

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: DC | The Story of Chocolate
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Bring the whole family or your Valentine to enjoy a day of chocolate history, culture, and food. Visitors can watch as Executive Chef Alex Strong of the museum's own Mitsitam Cafe shows how she makes some tasty chocolate treats, enjoy performances by dance group Danza Tecuanis, and follow the path from blossom to beverage with an interactive presentation, and make and take a bookmark to remember the day! 

SCHEDULE

Level 3, imagiNATIONS Activity Center 

10 AM-4 PM | Amate Bookmark Activity
        -Made from fig and mulberry bark, "amate" is a type of paper that has been made and used by Indigenous communities of what is now Mexico for generations. Amate was often used to create codices or folding books. Join our museum educators to make and take home your own amate bookmark.  
            *Please note: The imagiNATIONS Activity Center has a limited capacity and is first come, first served and sometimes requires free timed entry tickets. Please see imagiNATIONS Activity Center staff for details. 

Level 1, Potomac Atrium                            

10:30 AM-5 PM | Blossom to Beverage 
        -The Jose Reyes Family (Mixtec) will share the process of turning cacao into chocolate. "Blossom to Beverage" delves deep into cacao, from blooms through ripe cacao pods, and finishes with the frothy beverage we recognize as hot chocolate. 

Level 1, Potomac Atrium

11 AM, 2 PM | Food demonstrations with Executive Chef Alexandra Strong
        -Mitsitam's executive chef will demonstrate live how she makes mole and Tres Leches hot chocolate. 

12:30 PM, 3:30 PM | Performances by Danza Tecuanis
       -Local Mixtec dance group Danza Tecuanis fill the Potomac Atrium with movement.  

FREE, NO TICKETS REQUIRED

*Schedule subject to change
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/washington/dc-|-the-story-of-chocolate/200029635548612
- **Event Categories**: food-drinks, dance, valentines-day
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 322

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029635548612?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=washington-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Washington
- **state**: DC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
- **lat**: 38.888326535208
- **long**: -77.016622796133
- **full address**: Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C., Washington, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (https://allevents.in/org/smithsonian’s-national-museum-of-the-american-indian/19977282)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 14 Feb, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C., Washington, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** food-drinks, dance, valentines-day
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about DC | The Story of Chocolate ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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