Kintsugi: Eaton DC

07/26/2021

𝒦𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓈𝓊𝑔𝒾 in practice

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by filling the areas of breakage with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.

The breaks emphasise the beauty of the fracture, and the old age saying of broken is better than new.

07/23/2021

As our last day in service, we would like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who has come through Kintsugi’s doors these last years. Your service, smiles and company were greatly welcomed.

Thank you DC!

05/07/2021

Eaton Radio presents “Shady Vibes” every Friday, 7-9p, under the trees in front of the award-winning restaurant and bar . Coming up this month: Bryan Lee
on 5/7, Mr. Turner on 5/14, and Bee Boisseau @ beeboisseau on 5/21.

So come chill on the sidewalk with us or grab an outdoor table at American Son and enjoy the sounds of spring.

(Kintsugi will be closed during this time, please hop into American Son for all your food and beverage needs.)

04/09/2021

Join for the 2 Year Anniversary Pop Up shop, live music, and Sunday panel discussion.

2 years ago, the mounting tension caused by gentrification and mass erasure of D.C. culture came to a boiling point at the corner of Georgia and Florida Avenue. A Metro PCS store known for playing and selling GoGo music was silenced after complaints from a neighboring and newly constructed apartment building.

The response, a now-infamous slogan of “Don’t Mute D.C.,” lit up social media timelines across the nation. Long-time activists and musicians banded together to show the world that GoGo was about love, community, and fun by throwing the first-ever Moechella at the intersection of 14th and U Street. The streets swelled as thousands came out to reclaim their city and the joy of its music. The demonstration also spawned a series of protests demanding deeper investments in education, healthcare, and prison reform to benefit existing residents instead of sweeping them aside for new buildings and big business.

This celebration will highlight the Long Live GoGo book (published by .nomu_ ) which chronicles the movement. All images are shot by D.C.-based photographers - a few of which will be featured on our virtual panel discussion Sunday at 1 PM.

01/21/2021

We are very happy to announce that Kintsugi is finally set to open on Monday, January 25th from 7:00AM - 3:00 PM.

We look forward to breaking bread and coffee with you ☕️ 🥐

03/19/2020

features a curated selection of periodicals, zines, and products from the hotel’s nostalgic newsstand and retail outpost, Hometown, making Kintsugi a leading coffee/retail/culture hybrid in D.C.

03/17/2020

“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the people began to think differently.

"And the people healed. And, in the absence of people living in ignorant, dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways, the earth began to heal.

"And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again, they grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images, and created new ways to live and heal the earth fully, as they had been healed”, Kitty O'Meara.

03/15/2020

03/12/2020

“I think it’s healing behavior to look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it”, Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy.

03/10/2020

Whatever your first brew and whoever with - kintsugi is a radical new coffee culture at inspired by European cafés where people convene, converse and collaborate.

03/08/2020

“If the first woman God eve made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again”, Sojourney Truth.

Sojourner Truth (born Isabella [Belle] Baumfree; c. 1797 – November 26, 1883) was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.