5 things to do: A Drug Called Tradition - July 27 2017

What’s happening in Atlanta today

Young Dreamer: The Work of Devyn Springer and Makeda Lewis

WonderRoot - 982 Memorial Drive S.E. Atlanta, GA 30316 Donations suggested. 6 p.m.

WonderRoot hosts Devyn Springer and Makeda Lewis in a joint exhibition. Springer’s work explores what it’s like to exist as a queer, black Muslim, touching on the intersections and fluidity of race, gender, sexuality and religion. Lewis’ subjects are frequently femme, queer and non binary people along with botanicals, insects and sea creatures to comment on how self-acceptance and radical honesty influence healing.

Alliance Theatre Palefsky Collision Project Public Performances

The Center for Civil and Human Rights - 100 Ivan Allen Jr. Blvd. N.W. Atlanta, GA 30313 Free-$5. 7 p.m.

Every summer, the Alliance Theatre brings together 20 teenagers from metro Atlanta for the Palefsky Collision Project. The teenagers spend three weeks honing their performance skills through improvisational exercises, oral history, choreography, and writing, focusing on a classic text that they unpack and explore alongside a professional playwright and director. This year’s classic text is March, the graphic novel by Georgia Congressman John Lewis. The Palefsky Collision Project Performances will explore the civil rights movements through the teenagers’ “unique and contemporary prism.”

Charis Books and More - 1189 Euclid Ave. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30307 $5 suggested donation. 7:30 p.m.

Mercedes Moreno’s in love with her best friend, she can’t seem to get out of her creative rut and grandmother is in a coma. Just when Mercedes thinks her artist’s block will last forever, art begins to show up in her life in sudden and unexpected ways. This is the premise of Lauren Karcz’s debut novel, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls. Karcz is a local author and a self-described language nerd who has worked as an ESL teacher and a language test developer. To celebrate her debut, Charis Books & More is hosting The Gallery of Unfinished Girls launch party, where Karcz will read, discuss and sign books.

A Drug Called Tradition, Difference Machine, Order of the Owl, Wray

The Earl - 488 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E. Atlanta, GA 30316 $8. 9 p.m.

Atlanta’s hardest-working psych rock trio A Drug Called Tradition celebrates the arrival of its debut album, Medicine Music. Singer and guitarist Bon Allinson, bass player Asha Lakra and drummer Puma Navarro have crafted a densely layered collection of Krautrock rhythms and smoldering atmosphere. The band stands at the head of an exceptionally mind-bending lineup as hallucinatory hip-hop outfit the Difference Machine, sludge metal masters Order of the Owl, and Birmingham, Alabama trio Wray also perform.

Jock Gang, In Bath, Trashcan, Kate, DJ Kale Svvick

529 - 529 Flat Shoals Ave. S.E. Atlanta, GA 30316 $5. 9 p.m.’’