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Featured Events

Indoor Skating Rink

Winter Skate Spectacular

Enjoy a unique indoor skating experience throughout the week in the Museum’s Great Hall.

Glide In
Aerial Art Installation

Lunar New Year Lantern

Look up and make a wish as the glowing 10-foot-wide lantern fills Anthem Row with red hues, luck, and celebration.

Ring In Luck
Cultural Celebration

DC Chinese Lunar New Year Parade

March into the New Year with vibrant colors, thunderous lion dances, and dazzling performances—then seal your luck with a high-energy firecracker finale.

Welcome Year of the Horse
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A close-up photograph of a table filled with Asian-inspired cuisine. A pair of chopsticks is holding up a tangle of brown noodles mixed with vegetables (including a piece of broccoli) from a decorated ceramic bowl. Other dishes on the table, visible in the foreground and sides, include dark, glazed food topped with sesame seeds and chopped green onions, likely chicken or tofu wings.

Dining

Winter Skate Spectacular
The street-level view of a MANGO clothing store in a red brick building. The storefront features large windows displaying mannequins dressed in apparel, flanking a central glass double-door entrance. The second floor has large, multi-paned windows, and the building's facade is framed by a couple of bare-limbed trees.

Shopping
A line of martini glasses filled with different colored cocktails, set on a dark, reflective surface. The glasses, from front to back, contain a light green/blue drink with a sugared rim, a bright orange drink with a chili-salt rim, a light yellow drink, and a reddish-brown drink, receding into the background.

Bars
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, one of many theatres in Downtown DC Washington.

Theatres
A close-up segment of a map, overlaid with a translucent pink/red color filter. The map shows the grid layout of city blocks in a downtown area. Key streets and points of interest are labeled in a small, dark text, including "NEW YORK AVE," "The Park at CityCenter," "Chinatown Park," "Pershing," and "Judiciary" (likely naming squares or metro stops). The details of the buildings and smaller streets are visible underneath the overlay.
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About the BID

Downtown DC is the most diverse and exciting neighborhood in one of the most important cities in the world.

Here, locals and visitors find the most thrilling experiences of DC in 140 walkable and transit-rich blocks: business, education, and government; shopping and dining; parks, art, music, sports, theater, history—adding up to a bright future.

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