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Unlimited Impressions: Featuring artists Karen Kunc, Judy Pfaff, and Brian Shure with an Opening Reception Oct. 23, 2009 5:30-8:00 pm
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland
From Friday, October 23 through Saturday, December 19, Unlimited Impressions showcases three dynamic printmakers that display the breadth of possibilities inherent in the printmaking process. The exhibition takes place in The Art Gallery located on the 2nd floor atrium of the Art-Sociology Building at the University of Maryland, College Park campus. A reception takes place Friday, October 23, ...
Categories: Arts
Beethoven Sonata Cycle at the Embassy of France (Nov. 13 - 22): François-Frédéric Guy, piano
La Maison Francaise, Embassy of France
Admission (each performance):
- General: $20
- Student w/ID: $15
Attend the entire Beethoven sonata cycle and SAVE!
Visit http://www.HouseofFranceDC.org to view the complete schedule and purchase tickets.
François-Frédéric Guy is an established pianist of immense interpretative authority and superlative technique, especially admired in music of the Austro-German tradition. He has pe...
Categories: Music: Classical
Maryland Opera Studio: La Finta Giardiniera
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theater
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Pat Diamond, director. An opera buffa in three acts that tells the elaborate tale of a woman in disguise searching for the lover who mistakenly believes he has killed her. Fully staged and minimally produced, with piano accompaniment, it is performed in Italian with English supertitles.
Categories: Music: Classical
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor
National Geographic Museum
Soldiers. Charioteers. Archers. Musicians. Generals. Acrobats. Nearly 2,000 years ago, thousands of life-size clay figures were buried in massive underground pits to accompany China's first emperor, Qin Shihuangdi, into the afterlife. Their discovery outside the city of Xi'an in 1974 is one of the greatest archaeological finds of the 20th century.
Now, you can stand face-to-face with these t...
Categories: Exhibits, Family Oriented, International
Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550-1700
Folger Shakespeare Library
As knowledge about China spread slowly westward through trade and travel, this vast country occupied European imagination.
Categories: Exhibits
DAR Museum exhibition - "Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry"
DAR Museum
The DAR Museum showcases the beautiful artistry and marketing genius of Josiah Wedgwood 250 years after he founded his famous ceramics company. “Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry,” celebrates the 250th anniversary of Wedgwood and the remarkable story of discovery, vision, experimentation, industry and exquisite design.
FREE to the public. Monday - Friday 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p....
Much Ado About Nothing
Folger Shakespeare Library
Beatrice and Benedick’s witty war of courtship moves to a Caribbean beat in this festive production set in the heart of DC.
Categories: Theater
Exhibit: "small works"
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
This popular annual exhibit features works of all-media and subject matter that are no larger than 10” x 12” or 120” square.
Opening reception: Thursday, November 12, 6:30-8pm.
Categories: Arts
Exhibit: "Becoming Animal"
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
In this juried exhibit, work may explore the animal within and feature images of animals real or imaginary including everything from our favorite pets to endangered and/or extinct species.
Opening reception: Thursday, November 12, 6:30-8pm.
Categories: Arts
"Boing!" Tory Cowles' Solo Artist Exhibit
Art League
10:00am – 6:00pm
In Tory Cowles’ latest series of abstract paintings she strives to incorporate more interactive three-dimensional elements. Her work has always been light, playful, and joyful, but now the work invites the viewer to participate.
Her acrylic/mixed media works are spontaneous with just enough structure to hold the piece together. Color is extremely important. Cowles is very interested in...
Categories: Arts
Del Ray Dozen Invitational Photography Show
Del Ray Alexandria, VA
10:00pm
This show highlights the photography of 16 Del Ray Artisans. Each photographer has a separate space to display a body of work. The show, running 11/6 – 11/29, will also feature poetry by local poet Brash. Opening reception is Friday 11/6 from 7 – 10:00 pm and is FREE and open to the public.
Categories: Arts
John Dreyfuss: Inventions
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Sculptor John Dreyfuss will display six new large-scale works in the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden. The clean lines of Dreyfuss’s forms represent stylized hand tools made larger-than-life.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 12, from 6–9 p.m.
