Super Art Fight returns with their annual Non-Denomination Holiday Spectacular. (Photo via Facebook)
This weekend’s agenda includes more holiday markets, a 24-hour theater festival, a Christmas movie marathon, and more.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9
SUPER ART FIGHT: If you enjoy “horribly drawn nipples, horrendous fan-suggest artistic topics, and the dumbest humor imaginable,” you’ll want to head to Super Art Fight’s latest live art competition, The Third Annual Non-Denominational Holiday Spectacular. (Black Cat, 8 p.m. $15)
IIMPROVISATIONAL THEATRE: The Chicago comedy troupe The Second City has a strong presence in D.C. this month. In addition to bringing you The Black Side of the Moon, which runs at Woolly Mammoth Theatre through January 1, they are now bringing you Twist Your Dickens, a parody of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , running December 9-31. Eleven shows are already sold out, and a very small number of seats remain at all other shows. (The Kennedy Center, times vary, $49-79). Meanwhile, in Arlington, you have eleven chances to catch their Nut-Cracking Holiday Revue, featuring original songs and brand new sketches. (Arlington Drafthouse, times vary, $30-35)
HOLIDAY GIFT MAKING: The DC Public Library’s Holiday Happy Hour provides guests with materials from the Fab Lab, the DIY space filled with laser cutters, 3-D printers, and soldering tools. Customize your own stationary, candle holders, laser cut and 3-D printed ornaments, and more. (Dream Lab, MLK Library, 5:30-7:30 p.m. $35)
24-HOUR FEST: Play Pokemon and Mario at 3:30 in the morning during Flying V Theatre’s Awesome-a-thon: A 24 Hour Flying V Fest. During this all day event, the ensemble company dedicated to “offbeat contemporary plays inspired by genre fiction, comic books, and other modern mythologies,” will also offer readings of new plays in development, open workshops and rehearsals, a podcast recording, a game of Dungeons and Dragons, and more. (Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, 8 p.m. Friday-10 p.m. Saturday, donations requested)
REPEAL DAY BALL: Celebrate the 83rd anniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition with the DC Craft Bartenders’ Guild. Their 9th Annual Repeal Day Ball features cocktails crafted by the area’s best mixologists, plus visiting bartenders from NYC, Chicago, Las Vegas, and more. (Carnegie Library, 8 p.m.-12 a.m. $80)
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The Lemon Bowl, a gathering space to teach and learn new DIY skills, hosts a Maker Market this Saturday. (Photo via Facebook)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10
HOLIDAY MARKETS: Choose between the 11th Annual Upshur Street Art and Craft Fair, where vendors will line the streets to sell their handmade goods (800 Block of Upshur St NW, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.), the Holiday Market at White Cloud Gallery, featuring over a dozen artists selling jewelry, paintings, ceramics, handbags, and more (11 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday), and finally, the Maker Market at the Lemon Bowl, the gathering space for teaching and learning DIY skills (12-5 p.m.). If that isn’t enough for you, check out our full list of 16 holiday markets.
HOLIDAY CARDS: Make your own holiday cards at one of two workshops. Both the National Postal Museum (11 a.m.- 4 p.m.) and Georgetown Library (2 p.m.-4 p.m.) will provide attendees with free materials, so take a few minutes out of your day to add a personal touch to your holiday gifts.
PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL: Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s Annual Performance Festival features music and dance performances by students of all ages, a ceramics sale, gingerbread house-making, plus a gallery opening complete with wine and cheese. Click here for a full schedule of events. (CHAW, 7:30 a.m.-7 p.m. FREE)
More: Gay Men’s Chorus, Nationals Winterfest, Used Book Sale, Selfies with Santa, Nerd Nite, Agora Dance, DIY Electronics
Grey Moggie Press is one of the featured vendors at the DC Maker’s Market at East City Bookshop. (Photo via Facebook)
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11
HOLIDAY SHOPPING: Holiday markets are the place to be this month. Get used to it. A few on Sunday’s schedule include DC Maker’s Market at East City Bookshop, featuring free gift wrapping with your purchase of quirky tee shirts, unique letterpress cards, watercolor prints, and more. (12-5 p.m. FREE). Meanwhile, Holidaze at The Fillmore Silver Spring features over three dozen vendors selling jewelry, ceramics, prints, bags, and more. (10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE)
CHRISTMAS MOVIE MARATHON: Some people watch one Christmas movie a day leading up to December 25th, but why not watch six in one afternoon? Your ticket to the 2016 Christmas Movie Festival at Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse grants you the ability to come and go as you please as they screen holiday classics including A Christmas Story, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. (12:30-7:20, $8)
EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILMS: Stimulate your senses with fifteen short experimental films featured at Fields Festival 2016, Baltimore’s “music & arts camping experience.” (Rhizome DC, 8:30 p.m. $6 suggested donation)
THEATRE: The Rainbow Theatre Project presents The DOMA Diaries. Based on real stories of LGBT Americans, the play tells the story of three couples who take up the fight against “The Defense of Marriage Act.” (Source Theatre, 7:30 p.m. $20)
More: tiny house tour, Modern Eucalyptus Wreath Making Workshop, Yin & Gin, Chaplin’s The Kid, 11th Annual Holiday Concert & Sing Along!, Mexican-Jewish Food Heritage
