Clap Your Hands Say Yeah performs their entire debut album at the Rock and Roll Hotel Friday Night
Summer is here. Not technically of course but we can wear white shoes now so that’s good enough.
Where will we wearing said shoes this weekend?
Tonight is a Pay What You Can preview of the playwright’s collective The Welders return to the Atlas for the world premiere of happiness (and other reasons to die) by Bob Bartlett. A comedy about hoarding and suicide pacts? Sounds good. Throw in a Bob Dylan obsession and an immortal dog and I think my weekend is set. The show runs through June 13 and more information and tickets can be found here.
Friday night the indie band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah returns to the Rock and Roll Hotel. The band is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its debut album with a US tour. Tickets are $20 and the show begins at 9pm with the opening act Teen Men. Doors open at 8pm. Get your tickets here.
The Hill Center teams up with DC Public Library to celebrate National Bicycle Month with a free evening of bike films. The “bike drive in” features three documentaries about bike culture including Racing Towards Red Hook about an underground, nighttime, fixed gear bike race in….Brooklyn. I challenge you to find a more hipster film anywhere. The films begin at sundown. You can register ahead of time here.
Keep the bike theme alive Saturday with Tour de Fat. The annual celebration of bikes and beers returns to Yards Park. The event is sponsored by New Belgium Brewing Company which brews the tasty Fat Tire. Registration begins at 10am and there is a bike ride at 11am, The rest of the days features performances, races and beer tastings. Proceeds form the days will go to local cycling groups such as the Washington Area Bike Association and Black Women Bike DC. You can view the entire schedule here.
The Coalition for Smarter Growth is hosting a Walking tour of Hill East Saturday from 10am to noon. The tour will examine ways of upcoming changes to the community for Eastern Market to Barney Circle. Meeting place is TBD. I will post a location when they confirm.
Sunday at 2pm is the final performance of Theater Alliance’s production of Dontrell Who Kissed the Sea just across the river at the Anacostia Playhouse. The play tells the story of 18 year old Dontrell Jones the Third who decides that it is his duty and destiny to venture into the Atlantic Ocean in search of an ancestor lost during the Middle Passage but his family is not willing to let him go. Tickets are $20 – $35 and are available here.