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DC LaborFest Today: Aztec Sun plus new films and plays

5/8/2017

 
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LaborFest events continue to fill up but there's still room at tomorrow night's blazing performance by AZTEC SUN at Busboys and Poets in Takoma Park, plus we've just added two new films -- benefiting DC APRI -- and a pair of one-man plays about the health care crisis. Details below!

AZTEC SUN
Tue, May 9, 5:00 pm-8:00 pm

​“RISING FROM THE RAILS” AND “10,000 MEN NAMED GEORGE” 
Sat, May 13, IBEW 26 union hall, 4371 Parliament Place, Lanham, MD, MD 20706-1812

HEALTH CARE CRISIS PLAYS: MERCY KILLERS &  SIDE EFFECTS ​
May 19 - June 3

AZTEC SUN
Tue, May 9, 5:00 pm-8:00 pm
Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St, Washington DC 20012
5-6p be part of the live audience for a [email protected] simulcast on WPFW 89.3 FM
6:00 pm-8:00 pm concert
FREE but you must RSVP here

United by the beat and driven by the groove, AZTEC SUN's music is perfect for dancing or just listening and appreciating. Named "DC's Best Local Band of 2016" by the Washington City Paper's Reader's Poll, they offer a blend of 70s-era Funk and Soul music with heavy influences of Afrobeat, Blues and Jazz. Hard-hitting rhythms, infectious melodies and high-energy live performances are the hallmarks of this band. The group combines a multitude of cultural backgrounds and professional occupations (including two musicians union members) - but the sum of their work is a tightly-wound music machine. Catch them live at the 2017 DC LaborFest!

​​“RISING FROM THE RAILS” AND “10,000 MEN NAMED GEORGE” 
Sat, May 13, IBEW 26 union hall, 4371 Parliament Place, Lanham, MD, MD 20706-1812
$15 (benefits A. Philip Randolph Institute DC chapter); includes refreshments
Click here for tickets 

Rising from the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter
Chronicles the legacy of Pullman Porters, generations of African American men who served as caretakers to wealthy white passengers on luxury trains that traversed the nation in the golden age of rail travel. Based on the best-selling book by Larry Tye.
47min | Documentary | Video 11 February 2006
​10,000 Black Men Named George
Union activist Asa Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the black porters of the Pullman Rail Company in 1920s America. Stars: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles 
R | 1h 35min | Drama | TV Movie 24 February 2002

HEALTH CARE CRISIS PLAYS: MERCY KILLERS &  SIDE EFFECTS ​
Written and performed by Michael Milligan, 
an Actors Equity activist involved in their "Fair Wage Onstage" Campaign in NYC. 
May 19 - June 3 at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th Street SE WDC 20003
$15; click here now for schedule and tickets 

Mercy Killers 
Blue collar Joe grapples with his red state ideals when he realizes the measures he must take to care for his beloved wife. A surprisingly tender love story, Mercy Killers is an unblinking look at health care in America. 
Exceptional. In our ever present day of political discourse, finger pointing, and profitable racket over healthcare, Milligan manages to strip down the arguments by humanizing them to a frustrating, but immensely profound degree. — Manhattan Digest

Side Effects 
As bureaucratic pressures collide with his professional and personal responsibilities, a doctor must reconcile the art and business of medicine.
More than half of physicians in America struggle with burnout. Playwright Michael Milligan spent the last couple years asking doctors around the country “why?” Here are the answers, a stunning revelation of just how complicated things are.
Taffety Punk logo by Ryan Nelson. Mercy Killer photo by Daylon Walton. Side Effects photo by Allan Nowakowski.

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