Marmalade, a performance for children ages 2-6 runs at the Atlas all weekend.
So I’m going to write this pretending that everything will not be canceled and we are not all going to be hunkered down in jammies eating all the comfort food.
Tonight or Snowmas Eve as I’m calling it, should proceed according to plans so perhaps you can squeeze in some fun while you are rampaging through Safeway for bread and milk.
Nu Sass productions brings Stone Tape Party to the Atlas, A modern day house party turned ghost story. Could be a perfect kick off to your hibernation. The show starts at 7pm and tickets are $20-$30. Learn more here.
The Hill Center presents PEN/Faulkner Literary Reading Series which welcomes the short story writer Kseniya Melnik. Melnick’s debut book is the linked story collection Snow in May, which was short-listed for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She will be interviewed by Lisa Page, the Director of Creative Writing at George Washington University. She is a longtime PEN/Faulkner board member, and past President. The talk begins at 7pm and is free. Register here.
Friday take your tiniest friends to Theatre for the Very Young at the Atlas. The production, Marmalade, by Claire Parsons Co from Sweden is a multi-sensory experience for children ages 2-6. The show runs through January 24th and tickets are $9. Learn more here.
Friday night is Craft and Craft Beer night at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. From 7pm to 9pm work on a craft project while sipping good been and chatting with old and new friends. Call 202.547.6839 to register. Cost is $35.
Saturday Ice Yards returns to The Yards. From 2pm to 6pm enjoy music, drinks, an apres ski lounge, boozy snow cones, fire pits, icy versions of shuffleboard and corn hole, indoor snowfall and outdoor fire pits, an ice craving wall, an ice sculpture gallery and a photo booth. That’s a lot for just a $10 admission fee. Get your tickets here, but only if you are 21 and over.
Sunday is a Pay What You Can performance of Mosaic Theater Company’s I Shall Not Hate. It tells the true story of a Gaza fertility doctor who refuses to relinquish in the idea of coexistance even after tragedy befalls his family. The performance is in Hebrew and Arabic and is part of the Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival: The War Comes Home. Israeli, Arab, and American authors chronicle the impact that recent conflagrations in Gaza, Lebanon, and Israel have had upon the Palestinian and Israeli family and a much divided American Jewish community. The production runs through February 14th. Information and tickets can be found here.
Stay safe and warm everyone!