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It’s happening. The March blues where we are simultaneously struck by an eagerness for spring and the indignation that it’s not here yet, while one work week drags into the next. Sometimes you just need a little distraction to get you out of the house and into the ‘hood! This weekend’s art events are all about entertainment, escapism, and looking at the landscape around us, that can help you take a break from the monotony of the daily grind. Check out these six art shows that are not only guaranteed to help you get out of the grasaille funk you’ve been feeling, but stimulate your mind, body, and soul.

#1 Preach R Sun: Chrysalis @ Grace Exhibition Space (FRI, 9PM, $5-15 Suggested Donation)

Referencing Albert Camus’ famous adage, “the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence becomes an act  of rebellion” Preach R Sun will present Chrysalis – the last chapter, or stage of its ONEMAN project which is a combination of performance and social activism/critique. In its ambitious mission, the ONEMAN Project seeks to question, critique, explore, and investigation the very nature of freedom and its implications today.

#2 Paul Weston: Conduit @ GCA (FRI, 7-9PM)

Paul Weston’s exhibition Conduit at GCA Gallery explores the omnipresence of technology in our lives. The star gadget in Weston’s current work is the television which he uses to reflect on how media never really leaves us. Television is that reliable friend that is always there for you—whether you need to catch up on your shows, kill time, or you just like the background noise, thinking about life without television gets very quiet. Conduit shows that even without a TV right in front of us, we still live in its perpetual afterglow because the screen never really turns off.