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Sunday, February 15
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| 10:30 AM-4:30 PM
The Power of Chocolate
2-Day Family Festival |
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Celebrate Valentine's Day with chocolate! This colorful celebration of culture features music, dance, art, science, and food. Enjoy performances by Peruvian scissor dancers and demonstrations by Guatemalan gourd artists, watch food demonstrations while listening to Bolivian cacao growers discuss chocolate production, and try hands-on activities. Also learn about the healing, scientific, and medicinal properties of chocolate and about the cultures and communities that cultivate this valuable crop.
Free
Last day
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National Museum of the American Indian
Location: American Indian Museum Throughout the museum
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| 2 PM
Iranian Film Festival 2009: Over There
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(2008, 75 min., Persian with English subtitles, directed by Abdolreza Kahani, Iran) This black-and-white film follows ten days in the lives of Payman and Leila, a young couple in the middle of a marital meltdown. Payman has only ten days left to return to the United States to renew his green card, but he cannot exit the country until he legally leaves his wife with five hundred gold coins.
Note: Due to high demands for tickets, assigned seating is in effect for this series. Up to two (2) free tickets per person are distributed 1 hour before.
Free, see Note for ticket information
Film festival continues Feb. 20 & 22
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer Gallery Meyer Auditorium
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| 6:30 PM, pre-concert discussion; 7:30 PM, concert
Masterworks of Five Centuries
Smithsonian Chamber Music Society Performance |
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The Smithsonian Chamber Music Society celebrates its 32nd season with an appropriately eclectic repast, balancing familiar masterworks with undeservedly neglected pieces. This evening, The Smithsonian Chamber Players -- Ian Swensen and Marilyn McDonald (violins); Douglas McNabney (viola); and Kenneth Slowik (violoncello and fortepiano) -- perform A Schubertiade: String Trio in B-flat Major, D471; Sonata in A Minor, D385; Quartet in G Major, D887. The Society's artistic director Kenneth Slowik continues his popular pre-concert lectures, discussing the life and times of the featured composers one hour before the program.
$26, general; $22, member; call 202-633-3030
Series continues March 15, & April 5, and May 17
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Renwick Gallery, Grand Salon
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| Last update: January 15, 2009, 08:44 |
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