• Opening remarks: Ambassador Jorge Valero
Vice Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Relations for North America and Permanent Representative to the United Nations
President of the UN Economic and Social...
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The Bolivarian Revolution and the Success of Social Policies in Venezuela
February 4, 2012 - 5:00pm
20th anniversary, 1992-2012
Cuarteto Rústico is a string quartet comprising artists with Latin American roots. Originally from Chile, Colombia, Honduras, and Puerto Rico, Cuarteto Rústico's primary mission is to promote the origins, history, and culture of the...
February 3, 2012 - 6:30pm
Dudamel: Let the Children Play
Children's and youth orchestras are emerging in many countries of the world, inspired by the Venezuelan musical and educational program " El Sistema", which immerses children in the world of music, art, team work, discipline,...
January 27, 2012 - 6:30pm
The Life of Fish (La Vida de los Peces)
At a house party, a handsome man wanders around catching up with friends he has not seen for some years. A travel writer now based in Berlin, Andre appears to be living an exciting international life, and yet... something has drawn him back home...
January 27, 2012 - 6:30pm
Habanastation
Two distinct faces, from the everyday life of a couple of kids. Habanastation tells the story of two children from different social backgrounds that contrast in an adventure that unites them, and was filmed in the working-class neighborhood of...
January 26, 2012 - 6:30pm
Ruido (Noise)
Basilio (Jorge Visca) is a kindhearted person. Dominated by his wife (Mariana Olazabal), humiliated by his colleagues, despised by the man who walks his dog. Basi can’t bear it anymore and falls apart. In the middle of his suicide Irene (...
January 26, 2012 - 6:30pm
El Lado Oscuro Del Corazon (The Dark Side of the Heart)
Oliverio is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in...
January 26, 2012 - 6:30pm
Capsulas (Capsules)
Fonsi is a twelve year-old child with an apparently privileged life. As we get to know his dysfunctional family, we watch his world crumble in a matter of hours. Due to a series of unexpected events the destiny of the characters changes...
January 26, 2012 - 6:30pm
Jews between Legend, Arts and Theater in Renaissance Italy
From the age of emperor Constantine the Great to the Renaissance, the Italian Jews were represented in legends, paintings, and theater based on the Legend of the Discovery of the True Cross. This work provided the subject for some of the Italian...
January 25, 2012 - 2:00pm
Primo Levi's Caged Narrative by Francesco Ciabattoni
Primo Levi is known primarily for his novels about his ordeal in Auschwitz. In 1966 he published, under a pseudonym, Storie naturali, a collection of short stories with scientific and sci-fi themes, apparently pieces of pure entertainment....
January 26, 2012 - 2:00pm
Ibero-American Film Showcase 2012
SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION OF IBERO-AMERICAN CULTURAL ATTACHES
From Jan 19 to Feb 23, discover the very best of Ibero-American recent film production at DC's Embassies and Cultural Centers.
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January 19, 2012 - February 23, 2012
The Silence of a Tiger by Im Taek Jun
Join us for the opening reception of The Silence of a Tiger by Im Taek Jun, an exhibition that reimagines one of the most recognizable images in popular Korean folk paintings: the tiger. Korean folk paintings, known collectively...
December 15, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:30pm
December 15, 2011 - January 6, 2012
Southern Cities/Ciudades Del Sur
The photographs in this exhibit give us an intimate look into life in Latin American and Spanish cities (Ibero-America) by Ibero-American photographers. With these images the artists give us a personal view of their cities, their people and their...
December 14, 2011 - 6:30pm
Free Admission
Thai Films
The Royal Thai Embassy in partnership with the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution’s two museums for Asian Art, are bringing exceptional Thai films to showcase Thailand and the Thai film industry...
December 9, 2011 - 7:00pm
December 10, 2011 - 2:00pm
December 11, 2011 - 2:00pm
Free
Family Ties
In this critically acclaimed 2006 film, an ensemble cast of dysfunctional characters are drawn together into an unconventional family, with equal parts amusement and drama as personal interests and traditional familial obligations collide. In the...
December 2, 2011 - 6:30pm
An Old Year's Night Masquerade Ball
Trinidad and Tobago will celebrate its 50th Anniversary of Independence in 2012. This event is planned to usher in 2012 with toast to our 50th.The event will include An Old Year’s Night Masquerade Ball, "A Night of Mysterious...
December 31, 2011 - 8:00pm - January 1, 2012 - 2:00am
$100
Relatos Borrachos/Tales Told Under the Influence
November 10, 2011 - 10:00am - 8:00pm
November 11, 2011 - 8:00pm
November 12, 2011 - 3:00pm
November 12, 2011 - 8:00pm
$35; $30 Students/Seniors
“Le Bruit des Glaçons” (The Clink of Ice)
A besuited stranger (Albert Dupontel) rings the doorbell at the remote country villa of an alcoholic novelist, Charles Faulque (Jean Dujardin), and announces himself as the writer’s cancer, adding that his victim only has a few months to...
November 10, 2011 - 7:00pm
$9
Stabat Mater and Confitebor Tibi, Domine
Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Roman Catholic hymn to Mary. The title is an abbreviation of the first line, Stabat mater dolorosa ("The sorrowful mother stood"). It is based upon the prophecy of Simeon that a sword was to pierce the...
November 5, 2011 - 6:00pm
Free
Iceman Goes Public
The Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Südtirol Marketing Company would like to celebrate with you the brand new documentary about the Iceman Autopsy and the release of the exclusive publication about the Iceman on...
November 1, 2011 - 6:30pm
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