Seven weddings and no funerals in this week’s Arts Agenda.

Everyone loves a parade, and on Saturday, the Washington Project for the Arts held their first WPArade, where artists and arts organizations showcased moving art, floats, portable sculpture and street performance along Half Street SE. The Batala Percussion Band started the parade off right, putting the meager crowd in the right frame of mind for some performance art. Some fun sculptures graced the parade, including a large rhinoceros art bike made from recycled materials. Artomatic…

All you need for a parade is a saxophone, a snare drum, searing heat, a couple a kiddie bombs, and the Floating Lab Collective. That is, if your parade is a WParade. Artists and arts organizations John James Anderson, Batala Washington, Adrienne Mills, and the Glade Dance Collective — among others — introduced a new art parade along the Capitol Riverfront in Southeast. It all seems very far away, what with the weather right…

Still of LoopLoop by Patrick Bergeron Courtesy WPA Opening Thursday, the Washington Project for the Arts will present their annual Experimental Media Series, a juried show that highlights a wide selection of video and sound art. Chosen from 150 entries, the show consists of a total of 27 pieces, including five sound art selections and six student works. Juried by Kelly Gordon, Associate Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and produced by…

The Washington Project for the Arts held a synchronized swimming showcase and competition, dubbed WPA SynchroSwim, at the Capitol Skyline Hotel pool on Sunday, and DCist photographer Meaghan Gay stopped by to take in the action….

At the end of the 2007-2008 school year, 21 schools in the DCPS closed for good. During the summer, the city put up a request for proposals for ways to reuse the buildings, and via the Bloomingdale blog, it looks like some of our local arts supporters grabbed on to the opportunity. The newly formed FLUX is a collaboration between the Washington Project for the Arts, Molly and Paul Ruppert of Warehouse, and Artomatic. The…