| |  | | |  Freer | Sackler The Smithsonian Institution has two museums of Asian art: the Freer Gallery of Art which opened to the public in 1923, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which welcomed its first visitors in 1987. Both are connected by an underground passageway, and linked through the study, exhibition, and love of Asian art. In addition, the Freer Gallery contains a collection of 19th century American art punctuated by James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room. Currently closed for renovation, The Freer | Sackler will reopen reopen on October 14, at 5 PM. | |  | |  Art All Night This Saturday, September 23, enjoy Washington, DC's free overnight arts festival, starting at 7:00 PM and running until 3:00 AM the following morning. The festival will take place in six DC Main Streets neighborhoods, bringing visual and performing arts, including painting, photography, sculpture, crafts, fashion, music, dance, theater, film, and poetry, to indoor and outdoor public and private spaces, including businesses. Events will be hosted in locations throughout DC including the Heruich House Museum, the Korean Cultural Center, and the embassies of countries including Peru, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. | |  WalkingTown DC 2017 Cultural Tourism DC invites you to join in DC's best public tour program featuring more than 50 guided walking tours throughout the city. WalkingTown DC is a festival of 'bite-size' lunchtime tours, after-work 'happy hour' tours, and longer weekend tours of DC's neighborhoods. The program runs from Saturday, September 16 through Sunday, September 24. See and learn about the history, culture, environment, and art of Washington, DC. Licensed, professional tour guides, community and government leaders, and neighborhood historians lead the tours. The tours are free, but you must register. Volunteer opportunities with WalkingTown also are available. Let's have fun together! | |  Turkish Festival Join a day out for the entire family in downtown DC on Sunday, September 24, between 11 AM - 7 PM. The Festival is on Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets NW, in front of Freedom Plaza and two blocks from the White House. The 2017 Turkish Festival Stage Program offers eight hours of live entertainment, highlighting Turkey's ties with the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East and beyond. Aiming to entertain, inspire and educate, the stage program brings together local artists as well as those from other parts of the U.S. and Turkey. | |  Friday, September 22 Event - AVF Summit
University of the District of Columbia Film - Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Hill Center Theater - Death of a Salesman
Ford's Theatre Tour - Guided Garden Tour: Historic & Growing
Tudor Place Historic House and Garden Theater - Native Gardens
Arena Stage Saturday, September 23 Event - Champagne in the Sculpture Garden
Kreeger Museum Event - Two Worlds at the Octagon
Octagon Museum Event - DC Peace Conference: Addressing Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
Hostelling International DC Event - Museum Pop-up Shop
Dumbarton House Event - DC History for All: Volunteer Fair
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Sunday, September 24 Event - ZooFiesta
National Zoo Event - Craft Conversation with Judith Schaechter
Smithsonian American Art Museum - Renwick Gallery Exhibit - Equilibrium: Fanny Sanín
National Museum of Women in the Arts Tour - Museum Highlights
Hirshhorn Museum Monday, September 25 Exhibit - Valor in the Pacific: A Remembrance
National Museum of the U.S. Navy Exhibit - Unfolding the Universe
Japan Information & Culture Center (JICC) Exhibit - Inhotim: At the Crossroads of Glocal Change
IDB Cultural Center Exhibit - Painting Shakespeare
Folger Shakespeare Library Tuesday, September 26 Tour - First Amendment Highlights
Newseum Exhibit - From Sinbad to the Shabab Oman: A Seafaring Legacy
Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Event - An Evening with Bernard-Henri Lévy
DCJCC Event - An Evening with Peter Brannen
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Wednesday, September 27 Exhibit - Black Magic: AfroPasts/ AfroFutures
Honfleur Gallery Event - Digging for Lost History: The African American Troops of WWII
African American Civil War Memorial & Museum Exhibit - Spectacular Gems and Jewelry
Hillwood Estate Concert - Pavel Urkiza's Crossroads
Twins Jazz Thursday, September 28 Exhibit - National Geographic: Exploration Starts Here
National Geographic Museum Event - Reception: Human Landscapes
OAS Art Museum of the Americas Film - Cat (Kedi) and Crossing the Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul
Goethe-Institut Event - Evening with Author Joan Nathan
Alliance Française de Washington, DC |
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