Loading
Feb 09, 2012 | WDC: 37.4 °F
Washington’s source for compelling television and inspiring classical music
Community Calendar
Learn about events happening in and around Washington!
Scroll below to see what's happening today or use the box below to select a date. You can also go to the Calendar Search page to search by keyword or event category. Local arts and cultural organizations are invited to submit events to this calendar.
Click inside the box to select a date:
To automatically receive information about new events, subscribe to our RSS feed.
From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection
National Gallery of Art
Chester Dale's magnificent bequest to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 included a generous endowment as well as one of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This special exhibition, the first in 45 years to explore the extraordinary legacy left to the nation by this passionate collector, features some 84 of his finest French and American paintings.
Categories: Arts
The Workhouse Celebrates Black History Month
The Workhouse Arts Center
The Workhouse Celebrates Black History Month with an exhibit of works by several well-known African American artists, including Margo Humphrey, Michael B. Platt, Preston Sampson, Stanley Squirewell and Thermon Statom. Mr. Platt’s imagery centers on ritual and the transformation of the human spirit that occurs when it confronts imagined or actual events and circumstance. Preston Sampson sees...
The 13th Annual National Juried Show
Gallery West
Gallery West invites the public to view works selected for the 13th Annual
National Show, juried by Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American
University Museum. Located at 1213 King Street in Old Town Alexandria’s Boutique
District, the gallery boasts two floors of visual art created by some of the
most talented artists in the country. The reception on February 6th is open ...
Categories: Arts
Culture of the Mind and Spirit, Montpelier Arts Center, Main Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
John Beckley, Rushern Baker, Alonzo Davis, Cheryl Dyer, Henry Elliott, Thomas Gomillion, Jacqueline Lee, Angela Mathis, Clarence Page, Roland Richardson, Elbert R. Roberson, and Kenneth Shepherd, in an exhibition of African American artists who have a common heritage and profound links to Montpelier Arts Center. Feb. 5- Feb. 28
Marcella Morgese, Montpelier Arts Center, Library Gallery
Montpelier Arts Center
Mixed media works by Maryland sculptor. Feb. 5- March 26
Bethesda Literary Festival - Essay & Short Story Contest
Bethesda
Deadline: February 26
First place: $500 and published short story/essay in Bethesda Magazine
Second place: $250
Third place: $150
Honorable Mention: $75
For more information and eligibility requirements, please visit www.bethesda.org.
Categories: Books & Authors
10-4
Youtube
A new dance on camera from Unevenlane, conceived and created by Mary Lane. Unevenlane is a new dance company based in Washington, DC. Under the artistic direction of the company's founder Mary Lane, the group is compiling a unique body of work with a distinctive style. While exploring various mediums for the context of her work, Lane's choreography demonstrates a respect for structure as she co...
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
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....
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
The Phillips Collection
O’Keeffe’s bold representations of flowers, bones, and landscapes are icons of 20th-century art; she was also a pioneer in abstract painting. The exhibition of over 100 works reveals this achievement, from her groundbreaking charcoals of 1915, to her close-up views of flowers and bones, to her spare watercolors of the 1970s. It also includes examples of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photogr...
Categories: Exhibits
Intersections: Pulse—Tayo Heuser
The Phillips Collection
Heuser translates the luminosity of Mark Rothko’s paintings into three dimensions with a wall-mounted sculpture in the museum’s elliptical stairwell. Glowing, colored forms, crafted from handmade paper and drawn in ink, seem to float against the walls. Part of Intersections, in which artists respond to art and spaces in the Phillips with projects of their own. Weekdays: By donation; Weekends: Included in museum admission
Categories: Exhibits
Orestes, A Tragic Romp
Folger Shakespeare Library
Anne Washburn’s fresh translation/adaptation of Euripides’ classic is directed in a world premiere by Aaron Posner.
Categories: Theater
Out of Sight: Life and Works of Enslaved and Domestic Servants at Tudor Place
Tudor Place Historic House and Garden
10:30am
In addition to six generations of Peter family members, Tudor Place was also home to domestic workers, enslaved and free. This tour explores domestic service at Tudor Place from 1816 through modern day, including the personal stories of several enslaved and free individuals. The tour highlights the Kitchen, Servants’ Sitting Room, and original basement space.
Members: $5
Nonmembers: $10
Categories: Arts, History, Other Events
Tom Green: Accident and Intent
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
Tom Green has been a legendary figure in the Washington, D.C., art world for over 40 years. His paintings, drawings, watercolors, and installations somehow manage to move freely between the formal and the accidental, the iconic and the idiosyncratic, the serious and the absurd. This exhibition samples the career of this important and influential Washington artist.
