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Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
Foggy Bottom Historic District
Foggy Bottom brings sculpture to the public with its inaugural Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit opening on Saturday, May 3, 2008. This six-month exhibit will showcase 12 area sculptors whose work will be displayed in the front yards of private residences in the Foggy Bottom Historic District. During the run of the exhibit, artist-led tours will be offered on the 2nd Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. Brochures may be picked up at each sculpt...
Categories: Music: Classical
Auditions for the Youth Orchestra
Calvin Coolidge Senior High School
Come audition for the Youth Orchestra. Age: up to 21.
All students who audition will be accepted into The Program. The most advanced students will be accepted into the most advanced ensemble, The Youth Orchestra.
This summer 2009, the Youth Orchestra will take a "Heart-of-American-Music" tour including stops in Nashville and New Orleans.
There is no fee to audition.
Categories: Auditions, Family Oriented, Music: Classical
Fall Registration NOW OPEN at Joy of Motion Dance Center!
Joy Of Motion Dance Theater
Joy of Motion Dance Center, recipient of the D.C. Mayor's Art Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts, is known for it outstanding dedication to dance education for people of all walks of life.
Find your groove in your favorite dance class this fall at Joy of Motion Dance Center. There are 100's of Drop-In and Enrollment classes to choose from!
Voted "Best Studio for Kids" by Bethesda Magazine, there are many fun and exciting opportunit...
Categories: Dance
BLUE
Textile Museum
Blue iris has been chosen as Pantone, Inc.'s 2008 "Color of the Year" and various shades of blue have appeared on fashion runways in recent seasons, but textile artists have been using this bold color for several millennia - and continue to do so today. BLUE, on view at The Textile Museum in Washington, D.C. April 4 through September 18, 2008, explores the creation and meaning of the color blue on textiles produced across time and ...
Categories: Exhibits, Family Oriented, Other Events
In the music, from the Spirit, through the Eyes.
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center
Visionary Artist: David Boothman
Paintings and Drawings September 6 - October 31
Friday, September, 6:30pm, Gallery Talk followed by Reception 7:30 - 9pm.
For more information, call 301-953-1993 or 410-792-0664.
TTY 301-490-2329 (hearing impaired line only)
Open 7 days a week, 10am - 5pm.
Directions: Baltimore-Washington Parkway to Laurel-Bowie Road (Route 197). North toward Laurel on Route 197 to Crystal Plaza Shopping Cen...
Categories: Exhibits, Family Oriented, Other Events
Paintings
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center
September 7 - October 27
Reception: Friday, September 12 from 7 - 9pm.
FREE ADMISSION.
For more information, call 301-953-1993 or 410-792-0664.
TTY 301-490-2329 (hearing impaired line only)
Open 7 days a week, 10am - 5pm.
Directions: Baltimore-Washington Parkway to Laurel-Bowie Road (Route 197). North toward Laurel on Route 197 to Crystal Plaza Shopping Center. Turn left onto Muirkirk Road. Art Center drive is first right.
Categories: Exhibits, Family Oriented, History
The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands
Textile Museum
The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands, on view at The Textile Museum February 15 through September 18, 2008, invites visitors to explore the liveliness and diversity of the region's woven and knitted textiles. The Museum's first new exhibition of 2008, The Finishing Touch features a charming group of belts, bags and other accessories made and used by the indigenous people of the Andean highlands. A large group of ...
Categories: Exhibits, Family Oriented, Other Events
New Ceramics
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center
September 6 - 28
Reception: Friday, September 12 7-9pm.
FREE ADMISSION.
For more information, call 301-953-1993 or 410-792-0664.
TTY 301-490-2329 (hearing impaired line only)
Open 7 days a week, 10am - 5pm.
Directions: Baltimore-Washington Parkway to Laurel-Bowie Road (Route 197). North toward Laurel on Route 197 to Crystal Plaza Shopping Center. Turn left onto Muirkirk Road. Art Center drive is first right.
Categories: Music: Other
Resurrection by Daniel Beaty
Arena Stage in Crystal City
In a unique blend of music, poetry, and dance, Daniel Beaty brings us six show-stopping characters - from Eric, a budding child scientist, to The Bishop, the leader of a mega church, to his son Isacc, a corporate executive. The stories of these African American men collide one evening in an unforgettable look at identity, relationships, and, above all, our human connections. The author of "Emergence-SEE!", Daniel Beaty won the 2007 OBIE Award f...
Categories: Theater, Music: Other
Project 3: Empowered by Artistry
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
Collaborative art exhibit by three arts organizations dedicated to social justice issues, making a difference for women and girls, both locally and globally, through individual creativity and fine arts.
The exhibit features work from artists, mainly women, across the globe. Through September 13, 2008.
Categories: Theater, Other Events
COOL GLOBES: HOT IDEAS FOR A COOLER PLANET
United States Botanic Garden
10:00am
This summer, "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet" will be the featured exhibit in the United States Botanic Garden's annual "One Planet -- Ours!" exhibition focusing on sustainability. Public art with a purpose, Cool Globes will feature more than 35 sculpted globes, each five feet in diameter, designed by local, national and international artists to represent simple solutions people can implement to combat global ...
Categories: Exhibits, Other Events
Barry Gallery: Italian Portfolio, Student Interior Design Exhibition
Marymount University
10:00am – 8:00pm
Marymount University's Barry Art Gallery will display the Italian Portfolio: Student Interior Design Exhibition from September 6 through October 31, 2008. Over the summer, a group of 20 Marymount undergraduate and graduate Interior Design students spent three weeks in Italy, studying architecture and use of space. They visited Tuscania, Rome, Siena, Pompeii, Florence, and Venice with sketchbooks in hand. Specific assignments i...
