Boston
Arlington Greek Festival
Description:
The Saint Athanasius Festival is one of Arlington’s largest cultural events
which draws thousands of people from all over the country. This year’s event
will be held under a larger 300ft by 60ft tent on our church grounds, and will
welcome over 15,000 visitors of all ages from the New England area and around
the country. All visitors are welcomed! Bring your families and
enjoy some authentic Greek food
Date: 5/31/2013
– 6/2/2013
Time: 11:00
AM – 10:00 PM (8:00 PM Sunday)
Location: Saint
Athanasius the Great Greek Orthodox Church, 4 Appleton St. Arlington MA
Price: FREE
Cambridge River Festival
Description:
he Cambridge River Festival is an annual celebration of the arts, attracting
200,000 annually. This FREE event along the banks of the Charles River features
jazz, folk, roots and world music performances, dance, art demonstrations,
family art-making activities and over 100 specialty food purveyors and artisans!
Date: 6/1/2013
Time: 12:00
PM – 6:00 PM
Location: The
Northern bank of the Charles River (Cambridge Side), along Memorial Drive
between John F. Kennedy Street and Western Avenue.
Price: FREE
SomerStreets Series (Kick-Off)
Description:
The 4th Annual SomerStreets Series. Join us as we close the streets
to vehicles and open them to residents to bike, ride and shop locally
throughout the City.
Date:
6/2/2013
Time: 12:00
PM – 4:00 PM
Location: McGrath
Highway to Pennsylvania Avenue
Price: FREE
Beacon Hill Art Walk
Description:
The Beacon Hill Art Walk is an annual event that takes place on the first
Sunday in June, throughout the nooks & crannies of Beacon Hill’s North
Slope. Residents open up their private gardens, alleyways, and
courtyards and allow artists to display and sell their artwork. It is a chance
for visitors to tour the private spaces of Beacon Hill while viewing original,
handmade
Date:
6/2/2013 (rain or shine)
Time: 12:00
PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Starting
Points: 135 1/2 Charles Street, and the corner of Cambridge Street & West
Cedar Street.
Price: FREE
Columbus, OH
Actors’ Theatre of Columbus: King Arthur and the Sword of Britain
Description:
a tale of adventure by local playwright Philip J. “Hickman is a talented
playwright and we are lucky to be able to work with him. His treatment of the timeless
folklore story of Camelot will appeal to all age groups.” – Actors Theatre
Date: 5/24 –
6/23
Time: 8:00
PM
Location: Shiller
Park, 1000 City Park Avenue, Columbus
Price: FREE
Description:
Mrs. Brisby (Elizabeth Hartman) is a widowed mouse with a young son sick with
pneumonia, and her home is about to be flattened by a tractor. Brisby must seek
help from the Rats of N.I.M.H., mentally enhanced lab rodents who've escaped
from the National Institute of Mental Health.
Date: 6/1/2013
Time: 1:30
PM
Location: Gateway
Film Center, 1550 North High Street, Columbus
Price: Admission
is free with a library card. Tickets will also be available for purchase at
normal rates.
Description:
The first Saturday of every month, thousands of visitors converge on the strip,
the epicenter of the High Street Experience. They come to celebrate art and
partake in an evening of sights, sounds, food, shopping, and cosmopolitan fun.
Countless art experiences. District specials. Prize drawings. Ramped up
entertainment. Unexpected surprises. Join us for an unforgettable experience.
Date: 6/1/2013
Time: 4:00
PM – 10: 00 PM
Location: North
High Street from Goodale Blvd to Fifth Ave Columbus
Price: FREE
New York
World Science Festival
Description:
The World Science Festival is an annual celebration and exploration of science.
Topics include (but are not limited to) Cheers to Science! A Drinkable Feast of
Beer, Biotechnology, and Archaeology, Science Hack Day NYC, Cicada Serenades:
Music, Mating, and Meaning, The Ultimate Science Street Fair, Etc.
Date: 5/29/2013
– 6/2/2013
Time: Varies
Location: Varies
Price: Varies
Description:
Over the course of two nights, Rockwood Music Hall, Lincoln Center, and WFUV partner
to spotlight four talented musicians in two distinctly different settings. Four
unique artists will bring songs and stories of their everyday stomping grounds,
the downtown club scene, to a new audience at Lincoln Center's David Rubenstein
Atrium, as they perform selections of their work in a showcase hosted by WFUV
radio personality Rita Houston. The following night, all four artists will
return to their Lower East Side roots with full performances at Rockwood Music
Hall.
Date:
5/30/3013
Time: 7:30
PM
Location: David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center,
Frieda and Roy Furman Stage
Price: FREE
Description:
In Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Mike shares a
lifetime of romantic blunders and miscues that most adults would spend a
lifetime trying to forget. On this painfully honest journey, Birbiglia
struggles to find reason in an area where it may be impossible to find — love.
Date: 6/2/2013
Time: 8:00
PM
Location: Carnegie
Hall, 154 W. 57th St., New York
Price: $25 -
$65
Description:
Neck Breaker Productions presents an evening of “Stories Not for the Faint of
Fart” as comedians Michael Sanchez and Monte LaMonte bring their Chicago
storytelling series to New York City. True accounts of failed restraint and
bodily blunders from comedians and storytellers like Kevin Allison (RISK!),
Emily Heller (Comedy Central), Shannon Cason (The Moth), Robin Gelfenbien
(Yum’s the Word), Victor Varnado (Jimmy Kimmel) and Nick Vatterott (Conan
O’Brien).
Date: 6/5/2013
Date: 6/5/2013
Time: 7:00
PM (Doors), 8:00 PM (Show)
Location: (le)
poisson rouge, 158 Bleeker Street, New York
Price: $5
Washington, DC
Description:
The Phillips’s annual free weekend features live jazz performances throughout
the museum, including musicians improvising to paintings in the galleries.
Create jazz-inspired art to take home, visit the instrument petting zoo, and
enjoy the permanent collection.
Date:
6/1/2013 – 6/2/1023
Time: 10:00
AM – 5:00 PM (Sunday), 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Sunday)
Location:
The Phillip’s Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington DC
Price: FREE
Description:
The 33rd Annual Washington Folk Festival showcases the diversity of traditional
music in the Washington area. All musicians, storytellers, dancers, and
craftspeople live in the greater Washington metropolitan area and volunteer
their talents to put on a first class festival of national renown.
Date:
6/1/2013 – 6/2/2013
Time: 12:00
PM – 7:00 PM
Location:
Glen Echo Park, MD
Price: FREE
Description:
The Kennedy Center's Ballet Across America series continues to showcase the best of ballet from
regional companies across the nation.
Date:
6/4/2013 – 6/9/2013
Time: 1:30
PM and 7:30 M
Location: John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW Washington, DC
Price: $15+
Description:
With more than 125 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC
Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in Washington, DC and one of the
most highly anticipated cultural events in the nation.
Date: 6/5/2013
– 6/16/2013
Location: Varies
Time: Varies
Price: Varies
