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"A Hosta Story," Yoshimi Matsukata's Solo Artist Show of Watercolor Paintings at The Art League
Art League
Hostas, often used as the border or backdrop in a garden, are the subject of Yoshimi Matsukata's solo artist exhibit of watercolor paintings at The Art League Gallery, "A Hosta Story."
"It may be the scientist in me that keeps going back to organic subjects." Continually drawn back to nature, Matsukata enjoys visually portraying something previously unnoticed in her environment.
The rh...
Categories: Arts
Next to Normal
Arena Stage in Crystal City
How does an almost average family navigate today's over-stimulated and over-medicated world? In this darkly funny and haunting new musical, one suburban household confronts its past and its future. With provocative lyrics and an electrifying score, "Next to Normal" explores how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their world intact. Straight from its successul run at New York's...
Categories: Theater, Music: Other
Katherine Anne Porter and Yaddo: "peace and repose and working atmosphere"
University of Maryland Libraries
1:30pm – 4:00pm
College Park, MD - The University of Maryland Libraries will be the site of an informative exhibit that explores American author Katherine Anne Porter’s relationship with Yaddo, an artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York. Porter spent a significant amount of time at the retreat as a guest in the 1940s. The exhibit focuses on the work Porter completed while at Yaddo. Viewers may also...
Categories: Exhibits
Auditions for Spring 2009 Dance Institute of Washington Classes
The Dance Institute of Washington
5:30pm – 7:00pm
Audition for the Dance Institute of Washington’s Spring 2009 Semester, which runs from January 14th to May 16th. Enroll in the pre-professional or community dance program. $25 audition fee. Classes in ballet, modern, hip-hop, jazz and more; all levels. Programs serve youth 5-18, and there are also classes for adults.
My Space on 7th
Touchstone Gallery
6:00pm – 8:30pm
88 local artists opening Reception and Wine Tasting courtesy of Washington Wine Academy.
Two years ago Touchstone Gallery created My Space on 7th. It’s a unique, non-juried opportunity for local artists to exhibit at Touchstone’s gallery. In a short time, My Space on 7th has become a gallery tradition.
The upcoming January exhibition, like the two before it, drew an immediate resp...
Categories: Exhibits
WETA Celebrates "Gloria - Music of Vivaldi" at the Washington National Cathedral
Washington National Cathedral
6:30pm
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical
Matabb – A Palestinian TV Soap Opera
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Germany/Palestine, 2008
The ten-episode series is named Matabb (Speed Bump).The drama, which features local actors, follows the ups and downs in the lives of the staff of a fictitious non-governmental organization. Typical for the genre, its episodes revolve around topics of human interest such as love, pre-marital sex, conflicts at work and, of course, everyday life in the territories.
Wedn...
Categories: Film
Rising Stars Talent Competition
Suitland Recording and Development Studio
7:00pm – 10:00pm
We are hosting the 1st Rising Stars Talent Competition on January 9th 2008 at the Henry S. Wise Senior High School Performing Arts Center located in Upper Marlboro, MD.
This talent competition will promote performing arts and empowerment to the citizens of the DMV, (District, Maryland & Virginia) regions by providing them with a positive platform to develop and display the artistic and networ...
Categories: Music: Other
The Musical of Musicals - the Musical!
Gunston Arts Center, Theatre One
8:00pm – 10:30pm
Dominion Stage warms the winter season with the parody "The Musical of Musicals – The Musical!" The five vignettes feature the ingenious music of Eric Rockwell and snappy lyrics of Joann Bogart in the stylings of five of musical theater’s famous composers/collaborative teams – Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Jerry Herman, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Kander and Ebb. The premise of...
Categories: Arts, Theater, Music: Other
Folger Consort Presents Gloria: Music of Vivaldi
Washington National Cathedral
8:00pm
The music of Vivaldi with soprano Rosa Lamoreaux, the National Cathedral Choir, and a Baroque orchestra led by violinist Robert Mealy.
Venice, the beautiful city on the water, was also a place of great musical influence and the home to Baroque master Antonio Vivaldi. His most famous sacred piece, the Gloria, is a brilliant example of his inventive, dramatic, and energetic style. This masterp...
Categories: Music: Classical
Counter-Photography: Japan's Artists Roday
Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan
9:00am – 5:00pm
This world-traveling photography exhibit showcases the work of 11 contemporary Japanese artists united by a common desire: to capture a world invisible to the naked eye—the world of the spirit. Reflecting the traditional Japanese belief in which all objects are perceived to have a spiritual aspect, their work moves beyond the documentary, revealing the unique spirit of each individual photographer.
Categories: Exhibits
Thirty-Two Kilos (Zweiunddreißig Kilo). Ivonne Thein.
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
9:00am – 5:00pm
This exhibition coming from C/O Berlin, the International Forum for Visual Dialogues, presents the works of photographer Ivonne Thein.
Ivonne Thein has created 14 large-format photographs of alarmingly stick-like, elegant young women in scant, silvery clothing, their faces obscured by well-tended hair, assuming near-contortionist mock-fashion poses on a floor. The artist’s digital manipulati...
Categories: Exhibits
Science, Engineering, and Economic Growth in Africa
National Academy of Sciences Building
9:00am – 10:30am
Harvard professor Calestous Juma will explore the role emerging technologies can play in fostering economic growth and improving human welfare in Africa. Dr. Juma will re-examine opportunities for cooperation on development issues in light of the current global food and financial crises. A question-and-answer session will follow the lecture.
Categories: Lecture
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