Hirshhorn Museum

FREE
Sound Scene is the Washington, DC, region’s premier interactive sound and multisensory arts festival. It’s a free all-ages celebration of sonic and sensory arts featuring artists from both DC and around the world. ASL will be provided for events on May 2 and May 3.
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<a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1058085/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">General registration is recommended</a>.

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ONGOING PROJECTS
Face Value: Not Our Parents’ Mirror—Kameshia M. Hunter
Face Value: Not Our Parents’ Mirror is an immersive sound installation exploring the beauty rules that many Black and Brown women were taught to carry—and what it means to decide for yourself what you keep. Through touch, voice, and reflection, visitors move through inherited expectations as the body speaks, the mirror responds, and the final decision belongs to them. This work is part memory, part interruption, and part release. About the artist: sincerelymeeshproduction.com
Resource/Interplay—Matthew Maker
Resource/Interplay&nbsp;is an experiential work (auditory, tactile, visual, and participatory) that expresses the beauty of simple yet chaotic processes found in cold climates. The art invites audiences to intimately experience physical systems of melt and flow, gravity, light, and reflection. These abstractions distantly mirror ordinary experience, reminding us that even mud puddles have a complex and subtle beauty, and reminding us of the vast wonder of everyday life: a world and a climate to cherish as sacred. About the artist: mattarts.org
Sonic Inheritance—Cheyenne Hendrickson
Sonic Inheritance is a wearable organ sculpture containing seven internal tumors, each translating their genetic portrait into sound through field recordings, Geofón-captured movements, and contact-mic improvisations. Hendrickson is prone to developing tumors; her genes misspell her DNA the way she sometimes misspells words, shaping a new body, a mutation, a different language written into her. The work asks how we come to know our internal worlds, the parts that slip, gurgle, and work in silence, and whether what the body makes from within can be heard, felt, and held rather than feared. Try on the organ-body: hold it in your hands, place it over your head, and listen through your own body to what your inside sounds like. About the artist: cheyennehendrickson.com

WORKSHOPS Please register for our free workshops (links in the entries below). Space is limited.
Tactile Sound Sculpture Workshop—Dan Ortiz Leizman
Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, at 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
<a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1057998/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Register</a> here: <a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1057998/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">etix.com/ticket/e/1057998/</a>
Build your own sound sculpture with the DMV’s very own Dan Ortiz Leizman. Join a free 40-minute workshop in which participants of all ages will become contemporary sculptors. Using cardboard along with mini transducers, Ortiz Leizman will guide participants to position contact mics to capture voices and movement. Sound will be mirrored back as vibration, creating an accessible, hands-on exploration of embodied sound.
*Registration capped at 10 people per session.
*Children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult.
Immersive Sound Walk: Inaudible Cities: Here, Now, There, and Then—Jacek Tadeusz Smolicki
Sunday, May 3, at 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 3:30 PM
<a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1058087/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Register</a> here: <a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1058087/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">etix.com/ticket/e/1058087/</a>
This free guided soundwalk will turn ordinary city infrastructure into the four classical elements of earth, water, air, and fire. Equipped with special audio receivers, participants will follow an itinerary that is both carefully designed and open to spontaneous encounters. Water fountains, switchboards, ventilation shafts, sewers, and cobblestones will be processed in real time and transformed into sonic mirrors of the elements, their sounds gradually weaving into a composition that opens portals to fragile environments documented by Smolicki during their fieldwork in the Pacific West Coast, the Arctic Circle, the Canaveral Seashore, and other vulnerable landscapes.
*Duration: 35–40 minutes
*All ages welcome, Children under 12 require adult supervision and must be registered separately (to ensure there is enough equipment available for all).
PERFORMANCES
Reflections on Machaut: An Immersion by the DMV Regenerate! Orchestra—J. Clay Gonzalez, Wesley Hornpetrie, and the Regenerate! Orchestra
Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, at 11 AM on the Plaza (outdoor stage)
The Regenerate! Orchestra will present an immersive reimagining of Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut. A 30-person orchestra will perform the first movement (“Kyrie”) as an antiphonal drone composition with found percussion elements. The alien, mesmerizing harmonies of the 14th-century ars nova style will smear out and spatialize, allowing the audience to physically inhabit and linger within a lost and beautiful musical language. About the artists: claygonzalez.com, <a href="https://www.wesleyhornpetrie.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wesleyhornpetrie.com</a>
Find the full schedule:&nbsp;<a href="https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/sound-scene-2026-distant-mirror/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hirshhorn.si.edu/event/sound-scene-2026-distant-mirror/</a>

Local Event: Sound Scene 2026: "A Distant Mirror"

District of Columbia

Washington DC

District Of Columbia

Sound Scene 2026: "A Distant Mirror"

FREE
Sound Scene is the Washington, DC, region’s premier interactive sound and multisensory arts festival. It’s a free all-ages...

FREE
Sound Scene is the Washington, DC, region’s premier interactive sound and multisensory arts festival. It’s a free all-ages celebration of sonic and sensory arts featuring artists from both DC and around the world. ASL will be provided for events on May 2 and May 3.
<hr>
<a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1058085/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">General registration is recommended</a>.

