This weekend is an unofficial kick off to the holiday season. Hear me out. From now until New Year’s there will be something to celebrate and sweets and booze to match. Let’s all pace ourselves. Kick off Halloween this weekend by partying in the cemetery or dressing up your dog.
Out of context that is a really weird sentence. ‘Tis the season I guess.
Tonight is Bluegrass Night at the Argonaut featuring Hollertown. Show is upstairs and begins at 8pm. There is no cover.
Friday night at the Hill Center catch the screening of Women in Comedy, a film documenting funny women from Maude to Bridesmaids. The film will be followed by a discussion with three of DC’s funniest women, Katherine Jessup, Jenn Tisdale and Jessica Brodkin. The screening begins at 7:30 and is free though advanced registration is advised.
Saturday night Rorschach Theatre returns to the Atlas for one night of spooky short plays all written and staged in just one week. Klecksography: Haunting Monsters has two showings at 7pm and 9pm. Tickets are $15 and are available here.
At the Hill Center a day of workshops culminates in a concert with some of the areas top string instrumentalists. World on a String: Cross Cultural Concert features Josh Dukes, master of Irish guitar, flute, and percussion, Afro Cuban percussionist Felix Contreras of NPR’s Arts Desk, blues harmonica virtuoso Phil Wiggins, GRAMMY-nominated progressive hip-hop artist Christylez Bacon, Norwegian Hardanger fiddler Loretta Kelley, GRAMMY-nominated Native American cellist Dawn Avery, jazz and gospel singer and pianist Eric Byrd, and storied fiddler and founder of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Alan Jabbour. The concert begins at 7:30. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 the day of the show. Buy tickets and learn more here.
Sunday eat well and help a local school at Taste of H a benefit for J. O. Wilson Elementary at the Atlas. $45 gets you admission and tastes from local restaurants. There are lots of great auction items to bid on so bring your checkbook.