Don't miss the Codex Mexico: The Book as Art Exhibition Symposium and Book Fair from April 19th - 20th at the Mexican Cultural Institute. On Friday, April 19th, attendees will have the opportunity to hear short panels such as ...
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"CODEX MEXICO" SYMPOSIUM AND BOOK FAIR
April 19, 2013 - 9:00am - 12:00pm
April 20, 2013 - 10:00am - 2:00pm
FREE
Susan Frost "Hugo Brehme's Timeless Mexico"
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...
January 29, 2013 - 6:30pm - 7:45pm
FREE
Acoustic Africa @ Lisner
The third installment of Acoustic Africa’s exhilarating journey focuses on the richness of African vocal traditions, featuring three of the continent’s singers: Dobet Gnahore (Ivory Coast), one of the most vibrant performers in world...
November 1, 2012 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm
General: $30, $35,$40, $45; GW Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni: $24,$28 (15% off all tickets)
On the Murals at Bonampak by Diana Magaloni
Join us for an evening of anthropological inquiry with Diana Magaloni, director of Mexico’s celebrated Museum of Anthropology, as she lectures on Mayan muralist technique and the Murals of Bonampak. The famed pre-Columbian...
September 13, 2012 - 6:30pm - 7:45pm
Free
Insider's Guide: Michael Akin, President, Reingold LINK
Michael Akin is President of Reingold LINK, a DC-based strategic communications and community relations firm. He proudly serves on the boards of Cultural Tourism DC and...
Harp Recital with Mercedes Gomez Benet
Join us for an intimate and alluring music with Mercedes Gomez, a world-renowned harpist from Mexico City. Gomez, a member of Mexico’s UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra, will perform a repertoire that incorporates diverse...
November 1, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Free
Flute and Piano Music from Latin America with Marisa Canales and Roberto Hidalgo
Join us for a night of beautiful and compelling music from Mexico, Spain, and Argentina with flutist Marisa Canales and pianist Roberto Hidalgo, as they join their talent to invite us to a journey through Spain and Latin America with music by...
September 21, 2012 - 7:00pm
Free
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
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
Mount Pleasant
With its main street, town square, and distinct boundaries, Mount Pleasant still feels like the village it once was. As the city grew around it after the Civil War, Mount Pleasant evolved into a fashionable streetcar suburb, sprouting...
September 1, 2012 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
$15
Mount Pleasant
With its main street, town square, and distinct boundaries, Mount Pleasant still feels like the village it once was. As the city grew around it after the Civil War, Mount Pleasant evolved into a fashionable streetcar suburb, sprouting businesses...
June 30, 2012 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
$15
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
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