Come celebrate Valentine’s Eve with true tales of psycho high school girlfriends, celebrity crushes, and bad teen fan fiction!
Mortified is a comic excavation of adolescent writing, art, and media. Hailed as a “cultural phenomenon” by Newsweek, Mortified is a live show that allows us to relive the strange and extraordinary things we created as kids. Witness adults sharing their own adolescent journals, letters, poems, lyrics, home movies, stories, and more. Open to anyone from actors to accountants. Must be 21+.
Tickets have been selling quickly for the show! If you don’t want to miss our tales of childhood obsessions, teenage angst, and young adult adventures, get your tickets in advance!
Buy yours at http://mortified-dc.
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
Join us Thursday, February 14th at 9pm for a night of love power.
No other emotion has inspired the humanity more than LOVE. The pursuit of it has resulted in great poetry, great music, and great stories. After all, there is a reason as to why it is one of the most common themes in arts!
To remind you that Love is not just an emotion or a sentiment, but is the most powerful force in the world we are turning on Love Power and projecting it throughART
at the historic POWERHOUSE, which once again opens its doors to the public! Constructed in 1917 by the D.C. Paper Manufacturing Company, this three-bay brick-and-steel structure was built to serve as the power house in Georgetown!
SINGLE? Come and may be you’ll meet that special one
IN LOVE? Well, bring your date and share in this incredible night
HAVE A CRUSH? Let us know and we’ll be your best CUPID
Let’s turn on the LOVE POWER!
Tickets: Please get your tickets in advance
SPECIAL THANKS TO
& RISEEVENTS
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
True tales about the pleasures and perils of romance at SpeakeayDC’s Sucker for Love Valentine’s Day Special at Dance Place Feb 14, 15 & 16, 2013
Whether you’re with your sweetie or single, SpeakeasyDC’s 6th annual Sucker for Love storytelling show is a unique and unforgettable way to spend Valentine’s Day — listening to heartfelt and hilarious true stories about loves found, lost, and imagined. As always, SpeakeasyDC promises storytelling at its best with a cast of new and veteran storytellers, including Dan Coyle telling about what it’s like to date after thirty years of marriage; Mikael Johnson shedding light on what to do when your new girlfriend has a teenage daughter; and Cindy and Mike Kane sharing two vastly different perspectives on the same courtship. The show also featuring, Elizabeth McCain, Elissa Laura, Mike Baireuther, and Callie Wright, with host and director Stephanie Garibaldi.
Dates: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 14, 15 & 16
Time: All shows will take place at 8pm
Location: Dance Place at 3225 8th Street NE, Washington DC 20017
Price: $25 (includes $3 fee)
Ticket Link: https://danceplace.secure.
Box Office: 202-269-1600
Info Link: http://www.speakeasydc.com/
Age: Mature material. Recommended for 18+.
Other info: The February 16th show include Dance Place’s annual dance party with DJ Glowstik)
Dangerously Delicious Pies food truck will be parked out front every night from 7-8pm.
The Pier is a simple story of the personal, and very human, battle between an Irish father and his emigrant son. Called home from New York by his long-estranged father, who reportedly is on his deathbed, Larry McCarthy finds the old man has worked yet another con on him. An amusing battle of wills follows.
Filmed in New York and West Cork, Ireland, The Pier stars Karl Johnson, Gerard Hurley and Lili Taylor. Hurley wrote, directed and acts in this film.
“… never comes close to striking a bum note.”
– The Irish Times critic Donald Clarke
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.Run time: 86 minutesLobby
FREE admission and FREE popcorn!
(seating is on a first-come, first-served basis)
This event is geared to engage , musicians, venue owners, local businesses, event planners, tech developers, writers and music fans of all ages. How do social networks help build a stronger cultural community in our city. What are the tools we are using? How should we as a community engage each other on a more meaningful basis. How do musicians transform this meaningful engagement into a greater fanbase. Who in DC is having the most success doing this? How does each part of the cultural community play a role in our social network?
Metro Music Source will be co-hosting an evening of networking speakers and panels. The event will begin with an introduction by Hosan Lee, Founder and CEO of TableTribes and will be followed by a series of group discussions. Participants will include:
Chris MacDonald of HugeFan,
Jon Meyers of the Vinyl District,
Andy Cerutti of Fort Knox Recordings,
Stephanie Williams of DC Music Download,
Chris Richards Pop Music Critic for the Washington Post,
Jimmy Rhodes of Hood Booking, Inc (R&R Hotel + DC9),
Diana Ezerins Production Coordinator for the Millennium Stage at the Kennedy Center,
Bob Boilen creator/host of NPR’s All Songs Considered
Jennifer Vinson of DC Setlist/ Hamilton Live,
Jem Bahaijoub of ImaginePR,
Dave Mallen of Innovation Station Music and many more…
SCHEDULE:
5:30pm – Mingle Drink Be Merry
6:00pm- 6:30pm – Presentations, Opening Statement and Q&A
6:30pm – 8:00pm – Participant and Panel Discussion
8:00pm – 9:00pm – Metro Music Source – Music Industry Networking Happy Hour
Art Soiree Productions will present its 4th annual Live Viewing Night of OSCARS – 85th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton, 3100 South Street NW, Washington, DC. The event is organized to celebrate and toast to the winners and all the talented people in the movie industry that entertain us throughout the year with their creations.
