January 25 Until….
Posted January 25, 2008 by Glenn Marcus
Categories: This Weeks Events
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The Philip Barlow Classification System:
A = Art opening or talk M = Music
A = Art opening or talk M = Music
B = Book talk PWYC = Pay What You Can
D = Dance T = Theatre
F = Film
READ about The Inkwell in the press:
D = Dance T = Theatre
F = Film
Jan 5-28 – New plays festival http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/04/inkwell-stages-january-new-play-festival/
This weekend, new plays at H St. Playhouse. OK features our friend Hilary Kackser in this portrait of the women behind the gunslingers at the OK Corral…
Friday 8 pm UNDERGROUND
Saturday 12 pm THE F WORD
Saturday 3 pm UNDERGROUND
Saturday 8 pm OK
Sunday 3 pm OK
Sunday 8 pm UNDERGROUND/ end of the INKubator Festival
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE! $10 suggested donation.
For more information, visit www.inkwelltheatre.org
READ about The Inkwell in the press:
Friday, January 25
4 PM – Nat’l Archives – Barbara Bush has an “American Conversation” with Archivist of the US Allen Weinstein. Get there early….
T, M, A – 5-8 PM – Performance art at Church of the Rapture, 14th and T NW www.meatmarketgallery.com
A – 6-9 PM - Wine and champagne opening for Stirling Elmendorf and good guy photographer Mark Parascandola at Caramel Boutique, 1603 U St. NW. They had some nice clothes, but none in my size.
A – 6 to 8:30 PM – Landscapes by Ed Cooper at Susan Calloway Fine Arts – 1643 Wisconsin Ave. NW
A – 7 PM “Visions of Connections” – artists from Colombia, Ghana, Trinidad, Uruguay, and Washington, DC. Theme-African Art and Culture in the Americas. Wesley United Methodist Church – 5312 CT. Ave. NW at Jenifer. www.freewebs.com/manuelzapataolivellacenter/artexhibitions2008.htm
F – 7 PM – Persian Film “Rule of the Game” (2007) Freer Gallery
8:15 PM – lecture at Cosmos Club’s Powell Auditorium - Measurement of Global Atmospheric Temperature by Satellite” 2170 Florida Ave. NW
A – 7 PM “Visions of Connections” – artists from Colombia, Ghana, Trinidad, Uruguay, and Washington, DC. Theme-African Art and Culture in the Americas. Wesley United Methodist Church – 5312 CT. Ave. NW at Jenifer. www.freewebs.com/manuelzapataolivellacenter/artexhibitions2008.htm
F – 7 PM – Persian Film “Rule of the Game” (2007) Freer Gallery
8:15 PM – lecture at Cosmos Club’s Powell Auditorium - Measurement of Global Atmospheric Temperature by Satellite” 2170 Florida Ave. NW
Saturday, January 26
9:30 AM and 11 AM – Yo Yo professional Dick Stohr discusses and demonstrates yo-yos, tops, and other string and spinning toys – Nat’l Theater – 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
A – Noon – 2 PM Performance Art Panel - Church of the Rapture, 14th and T NW www.meatmarketgallery.com The wonderful Kathryn Cornelius will be showing a film, too… Another film at 2 PM, also
1 PM – Erica Perlman on “Character Building in Judaism – Adas Israel, 2850 Quebec St. NW, Cleveland Park
F, A – 2 PM – National Gallery East Bldg Aud. – 3 films on art, including “The Giant Buddhas,” about the statues blown up by the Taliban.
A – 3 PM – Landscape Artist John Alexander gives a talk at the Smithsonian American Art Mus. Though Blake Gopnik panned the exhib, the discriminating Bess Gillelan thinks it is worth a look……
A – 4 PM – Gallery anniversary lecture by Nevin Kelly, on contemporary Polish art, at 4 PM, followed by an opening and reception from 5-8 PM at Nevin Kelly Gallery, 1517 U St. NW Pieces from the many fine local artists, who have shown there, such as Sondra Arkin, will be also be displayed. www.nevinkellygallery.com
A, T, M – 6 PM – midnight - Closing party – Church of the Rapture, 14th and T NW www.meatmarketgallery.com
F – 11 PM – Yes, $3 to see “Chocolate City,” British documentarian Sam Wild’s film about gentrification in DC as seen through the eyes of displaced women. Oh, those Brits have just so much to teach us, don’t they? Busboys and Poets. 2021 14th St.