Categories: Arts
Robert Devers: Cult of the Hand
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This interdisciplinary exploration retraces and reimagines the influences of culture, craft, and place on the artist. Through the multicultural perspective provided by the history of maiolica glaze painting, the artist maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural infl...
Categories: Arts
Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin: Personal Interiors
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This exhibition presents recent work by two artists with long associations with the AU Art Department who now live and work in Assisi, Italy. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, and collages that reveal relationships of the figure in still, intimate spaces.
Artists’ reception: Saturday, January 30, from 6–9 p.m.
Gallery talk with Alan Feltus: Saturday, January 20, at 4 p.m.
Categories: Arts
Cream: Washington Project for the Arts Art Auction Exhibition
American University Museum at Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
This exhibition features work by Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) member artists, as well as national contemporary artists selected by top curators from some of the most important art institutions in the country. WPA invites contemporary art aficionados to indulge their passion for art at the WPA Art Auction Gala on Saturday, March 6, at 6 p.m. All proceeds benefit WPA programs and exhibit...
Categories: Arts
Folklore Society of Greater Washington's Mid-Winter Festival
Takoma Park Middle School
12:00pm – 10:30pm
The annual FSGW Mid-Winter Festival is a family-friendly day-into-evening BLAST of participatory workshops, story telling and wonderful concerts. Come and sing Doo-Wop, folk ballads, sea chanteys, Gospel, Shape-note and close harmony. Learn to ring handbells, improve your guitar playing, and try your feet at Contra, Scandinavian, International, Square, English Country Dance and Appalachian Clo...
Categories: Dance, Fairs & Festivals, Music: Other
2nd Annual African American History Program Free Family Day: Counting America
The Koshland Science Museum
12:00pm – 5:00pm
The results of the 2010 United States Census will paint a rich portrait of who we are as Americans - from race to age to gender. Join us for an exciting day of activities to explore the role of math and statistics in the census and in everyday life, how racial and cultural perceptions have influenced census results, and the importance of how people define each other and themselves.
Categories: Discussion, Food & Wine, Free
Puss 'n' Boots
Synetic Family Theater
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Synetic Family Theater presents the classic fairy tale about a clever cat who dons a pair of human boots and leads his poor homeless master to a life of luxury. When Puss puts on the boots, he becomes a fantastic dancer and uses his skills to wow and amaze people to his master’s advantage. Directed by Nicholas Allen and recommended for ages 4 and up. Additional performances at 3:30 pm on January 30, February 6, 13, 20 and March 6.
Categories: Theater, Family Oriented
Black History Month Lecture by Best Selling Author Breena Clark
Dumbarton House
1:30pm
Ms. Clark will discuss her novels Stand the Storm, set in Georgetown during the Civil War, and River Cross My Heart (an Oprah’s Book Club Selection). Ms. Clark will share her research about the enslaved and free African Americans who lived and worked in the Georgetown community. Sponsored by The DC Society of The National Colonial Dames of America. $10 per person, Free to Members.
Categories: Books & Authors, History, Lecture
The Studio Theatre: IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER
The Studio Theatre: Milton Theatre
2:00pm
One Sexy Play, One Hot Writer!
IN THE RED AND BROWN WATER
by Tarell Alvin McCraney
"Heartbreaking! Superior! Generates Real Heat!" - The Washington Post
Tarell Alvin McCraney returns to the world of his 2008 Studio Theatre hit play The Brothers Size with In the Red and Brown Water. An epic story from the Louisiana projects, this coming-of-age tale follows a young female runner of grea...
Categories: Theater
The Georgetown University Orchestra, Parents Weekend Pops Concert: Movie Madness
Georgetown University, Gaston Hall
3:00pm
The program for this annual pops concert will feature a selection of works from favorite movies.
Gaston Hall
$12 general / FREE student
Categories: Music: Classical
"Adam Parker Smith: The Bad. The Bad. The Bad." Opening Reception and Exhibition
The Art Gallery at the Univeristy of Maryland
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Wednesday, January 27 through Saturday, April 3, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland presents the exhibition The Bad. The Bad. The Bad. by internationally acclaimed artist Adam Parker Smith.
This exhibition of new works detours from Smith’s previous exhibitions, which focused on interpersonal relationships, romance, and sexuality, directing us now to reflect on, as Smith says, ...
