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• Special Hirshhorn Museum Tour & Happy Hour

  • When
    Thu, July 17, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Hirshhorn Museum, followed by Fogo de Chão

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  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. The event is organized by the Cultural Committee of the Arts Club of Washington. 

  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 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

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• Washington Magic at the Arts Club

  • When
    Fri, July 25, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
  • Location
    2017 I Street NW Washington DC 20006
  • Spaces left
    28

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  WASHINGTON MAGIC AT THE ARTS CLUB

  Live Magic Right Before Your Eyes

  Every show is different!

  Friday, July 25, 2025,  at 6:30 pm

  OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

  $40 members - $68 Non-Members

  Come see some of the world’s greatest magicians such as David Morey, Savino Recine, Jeff McBride, Eric Henning, John McLaughlin, Rahaan Jackson, Kabir Khan and many others. Visit our nearly 230-year-old magical mansion to bring to life impossible mind reading, mystery, comedy, and illusion right before your eyes. Honoring a Victorian tradition of stage and parlor, guests participate, see, feel, and themselves empower this special evening. Drinks, dinner—and the magic of the imagination.
  

  With over 30 consecutive live sell-outs, and a string of 5-star reviews, Washington Magic continues to astonish audiences at our legendary Arts Club of Washington Victorian mansion — with our magicians also performing recently at Poe’s Magic Theater at the historic Lord Baltimore Hotel, the Magic and Mystery School in Las Vegas, and The Magic Circle in London.

  Join us for our next public show. Experience the Arts Club of Washington’s nearly 230-year-old Victorian home as it hosts some of the world’s best magicians. And see the entire mansion become an experience . . . private close-up rooms and strolling magic to share the mysteries right before your eyes, and then our full stage performance.

  Doors open at 6:30 pm and you’ll enter Washington Magic and transport into a world of mystery and entertainment: Greeted at the door, and ushered toward close-up and parlor magic both upstairs and down, as you sip drinks and experience the impossible. And, at about 7:00 pm, our stage magic and some of the world’s greatest magicians come to you live and in-person with magic and mindreading that you’ll not forget.

  Join us for drinks, snacks, hors d’oeuvres, elegant closeup and strolling magic, a full stage show, and the only 5-star reviewed magic performance in the Washington area. And see this feature on us in the Washington Post

  Again, join us for impossible mind reading, mystery, comedy, and magic right before your eyes!

  Online payments are non-refundable. Paid tickets can be canceled online up to 48 hours before the show. Members can canceled their reservation without a penalty until the day before the event.

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• Closing Members Reception & Program

  • When
    Sat, July 26, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Arts Club of Washington 2017 I Street NW Washington DC 20006
  • Spaces left
    64

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  Closing Members Reception & Program

  Saturday, July 26, 2025

  6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  OPEN TO MEMBERS & GUESTS $70
  

  Join fellow members for the final performance of the artistic season before the summer hiatus. An intimate evening of great music, food, drinks, and conversation. This casual members event includes a summer BBQ buffet, full bar, seating in a casual lounge setting (outside weather permitting), and an artistic performance. 

  Program

  To Be Announced

  
  

  The reception begins at 6:00 pm and the performance at 7:00 pm

  A reservation is required by 8 pm the day before. 

  Dress:  business casual.

  Call (202) 331-7282 or email dining@artsclubofwashington.org

  Complimentary parking for members after 6 pm at 2001 Pennsylvania Ave.

  Price includes a program fee, tax and gratuity.

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• Book Group: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

  • When
    Wed, September 10, 2025
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    5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Spilsbury Gallery, Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I Street, N.W.

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  The Arts Club of Washington Book Group

  presents

  The Portrait of a Lady

  by Henry James

  
  

        

  Wednesday, September 10th, 2025

  5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

  Open to Members and Guests

  
  

  
  

  $20 Includes refreshments and hors d'oeuvres

  
  Buy the book online!

