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Thursday, January 15
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The Nation Prepared for Every Good Work: Humanitarian
Assistance and Disaster Response: Symposium |
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A panel of speakers from Navy Medicine, the Global Emerging Infectious Systems (GEIS) Response Program, and The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences explore how the United States responds to disaster with humanitarian assistance. They share how the government and industry have cared for those who are suffering and explain how this generosity shapes the values and world view of public servants. The speakers hope to inspire "an audacity of hope" so we remain true to our American calling to be prepared for every good work in every moment of human need. Note: To register, visit the Web at www.thechiefinformationgroup.com/conference/smithsonian/0109/index.htm or call 202-633-7469.
Free; but registration required; see Note
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Special Smithsonian Sponsored
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Lecture Hall Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 12 Noon-12:30 PM
Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 6-6:30 PM
What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Ryan McGinley
Face-to-Face Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker. Today, assistant curator of photographs Frank Goodyear talks about Ryan McGinley's self-portrait in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby Add to Outlook/iCal
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Elijah's Violin: Folk Tales in Jewish Culture
Lecture, with book signing |
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Jewish stories possess all the elements of the folklore genre -- from traveling to an enchanted world to seeking a lifelong quest -- and are as imaginative as the Arabian Nights. This evening, master storyteller and scholar Howard Schwartz (professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis) tells and discusses examples of the four most popular types of Jewish stories: fairy tales, folktales, supernatural tales, and mystical tales. Book signing follows.
$35, general; $25, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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The Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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Although the emergence of naval aviation served as the U.S. Navy's principal weapon in winning the battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf, which in turn played a critical role in winning the war in the Pacific, these battles also stirred controversy. This evening Cmdr. C.C. Felker (military professor, U.S. Naval Academy) offers a fascinating look into these events.
$25, general; $20, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Latinos and Civil Rights: Changing Face of America
Lecture: Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Program |
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Baldemar Velasquez (founder and president, Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO) is the keynote speaker for the 24th annual commemorative event. Performing at the event is Mexican folklore singer and musician Rudy Arrendondo. Cosponsored with the Smithsonian Latino Center in conjunction with its on-line exhibition Los Tesoros Mexicanos del Smithsonian (Mexican Treasures of the Smithsonian). Note: For information, contact 202-633-4875 or ACMinfo@si.edu.
Free, but see Note
Related Exhibition: Mexican Treasures of the Smithsonian (on-line exhibition)
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Natural History Museum Baird Auditorium (enter Constitution Ave. side) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, January 16
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Strange Bodies
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. D.C.-area art collector Robert Lehrman talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, January 17
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Native Writers: William Hensley
Lecture, with book signing |
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Former Alaskan State Senator William Iggiagruk Hensley (Inupiaq) reads from and discusses his autobiography Fifty Miles from Tomorrow. This book recounts his life from his early years growing up in the fishing, hunting, and trapping village of Kotzebue, Alaska, to his work as a leader and tireless advocate for Native Alaskan rights. Reception and book signing follow.
Free
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American Indian Museum
Location: American Indian Museum Rasmuson Theater Add to Outlook/iCal
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Sunday, January 18
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Renewing America's Promise: Celebrate African Music & Film
Inaugural Activities |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the museum offers the following programs:
Treasure Hunt: Visitors can take part in a treasure hunt through the museum's exhibitions to find an array of leadership arts from across the African continent. Pick up self-guided activity at the information desk.
12 Noon-2 PM: Screening of the film Hip Hop Colony, a documentary that takes an intimate look at hip hop while establishing its ties to Kenya (Lecture Hall).
2-4 PM: DJ Adrian Loving performs a mix of African percussion and hip hop (Mezzanine).
4-5 PM: Dr. Mark Auslander (Brandeis University) discusses African kingship ceremonies in a lecture entitled "Leadership is People: African Celebrations of a New Leader" (Lecture Hall).
