Music, literature and politics converge this week, so engage your intellectual side at these events.

• Youth musicians from across the country will perform vocal and instrumental repertoires at this year’s Washington DC International Music Festival at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Tickets for Monday’s 7:30 p.m. show can be purchased for $30.
• See New York Times columnist Paul Krugman at Politics and Prose at a book signing event Wednesday. Krugman will discuss his novel “End This Depression Now!” The free 7 p.m. event is open to the public.

Also, watch the commander in chief show off his funny side at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents Dinner.