 | |  Wandering Docent LLC Most visitors spend less than a minute viewing pieces of art at the museum. Wandering Docent helps audiences better understand art so they spend more time appreciating paintings, sculpture, ancient ritual objects, medieval era-luxury items, and ordinary trinkets from various cultures, regions, and time periods. The company provides educational, entertaining, and enriching tours and lectures on a variety of topics that may be structured specifically for your group. The services are available to art lovers of any age. To learn more, see descriptions of their tours and lectures on their website. | |  |  ACM Anniversary Mardi Gras Family Day Celebrate the Anacostia Community Museum's 50th anniversary this Saturday, February 10. For the first time ever, the museum will hold its annual Mardi Gras event in its 2,500 square foot main gallery. Enjoy exciting art workshops, clowns, magicians, living statues, fortune tellers, face painting, balloon art, Marie Laveau (storyteller), live music, a family-style 'second-line' parade down Bourbon Street's red carpet, vendors' marketplace, and more! It might be cold outside, but the heat will be on all day inside the Anacostia Community Museum! |  Something Rotten! With 10 Tony nominations including Best Musical, Something Rotten! is set in the ‘90s – the 1590s! This hilarious smash tells the story of Nick and Nigel Bottom (Rob McClure and Broadway's Josh Grisetti), two brothers who are desperate to write their own hit play while the "rock star" Shakespeare (Adam Pascal) keeps getting all the hits. When a local soothsayer says the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world's very first MUSICAL! See this production at the National Theatre through February 18. |  Ocha and Wagashi: The History of Japanese Tea & Sweets! Learn about the history and culture of ocha (tea) and wagashi (sweets) through this sensory exhibit at the Japanese Information and Culture Center (JICC). The wagashi are traditional Japanese sweets that portray the seasons with their shapes, colors and ingredients. They are works of art designed to appeal to all the senses. Tea has been enjoyed in Japan for nearly a thousand years. Learn about both through this exhibit, which was produced with the award-winning Japanese confectionery Matsukawaya and tea company Myokoen. It is on display through March 2. | | Friday, February 9 Theater - The Way of the World Folger Theatre Exhibit - Crossover: East and West Korean Culture Center Event - Cabaret Rising: One Nation Underground Dupont Underground Film - Iranian Film Festival: Tehran Taboo Freer|Sackler Event - Open Studio Fridays: Blind Contour Portraits National Portrait Gallery Exhibit - Florimonte & Luckett Touchstone Gallery Saturday, February 10 Exhibit - Masters of Hawaiian Music The Barns at Wolf Trap Theater - Jefferson's Garden Ford's Theatre Theater - The Great Society Arena Stage Exhibit - The Plane of Tomorrow, Today! College Park Aviation Museum Exhibit - Wall Flowers: Botanic Murals US Botanic Garden Sunday, February 11 Exhibit - Palimpsestus: Image and Memory Art Museum of the Americas (OAS) Exhibit - The Marines and Tet: The Battle that Changed the Vietnam War Newseum Concert - Voxare String Quartet Dumbarton Oaks Event - Yoga at the National Building Museum National Building Museum Exhibit - Tomb of Christ National Geographic Museum Monday, February 12 Exhibit - For the Record: Picturing DC The George Washington University Museum The Textile Museum Exhibit - Remembering Vietnam National Archives Exhibit - Stitched: Stories told in Clay, Fiber, Textiles and Paints Hill Center Exhibit - Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists Library of Congress Tuesday, February 13 Exhibit - Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Exhibit - Charlie Visconage: Cool Guy Alert! Hill Center Exhibit - National Geographic: Exploration Starts Here National Geographic Museum Film - Foxtrot Edlavitch DCJCC Wednesday, February 14 Exhibit - A Dark and Scandalous Rockfall The Mexican Cultural Institute Event - Lips, Locks, and Body Language International Spy Museum Exhibit - Hung Liu in Print National Museum of Women in the Arts Event - Ear of Dog: An Interactive Chinese New Year Cultural Workshop Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Exhibit - In the Tower: Anne Truitt National Gallery of Art Thursday, February 15 Tour - Gallery Highlights National Portrait Gallery Exhibit - Ancient Bronzes Dumbarton Oaks Exhibit - Your Community, Your Story Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum Event - Take 5! Sarah Hughes Quartet Celebrates the Music of Ornette Coleman Smithsonian American Art Museum Event - TimesTalks DC: Jennifer Lawrence Newseum |