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RhizomeDC is a nonprofit community space for experimental Arts & Music, Workshops, Lectures, Film and community events.

VERY EXCITED for the return of to rhizome!! THURSDAY!!Microcinema: Margaret Rorison - PassagesThursday June 4 * 7pm * $...
06/03/2026

VERY EXCITED for the return of to rhizome!! THURSDAY!!
Microcinema: Margaret Rorison - Passages
Thursday June 4 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS rhizomedc.org

We are pleased to present an evening of films by Margaret Rorison (Baltimore), who will be present for a discussion with the audience following the screening. Margaret Rorison is a filmmaker, artist and educator from Baltimore, MD. Her work incorporates 16mm film, alternative photographic processes, poetry, and sound to explore her interests in portraiture, memory, and landscape. Her films have been exhibited at Miami PULSE Art Fair, Microscope Gallery, The Museum of The Moving Image, The National Gallery of Art, and The Walker Art Center. Her short films have shown at film festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, & FICUNAM in Mexico City. From 2012-2022, she directed Sight Unseen Screening Series, an experimental film series that brought contemporary filmmakers and curators to Baltimore to present their work.

***THIS WEEK AT RHIZOME***OPEN CALLSRhizome Magazine AND Film & Video Open CallEXHIBITQUEERING SOUNDWEDNESDAY6:30pm * BA...
06/03/2026

***THIS WEEK AT RHIZOME***

OPEN CALLS
Rhizome Magazine AND Film & Video Open Call

EXHIBIT
QUEERING SOUND

WEDNESDAY
6:30pm * BACC Fundraiser with Jamal Gray & The Avant Vanguard / Freedome / Mia & The Argonauts

THURSDAY
7pm * Microcinema: Margaret Rorison - Passages

FRIDAY
7pm * QUEERING SOUND: Ari Voxx / Ashanti / Marcus Webb / Erin Frisby / Cacie / Professor Goldstein

SATURDAY
10am-noon * Puppet Lab
10am * QUEERING SOUND at the Gazebo: Maddie Cardoza / Té
2-4pm * QUEERING SOUND opening reception
7pm * QUEERING SOUND at Takoma Spark - Safety Bear / Sad Veiled Bride / Ella Gallogly
7pm * At Tonal Park: Lifted / More Eaze / Earthen Sea

SUNDAY
11am * Crochet 101: Back to Basics
2pm * QUEERING NOIZE: Depression Factory / Bodied / Eyerolls / That Cloud with Jan Swinburne
7pm * QUEERING SOUND: Youth in Government / AGG / Mysteryband / Kerri Sheehan / Boy Meets Pearl / Glorian / Blood Family Reunion

MONDAY
6:30pm * Paolo Angeli / Kiyan Saifi

TUESDAY
6:30pm * Michael Foster's Ghost

JUST ANNOUNCED
06/11 - CITY SPOTLIGHT: ECHOES OF DOUBT
06/19 - Lecture/Presentation - Structures of Music Exploitation (S.O.M.E.)
07/04 - 2026 Anti-Fest - J&R'S Music World / Collapsing / T3ratoma / Distorting a Woodpecker / Bleak Outlook / OVRSTMLTD (By Evilshadex.exe) / Wh**ey Alabastard / Deepgrave Min OG Dog / acheleg / Ashwolf
07/07 - Hatchetface / Eleagnus / NEON GRLZ

TONIGHT!! Street Rat / Post Community / Odette / SuburbanabuseTuesday June 2 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS"Philadelphia's Str...
06/02/2026

TONIGHT!! Street Rat / Post Community / Odette / Suburbanabuse
Tuesday June 2 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

"Philadelphia's Street Rat is a pulsing, writhing pile of static and uncoiled energy. Featuring modded electronics and full-body engagement, their wild noise emanations are simultaneously electric and unquestionably organic. " - subscape2025

POST COMMUNITY is a collective, a collaboration, an open group founded by members of a slew of East Coast punk bands, and presently operating out of Baltimore - message the band if you're keen to participate in basement activities.

