May 3 until…………..
As always, check the blog roll to your right,
and consider confirming all events.
Filmfest DC through Sunday! www.filmfestdc.org
Dance Week also through Sunday – 20 groups involved!
Big Read NOW! www.wdchumanities.org/bigread/
Free embassy tours begin May 3 and go to the 17th - www.passportdc.org
Organized by the great group at Cultural Tourism DC… 202-661-7581
Little trees this weekend – www.usna.usda.gov yes, bonsai at the Nat’l Arboretum!
Artomatic begins May 19 - www.artomatic.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
PYWC = Pay What you Can
T = Theater
Saturday May, 3 -
Big first day of Embassy tours, through May 17 – www.passportdc.org brought to you by those wonder folks at Cultural Tourism DC 202-61-7581
Also, outdoor sculpture walk of Foggy Bottom www.savefoggybottom.com tour begins at 4 PM at New Hampshire and I Sts. NW Reception at Watergate follows
10 AM – 5 PM – Annual Flower Mart Festival at the Nat’l Cathedral
A – 12 – 6 PM – a variety of artists including Kate Hardy and Michele de la Menardiere at Studio 4903 – 2nd floor at , yes, 4903 Wisconsin Ave, NW.
A – 12:30 PM – more Plein Air symposia – NGA East bldg aud.
A – 3 PM – Karen Wilkin on Color Field ptg. SAAM, 8th and G NW
A – 3-5 PM – Zenith Gallery , 413 7th St. NW, work of Shelly Laffal
A – 5-8 PM – Watergate Gallery -2552 VA. Ave. NW – yes, in the Watergate!
M – 7 PM – Three choirs perform Mozart at Westmoreland Circle’s United Church of Christ – 1 Westmoreland Circle
Sunday, May 4th
L – 10 AM – Harvard’s Peter Gomes on the “Scandalous Gospel of Jesus – Washington Nat’l Cathedral
10 AM – Ceremony honoring Tunisian landowner Khaled Abdul-Wahab, who hid 50 Jews from the Nazis during the war. Adas Israel, Connecticut and Porter Sts., NW
10 AM – 5 PM – Landon School azalea festival – Bethesda www.landon.net
B – 10:30 AM – Michael Makovsky on “Churchill’s Promised Land” – on that leader’s advocacy of a Jewish homeland as early as 1908. Washington Hebrew Cong. – Mass.and Macomb NW
Noon – 6 PM – Cinque de Mayo spectacular at the Sylvan Theater on the Wash .Monument Grounds
A – 12 – 6 PM – a variety of artists in several media including ceramicist Kate Hardy, painter Michele de la Menardiere plus jewelers and others at Studio 4903 – 2nd floor at , yes, 4903 Wisconsin Ave, NW.
A – Noon – 5 PM – Open studios at the Jackson Art Center in Jorgetown – 3048 ½ R St. NW, across from Montrose Park and Dumbarton Oaks. www.jacksonartcenter.com
A – 2 PM – Joseph Koerner of Hahvahd yet again on Bosch and Beugel – NGA
A – 2 PM – Mindy Wiesel artist talk at Prada Gallery – 1030 Wisconsin Ave. NW res. Requested – 202-342-0067
F – 4:30 PM – Fine French film on the events of 1968. “May Fools,” by the late great Louis Malle, whose widow is Candace Bergen, fyi.
Monday, May 5 – Cinco de Mayo
4 PM – 2 AM – Cinco de mayo at Café Citron – 1343 Ct. Ave NW below dup. circle. Wear a sombrero, or Mexican colors, or have a big mustache and get free shot of – surprise! – tequila
B – 5-7 PM – Busboys and Poets – The 3 editors discuss their book on the banning of landmines
5-9 PM – big Cinco de Mayo street party – Ellsworth Drive, downtown Silver Spring
Tuesday, May 6 –
A – 5:30-7:30 PM – opening and artists talks at American Center for Physics in College Park. Curated by the very talented Sarah Tanguy www.acp.org
6-8 PM – If you live in Foggy Bottom/West End or are a student or employee of GW, BBQ at Anniversary Park, F St. between 21st and 22nd Sts. NW
6-9 PM – DCJCC 16th and Q Sts. NW – Celebration of the Ethiopians who emigrated to Israel
B – 6:30 – Progressive Princeton historian Sean Wilentz on his “The Age of Reagan, 1974-2008” at Borders, 18th and L Sts.,NW
T, M – 7:30 PM – POSTONED UNTIL MAY 11 AT 8 PM – PWYC – “an epic musical retelling of the story of King David.”Directed by Nick Olcott. Choreography by local great Liz Lerman. DCJCC – 16th and Q
D, M, T – 8 PM – “The Dinner party” – experimental perfs at the Warehouse Theater, 1017 7th St. NW Yes, $5, but we have to support art advocates Molly and Paul Ruppert!
