PAST: HIGHLIGHTS: More Events to Choose from at The Freer and Sackler Galleries and at BloomBars! SAT, Jan 12th, Free, by donation or $10 or less

Storytelling- Stopping the Sun 
Saturday, January 12th
2:00pm, no end time noted
All ages, Free
Award-winning storyteller Laura Simms relates humorous, startling, and poignant tales of the life of the Buddha and his disciples in the exhibition Enlightened Beings.
Freer Gallery of Art
Gallery 13
1050 Independence Ave, SW
Metro: Smithsonian

ImaginAsia Family Program- Beautiful Writing: Arabic Calligraphy 
Saturday, January 12th
2:00pm, no end time noted
All ages, Free
Calligraphy is one of Arabian significant contributions to the arts of the Islamic world. After viewing a demonstration of Arabic calligraphy and touring examples on view in the exhibition Roads of Arabia, participants return to the ImaginAsia classroom to learn to write in Arabic. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
ImaginAsia Classroom, Sublevel 2 
1050 Independence Ave, SW
Metro: Smithsonian

Afrosensuality's – Kizomba Dance Performance & Interactive Demo 
Saturday, January 12th
4:00pm - 6:00pm
All ages, $10
RSVP requested, but not required.
BloomBars & the Afrosensuality Dance Team present their first-ever Kizomba Dance Performance and Interactive Demo! All levels No experience necessary Kizomba is a slow, sensual dance originally created in Angola in the eighties. It is a mixture of Angolan Semba and Zouk from the French West Indies. Thoko “Zindze” Romatoly and the Afrosensuality Dance Team will give a lively performance, followed by demonstration and instruction. BloomBars
3222 11th St, NW
Metro: Columbia Heights Walk up 14th St, turn right on Kenyon, left on 11th