F, A – 2 PM – National Gallery East Bldg Aud. – 3 films on art, including “The Giant Buddhas,” about the statues blown up by the Taliban.
A – 3 PM – Landscape Artist John Alexander gives a talk at the Smithsonian American Art Mus. Though Blake Gopnik panned the exhib, the discriminating Bess Gillelan thinks it is worth a look……
A – 4 PM – Gallery anniversary lecture by Nevin Kelly, on contemporary Polish art, at 4 PM, followed by an opening and reception from 5-8 PM at Nevin Kelly Gallery, 1517 U St. NW Pieces from the many fine local artists, who have shown there, such as Sondra Arkin, will be also be displayed. www.nevinkellygallery.com
A, T, M – 6 PM – midnight - Closing party – Church of the Rapture, 14th and T NW www.meatmarketgallery.com
F – 11 PM – Yes, $3 to see “Chocolate City,” British documentarian Sam Wild’s film about gentrification in DC as seen through the eyes of displaced women. Oh, those Brits have just so much to teach us, don’t they? Busboys and Poets. 2021 14th St.
Sunday, January 27
10 AM – Rick Warren, superstar TV pastor and author of mega-bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life” (you may have seen him on 60 Minutes, NOT with Andy Rooney) talks with Cathedral Dean Sam Lloyd at the Washington Nat’l Cathedral, Mass. and Wisconsin Aves.
10 AM – A procession of choirs, clergy and special guests will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church – 1 Chevy Chase Circle. 100 years ago – no crazy drivers in the Circle!
A – 1 PM – Educator Mary Mossop leads an “imaginary creatures” workshop at the Nat’l Gallery of Art East Building. Participants will create a 3-D creature to take home, based on the works of Louis Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, and Max Ernst!
10 AM – Rick Warren, superstar TV pastor and author of mega-bestseller “The Purpose Driven Life” (you may have seen him on 60 Minutes, NOT with Andy Rooney) talks with Cathedral Dean Sam Lloyd at the Washington Nat’l Cathedral, Mass. and Wisconsin Aves.
10 AM – A procession of choirs, clergy and special guests will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church – 1 Chevy Chase Circle. 100 years ago – no crazy drivers in the Circle!
A – 1 PM – Educator Mary Mossop leads an “imaginary creatures” workshop at the Nat’l Gallery of Art East Building. Participants will create a 3-D creature to take home, based on the works of Louis Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, and Max Ernst!
T – 2 PM – Interfaith Children’s Theater present an environmental musical based on Dr. Seuss’s “The Lorax.” Universalist Nat’l Memorial Church – 1810 16th St. NW, between S and T Sts.
M – 2 PM – perf. and talk by pianist Laurie Hudicek about works of avant garde composers John Cage and Henry Cowell. Res. required 202-686-8000 ext 0 – Levine School of Music, 2801 Upton St. NW
F – 2 PM – Persian Film “Rule of the Game” (2007) Freer Gallery
M – 2 PM – perf. and talk by pianist Laurie Hudicek about works of avant garde composers John Cage and Henry Cowell. Res. required 202-686-8000 ext 0 – Levine School of Music, 2801 Upton St. NW
F – 2 PM – Persian Film “Rule of the Game” (2007) Freer Gallery
M – 3 PM – Enso String Quartet with Soprano Rosa Lamoreaux - NAS Auditorium 2100 C St. NW www.nasonline.org/arts
M – 3 PM – Pianist Susan Starr and the Audubon String Quartet perform Ravel, Dvorak, and somebody else. Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ (couldn’t they shorten that?) – 1 Westmoreland Circle
F – 3:30 PM – Film Historian Max Alvarez shows clips and discusses director Ingmar Bergman at the Ripley Center of the Smithsonian. Yes, this one costs $18, but Alvarez is the brother of my buddy the great documentarian Louis Alvarez, www.cnam.com ,and of course I was weaned on Bergman….
