Outdoor Movie Screening Series with Live Music. Art Installations, and More. Right in the Heart of DC.
The DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) and Shaolin Jazz will host their fourth annual DowntownDC Summer Flicks – CAN I KICK IT? movie series on the recently reopened National Building Museum’s West Lawn. This year’s theme is The Future and weekly screenings will travel through time and space. The outdoor, cinematic experience starts Tuesday, May 25, with the screening of the iconic sci-fi and space travel movie Star Trek.
Each film will be scored with an original music soundtrack of hip-hop, soul, and more mixed by weekly guest DJs, including Shaolin Jazz’s own DJ 2-Tone Jones.
Event Schedule:
7:30pm: Pre-movie seating and music by DJ 2-Tone Jones
Sunset: Movie begins
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Full Movie Schedule:
May 25 – Star Trek
June 1 – Ready Player One
June 8 – Aliens
June 15 – Tenet
June 22 – Starship Troopers
June 29 – Solo
July 6 – Minority Report
July 13 – Tron: Legacy
July 20 – I-Robot
July 27 – Mad Max: Fury Road
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The National Building Museum’s West Lawn will also feature an attractive art installation designed with typical pandemic-era social distancing guidance in mind. The installation entitled Equilateral Network: An Artistic Social Distancing Lawn Design will be created by Lisa Marie Thalhammer, best known for her LOVE mural in Blagden Alley.
The DowntownDC BID is partnering with local restaurants like HipCityVeg in Chinatown and Carving Room Kitchen & Bar on Massachusetts Avenue NW to offer moviegoers special discounts for weekly showings.
Be sure to get there early to save a spot, max capacity 50 attendees.
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