Scena Theatre’s latest work at the Atlas explores BOB Dylan and the fall of teh Berlin Wall
A three-day weekend is almost here –four-day if you have a DCPS kid. So what should you do with all that free time?
Tonight head to the Atlas for a new work produced this week by SCENA Theatre. Lady Lay imagines a story of a woman who hears Bob Dylan for the first time and then experiences the fall of the Berlin wall. (25 years ago in November! Old. So. Old.) The show runs only this week. Tickets are available here. From the Atlas website: “Lady Lay asks: what is freedom? And can Dylan take us there?” It’s like I’m back in college with my Dylan-worshiping boyfriends…that and the wall? I need a minute here.
Okay I’m back.
Learn about Peruvian cooking with the Peruvian brothers at the Hill Center. Chef Mario Lanzone and his brother Giuseppe are the aforementioned bros and their food truck just won Washingtonian Magazine’s award for Best Food Truck in 2015. The menu includes Quinoa Salad, Salsa Criolla, Fresh Fish Ceviche and Pan Con Chicharrón, along with Macchu Pisco Sours, Macchu Pisco Chilcanos, and non-alcoholic options. The class begins at 7pm and costs $85. Register here.
Friday night at CHAW is another round of ARTnights. Your options are either Paint ‘n Sip or The Art and History of Burlesque. Win-Win.
The Folger Consort opens the season with Chanson Medieval: The Music of Machaut and Dufay. This concert celebrates Guillaume de Machaut and Guillaume Dufay, two of the most important French composers of the 14th and 15th centuries. Tickets are $25 – $40 and are available here.
Saturday morning is the final Yoga Mortis of the season at Congressional Cemetery. Enjoy your Suryanamaskars surrounded by hundreds of former Washingtonians. BYO mat, water and sunscreen and meet the instructor at the gate at 11:30am.
The Argonaut (1433 H Street NE) will host a book reading/signing/Q and A with former Washington Post reporter Ruben Castaneda on Saturday at 4 p.m. Castaneda who both covered the 90s crack wars and became a user himself, wrote about his experience in his memoir, S Street Rising. He will discuss what the city was like during the crack era and the recent surge in D.C. crime.
Sunday at 2:15pm the Rosedale Library is screening of award-winning author Chiamanda Ngozi’s Adichie movie Half of a Yellow Sun – an adaptation of her book about the historic Biafran war.
That evening at at 7pm H Street’s Escape Lounge will host a competition for Washington, DC entrepreneurs to pitch business plans to a panel of judges for a chance to advance to the 2016 InnovateHER finals, where you will have an opportunity to compete for cash prizes totaling up to $70,000! If you are a DC lady with a business idea check out the official rules here.