For information on events associated with this exhibition, visit www.american.edu/museum.
Australian Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors A National Gallery of Australia Exhibition
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Australian Indigenous Art Triennial: Culture Warriors will showcase the works of artists from each state and territory in Australia that represent a diverse range of contemporary indigenous art. This traveling exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, September 12, from 6–9 p.m.
It's All About the Journey!
WVSA ARTs Connection
5:30pm – 7:30pm
A bus may just be a bus, but through the eyes of an artist with a disability,
it can be a challenge to conquer along an unforgettable journey.
Tae your own journey through fantastic artwork, free refreshments, live music
and have an opportunity to meet our talented artists!
All artwork will be available for post-event viewing and purchase Mon. - Fri. 10am-6pm
Categories: Arts
Tudor Nights: The Art of the Martini
Tudor Place Historic House and Garden
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Join us for an evening cocktail reception featuring the martini. Enjoy drinks, light refreshments and enchanting musical entertainment as you stroll through the historic mansion. A full service martini bar from the turn of othe century will be highlighted this evening. Ages 21 and over please. Members free, nonmembers $10. Advanced reservations and payment required.
Categories: Arts, Food & Wine, History
"Zeitgeist II: What's Important Now?"
Nevin Kelly Gallery
6:00pm – 9:00pm
In October 2008, the Nevin Kelly Gallery hosted the first "zeitgeist" show, titled Under Surveillance. Curated by Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin, it presented the responses of twelve artists to what Weiss and Arkin saw as one of the most important elements of the then-prevailing ethos: "the increasingly diminishing zone of personal privacy available to any of us as we are constantly under sur...
Intermediate Stained Glass Class - Lead Came Method
Glen Echo Park
6:30pm – 9:30pm
This class is recommended for those who have taken the Beginning Stained Glass class or who have previous experience constructing stained glass using the copper foil or lead came method. Choose from designs to build a panel up to twelve inches by sixteen inches. Supplies included in class price. More info: www.casavitrales.com.
Categories: Arts
When Art Worked The New Deal, Art, and Democracy
Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum
7:00pm – 9:00pm
When Art Worked The New Deal, Art, and Democracy
7:00 PM
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
American Art Museum
Historian Roger Kennedy discusses the New Deal’s mobilization of artists, including filmmakers, painters, photographers, landscape designers, architects, and composers— those responsible for bringing the nation together during the Great Depression. Book signing to follow.
McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level
"Louis D. Brandeis: A Life" by Melvin Urofsky
National Archives and Records Administration
7:00pm
What is the legacy of Louis D. Brandeis? During his 23 years as a Supreme Court justice (1916-1939), he developed the modern jurisprudence of free speech; laid the basis for a constitutionally protected right to privacy; and developed the doctrine of incorporation, by which the Bill of Rights came to apply to the states. He helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and th...
Categories: Discussion, Free, History
Black Forest Productions Presents...Robin Hood, The Comedy
Briar Woods High School
7:00pm
Black Forest Productions Presents…Robin Hood, The Comedy
Briar Woods High School
22525 Belmont Ridge Road
Ashburn, VA 20148
PH: 703-957-4400
Shows are:
November 19th at 7:00 PM
November 20th at 7:00 PM
November 21st at 2:00 PM
Tickets:
$10.00Adults
$5.00 Children
Robin Hood and his Merry men swashbuckle their way about Sherwood Forest and Nottingham in their crusade to battle...
Categories: Theater
Malcom Bilson, Broadwood piano
Strathmore Mansion
7:30pm
An evening of classics by Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, and Jan Ladislas Dussek, performed by a master artist on his own 1799 Longman & Clementi replica by Chris Maene and Strathmore’s beautifully toned, 19th century Broadwood piano.
Tickets: $28
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical
The Eclectic Guitars
Heritage Hunt Concerts
7:30pm – 9:00pm
The Eclectic Guitars: Larry Snitzler, (Classical Guitar), and Rick Whitehead, (Jazz Guitar), reach out and have fun with a wide-ranging variety of styles and pieces, covering the gamut from Latin American, to classical, to American jazz standards. Among the composers will be Milhaud, Mompou, Nazareth, Barroso, Glenn Smith, Johnny Green, Johnny Mercer, and Charlie Byrd.
