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See the exhibition Keeping History: Plains Indian Ledger Drawings through Sunday, January 31.
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Cultural Tourism DC's Calendar lists a broad range of activities and special events for all ages and interests. Browse Today's Events listed below, or plan ahead using the Search. To keep up-to-date on what's going on in Washington, DC, subscribe to our weekly "Events Update" calendar using the sign-up box on the left.
Today's Events
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Dance: Mariinsky Ballet |
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Russia's world-renowned Mariinsky Ballet returns to perform Konstantin Sergeyev's 1952 version of the full-length staging of the beloved fairy tale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty.
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Lecture - Know Your Records Program: African American Genealogy in Ancestry.com |
11:00 AM
Location: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Sabrina Petersen of Ancestry.com discusses African American genealogy resources in National Archives records available through Ancestry.com.
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Author Lecture: Being Indian, Being Israeli |
12:00 noon - 1:00 PM
Location: The Library of Congress
Maina Chawla Singh discusses her book Being Indian, Being Israeli: Miagration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland.
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Exhibition Tour: Sackler Highlights |
12:00 noon
Location: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Discover the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's premier collection of Asian art, with works from a broad range of Asian cultures and times. Learn about the history of the museum and view exceptional objects from the museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions.
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Reading/Movie: Love Poems and Romance Movie “Bright Star” |
12:00 noon
Location: Library of Congress
Celebrate Valentine’s Day at Library of Congress.
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Reading: Poetry at Noon |
12:00 noon - 1:00 PM
Location: The Library of Congress
Poets Heddy Reid and Margaret Mackinnon will read selections of their work in the 16th annual reading of "Love Poems" for Valentine's Day.
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Music: Ryan Scott Oliver, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Alex Brightman, and Lindsay Mendez |
6:00 PM
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Composer/lyricist Oliver is a 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant recipient. Actor Johnson is understudying in Hair on Broadway. Brightman is currently playing Boq in Broadway’s Wicked. Mendez just completed the Off-Broadway run of The Marvelous Wonderettes.
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Lecture: Religious Traditions of the Middle East |
6:30 PM
Location: National Museum of Natural History
This panel discussion explores the cultural connections between the three largest monotheistic traditions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism.
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Lecture: Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future |
7:30 PM
Location: National Geographic Live!
Would the world be a better place if human societies curbed their desires for material goods? In his provocative new book, scholar and environmental visionary Saleem H. Ali suggests that the answer is not so simple.
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Dance Festival: Gala Flamenca |
8:00 PM
Location: GW Lisner Auditorium
GW Lisner Auditorium presents 10th Annual Flamenco Festival DC
Ongoing Events
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Exhibition - Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon |
Location: National Gallery of Art
The six-foot-high plaster working model of the celebrated seated Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French, designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, will be on view in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.
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Theater: In the Red and Brown Water |
Location: The Studio Theatre
A steamy coming-of-age in tale the Louisiana Bayou bubbles out of a gumbo of rhythm and sensuality. With In the Red and Brown Water, Tarell Alvin McCraney returns to a world driven by intense music, enflamed passions, and spiritual Yoruban myth.
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Theater: The Rivalry |
Location: Ford's Theatre, National Historic Site and the Petersen House, The House Where Lincoln Died
Over the course of seven debates, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas tackled the hot topics of their day: state’s rights, slavery, and the intent of the Constitution. The Rivalry captures those debates, while adding the insights of Douglas’s wife, Adele.
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Dance: Mariinsky Ballet |
Location: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Russia's world-renowned Mariinsky Ballet returns to perform Konstantin Sergeyev's 1952 version of the full-length staging of the beloved fairy tale ballet, The Sleeping Beauty.
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Exhibition - Polar Obsession: Photography by Paul Nicklen |
Location: National Geographic Museum at Explorers Hall
As the Earth’s warming trend threatens the ice upon which the Arctic and Antarctic ecosystems depend, Nicklen urgently hopes his skills as a wildlife photojournalist will inspire stewardship of the rare, remote, and threatened at the Earth’s extremes.
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Workshop: Trees in the City |
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Casey Trees
This workshop covers urban ecology, green design, environmental stewardship, education and community outreach. You will discuss DC’s urban ecosystem and explore strategies for involving city communities in the regreening process.
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Exhibition: Corazón Despierto / Awakened Heart |
Location: IDB Cultural Center
This IDB Cultural Center presents a selection of photographs from the second photography exhibition organized in 2009 by the Istituto Italo-Latino Americano, and presented in the context of PhotoGrafia, an annual photo exhibition held in Rome.
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Exhibition: Stories |
Location: Honfleur Art Gallery
Honfleur Art Gallery presents Stories, an exhibition of photographic stories created by Antoine Sanfuentes, Ann Curry of NBC, and Deborah Terry of International Lifeline Fund to help raise awareness and funds for relief efforts in African nations.
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Exhibition - Migrations: Nomads without a Cause, Refugees with No Tomorrow |
Location: The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
Honfleur Art Gallery presents Migrations, a photography exhibition by Deborah Terry that illuminates the lives of two disparate groups at odds in the Darfur conflict: nomadic herders known as Janjaweed and the refugees displaced by them.
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Theater: The Four of Us |
Location: Theater J
When Ben’s first novel vaults him into literary stardom, his best friend David is thrilled for his newfound success ... or is he? This comedy explores how friendship survives in the face of success, and what happens when dreams come true … and not for you.