A roast from the past, ShakesBEER, Collective Conscious, and more this weekend

We’re hurtling toward the end of summer and the start of the new season, and the Fringe Festival will be here before you know it, but we’re communing with our city for one more August weekend.

On Friday night, those who like keeping up with the latest in dance should head to the InHale Performance Series show from Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers, happening at 7:30pm at East Passyunk’s CHI Movement Arts Center. This popular series spotlights emerging choreographers (chosen through an application process with KYL/D) who receive free performance space, technical assistance, and feedback from the audience. Tickets are $10.

Juvenile behavior

There are always tons of comedy options in town, but for folks who never exorcised their teenage demons, Good Good Comedy Theatre in Chinatown has a show in for one night only from New York. Matt DeCaro, Maddie McLennon, Randie Welles, and Zak Krone (hosted by Alise Morales) will present The Roast of Your 15 Year Old Self, “a not-so-safe space where comics expose the shitty, horrifying teenager that made them into a shitty, horrifying adult.” The show is at 8:30pm and tickets are $12.

The summer’s last gasp (or gulp) of Shakespeare hits Manayunk on Friday and Saturday nights at 7pm, with Manayunk Theatre Company’s ShakesBEER performances of Much Ado About Nothing, presented for free at Pretzel Park (co-hosted by the Friends of Pretzel Park). The rules: Every time a train goes by, the actors must take a drink. Every time the church bells chime, they take a drink. Every time someone flubs a line… you get the picture. Bring your picnics, blankets, and chairs.

NMAJH and Humans of Tel Aviv

Saturday is a good chance to check out a pair of worthwhile exhibitions. At the National Museum of American Jewish History, in honor of what would be Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, admission to the museum is free all day (10am to 5:30pm). This includes access to the current special exhibition, Leonard Bernstein: The Power of Music, which is entering its final week on view at the museum (here’s the BSR review).

You can also hop over to the Parkway, where photographer Erez Kaganovitz’s Humans of Tel Aviv project is on display at Sister Cities Park through September 3. This free public art event (brought to town through a partnership of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and Citizens Diplomacy International) spotlights the diversity of Tel Aviv.

Collective Conscious open house

On Sunday afternoon, if you haven’t seen the African American Museum in Philadelphia’s Collective Conscious: The Art of Social Change exhibition (closing August 26), it’s your last chance.

There’s an interactive open house at 3pm, when you can check out the show alongside pop-up performances by Philly-based poets Jamal Parker and Kenya Newsome. An art activity called Build Your Black Future invites attendees to contribute to a “Black Futures” collage that pays tribute to the past and imagines the future, with the help of Collective Conscious artist Lavett Ballard. Participants can bring a copy of a photograph or image from their own personal history to incorporate into the larger work (make sure you’re comfortable cutting and pasting this copy, and leaving it permanently affixed to the piece).

At 4:30, there will be an artists’ panel in AAMP’s auditorium, hosted by WURD’s Stephanie Renée and featuring Collective Conscious artists Russell Craig, Keir Johnston, James Maurelle, and Tieshka K. Smith. They’ll be exploring “the role artists and their art play in the present sociopolitical moment, and how such creative practices work to re-imagine black futures.” The whole event is free and open to the public, and appropriate for all ages.