Art Therapy Prescription for a healthier, happier YOU!

Time to trade in your weekly therapy session for some local arts and culture events happening this weekend. Here at Pink Line HQ, we know that attending arts and culture events can improve your physical and mental health so we've specially selected weekend picks that are sure to get you out of the box, or should we say out of the cubicle, and feeling healthier and happier in no time.

Warning: The Pink Line Team can only help you so much without a full analysis of your condition. For more art therapy, please self medicate by checking out our calendar

Stories on Stage

Sep 12, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Stories on Stage, Presented by Barrelhouse Magazine Episode One: All in a Day's Work--Dispatches from the Office A corporation where junior executives settle disputes with pistols at ten paces. A nonprofit organization where an employee suspects her...

International Kimchi Conference for the 19th Gwangju World Kimchi Culture Festival

Sep 13, 2012, 10:00am - 5:00pm

Kimchi is Korea's most iconic food, and among the world's healthiest. This conference provides an opportunity for experts, food connoisseurs, and the public to discuss and share information about the manufacturing process, microbial safety, and...

Bike Show

Sep 13, 2012, 6:00pm

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to announce its kick-off exhibition of the Fall, Bike Show. Co-hosted by Bike Maryland, the exhibition’s intention is centered on the relationship between people and their bicycles. Bike Show is curated by Dawn...

Campaign Re/Form: Artists Reimagine the Election Process

Sep 13, 2012, 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Since the first televised American presidential debate in 1960, in which Kennedy and Nixon faced off, political campaigns have evolved into multi-million dollar spectacles. Social media and marketing play an increasing role in a candidate's public...

The Role of Art Fairs in Building a Contemporary Collection

Sep 13, 2012, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

A moderated panel discussion with collector Dani Levinas, curator Joanna Marsh (Smithsonian American Art Museum), and gallerist Amy Raehse (Goya Contemporary) discussing their experiences with art fairs, tips for negotiating them, and their role in...

One Hour Magazine

Sep 13, 2012, 6:00pm - 9:00pm

About: Ally Behnke is partnering up with Knowledge Commons to host, ringlead and encourage you to unlock your creative potential Above the Bike Shop! This 3 hour gathering, known as One Hour Magazine, you will scheme up epic collage art to create A...

Parks and Passages: Inspirations from Berlin for Washington's Dupont Underground

Sep 13, 2012 (All day) - Nov 2, 2012 (All day)

Parks & Passages is an investigation of relics, ruins and reconstruction in the capital cities of Berlin and Washington, DC. This summer, Provisions Library sent an interdisciplinary team of Washington-based artists and researchers to Berlin to...

Satomi Shirai: Home and Home

Sep 14, 2012, 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Our fall lineup launches on September 14th with Home & Home, a solo exhibition by photographer Satomi Shirai. Shirai's photographs are currently on view at the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibition titled Portraiture Now: Asian American...

Compiling Dimensions #2

Sep 14, 2012, 6:00pm - 11:00pm

The "Compiling Dimensions" vol 2 includes a special performance night with performances by the following & is a kick off to Saturday's H Street Festival. * Gregory Thompkins (Tenor Saxophone) 6:15-7:15 & 9:30-10:30pm * Jessica Philie (Poet)...

This Space Occupied

Sep 15, 2012, 11:00am - 4:00pm

MAIDA WITHERS performs a five-hour endurance performance in the glass cage entrance of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, with live music performed by Steve Hilmy - part of the Take It To The Bridge Series co-sponsored by Washington Project for the Arts...

Comedy at Comet

Sep 15, 2012, 10:00pm

Despite a torrential downpour that caused even Noah to look out of the window of his Logan Circle condo and say, “Aw, Hell Naw!”, the inaugural Comedy Night at Comet Ping Pong was an absolute success. Ignore the untruths you’ve heard about my...

The FritzBall

Sep 15, 2012, 8:00pm - 11:00pm

Click here to purchase tickets: http://fritzball.brownpapertickets.com/ Click here to visit the website: http://www.whatweekly.com/fritzball “Best Party of the Year!” -WYPR’s Aaron Henkin’s comment about our last party! After years in the making,...

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Sep 15, 2012, 8:00pm - Sep 16, 2012, 9:00pm

Tickets: $40 General Admission + Opening Night Reception (Saturday only) $22 General Admission $17 Members, Seniors, Teachers and Artists $10 College Students $8 Children (17 and under) Helanius J. Wilkins, Artistic Director of EDGEWORKS Dance...