Free
Continues Jan. 19
Related Exhibition: African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection
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African Art Museum
Location: African Art Museum Throughout the museum Add to Outlook/iCal
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Monday, January 19
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Renewing America's Promise: First Inaugural College Debates
Inaugural Activities: Three Collegiate Debates |
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To celebrate the 56th Presidential Inauguration and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, six college debate teams, in three 75-minute debates, argue the priorities of the new Obama administration. Presented by the National Museum of African American History and Culture in cooperation with the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
9-9:30 AM: Introductory Remarks
9:30 AM: Energy and Climate Change: Michigan State University vs. Wake Forest University: These two schools represent the pinnacle of intercollegiate debate, both having won the National Debate Tournament (NDT) -- America's most historic and prestigious national debate championship -- in the last three years.
11:30 AM: Health Care and the Economy: University of Mary Washington vs. the University of Southern California: These two institutions have long traditions of excellence in intercollegiate debate.
2 PM: Foreign Policy: Fayetteville State University vs. Voorhees College These two HBCUs are committed to making debate education central to their educational mission. This debate marks the 100th anniversary of the first intercollegiate debates between HBCUs.
3:30-4 PM: Closing Remarks
Free
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African American History Museum
Location: Natural History Museum Baird Auditorium Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, January 21
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Future of New Art Technologies
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How do you conserve an mp3? New technologies -- televisions, videos, DVDs, and mp3s -- are used by many artists in multimedia installations, but they are among the greatest challenges facing the field of conservation. Dr. Glenn Wharton (media conservator at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and research scholar at New York University's Conservation Center and Museum Studies programs) discusses MoMA's conservation program for time-based media, which is on the cutting edge of new research and developments in the field. Cosponsored with the National Portrait Gallery.
Free
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Thursday, January 22
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Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 12:30-12:45 PM
Enterprise: Sister Ship of Columbia
Ask an Expert |
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Valerie Neal, Space History Division, discusses the space shuttle Enterprise, the sister ship of Columbia.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 6-6:30 PM
What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Adelyn, Ash Wednesday,
New Orleans, Louisiana: Face-to-Face Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker. Today, curator of painting and sculpture Brandon Fortune talks about the portrait Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana by Alec Soth in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 6:45-8:45 PM
Marine Corps Operations in World War II: Fact and Mythology
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As powerful as the memory of the Pacific War has been for the nation, it is even more so for the Marine Corps. The stories of the Pacific amphibious landings remain central to the entire ethos of the Corps today, its heroes, mythology, and even its principles of leadership. This evening, Aaron B. O'Connell (assistant professor of history, U.S. Naval Academy) explains the campaign and discusses its long-term effects on the Marine Corps.
$25, general; $20, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, January 23
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Strange Bodies
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Associate curator Kristen Hileman talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, January 24
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Understanding Sacred Texts from Taoism to Christianity
All-Day Seminar |
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In this seminar, Graham Schweig (associate professor of religion, Christopher Newport University) examines and discusses famous and lesser known passages from various religions that continue to provide comfort and reveal new ways of seeing the world.
$120, general; $85, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Aging...What's It All About?
All-Day Seminar |
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We all want to age well. The dream for most people is to enjoy robust health and independence, remain physically active, and continue to make contributions to their families and communities during their "second 50" years; however, there is a lot of conflicting advice on how to accomplish this. The day will cover cutting-edge research on the cellular and genetic aspects of aging; brain aging and maintaining cognitive function; family and social relationships that affect aging and retirement; and the factors that threaten health and longevity.
$120, general; $85, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Highland Beach on the Chesapeake Bay: First African American
Chartered Town in the State of Maryland; Discussion |
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Jay Langston (city commissioner) discusses the history of Highland Beach in Maryland, the oldest African American summer resort founded in the summer of 1893 by Charles Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass. Book sale and signing follow.
Free; but reservations required, call 202-633-4844
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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Sunday, January 25
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Art and War
James Renwick Alliance Lecture |
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A teapot may not seem like the conventional place to find a political message or social commentary, but ceramic artist and sculptor Richard Notkin is able to transform this seemingly traditional form to communicate his viewpoints to the world. This afternoon, he elaborates on his 40-year commentary in clay. Sponsored by the James Renwick Alliance.