Odette is an conceptual noise project from Baltimore. Harsh atonality and sludgy industrial laments ‘Quo Vadis?’ “Sounds like a John Grisham novel.” - Jason Laird Wise, Cussf**ker

Suburbanabuse - “Felt like a sonic interpretation of Guantanamo Bay levels of darkness..” — Review of Suburbanabuse from an American University undergrad scholar.

Saturday at Tonal Park - presents a celebration for the release of Movie by Lifted featuring special guests and . Tic...
06/01/2026

Saturday at Tonal Park - presents a celebration for the release of Movie by Lifted featuring special guests and . Tickets at rhizomedc.org

Lifted is the duo of Andrew Field Pickering (Max D, Dolo Percussion, Beautiful Swimmers) and Matt Papich (Co La, Ecstatic Sunshine). Movie, their first release for rising DC-based label Outside Time, is like a film shot with microphones rather than cameras, using the pacing, spatialization, and semiotics of cinematic sound design to lead us through a surreal soundworld that draws as much from Foley artistry as dub, jazz, and electronic music.

more eaze is the project of Brooklyn-based sound artist and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice. Ranging from ambient pop to folk and musique concrete, her numerous solo and collaborative releases weave mundane, everyday sounds, acoustic orchestration and instrumentation, and electronics into adventurous textural compositions that move seamlessly between the banal and the ethereal.

Earthen Sea is the experimental ambient/beat solo project of Jacob Long. He crafts a compelling synthesis of shadowy rhythms and opaque atmospherics, drawing on the most potent qualities of melancholic ambient and dub techno. Recently his live sets have involved a return to drone oriented live performance that features his saxophone playing.

tonight's show is cancelled sorry! see you next time
05/29/2026

tonight's show is cancelled sorry! see you next time

The Early / Bent Light / Raven Bauer DurhamMonday June 1 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $15-20 * TICKETSThe Early is Alex...
05/29/2026

The Early / Bent Light / Raven Bauer Durham
Monday June 1 * doors at 6:30, music at 7 * $15-20 * TICKETS

The Early is Alex Lewis (guitars, synthesizers) and Jake Nussbaum (drums, electronics). The two have spent the past seven years reinventing their shared musical language, infusing the textural grandeur of post-rock with the communicational intimacy of jazz improvisation, the patient grooves of minimalism, electronica, and drone. Their 2026 release, I Want To Be Ready (Island House Recordings) was described by Record Crates United as “drifty, minimalist jazz fusion soundscapes that hum, drone and rumble like the atmosphere of a clockwork city.”

Bent Light is the duo of Michael Slyne and Russel Linder. 2 punk rockers and less volume. Two guitars. Millions of pedals. Busted tape machines sing too. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes harsh. They say it feels like a dream.

Raven Bauer Durham is an experimental guitar-based performer from Virginia, incorporating electric and acoustic ambient textures, voice, and song layers. Previously a member of the improvisational group Phoenix Auto Group.

Bohemian Waxwing / Kevin Knight / NAYANSaturday May 30 * doors at 7:00, music at 7:30 * $12-15 * TICKETSKevin Knight a.k...
05/28/2026

Bohemian Waxwing / Kevin Knight / NAYAN
Saturday May 30 * doors at 7:00, music at 7:30 * $12-15 * TICKETS

Kevin Knight a.k.a. Nevin Kight is a Multi-Instrumentalist, song-crafter, absurdist, & experimental recording artist based in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. “Songs of love, pain and spirit from a nature nerd in the age of the Anthropocene”

Bohemian Waxwing is a coming together of four musicians with roots in alt-country, punk, ambient, and indie rock. With songs that ponder our connections with art, science and the natural world, their lyrics sit at the intersection of our internal and external lives. Their songs might be compared to Yo La Tengo, with the harmonic leanings of XTC, and the lyrical bent of Bill Calahan.

