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“Top of the Park”: Ann Arbor Summer Festival
See 13 Friday. Tonight in the KidZone: chalk drawing with popular local street artist David Zinn (5 p.m.), and A2Zero offers sustainability focused games and activities (5 p.m.). In the Annex Tent: a chance to take home a plant or seeds from the U-M Library’s Seed Library (5 p.m.). On the Power Center Lawn: a Barre workout (5:30 p.m.) led by Barre3 Ann Arbor staff. On the O&W Grove Stage: The Sakura Japanese Instrumental Group (5 p.m.) performs Japanese festival and folk music on traditional instruments, including the taiko drum and the koto, a kind of plucked zither known as Japan’s national instrument, and “Resonant Soundscapes” (6 p.m.), a performance of ambient music by local composers Garrett Schumann, Sara Tea, and Julie Zhu. On the Rackham Stage: The Kalamazoo acoustic pop-folk and blues trio The Go Rounds (6:45 p.m.), and the Wisconsin based pop-soul and R&B group TAE & the Neighborly (8 p.m.). The music is followed at 9:30 p.m. by a screening of Office Space, Mike Judge’s 1999 irreverent parody of corporate culture that centers on 3 itchy computer programmers unwilling to be cogs in the machine. 5–11 p.m.
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