May 16 until……….
As always, check the blog roll to your right,
and consider confirming all events.
Big Read NOW! www.wdchumanities.org/bigread/
Free embassy tours through May 17th - www.passportdc.org
Organized by the great group at Cultural Tourism DC… 202-661-7581
**Artomatic “meet the artists” event – Friday night - www.artomatic.org
Exhibition goes through June 15 – do not miss this Fellini-esque experience!
Through May 17 – Int’l Human Rights film fest – www.oneworld.cz
Through May 26 – intriguing student exhibs at the Corcoran
Through June 1 – Shakespeare Theater Company’s Free “Hamlet” at Carter Barron
once again, for additions or corrections or just some love,
reach out to glennsblog@aol.com
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
Z = Last letter of the alphabet
Wednesday, May 14 –
A – Noon – Talk by Curator Sabine Albersmeier. Great name! SAAM – 8th and G NW
M – 7 PM – live Swedish big band music on the roof terrace of the House of Sweden at the Georgetown waterfront, 2900 K St. NW Spectacular view, according to Field School senior Mara Hilmy, who just attended her prom there. Reserve
Friday, May 16 –
M – Noon – Israeli Group Shorashim at MLK Library at 9th and G NW
Maryland Opera Studio singers at Arts Club of DC – 2017 I St. NW
A – 1 PM – West bldg of Nat’l Gallery – Jack Wilgus on the camera in the 19th Century
B – 6-7:30 PM at Busboys, 14th and V NW – Sandy Tolan on “The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East”
A – 6:30-8:30 PM – work of Daniel Reyes at Space 710 in the Kefa Café – 963 Bonifant St. just off Georgia Ave. in downtown Silver Spring..
B – 6 PM – Steve Shafarman, at 1744 Columbia Rd. NW , 2nd fl. www.flexaware.com
B, A – 7 PM – Robin Givhan, Maureen Orth, and A’Lelia Walker on “The Power of Style” – Barnes and Noble in Jorgetown – 3040 M St. NW
Saturday,May 17 –
Last day of Embassy open houses – www.passportdc.org
8 AM – 5 PM – Defense Open House at Andrews AFB. Yes, Blue Angels flying,
paratroopers jumping, and more than enough new and old weaponry to, well, fill in your own words… www.jsoh.org
9 AM – 5 PM – and if Pentagon weapons don’t get you excited, maybe this will – eastern and western martial traditions in Swordfest, 25 S. Quaker Lane in Alexandria
L, M – 10 AM – 4 PM – Wagner Symposium at the Goethe Institute, 812 7th St., NW – rsvp at 202-289-1200 x 3, x 167 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org
10 AM and 11 AM – tours of Folger Library’s Shakespeare Garden – featuring plants from the plays and herbs popular in his day
11 AM- 1 PM – NW corner of the Ellipse – 17th and E Sts. – close to the Corcoran, “Cluster Bomb Game Day.” Yes, a protest, but clever games will be played.
M, D – 11 AM – 4 PM- Hawaiian Festival at the Nat’l Museum of the American Indian
11 AM – 3 PM – The Maret School’s 55th annual Fete Champetre – 300 Cathedral Ave. NW, right next to the Swiss Embassy , which is right next to the Maret School.
**A – Noon – 5 PM – open studios in conjunction with Mt. Rainier Day – Features the complex run by Margaret Boozer plus the school of Tim Tate and many others. At Route 1 (Rhode Island Ave.) and the District Line.
**A- Noon – 5 PM – Open studios – Mid City Artists – I hate that it is the same time as Mt Rainier, but Mid City is Sunday, too www.midcityartists.com our faves are Mark Parascandola, Bridget Sue Lambert, neon guru Craig Kraft, and Betsy Karasik, who ran out of her fabulous cheeses last time…
1-5 PM – Big game day for families at Opal Daniels Park in Takoma Park. Organized by Nadine Block and others, so has to be good!
L, A – 1:30 PM – Hirshhorn curator Kristine Hileman will talk with artists from the Here and Now exhibition at 1840 14th St. NW – the former Church of the Rapture and then at
3 PM – Whitney Biennial artist Matt Mullican from NY will lecture
T – 2 PM – PWYC at Studio Theater “The Internationalist” starring the excellent Holly Twyford. www.studiotheatre.org
M – 2-3:30 PM at the Natural History Museum – Asian Pacific Heritage Dance and Music – will be wonderful….
