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Temporary Constructions
Nevin Kelly Gallery
In conjunction with FotoWeek DC, Stirling Elmendorf and Mark Parascandola showcase new photographs highlighting architectural changes over time in Washington, DC and elsewhere by juxtaposing images of contemporary monumental architecture with those of time-worn abandoned structures.
An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, November 13, 6-9 pm.
New York Artist Skye Ferrante Presents Bad Ballet and Other Impossible Sculptures at the Workhouse Arts Center
Workhouse Arts Center
Skye Ferrante is a native New Yorker and a former professional ballet dancer Mr. Ferrante’s Bad Ballet exhibition of wire sculptures represents what happens when a wrong line becomes right as he uses wire to presents dancers in clearly comedic, over-the-top positions. Meet Mr. Ferrante and hear him speak about his work on October 18 at 4:30PM. Both the exhibition and artist’s talk are free ...
Categories: Exhibits
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Carl Sandburg Middle School
November 14 - 23, 2008, the Mount Vernon Community Children's Theatre (MVCCT) is performing Disney's Beauty and the Beast at Carl Sandburg Middle School auditorium, 8428 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria VA 22308. A tale as old as time, Disney's Beauty and the Beast is the story of Belle, an innocent girl with a heart of gold and a prince who was turned into a horrid beast for being selfish and rude ...
Categories: Theater, Family Oriented
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
National Museum of American History Grand Reopening Festival
National Museum of American History, Behring Center
10:00am – 5:30pm
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History reopens after two years of architectural renovations to shed new light on American history, literally and figuratively. The museum has been dramatically transformed and will engage audiences of all ages. The public is invited to experience the newly transformed museum with a dynamic schedule of family-friendly activities, including musical...
Categories: Family Oriented, Free, History
We Shall Remain: ReelNative
National Museum of the American Indian
12:30pm
An excerpt of short works created during the We Shall Remain: ReelNative workshop, an innovative outreach project that encourages Native Americans to give voice to their heritage and contemporary issues through video production. Presented as part of the PBS history series, American Experience. For more information, visit http://www.pbs.org/weshallremain. The 22 minute program will be shown daily at 12:30 & 3:30 p.m.
Categories: Film
Terrorism - the Challenges Today from a German Perspective
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Stefan Aust, until recently editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel and author of numerous books about terrorism. His book, The Baader-Meinhof Complex (re-released 2008), was recently made into a film (2008) which is the German entry for the 2009 Oscars. Based on his experiences with terrorism in Germany in the 70s, Aust will address the topic Terrorism – the Challenges Today from a German Perspective...
Categories: Discussion, Lecture, Other Events
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
Chamber Music at Maryland, Part 2
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Gildenhorn Recital Hall
5:30pm
The second evening of a two-part chamber concert featuring student string, woodwind, brass and piano ensembles.
This is a free event.
Categories: Free, Music: Classical
2008 Benjamin Banneker Legacy Awards Gala
The Capital Hilton Hotel
6:00pm – 11:30pm
The Benjamin Banneker Institute is hosting its 3rd Annual Legacy Awards Gala to recognize individuals and organization that have made significant contributions to increasing African American participation in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Our featured keynote speaker, Reginald Weaver, former president of the National Education Association and a number of the Afr...
Categories: Charity Events
"Live Edge" Contemporary Furniture Design/Woodworker Exhibit
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Exhibit of contemporary furniture designed and built by local DC woodworker, Michael Siegel. Exhibit runs from October to December 19. Open house artists reception on Novembeer 21, 2008 6 - 9pm
Categories: Exhibits
UMSO 2008 Concerto Competition Finals
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Dekelboum Concert Hall
7:00pm
Final round of the annual competition in which students vie for the opportunity to perform as featured soloist with the UM Symphony Orchestra. Finalists perform 15 to 20 minute excerpts of a concerto or concert piece for an independent jury panel. Following the jury’s deliberation, a winner, runner-up and second runner-up will be announced on stage.
This is a free event.
Categories: Free, Music: Classical
CHEM MYSTERY
American University, Greenberg Theater
7:00pm
Written and directed by Caleen Sinnette Jennings.
Three young students shun each other because they assume they are too different to be friends. One loves science, one loves storytelling, and the last loves sports. When they find themselves threatened by the bully of all bullies, however, they are forced to put their differences aside to save themselves. On their problem-solving journey thr...
Categories: Theater, Family Oriented, Other Events
Docs In Progress Screening
George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Docs In Progress screens documentary film works in progress by local and visiting documentary filmmakers. These screening/workshops are open to the public and give documentary filmmakers and afficionados the chance to connect and both be a part of the creative process in a moderated critique session following the film screening. This month, we spotlight two short films on the contemporary dat...
