07 Jun 2018

Events:

To Do: Weekend of June 7th -10th

The Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival is Saturday

Happy PRIDE everyone! This is a weekend packed with events and fun for all. It is also graduation for most DCPS high schools. (SOB. Seriously, where does the time go??)

So while I will have my hands filled with pomp and circumstance, you should definitely get out there and enjoy the love and rainbows and bluegrass.

Tonight is the opening night for The Vagrant Trilogy produced by Mosaic Theater Company at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. The three works by Mona Mansour cover the lives of a displaced Palestinian family over the course of four decades. The production is part of Mosaic’s Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival and runs through July 1. Get your tickets here.

Wisdom is celebrating the classy cocktail that is the Negroni, so stop in for various takes on the drink.

The Ivy City (yeah, yeah fine #notontheHill) City Winery hosts a kick off for the citywide DC Jazzfest tonight with urban jazz harmonica player Frédéric Yonnet’ tonight at 7:30pm.  Who knew there was a music venue there? You probably did and I’m late to the party as usual. Their whole schedule is here.

Be practical and learn the art and skill involved with grantwriting at a Grant Writing 101 workshop given by the LGBT organization Brother Help Thyself. The event will be held at Dignity Washington 721 8th St. SE from 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday evening, the youth development program City at Peace presents its final performance of the year at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. These shows, written by the student-performers themselves, are powerful expressions of the voices of a diverse group of young people. This year’s show is called It’s Time We Interrupt This Program, about a fictional television network for and about teenagers. Tickets are $12.

Kick off the weekend listening to Marvillous Beats, another DC Jazzfest artist, as they perform the Free Friday Night Concert at Yards Park.

Saturday morning at 10:30, practice yoga at the Botanic Gardens at a free class offered each week by With Love DC.

It’s the Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival! Enjoy music, food, beer and fun in a family-friendly atmosphere on our own tiny piece of nature which we access via the RFK parking lot. (And that sentence sums up is why I love this weirdo town.) The forecast is looking mostly mud-free unlike years past so go enjoy but get your tickets in advance.

Celebrate Pride on the Pier at the Wharf. From 12 noon to 3 p.m., you can enjoy music and cocktails in the sunshine before heading to the parade in Dupont Circle.

Saturday night at 6 p.m., go see Alice in Wonderland, Jr! Support young local talent at Stuart Hobson Middle School, 410 E Street NE and help out the Capitol Hill Cluster School while you’re at it. Tickets are $7 each or 4 for $20 and are available here.

Sunday, singer-songwriter Laura Tsaggaris performs a free concert in the Chapel at Congressional Cemetery at 6pm. She will be accompanied by other musicians in this show to close out Pride weekend.

Love is love is love is love is love my friends. Share yours with your neighbors and make the world a better place.

 

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