Wednesday, May 7 –
11:30 AM – 1 PM – Holocaust Remembrance Day commemoration at the Lincoln Theater, 1215 U St. NW – near metro stop – one of those celebrated will be a Moslem who hid Jews during the War.
B, L – 6 PM – Reception, 7 Pm Talk, 9 PM – book signing an evening with the mystic Sadhguru. GW Lisner Auditorium rsvp at www.ishafoundation.org
B – 6:30 Pm – res required at the Nat’l Press Club 202-662-7129 Rajmohan Gandhi will discuss his book about his grandfather Mohandas K. Gandhi. Yes, the Mohatma,
7 PM – The great political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher, known as KAL, gives an illustrated talk on the art of cartooning. Check him out at www.kaltoons.com and
go to the National Archives!
T, M – 7:30 PM – POSTPONED UNTIL MAY 11 AT 8 PM – PWYC – “an epic musical retelling of the story of King David.” Directed by Nick Olcott. Choreography by local great Liz Lerman. DCJCC – 16th and Q
L – 7:30 Pm – Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg on Israel at this turning point in history
Adas Israel, Ct. and Porter Sts NW
Thursday, May 8 –
L – 6 – 8 PM – Maria Hohn of Vassar, with reception – “I Prefer Panthers to Pigs” – German Students, Black Panther GIs, and the 1970/71 Racial Crisis in the 7th Army. What a title! German Historical Society, 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW just above Q
Friday, May 9 –
A – 1-5 PM – Symposium on Aaron Douglas. Keynote by David Driskell,. SAAM.
A – Opening at Smith Farm Gallery on U St. NW – details on next week’s list
Saturday, May 10 –
First day of HERE AND NOW from www.trasnformergallery.com
10 AM – 3 PM – Nat’l Train Day at Union Station with celebrity conductor Al Roker
A – 1:30 PM - The Hirshhorn’s charming Ryan Hill will talk with Transformer artist Jennifer Burkley Vasher – at Transformer 1404 P St. NW
A – 3 – 6 PM – Meet the “Sparkplug” artists’ collective with their works at DCAC , 2438 18th St. NW . Curated by the lovely and talented Lea-Ann Bigelow (who works at the National Gallery but doesn’t bandy that about…)
A – 4 PM – Performance art by Paul Shoemaker at 1840 14th St. NW
A – 4:30 PM – Genius Performance artist and actress Anna Deveare Smith, all 6-ft of this Baltimore native, will analyze a Ruth Orkin photo of 1950. SAAM, 8th and G BW.
A – 5:30 – 8:30 PM – Gretchen Feldman ptgs at Nevin Kelly, 1517 U St. NW
Sunday, May 11th
A – Last chance to see The Cinema Effect, Part I at the Hirshhorn. Pt. II opens June 20
M – 3 PM – The Mendelssohn Piano Trio for Mother’s Day – SAAM – 8th and G NW
A – 3 PM – “Consuming Art” Yes, edible jewelry lecture by Claudia Crisan. Yes, samples will be offered right there in the Grand Salon of the Renwick.
T – 8 PM – PWYC – world premiere of musical based on the life of King David. DCJCC – 16th and Q Sts. NW
Monday, May 13 –
M – 6:30 PM – concert of classical Serbian music. Reception follows. Arts Club of DC –
2017 I St. NW
Wednesday, May 15 –
A – Noon – Talk by Curator Sabine Albersmeier. Great name! SAAM – 8th and G NW
Saturday, May 17 –
Sat and Sunday – open studio days!www.midcityartists.com
Sunday, May 18 -
Open studios redux – www.midcityartists.com
L, A – 1:30 Pm – Kristine Hileman of the curatopr will tlak with artists from the Here and Now exhibition at 1840 14th St. NW – the former Church of the Rapture
L – 3 PM – Whitney Biennial artist Matt Mullican from NY will lecture
A – 2-4 PM – artist talk at District Fine Arts – Gene Markowski will speak about the
Catholic imagery in his work, including an amazing Last Supper or two…1639 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Thursday, May 22 –
A- 6:30 PM – What about stolen art? Bonnie Magness-Gardiner of the FBI – SAAM
Saturday, May 17 –
6-8 PM – Jason Horowitz at the Curator’s Office, 1515 14th St. NW
Saturday, May 24 –
The Urban Verbs – Something Strange – 9:30 Club BE THERE.
Thursday, May 29 –
A, F – 6 PM – Three Women in Video Art- SAAM 8th and G NW
Saturday, May 31 –
A- 3:30 PM – Cynthia Connolly of the Ellipse Arts Center will talk with thread artists Mariah Johnson and Valerie Molnar. At Transformer 1404 P St. NW