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 Remember, this is the place that gave Elliott Negin a venue!
F – 3 PM - 1968 French film on the revolutionary events of that time… Tout Va Bien, by Jean Luc Godard, starring Yves Montand and Jane Fonda – Nat’l Gallery E. bldg. aud.
M – 5 PM – DC Youth Orchestra at the spectacular Mexican Cultural Institute at 2829 16th St. NW – one of those gorgeous mansions just above Meridian Hill Pk.
A – 5-9 PM ptgs by Joanne Miller Rafferty at Ed Chasen Fine Arts. Res. req. 202-965-1801 2906 M St. NW
A – 5-7 PM – Kevin Kepple at Addison-Ripley, 1670 Wisconisn Ave. NW
A – 6:30-8:30 PM – Two artists at G Fine Arts – 1515 14th St. NW
A- 6-8 PM – Jason Horowitz at the Curator’s Office, 1515 14th St. NW
M – 7 PM – ages 21 and older for bawdy group “Slanty Eyed Mama” on Asian American culture, identity, race, and more! And they call the show “Birth of a Nasian.” Ya gotta like that. And they would also send you to the website www.alllooksame.com go there, and take the test, and go to the Freer Saturday for the show. It may never be the same.
F, M – 9:30 PM – Documentary about Iraq’s only surviving heavy metal band, plus dancing Rock and Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE
Sunday, May 18 –
8 AM – 5 PM – Defense Open House at Andrews AFB. Yes, Blue Angels flying,
paratroopers jumping, and more than enough new and old weaponry to, well, fill in your own words… www.jsoh.org
L – 10 AM – Former POST columnist William Raspberry discusses race and civic life in the US. Washington Nat’l Cathedral
**A – Noon – 5 PM – Open studios – Mid City Artists – www.midcityartists.com our faves are Mark Parascandola, Bridget Sue Lambert, and Betsy Karasik, who ran out of her fabulous cheeses last time…
A – 2 PM – Gail Feigenbaum from the Getty on the Caraccis’s Butcher Shop and the reform of ptg. Nat’l Gallery E.Bldg Aud.
A – 3 PM – “Romancing the String – My Life in Fiber” John Garrett at the Renwick
M – 4 PM - Brahms to Broadway and Beyond – United Methodist Church – 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW
F – 4 PM – Phillippe Garrel’s semi-autobiographical film about 1968 in Paris. Nat’l Gallery E. Bldg. aud.
Monday, May 19
L – 12:30-1:30 PM – Mary Luevano of Global Green USA on energy efficiency and conservation measures – Nat’l Bldg Museum
T – 7 PM – selected readings of Arthur Miller res. req. 202-687-2787 – Gonda Theater of Georgetown U.
Tuesday, May 20
B – 1 PM – Pickford Theater in Madison Bldg of Library of Congress – Avi Beker, former head of World Jewish Congress, on “The Chosen: The History of an Idea and the Anatomy of an Obsession
M – 6 PM – Free Nat’l Symphony Orchestra Concert featuring young Soloists. KenCen Millennium Stage (always check blog roll to right!)
A – 6-8:30 PM – photography by Gen Aihara at the Mu Project - 1521 Wisc. Ave. NW
L – 6 PM – at the House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW – illustrated talk on the great ship Vasa (look it up – you won’t believe it!) rsvp-hos@foreign.ministry.se
B – 6:30 PM – Cleveland Park Library ; Kelly McMasters on growing up in one of the original superfund towns
M – 7:30 PM – Adrian Gaspar jazz trio at Austrian Embassy. Arrive earlier for Austrian wine cash bar. Res. req. 202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org
Wednesday, May 21
B – 5:30-7 PM – Helen Cobban at Open Soc. Institute, 1120 19th St. NW, 8th Fl.
M – 6 PM – John Wubbenhorst lecture and performance “East Meets West: Fusion or Confusion?” Historical Soc. of DC 801 K St. NW rsvp@historydc.org
M, A – 6:30 PM – history and renovation of South America’s most celebrated opera house IADB aud. 1330 NY Ave. NW
B – 7 PM – Panel discussion on “The American Dream and the Racial Divide of the 1920s and Today. Thurgood Marshall Center –1816 12th St. NW
L – 7 PM – on the Electoral College, at the Nat’l Archives. Includes the great historian Gordon Woods and others.
