5 things to do: EstoriaFest 2017 - June 02 2017

Virginia-Highland Summerfest 2017

John Howell Park - 801 Virginia Ave. Atlanta, GA 30306 Free. 10 a.m.

For more than three decades, Virginia-Highland Summerfest has celebrated music and arts with an unofficial pregame to the summer months. This year, the festival features an artist market with work from more than 200 artists, a 5K road race and Tot Trot, a kidsfest area, and live music spread across three stages. Performers include the Alex Guthrie Band, Stokeswood, Kate Barnette, Tessa Joy, Sanjay Kothari, Banditos, the New Respects and more. A Friday night kick-off party features the Apple Scruffs covering hits from the Beatles, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead.

EstoriaFest 2017

97 Estoria - 727 Wylie St. S.E. Atlanta, GA 30316 $5-$10. 2 p.m.

It’s one long day of music, games, contests and PBR at this beloved neighborhood dive bar’s annual music festival. EstoriaFest returns this year with a strong lineup of local acts, vendors, DJs and more that cater to its rowdy regulars (and new yuppie neighbors). Fuzzy alt-rock foursome Big Jesus, who released debut LP Oneiric last fall, headline a seven-band bill, with local notables such as psychedelic group Midnight Larks and dance-able Dot.s. Beltline construction in the area is still underway, so walking or using alternative forms of transit are, as always, a good idea.

Burnt Hickory Brewery 5th anniversary

Burnt Hickory Brewery - 2260 Moon Station Court, Suite 210 Kennesaw, GA 30144 $15-$25. 1 p.m.

The Burnt Hickory Brewery celebrates five years of crafting fine and heavy beers while paying homage to fast and furious music in the wilds of Kennesaw. Stoner metal trio Order of the Owl, reincarnated L.A. punk staple Cheifs, and young local rockers the Dirty Magazines and Black Hand bring chaos to the stage. Sound ordinances will be crushed. Good beer will flow. General tours comes with nine 4-ounce samples. VIP packages are available as well. Come for the music. Stay for inhibitions. Bring a designated driver. Cobb County is a trek for the intown punks.

Meditate + Masturbate + Create

Museum of Modern Perspective - 585 Wells St. Atlanta, GA 30312 $10. 7 p.m.

Local multimedia artist MR PAUL hosts his official museum launch and first solo art show at the Museum of Modern Perspective. MR PAUL’s large-format abstract murals remix the factors that disrupt his work, personal and creative lives particularly those from his days as a psychology teacher with Atlanta Public Schools. MR PAUL will incite visual orgasms in viewers with pieces such as “How to Make Love from Above” (pictured above) and his short film “ADAUMADAA (A Documentary About Us Making A Documentary About Art)” (2015), in which he chronicles his movement in the art community. With Meditate + Masturbate + Create, MR PAUL will apply his psychology background to visual art and discuss how to apply the scientific method to creative.

Who Comes Today and Stays Tomorrow

Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery - 88 Forsyth St. S.W. Atlanta, GA 30303 Free. 7 p.m.

What does home look like in displacement, and how does displacement change our understandings of home? Sara Santamaria explores the question of immigration, belonging and finding a new home in her first solo exhibition, Who Comes Today and Stays Tomorrow. The exhibition will focus on how the “difficult decision to uproot oneself and cross borders” reshapes understandings of home as “rooted in one particular place and one unique identity.” Santamaria is a student at Georgia State University’s 3-D Studio Art program. She was a 2015-16 Walthall Fellow, and her work has been previously featured in MOCA GA, MINT Gallery and WonderFarm.