Inside the Beltway is quite heady this fourth dimension of twelvemonth for all the best reasons…and this simply scratches the surface.

Sunday, September 5, 6 PM
Graywolf Press and CAS/51 celebrates the publication of SKIN, INC. – Identity Repair Poems by Thomas Sayers Ellis (see the eclectique interview with Ellis)
CAS/51 510 Randolph Street, Washington, DC 20011
Books will be available for purchase and there will exist light refreshments. Reading by Thomas Says Ellis and performance by Carolyn Malachi of Ellis' "The Pronoun-Vowel…"

Sunday, September 12, noon – 7 PM
32nd Adams Morgan Day Festival – the mega neighborhood block party. 12 pm – 7 pm. This is the twenty-four hours when people in the neighborhood know non to movement their cars if they on-street parking. The festival is usually packed from 18th & Columbia Route to Florida Artery. Lot of vendors local and regional. Stages. Art displays. More than information at this link: www.adamsmorgandayfestival.com/

September Caucuses – for the Politico Artist in yous
September 12 – fifteen, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Found Public Policy Conference, Reyes of Comedy (9/14) and 33rd Annual Awards Gala (9/15). Gala honorees are Lin-Manuel Miranda (Chair's Award), Eva Longoria Parker (Medallion of Excellence), and Arturo Sandoval (Medallion of Excellence). Hosted by Soledad O'Brien.
For information, registration, and tickets go here.

September fifteen – 17, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legistlative Conference. Alice Walker and Robert Townsend volition be honored at the CBC Spouses "Commemoration of Leadership" consequence (ix/15). For schedule registration, and ticket information go here. http://www.cbcfinc.org/alc-2010/schedule.html

Tuesday, September 14, seven PM
National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Noche de Gala
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel
Actors Jimmy Smits, Sonia Braga, Esai Morales, and Merel Julia forth with attorney Felix Sanchez honor and gloat excellence in the performing arts, media, entertainment, and telecommunication industry past Hispanic Americans. The NHFA consequence raises funds for scholarships to Hispanic students at viii prestigious colleges and universities. For ticket information and sponsorship opportunities, call 202-293-8330.

Saturday, September 18, noon to seven PM
H Street Festival
Since the H Street "revival," the commercial strip with theaters, restaurants, cafes and bars, mixed in with the corner stores, car parts shop and a strip mall, is fast becoming the hipsters paradise – grit with growth. Not only is H Street asking yous to come shop and savor entertainment in the corridor, only besides to live in that location. Transportation still remains a conduct for getting there. Only i bus, the X2 goes from due east to due west. Trolley car tracks are almost done just no trolley yet.
More data here.

Tuesday, September 21, 5:30 PM
Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC (Beltway Editions) past Kim Roberts – book release.
Venue change: Charles Sumner School, 1201 17th Street, NW at Grand
Featuring a guest performance by Regie Cabico, and tabletop exhibits on The Discussion Works, Inc., Dissever This Rock, and Beltway Poetry.
Part of The Humanities Council of Washington, DC 30th Ceremony Celebration and Grantee Showcase. Exhibits, readings, performances, and flick, with an awards ceremony, and a champagne and cake reception. Call 202-387-8391. Free, but reservations required.

Thursday, September 23, half-dozen – 8 PM
Humanities Council of Washington, DC 30th Anniversary Celebration
Hogan and Lovells, LLP, 555 13th Street, NW
Honorees Peggy Cooper Cafritz, patron of the arts and co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts; and Dr. Johnnetta Cole, director of the National Museum of African Art and first black woman president of Spellman College volition exist part of the word moderated past Michel Martin of "Tell Me More" on NPR.
$100 Donation. Purchase tickets hither.

Saturday, September 25
National Festival of the Book
This is one of my favorite events. In its 10th yr, the festival continues to celebrate books, reading and authors via the Library of Congress. Authors, author readings, books and fun for adults and kids. Some of the writers participating: Isabelle Allende, Martha Grimes, Ken Follett, Pat Mora, Judith Viorst, Timothy Egan, Will Haygood, Elizabeth Alexander, Fasten Mendelsohn, and more, more than, more. I volition not miss information technology! Visit www.loc.gov/bookfest.

September 28 – Oct three
All Roads Flick Festival
National Geographic HQ, 1600 1000 Street, NW
The All Roads Film Festival is part of the All Roads Film Project, a National Geographic program created to provide an international platform for indigenous and under-represented minority-culture artists to share cultures, stories and perspectives through the ability of film and photography.

The festival kicks off September 28 at 7 PM with "Reel Injun" followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Neil Diamond (pictured). This event is co-hosted with ITVS which kicks off its new season of Community Movie house with "Reel Injun" in Oct. In the motion picture, Neil Diamond takes an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous await at the Hollywood Indian, exploring the portrayal of North American Natives through a century of movie theater and examining the ways that the myth of "the Injun" has influenced the earth's understanding—and misunderstanding—of Natives.

Tickets are bachelor online at nationalgeographic.com/allroads or by phone at 202-857-7700.