Here are some indiestry events you’d enjoy this weekend. (This should hang you over until Monday )

Washington, D.C.

Teedra Moses performs tonight, Friday, Nov. 13 at Liv nIte club, located at 11th and U streets in NW. Show starts at 8 p.m. Costs $20.

Bus Boys & Poets (14th and V location) has a full schedule this weekend:

• The Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) will host a forum tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, 6 p.m. in Langston Room. WOZA  is based on the principles of strategic nonviolence. FREE.
• The 11th Hour Poetry Slam will also take place tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, 11 p.m. in the Langston Room. Audience choses the winner. Costs $5.
• "Sunday Kind of Loving" open mic poetry goes down this Sunday, Nov. 15, 4 p.m. in the Langston Room. This month's features will be  Tara Betts and Luis Alberto Ambroggio. FREE. Donations encouraged.

Author Lyndia Grant will discuss and sign her new book , "The Sharecropper's Daughter,"  on Saturday, Nov. 14, 4 p.m. in Cullen Room at the Bus Boys &Poets 5th &K location. Lyndia is a local entrepreneur and motivational speaker. FREE.


Baltimore, Maryland

Camm Shorts, is a short film screening that takes place at the Creative Alliance, located at 3134 Eastern Avenue. Tonight's (Friday, Nov. 13) screening includes Travis Mays' stylish adaption of "Poe’s Tell Tale Heart;"  Ryan Thomas' "The Debt Collector," a steamy, moody noir; and Michael Kimball’s "Dear Everybody," an emotionally sharp, cleverly shot preview of his latest novel. The event also includes well-constructed short narratives by up-and-comers Hunter Nesbitt, Dankwa Brooks, Matthew Hahn, and a weird love story by Linda Franklin. Q & A follows. Costs $10 for general public, $8 for members.


The Film Showcase: The Civil Rights Era continues at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum on Sunday, Nov. 15, 4 p.m. with a screening of "4 Little Girls," a documentary directed by Spike Lee of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement. Free with museum admission.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Big Blue Marble Bookstore, an indiestry bookstore located at Mt. Airy area of the city (551 Carpenter Lane), has a heavy schedule this weekend:

•  Author Lauren Grodstein will read from her new novel just published by Algonquin, A Friend of the Family,a chronicle of a successful father's fall from grace Tonight, Friday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.
• Queer Literary Festival is a full day event on Saturday, Nov.14 filled with diverse voices of queer prose and poetry from Philadelphia and beyond. This year's festival has a special collaboration with the nation's oldest GBLTQ bookstore, Giovanni's Room. A percentage of book sales for the day will go to Giovanni's Room for their fundraising efforts to renovate their building.

Schedule:
11:00am- Ashraf Osman
11:20am- Jane Cassady
11:40am- Laura Neuman
12:00-12:30pm- Break(Literary Lunch)
12:30pm- Nathan Long
12:50pm- Misia Denea
1:10pm- Saida Agostini
1:30-2:00pm-Break(Open Mic)
2:00pm- Kelli Dunham
2:20pm- Cassendre Xavier
2:40pm- Janet Mason  

• Waldorf Puppet Play (a kids event) will be Sunday, Nov. 15, 11 a.m. and 11:45 a.m. Puppeteers from the Waldorf School of Philadelphia will present  "The Little Boy Who Wanted To Be Carried Along All The Time," is a poem written by F.Ruckert and adapted for use as a puppet play by Suse Konig. It's a sweet tale of a boy and the adventures he encounters and how nothing is quite right until he safe in his Mother's arms. For ages 12 months to 5 years old.
• Reading with Jim Zervanos, Ru Freeman, and Kelly Simmons on Sunday, Nov. 15, 3 p.m. Love Park author Jim Zervanos, A Disobedient Girl author Ru Freeman, and Standing Still author Kelly Simmons.