Categories: Exhibits
Continuity of an Unfinished Project
American University, Katzen Arts Center
11:00am – 4:00pm
The series of engravings by Spanish artists Franciso de Goya y Lucientes and Ricardo Calero are linked through the medium of light and their similar depictions of human nature. This exhibition is co-sponsored by the Embassy of Spain.
Special events related to this exhibition include:
Gallery talk with Ricardo Calero and curator Fernando Castro Flórez
Tuesday, September 9, 5:30 p.m.
Spanish Embassy Film Screening of Faith in Chaos:
Wed...
Categories: Exhibits
Disasters: Ledelle Moe
American University, Katzen Arts Center
11:00pm – 4:00pm
South African-born Ledelle Moe will be installing her concrete and steel sculptures in the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden. Disasters is an exploration into the fragility of power and the provisional nature of permanence through natural or manmade destruction. Employing the human and animal form, this work addresses notions of devastation, evoking some unnamed catastrophic rupture. These massive forms are fragments—still and quiet te...
Categories: Exhibits
Mistrust: Alexandre Arreachea
American University, Katzen Arts Center
11:00pm – 4:00pm
Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea's interdisciplinary and monumental works explore themes of surveillance and social isolation in both private domestic and public spaces. This exhibition is co-sponsored by Alonso Art. A gallery talk with the artist is scheduled for Saturday, September 13, at 5 p.m. An artists' reception is scheduled for all exhibitions on Saturday, September 13, at 6 p.m.
Categories: Exhibits
The Depravities of War: Sandow Birk
American University, Katzen Arts Center
11:00pm – 4:00pm
Jacques Callot's Miseries of War (1630), an etching series based on the Thirty Years' War, will be presented alongside contemporary artist Sandow Birk's outsized woodcuts focusing on the war in Iraq. An artists' reception for all exhibitions will be held on Saturday, September 13, at 6 p.m. The McCabe Lecture Series featuring Sandow Birk will be held on Monday, September 15, at 7 p.m.
Categories: Exhibits
Raggs LIVE Dance Party!
Atlas Performing Arts Center
2:00pm
Get ready to "wag and wiggle" with the pups from "Raggs," during their interactive, 90-minute dance party! Raggs and his furry friends, have a problem; they can't decide whose dance will make for the Best Dance Party ever. And they need YOUR help to decide. Dance along as they perform a dozen of their hit songs including: "What's the Dealio?," "Stand Back, Brain Attack" and "Pawsuuup!" F...
Categories: Theater, Family Oriented
WMP's 18th Annual Summer Chamber Music series
Alexandria's History Museum, The Lyceum
3:00pm
Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic (WMP)
Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic's 18th Annual Summer Chamber Music series will begin on Sunday, June 22, 3 PM at The Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria -- 201 S. Washington Street. Violinist Benjamin Scott with Pianist Brad Clark will perform works by Mozart, Beethoven, Debussy, and William Grant Still. Free. The series will continue each Sunday through September 7 except for August 3.
Categories: Music: Classical
Sunday Afternoon Waltz
Glen Echo Park
3:00pm
Join us for a Waltz Dance in the Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park, MD on Sunday, September 7, 2008 and will feature the ensemble Waltzing Stars. This versatile band will provide a lively mix of folk waltzes with a few other couple dances, including Hambo, Schottische, Swing, Tango, and Polka. The fun begins at 3:00 p.m. with a half hour introductory Waltz workshop followed by 2 1/2 hours of social dancing. Admission is $8 per person.
For ...
Categories: Dance, Music: Other
Concert of Broadway Musical Selections
Oakton Church of the Brethren
4:00pm
Pianist Alex Ramirez and soprano Michelle Schulman of Philadelphia, Pa., perform musical selections ranging from opera to Broadway -- Puccini, Gershwin, Rodgers and Hammerstein and more.
Categories: Music: Classical, Music: Other, Other Events
Slow Blues and Swing Dance
Glen Echo Park
7:00pm
Slow Blues and Swing Dance — Spanish Ballroom — featuring Jamie Lynch Band. Jamie Lynch, from Gaithersburg, MD, studied classical music at Westminster College, but couldn't stay away from blues, R&B, and gospel. Influenced by Big Mama, Big Maybelle, Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby Bland, Etta James, Susan Tedeschi, and others.
90-min. workshop, taught by Donna Barker and Mike Marcotte, at 7 pm. Slow blues basics for first 30-min...
Categories: Dance, Music: Other
National America Supports You Freedom Walk
Women in Military Service for America Memorial Theatre
9:00am
The America Supports You Freedom Walk is a new national tradition that creates the opportunity to reflect on the lives lost on September 11, 2001, remember those who responded, honor our veterans past and present, and renew our commitment to freedom and the values of our country. Since the first walk in 2004, the number of America Supports You Freedom Walks held around September 11 throughout the nation and beyond continues to grow. What began ...
Categories: Family Oriented
Cinema for a Conscious Community
Busboys and Poets
9:00pm
Focus In!: Cinema for a Conscious Community screens important films by local, national, and international filmmakers. Each segment offers a focus dedicated to social justice, peace, and community value. Free and open to the public.
Categories: Film, Other Events
National Capital Cat Show
Dulles Expo Center
9:30am – 4:00pm
The National Capital Cat Show is a Cat Fanciers' Association (CFA) licensed cat show where cats from all over the country come to compete for national awards. The National Capital Cat Show is one of the largest cat shows in the country and features a huge selection of cat supplies, including cat toys, cat food, grooming supplies, and friendly people willing to help you with your cat questions. Saturday and Sunday will feature a Parade of Breeds.
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Categories: Other Events
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