D.C. VegFest is a free, day-long outdoor festival at the GWU University yard featuring speakers, food and fashion venders, nonprofits, and cooking demonstrations by locally and nationally renowned vegan chefs.

The inaugural production of Forum Theatre’s eighth season is Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, which debuts this weekend.

Join Food & Friends, along with host committee members, Patricia Hawkins and Rod Mercer, for a free book signing and discussion by John-Manuel Andriote, author of Victory Deferred: How AIDS Changed Gay Life in America, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

Hope Chest, a special event featuring artwork by DC/Baltimore artists Mariah Anne Johnson, Becca Kallem, Chandi Kelley, Michelle McAuliffe, Erin Murray, Elle Perez, Katherine Sifers, and Dafna Steinberg, is hosting an opening reception on Thursday.

Happy weekend, TNG readers! Between earthquakes and hurricanes, Mother Nature is letting us know loud and clear that change is in the air. In honor of the last weekend before Labor Day Weekend, I’ve chosen the song Summer’s Gone by The Wrong Words. For more ways to celebrate, check out this weekend’s events below.

The Eggplant Faerie Players are coming to the DC Center this Sunday.

The Eggplant Faerie Players use juggling, circus , music, drag, storytelling and theater to tell their tales of country life. Faerie Players MaxZine and TomFoolery are joined by Chicago bassist/cellist Maya Jensen for this tour. This show reflects their experiences of living in a queer intentional community in Tennessee for the last 17 years.

For its final act, DC’s only theater company dedicated to smut, Cherry Red Productions, will take on the dirtiest joke of all time, The Aristocrats. And as any theatergoer familiar with the company’s record of expertise in the art of bodily fluids will assure you: they’re just the folks to do it.

Shearon Van Riggins (aka Shea Van Horn + Aaron Riggins) is back with the 4th Annual Summer Games officiated by naughty drag queen Summer Camp.

You’re invited to Queer Polity, a mixer meant to welcome members of Howard University’s LGBT student organizations back to school.

The BYT Summer Camp pool party is back for a special BYGays edition, and this time they’re celebrating fashion camp with the MIXTAPE DJs.