June 27th Through July 4 and beyond…
Posted June 26, 2008 by Glenn MarcusCategories: This Weeks Events
As always, check the blog roll to your right,
and consider confirming all events.
Smithsonian Folk Festival June 25-29 and July 2-6 www.folklife.si.edu
And the Capital Fringe Festival is coming!! www.capfringe.org – July 10-27
If soccer is your thang, the four on four street tournament is Friday, Sat, and Sun. at 11th and H Sts. NW www.communityworks945.org/streetsoccerUSA, and of course Sunday at 2:30 PM on ABC – European Cup Final, Spain vs. Germany. Or David Beckham Live at RFK.
Saturday and Sunday is also Montgomery Heritage Day. Among other things, you can see the house that inspired “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” www.heritagemontgomery.org
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The Philip Barlow classification system
A = Art opening or art lecture
B = Book Talk
D = Dance
F = Film
L = Non-Art Lecture
M =Music
P = Poetry
PWYC = Pay What you Can
T = Theater
Z = Last letter of the alphabet
Friday, June 27 –
M – Noon – Cellist Helen du Plessis and Pianist Eun Joo Chen at the Arts Club of DC
M – 3 PM – Bhutanese singers and dancers at the Sackler Gallery
A – 6 – 8 PM – Gallery plan b at 1530 14th St. NW – Dupont Circle artist Paula Amt’s silhouettes, and Andrew Criss’ portraits, each of a dog and a person asleep,
P – 6:30 PM – reading by Grace Cavalieri – yes it’s at ZuCoffee Café in Annapolis, but it IS
Grace Cavalieri. www.zucoffee.com/events.html
A – 7-9 PM - Civilian Arts – W. side of 7th St., just up from D St. NW - how much do we love Jayme McClellan?
M – 7:30 PM – Latin music concert at Carter Barron. 202-426-0486, 202-334-6808
Saturday, June 28 –
10 AM – 5 PM – “Crafty Bastards” Fair – Music, crafts, food at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
8230 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring Lots of interesting acts!
10 AM – 5 PM – Arts Resource Fair at Woolly Mammoth Theater – another DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. If you are in the arts weorld, check it out - www.dcarts.dc.gov
M., T, P – 3 PM – Harlem Renaissance presentation at the Smithsonian Amer. Art Mus.
8th and G NW. Music of Fats Waller and Bessie Smith. Plays and poetry by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
F – 3 PM – Nat’l Gallery East Bldg aud. – “Macario” – Gavaldon’s 1959 film about a peasant and a chance encounter with the Grim Reaper. Shocking theme for a Mexican film, eh?
F – 3 PM – two classic documentaries on the Silk Road. Museum of the Americas. 201 18th St. NW. res req. 202-737-4215
A – 3-4 PM – Meet the artist and book signing – photographess Gina Brocker at Irvine Contemporary – 1412 14th St. NW
A – 4 PM – artists talk at Transformer. 1404 P St. NW
***A - 4 PM – Gallery talk by supremely talented curator Vivienne Lassman, who will walk you through the magical works of legendary DC artist Noche Crist. AU Museum in the Katzen Center.
A – 5-6 PM – Gina Brocker artist talk at Irvine Contemporary – 1412 14th st.
A – 5-7 PM – Bhutanese photography at Addison-Ripley. 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW
A – 5-7 PM – Transformer – four mentored artists – 1404 P St. NW
A – 6- 8 PM – Opening reception for Gina Brocker at Irvine Contemporary, 1412 14th St. NW
A – 7-10 PM – “Girlish Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists’ at the Bobby Fisher Memorial Bldg (no, NOT the chess player) – 1644 N. Capitol St., just above Q St., near Quincy Pl. “It Girl” Philippa Hughes and Pinkline Project are part of an interesting group of sponsors. Art and performance – should be a real “happening”
Sunday, June 29 –
11:30 AM – 5:30 PM – Italian Festival – Church of the Rosary – 595 3rd St. NW - all things Italian! www.festaitalianadc.com
12:15 PM – “Tools of the Trade” tour of the equipment used originally on the C & O canal. Visitors Center at 1057 Thomas Jefferson St. NW
F – 2 PM – the exquisite Russian classic “The Cranes are Flying” about a Russian family during
WWII, Nat’l Gallery E. Bldg aud.
