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Saturday, February 28
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Orchid
Family Festival |
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Enjoy the beauty and diversity of orchids and learn more about these wonderful plants. Adults can talk with orchid specialists and watch potting demonstrations. Kids can pot orchids to take home, learn about pollination, get temporary orchid tattoos, and much more. Co-sponsored by the Smithsonian's Horticulture Services Division and the U.S. Botanic Garden.
Free
Related Exhibition: Orchids through Darwin's Eyes
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National Museum of Natural History
Location: Natural History Museum Ground Floor and 1st Floor, within the related exhibition
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| 11:30 AM & 1:30 PM
Nobody Owns the Sky
Flights of Fancy -- Stories for Children, with activity |
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Hear a reading of Nobody Owns the Sky, a story about Bessie Coleman -- the first African American to receive a pilot's license -- written by Reeve Lindberg. Then try your hand at an art activity. Celebrates Black History Month.
Free
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National Air and Space Museum
Location: Air and Space Museum America by Air, 1st Floor, West Wing, Gallery 102
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| 1 PM
Kirikou and the Sorceress
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(for ages 7+) (1998, 71 min., directed by Michel Ocelot, France) This award-winning animated film recounts a West African folktale about a newborn boy who saves his village from the curse of the evil sorceress Karaba.
Free
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National Museum of African Art
Location: African Art Museum Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2
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| 2 PM
Free Within Ourselves: African American Art
Black History Month Special Tour |
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To celebrate Black History Month, a docent leads a tour to explore the personal and cultural experiences of African American artists represented in the museum's collection, including Lois Mailou Jones, Allan Rohan Crite, William H. Johnson, James Hampton, and Robert Duncanson.
Free
Last day
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture Meet behind the F St. information desk
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Taking Shape
ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Explore the related exhibition, then create your own miniature banana-leaf boat filled with tiny clay jars and travel down the rivers of Southeast Asia in search of adventure and trade.
Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats March 1
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Sackler Gallery Classroom, Sublevel 2
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| Last update: January 15, 2009, 08:44 |