F, A – 4 PM – 3 More films about art at the Nat’l Gallery East Bldg. aud. – works on Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, and the architect Lambert
M – 5 PM – Roberto Sorel and Larisa Gulenco perform Beethoven, R. V. Williams, Dvorak, Lloyd, and Rachmaninoff at St. Lukes, 3655 Calvert St. NW, near Wisconsin Ave.
M – 3 PM – Pianist Susan Starr and the Audubon String Quartet perform Ravel, Dvorak, and somebody else. Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ (couldn’t they shorten that?) – 1 Westmoreland Circle
F – 3:30 PM – Film Historian Max Alvarez shows clips and discusses director Ingmar Bergman at the Ripley Center of the Smithsonian. Yes, this one costs $18, but Alvarez is the brother of my buddy the great documentarian Louis Alvarez, www.cnam.com ,and of course I was weaned on Bergman….
F, A – 4 PM – 3 More films about art at the Nat’l Gallery East Bldg. aud. – works on Henry Moore, Andy Warhol, and the architect Lambert
M – 5 PM – Roberto Sorel and Larisa Gulenco perform Beethoven, R. V. Williams, Dvorak, Lloyd, and Rachmaninoff at St. Lukes, 3655 Calvert St. NW, near Wisconsin Ave.
Monday, January 28 -
T – 6 PM and 7:30 PM – Harlem Renaissance Poetry night – Nat’l Theater, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
T – 7 PM – Three works by the young playwright’s theater – Woolly Mammoth, 641 D St. NW www. youngplaywrightstheater.org
7 PM – The truly great Charlie Rangel (D, NY) on the legacy of Dr. King and Public Policy Today. Bunn intercultural Center of Georgetown U., 37th and O St. NW 202-687-4328
7 PM - “Everything must go” auction at the legendary Dr. Dremo’s Taphouse at 2001 Clarendon Blvd. in Arlington. Look for the Totem Pole! Courthouse Metro
T – 6 PM and 7:30 PM – Harlem Renaissance Poetry night – Nat’l Theater, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
T – 7 PM – Three works by the young playwright’s theater – Woolly Mammoth, 641 D St. NW www. youngplaywrightstheater.org
7 PM – The truly great Charlie Rangel (D, NY) on the legacy of Dr. King and Public Policy Today. Bunn intercultural Center of Georgetown U., 37th and O St. NW 202-687-4328
7 PM - “Everything must go” auction at the legendary Dr. Dremo’s Taphouse at 2001 Clarendon Blvd. in Arlington. Look for the Totem Pole! Courthouse Metro
Tuesday, January 29 -
T – 10-11:45 AM – Dynamic Theater J Director Ari Roth discusses the highlights and heartbreaks of 10 years as
director of the DCJCC’s emergent theater operation. Katzen Center of American University – Ward Circle.
F – Noon – Documentary on Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker known as the “British Schindler” for spiriting 670 Czech children out of the country just before the outbreak of WWII. A scholar plus one of those children will discuss afterward. Pickford Theater of the Library of Congress Madison Bldg. 202-707-9897
12:30 PM – Two curators discuss Admiral Byrd’s polar flights, and FDR’s promoting polar exploration through stamps, and more. Nat’l Postal Museum, Mass. Ave and N. Capitol Sts. NW – yes the bldg right next to Union Station, with the brew pub Capitol City Brewing on the first floor. Go sometime!
4-5:30 PM – Professor Stuart Cohen on “Israel and its Army: from Cohesion to Confusion: Res. required 202-687-4245 Room 101, Mortara Bldg., Georgetown U. 37th and O Sts. NW
T – 10-11:45 AM – Dynamic Theater J Director Ari Roth discusses the highlights and heartbreaks of 10 years as
director of the DCJCC’s emergent theater operation. Katzen Center of American University – Ward Circle.
