A Musical and an Art Fight Headline Weekend Events

Two more weeks of summer remain (unofficially, I know). While the city is putting the finishing touches on Pratt and Lombard streets for the Baltimore Grand Prix, the rest of us are focusing on putting the finishing touches on our summer.

Saturday is Super Art Fight 11 at Ottobar, one of the most bizarre, yet entertaining events of the summer. Events like this are what makes Baltimore unique, one of the many direct influences of having a major art school in the city. Artists gather to defend their titles, show off their creativity, and face The Wheel of Death.

It’s impossible for me to tell you what to expect, and that’s 90 percent of the appeal. Anamanaguchi and Bear Walrus will provide the live soundtrack for the evening. For more info on this year’s Super Art Fight click here. the event is all ages and doors open at 8 p.m., but the throwdowns begin at 9 p.m., $15.

To close out your weekend you might want to check out Stillpointe Initiative Theatre’s performance at the Wind Up Space Sunday at 7:30 p.m. They will be presenting their first original chamber musical entitled Shovel in the Dirt: A Gravedigger’s Musical, and you can catch this preview showing before it opens in September. In a nutshell the story follows a gravedigger, his wife and their woes. 

Not feeling up to a musical about a gravedigger’s problems? No problem.

• Sunday at CCAS; The Clippers bring their power pop from Massachusetts, along with their grunge pop cohorts Sneeze. PA’s Band Name and DC’s Monument fill out the bill, 6 p.m., donation.
• Thursday, at Ottobar; the first night of the BiMa.Fest begins with Misery Index, Compression,  Balor’s Eye, Hellpie, Questioner, and Judge Mental. Doors at 7 p.m. show at 7:30 p.m., all ages, $12 (for Thursday night only).