Intersections

There's a lot of stuff going on with the Intersections Arts Festival at the Atlas. Here's a bit of info:

Get ready forINTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival. Three ART-filled weekends celebrating who we are, where we come from and where we are going now. Lets meet. Cross. Collide. Coalesce. Collaborate. At INTERSECTIONS. Saturday February 20th is FAMILY DAY at INTERSECTIONS! Featuring FREE events for all ages! Cafe Concert by recent Grammy nominee for Best Children's Album Christylez Bacon. Free workshops with the Capital Children's Museum and Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) Tickets are still available to performances by Coyaba Dance Theater, Reverb and BodyMoves Dance Company! For more information check the INTERSECTIONS website. A "New America" is center stage at the Atlas in DC this winter.  INTERSECTIONS: A New AmericaArts Festival runs weekends, February 19 - March 7, 2010, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street NE.  This multi-disciplinary, multi-ethnic and multi-generational line-up of more than fifty arts events celebrates the cultural dynamics shaping America today. Experience boundary-crossing theater, dance, music, film, visual arts, opera, literary and spoken word.  For more information and tickets please visit www.intersectionsdc.org or call 202-399-7993. WEEKENDS FEBRUARY 19th- MARCH 7th 2010 THEATER Atlas Resident the Washington Savoyardspresent Scott Joplin's rarely performed ragtime opera Treemonisha. Wooly Mammoth Theater will sponsor a community read of the classic A Raisin in theSun. Arena Stage presentsAn Evening with Marva: Celebrating the Gospel Truth with actress Marva Hicks. Local actress Kathleen Gonzalez will performBridge of Bodies, a one-woman, sixteen character unfolding of a Haitian-American's mission of self-discovery. More....  DANCE Jason Garcia Ignacio/City Dance Ensemblepresent The Mountain a dance fusion of east and west by an award-winning Filipino choreographer. Coyaba Dance Theater, Tappers With Attitude and Urban Artistry will bring Origins, a joyful collaboration celebrating the heritage and soul of African American dance. DCypher Dance DCypher 10.2: Co-Ed, will electrify audiences with a high-voltage hip-hop performance by a boundary-breaking DC dance ensemble. BodyMoves Contemporary Dance CompanyDance through the Decades, presens a lively journey through the history of black dance.  More... MUSIC Folk legend Tom Chapincelebrates the intersection of music and social change, joined by members of DC's St. Augustine's Gospel Choir. Grammy nominee Christylez Bacon presents In Pursuit of Me: The Story of Christylez Bacon, a world premiere merging music and theatre by one of Washington hip-hop's rising stars. Jay Walkers at the Intersection, a collaborative concert featuring Grammy-winner Jon Carroll's  pop and R & B, Nigerian artistTosin Aribisala's jazz and Michael Shereikis' Afro-Funk. Harmony Crossing, an a cappella romp from gospel to "road-tunes" from DC's Wammie-winning sextet,Reverb. More... FILM Music Meets Film: CARMEN at the Intersection Live musicians paired with a screening of Carlos Sauro's film that resets the world's most famous opera in the passionate world of flamenco dance. The Prep School Negro: Edmund Burke School presents a film that takes a poignant and unapologetic look at the life of a young man who, through a scholarship, moved from poverty to prep school. GALA Hispanic Theatre Presents Paso Nuevo The Legend of Izquic(2006), A compelling documentary-fiction film tracing the lives of local teenagers who form part of an at-risk theatre collective in Columbia Heights DC. More... LITERARY Symphony Space Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, a special presentation of the popular public radio series starring actor Joe Morton (City of Hope, Eureka.)  Politics and Prose Bookstore:Steven Roberts: From Every Endof This Earth, a reading and book signing by the New York Timesbest-selling author capturing the stories of thirteen immigrant families and their lives in the new America. Folger Shakespeare Library Poets When Words Collide,a poetic response to life in today's America by professional and student writers, including poets Kim Roberts and Sami Miranda. More... Dine in the Atlas District  All this ART can make you hungry!  Festival patrons can take their INTERSECTIONS ticket on the day of their performance to one of our Festival-Five partner establishments, The H Street Country Club, Sticky Rice, The Argonaut, Granville Moore's and The Rock and Roll Hotel and receive 10% off their check.  So DO ART and EAT all on H Street NE. The Atlas Performing Arts Center is located at 1333 H Street NE in Washington, DC www.atlasarts.org. 202.399.7993