Join us for a lecture by Susan Toomey Frost, distinguished Hugo Brehme scholar and author ofTimeless Mexico: The Photographs of Hugo Brehme as she explores the Mexican Cultural Institute'sVisions of Mexico...
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Halloween in Paris
Happy hour from 8-10. DJ sets begin at 10
According to French lore, the Green Fairy isn't just another name for Absinthe, la fée verte is a metaphorical concept of artistic enlightenment, exploration, and social...
October 31, 2012 - 8:00pm
$12 General Admission. $10 AFDC Members.
Conversation and Concert of the Mariachi Tradition with performance by Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano
In November, 2011 the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) inscribed Mexico’s Mariachi, string music, song and trumpet, on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,...
July 7, 2012 - 11:30am - 1:30pm
Free
Gallery Talk: The Courtly World of Jaina Figurines by Dr. Mary Ellen Miller
The ancient Maya of the Yucatan peninsula crafted hundreds, if not thousands, of figurines, during the years AD 600-900, offering them in burials on the Island of Jaina. Some of these figurines were made in molds, and thus mass-...
June 26, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free
A Conversation About Mexican Contemporary Design
Join us for a conversation with Kathy Thornton-Bias, President of the Retail Division at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Ana Ellena Mallet, independent curator who specializes in contemporary art and design, and...
June 20, 2012 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Free: seating is limited, rsvp recommended
Music: Harpsichord Recital by Claudine Gomez-Vuistaz
Join us for a delightful evening of 18th Century French and Mexican harpsichord music by Claudine Gómez-Vuistaz (Mexico), with a program featuring works by Gaspard Le Roux, Jean Philippe Rameau, Joseph Nicholas Pancrace Royer,...
June 14, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free
An Insider’s Art Story of Mexico’s Art World in the Wake of the Revolution, by Susannah Joel Glusker
The Mexican Revolution—that violent, inchoate, never-quite-complete break with the past—opened a new era in Mexican art and letters now known as the "Mexican Renaissance." In Mexico City, a coterie of artists...
May 31, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Free
Rufino Tamayo and Mexican Modernism, by Dr. Anna Indych - Lopez
Known for his captivating use of color, Rufino Tamayo created a unique form of modernism in Mexico. At the forefront of taking on the international/national and abstraction/figuration debates that preoccupied modern Mexican artists during...
May 19, 2012 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Free
Hina/Jaina: On the Threshold of the Mayan Underworld (600—900 AD)
The man-made island of Jaina, off the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula in the State of Campeche, was an extremely important Mayan ritual and religious site in the Classic Period (600 – 900 AD), as evidenced by its laborious...
May 16, 2012 - 10:00am - September 15, 2012 - 4:00pm
Free
DC Jazz Jam - Weekly jazz jam session
Please join DC Jazz Jam for our weekly jazz jam session Sunday from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. No cover. Musicians and jazz appreciators welcome. Also enjoy great Eritrean food and our signature DC Jazz Jam cocktail,...
May 13, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
May 20, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
May 27, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
June 3, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
June 10, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
June 17, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
July 1, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
July 8, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
July 22, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
August 5, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
August 19, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
September 9, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
September 16, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
September 23, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Weekly Jazz Jam Session
Please join DC Jazz Jam for our weekly jazz jam session Sundays from 6:30pm to 9:30pm. No cover. Musicians and jazz appreciators welcome. Also enjoy great Eritrean food and our signature DC Jazz Jam cocktail, the Blue Monk....
March 11, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
March 18, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
March 25, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
April 1, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
April 8, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
April 15, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
April 22, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
April 29, 2012 - 6:30pm - 9:30pm
Free
Global Perspectives Film Series: Pushing the Elephant
As part of the Meridian LiveLocal/ThinkGlobal Network
Join Meridian International Center and ITVS
Join Meridian International Center and ITVS
for the Global Perspectives Film Series...
February 28, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Free!
Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich
The Mexican Table Cooking Series with Patricia Jinich is back for its fifth year! Join us for this ongoing series of culinary adventures, as we travel through time, regions and topics surrounding you with Mexico's...
March 15, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
May 24, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
October 18, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
December 6, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
$70
Diego Rivera in New York
Join us for this fascinating conference by Leah Dickerman, Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art and the organizer of the Museum’s current exhibition Diego...
February 2, 2012 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The Music of Carlos Chavez
This special presentation, co-organized with the Latin American Center for Graduate Studies in Music of Catholic University, will include a lecture and concert in honor of Dr. Robert L. Parker, a distinguished scholar of Mexican music. The...
January 29, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
La Historia en la Mirada
Join us for the screening of the documentary La Historia en la Mirada (Mexico, 2010), which includes previously unseen vintage footage of the Mexican Revolution.
Featuring images saved, preserved and digitally restored by the Filmoteca of...
November 19, 2011 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Free
Day of the Dead Altar / Altar de Muertos opening
Join us for the opening of the traditional Day of the Dead Altar, a quintessentially Mexican tradition and one of our most colorful displays of the year. The Day of the Dead is the result of the fusion of indigenous and Spanish...
October 30, 2011 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Free
Puppet Show & Music Concert featuring songs and cultural stories from "Ole & Play! The Songs of Isabella & Ferdinand Spanish Language Adventures”
For this special presentation, GABY MORENO (recently featured on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert Series) will join Isabella & Ferdinand's music director Fran Revert and some very...
October 22, 2011 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Free
Bilateral Relations: Undercurrents of Creativity
In what ways have artists from Mexico and the United States drawn insight from each other and how have these exchanges furthered their respective genres and informed our perceptions of each other? This autumn, the Mexican Cultural Institute...
October 20, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
November 3, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
November 17, 2011 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
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