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Oct. 21, 2003
Dateline
GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan Washington
Ongoing Events
GW $ Ski Trip Recreational Sports & Fitness Services
will be sponsoring its Fourth Annual Winter Break Ski & Snowboard
Trip to Quebec City, Canada, from Jan. 3 -10, 2004. Students, faculty
and staff welcome. For more information visit gwired.gwu.edu/gwellness/index.
gw/Site_ID/3/Page_ID/89/.
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. The
exhibition has been extended through Dec. 26. On display are works from
the period of rebirth and rediscovery of Jewish culture and the Hebrew
language in Germany prior to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.
For more information contact Amy Stempler at 994-2675 or E-mail astemp@gwu.edu.
$ Theatre “Topdog/Underdog” The Studio Theatre’s
production of Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play has been
extended for a 10th week. Now playing through Nov. 9. Performance dates
and ticket prices for extension: Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday shows
start at 7:30 pm, and tickets $28, $33 and $36; Friday, 7:30 pm, tickets
$36, $41 and $44; Saturday, 7:30 pm $37, $42 and $45; Saturday and Sunday
matinee starts 2:30 pm, tickets $25, $33 and $36. The Studio Theatre,
1333 P St., NW. For more information call 332-3300, V/TTY 667-8436 or
visit www.studiotheatre.org.
$ Exhibition “Insomnia: Landscapes of the Night” From
peaceful dreams to the realms of nightmare, this exhibition explores the
effects of nightfall on an artist’s perception and imagination. National
Museum for Women in the Arts through Nov. 30. For more information call
783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.
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 installation. Adjacent to the Folger
Exhibition Hall. From 10 am-4 pm, Monday-Saturday, 201 E. Capitol St.,
SE. For more information please visit www.folger.edu.
Exhibition Jewels and Gems: From the Collection This is the third
exhibition in a series that surveys the gallery’s craft collection
by medium. The 100 pieces in the exhibition span the 20th century. Through
Jan. 19. Renwick Gallery. For more information call 275-1595 or visit
www.smithsonian.org
Exhibition “Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust”
During the Holocaust, the Nazis carried out the systematic mass murder
of six million Jews including more than one million children. Thousands
of Jewish children, however, survived this brutal carnage. 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 2004 from 10:30 am-5
pm. 100 Raol Wallenberg Place, SW. For more information call 488-6133
or ahollinger@ushmm.org.
Exhibition “The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective
1962–2002” A major American artist in metal, Ebendorf uses found
materials — crab claws, sea glass, plastic, paper — and recycles
industrially-produced objects — keys, buttons, beer bottle caps,
washers, wire mesh, tubing — to create jewelry. Renwick Gallery,
through Jan. 19. For more information call 275-1595 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
Exhibition “Faith and Form: Selected Calligraphy and Painting
from Japanese Religious Traditions” The exhibition features works
from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto collection, which contains examples
of Buddhist inspired calligraphy and painting. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
through Feb. 8. For more information contact 357-4880, ext .219, or visit
www.smithsonian.org.
$ Theater “The Grapes of Wrath” Frank Galat’s Tony
Award-winning adaptation of Steinbeck’s classic presents a stark,
powerful portrait of hard times USA during the Great Depression as an
American family struggles to maintain its dignity in the face of grinding
poverty. Steinbeck’s classic saga tracks the Joad family as it suffers
hardship after hardship in the dust bowl of Oklahoma and in degrading
fields and migrant labor camps in California, where they had hoped to
find their “promised land.” Through Nov. 15. For more information
call 638-0896 or www.fordstheatre.org.
Tuesday / Oct. 21
MV Event “On Location” with Center for Alcohol and Drug
Education (CADE) Meet with representatives from CADE and find out about
many of the resources at your fingertips. Mount Vernon Pub and Grill,
noon-1 pm. Sponsored by the Student Development Center. For more information
call 242-6673 or E-mail sdc@gwu.edu.
GW FilmFest “The 2003 Common Ground Film Festival Opening
Night: Gacaca, Living Together Again in Rwanda?” Film focuses on
the balance between vengeance and forgiveness and how to achieve mass
justice for mass crimes. Discussion and audience Q&A to follow screening.
Featured speakers include Harvey Feigenbaum, associate dean and professor
of political science and international affairs, ESIA; Ambassador David
Shinn, adjunct professor, ESIA; Shamil Idriss, chief operating officer,
Search for Common Ground. 7-9 pm, Lindner Family Commons, 1957 E St.,
NW, room 602. Sponsored by: the Elliott School of International Affairs
and Search for Common Ground. RSVP to rsvpesia@gwu.edu or call 994-4876. For
a complete film festival schedule, visit www.gwu.edu/~elliott/news/calendar.
