Tonight! Cherry Blast!

Meet the school bus at Dupont Circle and get ready to blast off! Bus stop is on the island between 20th and Mass, across from PNC. The Washington Post's Style On the Go thinks you should hop aboard for what I seriously think will be the best Pink Line Project ever.

Tomorrow night, beginning around 8:30, a yellow school bus (no, really) will pull up right in the middle of Dupont Circle, a couple of times an hour. On it will be boatloads of art fans -- in stylish dresses and pricey sneakers, no doubt -- bound for Anacostia.

Arts-support group Pink Line Project has banged out one successful art event after another by sticking to a formula that calls for spotlighting artists (typically video, graffiti, performance, even DJs) and throwing low-key, high-fun parties in unconventional spaces (ramshackle brake shop, vacant retail space, etc.).

The school bus is, well, new, an added incentive for those without cars (and those with a reluctance to ever leave Northwest Washington).

That's because this time, Pink Line is heading across the river with Cherry Blast, a party that's a nod to the blossoms and all things Japanese and a tie-in with Anacostia's Cherry Blossom Festival and Arts Walk on Saturday. In recent years, crowds have ventured to H Street NE, Columbia Heights and Silver Spring for nightlife, so why not Anacostia, too?

The event will feature projection art from John Bowen (Video Killers) and Robin Bell (Optical Grooves); live muraling by Words Beats & Life; art by Cory Oberndorfer and Australian paper-crane and origami master Hiromi Ashlin; and live painted models (and a go-go dancer) supplied by the U Street shop Moojoo Ken. And the unconventional space? An airy warehouse just off Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE and a stone's throw from I-295.

Go to The Pink Line Project website for more info!

Come back on Saturday for more! The Pink Line Project brings you a photography and graffiti exhibit Called Picture Equality as part of the Anacostia Cherry Blossom Festival and Art Walk. The art has been created by youth mentored by two amazing organizations: Critical Exposure and Words Beats & Life. Guest curated by awesome AU student Chanel Compton.

Thank you Honfleur gallery for organizing a weekend of great events in Anacostia!


Wait! Wait! There's more!

On Saturday, in the Cherry Blast warehouse at 2020 Shannon Place, SE, the JazzNSoul cafe brings you live music from 12 to 6 pm. Chill out all afternoon with great music and good people.