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March 16, 2004
Dateline
GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan Washington
Ongoing Events
Exhibition “Hirshhorn Hosts East Coast Debut of “Douglas
Gordon” in Conclusion of International Tour” Darkness and light,
the tension between good and evil, and doppelganger imagery are key to
Gordon’s conceptual approach. Best known for projected video installations
that “sculpt” time, Gordon often alters existing source material
to explore memory, perception and ideas about the human condition. Through
May 9. For more information please visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu.
Exhibition “Shakespeare Gallery” View more than 250 of
the Folger’s rich treasures pertaining to Shakespeare and his time,
accompanied by Sir Derek Jacobi and other noted Shakespearean actors reciting
the Bard’s most loved verse, in a multimedia computer installation.
Adjacent to the Folger Exhibition Hall. Monday–Saturday, 10 am–4
pm. For more information please call 544-7077 or visit www.folger.edu.
GW Exhibition “Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance
in Germany, 1898–1938” The Kiev Judaica Collection hosts an
exhibition of some of the most significant works from the German Jewish
Cultural Renaissance, 1898–1939, in GW’s Gelman Library, Room
710. For more information contact Amy Stempler at 994-2675 or E-mail astemp@gwu.edu.
Exhibition “Timeless Experience: An Architectural Journey
through Itria, Italy, Photographs by Rajesh Nair” at The American
Institute of Architects Headquarters Gallery. The exhibition, which runs
through April 2, features a series of sepia-toned black and white photographs
depicting the atmospheric buildings and landscapes of Italy’s Itria
Valley. The AIA Headquarters Gallery is located at 1735 New York Ave.,
NW. For more information visit www.theoctagon.org.
Exhibition “Thomas Trevelyon’s Pictorial Miscellany (1608)”
Thomas Trevelyon’s elaborately-illustrated miscellany is essentially
a history of England and the world since the beginning of time. Covering
an astonishing range of subjects, including a picture calendar with the
occupations of each month, a gazetter, Old Testament history, and proverbs
and epigrams. At the Folger Shakespeare Gallery through May 23. Monday–Saturday,
10 am–4 pm. For more information please call 544-7077 or visit www.folger.edu.
Exhibition “Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust”
Using artifacts, film, photographs and oral testimony, the exhibition
explores the dangers and dilemmas that children and parents confronted
in choosing a life in hiding. At the Holocaust Memorial Museum through
May, 10:30 am–5 pm. For more information call 488-6133 or ahollinger@ushmm.org.
Exhibition National Museum of the American Indian Welcome Center
Exhibition On display in the Smithsonian Castle Building on the National
Mall gives visitors a chance to see what the completed facility will look
like. Through October. The National Museum of the American Indian on the
National Mall, 4th Street and Independence Avenue, SW. For more information
call 633-1000 or visit www.nmai.si.edu/.
Exhibition “Insights” Exhibition features 40 works by
nine contemporary artists whose experimentation with subject matter and
material offer a thoughtful look at the artistic process. Paintings, sculptures,
photographs, lithographs, films and mixed media installations selected
from the museum’s collection illustrate the range of media through
which African artists have made striking and innovative contributions.
On display are several never-before-exhibited artworks. Show runs through
Nov. 28 in the museum’s Sylvia H. Williams Gallery. For more information
please call 357-2700.
Thursday / March 18
Film “Heremakono, En Attendant Le Bonheur” (Waiting for
Happiness) (Mauritania/France, 2002, 95 min., in French and Hassania with
English subtitles) will be screened. “This gem of a picture is a
series of anecdotes that starts with a group of people packed in a car
puzzling out when they’re going to arrive at their destination and
why it doesn’t actually matter. Winner of the Yennenga Stallion Award
at the 2003 FESPACO film festival and the International Critics Award
at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Presented in collaboration with the
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capitol. (S. Dillon Ripley
Center, Room 3111). For more information please call 357-2700.
Theatre “Take Five Edith Piaf: In Words and Song” Joan
Keefe tells about the life of legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf and
Simone Marchand performs a number of musical selections. Take Five is
an interactive, informal series offering and opportunity to explore a
wide range of performing arts. For more information please visit www.claricesmithcenter.umd.edu.
