The Atlas All-Arts Festival Opens This Weekend
Check out these Family-friendly performances and events:
Celebrity Story Time
Local notables read versions of popular tales featured in Sing Down the Moon.
This week we are honored to host,
Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells
Imagination Stage's Kate Bryer
American Youth Chorus' David Simmons
10:30 am
FREE
Arts on the Horizon
All Around Me
Multi-sensory workshop using story and song to help your child discover the exraordinary
in the everyday.
For young children (18 mos -3 years) and
their caregivers
11am
$5 for children/caregivers free
Tickets
Sing Down the Moon:
Appalachian Wonder Tales
An award-winning musical for the whole
family that spins well-known tales into a
crazy quilt of Appalachian lore, humor
and wisdom.
Best for ages 5+
11am and 1pm
$15/$10 students
Tickets
Boogie Babes' Present
Mr Skip
A rock-star for the preschool crowd whose sing-along concerts get the
audience moving.
12pm
FREE
CIRCUS FUN DAY With ZIP ZAP
Zip Zap Circus USA & Airborne DC
Circus Fun
Try juggling and balancing on a tight-rope when Zip Zap Circus USA's instructors share circus skills with all ages.
12pm -4pm
FREE
Circus for Life: A Workshop of Discovery, experience how the fun of clowning, juggling and simple acrobatic partnering can open you to try new things and to rust and support yourself and others in this collaborative and interactive experience.
2:30pm
Ages 13+
$20
Workshop is free with purchased ticket to
Magic in the Air performance
Or
$10 ticket with promo
code CIRC10 for workshop only
Register
Magic in the Air
A collective of dancing aerialists takes flight
in a soaring salute to courage, risk and joy in
a benefit performance for the youth empowerment programs of Zip Zap
Circus USA.
5:30 and 8pm
All ages
$25/$15 student
Tickets
Learn to Square Dance!
(Free with Feb 23 ticket to Sing
Down the Moon)
12:15pm
Northeast Senior Singers
Cotton Field to Concert Hall: The Negro SpiritualSinger extraordinaire Charles Williams guest stars in a full-of-heart concert presented the Atlas' longest-running community-based performing group.
1pm
FREE Click here to reserve
Tosin
Igi Nsoro: Talking Trees
Drum circle, story and concert combine in an interactive experience for all ages with Nigerian-born Tosin to celebrate the tree as the life source of many musical intruments.
4pm
$10/$8 student
Tickets
Can't choose just one? You don't have to!
Create your own festival experience.
2013 INTERSECTIONS Multi-Show Pass
Enjoy INTERSECTIONS with a Multi-Show Pass.
Purchase 3 or more performances and receive 20% off your entire order.
A great way to enjoy the festival!
We may have a few suggestions for you. Check them out here.
Purchase Multi-Show Pass.
The Washington Post
Café Concert Series
Free Concerts in the Atlas Lobby
Enjoy an "intersection" of art, culture and connection, before or after a mainstage show.
Relax in the Atlas' Kogod Lobby, meet festival artists and enjoy drinks and light fare from our café.
Free concerts are programmed throughout the INTERSECTIONS Festival.
Café concerts this weekend include performances by:
Cecily
Sarah Hughes
Matthew Mills
note BUSTERS
Mark Sylvester
For a complete schedule check the website.INTERSECTIONS 2013 SPONSORS
Founding Sponsor
The FIRE Fund of the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region
Founding Media Sponsor
Sponsors
Sprenger Lang Foundation
Sam Rose/Union Center Plaza management Corporation
BB&T
M. Ann Belkov
Capitol Hill Community Foundation
H Street Main Street
Media Partners
Atlas Performing Arts Center uses Vendini for ticketing, marketing, and box office management.
Atlas Performing Arts Center - 1333 H Street Northeast, Washington, DC, 20002, (202) 399-7993 x2
The Atlas Performing Arts Center is seeking additional volunteers for its fourth annual, three-week INTERSECTIONS Festival (Friday, February 22 – Sunday, March 10, 2013 ), which includes over 125 multidisciplinary, collaborative performances and brings together over 12,000 people to deepen connection and expand common experience through the arts.
From Family Saturdays featuring performances and events for children to late-night dance parties and jazz jam sessions, the INTERSECTIONS Festival seeks to connect the broadest possible audience with the most exciting new ways of making community-inspiring art. To learn more about the INTERSECTIONS Festival, go to www.intersectionsdc.org.
If you like to volunteer during INTERSECTIONS please send an email to Elena Forbes eforbes AT atlasarts DOT org or call her directly at (202) 399-7993 ext. 144 if you are interested in learning more.
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