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other
Jazz Vocalist Beat Kaestli with the Levine Jazz Quintet
The Swiss Residence
7:30pm – 9:30pm
The Levine Jazz Quintet and Swiss jazz vocalist Beat Kaestli continue their three-year collaboration at the beautiful and elegant residence of the Swiss Ambassador, followed by a reception with the artists. Part of the Hilda and Leonard Kaplan Foundation Jazz Series.
Categories: International, Music: Other
Caroline, or Change
Davis Performing Arts Center Gonda Theatre. Georgetown University
8:00pm
Set against the backdrop of the Kennedy assassination and the Civil Rights Movement during the final tumultuous months of 1963, this Tony-nominated, semi-autobiographical musical by Tony Kushner (Angels in America) explores the clash
between two families’ American experiences. Caroline Thibodeaux, an African-American maid in a Jewish family’s wealthy Louisiana household, discovers money...
Categories: Theater
ALL MY SONS / NWTG @ NVCC-Woodbridge
Lakeside Theatre, NVCC-Woodbridge
8:00pm – 5:00pm
The NoVa Woodbridge Theatre Group of NVCC's Woodbridge Campus presents
Arthur Miller's drama of guilt, responsibility, and redemption...
~~~ ALL MY SONS ~~~
November 12, 13, 19, & 20, 2009, 8 pm
and November 14 & 21, 2009, 2 pm
At the LAKESIDE THEATRE, NVCC Woodbridge
15200 Neabsco Mills Rd., 22191-4099
703-878-5750 or etrumbull@nvcc.edu
$10 General Admission
$5 Students, Faculty/Staf...
Categories: Theater
Bernice Bobs Her Hair
American University - Studio Theatre
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Bernice Bobs Her Hair is based on the first story F. Scott Fitzgerald ever published. It is the original "mean girls." Bernice is the plain country cousin who goes to visit the popular and gorgeous Majorie in the big city of St. Paul, Minnesota. After a disastrous beginning, Marjorie resolves to make over Bernice, inside and out. Marjorie's creation is a society success but becomes too success...
Categories: Theater
Winter Solstice Concert
The Corner Store
8:00pm – 11:30pm
The Corner Store art center hosts it's second annual "Winter Solstice Concert" featuring Jennifer Cutting's Ocean Quartet. Revisit the magic with two incredible shows, December 19th and 20th.
Categories: Holiday
Open Blues Jam hosted by the Big Boy Little Band featuring Bret Littlehales & Matt Kelley at the Zoo Bar Cafe
Zoo Bar Cafe
8:30pm – 12:30am
Open blues jam every Thursday hosted by the Big Boy Little Band featuring Bret Littlehales and Matt Kelley at the Zoo Bar Cafe, free! Friendly neighborhood pub w/great food, directly across from the Zoo. www.myspace.com/bigboylittleband www.zoobardc.com
Categories: Music: Other
Paintings of the Potomac River School
Sandy Spring Museum
9:00am – 4:00pm
Potomac River School, an exhibition of recent landscape paintings of the Potomac River Basin by artists Mary Kokoski, Andrei Kushnir and Barbara Nuss.
Categories: Arts
Adagio Ballet - Fall Classes In Fairfax
Adagio Ballet in Fairfax
9:00am – 8:30pm
Adagio Ballet in Fairfax is proud to be offering a wide range of new ballet classes available for all ages 2 and up for the coming fall session. Beginning on Sept. 3rd and running through Dec. 27th, this is a great opportunity to meet new friends, learn new skills, and enjoy. The Adagio curriculum is designed to provide young dancers with a joyful transition from the world of magical fairy-tale...
Categories: Dance
Iconoclash! Political Imagery from the Berlin Wall to German Unification
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
9:00am – 5:00pm
Political iconography is established with meaning and purpose. Tampering with an icon means that the original value system has been altered, compromised or simply fallen away, creating new meanings in the process.
Opening discussion and reception, organized in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, on Wednesday, November 4, 6:30 – 9 pm.
6:30 pm: Discussion with panelists
Mark...
Categories: Exhibits
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