If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

If you have any questions and want to get in touch before the event, please send a message below:

It’s the time of year when many of us start thinking of home holiday decoration, and who doesn’t love a fresh wreath to don one’s front door (or anywhere, really)!

Please join me for The RARE’s next event — an intimate fresh wreath-making class with local floral company and RARE favorite, Little Acre Flowers, on Wednesday, November 30th from 6:30-8:30pm. There is limited availability so please make sure to reserve your spot!

DETAILS:

• Class cost is regularly $85 per person but with the special discount offered only by The RARE, the cost is $60 per person.

• 1 hour class where you will learn how to fasten fresh evergreens to a 12-inch brass ring with the guidance and assistance from a professional florist.

• Includes greenery, textures, and decorative elements.

• Each attendee will go home with their own wreath.

• Light snacks and beverages will be provided before, during, and after the class.

• PLEASE NOTE: On the Little Acre website, customers will have to select local delivery when they check out (though there's no delivery happening or fee that will be charged).

If you have any questions and want to get in touch, please send a message below:

The holidays are a time for giving thanks, honoring family traditions (or starting new ones!), and giving with intention. This holiday season, we’ve put together an event that combines all of the above.

For many of us, the holidays aren’t complete without a cookie exchange, and everyone loves a good baking contest. so we will be hosting a virtual contest on Sunday, December 12th while also collecting non-perishable food items for The Capital Area Food Bank. Please participate in one or both parts!

The Details:

• Every contestant needs to deliver 12 cookies of their choice to 2480 16th Street NW between Saturday 12/11 at 9am and Sunday 12/12 at 5pm.

• We’re also asking people to drop off non-perishable food items that will be collected and dropped to The Capital Area Food Bank the following day. Here’s some detail on most needed items for collection.

• On Sunday evening at 7pm, tune in to the LIVE Zoom event where all contestants will be judged by 3 judges based on the following criteria:

  • Shape, Color, Uniform Appearance, Texture, and Flavor

• The winner will receive bragging rights and a $200 donation will go to their charity of their choice!

• After the event, we will make up cookie boxes with the remaining cookies and they will be delivered to all who have submitted their cookies for the challenge or exchange!

FAQ:

1. I can’t bake but I want to participate in the cookie exchange! Can I still join? A: Yes! Just drop off a dozen of a cookie you love (plop some pre-made cookie dough on a sheet pan if you’d like but please no oreos or keebler cookies!) and you can exchange HOWEVER you will not be entered into the bake-off contest.

2. I’m out of town the weekend of cookie drop-off! What can I do? A: Sign up and we’ll help figure it out for you. No stress — cookies are supposed to be fun, not stressful.

3. Can I help judge? A: Sadly no, we are all set with our 3 judges for this year, but we are open to guest judges next year!

Halloween… the best holiday of the year hands down. And it happens during one of the most beautiful seasons of the year, so let’s celebrate both!

Please join us for pumpkin carving in one of our favorite DC parks, Meridian Hill Park, early evening on Friday, October 22nd. from 6pm - 8:30pm. We’ll supply everyone with a pumpkin, will have plenty of pumpkin carving tools on hand, and the best part… you won’t have to deal with getting pumpkin guts all over your house — we’ll take care of it all for you!

We’ll gather at the top section of Meridian Hill Park at 6:00pm or as soon as you can get there. The park is a block from a Harris Teeter grocery store in case you want to pick up anything to compliment our warm apple cider, and the park has restrooms.

9.11 @ 9:30am - ALL TICKETS HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED!

If you’d still like to join, details on where to buy tickets are below!

We take our next event to Virginia for a good ol’ fashioned picnic + rollerskating party! Let’s celebrate the end of Summer by slapping on some skates and hopefully not breaking our faces. And for those of you who fear the latter, we’re going to first picnic together before skating, so everyone can join regardless of how they feel about rolling around a rink on 8 wheels.

Details:

4pm - 6:30pm: Picnicing and general hanging out in Strawberry Park, just adjacent to the outdoor skating rink. We’ll be supplying plenty of blankets so we can all sit together, along with some light snacks (but feel free to pack a picnic basket for you and your crew!)

6:30 - 7:30pm: THIS IS FIRST COME FIRST SERVED. Skateland has timed roller skating tickets in limited amounts during each time slot, and we have purchased 20 in advance for guests starting at 6:30pm. If you are coming, please RSVP, and if you aren’t sure you can commit, you can also wait and buy your own ticket directly HERE . If you do RSVP below to snag a free ticket, please keep in mind that bailing would really be a bummer for those who want one and commit to making it.

7:30 - 10pm: We’ll retire back to the picnic spot for some more hanging out and should there be enough interest, we can move on to a local restaurant or bar.

About Mosaic Skateland:

LOCATION

Strawberry Lane (Between Strawberry Park & District Ave)

ROLLER RINK PRICING for those who want to buy their own ticket or if the 20 free tickets are already snagged:

Adult Admission (includes Skate Rental) – $15

Child Admission (includes Skate Rental) – $13

Group Admission (Groups of 10+, includes Skate Rental) – $12

Locker – $10

Skate Aids – $10 *not sold online

Socks – $3 *not sold online

Guests are welcome to bring their own skates.

https://mosaicdistrict.com/about/mosaic-skateland/

In the event that a roller skating session is either cancelled or postponed, Mosaic Skateland will make every effort to contact guests via e-mail, time permitting. The email will include instructions on how to reschedule your tickets. Follow us on social for closing or delayed openings, as well as special events information.

