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This Weekend: Rosslyn Goes SuperNOVA

More than 75 performance artists will take to Rosslyn's public spaces Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

If you see a man working his way around Rosslyn on Friday in a cotton bathrobe and slippers, don't be alarmed. It's just "Really Casual Friday."

"Really Casual Friday" is a roaming performance by conceptual artist Brian Feldman.

Feldman is one of more than 75 emerging and established local, national and international artists who will take over Rosslyn's streets and parks this weekend as part of the three-day SuperNOVA performing arts festival.

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"That's very emblematic of what Rosslyn is becoming: lots of new and unexpected experiences happening in different spaces and pulling people into participate in different ways," said Lisa Rabasca, a spokeswoman for the Rosslyn Business Improvement District, or BID, which is co-sponsoring the event.

You may also see "The Do-Nothing Machine" over on North Lynn Street or "Clowns on a Corner" on Wilson Boulevard near the Rosslyn Metro.

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SuperNOVA Arts Sports will be held Friday afternoon and evening in Freedom Park. Games include "Kool-Aid Fountain" and "Major Tom." Happy Hour starts at 5 p.m.

Saturday caps off with the "Big Bang Dance Party" at the Artisphere from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m.

For a complete schedule, click on the PDF above.

The event is produced by the Pink Line Project.

Organizers and supporters are billing the event as more than just performance art, calling it part of community-building in a quickly growing urban area; a place-making event.

In fact, the festival overlaps Sunday with the inaugural TEDx Rosslyn — an idea-sharing, future-mining adventure that will collect thought leaders from around the region.

"Organically, Rosslyn is becoming this place for new ideas and new experiences, and the BID is helping to push that further along," Rabasca said. "The BID is funding projects like SuperNOVA and TEDx to help push that idea further…"

For more information, visit the SuperNOVA website.


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