Free
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Renwick Gallery
Location: Renwick Gallery Grand Salon Add to Outlook/iCal
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Tuesday, January 27
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Mario Livio: Understanding the Mysteries of Our Physical World
Lecture, with book signing |
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For centuries, mathematicians have been uncannily accurate at describing and predicting the physical world that physicists have later discovered. Why is this so? This evening, Mario Livio (senior astrophysicist, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute) explores this question by taking a fresh look at cosmology, religion, and cognitive science, beginning with ancient Greeks to the scientists of today. Book signing follows.
$25, general; $15, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, January 28
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President-Elect Abraham Lincoln: Determination and Leadership
Lecture, with book signing |
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This evening, Harold Holzer, co-chairman of the U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and author of over 30 books on Lincoln and the Civil War, discusses the four months between Lincoln's election and inauguration when he made the decision that no compromise would be made on slavery or secession of slave holding states -- even at the cost of an inevitable Civil War. Holzer's new book, Lincoln, President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-61, is available for signing after the program.
$25, general; $15, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Freer Gallery Meyer Auditorium (enter at Jefferson Dr. or Independence Ave.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Thursday, January 29
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Meet our Museum
Lecture |
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 6-6:30 PM
What's New at the Portrait Gallery: Michael J. Fox
Face-to-Face Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker. Today, curator of photographs Ann Shumard talks about the portrait of Michael J. Fox by Steve Pyke in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Thursday evenings
Related Exhibition: Portraiture Now: Feature Photography
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet at F Street Lobby Add to Outlook/iCal
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America's Strategic Bombing Campaign
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The American strategic bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan between 1942 and 1945 were some of the most destructive and consequential undertakings in the history of warfare. The campaigns consumed an enormous share of American economic and military resources, and represented a watershed in the devastating methods and effects of modern industrial warfare. This evening, Marcus Jones (professor of history, U.S. Naval Academy) discusses the effectiveness of these strategic bombing campaigns.
$25, general; $20, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Stories in the Dirt, Stories in the Air: Conversations with
Frank Gohlke: Illustrated Lecture with book signing |
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Landscape photographer Frank Gohlke reads selections from his catalogue essay Stories in the Dirt, Stories in the Air; shares his thoughts on the American landscape; and shows how his photographs capture the effects of human interaction with nature. Afterwards, Toby Jurovics (curator of photography) moderates a discussion with the artist, who takes questions from the audience. Book signing and reception follow.
Free
Related Exhibition: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, January 30
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A Scattering of Pearls: Architecture of the Gold Road and the
Mali-Spain Diaspora: Lecture |
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In 1324 King Mansa Musa of Mali invited Al-Saheli, a son of the Granada Spice and Perfume Guild head, to become his court architect. Distinguished historian Suzanne Preston Blier examines this remarkable patron-architect relationship, the subsequent buildings, and the larger history of the north-south exchange during the centuries of the trans-Saharan gold trade.
Free
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African Art Museum
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2 Add to Outlook/iCal
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Ori Gersht
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Curatorial research associate Ryan Hill talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Black Box: Ori Gersht
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, January 31
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A Turkish Odyssey
All-Day Seminar |
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Anatolia's colorful history has left a windfall of cultural riches -- ancient ruins, ornate Byzantine churches, elegant mosques, and splendid Ottoman palaces. In this illustrated seminar, Serif Yenen (president, Federation of Turkish Tourist Guide Associations) highlights the history of ancient Turkey by way of some of its hidden gems.
$120, general; $85, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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The Past on the Page: Writing from History
All-Day Seminar, with book signing |
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In this practical workshop, writer and historian Tony Perrottet discusses how to bring the past to life in a way that is fresh, vivid, and relevant. He discusses how to find and most effectively use original and secondary sources to create both fiction and nonfiction works. Practical nuts and bolts of the literary marketplace are discussed, including composing winning magazine proposals, dealing with editors, formulating book proposals, and creating outlines. Book signing follows.
