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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
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
Toyland
Glen Echo Park
Bad ol' Mr. Barnaby (aka "the crooked man") is up to no good, and it's up to Mother Goose, Little Bo Peep and Tom the Piper's son to sing their way to a happy ending. This adaptation of Victor Herbert's musical fantasy includes such familiar pieces as "Toyland" and "March of the Toys,” with costume characters and near-life marionettes.
"Toyland" will be performed October 16- November 20,...
Categories: Theater
Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens
The Phillips Collection
Over 100 striking black-and-white photographs from the 1920s and 1930s inspired by African objects, some reunited with the photographs for the first time. These images, by Man Ray and his contemporaries in the Harlem Renaissance and the international avant-garde, have shaped the understanding of African art in Western culture. They reveal how framing, lighting, camera angle, and cropping radi...
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....
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
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
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.
"Moon Beat"
National Archives and Records Administration
12:00pm
This award-winning new documentary from filmmaker Kevin Stirling recalls the 1969 flight of Apollo 11 from the perspective of the print, radio, and television journalists who covered it. Culled from hours of interviews, Moon Beat explores the behind-the-scenes world of the beat reporters, NASA media officials, and others who communicated the stories about the U.S. space program. John L. Wilhelm...
5th Annual Downtown Holiday Market
F Street NW, between 7th and 9th Streets
12:00pm – 8:00pm
An eclectic group of over 180 exhibitors and artisans rotating on a weekly basis will be selling a diverse array of high-quality gift items just in time for the holidays. Items for sale include fine art, crafts, jewelry, pottery, photography, clothing, tasty treats and hot beverages.
A wide range of live, local musicians and bands will be featured. Jazz, swing, blues, reggae, bluegrass, klez...
Categories: Arts, Family Oriented, Holiday
Science Cafe': Uncovering the Unseen
The Koshland Science Museum
6:30pm – 8:00pm
Thursday, Nov. 5, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Admission: $10 (includes Happy Hour, ID required); $5 (discussion only)
From creating a pipe organ out of soda bottles to designing four-dimensional objects, NASA's Dan Goods is intent on exploring the intersections between art and science. Installations he created as "visual strategist" at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory include "The Hidden Light," abou...
Categories: Food & Wine, Lecture
The Smithsonian Associates presents "From “La Boheme” to “Turandot”: Puccini’s Operatic Choral Music"
S. Dillon Ripley Center
6:45pm
On the first evening of this two-night program focused on the operas of Puccini, Washington Chorus music director Julian Wachner explains what makes Puccini’s work unique and why Puccini’s “verismo” operatic form is considered one of the best. Then, on the second evening, attend a stunning performance by the Washington Chorus at the Kennedy Center featuring some of the composer’s work...
Categories: Music: Classical
Web 2.0 Technologies and Participatory Democracy
National Archives and Records Administration
7:00pm
Can technology transform the way government works? President Obama has called for transparency, public participation, and collaboration. But can “Government 2.0” technologies help to build a new kind of participatory democracy? A panel, moderated by Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, discusses how collaborative democracy can be d...
Categories: Discussion, Free
The Photography Of Disfarmer
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, School of Music Room 2200
7:00pm
Enter the town of Heber Springs, Arkansas through the work of American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer. Steven Kasher of the Steven Kasher Gallery leads a pre-performance digital exhibit of the work of the reclusive artist who inspired Disfarmer.
Categories: Lecture
Pro Musica Hebraica
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater
7:30pm
Pro Musica Hebraica opens its third season with the Apollo Ensemble of Amsterdam performing Jewish Baroque musical treasures from Italy and the Netherlands for voice and chamber orchestra. These include the American premiere of a beautiful Italian Hoshana Rabbah oratorio from 1733 and Salamone de Rossi’s rare 16th-century instrumental trios.
Categories: Music: Classical
Ariadne auf Naxos
Kennedy Center, Opera House
7:30pm
Composed by Richard Strauss
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Sung in German with English supertitles
The running time for this production is approximately two hours and 23 minutes including one 20-minute intermission.
Tragedy and comedy collide when two sets of performers - one an opera company and the other a commedia dell'arte troupe - are forced to perform together. With stunning ...
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other
Voices of American Composers
Levine at THEARC
7:30pm – 9:00pm
Enjoy a musical journey across the United States, featuring some of the most dynamic vocal and piano compositions America has to offer in a candle-lit cabaret setting in Levine’s beautiful home at THEARC with soprano Joyce Lundy and pianists Jacob Clark and Christine Pulliam.
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other
Topaz Thursday nite FREE comedy show
Topaz Hotel
8:00pm – 10:00pm
FREE Live standup comedy show
by local standup comics
$25 cash prize joke contest for non-com audience members after the show
Every Thursday night
8 to 10 pm
FREE SHOW
Topaz Hotel Bar
1733 N Street NW
Washington, DC 20036-2801
202-393-3000
www.TopazHotel.com
www.StandupComedyToGo.com
Dan Hurlin’s Disfarmer
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theater
8:00pm
original music by Dan Moses Schreier. Hurlin’s piece of puppet theater examines the contradictory life of hermit Mike Disfarmer, who died in 1959 alone in his photo studio. Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact replica of the last except two inches smaller — shrinking like much of rural America until he is completely gone.
Categories: Theater
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
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
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
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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