5 things to do: Girlpool - June 13 2017
What’s happening in Atlanta today
Collecting Art 101
Spalding Nix Fine Art Gallery - 425 Peachtree Hills Ave. Atlanta, GA 30305 Free-$8. 6:30 p.m.
MOCA GA’s Art and Social League and local art experts introduce Atlantans to the world of art collecting. Gallery owner and appraiser Spalding Nix, Jane Cofer (who assisted the High with Elton John’s collection), ConsultArt’s Anne Trecht and MOCA GA president/co-founder/CEO Annette Cone-Skelton give a lesson in how to start an art collection, and how to grow it over time. It’s maker faire season, the perfect time to support local artists.
Girlpool, Snail Mail
The Masquerade - 75 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive S.W. Atlanta, GA 30303 $15. 7 p.m.
It already seems like Girlpool has been a longtime force within America’s thriving DIY folk-punk-pop scene. That’s because the music they make is so emotionally vulnerable and irresistibly catchy, it feels more than likeable. It feels necessary. And yet Girlpool’s core duo, Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad, are just barely into their 20s, and their new album, Powerplant, is just their second full-length release. It’s also a revelatory leap from 2015’s Before the World Was Big, with Tucker and Tividad’s lovely harmonies and highly relatable lyrics surrounded by bigger arrangements, higher fidelity and, for the first time, drums. Suddenly, Girlpool sounds less like an underground fave and more like the next big thing.
Micah Kiyo,Tasha B, D-Ray, Brie The Vamp, Kendre Nicole, Jae Scott, We The Producer, DJ Bella
Center Stage - 1374 W. Peachtree St. N.W. Atlanta, Georgia 30309 $10-$15. 7 p.m.
Regina Bradley, Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South
Charis Books and More - 1189 Euclid Ave. N.E. Atlanta, GA 30307 Free-$5. 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Regina Bradley assistant professor of African American Literature at Armstrong State University and an alumna Nasir Jones Hiphop Fellow at Harvard University visits Atlanta to discuss Boondock Kollage: Stories from the Hip Hop South. In her debut collection of short stories, Bradley uses historical and hip-hop infused fiction to explore issues of race, belonging and identity in the post-Civil Rights American South.
After the Curtain
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre - 2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway Atlanta, GA 30339 $28-$72. 8 p.m.
“So You Think You Can Dance” alum and Emmy-winning choreographer Travis Wall brings the contemporary Shaping Sound Dance Co. to Atlanta. Co-created by Nick Lazzarini, Teddy Forance and Kyle Robinson, Shaping Sound melds dance styles and musical genres, this time telling the story of a man who tries to recapture his voice after the loss of his true love.