F – 2 PM – The Kurosawa classic “Kagemusha,” about a thief who is forced to impersonate a warlord in medieval Japan. Freer Gallery. Too bad Michael Jeck won’t introduce this one!
A – 2 PM – Sackler Gallery – storyteller Linda Fang leads a tour of the Chinese landscape exhib.
T – 2:30 PM – Stage Guild reading of “The Voysey Inheritance” by Harley Granville-Barker
Res. Req. at the Mead Theater of Flashpoint, 916 G St. NW. 240-582-0050
M – 4- 6 PM – Takoma Park Co-op Appreciation Day – all welcome at the Co-op – 210 Ethan Allen Ave. in Takoma Park Food, fun, and the music of the Afro -Caribbean Fusion band Chopteeth –18 piece spectacular – brought the house down at the Billionaires for Bush Re-Coronation Ball at the 2005 Inaugural – and have wowed local audiences ever since!
M – 5 PM – Organist Douglas Major at the Washington Nat’l Cathedral
M – 7:30 PM – Youth choirs from around the country at the Washington Nat’l Cathedral
T – 7:30 PM – Redux - Stage Guild reading of “The Voysey Inheritance” by Harley Granville-Barker. Res. Req. at the Mead Theater of Flashpoint, 916 G St. NW. 240-582-0050
Monday, June 30 –
L – 4 PM – media and pop culture star Douglas Rushkoff discusses “Open Source Reality” and how youth keep up with changing technology. Last of a terrific series at the Library of Congress’s Madison Bldg in the Montpelier Room. And you might see Roberta Shaffer, too…
F – 5 PM – Baird aud. at the Natural History Mus. Jeannie Kranz of the United Space Alliance will introduce Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” If you’ve never seen on a movie screen..
B – 6:30 – 8 PM – at Busboys and Poets DC – Robert Engelman on his “More: Populations, Nature, and What Women Want.”
B – 7 PM – TICKETS GONE – Salman Rushdie at 6th and I Historic Synagogue
7-8 PM – World War II Memorial tour by the Park Service
– meet at the Ranger station. And then find a way to see the PBS classic “The World War II Memorial: A Testament to Freedom.”
M – 7:15 PM – Ft. Reno concert by three groups. Yes, the arsenic scare is over. www.ftreno.com
Tuesday, July 1 –
F – Noon – Remember that haunting 1980ish National Geographic cover photo of an Afghan girl? “Search for the Afghan Girl” is the 2002 documentary on that subject. Yes, at Nat’l Geographic Grosvenor auditorium. M St. . Between 16th and 17th. btw, anyone seen the classy Sara Grosvenor of late?
M – 12:10 PM – Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW – The US Army Band’s “Army Strings”
A – 12:30 PM – Nat’l Building Museum – Dennis Wilde on community and environmental considerations in building design
Wednesday, July 2 –
B – 6 – 7:30 PM at Busboys and Poets DC – Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia on his Iraq war memoir of disillusionment
M – 6 PM – David Hildebrand of the Colonial Music Institute will perform 18th century songs in costume with period instruments. At the magnificent Anderson House of the Society of the Cincinnati, 2118 Mass. Ave. NW www.societyofthecincinnati.org (need to confirm)
F – 7 PM – at the Freer Gallery – actor Tshewang Dendup and musician Sonam Dorji will answer questions after Kyentse Norbu’s feature film “Travelers and Musicians”
T – 7-10 PM – Fringe Festival Preview and Happy Hour – back room at beer emporium RFD at 810 7th St. NW, just up from the Chinatown Arch. The fabulous Julianne Brienza and Fringe performers and friends will greet and amaze you.