GW Lecture “Africa’s HIV/AIDS Pandemic: What Does the
Future Hold?” Debrework Zewdie, director, Global Program for HIV/AIDS,
The World Bank. 6:15-7:45 pm, 1957 E St., NW, room 213. Sponsored by The
Organization for International Development, the World Bank and GW’s
Center for Global Health. For more information E-mail Ren Sankaran, ranjani@gwu.edu.
GW $ Performance Ballet Boyz Presented by Washington Performing
Arts Society. 7:30pm Lisner Auditorium. Tickets $30–$20; GW students
20 percent off. For more information call 994-6800 or visit www.gwu.edu/~lisner/.
MV Event Karaoke! Show off your stuff at the Karaoke Coffeehouse.
Free Espresso Bar! Mount Vernon Pub and Grill from 8-10 pm. Co-sponsored
by the Programming Council, CADE, and the Living and Learning Initiative.
For more information call 242-6673 or E-mail pcgwmvc@gwu.edu.
GW Sports Volleyball vs George Mason 7 pm, Smith Center.
Wednesday / Oct. 22
FilmFest “Washington, Italia 2003 Film and Music Festival”
Featuring films by Roberto Benigni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Sordi, and
among others. “Life is Beautiful” Star Roberto Benigni to receive
October Honors in Washington from National Italian-American Foundation
and Washington, Italia Film Festival 2003 at its 28th anniversary gala
on Oct. 25. Past recipients include Robert De Niro (2002), Frank Sinatra,
Al Pacino and Sylvester Stallone, among others. Through Oct. 26., daily
screenings at 3 pm, 5 pm, 7 pm and 9 pm — Admission is free. For
more information call 667-0090 or visit www.visionsdc.com.
Thursday / Oct. 23
GW Lecture “The Gulag: What We Know and Why It Matters”
Washington Post columnist and author of “The Gulag: A History,”
Anne Applebaum, visits Voesar Conference Room, 1957 E St., NW, Suite 412,
12:30-2 pm. Sponsored by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian
Studies. RSVP by Oct. 22 to Vedrana Hadzialic at ieresvh@gwu.edu or call
994-6342.
GW FilmFest “The 2003 Common Ground Film Festival: A Child’s
Century of War” A look at the issue of child soldiers and the ways
in which modern conflicts target and impact children. Speakers: Jo Spear,
director, Foreign Policy Institute, ESIA, and Michael Shipler, director
of youth programs, Search for Common Ground. 7 pm, Lindner Family Commons,
1957 E St., NW, room 602. Sponsored by the Elliott School of International
Affairs and Search for Common Ground. RSVP to rsvpesia@gwu.edu or call
994-4876. For a complete film festival schedule, visit www.gwu.edu/~elliott/news/calendar.
Friday / Oct. 24
GW Sports Women’s Soccer vs Saint Joseph’s 3 pm, Mount
Vernon Athletic Complex.
GW Lecture “Weber Grilled: Rethinking State Capacity and Rent
Seeking in the Developmental State Debate” with Herman Schwartz,
professor of politics, the University of Virginia, 12:30-2 pm. Voesar
Conference Room, 1957 E St., NW, Suite 412. Sponsored by: the Institute
for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies. RSVP by Oct. 23 to Vedrana
Hadzialic at ieresvh@gwu.edu or call 994-6342.
GW Conference The 32nd Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Region
Association for Asian Studies: Mobile Global Asia. The conference will
feature panels on various topics including history, technology, politics,
art, music and religion. Through Oct. 26. 1957 E St., NW. Sponsored by:
the Sigur Center for Asian Studies. For more information visit www.maraas.org.
$ Exhibition Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business
Over 40 women entrepreneurs from the colonial era to the end of the 20th
century including salon founder Elizabeth Arden, professional artist Sarah
Miriam Peale, and media mogul Oprah Winfrey, will be represented by over
200 documents, photographs, audio recordings and interactive displays
that celebrate America’s most successful businesswomen. Through Feb.
29, 2004. 1250 New York Ave, NW. Admission $5 for adults, $3 students/people
60 and over, free for NMWA members/youth 18 and under. For more information
please call 783-5000 or visit www.media.nmwa.org.