$120, general; $85, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Sublevel 3 (check monitor) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, February 4
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Nuclear Winter: The Minuteman III ICBM
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Tom Lassman, Space History Division, discusses the Minuteman III ICBM and nuclear winter.
Free
Continues most Wednesdays
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Air and Space Museum
Location: Air and Space Museum Meet at the Museum Seal, Milestones of Flight (Gallery 100) Add to Outlook/iCal
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At the Elbows of My Elders: One Family's Journey Toward Civil
Rights: Author's Talk |
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In this illustrated reading, author Gail Milissa Grant recounts the battles fought by her father, a lawyer and civil rights activist in St. Louis; her family's operation of a funeral home; and their earlier work on the railroad and on pleasure boats that plied the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Celebrates Black History Month.
Free
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African American History Museum
Location: Smithsonian Castle The Commons Add to Outlook/iCal
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Thursday, February 5
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Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, February 6
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Hirshhorn Collections
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Grey Gundaker (professor, American Studies and Anthropology, College of William and Mary) talks about the collections at the Hirshhorn.
Free
Continues most Fridays
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Meet the Artists: Aime Mpane and Antonio Ole
Gallery Tour and Talk |
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Visiting artists Aime Mpane and Antonio Ole discuss their work and site-specific installations in the related exhibition.
Free
Related Exhibition: Artists in Dialogue
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African Art Museum
Location: African Art Museum Sublevel 1 Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, February 7
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African Americans at Play
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Philip J. Merrill (noted collector, educator, and former Antiques Roadshow appraiser) presents examples of toys and games and discusses the history and social significance of African Americans at play. Families are encouraged to come, participate, and have fun.
Free; but reservations required, call 202-633-4844
Related Exhibition: Jubilee: African American Celebration
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails and Tales
Family Festival |
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As part of the celebration to honor Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, hear author Tom Wheeler tell the untold story of how Lincoln taught himself to use the telegraph, a new electronic device that helped him win the Civil War. While adults are being entertained, children (ages 7-13) listen to the story of Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers and learn what advice Mr. Lincoln took from 11-year-old Grace Bedell in a letter she wrote to him that influenced his presidential campaign. Afterwards, children are encouraged to write their own letters to the president, design a presidential stamp, and enjoy other fun Abe activities. Note: To register, call 202-633-5533 or e-mail blasco@si.edu.
Free, but reservations required; see Note
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Postal Museum
Location: Postal Museum Discovery Room Add to Outlook/iCal
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Sunday, February 8
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Black History Month
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Celebrate Black History Month with a day of kalimba music, art activities, free Discovery Theater performances, self-guided tours of the National Museum of African American History and Culture's exhibition Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968, and a panel discussion of the history of the Shaw neighborhood. Today's celebration is based on the theme "Living in Many Worlds," which expores the dynamic intersection of family, history, and cultural identity. Co-sponsored by the Anacostia Community Museum, Discovery Theater, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, and Smithsonian Heritage Months Steering Committee.
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Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Discovery Theater, Room 3111 Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, February 11
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Carter G. Woodson and the Origins of Black History Month
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Join historian and author C.R. Gibbs and learn how the oldest, most widespread, and most important celebration of African American history and culture began. In addition, Gibbs offers intriguing insights into the seldom discussed life and work of Dr. Woodson and his continuing battle for equality on behalf of himself and others in Jim Crow-era Washington, D.C. Celebrates Black History Month.
Free; but reservations required, call 202-633-4844
Related Exhibition: Jubilee: African American Celebration
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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Thursday, February 12
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Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
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Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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Native Writers: Drew Hayden Taylor
Lecture, with book signing |
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(for teens and older) Contemporary storyteller Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibway, Curve Lake First Nations) is a novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. Today, he reads from and discusses his gothic novel for teens A Night Wanderer and other new releases. Book signing follow.