$ Concert Preservation Hall Jazz Band, based in historic Preservation
Hall in New Orleans’ famous French Quarter, keeps alive the traditions
and history of a uniquely American sound. 7:30 pm. General admission,
$24; members, $19. Baird Auditorium, Natural History Museum. Sponsored
by the Smithsonian Associates. For more information call 357-3030 or visit
www.smithsonianassociates.org.
$ Interview “Ellen Goodman: Common Sense in Uncommon Times”
National Public Radio’s Linda Wertheimer, interviews Pulitzer Prize
winning columnist Ellen Goodman, discussing her common sense and her insights
on the seminal events, issues and personalities that have shaped our lives
over the past decade. 7 pm. General admission, $15; members, $12. S. Dillon
Ripley Center. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates. For more information
call 357-3030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.
Friday / March 19
GW Competition GW/KPMG Case Competition for MBA Students The annual
competition brings together MBA student teams from local, national and
international business schools to analyze a current situation facing a
nonprofit organization and present solutions that draw on the organization’s
assets. Sponsored by the School of Business. Competition starts at noon
on Friday and wraps up at noon March 20. For more information, visit www.gwu.edu/~casecomp/.
Saturday / March 20
Exhibition “Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting
from the Japanese Religious Traditions” The exhibition features works
from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto collection, which is particularly
distinguished by important examples of Buddhist inspired calligraphy and
painting. Included are richly illuminated sutras texts, expressive Zen
Buddhist aphorisms rendered in ink monochrome, portraits of Zen masters
and mandala paintings. This exhibition will be held at Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery. For more information please call 357-2627 or visit www.si.edu.
$ All-Day Seminar “Aberdeen Irish and Scottish Studies”
Cosponsored with the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies,
University of Aberdeen. 10 am to 4:30 pm. The seminar is timed to cap
the week of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. General admission, $140;
members, $95. S. Dillon Ripley Center. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates.
For more information call 357-3030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.
$ Performance “Washington Performing Arts Society Presents
Pittsburgh Symphony” Last presented by Washington Performing Arts
Society in 1984, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) returns for a
concert with Music Director Mariss Jansons and featuring pianist Yefim
Bronfman in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The PSO will perform a program
including Beethoven’s No. 1 Firebird Suite by Stravinsky and Prokofiev’s
Piano Concerto No. 2 joined by Bronfman. Tickets are $25–$75. For
more information please visit www.wpas.org.
Sunday / March 21
Gallery Talk and Reception “Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraiture
and Identity in Photography” Ricardo Viera, along with photographers
Celia Alvarez Munoz, Hector Mendez-Caratini, Luis Mallo, reveal the story
behind the making of the Smithsonian exhibition “Our Journeys/Our
Stories: Portraiture and Identity in Photography.” Participants are
invited to view the exhibit at the National Museum of American History
before or after the presentation. 3 pm. Meet the artists at a wine-and-cheese
reception afterwards. Free event sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates.
For more information call 357-3030 or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.
Monday / March 22
Lecture “Major Alfred Rascon: Medal of Honor Recipient”
Learn how Alfred Rascon, an immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico, finally
received the Medal of Honor from President Clinton after his commendation
was entangled in bureaucratic red tape. 6 pm. Free, in cooperation with
the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives. S. Dillon Ripley Center.
Sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates. For more information call 357-3030
or visit www.smithsonianassociates.org.
Tuesday / March 23
$ Theatre “Elegies: A Song Cycle” The Signature Theatre
presents a new musical by Tony-winner William Finn (Falsettos, A New Brain)
and directed by Joe Calarco. Performances run from March 23 through May
9. Show times Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 pm, Thursday through Saturday
at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm and 7 pm. Tickets are $28–$42 and are
available through Tickets.com at 800/955-5566 or 703/218-6500, the Signature
Theatre Box Office 703/820-9771 or online at www.signature-theatre.org.
Student and senior discounts available through the Signature Theatre Box
Office.
Wednesday / March 24
Book Fair VABook! 2004 Author and writer-host of Public Radio’s
“Prairie Home Companion,” Garrison Keillor, headlines the start
of 10th annual Virginia Festival of the Book (VABook!) March 24 at 8 pm
at the Charlottesville Performing Arts Center. Keillor kicks off the five-day
festival (March 24–28) that also features Booker Prize-winning novelist
Michael Ondaatje (author of “The English Patient,” “Anil’s
Ghost”) and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Michael Chabon (“The
Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”), among others. Admission
is free but seating is limited. The Virginia Festival of the Book, produced
by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, includes five days of literary
events that are free and open to the public in venues around Charlottesville.
