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Calendar: 10 Years of Sixth & I, Poetic Justice at Hill Center

Happy “Sixth and I Day,” Washington! To celebrate 10 years since the synagogue at 600 I St. NW was re-dedicated as the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, not just as a center of worship but a venue for music and other cultural and community events, the District has proclaimed Tuesday as “Sixth & I Day.”  

Ten-year anniversary events are scheduled for later in the year, but in the meantime, the spot’s normal array of quality programming includes the Brad Mehldau Trio on Thursday night and its “Spring Brews” seasonal beer tasting on April 29. For more information on upcoming events, go to sixthandi.org .  

Quite Poetic One of the country’s most acclaimed poets, Edward Hirsch, comes to D.C.’s Hill Center (921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) on Wednesday night for the “Life of a Poet” series, to discuss, well, life, with Ron Charles, the fiction editor of the Washington Post. The free event, sponsored by the Post, the Library of Congress and the National Capital Bank, will be sort of a reunion. Hirsch spent years writing for the Post’s “Poet’s Choice” column.  

He’s the author of eight books of poetry, with another one on the way this year, and serves as the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York. The event starts at 7 p.m. in the Hill Center’s Abraham Lincoln Hall. Register at hillcenter.org .  

Pull Into Dock Casey Trees is putting on its inaugural Canopy Awards on Thursday at Union Market’s Dock5 space with food, booze, bocce and music. The event aims to fete “volunteers, friends and advocates who support our work promoting, enhancing and protecting D.C.’s tree canopy,” according to a release.  

It will feature food pop-ups, the aforementioned bocce, a mini-golf course, photo booths, an open bar and musical performances from The Bumper Jacksons and Andrew Lipke and the Azrael String Quartet.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MprXp17UR5E  

Tickets are $45 in advance and $55 at the door, and can be purchased at caseytrees.org . It gets started at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Dock5 at 1309 Fifth St. NE.  

Mix Tape Martha Redbone, a musician with a slew of musical roots steeped in funk, blue, folk and Native American sounds, plays at the Atlas Performing Arts Center at 1333 H St. NE on Friday night. Her new latest album, “The Garden of Love — The Songs of William Blake,” brings it all together for a tune jambalaya.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvj9uuiIDd4  

Tickets are $28.50 in advance and $33.50 at the door; students get in for $20 with ID. They can be purchased at atlasarts.org . The show starts at 8 p.m.

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