July… A time for Summer food guilty pleasures, like ice cream trucks, BBQs, and carnival food! But let’s class it up a bit. Instead of carnival fried dough, how about we make some beignets?!

Please join us on Thursday, July 22nd for The RARE x Sugachef’s online beignet-making class where you’ll make Chef Padua’s NEW signature beignet mix with 3 tasty homemade dipping sauces. The class is on us — all you need to do is buy the ingredients for the sauces and add on Sugachef’s beignet making mix and we’ll drop the kit off to you 1-2 days before the class. (There is an option to supply your own ingredients for the beignets too, but this will be for a recipe that isn’t his proprietary new recipe).

Ideally you will prep the batter the night before or morning of the class to get optimal results. If you would like to join and cannot commit to the night before, message us and we will send you your next best option.

This is a first come first served event with limited capacity! Further details including grocery list will be sent out by Sunday, July 18th. Info below on Chef Padua too :)

About SugaChef

How do you find your voice and express yourself when you are the youngest of seven children? The answer: You take a lifelong passion and turn it into a sweet, artistic success!

Executive Pastry Chef Padua Player, also known as SugaChef, is as dedicated as they come and he is serious about his desserts. Chef Padua has been praised for his work by Vice President Biden, featured on WE TV’s Platinum Weddings and was a competitor on Food Network’s Sweet Genius and Holiday Baking Championship. He won the 2013 Capital Food Fight’s High Stakes Cake Battle in DC, hosted by Duff Goldman. Following that success, he returned in 2014 and 2015 as a celebrity chef judge and appeared on Cooking Channel’s Cake Hunters in 2018. Television called on his sweet culinary skills once again and he appeared on CHOPPED Sweets on Food Network in 2020. Chef Padua has his own line of gourmet desserts and has provided his sweet delicacies to countless celebrity clientele.

Chef Padua also lends his time and pastry talents to DC Central Kitchen. They train unemployed adults for culinary careers, serving healthy school meals, while rebuilding urban food systems through social enterprise. Chef Padua also lends his time and pastry talents to Best Buddies International. They are an organization dedicated to establishing a global volunteer movement. They create opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). He has also been a celebrity chef judge for Central Union Mission’s Heart & Sole charity event, that serves the homeless population in the DC Metro area.​

It’s Pride Month and Washington DC’s Love Mural in Blagden Alley has become a symbol for so many things from love to freedom to diversity. Please join The RARE x Lisa Marie Thalhammer, the Artist who has created several incredible pieces throughout the city including the Love Mural, for a guided tour of Blagden Alley’s art on Thursday, June 24th from 7pm - 9pm. For those who are interested, we’ll gather for drinks at Calico afterwards from 9pm - 10:00pm.

About Lisa Marie:

LISA MARIE THALHAMMER is known for her striking and powerful paintings, collages and public artworks that use portraiture, symbolism, color and shape to explore interconnectivity, raise consciousness and communicate uplifting messages. A longtime community activist, Thalhammer’s work frequently represents women in positions of power and hope. She exhibits fine artwork and paints large-scale public art murals in Washington, D.C., where she lives and works, in addition to other locations nationally and internationally.

Let’s admit it - we’ve all imbibed a little more than usual this past year… so now we really need to up our cocktail game, right?

Join us on Thursday, May 13th for The RARE x Swill Merchants’ online cocktail class where you’ll learn how to make 3 delicious craft cocktails. The class is on us — all you need to do is add on a cocktail making kit (or supply your own) and we’ll drop the ingredients off to you 1-2 days before the class, or supply the ingredients yourself!

This is a first come first served event with limited capacity! More info below too :)

About our co-host: Swill Merchants Co. may have been conceived during a pandemic, but Sarah Rosner, the lady who started it all, has been a legend in the DC bartending and cocktail scene for over 19 years. She has won numerous competitions, features, awards, and write-ups due to her creativity and storytelling that she embodies in her cocktail making.

Swill Merchants Co. provides curated cocktail classes based on you and your clients’ preferences. Reflecting Sarah Rosner’s curious path through life, including, but not limited to, her South Kona, Hawaii hippy upbringing, her Junior Year abroad as an Au Pair, her UNC-Chapel Hill education and 20 year bartending career in DC) she invites and engages the vast sundry of characters and events. Always with a smile and a Dad joke. Rosner most frequently hosts corporate office and realtor team meetings, client events or happy hours, fundraisers and auctions. She also enjoys casual friends and family happy hours, birthdays, bachelor(ette) parties, ladies weekends, random Tuesdays in February, etc.

Cocktail classes begin with Sarah Rosner offering a few reasons why you may want to listen to her (and so no latecomers miss the important parts).  Classes also include a general history of cocktails, while fully nerding out on the cocktails made and spirits used, with a rundown of basic bar tools and theorize on how we really taste. Throughout, she will answer cocktail, spirit, life, and bar/restaurant ordering etiquette questions and, of course, make the cocktails with you and your attendees. 

We will provide a virtual invite with a zoom link, recipe cards and shopping list, along with suggested ice, glassware and tools that you will need (including examples of simple substitutes).

Cocktail Kits

Average Price: $50 which will be dropped off by Alison (within the beltway only!)
Includes: Spirits, modifiers, sugars, other non perishables, basically most of the ingredients to make 2 full drinks of 3 cocktails. Kits typically do not include perishables like citrus, eggs or dairy.

Sign up now, yo!