November 1-8 and Beyond…..
Updated Thursday, Nov. 1 - Minor update coming Friday. Check new “page” feature to the right -”Think Tank Events List.” Do additional clicking on the “blog roll” to your right – Smithsonian Calendar is particularly useful - and please share with your friends – the more the merrier. And remember – please think about seeing the exhibs even if you miss the opening! One sentence reviews, events I’ve missed, etc., write to Glennsblog@aol.com
Speaking of Glenn, now is the time to consider registering for the FREE conference of the Historical Society of Washington, DC Thurs. – Sat, Nov. 1-3. Yes, I will be giving a talk, but don’t let that stop you! http://www.historydc.org/2007Conference/form.asp
The Phil Barlow classification system: A = Art opening or lecture F= Film T= Theater M = Music PWYC = pay what you can B = Book
Finally, please consider confirming all events, and for those with any difficulty printing directly from this page, please copy into another document or an e-mail and that should work.
November 1, Thursday
B – 6 Pm – 8:30 PM Over 35 authors will sign their books at the National Press Club. Yes, a bibliophiles dream….
B- 6:30 - New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik – yes, brother of POST’S Blake Gopnik but funnier, on growing up at the height of Jewish comedy. DCJCC 16th and Q Sts. NW. Yes, $8, but that is a “laughably” small fee to see this humorist
M – 8 PM – Jazz Pianists Allen Toussaint and Henry Butler at the Library of Congress, reserve – 202-707-5502
November 2, Friday
A -12:30 PM - Ghada Amer discusses her work at the Hirshhorn. There is always a chance that the fabulous Olga Viso will pop in, before she leaves us to head to the Walker – boo hoo!
5-7 PM at Busboys and Poets – 2021 14th St. NW at V. Partners for Peace presents three women on the Mideast conflict. A Muslim from Gaza, a Jewish Israeli, and a Christian Palestinian Citizen of Israel.
A – 6-8 PM or so – “First Friday” Many Dupont Circle gallery openings – We especially like the Hillyer Art Space behind the Cosmos Club, but also the Studio Gallery, Gallery 10, Foundry Gallery, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, and the Arts Club of DC, at 2017 I St. NW and featuring among others the work of the always fun Maryann Pollock.
8 PM – the excellent Airmen of Note and jazz drummer Butch Miles (Buddy’s son?) at Lisner Auditorium of GW. 730 21st St. NW
November 3, Saturday
8 AM – 3 Pm – Annual bazaar at Metropolitan United Methodist Church – 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW
9 AM – 1 PM – Tree planting www.caseytree.org
9:30 AM and 11 AM – Master mime Mark Jaster leads an audience of kids as if they were an orchestra. Nat’l Theater, 1321 PA. Ave NW
10 AM – 5 Pm – Edward Hopper family weekend! Nat’l Gallery
10 AM – 5 PM – Open house at US Geological Survey in Reston. Great exhibs and the scientists there to explain! 12201 Sunrise Dr. 703-648-5000 www.usgs.gov
A – Noon – 5 PM – Open studios! www.midcityartists.com We especially commend you to the studio of Betsy Karasik on P St. near 17th. She’s great and often has good cheese too..
Noon – 6 PM – Children’s Book Festival in the Atrium at the Ken Cen. Diminutive dynamo Dominique Dawes will appear
1-3pm – Global Warming Rally at Lincoln Memorial
Step It Up and League of Conservation Voters
http://events.stepitup2007.org/november/events/show/2411?id=2411
A – 3 PM - curatorial lecture on “The Landscape Art of Asher B. Durand” at McEvoy Aud. of SAAM. 8th and G NW.
A, F – 3:30 PM – Celebration of the MacDowell Colony’s centennial. Features shorts by several MacDowell fellows, including the irrepressible Aviva Kempner, who will preview her film “Yoo Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, ” on iconic comedienne and sit com pioneer Gertrude Berg. Nat’l Gallery East Bldg aud.