F – Noon – Documentary on Nicholas Winton, a young British stockbroker known as the “British Schindler” for spiriting 670 Czech children out of the country just before the outbreak of WWII. A scholar plus one of those children will discuss afterward. Pickford Theater of the Library of Congress Madison Bldg. 202-707-9897
12:30 PM – Two curators discuss Admiral Byrd’s polar flights, and FDR’s promoting polar exploration through stamps, and more. Nat’l Postal Museum, Mass. Ave and N. Capitol Sts. NW – yes the bldg right next to Union Station, with the brew pub Capitol City Brewing on the first floor. Go sometime!
4-5:30 PM – Professor Stuart Cohen on “Israel and its Army: from Cohesion to Confusion: Res. required 202-687-4245 Room 101, Mortara Bldg., Georgetown U. 37th and O Sts. NW
6-8:30 at NPR – “Ombudsman: Do We Really Need Them?’ Deborah Howell, Dorothy Brizill and Lisa Shepard. 635 Mass. Ave. NW. Reservations suggested through the Soc. of Professional Journalists’ Project Watchdog
F, B – 6:30 PM – Documentarian Nicolas Humbert (no relation to Humbert Humbert) will screen his documentary and Frederick Reuss will read from his novel and they will then discuss film and fiction as vehicles for exploring the past. Goethe Institut. 812 7th St. NW 202-289-1200 x 166
M – 6:30 PM – Cathedral Labyrinth Walk – with live music to accompany meditation. Nat’l Cathedral grounds.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 202-537-6200
B – 7-8:30 PM E.J. Dionne talks with progressive theologian Jim Wallis about the latter’s book “The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America.” Res. required www.berkley-center@georgetown.edu Gaston Hall of Georgetown U. 37th and O Sts. NW
7:30 – Marvin Kalb and Stephen Hess discuss the presidential campaign, focussing on the media and the primaries. Reception follows. Adas Israel Congregation. 2850 Quebec St. NW just off Ct. near Cleveland Pk. metro stop.
F, B – 6:30 PM – Documentarian Nicolas Humbert (no relation to Humbert Humbert) will screen his documentary and Frederick Reuss will read from his novel and they will then discuss film and fiction as vehicles for exploring the past. Goethe Institut. 812 7th St. NW 202-289-1200 x 166
M – 6:30 PM – Cathedral Labyrinth Walk – with live music to accompany meditation. Nat’l Cathedral grounds.
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 202-537-6200
B – 7-8:30 PM E.J. Dionne talks with progressive theologian Jim Wallis about the latter’s book “The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious Right America.” Res. required www.berkley-center@georgetown.edu Gaston Hall of Georgetown U. 37th and O Sts. NW
7:30 – Marvin Kalb and Stephen Hess discuss the presidential campaign, focussing on the media and the primaries. Reception follows. Adas Israel Congregation. 2850 Quebec St. NW just off Ct. near Cleveland Pk. metro stop.
Wednesday, January 30-
A – Noon – Tour of the excellent art at the Wilson Building, led by Ellyn Weiss. Res. Required. beth.baldwin@dc.gov
B – Noon – Author Michael Long on the letters of baseball immortal Jackie Robinson – includes correspondence with Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nixon, and with leaders such as MLK and Malcolm X. Nat’l Archives
B - Noon - U. of California professor Victor Montejo reads form his “Death of a Guatemalan Village” about a gov’t army attack on a Mayan village. Nat’l Museum of the American Indian
6 PM – The amazing author and journalist John Hockenberry, best known for his work at NPR, will speak on many topics, including the differences today between radio and TV. At the Goethe Institut, 812 17th St. NW above H St.
B - Noon - U. of California professor Victor Montejo reads form his “Death of a Guatemalan Village” about a gov’t army attack on a Mayan village. Nat’l Museum of the American Indian
6 PM – The amazing author and journalist John Hockenberry, best known for his work at NPR, will speak on many topics, including the differences today between radio and TV. At the Goethe Institut, 812 17th St. NW above H St.