For more information, visit www.vabook.org or call 434/924-6890.
Thursday / March 25
GW Spring 2004 Intellectual Property (IP) Workshop Series “Roles
and Rules for Dictionaries in the Patent Office and the Courts.”
Professor Joseph Scott Miller, Lewis & Clark Law School, will offer
the fifth presentation in the IP Workshop Series. Faculty Conference Center
B505, 4 pm.
GW Film “Mostly Martha” (with subtitles) Starring Martina
Gedeck. This film is a part of the Cultural Film Series. Free w/ GWorld
ID. One guest per GWorld. Showing at 7 and 10 pm. Sponsored by the Program
Board.
Theater “Children of Eden” Ford’s Theatre presents
a spectacular musical inspired by the “Book of Genesis,” featuring
beautiful, soaring melodie, humorous lyrics and witty, intelligent dialogue
in a high-energy production that deals with “second chances’
and universal truths about the search for the individual and the importance
of family. Music and lyrics are by five-time Tony Award nominee Stephen
Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin) and book is by two-time Tony Award winner
John Caird (Les Miserables, Nicholas Nickleby). Through June 6. For more
information visit www.fordstheatre.org.
Film “Born Slave” (Mauritania/ Sweden, 2003, 52 min.,
in French and English with English subtitles) will be screened. Secretly
shot by Swedish filmmakers disguised as tourists, “Born Slave”
documents the shocking existence of slavery in contemporary Mauritania.
Boubacar Messaoud, leader of the organization SOS Slave, narrates the
historical and sociological background of slavery in Mauritania. This
program is moderated by Jesse Sage, associate director, the American Anti-Slavery
Association. Presented in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival
in the Nation’s Capitol. This film will also be shown March 28. (S.
Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3111). For more information please call 357-2700.
Saturday / March 27
Exhibition “By Hand in the Electronic Age: Contemporary Tapestry”
This exhibition includes the work of 14 contemporary artists using tapestry
technique, one of the oldest, most versatile textile techniques used to
produce designs and pictures in cloth. Featuring a single work by each
of 12 Hungarian artists, By Hand in the Electronic Age also takes an in-depth
look at two North American artists, Jon Eric Riis and Marcel Marois, to
demonstrate how a tapestry artist, like a painter, develops a style and
themes. Through Sept. 5. For more information please call 667-0441 or
visit www.textilemuseum.org.
Performance “Family Opera Day” The Washington Opera invites
families to explore the classic tale of Cinderella at a free “Family
Opera Day” at The Washington Opera Studio. Inspired by varied renditions
of the famous fairy tale, the company explores Rossini’s comic opera
La Cenerentola and multi-cultural versions of Cinderella, through performances,
workshops and activity centers for parents, children and youth. Tickets
range from $41 to $284. For more information please call 295-2400 or visit
www.dc-opera.org.
Wednesday / March 31
$ Performance “The Washington Ballet Presents the Classic
Ballet Coppélia” The Washington Ballet will delight and amuse
audiences with its presentation of the 19th century ballet comedy “Coppélia.”
Artistic Director Septime Webre stages this comedic classic together with
Charla Genn. Through April 4. Tickets are $29–$67. For more information
please call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org.
Friday / April 2
Exhibition “Right at Home: American Studio Furniture”
These custom-designed pieces range in conception and style from the elegant
furniture of Sam Maloof to the bold, garishly colorful works of Richard
Ford, who is influenced by cartoons. Other artists represented in this
exhibition are Rosanne Sommerson, Alphonse Mattia, Johne Cederquist, Stephen
Courtney and Jenna Goldberg. This exhibition runs through Jan. 17 at the
Smithsonian’s American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery. For more
information please call 357-2700 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
Saturday / April 3
Exhibition “Baseball as America” This marks the first
time that treasures of the National Baseball Hall of Fame will leave their
legendary home in Cooperstown, NY, to tour the country. This exhibition
provides a humorous and dramatic perspective on the game. At the National
Museum of Natural History through Aug. 15. For more information please
contact Michelle Urie at 786-2950.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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