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Friday, February 13
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Meet the Museum: Buh Rabbit & Friends
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(for ages 4-8) Play and sing along with the stories and songs of the Gullah people from the Georgia Sea Islands. This cultural program transports audiences to the rice plantations during slavery with the humorous teaching stories of Buh (Br'er) Rabbit and friends. After the show, see gourd animal masks, sea-grass baskets, and other artifacts of the Gullah people from the collection of the American History Museum. Celebrates Black History Month.
Note: $6, adults; $5, children (ages 2-16); $4, Resident Members.
Tickets required; call 202-633-8700 (see Note for prices)
Repeats Feb. 20 & 27
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center Room 3111
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| 11 AM
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
Repeats Fridays at 11 AM; Saturdays at 11:30 AM & 1:30 PM
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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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| 12 Noon
Drew Hayden Taylor: Toronto at Dreamer's Rock
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(for middle-school age and older) Contemporary storyteller Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibway, Curve Lake First Nations) reads from his play Toronto at Dreamer's Rock, a moving portrayal of a teenage boy who is torn between the traditions of his people, which he only vaguely understands, and the lure of modern life. The boy has a magical encounter with two members of his tribe -- one from 400 years in the past and one from the future -- who make him aware of how little he has thought about what it means to be Indian.
Free; first come, first served
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National Museum of the American Indian
Location: American Indian Museum Rasmuson Theater
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| 12:30 PM
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
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| 7 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
Repeats Feb. 15, 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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