Capitol City Sypmphony performs Charlie Barnett’s Mid Centuty Mambo Sunday afternoon at the Atlas.
The weather is finally feeling autumnal! The calendar is filling up, so here’s hoping the mosquitoes die very, very soon.
Tonight at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Folger Institute’s Leture Series presents Sir Keith Thomas, an Honorary Fellow at All Souls College at Oxford. Sir Keith will speak about “The Ends of Education in Early Modern England.” The lecture begins at 6:30 and tickets are $15/ $10 for members. Get your tickets here.
Friday night the Atlas Performing Arts Center holds its third annual gala. The event takes over the entire facility with performances in every space. Treats from area restaurants such as Maketto and Granville Moore’s will be served. Having attended this event in the past, I can assure you it is a fun night out and lives up to its tagline of “not your usual gala.” Food, drinks and fun all for a worthy cause. Tickets are available here.
The Hill Center presents an evening of stand up comedy Friday at 8 p.m. A Sublime Stand-Up Comedy Series hosted by DC native Allan Sidley and featuring headliner Ryan Schutt. Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Get them here.
Congressional Cemetery is introducing a new series of tours this October called Soul Strolls: Twilight Tours at Congressional Cemetery. Expect to meet cemetery “residents” which include a crew consisting of Congressman to carpenters, suffragists to bootleggers. Soul Strolls take place over four nights beginning this Friday the 16th and continuing on the 17th and October 23rd and 24th. The hour-long tours will leave every 20 minutes between 6 and 9 p.m., and beer, wine, and hot cider will be for sale. Adult tickets are $20; children 12 and under are $10. Get your tickets in advance here.
Saturday, Rappahannock Oyster Company hosts the second annual DC Oysterfest at Union Market between 12 noon and 5 p.m. Admission includes your first six oysters and drink but there will plenty more on hand to purchase as well as goodies from 3 Stars Brewing Company, Hardywood Brewery, Red Apron, Gordy’s Pickles, Early Mountain Wine, Pepe by José Andres, DC Slices, Capitoline Vermouth, Flying Dog Brewery, Dolcezza,and James River Distillery and enjoyed with a background of live bluegrass by Circa Blue. These things tend to sell out so get your tickets now.
House-porn aficionados, the perpetually fixing-up, run-of-thee-mill nosy parkers, and of course local school supporters of all stripes: Don’t forget Saturday is the Renovator’s House Tour! The tour benefits the Capitol Hill Cluster School which consists of the campuses (Peabody and Watkins Elementary and Stuart-Hobson Middle School. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. attendees are free to gawk at the work of clever Hill neighbors (and their architects, contractors and designers.) Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 the day of the tour. Get them here.
Sunday evening at 5 p.m. is the season opening concert for the Capitol City Symphony, An American Tale. The resident orchestra of the Atlas Performing Arts Center will perform the world premier of DC area composer Charlie Barnett’s Mid-Century Mambo. Also included are Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. Tickets are $15- $25 and are available here.