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2020 Mother Tongue Film Festival The Smithsonian's 2020 Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity with four days of film screenings and filmmakers from around the world. The festival uses digital storytelling to amplify the work of diverse practitioners who explore the power of language to connect the past, present, and future. The opening ceremony is Thursday, February 20, at 6:00 pm and features a presentation by Uptown Boyz. Other special events include a Directors Panel and Zombie Happy Hour. This is the 5th Mother Tongue festival. It continues through Sunday, February 23, across four venues, including the National Museum of Natural History.
|    | |   |  | |  |  | | If winter never arrived, how can we be sure that it is over? There are some telltale observations that spring starts a month from today. It's not just the budding of some early cherry blossoms but also the request from The National Cherry Blossom Festival to provide a Passport DC preview at the Tidal Basin Stage on a Friday afternoon this spring. It's knowing that, in a week, more than 50 volunteers registered to help us present Around the World Embassy Tour on May 2 and several offered to work Rhode Island Avenue Main Street PorchFest on April 11. Early spring is also when we start our annual Passport DC fundraising campaign, a great opportunity for those who want to support our activities and their impact as participatns rather than volunteers. | | | |  |  | | DC by Foot DC by Foot offers free walking and bus tours of the National Mall and Tidal Basin as well as walking tours on Capitol Hill and Embassy Row. The tours are performances of history that draw on jokes, stories, anecdotes, trivia competitions and facts and figures. At the end of the tour, based on your experience, you decide how much it was worth and that is what you pay. This full-service tour company can also customize private tours for students and other groups. |  | |
Friday, February 21 Event - Brews and Banter: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Folger Theatre Event - Artist Gallery Talk: Delita Martin
National Museum of Women in the Arts Event - Sippin' at Citydance
Tenleytown Main Street Event - Seen on Screen
U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Saturday, February 22 Exhibit - The Outwin 2019: American Portaiture Today
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Event - Black History Celebration with Ni Dembaya Drum & Dance Ensemble
Hostelling International DC Theater - Silent Sky
Ford's Theatre Event - Artist Talk with Suzy Kopf
IA&A at Hillyer Sunday, February 23 Event - Swing Dancing with Gottaswing
Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital Tour - Historic House & Garden
Tudor Place Theater - The Merry Wives of Windsor
Folger Theatre Monday, February 24 Exhibit - The Moment: Nature, Life, and Re-creation
Korean Cultural Center
Exhibit - Airmail in America
Smithsonian National Postal Museum Exhibit - U.S. Botanic Garden at 200: Deeply Rooted, Branching Outward
U.S. Botanic Garden Tuesday, February 25 Exhibit - Hokusai: Mad about Painting
Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art Tour - Lincoln Assassination
DC by Foot Tour - Open House
Old Korean Legation Museum Wednesday, February 26 Event - The Unexpected Spy with Tracy Walder
International Spy Museum Event - 150 Years of Wildlife Conservation History in 10 Artifacts
U.S. Department of the Interior Museum Exhibit - Cultural Icons
Madame Tussauds Exhibit - Challenging the Face of Science: The Bearded Lady Project
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Thursday, February 27 Event - Cub Corner
College Park Aviation Museum Film - Intimate Strangers
Korean Cultural Center Tour - Open House
Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office Museum Event - Botanical Brainiacs Trivia Night
U.S. Botanic Garden Newsletter for February 21 to February 27, 2020. Find more events on our calendar, which presents the latest information on the District's most exciting cultural activities. It's all at your fingertips. To view our full calendar, visit our website. |  | | | |
Anatolian Evening with the Secret Trio The Yunus Emre Institute invitues you to a concert with The Secret Trio, three musicians who create a new type of chamber music by combining Turkish, Armenian and Macedonian Roma sounds. Be audibly transported back to the time of the Ottoman Empire. Instruments including the oud, the kanun, and the clarinet create a unique harmony for the trio's musical aesthetic. By inventing new ways to play on melodic instruments, the ensemble never sounds like only three instruments. This event is Friday, February 21, at 6:00 pm; admission is $15.
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Carved in Stone | Painted with Light See featured artists David Therriault, and Carolyn Goodridge and Hubert Jackson on display at the Zenith Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Inspired by Japanese landscapes, Therriault's sculptures use stone from residential and commercial properties. Goodridge's abstract landscapes are inspired from music and color. Her paintings are colored with pigments including beeswax in the process of encaustic. Jackson creates abstract and historical works, many now in private collections. This exhibit is on display through April 4.
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Cherish the Ladies An American female super group that plays Celtic music, these ladies create an evening that includes a blend of instrumental talents, beautiful vocals, captivating arrangements, and step dancing. Cherish the Ladies is one of the world's top Celtic groups with an ability to take the best of Irish traditional music and dance and deliver an immensely entertaining show. Get tickets to see the group at The Barns at Wolf Trap on February 25 and February 26 at 8:00 pm.
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The Wanderers Esther and Schmuli are shy, Hasidic Jews embarking on an arranged marriage. Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities embarking on a flirtatious correspondence, despite being married to other people. Anna Ziegler's funny and witty drama explores the hidden connections and relationships between seemingly disparate people, drawing audiences into a look at modern love. Full of clever dialogue, The Wanderers continues through March 15 at Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center.
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The Wonderland
Japan Information Culture Center |  | February 28
Emma Tago Trio in Concert
Embassy of Argentina | | February 28-March 1
Women's Film Festival
Embassy of India |  | March 10
March Book Club: Furious Hours
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Newsletter for February 21 to February 27, 2020 