<hr>
ONGOING PROJECTS
Face Value: Not Our Parents’ Mirror—Kameshia M. Hunter
Face Value: Not Our Parents’ Mirror is an immersive sound installation exploring the beauty rules that many Black and Brown women were taught to carry—and what it means to decide for yourself what you keep. Through touch, voice, and reflection, visitors move through inherited expectations as the body speaks, the mirror responds, and the final decision belongs to them. This work is part memory, part interruption, and part release. About the artist: sincerelymeeshproduction.com
Resource/Interplay—Matthew Maker
Resource/Interplay&nbsp;is an experiential work (auditory, tactile, visual, and participatory) that expresses the beauty of simple yet chaotic processes found in cold climates. The art invites audiences to intimately experience physical systems of melt and flow, gravity, light, and reflection. These abstractions distantly mirror ordinary experience, reminding us that even mud puddles have a complex and subtle beauty, and reminding us of the vast wonder of everyday life: a world and a climate to cherish as sacred. About the artist: mattarts.org

WORKSHOPS Please register for our free workshops (links in the entries below). Space is limited.
Tactile Sound Sculpture Workshop—Dan Ortiz Leizman
Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, at 10:30 AM, 11:30 AM, and 1:30 PM
<a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1057998/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Register</a> here: <a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1057998/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">etix.com/ticket/e/1057998/</a>
Build your own sound sculpture with the DMV’s very own Dan Ortiz Leizman. Join a free 40-minute workshop in which participants of all ages will become contemporary sculptors. Using cardboard along with mini transducers, Ortiz Leizman will guide participants to position contact mics to capture voices and movement. Sound will be mirrored back as vibration, creating an accessible, hands-on exploration of embodied sound.
*Registration capped at 10 people per session.
*Children under 8 should be accompanied by an adult.
Immersive Sound Walk: Inaudible Cities: Here, Now, There, and Then—Jacek Tadeusz Smolicki
Sunday, May 3, at 11:30 AM, 1:30 PM, and 3:30 PM
<a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1058087/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Register</a> here: <a href="https://www.etix.com/ticket/e/1058087/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">etix.com/ticket/e/1058087/</a>
This free guided soundwalk will turn ordinary city infrastructure into the four classical elements of earth, water, air, and fire. Equipped with special audio receivers, participants will follow an itinerary that is both carefully designed and open to spontaneous encounters. Water fountains, switchboards, ventilation shafts, sewers, and cobblestones will be processed in real time and transformed into sonic mirrors of the elements, their sounds gradually weaving into a composition that opens portals to fragile environments documented by Smolicki during their fieldwork in the Pacific West Coast, the Arctic Circle, the Canaveral Seashore, and other vulnerable landscapes.
*Duration: 35–40 minutes
*All ages welcome, Children under 12 require adult supervision and must be registered separately (to ensure there is enough equipment available for all).
PERFORMANCES
Reflections on Machaut: An Immersion by the DMV Regenerate! Orchestra—J. Clay Gonzalez, Wesley Hornpetrie, and the Regenerate! Orchestra
Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, at 11 AM on the Plaza (outdoor stage)
The Regenerate! Orchestra will present an immersive reimagining of Messe de Nostre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut. A 30-person orchestra will perform the first movement (“Kyrie”) as an antiphonal drone composition with found percussion elements. The alien, mesmerizing harmonies of the 14th-century ars nova style will smear out and spatialize, allowing the audience to physically inhabit and linger within a lost and beautiful musical language. About the artists: claygonzalez.com, <a href="https://www.wesleyhornpetrie.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wesleyhornpetrie.com</a>
Duality—Wendel Patrick
Saturday, May 2, and Sunday, May 3, at noon on the Plaza (outdoor stage)
Wendel Patrick’s performance is an exploration of the relationship between himself and his twin brother, who did not survive birth, through manipulated sound, recorded spoken text, and auditory expression. Born Kevin Gift, Patrick uses the first and middle name of his twin brother, Wendel Patrick, in artistic performance. About the artist: wendelpatrick.com
Find the full schedule: <a href="https://hirshhorn.si.edu/event/sound-scene-2026-distant-mirror/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">hirshhorn.si.edu/event/sound-scene-2026-distant-mirror/</a>

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Mount Olivet United Methodist Church

Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Reopening Celebration — Free community event open to all as we join together and celebrate the reopening of Mount Olivet after three years of fire restoration. The event will include historic church tours, live music, food, and family activities including face painting and a scavenger hunt. All ages welcome!RSVPs via the link are appreciated but not required.

Local Event: Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Reopening Celebration

Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Reopening...

Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Reopening Celebration — Free community event open to all as we join together and celebrate...

Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Reopening Celebration

Alden Theatre

On Saturday, May 2 at 7 p.m., head to the Alden Theatre to enjoy the mesmerizing voices of The Doo Wop Project!&nbsp;The Doo Wop Project tells the story of the genre from the beginning: tracing the evolution of Doo Wop from the classic sound of guys singing tight harmonies to the biggest hits on the radio today. In their epic show, these vocalists take audiences on a journey featuring foundational tunes from the Crests, Belmonts and Flamingos through the vocal artistry of Smokey Robinson, The Temptations and The Four Seasons. Then, they go all the way to doo-wopified versions of modern hits! With charisma out the wazoo and stellar Broadway voices, this group can’t be missed! $45 Standard/$35 Seniors/$30 MCC district residents.

Local Event: Doo Wop at Alden Theatre!

Fairfax County

McLean

Doo Wop at Alden Theatre!

On Saturday, May 2 at 7 p.m., head to the Alden Theatre to enjoy the mesmerizing voices of The Doo Wop Project! The Doo Wop...

Holy Trinity Catholic Church

The Thirteen begins an exploration of Monteverdi's secular music after their comprehensive review of his sacred works over
The Thirteen begins an exploration of Monteverdi's secular music after their comprehensive review of his sacred works over&nbsp;five programs and two recordings, hailed as “shimmering in loveliness” by MusicWeb International. The performance will start with Monteverdi’s madrigal form, pairing it with&nbsp;near-contemporary works of the Renaissance-Baroque transition by Carlo&nbsp;Gesualdo and Barbara Strozzi. They will present these works in conversation&nbsp;with secular song by contemporary composers, including Eric Whitacre,&nbsp;Ildebrando Pizzetti, Morton Lauridsen, and more.Promo Code - Partner15 - Save 15%&nbsp;

Local Event: The Thirteen's MONTEVERDI REFRACTED

The Thirteen's MONTEVERDI REFRACTED

The Thirteen begins an exploration of Monteverdi's secular music after their comprehensive review of his sacred works over
The...

Dock5 Event Venue

The DC&nbsp;Big Flea Boutique Antiques Event at Dock5 in The District
Curated show for the District from the promoters of the DC Big Flea in Nova!
May 2-3 Sat. 9-6 Sun. 11-4 $20 both days&nbsp;Sneak preview May 1 7-10pm
Dock5 Union/Market 1309 5th St. SE Washington, DC

Shop one of a kids finds of jewelry, art, mid-century modern, furniture, pottery, vintage clothing, and so much more!

Local Event: The DC Big Flea Boutique Antique Event

The DC Big Flea Boutique Antique Event

The DC Big Flea Boutique Antiques Event at Dock5 in The District
Curated show for the District from the promoters of the DC Big...

Capital One Hall

As featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes!$7 TICKETS AT THE DOOR!
Equity
 Arc presents a powerful afternoon of classical music showcasing 
exceptional pre-college and collegiate musicians of color from over 80 
U.S. cities. This inspiring concert highlights the next generation of 
talent through dynamic works by composers like Tchaikovsky, Florence 
Price, Jessie Montgomery, and more.&nbsp;
This concert comes almost 
exactly one year to the date (May 4, 2025) when Equity Arc’s Wind 
Symphony was supposed to perform alongside the U.S. Marine Band “The 
President’s Own”(USMB), but was cancelled due to President Trump’s 
executive order entitled “Ending Radical and Wasteful DEI Programs and 
Preferencing.” The story got national attention and was featured on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48GgDX2NCA" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CBS's 60 Minutes with Scott Peley</a>&nbsp;when,
 in the wake of the cancellation, Equity Arc contacted retired members 
of the premier military and military academy bands to recreate both the 
mentoring and performing experiences&nbsp;in Washington, DC previously 
scheduled for the students.&nbsp;That concert was closed to the public, but 
this one is wide-open with subsidized tickets at only $7 when you 
purchase at the door! Join us!
More info at <a href="https://www.capitalonehall.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.capitalonehall.com</a> and <a href="https://www.equityarc.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.equityarc.org</a>&nbsp;

Local Event: EQUITY ARC Presents Festival Ensembles

Tysons

EQUITY ARC Presents Festival Ensembles

As featured on CBS’s 60 Minutes!$7 TICKETS AT THE DOOR!
Equity
 Arc presents a powerful afternoon of classical music showcasing...

The DC Big Flea come to the District at Dock5 @Union Market May 2-3 with a preview night May 1st &nbsp;7-10 PMShop one of a kind finds for less! Join is for this curated event!!

The DC Big Flea come to the District at Dock5 @Union Market May 2-3 with a preview night May 1st  7-10 PMShop one of a kind...

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Sound Scene 2026: "A Distant Mirror"

MAY

2

10:00 AM

Hirshhorn Museum, 7th St SW, Washington, DC

Sound Scene 2026: "A Distant Mirror"

MAY

3

10:00 AM

Hirshhorn Museum, 7th St SW, Washington, DC

Mount Olivet United Methodist Church Reopening Celebration

Doo Wop at Alden Theatre!

The Thirteen's MONTEVERDI REFRACTED

The DC Big Flea Boutique Antique Event

EQUITY ARC Presents Festival Ensembles

The DC Big Flea Boutique Antique Event