Free
See related adult program this evening and program tomorrow
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American Indian Museum
Location: American Indian Museum Rasmuson Theater Add to Outlook/iCal
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Darwin Anniversary
Symposium |
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February 12, 2009, marks the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th year since the publication of his influential work On the Origin of Species. To recognize Darwin's scientific accomplishments, including his observations on plant and animal life, distinguished experts discuss a variety of topics from historical perspectives of Darwin to evolution and medicine. Presented in conjunction with the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health.
Free
Related Exhibition: Orchids through Darwin's Eyes: 15th Annual Orchid Show
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Natural History Museum
Location: Natural History Museum Ground Floor, Baird Auditorium Add to Outlook/iCal
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Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery
Lecture, with book signing |
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Furniture historian Oscar Fitzgerald traces the history of the gallery's extensive furniture collection and highlights some of its gems while discussing his recent publication, Studio Furniture of the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Book signing follows.
Free
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Renwick Gallery
Location: Renwick Gallery Grand Salon Add to Outlook/iCal
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The Grumman Ag-Cat
Ask an Expert |
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Dorothy Cochrane, Aeronautics Division, discusses the Grumman Ag-Cat, first aircraft specifically designed by a major aircraft company for agricultural aviation or crop dusting -- the aerial application of chemical, fertilizer. and seed.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird Add to Outlook/iCal
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Native Writers: Drew Hayden Taylor
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(for adults) Contemporary storyteller Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibway, Curve Lake First Nations) is a novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. This evening, to celebrate Valentine's Day, he reads from and discusses his book Me Sexy, about Native sexuality. Beverages and desserts are available for purchase. Book signing follows. Note: Ticketing information TBA.
Free, but tickets required; see Note (TBA)
See related program tomorrow
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American Indian Museum
Location: American Indian Museum 1st Level, Mitsitam Cafe (enter from Maryland Ave.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, February 13
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Directions: Terence Gower
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Curator Anne Ellegood talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Directions: Terence Gower
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, February 14
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Presidential Family Fun
Family Day |
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Learn how American presidents through history had fun. Fife-and-drum music, period dance, dramatic storytelling, Victorian valentines, an interactive self-guide, and several special guests are just some of the special activities scheduled for this Presidents' Day holiday weekend. In the Luce Foundation Center from 12 Noon to 5 PM, watch Zilly Rosen create a portrait A New Birth of Freedom out of cupcakes; when she is done, help de-install the piece by sampling a cupcake! Co-sponsored with the National Portrait Gallery.
Free
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Kogod Courtyard and Luce Foundation Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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Monday, February 16
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One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
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In today's symposium in conjunction to the related exhibition, One Life: The Mask of Lincoln, museum curator and chair David Ward and guest speakers examine various aspects of Lincoln and his times on the following topics: David C. Ward, National Portrait Gallery, "Lincoln's Self-Fashioning" Alexander Nemerovz, Yale University, "Lincoln in Washington: The Aesthetic Moment" Michael E. McGerr, Indiana University, "Lincoln and American Nationalism" Marcia Brennan, Rice University, "Lincoln, Death, and Spirit Photography"
Free
Related Exhibition: One Life: The Mask of Lincoln
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Portrait Gallery
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, February 18
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Eugene Bullard: The First African American Military Pilot
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Dom Pisano, Aeronautics Division, discusses Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot. Celebrates Black History Month.
Free
Continues most Wednesdays
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Air and Space Museum
Location: Air and Space Museum Meet at the Museum Seal, Milestones of Flight (Gallery 100) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Thursday, February 19
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Meet our Museum
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 6:30 PM
Annual Day of Remembrance: The Japanese American Experience in
Print: Lectures |
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To mark the 67th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's signing of Executive Order 9066, which led to the imprisonment of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry during World War II, three distinguished writers talk about their recent books highlighting the Japanese American experience. Dr. Franklin Odo (director, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program) moderates.
