Torrents Local Recommendations

While you’re visiting DC, we recommend a few things to visit while you’re here.

Stay

Hotel Nell

Stay at one of DC’s best boutique hotels. Just moments away from Torrents programming, Umbrella Art Fair, and Union Market, its our recommendation for your stay.

At Hotel Nell Union Market, we understand that our dedication to culture and sustainability is essential in offering travelers a fulfilling and socially responsible hospitality experience. Anchored in the vibrant fabric of Washington, D.C.'s local neighborhoods, our hotel celebrates the richness and diversity of the area's culture while also championing an eco-conscious philosophy to reduce our environmental impact.

Detail from Glenn Kaino: Bridge at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Photo: JKA Photography

See

Umbrella Art Fair

From Atlanta to Venus, curated by Lisa Osborne

Chela Mitchell Gallery

Everything Must Change by Quinci Baker

Anacostia Community Museum

S E E D by Murjoni Merriweather

Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC, 1900–2000

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Basquiat × Banksy

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Glenn Kaino: Bridge

Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women’s Activism

Spirit in the Dark: Religion in Black Music, Activism, and Popular Culture

National Portrait Gallery

This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance

National Museum of African Art

From the Deep: In the Wake of Drexciya with Ayana V. Jackson

Drink

Cotton & Reed - Our mission is to learn from the best practices of the world's rum producers to create a line of distinctively American rums. We proudly source our Cane Syrup and Molasses from one of only two BONSUCRO-certified sugar refineries in the United States. All fermentation, distillation, processing, and bottling is done on-site at the Cotton & Reed Distillery in Northeast DC's Union Market District. - 1330 5th St NE, Washington, DC, 20002

Serenata is a full-service Latino cocktail experience crafting preeminent cocktails sourced and inspired by the many countries that make up the fabric of the rich Latin American heritage. Afro-latinx owned. - 1280 4th St NE, Washington, DC, 20002

Eat

Cane - Caribbean Street Food - 403 H St. NE, Washington, DC, 20002

Bronze - Bronze is a restaurant inspired by Afrofuturism that melds fantasy and gastronomy with the culture of the African Diaspora. 1245 H St NE, Washington, DC, 20002

Dōgon by Kwame Onwuachi- Chef Kwame Onwuachi is no stranger to pushing boundaries, but at his new Washington, D.C. restaurant, he honors them and the West African lineage that helped draw the borders of the District of Columbia. 1330 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20024