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Welcome to the DCAAN community calendar! Below you will find events and programs with accessibility services in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area.

Please note, the system automatically gives an end time of one hour after the start time. Please contact the organization hosting the event for true end times.

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Morning at the Museum - NPM


June 21, 2025

Morning at the Museum (MATM) is a free, sensory-friendly program for children, teenagers, and young adults who are neurodivergent and their families in which they can visit a Smithsonian museum prior to opening on designated Saturday or Sunday mornings. Monthly programs rotate between Smithsonian museums. Registration is required. Pre-registered families visit one Smithsonian museum before it opens to the public, where they can participate in activities or explore the exhibitions independently at their own pace. Prior to each program, pre-registered families receive “pre-visit” materials to help them prepare for their visit including social narratives, sensory maps, visual schedules, and tip sheets. Similar pre-visit materials are available to help families plan for visits that take place outside of MATM program hours. These pre-visit materials can be found in the “Resources” section of the Office of Visitor Accessibility website.

To learn more about Morning at the Museum or to sign up for the mailing list, please email us at access@si.edu.

Smithsonian National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Ave., N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
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Smithsonian Folklife Festival


July 2, 2025

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival honors contemporary living cultural traditions and celebrates those who practice and sustain them. This year’s Festival, Youth and the Future Culture, spotlights how young people interact with the world around them, including but not limited to, innovation, cultural practices, art, and traditions. Visitors can expect to experience music, dance, food, building trades, native language reclamation, lowrider culture, skateboarders, media makers, storytellers, artists and artisans, astronomy, exhibits from the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers and more.

The Festival is open 11:00 AM until 5:30 PM daily and is FREE!

The full Festival schedule can be found at: https://festival.si.edu/schedule

A wide range of accessibility services are available. Navigate to the Accessibility page of the Festival website (https://festival.si.edu/accessibility), for more information and resources.

The National Mall
Washington, DC

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July 3, 2025(3 events)

Smithsonian Folklife Festival


July 3, 2025

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival honors contemporary living cultural traditions and celebrates those who practice and sustain them. This year’s Festival, Youth and the Future Culture, spotlights how young people interact with the world around them, including but not limited to, innovation, cultural practices, art, and traditions. Visitors can expect to experience music, dance, food, building trades, native language reclamation, lowrider culture, skateboarders, media makers, storytellers, artists and artisans, astronomy, exhibits from the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers and more.

The Festival is open 11:00 AM until 5:30 PM daily and is FREE!

The full Festival schedule can be found at: https://festival.si.edu/schedule

A wide range of accessibility services are available. Navigate to the Accessibility page of the Festival website (https://festival.si.edu/accessibility), for more information and resources.

The National Mall
Washington, DC

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The Ride Ahead


July 3, 2025

This event is part of the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.  

Join us for a screening of The Ride Ahead, a documentary by Emmy-Award winning father-son filmmaker duo Samuel and Dan Habib. The Ride Ahead follows Samuel Habib, a typical twenty-one-year-old, itching to move out, start a career, and find love. But no one tells you how to be an adult, let alone an adult with a disability. 

Following the screening, Samuel and Dan will be joined by lawyer-scholar-activist and community organizer Ly Xīnzhèn M. Zhǎngsūn Brown (they/them) for a post-film discussion with the audience. 

ASL interpretation, live real-time (CART) captioning, open audio description, and assisted listening will be available for this event.  

Please visit this link for more information and to register for this event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-ride-ahead-film-screening-and-discussion-tickets-1394743026939?aff=oddtdtcreator  

Smithsonian National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave
Washington, DC 20560

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Concert- Homegrown Futures: Sounds of D.C.


July 3, 2025

This event is part of the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 

Washington, D.C., boasts a deep repertoire of homegrown music and spoken word. Through after-school and cultural programs, local artists are training the next generation of performers from go-go to spoken word to jazz. This concert celebrates some of D.C.’s own young artists and their teachers with performances by DCPS Let’s Go-Go Band, the UDC JAZZtet, and spoken-word artists from Words Beats & Life. 

Concessions will be available for purchase. 

ASL interpretation, assisted listening devices, and captioning will be available for this concert. 

The National Mall
Washington, DC
July 4, 2025(2 events)

Smithsonian Folklife Festival


July 4, 2025

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival honors contemporary living cultural traditions and celebrates those who practice and sustain them. This year’s Festival, Youth and the Future Culture, spotlights how young people interact with the world around them, including but not limited to, innovation, cultural practices, art, and traditions. Visitors can expect to experience music, dance, food, building trades, native language reclamation, lowrider culture, skateboarders, media makers, storytellers, artists and artisans, astronomy, exhibits from the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers and more.

The Festival is open 11:00 AM until 5:30 PM daily and is FREE!

The full Festival schedule can be found at: https://festival.si.edu/schedule

A wide range of accessibility services are available. Navigate to the Accessibility page of the Festival website (https://festival.si.edu/accessibility), for more information and resources.

The National Mall
Washington, DC

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Concert- Roots and Voices: Americana Reimagined


July 4, 2025

This event is part of the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 

Americana is the music of community and history, living at the sonic intersection of our collective past, present, and future. This concert is an American soundtrack offered by three award-winning ensembles from across the United States. 

From Southern California, Mariachi Tesoro de San Fernando performs a spectacular global repertoire with Mexican roots. Hālau I Ka Leo Ola O Nā Mamo, hailing from the Kea‘au, Hawai‘i, shares dance and chant grounded in traditional knowledge and Native Hawaiian language. From Burlington, Vermont, Sugar in the Pan represents contradance music and other local folk traditions for which New England region is known. 

Concessions will be available for purchase. 

ASL interpretation, assisted listening devices, and captioning will be available for this concert. 

The National Mall
Washington, DC
July 5, 2025(2 events)

Smithsonian Folklife Festival


July 5, 2025

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival honors contemporary living cultural traditions and celebrates those who practice and sustain them. This year’s Festival, Youth and the Future Culture, spotlights how young people interact with the world around them, including but not limited to, innovation, cultural practices, art, and traditions. Visitors can expect to experience music, dance, food, building trades, native language reclamation, lowrider culture, skateboarders, media makers, storytellers, artists and artisans, astronomy, exhibits from the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers and more.

The Festival is open 11:00 AM until 5:30 PM daily and is FREE!

The full Festival schedule can be found at: https://festival.si.edu/schedule

A wide range of accessibility services are available. Navigate to the Accessibility page of the Festival website (https://festival.si.edu/accessibility), for more information and resources.

The National Mall
Washington, DC

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Concert- Prom in the Park


July 5, 2025

This event is part of the 2025 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. 

For over 100 years, American teenagers have participated in the cultural rite of prom. This summer, the Festival hosts its own Prom in the Park in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary American Teenagers. Whether you want to relive your prom days from an earlier decade or you missed your prom, Prom in the Park has something for you. 

Bands include the legendary Stax Music Academy playing soul classics from the ’70s and ’80s and Orquesta Manplesa, a local Latin music band. We will also feature DJs DJ SoTek from Louisville, Kentucky, and Znorthy from D.C., playing the latest hits. (Don’t forget your gowns and suits!) 

Concessions will be available for purchase. 

ASL interpretation, assisted listening devices, and captioning will be available for this concert. 

The National Mall
Washington, DC

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