Night’s guests will enjoy a true Hollywood Glamour experience with Red Carpet, Flash Lights, Cameras, Interviews, Live Broadcasting, Live Music, Live Entertainment, Specialty Themed Cocktails, Oscars Pool and watch a live telecast of the 85th Academy Awards on multiple screens. The evening will feature special live performance by St. Charles String Quartet playing songs from the Oscar nominated movies.
Art Soiree’s Live Viewing Night of Oscars is the most visible and successful event in Washington, DC on Oscar night. The night benefits Art Soiree’s local artistic efforts and the funds are used to support organization’s wide range of initiatives, including production of local art exhibits showcasing local talents and sponsoring DC artists on a national and international levels such as showcasing them at the annual Art Basel Miami Beach fair.
The Ritz-Carlton and epgPR have partnered with Art Soiree Productions as the evening’s generous Co-Sponsors.
Tickets for the event are on sale and can be purchase at http://oscarsdc2013.eventbrite
Regular package: $30 Pre-Sale, $40 General
Event is 21+, Strictly Black Tie Attire, Red carpet, photo props, step and repeat, admission to Degrees lounge area, 5 tv screens, cash bar, and more
VIP package: $75 Pre-Sale, $90 General
Event is 21+, Strictly Black Tie Attire, Red carpet, admission to ballroom with lounge seating and broadcasting on 7.5x10ft screen, complimentary hors d’ouevres, private cash bar, gift bags, live entertainment, musical band, photo props, step and repeat, and more
Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s is the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene.
Curator’s Talk: Roger Gastman
Wednesday, February 27, 7 p.m.
$10 Members; $12 Public
To complement Pump Me Up, the exhibition he curated, graffiti historian Roger Gastman discusses the graffiti of Washington, D.C. Gastman began writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda. An exhibition viewing and book signing follows the talk.
The exhibition explores the visual culture of the “other D.C.,” demonstrating its place in the history of street art as well as that of America’s capital city. In the midst of notorious problems with drugs and corruption, D.C. gave birth to an infectious visual culture captured in the exhibition through posters, graffiti, graphic art, archival photographs, and ephemera. Pump Me Up tells a local history from a local point of view, while providing a framework for the contemporary surge of interest in street art and underground graphics.
Pump Me Up traces the history of graffiti in Washington while emphasizing its inextricable ties to the burgeoning forms of local music. The exhibition highlights the vibrant scene that sprang up around Go-Go, a local form of funk pioneered by Chuck Brown and others, including the stripped-down “Go-Go graffiti” style. Started by neighborhood “crews,” this style became a hallmark of the D.C. style of graffiti writing. Around the same time, an underground hardcore and punk scene sprang up in venues like the Wilson Center and the 9:30 Club.
Ephemera, photos, flyers, posters, records, newspaper clippings, stage clothes, instruments, video loops, and much more, all made largely between 1980 and 1992, will fill the Corcoran’s Atrium and Rotunda, bringing the era to life. The exhibition includes sections on graffiti writers (notably the work of COOL “DISCO” DAN), the D.C. punk, hardcore, and Go-Go scenes, concert posters made by the Baltimore-based Globe printing press, and visual culture from the drug wars.
Pump Me Up is curated by Roger Gastman, who began writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda, Maryland. Since then, he has founded and published the pop culture magazines While You Were Sleeping and Swindle, with Shepard Fairey, and authored a dozen graffiti art books including The History of American Graffiti (with Caleb Neelon; 2011). In 2011 he curated, with Jeffrey Deitch and Aaron Rose, the exhibition Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gastman’s film production credits include Banksy’s Exit through the Gift Shop and the graffiti documentary Wall Writers, and he is currently directing a documentary for Sanrio/Hello Kitty on the history of the brand and its fans.
The fifth anniversary of Commedia dell Media will take the stage at The Hamilton on Thursday, February 28. Commedia dell Media will feature a record-breaking lineup of thirteen vying for the title of “DC’s Funniest Journalist.” Emceed by Brandon Wetherbee, assistant editor of The Huffington Post and host of the comedic talk radio show “You, Me, Them, Everybody,” the show will be driven by the comic stylings of Jon Allen and Patrick Reis of Politico, C-SPAN’s Libby Casey, Rich Edson of Fox Business News, Elahe Izadi of the National Journal, NPR’s Renita Jablonski, CBS Radio’s Chris Lingebach, Natalie McGill of The Nation’s Health, Valerie Paschall of DCist, The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri, Meredith Shiner of CQ/Roll Call, Kat Timpf of Washington Times 24/7, and CCTV’s Mike Walter.For more info about the performers and charities, see our websites, or contact organizer Christina Davidson at Christina@journopalooza.com
Commedia dell Media
Thursday, February 28, 2013
at The Hamilton
600 14th St. NW
Doors 7:00; Comedy 8:00
Tix: $20 advance; $30 day-of-show