Categories: Film
Black Forest Productions Presents: The 12 Dancing Princesses
Briar Woods High School
7:00pm
The 12 Dancing Princesses is a beautiful fairytale of 12 young Princesses, who are being locked inside their castle by their overprotective Father, King Oakley. Somehow the shoes of the 12 girls are being worn out very quickly, and no one knows how or why. King Oakley initiates a contest for all the young men to figure out whats happenning to the shoes; the prize being the Princess of his choic...
Categories: Theater
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Kay Theater
7:30pm
by Benjamin Britten
libretto adapted from William Shakespeare
by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Nick Olcott, director
Shakespeare’s classic tale of magic and romance sings! In an enchanted wood near Athens, Oberon and Tytania feud over their fairy kingdom while love-sick Helena and scornful Demetrius pursue eloping lovers Hermia and Lysander. Mischief-maker Puck meddles in the matte...
Categories: Arts, Music: Classical, Other Events
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
7:30pm
by Benjamin Britten
libretto adapted from William Shakespeare
by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears
Nick Olcott, director
Shakespeare's classic tale of magic and romance sings! In an enchanted wood near Athens, Oberon and Tytania feud over their fairy kingdom while love-sick Helena and scornful Demetrius pursue eloping lovers Hermia and Lysander. Mischief-maker Puck meddles in the matter, ...
Categories: Theater, Music: Classical
Capucon/Angelich Trio
Kennedy Center, Terrace Theater
7:30pm
Haydn: Trio in G Major, "Alla Ungarese"
Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Categories: Music: Classical
Pride and Prejudice - Blair High School
Montgomery Blair High School Auditorium
7:30pm
Looking for Mr. Darcy? Look no further than Montgomery Blair High School's production of Pride and Prejudice this coming November 14, 15, 21 and 22. The play is directed by Kelly O'Connor, now in her 10th year at Blair. All shows are at 7:30 p.m. in the school auditorium. $4.00 for students/ seniors and $7.00 for adults. Parking is free in either the University Ave. or Colesville Road parking lots.
Categories: Theater
The Way Dogs Do
Embassy of Austria
7:30pm
“The Way Dogs Do” is the new solo project by Christoph Dostal, based on a novel by Austrian author Wolf Haas. The murder mystery takes place in the Vienna Augarten where private detective Simon Brenner has to struggle with killer canines, sabotaged doggie biscuits and a snow-white Argentine, with a bite two and a half times stronger than a Rottweiler’s.
Christoph Dostal brings the 10-...
Categories: Theater
An Evening with Russell Banks & Richard Russo
Folger Shakespeare Library
8:00pm
Two masters of American fiction read from new novels, exploring their fictional worlds set in upstate New York.
Categories: Books & Authors
Warsaw Philharmonic
Music Center at Strathmore
8:00pm
Antoni Wit, conductor
Valentina Lisitsa, piano
One of the great European orchestras, this century-old ensemble produces richly colored performances of “brilliant…polish and precision” that leave “the audience gasping with the sheer, glossy weight of sound” (Kansas City Star). Hear their Strathmore debut with pianist Valentina Lisitsa —“a gigantic talent, electrifying” (Balti...
Categories: Music: Classical
Washington Balalaika Society Concert
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater
8:00pm – 10:00pm
20th Anniversary Concert celebrating a tradition of excellence in Russian folk music. You will hear the shimmering and exotic sounds of over 50 players of the balalaika, domra, bayans, gusli, winds and percussion under the baton of St. Petersburg conservatory trained Svetlana Nikonova. Featured soloists include balalaika virtuoso Andre Saveliev and guest artists from Kiev, Vladimir and Natalya ...
Categories: International, Music: Classical, Music: Other
Between Trains
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
8:00pm
a new play by Juanita Rockwell
directed by Leslie Felbain
Lost in a space between here and there, self and other, dream and reality, life and death, Baltimore-based playwright Juanita Rockwell explores Buddhist views on karma, compassion and choice in this poetic play with songs.
KOGOD THEATRE
$25 / $7 STUDENT
Categories: Theater
Exhibition: A Disenchanted Playroom (Ein entzaubertes Kinderzimmer)
Goethe-Institut Washington, the German Cultural Center
9:00am – 5:00pm
C/O Berlin, International Forum for Visual Dialogues, opened in 2000 in the former Royal Post Office Building in Berlin Mitte. Two photography projects chosen for its annual Talents exhibition series are showcased here this fall and winter: A Disenchanted Playroom and 32 Kilos.
Check our website for additional programming in conjunction with these exhibitions.
November 6, 2008 – January...
Categories: Exhibits
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