(August 16, 2011)--The Friday Morning Music Club is moving out of its long-time home at the Charles Sumner School Museum, and will start on October 7 at their new home, Calvary Baptist Church in Penn Quarter.
It all started in 1886, when a...
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Franciscan Monastery
Situated on a verdant hillside in Northeast Washington, the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land contains replicas of Holy Land shrines, as well as Roman catacombs. Built in 1899 as a place to visit the shrines without actually traveling there...
A Civil Union: Marrying the Historic and Modern
In 1970 St. Thomas Episcopal Church was destroyed by arson, leaving only the Altar and parish hall as remnants of the 1894 Gothic structure. Following the fire, the congregation renovated what remained of the parish hall, and converted the space...
July 14, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
$15 DCPL members, $25 non-members
The Public Memory of 9/11
9/11 Lecture Presented by the National Building Museum and the Smithsonian Institution
The upcoming tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks offers an opportunity to...
July 26, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free
Tuesdays at Noon- Peru on Film
Celebrate Peru and the Machu Picchu centennial this summer with four free screenings of films from and about Peru, selected in consultation with the Peruvian Embassy. All screenings in Grosvenor Auditorium.
Tuesdays:
...June 28, 2011 - July 26, 2011
Free
Civil War Sesquicentennial
Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III and Ronald C. White, Jr., consider the Civil War--150 years on--for the May 15 Sunday Forum (10:10 am). The author of the bestselling A. Lincoln: A Biography (2009), White is a fellow at the Huntington Library,...
May 15, 2011 - 10:10am - 11:00am
free-will offerings accepted
Screening: The Stone Carvers
In celebration of DC's Italian heritage during "La Dolce DC," learn more about the artisans who sculpted 150,000 tons of limestone into the world’s sixth-largest cathedral church. As immigrants from Italy and all over the world,...
May 1, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
$5
Everyday Spirituality the Jesuit Way
Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III welcomes The Rev. James Martin, S.J. to Washington National Cathedral's Sunday Forum. Martin is a priest and author whose most recent book is The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for...
April 3, 2011 - 10:10am - 11:00am
free-will donations accepted
What the Revolutions in North Africa Mean for Us
Cathedral Dean Samuel T. Lloyd III welcomes Steven Heydemann of the U.S. Institute for Peace for a conversation about the religious, political, and social implications of the changes sweeping North Africa--and also a bit about the Institute for...
March 13, 2011 - 10:10am - 11:00am
free-will donation requested
An Evening with Jonathan Franzen: the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Lecture
Jonathan Franzen delivers the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Lecture at Washington National Cathedral.
Featuring a reading from the widely acclaimed Freedom, Franzen's latest novel, the event will also include Franzen's thoughts on his own...
February 18, 2011 - 7:30pm - 8:30pm
$22 / $16 for students & seniors
Mass: Requiem Mass for January 12th Victims
The Embassy of Haiti has kindly requested a Mass of Remembrance for the victims of January 12, 2010. His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, readily accepted to celebrate the Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of...
January 12, 2011 - 4:00pm
Free
Martin Luther King Day Celebration
From 2 to 4 pm on January 17, Washington National Cathedral brings together community leaders, musicians, and all ages for its fourteenth-annual celebration honoring the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a true American...
January 17, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
canned food item or new children's book (suggested donation)
Cathedral's Thanksgiving Decorations Celebrate the Pumpkin
Washington National Cathedral's Altar Guild is decorating the Cathedral for the Thanksgiving holiday this week primarily with locally grown pumpkins from Comus, Md. Varieties including peanut, Cinderella, ambercup, rock-a-fellow, carnival,...
November 25, 2010 - 10:00am
Lecture: In Support of Armed Forces
A Veterans Day Salute. As part of the year long celebration of the centennial of Epiphany’s Parish House, this 11am worship service contains a tribute to veterans and the role the parish has played in support of the armed forces. The guest...
October 31, 2010 - 11:00am
November 11, 2010 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Free
Washington National Cathedral’s 2010 Blessing of the Animals
Washington National Cathedral’s 2010 Blessing of the Animals will officially welcome Carmina, the new Cathedral cat adopted by the Cathedral Choral Society from the Washington Humane Society (WHS). The event marks the seven hundred thirty-...
October 3, 2010 - 2:30pm
Lecture: Axelrod, Bolten Discuss Divisive Discourse at National Cathedral
Two presidential officiaals—David Axelrod, senior advisor to President Barack Obama, and Joshua Bolten, chief of staff to former President George W. Bush—share their experiences of why Washington has become so divisive and how...
October 5, 2010 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
$20
Music: Organ Recital
Guest Organist Rodney Long (Philadelphia, Penn.) plays a recital on the great organ.
May 29, 2011 - 5:15pm - 6:15pm
$10 suggested donation
Music: Organ Recital
Guest Organist Anthony Williams (Nashville, Tenn.) plays a recital on the great organ.
May 22, 2011 - 5:15pm - 6:15pm
$10 suggested donation
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