Event category: Poetry & Literature

This Halloween, put on your dancing shoes and explore! Visionaries is an annual art gala held in celebration of the DMV art community. Live music, dance, and poetry across two stages. A gallery, film screenings, artist talks and interactive installations. Eat some delicious food from local businesses,...

McLean Project for the Arts (MPA) will host a September 24 book talk featuring artist Maria Karametou. Karametou will discuss her novel The Amalgam in conversation with MPA Artistic Director and Curator Nancy Sausser. The talk will take place at 7pm at the. MPA Berlage Arts & Education...

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. artoberVA Offer: 10% off with code artoberVA

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...