Event category: Poetry & Literature

Join Better Said Than Done at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack on October 17th for Ghost in the Machine: Terrifying Tales of Technology, with storytellers Jason Howard, Jenn Kamara, Joe Morice, Jack Scheer and more. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack is located at 130 N Washington St, Falls Church, VA 22046. A...

Virginia Ballet Company presents This October 11, 2026, come watch the written word and movement coalesce in Poetry in Motion, Virginia Ballet Company’s fall contemporary performance.

Bryan Stevenson, Author Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a human rights organization based in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges addressing excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent people...

Celeste Ng Reserve Your Free Ticket Friday, October 9 at 7:30 p.m. Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center 3740 Blenheim Blvd, Fairfax World-renowned author Celeste Ng discusses the suspense, drama, and beautifully complex interpersonal relationships that appear in her writing. Ng is the author...

The title piece, “Lightning”, is a powerful new work which, through the energy and sound of lightning and thunder, Shu-Chen explores this phenomena of nature to create the energy of the movement and delves into the deeper human feelings and emotion felt when lighting strikes. Second, we are so excited...

Join Better Said Than Done on September 3rd at Jammin’ Java for Huzzah: a storytelling show celebrating 15 years of amazing stories. In the past 15 years, we’ve heard hundreds of incredible stories and hundreds of fabulous storytellers. We’d bring them all back on stage if we could, but for this one...