David Mura presents his debut novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire, about a self-proclaimed itinerant historian who must delve into his own family's past -- populated by both a 442nd survivor with a Purple Heart and a No-No Boy -- to understand how his parents' youthful experiences shaped not only their lives, but also the lives of subsequent generations.
Kiyo Sato discusses her award-winning memoir Dandelion Through the Crack: The Sato Family Quest for the American Dream, which tells the story of a Japanese American family from California who survives the Great Depression only to live through the challenges of being imprisoned at Poston Relocation Camp during World War II.
Shirley Castelnuovo discusses Soldiers of Conscience: Japanese American Military Resisters in World War II, which tells the story of men who were deployed in a segregated battalion in the U.S. Army to clean up property that had been damaged during training missions in the United States. The men were assigned to this unit after protesting the mass imprisonment of their Japanese American families during WWII.
Cedrick Shimo, one of the resisters in Soldiers of Conscience, who also wrote the foreword to the book, will also participate.
Free; first come, first served
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Special Smithsonian Sponsored
Location: American Indian Museum Rasmuson Theater Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, February 20
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Strange Bodies
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Glenn Harper (editor, Sculpture magazine, publication of the International Sculpture Center) talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, February 25
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A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: Archival Photography in
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Melissa Keiser, Archives Division, discusses archival photography in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Wednesdays
Related Exhibition: America By Air
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Air and Space Museum
Location: Air and Space Museum Meet at the Museum Seal, Milestones of Flight (Gallery 100) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Thursday, February 26
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Meet our Museum
Lecture |
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A museum staff member shares stories about some of the objects in the museum's collections and discusses the museum's work to collect, preserve, research, interpret, and present our nation's history. Question-and-answer session follows.
Free
Repeats most Thursdays
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American History Museum
Location: American History Museum 2nd Floor, Center Add to Outlook/iCal
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The Mercury Capsule Phone Booth
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Margaret Weitekamp, Space History Division, discusses the Mercury capsule phone booth, a telephone booth shaped like the Mercury capsule.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird Add to Outlook/iCal
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Gohlke
Gallery Talk |
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Toby Jurovics (curator of photography) leads a tour on the exhibition of Frank Gohlke's photographs that capture the forces of the natural world by exploring the tension between man and his surroundings.
Free
Related Exhibition: Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet in the F St. lobby Add to Outlook/iCal
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Winslow Homer's Use of Color Theory
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Winslow Homer called his tattered copy of The Principles of Harmony and Contrast in Colours (translation 1872) by French chemist and color theorist Michel-Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889) his "Bible." Homer referred to it for nearly 50 years as he applied the theory of the mutual effect of colors to his paintings. Judith Walsh (associate professor, Art Conservation Department, Buffalo State College) uses many of Homer's most beloved paintings and watercolors to illustrate Chevreul's color theory.
Free
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Donald Kuspit on Louise Bourgeois
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"The Phallic Woman: Conflict and Fragmentation in Louise Bourgeois's Conception of the Female Body": Donald Kuspit (University Distinguished Professor, Art History and Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook and contributing editor at Artforum) discusses the tensions between the phallic and the womanly in Bourgeois's work and interprets the artist's understanding of the nature of the female body and the character of female selfhood.
Free; first come, first served
Related Exhibition: Louise Bourgeois
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Ring Auditorium Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, February 27
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Today's Barry Farm Community
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Community historian Kalem Umrani provides a profile of Barry Farm in Anacostia and describes citizens' concerns for this area before discussing the impact of the New Communities Project on Barry Farm Dwelling and the efforts by citizens to participate in shaping the character of the new development. Celebrates Black History Month.
Free; but reservations required, call 202-633-4844
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 12 Noon
Reconstructing the History of Ethiopia's Famed Site of
Lalibela: Lecture |
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Leading Ethiopian art historian Marilyn Heldman discusses Lalibela, the world-famed pilgrimage site composed of churches carved from the living rock in the mountains of Lasta.
