The National Cherry Blossom Festival

DC celebrates the blooming of cherry trees with a month-long festival that commemorates the 1912 gift from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city. Through April 12

America’s State Flowers: An America250 Celebration

In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, the U.S. Botanic Garden will bloom with the flowers each U.S. state and territory has chosen as their official flower. Explore the display throughout the Garden that will showcase the state and territory flowers with living plants, artistic displays, botanical illustrations, and herbarium specimens. From fragrant magnolia flowers and roses to native orchids, bluebonnets, and saguaro cactus flowers, enjoy the variety of floral beauty that symbolizes America.  April 10 - October 12

The Phillips Collection: Sunday Concert, Stephen Dury

A champion of the music of our time, pianist Stephen Drury resents Constellations After Miró, a program inspired by the surrealist art of Joan Miró. The concert includes selections from John Cage’s Etudes Australes, music derived from star charts of the southern hemisphere, Claude Debussy’s Études, Manuel de Falla’s Fantasia Bætica, and Dave Brubeck’s Blue Shadows in the Street. These pieces, characterized by their exploration of color, form, and abstraction, mirror Miró’s artistic vision. April 12 4-6 pm

FIlmfest DC

The Washington, DC International Film Festival celebrates a big anniversary this spring, marking 40 years in the nation’s capital with more than 3,600 films screened throughout its run. This year, the action is centered around downtown’s Regal Gallery Place theater complex. April 16-26

Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration

Celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday at the Folger with fun, family-friendly activities and birthday cupcakes for all! Join us for stage combat demonstrations, dancing, and craft stations for making ruffs, crowns, and shields. Practice writing with a quill, compose a sonnet, try on some costumes, and see our 17th-century replica printing press in action. Meet WETA Classical on-air personality Nicole Lacroix and enter giveaways for PBS and WETA Classical merch. Plus, get your face painted with a Shakespearean mustache and beard. April 18 11am

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Miró Quartet

The Miró Quartet, one of America’s most distinguished and dedicated string quartets, took its name and inspiration from Spanish artist Joan Miró, and his works which draw from the realm of memory, dreams, and imaginative fantasy. h audiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding traditions of chamber music. Their concert at the Phillips draws from numerous styles and time periods, beginning with the finale from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 18 No. 6 and Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint, which began its life as a harmonic reduction of the Beethoven Quartet. They continue with selections from two pillars of 20th-century quartet repertoire, both written in the 1970s: Henri Dutilleux’s Ainsi la Nuit and George Crumb’s Black Angels. Finally, they conclude with Alberto Ginastera’s second string quartet, which while fiercely modern, maintained the Argentine influence that pervaded that composer’s output. April 19 4-6pm

Jazz Afternoons at National Museum of American History