Categories: Arts
ArtNotes presents the U.S. Army Chorus
The Workhouse Arts Center
6:30pm
ArtNotes is proud to present The U.S. Army Band Chorus on Saturday, February 6 at 6:30pm. As one of the nation's only all male choruses, The U.S. Army Chorus regularly appears with the National Symphony Orchestra in televised Memorial Day and Independence Day performances from the U.S. Capitol.
Join us at the Workhouse for an evening of music including pop, Broadway, folk, traditional patr...
Categories: Music: Classical
Arianna String Quartet Workshop
The Holton-Arms School Lewis Theater
7:00pm – 9:00pm
On Saturday February 6, 2010, the Holton-Arms School is pleased to host an all-day invitational string quartet workshop featuring The Arianna String Quartet. The Arianna Quartet garnered national attention by winning the Grand Prize in the 1994 Fischoff Chamber Music competition, and First Prize in both the Coleman and Carmel Chamber Music Competitions. For more information on the Arianna Quar...
Categories: Music: Classical
Perry Hall Folk Music Night, featuring Brooksie Wells
Perry Hall United Methodist Church
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Monthly "open mike" Folk Music Night is held Saturdays. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. The featured performer this month is Brooksie Wells. Her web site is http://www.brooksiewells.com/ .
Categories: Music: Other
Piano Recital
The Dennis & Phillip Ratner Museum
7:30pm – 10:00pm
Sofya Gulyak, winner of William Kapell and Leeds Int'l Piano competition in Sept. 09
Categories: Music: Classical
Jeri Sager: Cabaret Series
Wolf Trap, The Barns
7:30pm
A captivating Broadway sensation with starring roles as Fantine in Les Mis, Grizabella in Cats, and many others, this northern Virginia native charms audiences with beautiful singing and repartee.
Categories: Music: Other
Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra presents “The Lady Who Swings the Band”
National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium
7:30pm
In celebration of Mary Lou Williams’ 100th birthday and Black History Month, the SJMO samples her vast musical oeuvre. This program features music from throughout the career of this pianist and arranger, including works she arranged for Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Andy Kirk and the Clouds of Joy. The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra (SJMO) was founded in 1990 with an appropriati...
Categories: Music: Other
Laugh Riot at The Hyatt
Hyatt Regency Hotel (Bethesda)
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Live standup comedy show
Laugh Riot at the Hyatt
5 local comics
$25 cash prize joke contest for non-com audience members after the show
Every Saturday night
8 to 10 pm
$10 Cash Admission
Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel
One Bethesda Metro Center
7400 Wisconsin Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814
301-657-1234 www.Bethesda.Hyatt.com
www.StandupComedyToGo.com
Categories: Arts, Theater, Other Events
Renegade Dance Company Presents "This Street"
Jack Guidone Theatre
8:00pm – 10:00pm
"This Street" celebrates street and underground artists through dances by the youth-run Renegade Dance Company. Tickets are available online for $12.50 at www.tix.com. Tickets are $17.50 at the door.
Categories: Dance
Cafe Florian
Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Come, share your voice in music, poetry, spoken word or any other means. You are more than welcome to join us for a free Open Microphone even at Davies Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church. It's a very small bu friendly crowd and we are always looking for new faces and new talents. The fun starts at 8 pm and local singer/songwriter Syl Smith is the Master of Ceremonies. Parking is always ...
Categories: Free
Cyrano: An adaptation for three actors by Jo Roets
CENTERSTAGE
8:00pm
Cyrano de Bergerac is a master of swordplay and wordplay, but a “magnificent Mount Everest of a nose” blocks his path to true love. From Parisian balconies to bloody battlefields, tongue-tied Christian borrows Cyrano’s words to woo beautiful Roxane—but is she falling for Christian’s looks or Cyrano’s soul? A cast of three actors triangulates this classic into a lightning-paced roman...
Categories: Theater
WETA offers this events calendar as a community service. Listings are collected from site visitors, arts organizations, venues, and other sources. All submissions are reviewed and approved before appearing on the website. We do not, however, check the details of the events. Please visit each event's website to verify the accuracy of the information presented here. If you notice inaccurate information in any of the event listings, please contact us.
Support WETA | About WETA | Press Room | Contact Us Newsletter | Shop WETA | RSS
3939 Campbell Avenue, Arlington, VA 22206
Phone: 703-998-2600 | Map & Directions
Public Broadcasting for Greater Washington
Copyright © 2011 WETA. All Rights Reserved.
WETA Television and Classical WETA 90.9 FM are community-based public broadcasting stations serving the Washington area and supported by listeners and viewers. WETA is also a major producing station for PBS.
By visiting this site, you agree to our Terms of Service. Please also read our Privacy Policy and Community Guidelines.