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Philadanco: at the Kimmel this Saturday

FRIDAY

First Friday
Go out and see art. If the weather holds, drink sangria at Bar Ferdinand or many brews outside at The Sidecar. Pet a dog, ride a bike, drive up and down Roosevelt Blvd with the bass turned up, whatever, it’s summer now. If it rains sit on the porch and let it rain.

Hip Hop Lives
M Room, Frankford and Girard
Not sure whether I know how this night is pronounced – is it like “Funk zombies live” or “Lives of the Lords of Rap” (in my brain it’s the latter)? – but I am fairly certain I know what it contains. Classics blasting from 10pm. $7.

SATURDAY

New Faces: Choreographers for the Future
Kimmel Center, Broad and Locust
Philadanco presents new work by choreographers Zane Booker, Camille Brown, Hope Boykin and Tony Powell. Lois covered it at the link above. 2:30pm Saturday and Sunday. Tickets from $30 here.

Philadelphia Independent Craft Market
941 N Front
Local counterpoint to the Paradise City fest (see below) with 50 odd crafters repping. Buy local. 11am-5pm, free.

SUNDAY

Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Mike Relm, Bukue One
First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut
The rap titan behind Deltron 3030, Hieroglyphics, the first Gorillaz record and “I Wish My Brother George Was Here,” at the Unitarian Church. Guaranteed to be killer. 8pm, $14.

ONGOING

Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968
ICA, 118 S 36th
Noooo idea how I forgot to post this when it opened last week; new gigantic retrospective with a lot of unseen work from the terrestrial life of the great musician and thinker, Sun Ra. Through August.

American Buffalo
Plays and Players, 1714 Delancey
Theatre Exile’s rendition of the Mamet play at P&P closes Sunday. Samantha covered it at the link above. Tickets and times www.theatreexile.org here.

Paradise City Arts Festival
Convention Center, 1101 Arch
Big national craft fest parked in the convention center all weekend. Jacqueline covered it at the link above; more info is at the fest website here. 11am-5pm
Fri-Sun, $12.