***A – 6- 8 PM – Openings on 14th St. at 1515 – G fine Arts, Hemphill, Curator’s Office, etc. Watergate Gallery at 2552 Virgina Ave. NW M – 7:30 PM – Mozart, Ravel, and Sibelius by the Catholic U. Orchestra - St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Webster St. and Rock Creek Church Rd., NW November 4, Sunday
F – 10 AM – “understanding Islam” CNN and GWU guy Frank Sesno talks and shows excerpts from his new doc on Iran. St. Johns Church - 16th St. and Lafayette Park.
10 AM – Washington Nat’l Cathedral . Robert Ellsberg will discuss “What Makes a Saint?”
A – 11 AM – 5 Pm – Edward Hopper family weekend! Nat’l Gallery
A – Noon – 5 PM – Open studios again! www.midcityartists.com
***A, M – 1 PM and 3 PM - A puppet show with live music telling the story opf Carl Linnaeus, father of modern plant and animal classification (but you knew that, right?) This show should “grow on you” at the House of Sweden, that new bldg right on the Georgetown Waterfront – 2900 K St. NW
A, F – 2 Pm – Nat’l Gallery east bldg aud. - lecture “Edward Hopper Goes to the Movies – Silence and Sound in Ptg. and Film”
F – 4 PM – Nat’l Gallery East bldg. aud. – “Little Caeser,” (1930) and “I was a Communist for the FBI” (1951)
M – 4 PM – French organist Eric Poulain at Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church on Chevy Chase Circle F – 4:30 PM – at Mt Vernon Campus of GW – 2100 Foxhall Rd. “Delwende,” about a West Arfrican Village, Superstition, Deaths, and the Exile of a Dancer. Part of French film seriesB – 7-9 PM at Busboys and Poets – Alix Olson, editor of “Word Warriors: 35 Woman Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution”M – 7:30 PM – Inaugural concert of classical group The Ensemble Ulysse - Georgetown Lutheran Church, 1556 Wisconisn Ave. NW ulysse@hotmail.com Can you hear the “Sirens?”
November 5, Monday
A – 6-8:30 PM - “Unembedded” The Iraq photos of four photojournalists. In conjunction with the APHA conference. At AFL-CIO HQ - 815 16th St. at I St. NW http://www.unembedded.net/main.php
November 6, Tuesday -
***** A – 6-9 PM – Another big big opening at the American University Museum at the Katzen Center – go to blog roll at right. THE place to be for an opening this week. and if you have never been to the Katzen Center, do it!
B – 6:30 PM – Nat’l Press Club. res required opus@press.org Helen Thomas, Dan Bartlett, Mike McCurry, and Ken Herman join Professor Martha Kumar for her book “Managing the President’s Message”
M – 8 PM – Historian Cindy Janke discusses the life of John Phillip Sousa at the Naval Lodge Hall, 330 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. Worth it just to see that hall – trust me. res. required – 202-544-1845
November 7, Wednesday
B – 7 Pm – Dynamic Georgetown Professor Ori Soltes will lead a book discussion of Phillip Roth’s transcendent “American Pastoral.” West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW near L.
F - 7 PM – Nat’l Portrait Gallery, McEvoy Aud. 8th and G NW - Paul Robeson in “Jericho” (1937) A chat with Paul Robeson, Jr., follows
November 9, Friday -
A – 6-8 PM – Bethesda art walk. Many gallery openings. www.bethesda.org 2nd Friday of every month (Dupont Circle is “First Friday”)
November 18, Sunday
********M - 5 PM – 30th anniversary concert of the Catholic Gospel Choir at St. Augustines Church – 15th and V Sts. NW. Including the golden throated Janet Topolsky, this group will move you!!!!
November 27, Tuesday
7:30 pm Reading celebrating the new anthology Family Pictures (ed. Kwame Alexander, Capital BookFest Books, 2007), featuring Katy Richey, Jacqueline Jules, Deanna Nikaido, and Mary-Sherman Willis. Host: Kim Roberts Grace Church, 1041 Wisconsin Ave. NW, between K St. and the canal, lower Georgetown. 333-7100. Series hosted by David Bujard and Sally Avignone - http://www.gracedc.org
Wednesday. November 7 -
December 1, Saturday
A – 4-7 PM – Holiday Open house at Nevin-Kelly 1517 U St. NW
A – 6-8 PM – Group show including our amazing friend Matt Sesow at Gallery Plan B – 14th St above P
