Weekend events: Atlanta Streets Alive, ice cream festival and NKOTB

Go explore Atlanta with these weekend events:

🔥 The Green at Phipps Plaza shows the Olympics Opening Ceremony, which starts at 1:30pm, on the big screen. ( Friday )

🪩 Legendary dance music DJ and producer Paul Van Dyk will bring his VENTURE X live event to District Atlanta. ( Friday )

🎸 The 2024 Sad Summer Festival continues its tour at Coca-Cola Roxy. ( Friday )

👴 Attention, Gen X : New Kids on the Block, Paula Abdul and DJ Jazzy Jeff will take the stage at Ameris Bank Amphitheater. ( Friday )

🍦 The 14th annual — and free! — Atlanta Ice Cream Festival serves up cones at Piedmont Park. ( Saturday )

🎤 Hip-hop star Missy Elliott brings her Out of this World tour featuring Ciara, Timbaland and Busta Rhymes to State Farm Arena. ( Saturday and Sunday )

🚴 The next installment of Atlanta Streets Alive takes over Peachtree Street from Mitchell to 15th streets. ( Sunday )

🎭 "The Wash," a play centered around the 1881 Atlanta washerwomen strike , wraps up its premiere run at Academy Theatre in Hapeville. ( Through Sunday )