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• 2025 Arts Club of Washington One Act Play Competition

  • When
    Tue, September 16, 2025
  • Location
    2017 I St NW, Washington DC 20006
  • Spaces left
    96

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  The Drama Committee of The Arts Club of Washington is pleased to announce the return of the One Act Play Competition for 2025. The competition generates interest in original one-act scripts and recognizes and rewards talented playwrights with a $1,000 prize, staged reading, and two nights’ accommodation at the Club.

  For over a century, the Club has promoted and celebrated the visual, performing, and literary arts in the nation’s capital.  Gatherings for members, exhibits and performances for the public, and a range of private events, are held in our historic I Street mansion, which was formerly the home of President James Monroe and his family.

  2025 Competition Information

  The Award: $1,000 award to the author of an outstanding one-act play.

  Entry deadline: September 15, 2025, or until submissions close.

  Script Eligibility: All submissions must be a one-act play that is not part of a multi-act play and remains unpublished and unproduced (except for staged readings) as of the date of entry.  Staging must be limited to a maximum of six actors.

  Deadline: Submissions will open on July 15 and end on September 15.  The winner will be announced in October on the Club’s website.  The Drama Committee will organize a reception and a staged reading on the historic Arts Club stage in December.

  Entry Fee: $25.  The Arts Club of Washington, a 501c3 charitable organization, affirms that entry fees will go solely to funding the $1,000 award to the author of the winning play, paying the artists involved in the staged reading of the winning script, and covering other incidental expenses incurred by the Club in administering this contest.

  Preparing Your Entry:

  • Only one play per author will be considered.
  • Neither film nor television scripts will be accepted.
  • Participation is limited to residents of the United States.
  • The author’s name should not appear on the script.

  How To Submit: Use the RSVP button starting on July 15 to process the payment of the entry fee. Once you registration is completed you will receive a confirmation email with a Google form link to upload your script.

  Judging Criteria:

  • Judges shall be industry professionals affiliated with a Washington, D.C.-based arts organization.
  • Scripts will be judged on concept, dramatic action, characterization, dialogue, and technical requirements.
  • Critical analysis of scripts will not be provided. 
  • Judges prefer scripts that run 20 to 50 minutes with minimal scenes.
  • Consider the producibility and staging on a small, historic stage of approximately 11’ width and an 8’ graduated depth with limited lighting and technical capabilities.*

  Information for Playwrights:

  • All production and publication rights remain the property of the playwright.
  • The Arts Club of Washington shall have the right to stage the selected scripts without payment of any royalties.
  • Any production will be at the discretion of The Arts Club of Washington.
  • The Arts Club of Washington shall have the option to limit submittals to the first 100 plays received.
  • Winning playwright shall be provided with two nights’ accommodation at the Club to attend the staged reading. 

  
  

  *Open fixed-curtain width is 11’ 5” within a proscenium of 15 ’11”, narrowing to a midstage depth of 14’ and back-of-stage width of 8’.  The stage height at curtain is 6’ 7”.  There are 14 clear floodlights; nine in front, two in the middle, and three in the back of the stage, which has a black curtain surround. There are three stage-width steps from the auditorium to the stage, each 7” tall.

  
  

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• Monroe Museum Day Trip

  • When
    Mon, September 29, 2025
  •  
    12:30 PM
  • Location
    James Monroe Museum 908 Charles St. Fredericksburg, VA 22401

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  Members of the Arts Club History Committee invite interested members to join our new docents on our annual visit to the James Monroe Museum and Library to learn about James and Elizabeth Monroe.  Transportation is not provided; if you are interested in coordinating Amtrak schedules (approximately one-hour journey from D.C. Union Station or Alexandria King Street) please click here for more information.

  Monday, September 29, 12:30 p.m.

  $6 payable at entry with AAA and senior discounts

  
  

  James Monroe Museum and Library

  908 Charles Street

  Fredericksburg, VA 22401

  
  

  Explore Historic Fredericksburg

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