Thursday, May 22 –
F, L – Noon – Nat’l Archives – film about LBJ followed by Q and A with his wonderful advisor Harry McPherson, the likes of whom we may not see again…. Call the archives, as busloads of students may be commanding most of the seats.
L – 6-8:00 PM – “Black Resistance and Oppression under Nazism” Prof.Clarence Lusane of AU, at the German Hist. Soc. at Dupont Circle – 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW above Q St. rsvp - events@ghi-dc.org
A – 6:30 PM – What about stolen art? Bonnie Magness-Gardiner of the FBI – SAAM
L – 7 PM – “The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald” by Kenneth Walzer – at Holocaust Museum. Res. Requested – 202-488-6162 www.ushmm.org
Saturday, May 24 –
M – 8 PM – The Urban Verbs – Something Strange – 9:30 Club BE THERE.
SUNDAY, MAY 25 -
L, B - 7:30 PM - Great baseball program at the DCJCC. Features Stan Kasten, GM of the Washington Nationals, Aviva Kempner, director of the award winning film THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HANK GREENBERG, and others. Yes, $9, but all the popcorn, peanuts, and cracker jacks you can eat! 16th and Q Sts. NW
Thursday, May 29 –
A, F – 6 PM – Three Women in Video Art- SAAM 8th and G NW
Friday May 30
A – 6 PM- Midnight – Art Whino Gallery at Nat’l Harbor. Not been? Ya gotta go once.
B –7:30 PM –Lecture and Reception – Ann Hagedorn – author of a fabulous work on
the year 1919 and the parallels for today. Writers Center – 4508 Walsh St. in Bethesda
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
A – 6-9 PM Curated by the terrific Vivienne Lassman (se the artwork at the Convention Center!) a show by the amazing Noche Crist - American U Museum at the Katzen Center. Another example of a great decision by Museum director Jack Rasmussen.
Friday, June 13
A – 6:30-8:30 PM – Kyle Miller at Space 710 in Silver Spring
Saturday, June 28 –
As always, check the blog roll to your right,
and consider confirming all events.
Big Read NOW! www.wdchumanities.org/bigread/
Free embassy tours through May 17th - www.passportdc.org
Organized by the great group at Cultural Tourism DC… 202-661-7581
**Artomatic “meet the artists” event – Friday night - www.artomatic.org
Exhibition goes through June 15 – do not miss this Fellini-esque experience!
Through May 17 – Int’l Human Rights film fest – www.oneworld.cz
Through May 26 – intriguing student exhibs at the Corcoran
Through June 1 – Sahespeare Theater Company’s Frre “Hamlet” at Carter Barron
once again, for additions or corrections or just some love,
reach out to glennsblog@aol.com
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
Z = Last letter of the alphabet
Wednesday, May 14 –
A – Noon – Talk by Curator Sabine Albersmeier. Great name! SAAM – 8th and G NW
M – 7 PM – live Swedish big band music on the roof terrace of the House of Sweden at the Georgetown waterfront, 2900 K St. NW Spectacular view, according to Field School senior Mara Hilmy, who just attended her prom there. Reserve
Friday, May 16 –
M – Noon – Israeli Group Shorashim at MLK Library at 9th and G NW
Maryland Opera Studio singers at Arts Club of DC – 2017 I St. NW
A – 1 PM – West bldg of Nat’l Gallery – Jack Wilgus on the camera in the 19th Century
B – 6-7:30 PM at Busboys, 14th and V NW – Sandy Tolan on “The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East”
A – 6:30-8:30 PM – work of Daniel Reyes at Space 710 in the Kefa Café – 963 Bonifant St. just off Georgia Ave. in downtown Silver Spring..
