We told you about the sad news earlier this week that Warehouse will be shuttering its music venue, as well as the bar and cafe, come July 30, when the entire place will close for a month for vacation. Now the Warehouse has let us know it is looking for potential investors and advisers who can help draft not-for-profit status paperwork — depending on which route they end up taking. If you can help them out, contact Paul Ruppert at pwr [at] warehousetheater [dot] com.
Now onto your agenda:
>> On Saturday night Warehouse opens an exhibition that pretty much showcases what the venue does best. Art in Heat “explores D.C.’s spin on the widespread art movement referred to as Post Pop, Lowbrow, Pop Surrealism, or Outsider Art.” In other words, it’s experimental, weird as hell, and usually pretty fantastic. Get there early to catch one of the two Lobster Boy Revue performances — they regularly sell out — at 8 or 11 p.m. The reception starts at 7 p.m. and is free, the revue is $12.
>> Belfast photographer Mervyn Smith is no stranger to troubled neighborhoods. He spent two weeks in Anacostia in April, working with Action to Rehabilitate Community Housing (ARCH) by overseeing a youth photography program while simultaneously documenting the landscape of the neighborhood with his own camera. Smith’s stark black-and-white photography, coupled with the poetry of local bard Fred Joiner and others, form the basis of the multimedia Anacostia Exposed, opening Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Honfleur Gallery. Acrylic panels hung from the ceiling offer printed verse from Joiner, providing a unique perspective on the historic Anacostia neighborhood in word and image. Smith has included photography from his own “community practice” in Belfast, inspired by Anacostia’s visual similarity to the troubled neighborhoods in his hometown such at St. Peters and Shankhill — places that are cut off from the city proper much as the Anacostia river separates Wards 7 and 8 from the rest of the District, both geographically and in the minds of its people.
Image of Alan Defibaugh’s Who Do You Want Me to Be to Make You Sleep with Me? from the Art in Heat web site.
Chris Klimek contributed.