B -6:30 PM – reprise of noon talk – U. of California professor Victor Montejo reads from his “Death of a Guatemalan Village” about a gov’t army attack on a Mayan village. Nat’l Museum of the American Indian
Thursday, January 31 -
B – 2 PM - Chevy Chase Library 5625 CT. Ave. Jim Myers discusses “Whose Washington is It? Race, Class, and Ethnicity, and Generational Tensions in our Changing City” Call to confirm.
7 PM – Nat’l Archives - Primary Election Reform, The People, and The Press. Panel Discussion moderated by the Newseum’s terrific Frank Bond, with Jules Witcover, David Keene, and Ken Bode. Can Bond get a smile out of Keene or Bode? We’ll see…
B – 7 PM – “In the Shadow of the Holocaust – German Jewry since 1945″ – eminent Professor of the University of Munich - Michael Brenner – US Holocaust Memorial Museum. reservations suggested 202-488-6162
A – 7 PM – Collage superstar Wangechi Mutu speaks at the Hirshhorn
M – 7:30 Pm - Ryan Brown of Opera Lafayette discusses Gluck’s Armide and Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Funger Hall, GW, 2201 G St. NW
Friday, February 1
A – 6-9 PM “Collectors Select” A boffo opening at the fabulous Arlington Arts Center Building at 3550 Wilson Blvd. in Arlington. Not far by car, and one block form VA. Square Metro Stop. With Claire Huschle on the staff, and Philip Barlow, Philippa Hughes and Tony and Heather Podesta among the collectors, this is a can’t miss evening! SIX separate themed exhibitions – whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
A – 6 – 8 PM – New members show at Foundry Gallery – 18th St. NW between N St. and Mass. Ave.
Saturday, February 2 -
6-8:30 PM – 2nd anniversary show at the hip Project 4 space at 903 U St. NW. Favorite artists such as Margaret Boozer, Laurel Lukaszewski, and Rich McDonald will be on display.
***Feb 4-10 Best of Input Film Festival – int’l films and docs. organized in DC by the Goethe Institut and its media guru Bill Gilcher, Women in Film and Video, AFI, and the American University Center for Social Media, run by the superb Pat Aufderheide. Some films broken out on dates below. Entire program at: www.centerforsocialmedia.org/events/2009best_of_input/872
Tuesday, February 4 -
F – 6:30 PM – Amazing Dutch film on an Indonesian puppeteer/poet searching for the reasons behind jihadist martyrs at Goethe Institut
www.goethe.de/washington reserve 202-289-1200 x 165 812 7th St. NW
Wednesday, February 6 -
F – 6:30 PM – at Brazilian Embassy, 3006 Mass. Ave. NW res. required – 202-289-1200 x 170 documentary on an expedition to Argentina’s extreme Tierra del Fuego Location needs to be confirmed…
Thursday, February 7 -
F – 7 PM - a short drama on a hit man, and an amazing feature length documentary on the landscapes of China, at the Canadian Embassy www.canadianembassy.org reservations totally required 202-682-7797
Saturday, February 9 -
A, D - 5-8 PM – One of THE Arts events of the season. Opening and bring your dancing shoes. At District Fine Arts, a dual show featuring the works of Elliott Negin and Groover Cleveland. Cleveland has not exhibited in 10 years. “I am a conceptual artist. I’ve just been thinking of art for the last decade.” Come see what he’s been thinking about. 1639 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Sunday, February 10 -
F – 4 PM – http://www.cosmicconnexion.com/static/index.html go there for explanation of this “how do you explain all of human experience in 68 minutes of TV?” collage. at Maison Francaise, 4101 Reservoir Rd. NW e-mail culturel.washington-amba@diplomatie.gouv.fr providing first and last name and number of persons in your party
Friday, February 22 -
F – 7 PM - Well, uh, some guy who makes the occasional documentary film and teaches the occasional grad seminar at Johns Hopkins and keeps a free weekly cultural events list will be introducing one of the documentaries nominated for an academy award this year. If the writer’s strike is not settled, this guy will have to write his own material, so beware! National Archives – Constitution Ave, between 7th and 9th NW.
List below for archives purposes…