B – 6 PM – Steve Shafarman, at 1744 Columbia Rd. NW , 2nd fl. www.flexaware.com
B, A – 7 PM – Robin Givhan, Maureen Orth, and A’Lelia Walker on “The Power of Style” – Barnes and Noble in Jorgetown – 3040 M St. NW
Saturday,May 17 –
Last day of Embassy open houses – www.passportdc.org
8 AM – 5 PM – Defense Open House at Andrews AFB. Yes, Blue Angels flying,
paratroopers jumping, and more than enough new and old weaponry to, well, fill in your own words… www.jsoh.org
9 AM – 5 PM – and if Pentagon weapons don’t get you excited, maybe this will – eastern and western martial traditions in Swordfest, 25 S. Quaker Lane in Alexandria
L, M – 10 AM – 4 PM – Wagner Symposium at the Goethe Institute, 812 7th St., NW – rsvp at 202-289-1200 x 3, x 167 or rsvp@washington.goethe.org
10 AM and 11 AM – tours of Folger Library’s Shakespeare Garden – featuring plants from the plays and herbs popular in his day
11 AM- 1 PM – NW corner of the Ellipse – 17th and E Sts. – close to the Corcoran, “Cluster Bomb Game Day.” Yes, a protest, but clever games will be played.
M, D – 11 AM – 4 PM- Hawaiian Festival at the Nat’l Museum of the American Indian
11 AM – 3 PM – The Maret School’s 55th annual Fete Champetre – 300 Cathedral Ave. NW, right next to the Swiss Embassy , which is right next to the Maret School.
**A – Noon – 5 PM – open studios in conjunction with Mt. Rainier Day – Features the complex run by Margaret Boozer plus the school of Tim Tate and many others. At Route 1 (Rhode Island Ave.) and the District Line.
**A- Noon – 5 PM – Open studios – Mid City Artists – I hate that it is the same time as Mt Rainier, but Mid City is Sunday, too www.midcityartists.com our faves are Mark Parascandola, Bridget Sue Lambert, neon guru Craig Kraft, and Betsy Karasik, who ran out of her fabulous cheeses last time…
1-5 PM – Big game day for families at Opal Daniels Park in Takoma Park. Organized by Nadine Bloch and others, so has to be good!
L, A – 1:30 PM – Hirshhorn curator Kristine Hileman will talk with artists from the Here and Now exhibition at 1840 14th St. NW – the former Church of the Rapture and then at
3 PM – Whitney Biennial artist Matt Mullican from NY will lecture
T – 2 PM – PWYC at Studio Theater “The Internationalist” starring the excellent Holly Twyford. www.studiotheatre.org
M – 2-3:30 PM at the Natural History Museum – Asian Pacific Heritage Dance and Music – will be wonderful….
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 Remember, this is the place that gave Elliott Negin a venue!
F – 3 PM - 1968 French film on the revolutionary events of that time… Tout Va Bien, by Jean Luc Godard, starring Yves Montand and Jane Fonda – Nat’l Gallery E. bldg. aud.
M – 5 PM – DC Youth Orchestra at the spectacular Mexinca Culturla Insitutite at 2829 16th St. NW – one of those gorgeous mansions up pass just above Meridian Hill Pk.
A – 5-9 PM ptgs by Joanne Miller Rafferty at Ed Chasen Fine Arts. Res. req. 202-965-1801 2906 M St. NW
A – 5-7 PM – Kevin Kepple at Addison-Ripley, 1670 Wisconisn Ave. NW
A – 6:30-8:30 PM – Two artists at G Fine Arts – 1515 14th St. NW
A- 6-8 PM – Jason Horowitz at the Curator’s Office, 1515 14th St. NW
M – 7 PM – ages 21 and older for bawdy group “Slanty Eyed Mama” on Asian American culture, identity, race, and more! And they call the show “Birth of a Nasian.” Ya gotta like that. And they would also send you to the website www.alllooksame.com go there, and take the test, and go to the Freer Saturday for the show. It may never be the same.
F, M – 9:30 PM – Documentary about Iraq’s only surviving heavy metal band, plus dancing Rock and Roll Hotel, 1353 H St. NE
Sunday, May 18 –
8 AM – 5 PM – Defense Open House at Andrews AFB. Yes, Blue Angels flying,
paratroopers jumping, and more than enough new and old weaponry to, well, fill in your own words… www.jsoh.org
L – 10 AM – Former POST columnist William Raspberry discusses race and civic life in the US. Washington Nat’l Cathedral
**A – Noon – 5 PM – Open studios – Mid City Artists – www.midcityartists.com our faves are Mark Parascandola, Bridget Sue Lambert, and Betsy Karasik, who ran out of her fabulous cheeses last time…
A – 2 PM – Gail Feigenbaum from the Getty on the Carraccis’s Butcher Shop and the reform of ptg. Nat’l Gallery E.Bldg Aud.
