It’s a bleak day for women’s health, but, by all means, don’t let that rain on your parade.
Friday
The Dallas Black Dance Theatre hosts a “grown folks party” at their beautiful Arts District studio, which basically sounds like one of those scenes in a dance movie when every random person at the party/on the street/wherever just happens to know the same super-precise moves. Obviously, it’s great.
Members of DBDT and DBDT II will, in fact, choreograph routines on the fly and then invite you to participate in an evening of creative movement and dance. It’s a completely different experience than just attending a performance, sitting in the audience, and watching people on a stage. You can still reserve your spot online.
Saturday
The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture hosts the symposium “Understanding Tragedy: The Impact of the JFK Assassination on Dallas” at the SouthSide Ballroom. We devoted our November issue to this particular topic, and Peter Simek wrote an article on the symposium which delves deeper into the city’s search for catharsis even 50 years later. Read it here. If it sounds like something you’d enjoy attending, you can still get tickets to the various sessions online.
There’s also music for your ears. The North Oak Cliff Music Festival is happening in Lake Cliff Park. Booked and presented by the Kessler Theater, this was, by all accounts, a huge success last year. In addition to a line up that includes The Relatives and Bob Schneider, you’ll find activities for kids, food trucks, and more. Kids ten and under get in free, too, which is pretty nice. At the Lakewood Theater, The Polyphonic Spree are still celebrating Halloween. The band’s large numbers and elaborate theatrics lends itself pretty well to a holiday that often involves costumes, treats, and tricks. They’ll perform songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show as well as tracks of the band’s own. There will be a costume contest and door prizes, plus stick for a midnight screening of the cult film.
Last but not least, Rock Lottery is happening at Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton. It’s a benefit brainchild of the Good/Bad Art Collective that throws the names of 25 local musicians in a hat the morning of the event. (It’s been happening in New York recently, thanks to the collective’s general transplantation to Brooklyn, but returns home this year.) Anyway, those names are drawn at random to form four bands of five members (who, mostly likely, have never played together before). By the end of the day, each band has to come up with a full set list for the evening’s concert. Proceeds go to a local charity, like this year’s beneficiary Denton County Friends of the Family. As a bonus, D‘s music editor, Christopher Mosley, is one of the talented musicians on a list that also includes members of Spooky Folk and Eleven Hundred Springs. It’s a rare thing that gets him to dust off his guitar (or maybe the drums or synthesizer), so don’t miss it.
Sunday
Aren’t you exhausted? No? Okay. The Romanian Food Festival lasts through Sunday. It’s free to attend, but bring money for all the sarmale (minced meat wrapped in grape or cabbage leaves), cheese pastries, sweet gingerbread, and Romanian sausage you can eat.
For more to do this weekend, go here.
