	3:00 PM	LEARN MORECLOSE
Event Overview: The Cultural Committee invites you to join a member-led tour at the Hirshhorn Museum to see the Brazilian exhibition “Osgemeos," a captivating show of work by identical twin brothers, Gustavo and Octavio Pandolfo (b. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1974). The work is other worldly, based on traditions of graffiti and street art which showcases their lives in Brazil. You will meet Tracy Walter Ferry, ACW Member and MFA in Fine Arts, at the front desk of the lobby of the Hirshhorn at 2:45 pm on July 17th. Tracy, who has shown her work in many venues on the east coast, will lead the tour and conversation about the work. Following the tour, she will lead the group over to the Brazilian restaurant in Penn Quarter, Fogo de Chão, to have a classic Caipirinha cocktail and mouth watering bar-bites. Caipirinha is the national cocktail of Brazil. The cost includes one Happy Hour cocktail and bar appetizers. Location: Hirshhorn Museum Independence Ave. at 7th St., SW Washington, DC 20560 Meet at 2:45 p.m. for a 3:00 p.m. tour Then a 15 minute walk at 4 p.m. to: Fogo de Chão Restaurant 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004 View details TICKETS: ACW Member price: $ 27 Non-Member price: $ 35 Buy Tickets View details