Photo by Sanjay Suchak
JAZZ: 2008 Latin Grammy Award winning ensemble The Afro Bop Alliance perform live tonight at the regular Take Five! jazz concert at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. 5 – 7 p.m. in the Kogod Courtyard. Free.
ART: Join the WVSA ARTs Connection for a free screening of the episode “Fantasy” from PBS’s series Art:21. Doors at 5:30 p.m.; screening followed by a discussion at 7 p.m. with some local artists. For plenty more art-related events tonight, please take a look at our Arts Agenda.
MUSIC: Belgian group Zap Mama will bring their unique combination of European, American and African rhythms together tonight at the Black Cat. $25, 8 p.m.
READING: Head to the 14th Street Busboys and Poets to hear Dr. Cornel West discuss his new memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. And in the best local music tie-in of the week, before West speaks at 6 p.m., D.C. hip hop band The Cornel West Theory performs at 5 p.m. Free.
MOVIE: Egyptian director Magdi Ahmed Ali will be on hand for a screening tonight of his film, Fawzeya’s Secret Recipe , as part of the Arabian Sights Film Festival. Ali is known for his work featuring strong female leads and tackling pro-feminist topics. Fawzeya’s Secret Recipe is about an independent woman who has been married four times and bore children in each of the marriages, but still serves all of her ex-husbands dinner on a weekly basis. The film screens at 6:30 p.m. at the E Street Cinema (also Friday at 9 p.m. at the National Geographic Society).
