photo courtesy of Cayusa
What does our neighborhood have in store for you this weekend? Will you try a new restaurant? Take in a show? Work on the yard? No actually I do want to know…I will spend the entire weekend in the Atlas and I’m curious about life on the outside.
Tonight at 6:30 is one of those nerdy-cool and only-in-DC events to happen in the neighborhood. The Folger hosts Acquisitions Night 2012, an opportunity to check out the new additions to the library’s collection. Tickets are $100 and include a buffet dinner served in the great hall. Proceeds from the event go to support the library’s acquisitions.
Friday evening the Capital City Players return to the intimate stage at CHAW for Shining City, a play about losing one’s faith, in God , relationships and self. The show runs Thursdays through Saturdays through March 24th, More info can be found here.
Saturday The Southeast Library hosts another book sale from 10am to 3pm. Get there early before all the good stuff is gone. CHAW hosts an opening for the Capitol Hill Art League’s latest show “Do Your Own Thing.” The exhibit was juried by photographer Pete DuVall but features work from a variety of media. The opening runs from 5-7.
Sunday don’t forget to SPRING FORWARD. And check your smoke alarm batteries.
The Capital Lounge is celebrating Daylight Savings by instituting some perks for its neighbors. Your 20002 or 20003 zip code entitles you to one 2cent Bloody Mary at Sunday brunch. Kids under 10 eat free from 10-12.
The Fridge is hosting an artist talk with artists featured in the exhibit KING ME which looks at symbols of power. The talk is from 2-4pm. More on the exhibit can be found here.
It’s the last weekend of the INTERSECTIONS festival and if I had any energy left I’d be jumping for joy. But what keeps me going? All of the awesomeness yet to come. Here are some of the things I’m hoping to sneak into.
Thursday night we have new takes on classical. First choreographer Peter DiMuro asks local dancers from a variety of disciplines (hula! ballet!) and asks them to respond to Rachmaninoff’s Preludes. Cool. Later the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra is going to put a jazzy Big Band swing onto Stravinky’s Rite of Spring. Friday and Saturday night the unbelievably awesome hip hop troupe Ill Style and Peace perform. Seriously, check out the live performance they did for Fox 5’s Holly Morris yesterday morning.
Singer songwriter Rachel Ann Cross performs a song cycle about her house burning down called Happy Mojo Guitar. Saturday Labyrinth Games and CHAW will be in the lobby all day doing free activities with kids as a part of Family Day. Talented singer Imani returns for another knockout concert while Joe Edwards performs Fly, a solo show about living on the streets. Sunday we will shut it down with a concert by Not What You Think benefiting SMYAL’s youth ensemble.
And then we sleep.
Jen DeMayo is the Director of Community for the Atlas Performing Arts Center