It's summer time and that means that the kids are off of school and looking for things to do! Did you know that kids 17 and under can check out dance performances at Dance Place for just $8. General admission is usually $22, artists, students, teachers, seniors and dance place members can get in for $17.
On view at Long View 
The 8th Annual Dance DC Festival is this weekend!Dance DC Festival
July 22-24
> Friday, July 22nd | 12 PM – 1:30 PM
Pre-Festival Kick-Off
performing: Words, Beats & Life | Elizabeth Acevedo | Trinity | Da Originalz
Metro: Federal Triangle
7 PM – 9 PM
Simply Marvin: Live at the Sugar Shack
performing: Eric Roberson | Miri Ben-Ari | Levi Stephens | Urban Artistry | Capitol
Movement | DB’s MVPs | DC Casineros
Let’s Get Physical! Workshop Series
1 PM – Pontitango
1 PM – Words, Beats & Life DJ Workshop
2 PM – Hip-Hop Dance Workshop w/ Shontol Snider
DanceAsia 2011
8 PM
Metro: Union Station and take a taxi or take the X2 bus from Gallery Place on H St at 7th St, NW.
> Sunday, July 24th | 4 PM – 8 PM
Hosted by WPGC’s Rane
performances by: Doug E. Fresh | E/U | Mambo Sauce | Beat Ya Feet Kings | Lionz of
Zion | Farafina Kan | Batala Washington | Da Originalz | Lyn Dancin Club | Black Cobain | Future Shock | Up & Up | East of the River Steel Band | Urban Artistry
Going Out Guide Weekend Concert Series
Thursday, July 28th
The David Bach Consort – playing World Jazz
Capital Riverfront Film Festival
screens the "Best of the Oscars"
every Thursday night May 26h - July 28th
films begin at sundown, around 8:45pm
Free
The final film of the series:
Thursday, July 28th
West Side Story
Running through the end of July, the Capital Riverfront is also running a film festival this summer. Their theme is “Best of the Oscars,” featuring a different Oscar winning movie every week. These are great classic movies, and should be great on an outdoor screen. There will be food trucks, popcorn, cotton candy, and Micha’s Sorbet. Don't forget to bring your own blanket or chair for the outdoor screenings.
Tingey Plaza, behind USDOT
100 Tingey Plaza, SE
Metro: Navy Yard
Film Screenings every Wednesday night in July as part of the Sidney Lumet Retrospective at the Artisphere
Calling all dog lovers! Bring your pup to Yappy Hour in Alexandria, VA 
Free Summer Concerts in Bethesda
every Thursday night May 5th - July 21st
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Free
Every Thursday night in Bethesda, enjoy a concert of a different genre of music.
Thursday, July 21st
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Veterans Park
Norfolk & Woodmont Avenues
Metro: Bethesda
"Moccasins and Microphones: Modern Native Storytelling through Performance Poetry" 
On view at the National Gallery of Art 
Annual Arts Club Members’ Summer Exhibition
Now on view at the National Gallery of Art Gabriel Metsu, 1629–1667
on view now at Civilian Art Projects
Free
Friday, June 10th - Saturday, July 23rd
Civilian Art Projects hosts two new shows. “The Kids are Alright” by New Orleans-based artist and social advocate Dan Tague. Using various media, including dollar bills, paintings, and restored furniture, Tague's artwork has been installed to be reminiscent of a classroom. With each work, he “points to the inadequacies in government policy toward education, environmental health, and financial reform,” such as using a Mobile oil sign screen-printed using oil from the Deep Water Horizon oil spill.
Billy Friebele, a DC-based artist, has produced three interrelated video projects entitled “Walking as Drawing,” “Target Loop” and “Commute Loop.” In the videos, he examines “the spatial experience of contemporary culture,” and “re-contextualizes common notions of everyday public spaces and mundane routines.” Friebele's work is pictured above.
Gallery hours:
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays
1:00pm - 6:00pm
1019 7th St, NW
Metro: Mt. Vernon Square - Convention Center
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