Thursday, July 3 –
M – 5-8 PM – Salsa legend Ellen Torres and her dance ensemble and band at the Reynolds Center of American Art – 8th and F Sts NW
M – 6:30 - 8 PM – the zydeco stylings of Little Red and the Renegades. (Bet that would not have been the group name in the 1950s…) Lion/Tiger Hill at the National Zoo. Wonder if they will play “If I Were King of the Forest,” or “Eye of the Tiger.” Guess not.
M – 7:15 PM – Another Ft. Reno concert by three groups. Yes, the arsenic scare is still over. www.ftreno.com
Friday, July 4 –
11 AM – Palisades July 4 parade – begins at Whitehaven and MacArthur Blvds and ends with a free picnic at the recreation center at Sherier and Dana Pl. NW
M - 11 AM – annual Independence Day organ concert at the Washington Nat’l Cathedral
F – Noon – Nat’l Gallery East Bldg. – Christian Frei’s documentary on the giant Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban.
F, M – 3 PM – Nat’l Gallery East Bldg aud. – Scott Hicks documentary on the composer Phillip Glass
Tuesday July 8 – Saturday July 12
Hip Hop Theater Festival - sponsored by DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities –
Tony Gittens’ swan song? A very compelling event.
www.dcarts.dc.gov www.hhtf.org
Thursday, July 10
A – 5:30-8 PM wine and hors d’oeuvres reception for artist John Brandon Sills http://johnbrandonsills.com gallery at the Metropolitan Institute of Plastic Surgery
2440 M Street NW, Suite 200 202-785-4187
Friday, July 11 –
9 AM – 2 PM – Women’s Summit – for and about HIV Positive Women – Blackburn Center of Howard University 1-877-285-4567
Saturday, July 12 –
5-8 PM – artists talk and closing reception at Int’l Visions - 2629 Ct. Ave. NW just above Calvert
Sunday, July 13
A - 7 PM – Closing reception and discussion – Kid Mutiny exhibit at DCAC
2438 18th St. NW – If JW Mahoney is there, it will be ethereal!
Wednesday, July 16 –
P – 6 PM – Poetry Slam at the Kennedy Center Family Theater! www.kennedy-center.org
Robert Redford’s Sundance Preserve and the Int’l Youth Poetry Slam – there’s a combo!
Thursday, July 17
A – 5:30-8 PM – Frida Kahlo, Her Pain and Her Art. With F. Lennox
“Lenny” Campello of DC Art News. Smith Farm Center 1632 U St. NW
Saturday, July 26 –
10 AM – Bocce Ball Tournament on the Mall, between 4th and 7th Sts. NW www.ballsonthemall.blogspot.com Will Judy Scott Feldman field a team?
Wednesday, July 30
M – 6:30 – 9 PM – Music on the Green at the Historical Society of DC – 801 K St. NW
Klezmer all stars Lox and Vodka give their first concert following their command performance at the Marcus-Maxman wedding on July 28 at Sixth and I.
Tuesday, August 5 –
B – 7 PM – Stacey Cordery on “Alice – Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to DC Power Broker” Society of the Cincinnati, at Anderson House – a mansion which Alice surely visited with glee! 2118 Mass.Ave. NW
Saturday, August 16 -
10 AM – Dedication of the new Neighborhood historic trail – Battleground to Community –
The neighborhood surrounding Ft. Stevens at 13th St. near Georgia NW– where Union Troops
Repulsed a Confederate attack – the only time a sitting US President was ever under fire in a war – Lincoln just couldn’t stay away! These trails are the work of Cultural Tourism DC. Our favorite program officer there is the wonderful DC native, Jane Freundel Levey
September 3 –
M, D, T – All day Kennedy Center Arts Festival – this years’ theme : American Stories, Songs, and Steps
Saturday, Sept. 27 –
All Day – Nat’l Book Festival., under the aegis of the Library of Congress. Yes, your last chance to see Laura Bush champion literature. In 2009, we will have Michelle Obama or Cindy McCain. I’ll leave those respective festivals to your imagination….
