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Exhibition - Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Friday, May 9, 2008 - Sunday, August 3, 2008
Location: Smithsonian American Art Museum
Love jazz and blues? Bessie Smith and Langston Hughes? This exhibition is the first nationally touring retrospective that brings together more than 80 rarely seen works by the artist including paintings, prints, drawings, and illustrations.
Dance Institute of Washington 2008 Spring Concert
Saturday, May 10, 2008
3:00 PM
Location: GALA Hispanic Theatre
The Dance Institute of Washington performs its annual spring concert. DIW students wow the audience with an exciting afternoon of mixed repertory.
Passport DC: World Week
Sunday, May 11, 2008 - Saturday, May 17, 2008
Location: Citywide
Embassies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, and more present a week of cultural programming, offering a unique opportunity to take in world cultures. Experience Asian dance, Russian sculpture, Bolivian textiles, and much more!
Theater - Cultures in Motion: Hepburn Herself
Monday, May 12, 2008
7:00 PM
Location: National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery’s Cultures in Motion series brings Katharine Hepburn to life in a piece entitled Hepburn Herself. Behind her carefully constructed image, the notoriously secretive actress shares her thoughts on life, death, family, and love.
Mount Pleasant
With its main streets and town square, Mount Pleasant still feels like the village it once was. But it has also seen lives as a fashionable streetcar suburb, a solid working-class neighborhood, and an enclave of counterculture politics.
U Street/Shaw
Experience the renaissance of Duke Ellington's neighborhood. The U Street/Shaw area, once the heart of the city's African American community, predates New York's Harlem. Today you'll discover a lively scene with the resurgence of nightclubs, theatres, and the renovations of many historic buildings.
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Meridian International Center
Bring the kids to the International Children's Festival, Saturday, May 10, as part of Passport DC! The Meridian International Center, founded in 1960, promotes inter-cultural understanding through the international exchange of people, ideas, and the arts. Two mansions, found on the Sixteenth Street Corridor, boast remarkable architecture and gardens, art exhibits, and cultural and educational programs. |
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