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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
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
Washington Craft Show
Washington Convention Center
Enter a world where art merges with everyday life—and re-establishes the human connection.
A premier event of contemporary craft in America, the Washington Craft Show is recognized for presenting masterful work, beautifully displayed. Each piece is one-of-a-kind or limited edition in a range of prices, each designed and made in artists' studios across America.
At the Washington Craft ...
Categories: Exhibits, Fairs & Festivals, Family Oriented
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
UM Department Of Theatre Anna In The Tropics
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kogod Theatre
Set in 1920’s Ybor City, Florida, where cigar workers struggle to reconcile the traditions of the past with their desires for the future, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner is filled with passion and emotion as laborers embrace unfamiliar ideas presented to them by a new arrival in their midst.
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
22nd Annual Washington Craft Show
Washington Convention Center
10:00am – 8:00pm
DC's major fall event for contemporary craft, the Washington Craft arrives November 6-8, with special guest Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright appearing and signing her new book Read My Pins: Stories from a Diplomat’s Jewel Box on November 7.
This premier national showcase features 190 leading contemporary craft artists from 34 states and DC, presenting their latest signature art...
Categories: Fairs & Festivals
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.
Noon Time Pipe Organ Recital: Magical Mystical Musical Machine
National City Christian Church
12:15am – 1:00pm
Come experience National City Christian Church’s “Magical, Mystical, Musical Machine” and hear the thunder of the church’s 7,000-pipe Möller organ in 30-minute recitals of some of the most thrilling, sublime, audience-friendly, and entertaining music written for the King of Instruments.
Categories: Music: Classical
Friday Music Series: Thomas Pandolfi, piano
Georgetown University, McNeir Hall
1:15pm
With dazzling virtuosity, Juilliard graduate Thomas Pandolfi performs an all-Gershwin program that includes improvisations on beloved songs such as "Our Love is Here to Stay", "Embraceable You," and "I Got Rhythm;" and solo versions of "Concerto in F" and "Rhapsody in Blue." The Washington Post has described Pandolfi as “an artist who is the master of both the grand gesture and the sensual l...
Categories: Music: Classical
Annapolis By Candlelight 2009
HistoryQuest
5:00pm – 9:00pm
Let Historic Annapolis Foundation introduce you to some of the city's finest architecture in this 18th annual walking tour of private homes on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 6 and 7, 2009 - 5:00 - 9:00 p.m. Homes on the tour are located along State and Church Circles, Fleet, Cornhill and East Streets, Maryland Avenue and Cumberland Court and span three centuries of architecture throughout historic d...
Categories: Tours, Charity Events, History
Heads or Tails
MOCA DC
6:00pm – 10:00pm
Figure models are fleeting phantoms in the art world. Undistinguished in public, you walk right past them on the street; yet in the studio, they exalt the human form in bronze, oils, charcoal and more. MOCA DC invites you to meet these inspirations on Nov. 6, 2009, as models attend the opening of Heads or Tails and stand beside the art they inspired. Take a peek behind the curtain and meet these enigmatic figures.
Bollywood
The Workhouse Arts Center
6:30pm – 9:30pm
The Workhouse Film Institute proudly presents the Cinematic Tourist Series! Join us on November 6 and 7 for this weekend-long event. On Friday, doors will open at 6:30pm and a screening of Saawariya will begin at 7:00pm. On Saturday, doors will open at 5:30pm and a screening of Bride and Prejudice will start at 6:00pm.
The Cinematic Tourist Series is a Film Event that focuses on a different ...
Categories: Film
Historical Ghost Walks in Waynesboro
Waynesboro Historical Society
6:30pm – 10:00pm
Waynesboro After Dark, a historic Ghost Walk venture, features the history and haunts of Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, a once-thriving industrial town. We return this year with new stories and new storytellers. Waynesboro was named after General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, and built above a mysterious cavern complex.. It has witnessed brutal Indian raids and hosted Robert E Lee's army on its way to Gettys...
Categories: Tours
Tour de Champagne DC
Ritz Carlton Washington DC
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Don’t miss this fall’s most exciting wine event! With over 20 champagne houses, local restaurants and celebrity chefs, the 2009 Tour de Champagne will be the most exciting event of the season.
Main Event ($90 early bird instead of $115) features many prestigious Champagnes along with cuisine from some of Washington, DC’s most talented chefs, Tour de Champagne provides yet another reas...
Categories: Charity Events, Food & Wine
Gernot Fresacher and Werner Karlinger
Embassy of Austria
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Gernot Fresacher and Werner Karlinger
An Austrian Concert
Austrian clarinetist Gernot Fresacher and Austrian harpist Werner Karlinger will present pieces of famous Austrian compositions. Harp music in conjunction with the clarinet sounds inventive, new and is much diversified. Both musicians are members of the Bruckner-Orchestra-Linz and have played together since 1996.
Friday November ...
Categories: Music: Classical
Dee Dee Bridgewater - "Lady Day: A Tribute to Billie Holiday"
Music Center at Strathmore
8:00pm
This incomparable singer has won a Tony Award (The Wiz), Grammy Awards, and France’s Victoire de la Musique, among others. In this eagerly awaited Strathmore return engagement, Dee Dee Bridgewater incarnates the legendary Billie Holliday, recreating Lady Day’s takes on such classics as “God Bless the Child,” “Lady Sings the Blues,” “All of Me,” “When You’re Smiling,” “I ...
Categories: Arts, Music: Other
UM Wind Orchestra: American Masters
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
8:00pm
Michael Votta, music director. Chris Gekker, trumpet.This all-American program of prominent (and promising) composers includes Ned Rorem’s Sinfonia, Alan Hovhaness’s Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places with trumpet virtuoso and faculty artist Chris Gekker, Jennifer Higdon’s Fanfare Ritmico and John Adams’s Grand Pianola Music.
Categories: Music: Classical
John McCutcheon
The Alden Theatre
8:00pm – 10:00pm
$28/ $23 MCC residents
The folk master of no fewer than 10 different instruments.
http://folkmusic.com/homepage/
Categories: Music: Other
American University Jazz Ensemble
Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen Arts Center - Abramson Family Recital Hall
8:00pm – 10:00pm
The American University Jazz Ensemble explores jazz classics and new dimensions in contemporary jazz.
Selections Include:
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise by Sigmund Romberg (1887–1951) arranged by Noah Getz
La Fiesta by Chick Corea (b. 1941) arranged by Ryan Rosen
Until I Met You by Freddie Green (1911–87) and Don Wolf, arranged by Michael Sweeney
Joshua Bayer and Noah Getz, direc...
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
Alexandria Friends School Open House
Alexandria Friends School
9:00am – 12:00pm
You are cordially invited to our next open house at northern Virginia's only Quaker high school. Come find out what a difference a Friends' education can make in your teen's life. Our school is dedicated to nurturing the Inner Light of God's presence within each member of our community.
Categories: Tours, Family Oriented, Free
Georgetown University Players Improv Show
Georgetown University, Leavey Center
9:00pm
In a night of unscripted comedy relying on audience suggestion, the performers’ quick wit and active minds shine in mixed programs of long-form improv games.
Bulldog Alley, next to Subway in Hoya Court of the Leavy Center
$6 general / $4 student
Contains adult content
Categories: Theater
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