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This Weekend in D.C.

by Kjersti Wasiak

Hawaiian Festival: This festival is on Saturday and Sunday at the National Museum of the American Indian. Includes activities such as lei making and Hawaiian food and cooking demonstration.

KidSpy Festival: Tradecraft Try-Its: This event at the International Spy Museum involves mini-missions geared towards kids ages 7 and up. It includes lie detector tests, coded messages, moving like a ninja, and creating secret writing. It costs $12 per person and $10 if you are a member of the museum’s Spy Ring.

Night at the Museum A Behind-the-Scenes Experience: This event at the Udvar Hazy Center location of the National Air and Space Museum. It is on Saturday from 6pm to 9:30pm. At this event learn more about the museum and how it operates as well as see things you would not normally see at the museum.

Smithsonian Environment Research Center Open House: The SERC is having an open house this Saturday from 9am to 3:30pm. Activities include children’s games, boat rides, hay rides, climbing a solar radiation tower, and music.

Spring Wine Festival & Sunset Tour: This event at Mount Vernon is an evening event all days this weekend. It includes live jazz music and special Candlelit Mansion tours that include showing the rarely seen cellar.

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The Food & Wine Festival at National Harbor: This is the inaugural year of this festival. The festival runs from 11am to 7pm this Saturday and 11am to 6pm this Sunday. Highlights of the festival include food and wine from around the world, Artisanal Products and Boutique Wines Pavilion, seminars, and guest chef demonstrations.

Check out weekend sports playing in D.C. on the Sports Events Coming Up This Week post.

These are just few events this weekend. If you have any that you know about in the D.C. area this weekend that you would like to share, then please let us know in a comment to this post.


Posted in Weekend Events on May 15th, 2008

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