A – 3 PM – “Romancing the String – My Life in Fiber” John Garrett at the Renwick
M – 4 PM - Brahms to Broadway and Beyond – United Methodist Church – 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW
F – 4 Pm – Phillippe Garrel’s semi-autobiographical film about 1968 in Paris. Nat’l Gallery E. Bldg. aud.
Monday, May 19
L – 12:30-1:30 PM – Mary Luevano of Global Green USA on energy efficiency and conservation measures – Nat’l Bldg Museum
T – 7 PM – selected readings of Arthur Miller res. req. 202-687-2787 – Gonda Theater of Georgetown U.
Tuesday, May 20
B – 1 PM – Pickford Theater in Madison Bldg of Library of Congress – Avi Beker, former head of World Jewish Congress, on “The Chosen: The History of an Idea and the Anatomy of an Obsession
M – 6 PM – Free Nat’l Symphony Orchestra Concert featuring young Soloists. KenCen Millennium Stage (always check blog roll to right!)
A – 6-8:30 PM – photography by Gen Aihara at the Mu Project - 1521 Wisc. Ave. NW
L – 6 PM – at the House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW – illustrated talk on the great ship Vasa (look it up – you won’t believe it!) rsvp-hos@foreign.ministry.se
B – 6:30 PM – Cleveland Park Library ; Kelly McMasters on growing up in one of the original superfund towns
M – 7:30 PM – Adrian Gaspar jazz trio at Austrian Embassy. Arrive earlier for Austrian wine cash bar. Res. req. 202-895-6776 or rsvp@austria.org
Wednesday, May 21
B – 5:30-7 PM – Helen Cobban at Open Soc. Institute, 1120 19th St. NW, 8th Fl.
M – 6 PM – John Wubbenhorst lecture and performance “East Meets West: Fusion or Confusion?” Historical Soc. of DC 801 K St. NW rsvp@historydc.org
M, A – 6:30 Pm – history and renovation of South America’s most celebrated opera house IADB aud. 1330 NY Ave. NW
B – 7 PM – Panel discussion on “The American Dream and the Racial Divide of the 1920s and Today. Thurgood Marshall Center –1816 12th St. NW
L – 7 Pm – on the Electoral College, at the Nat’l Archives. Includes the great historian Gordon Woods and others.
Thursday, May 22 –
L – 6-8:00 PM – “Black Resistance and Oppression under Nazism” Prof.Clarence Lusane of AU, at the German Hist. Soc. at Dupont Circle – 1607 New Hampshire Ave. NW above Q St. rsvp - events@ghi-dc.org
A – 6:30 PM – What about stolen art? Bonnie Magness-Gardiner of the FBI – SAAM
L – 7 PM – “The Rescue of Children and Youths at Buchenwald” by Kenneth Walzer – at Holocaust Museum. Res. Requested – 202-488-6162 www.ushmm.org
F, L – 7 Pm – Nat’l Archives – film about LBJ followed by Q and A with his wonderful advisor Harry McPherson, the likes of whom we may not see again…. Go!
Saturday, May 24 –
M – 8 PM – 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
Friday May 30
A – 6 PM- Midnight – Art Whino Gallery at Nat’l Harbor. Not been? Ya gotta go once.
B –7:30 PM –Lecture and Reception – Ann Hagendon – author of a fabulous work on
the year 1919 and the parallels for today. Writers Center – 4508 Walsh St. in Bethesda
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
A – 6-9 PM Curated by the terrific Vivienne Lassman (see the artwork at the Convention Center!) a show by the amazing Noche Crist - American U Museum at the Katzen Center. Another example of a great decision by Museum director Jack Rasmussen.
Friday, June 13
A – 6:30-8:30 PM – Kyle Miller at Space 710 in Silver Spring
Saturday, June 28 –
A – 4 PM – Gallery talk by curator Vivienne Lassman, who will walk you through the magical works of legendary DC artist Noche Crist. AU Museum in the Katzen Center.
