Coming This Week

I have major decisions to make this weekend. So much going on and I just won't be able to see it all.

• The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu is a play about Christian missionaries and indigenous Hawaiian women. There are two showings (tonight and tomorrow) at the National Museum of the American Indian. Tonight's showing is preceded by Hawaiian food, beverages, and music in the Mitsitam Cafe.
  

• The Asian Heritage Festival street fair is tomorrow on Pennsylvania between 3rd and 6th.
  

• Also tomorrow and Sunday is the Dragon Boat Festival where groups race their dragon boats down the Potomac from Georgetown Waterfront Park.
  

• Still another event tomorrow and Sunday is Mid City Open Studios where, as the name implies, Dupont Circle area artists open their studios to visitors.
  

• And as though that weren't enough, Saturday is DCs Chile cook-off. The cook-off supports the National Kidney Foundation (and probably the makers of Prilosec)
  

• Saturday evening Vijai Nathan performs her one woman show at the Freer Gallery's Meyer Auditorium for free.
  

• Sunday, the Dupont Circle farmers market is going to have strawberries and asparagus, not to mention a cupcake making demonstration. (Can you say samples?!)
  

• And if I could manage to get myself up to Baltimore, the exhibition from Picasso to Leger closes this weekend.

Next week's activities are a bit more somber.

• On the 19th there are several events around town in honor of Troy Davis, including an interfaith service at All Souls Unitarian Church.
  

• Thursday there is a screening of the Grapes of Wrath at the American Art Museum
  

• Also Thursday, the Moscow String Quartet gives a free concert in the Meyer Auditorium.