Free
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African Art Museum
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2 Add to Outlook/iCal
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| 12:30 PM
Louise Bourgeois
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. D.C.-area artist Cara Ober talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Louise Bourgeois
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, March 6
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Directions: Terence Gower
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Architect Diane Cho talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Directions: Terence Gower
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Join President Lincoln for His Second Inaugural Dinner
Food Event, with talk and performance |
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Did you know that Lincoln stayed at the Willard before his first inauguration? This evening, as part of a city-wide celebration to commemorate Lincoln's 200th birthday, the Willard's executive chef re-creates selections from Lincoln's second inaugural dinner, which was held on March 6, 1865. Before dinner, enjoy a glass of sherry, while Harry Rubenstein, curator at the National Museum of American History, gives a short presentation on Lincoln. After dinner, Lincoln re-enactor James Getty portrays the incumbent president.
$165, general; $130, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Willard InterContinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave., NW Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, March 7
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Stepping Out
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Learn about the roots and development of "stepping," a unique form of African American expression that is performed today by fraternities, sororities, churches, schools, military units, and other social groups, all displaying distinctive styles of marching. Those attending are invited to share their stepping experience.
Free; for information, call 202-633-4844
See related video at 2 PM today
Related Exhibition: Jubilee: African American Celebration
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War
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As part of the celebration to honor Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, Eliot Landau discusses the related exhibition that combines philately, ephemera, and artifacts in an engaging exploration of Lincoln's presidency, the Civil War, and Black History. Reception follows.
Free
Related Exhibition: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War (on view March 6-8)
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Postal Museum
Location: Postal Museum Discovery Room Add to Outlook/iCal
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Wednesday, March 11
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D.C.'s Deaf Community and Gallaudet University: The Struggle
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Sandra Jowers-Barber (assistant professor of history, University of the District of Columbia) offers insights into the history of African American deaf presence at Gallaudet University, the racially motivated removal of these students in 1905, and the successful 1952 legal challenge that ended the policy of refusing to educate the students within the District of Columbia.
Free; for reservations, call 202-633-4844
Related Exhibition: Jubilee: African American Celebration
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage by Mark Daniel Epstein
Lecture, with book signing |
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As part of the celebration to honor Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, Mark Daniel Epstein discusses his book The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage. Book signing follows.
Free
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American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G St.) Add to Outlook/iCal
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Friday, March 20
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Directions: Terence Gower
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change. Curatorial assistant Al Miner talks about the related exhibition.
Free
Continues most Fridays
Related Exhibition: Directions: Terence Gower
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Hirshhorn Museum Meet at information desk Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, March 28
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Rising above Limitations - The Spirit of African American
Women Inventors: Lecture |
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Patricia Carter Sluby (a registered patent agent and author) brings the eye of a patent examiner to the record of African American female ingenuity from the earliest known to the present, chronicling the trials and suffering and then the success that women inventors experienced during modern times.
Free; for reservations, call 202-633-4844
Related Exhibition: Jubilee: African American Celebration
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: Anacostia Community Museum 1901 Fort Place, SE Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, April 25
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Abraham Lincoln, Esquire
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America has had 43 presidents, 26 of whom were lawyers. Abraham Lincoln was admitted to the bar of Illinois in 1836, and he practiced law there until he moved to the White House in 1861. Today, attorney and scholar Arthur T. Downey explores Lincoln's law practice and some of the fundamental legal issues he had to resolve as president. Also discussed are the many constitutional questions created by the crisis of the Civil War.
$120, general; $125, members, $85: call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center See ticket Add to Outlook/iCal
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Saturday, July 11
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Lincoln Bicentennial Event
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Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a postmaster before becoming our 16th president? Today, as part of the celebration to honor Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, discover the many changes that took place in the mail delivery system during his lifetime, including how the Civil War affected communication, in a variety of hands-on family activities. Take a ride on the Pony Express, sort mail in a Railway Post Office train car, explore stamps commemorating Lincoln, and learn about Confederate postage stamps.
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Postal Museum
Location: Postal Museum Atrium Add to Outlook/iCal
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