$ Concert “Ghazal” Featuring Indian sitar master Shujaat
Husain Khan, Iranian Kamancheh (spike fiddle) musician Kayhan Kalhor and
Indian tabla virtuoso Sandeep Das, Ghazal celebrates the differences as
well as the similarities in traditional Iranian and Indian styles.Tickets:
$40, $35, $30, $25. GW students $15. Presented by GW’s Lisner Auditorium.
For more information call 994-6400 or visit www.gwu.edu/~lisner.
Saturday / Oct. 25
GW Colloquium “The Hahn Moo-Sook Colloquium in the Korean
Humanities: One Hundred Years of Korean American Literature” with
Korean American Writers: Elaine Kim, Nora Okja Keller, Heinz Insu Fenkl,
and Don Lee. Discussants include Patricia Pei-Chang Chu, associate professor
of English, CCAS; You-me Park, adjunct assistant professor of English,
Georgetown University. 9:30 am- 4:30 pm. 1957 E St., NW, room B12. Sponsored
by Smithsonian Institution’s Asian Pacific American Program (APAP),
the National Museum of American History, Behring Center, to commemorate
the centennial of Korean immigration, and is partly sponsored by the Elliott
School’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies. RSVP to Young-Key Kim-Renaud,
professor of Korean language and culture and international affairs, CCAS/ESIA,
at 994-7106 or by E-mail to korea@gwu.edu. For more information on the
colloquium, visit www.gwu.edu/%7Eeall/special/
HMS2003.htm.
Book Sale Bookfair 2003 sponsored by associates of the American
Foreign Service Worldwide. Also Oct. 26 (books half price on day two).
Featured at the 43rd annual sale will be used books, art, stamps, coins
and collectables. US State Department, C Street entrance, 10 am-4 pm.
$ Theater “All’s Well That Ends Well” The complex
and dark comedy explores the obsessive love of Helena, one of Shakespeare’s
most resourceful heroines. After being refused by Bertram, Helena goes
to great lengths to secure his hand and their future together. Against
the atmospheric backdrop of 19th-century France, this production juxtaposes
true merit against aristocratic snobbery, female friendship against male
arrogance. Folger Shakespeare Library located at 201 East Capitol St.,
SE. Performances: Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 pm; Friday and Saturday
evenings at 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 pm. Tickets: Tuesday,
Thursday and Sunday evenings: $30-38, weekend matinees: $35-43, Friday
and Saturday evenings: $40-48. Previews: $25-33. For more information
please visit www.folger.edu.
$ Concert Joan Baez 8 pm Tickets: $45, $35. GW students: $36, $28
available at the Lisner Auditorium Box Office, TicketMaster Outlets and
PhoneCharge 301/808-6900.
Sunday / Oct. 26
Daylight Savings Time ends, set clocks back one hour
GW Sports Women’s Soccer vs Temple 1 pm, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
Exhibition New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art
A diversity of contemporary issues reflecting the ever changing technology
of art will be explored in this show. Mixed media sculptor Jerome Meadows
and other artists place unique creative stamps on their ideas through
innovative video constructions, found and modeled objects, and computer-generated
images. Through Dec. 31. For more information please contact Fleur Paysour
at 610-3290.
Concert “The President’s Own” Marine Chamber Ensembles,
2 pm, at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial Auditorium in
Alexandria, VA. Marine Chamber Ensemble concerts are free and tickets
are not required. For more information, call 703/683-2007, 433-4011 (24-hour
concert information) or visit www.marineband.usmc.mil.
Performance European Union Chamber Orchestra Featuring American
violin virtuoso Janice Martin The internationally-acclaimed musical ambassador
for the European Union, the EU Chamber Orchestra is comprised of the finest
young string players from all over Europe. The concert features works
by Mozart, Elgar, Haydn and Tchaikovsky under the direction of German
violinist Matthias Wollong. Tickets free but required. For more information
call 994-6800.
Monday / Oct. 27
$ Exhibition Passionate Observer: Photographs by Eudora Welty Mississippi
icon Eudora Welty (1909-2001) captured her beloved Southern surroundings
in photographs as well as words. The 50 black-and-white photographs from
the 1930s featured in this exhibition reveal the courage and dignity of
her subjects. Through Feb. 29, 2004. Admission $5 for adults, $3 for students/
people 60 and over, free for NMWA members/youth 18 and under. 1250 New
York Ave., NW. For more information call 783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.
$ Concert Jackson Browne, 8 pm. Tickets: $38.50 available at the
Lisner Auditorium Box Office, TicketMaster Outlets and PhoneCharge 301/808-6900.
GW students: limited discount tickets available at the Lisner Box Office.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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