Greetings all! The last weekend of January is here, somehow. Time rushes on and therefore we must stop and mark it with some stellar neighborhood activities. Onward!
Object Collection brings their Fugazi opera It’s All True to the Rock and Roll Hotel Saturday night. (Photo courtesy of Object Collection)
Tonight at the Hill Center, you can listen to poet Sally Wen Mao, the 2017-2018 Jenny McKean Moore Writer-in-Residence at George Washington University. Mao will be in conversation with poet and essayist Jennifer Chang. The Pen/Faulkner Foundation and the Hill center co-sponsor this event with the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. The talk is free and begins at 7 p.m. Register here.
Friday night at 6:30p.m. is Brews and Banter at the Folger. Bluejacket Brewery supplies the brews and patrons have the opportunity to chat up two of the cast members of the current production, The Way of the World. Tickets to the boozy chat are $20. Patrons under 30 years old can purchase discounted tickets to that evenings performance for $25. Learn more here.
Saturday night at the Rock and Roll Hotel is It’s All True, an opera by Object Collection based on the live archives of the iconic DC punk band Fugazi. Composer Travis Just and writer/director Kara Feely’s work uses only the incidental music, text and sounds, none of Fugazi’s actual songs. The work includes recorded snippets from shows from 1987 to 2002. The doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20. Learn more here.
Sunday, bring the kids to the Northeast Library for Lego Club. All kids ages 5 – 12 are welcome to attend and those under 9 must have an adult with them. Everyone will build and craft and engage in Lego challenges. The action begins at 1 p.m. in the Lower Level Meeting Room.
Have a great weekend!