Nayan Bhula is a DC rock lifer who turned 50 and decided to get louder. A veteran of post-punk outfit GIST and orchestrated indie ensemble The NRIs, Bhula has spent decades carving space for South Asian artists in rock ’n’ roll—DIY, defiant, and relentless. His current band, NAYAN, blends DC post-punk urgency with classic rock swagger and ’80s new-wave hooks.

***THIS WEEK AT RHIZOME***(details / tix / weekly playlist / etc: link in bio)OPEN CALLSRhizome Magazine AND Film & Vide...
05/27/2026

***THIS WEEK AT RHIZOME***
(details / tix / weekly playlist / etc: link in bio)
OPEN CALLS
Rhizome Magazine AND Film & Video Open Call

WEDNESDAY
6:30pm * Glenn Jones / Liam Grant / Ari Rosenfield

THURSDAY
7pm * Mankwe Ndosi & Jamal Moore Duo / Nik Francis

FRIDAY
7pm * Alex Koi x Kirin McElwain / Walsh Kunkel

SATURDAY
1pm * 16mm Film Loop Workshop
7pm * Bohemian Waxwing / Kevin Knight / NAYAN

SUNDAY
1pm * Rhizome X People's Music Supply Collaboration Number 4
7:30pm * Experimental Jam

MONDAY
6:30pm * The Early / Bent Light / Raven Bauer Durham

TUESDAY
6pm * A Fire Eating Training for D***s by D***s
7pm * Street Rat / Post Community / Odette / Suburbanabuse

JUST ANNOUNCED
06/16 - MotorMouth presents: FOMO - an artist salon
06/19 - Reclaiming & Reconnecting with Wild Foods - A Juneteenth Foraging Workshop
06/20 - Haves & Thirds / Travis B / Tiff & T / Sema
06/28 - Sacred Texts, Shared Thoughts: A Religious Exploration Discussion Group
06/29 - Pain Response / Peel Off Your Skin
08/20 - Merc / Orca / Pilau / Form & Void

TONIGHT! Sarah Hughes / Gerswyn Foster / Michael R. BernsteinTuesday May 26 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETSSarah Hughes is a pe...
05/26/2026

TONIGHT! Sarah Hughes / Gerswyn Foster / Michael R. Bernstein
Tuesday May 26 * 7pm * $10-20 * TICKETS

Sarah Hughes is a performing and visual artist. She has 26 years of experience playing the alto saxophone and also doubles on the soprano saxophone, flute, and clarinet. Her music is intuitive and genre-liberated while displaying an unquestionable command of her instrument and musical vocabulary.

Gerswyn Foster Is a DMV - Electronic composer and sound designer.

Michael R. Bernstein lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he is developing a band of robot musicians to alleviate humans from the burdensome task of creating music for themselves. In former lives he ran the Heavy Tapes cassette label, performed over 100 live shows with improvised quartet Double Leopards, and started a rock band called Religious Knives with his best friend and wife, Maya E. Miller

Minibeast / Nice Breeze / FREQ FLAGSaturday May 23 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25 * TICKETSMinibeast is a three-pi...
05/22/2026

Minibeast / Nice Breeze / FREQ FLAG
Saturday May 23 * doors at 7, music at 7:30 * $15-25 * TICKETS

Minibeast is a three-piece band comprised of Peter Prescott (formerly of Mission of Burma, Volcano Suns, Kustomized) playing guitar, keys, noises (mouth & other) & the mind bending rhythm section of Keith Seidel on drums n' percussion and Niels LaWhite on bass. It's liquid music...always moving. They gratefully accept influences from Fela Kuti, Can, and the Stooges.

Washington DC's Nice Breeze have been kicking around since before the start of the decade. The trio of John Howard, Martha Hamilton & Andy Fox churn out solid, hook-laden, bullseye-pop gems by the bushel. DC area bands have always seemed to possess that extra digit when it comes to honing a particular strain of post punk expression & Nice Breeze are no exception.

FREQ FLAG are a DC/Baltimore trio from Dave Bryson, Joe Halladay and Burleigh Seaver (ex-members of Son Volt, Des Demonas, Shortstack), dealing in rhythm-centric cosmic Americana.

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