Tomorrow is the deadline for our contest with the Phillips Collection, Make Your Own Morandi. Get your photos in by midnight!
>> PostSecret opens a new exhibit with more of their profound, embarrassing, and uncomfortably poignant anonymous postcards at Hillyer in Confessions on Life, Death and God. Opening reception is 6 to 9 p.m. with DJ Fleg, $5 at the door. Since it’s First Friday in Dupont, head around the neighborhood for more exhibits, such as Mother Nature and Friends at Foundry Gallery, 6 to 8 p.m., and a reception and artist talk for Coup d’Space at Washington Project for the Arts, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
>> Fashion/art mag Panda Head is having a launch party for their next issue at Comet Ping Pong on Friday. Preview short films and music videos featured in the issue and enjoy live music from New Rock Church of Fire. 10 p.m. to 2 a.m., free.
>> Crafters, direct yourselves to the Summit of Awesome, three days filled with business seminars for artists and crafters, workshops, film screenings, and parties. Get all the details here, and head to their kick-off party at Gate 54 from 5 to 8 p.m. tonight.
>> Civilian Art Projects opens two solo shows from D.C. artists Erick Jackson and Ken D. Ashton. Jackson’s exhibit, All Night Flight, features over 60 drawings from his childhood memories of movies and television shows — the stills that have been “etched into [his] psyche.” Ashton’s The M Street Project is a photographic story-board of this route through our city.
>> Eclectic collector of lost and discarded letters and notes, FOUND Magazine, presents its new book, Requiem for a Paper Bag, at Warehouse on Sunday. The night will no doubt be as strange and amusing as the items the mag features, including music, bizarre performance art, and more. $10 at the door, 8 p.m.
>> Support some talented kids at the fundraiser and opening of Through the Lens of D.C. Youth at ARTiculate Gallery next Wednesday, 6:30 to 9 p.m. The exhibit is made possible by Critical Exposure, which teaches kids photography to document their lives — in particular, problems with school facilities — and use the results to bring about change.
