An aspiring young theatre director named Conrad struggles to get out from under the shadow of his mother Emma, a famous actress. Meanwhile, his young muse Nina falls for Emma’s lover Doyle, and everyone discovers just how...
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Explore DC’s Green Spaces, Parks, and Gardens with The Landscape Architect’s Guide to Washington, D.C.
The Landscape Architect’s GuideJanuary 1, 2013 - December 31, 2013
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)
(e)merge art fair
Join the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities at the (e)merge art fair
From October 5th - 7th, we will be presenting an exciting collaboration with Obscura Digital...
$15
The L. Ron Hubbard House Museum
The L. Ron Hubbard House in Washington, DC is the original landmark location of the first Church of Scientology in the world. Here, the prolific American writer, explorer...
June 15, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
June 16, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
June 17, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
June 19, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
June 20, 2012 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
Free
Southwest Waterfront: From Watermen to Wreckers to “The Wharf”
In less than 200 years Washington’s Southwest waterfront has morphed from a small collection of late 18th-century brick buildings along the Potomac River to a large group of mid 1960s structures of steel and...
October 20, 2012 - 11:00am - 1:00pm
$15
La Vida En Black
Join Jim Byers, radio personality from WPFW 89.3FM "Latin Stream," when he hosts Emmy Award-winning DC metro area-based documentary filmmaker Mimi Machado-Luces, as she discusses and shares excerpts from her latest work La Vida En Black...
May 19, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Kimchi, Drinks, and a Movie with Na Hong-jin
Join director Na Hong-jin for a special Korean wine and appetizer reception before the screening of his blockbuster film The Chaser during the Korean Film Festival DC! Hosted by the Korean Cultural Center Washington DC, Kimchi,...
April 20, 2012 - 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Free "Big Five" Memorials Walking Tour
If you defined the USA by its achievements, no definition would be complete without the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the New Deal, and the Civil Rights Act. Thomas Jefferson, George Washington...
April 13, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
April 14, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
April 22, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
April 28, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
May 6, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
May 12, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
May 18, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
May 26, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
May 28, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
May 29, 2012 - 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Free, tip-based
Ancient Iranian Ceramics
Some 3,000 years ago, in the area south of the Caspian Sea in what is now modern Iran, craftsmen developed a distinctive type of pottery. This small installation features some of the outstanding treasures in the Sackler Gallery's collection...
July 16, 2011 - July 16, 2012
Feast Your Eyes: A Taste for Luxury in Ancient Iran
In celebration of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's twenty-fifth anniversary, the Freer and Sackler's extraordinary collection of luxury metalwork from ancient Iran goes on view in the walkway between the two museums. Considered one of the largest...
February 4, 2012 - February 4, 2015
Freer & Whistler: Points of Contact
The juxtaposition of Asian and American art at the Freer Gallery is due largely to the influence of the expatriate American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), who played an important role in the aesthetic education of Charles Lang Freer (...
March 27, 2012 - March 27, 2015
Elegy/Agit
Güney stars as one of four smugglers living and working in a desolate, mountainous region. The macho braggadocio and violence of the men (reminiscent of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch) is contrasted with the quiet determination of a...
May 20, 2012 - 3:30pm
Religion in the Gallery
On the Look and Logos of Zen Art Modernism
Gregory Levine, associate professor of the art and architecture of Japan and Buddhist visual cultures, University of California, Berkeley
This lecture asks several questions about Zen...
May 24, 2012 - 7:00pm
Bride of the Earth/Seyit Han
The first film that Güney acknowledged as a fully realized effort, Bride of the Earth stars the director himself as a man separated from his bride-to-be by the superstitions and feudal conditions of rural life. The film’s...
May 20, 2012 - 2:00pm
Shanghai Quartet with Peter Serkin
Hear the Washington, DC, premiere of Bright Sheng’s Dance Capriccio for string quartet and piano, along with performances of Mozart’s String Quartet, K. 458 (“The Hunt”), and Dvorak’s Quintet for Piano and Strings,...
May 17, 2012 - 7:30pm
Peacock Room Shutters Open
The Peacock Room is open during museum hours, but once a month it is shown in a whole new light. When the shutters of Whistler’s “harmony in blue and gold” are open, a flood of natural light turns the Peacock Room into a glowing...
May 17, 2012 - 8:00am - 5:30pm
Valley of Saints
In person: Musa Syeed, director
Co-winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Musa Syeed’s “lyrical, tender … nimble debut feature” (The Hollywood Reporter)...
May 13, 2012 - 2:00pm
Haupt Garden Festival: Changing Seasons
Use photographs taken in different seasons to create miniature dioramas of the Moongate Garden. Part of Garden Fest 2012.
May 12, 2012 - 10:00am - 3:00pm
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