Week 14: August 29 – September 4 . . . the final countdown!

The final week of the 2011 Summer in the City Blog, it all comes to a blazing end on Sunday, September 4th. If you’ve been waiting to be this year’s fundraising drive super hero, now’s the time to step up to the challenge and change a few Art for Change lives.

DC Adventures

Monday

Rahim AlHaj
Event Type: Grammy nominee Iraqi oud virtuoso takes the millennium stage
Location: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC)
Time: 6:00 PM
Cost: FREE

Forum Season 8 Preview
Event Type: Sneak Peak of Forum Theatre’s 2011-2012 Season
Location: Round House Silver Spring (8641 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD)
Time: 7:30 PM
Cost: FREE, space limited RSVP requested

Tuesday

Julius Caesar (thru September 4th)
Event Type: Free Shakespeare for all
Location: Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW
Time: 2:00 PM and 7:30/8:00 PM
Cost: FREE

Wednesday

National Portrait Gallery Pop Quiz: Invention and Innovation with DJ Maskell
Event Type: Multimedia Trivia . . theme Invention
Location: National Portrait Gallery Kogod Courtyard (Eighth and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.)
Time: 5:30 PM Music starts, 6:30PM trivia game begins
Cost: FREE

Thursday

Art after Dark
Event Type: Art, Music and an Open Bar
Location: Art Museum of the Americas (201 18th Street, NW)
Time: 8:00 PM
Cost: $25.00 advance, $30.00 at Door

Jazz on Jackson Place
Event Type: Jazz under the Stars
Location: Decatur House on Lafayette Square(1610 H Street, NW Washington)
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Cost: $25.00

Friday

Lohninger, Fischbacher and Band
Event Type: Jazz at the Embassy
Location: Embassy of Austria (3524 International Court NW)
Time: 7:30 PM
Cost: FREE, RSVP required


NY Adventures

Monday

Moth Story Slam: Drive
Event Type: Story Telling at its best . . . most of the time
Location: The Bitter End (147 Bleeker Street)
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: $8.00

MoMA Films: The Kings of Pastry
Event Type: Sugar Sculpture that will make a grown man cry
Location: MoMA, Theatre 1 (11 West 53rd Street, New York)
Time: 7:00 PM
Cost: $10.00

Wednesday

Bright Eyes
Event Type: Outdoor concert with Indie originals
Location: Williamsburg Waterfront (East River Park between North 8th and North 9th Streets)
Time: 5:30 PM
Cost: $35.00

Thursday

Charles Yang
Event Type: Classical Violin with a rock star slant
Location: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Broadway at 62nd Street)
Time: 8:30 PM
Cost: FREE