Nov. 4, 2003
Dateline
GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan Washington
Ongoing Events
GW Exhibition The Smithsonian traveling exhibition Hannelore
Baron: Works from 1969 to 1987 at The George Washington University
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery through Nov. 14. This marks one of eight stops
of Barons artwork as it travels on a national tour through March
2004. Includes approximately 40 collages and five box assemblages presented
along with quotes from Baron regarding her artistic inspirations and creative
processes. Free and open to the public. Media and Public Affairs Building
2nd floor, 805 21st Street, NW. For more information visit www.gwu.edu/~bradyart/.
$ Theater The Grapes of Wrath Frank Galats Tony
Award-winning adaptation of Steinbecks 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. Through Nov. 15. For more information call 638-0896 or www.fordstheatre.org.
GW $ Ski Trip Recreational Sports & Fitness Services will be
sponsoring its Fourth Annual Winter Break Ski & Snowboard Trip to
Quebec City, Canada, from Jan. 310. Students, faculty and staff
welcome. For more information visit gwired.gwu.edu/gwellness.
$ Exhibition Insomnia: Landscapes of the Night From
peaceful dreams to the realms of nightmare, this exhibition explores the
effects of nightfall on an artists perception and imagination. National
Museum for Women in the Arts through Nov. 30. For more information call
783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.
$ Performance A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum
With Floyd King in the role of Pseudolus. Running through Dec. 14. Tuesday
and Wednesday at 7:30 pm; Thursday and Saturday at 8 pm; and Sunday at
2 pm and 7 pm. Signature Theatre, 3806 S. Four Mile Run Drive, Arlington.
Tickets $28$42 and are available by calling 800/955-5566. Tickets
and information are available at 703/218-6500 or visit www.signature-theatre.org.
$ Performance The Brothers Karamazov Sponsored by the
Ambassador of the Russian Federation through Dec. 21 at the Stanislavsky
Theater Studio, 1742 Church St., NW. Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8 pm;
Sunday at 3 pm. Tickets $20-$36. Call 265-3767 or visit www.sts-online.org.
GW Exhibition Treasures from the Jewish Cultural Renaissance
in Germany, 1898-1939. The Kiev Judaica Collection hosts an exhibition
of some of the most significant works from the German Jewish Cultural
Renaissance, 18981939, in GWs Gelman Library, room 710, through
Dec. 26. For more information contact Amy Stempler at 994-2675 or E-mail
astemp@gwu.edu.
$ 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 Americas most successful businesswomen. Through Feb.
29. 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
call 783-5000 or visit www.media.nmwa.org.
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 2004 from 10:30 am-5 pm. For more information call 488-6133 or ahollinger@ushmm.org.
Tuesday / Nov. 4
Election Day
Wednesday / Nov. 5
Book Signing Meet the Authors Professors Cynthia Lee
and Robert Cottrol discuss recently published books: Murder and
The Reasonable Man (Lee) and Brown v. Board of Education
(Cottrol). Sponsored by the GW Law School. Free event. Burns Faculty Conference
Center. More information call Paul Fucito at 994-0616 or pfucito@law.gwu.edu.
GW Event Loudouns Young Artist Recognition Reception Meet
Loudouns young artists and admire their work at a community-wide
reception from 6-8 pm in the Gallery of Academic Building 1. Call 703/726-3654
for reservations and information.
$ Film Celebrating Native American Films True Whispers
(90 min., 2002, USA). Directed, produced and written by Valerie Red-Horse.
Co-sponsored with the National Museum of the American Indian. General
admission $13, resident associate members $10, senior associate members
and full-time students $9. For tickets and information call 357-3030 or
visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Lecture John Keegan on Military Intelligence This
military historian discusses a series of historical wartime events spanning
the centuries from Nelsons pursuit of the French fleet to Stonewall
Jacksons Shenandoah campaign, World War I German sea raiders and
the Pacific naval battle of Midway Island. He assesses the efficacy of
military intelligence. 8 pm. Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural
History. General admission $15, members $12. For tickets and information
call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org
Thursday / Nov. 6
GW Film Elliott School of International Affairs Film Festival
concludes at 7 pm with two documentaries. Unexpected Openings: Northern
Irelands Prisoners tells of Catholic and Protestant men imprisoned
for murder who later became Northern Irelands hidden resource in
the peace process. Then, Unlikely Friendship shows a civil
rights activist and a KKK member in 1960s North Carolina. Lindner
Commons, 1957 E St., Room 602.
GW Musical The Apple Tree includes three one-act musicals
that explore love from different angles, but center around men, women
and a little thing called temptation. Nov. 6-8 at 7:30 pm; Nov. 9 at 2
pm. Betts Marvin Theatre. $12 general admission, $8 GW students. Tickets
are available at www.gwu.edu/~theatre or by calling 994-6178. Sponsored
by the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Saturday / Nov. 8
$ Gallery Talk Marjorie Merriweather Post's Wedding Trousseau
Textile curator Howard Kurtz discusses The Wedding Trousseau,
the current display of turn-of-the-century fashions Mrs. Post assembled
for her 1905 wedding to Edward Bennett Close. Lecture is included in the
estate reservation fee: $12 public, $10 seniors, $7 students, $5 children.
11 am. For more information call 1-877/HILLWOOD or visit www.hillwoodmuseum.org.
$ Lecture St. Petersburg's English Gardens Priscilla Roosevelt,
author of several books about Russia, including Life on the Russian
Country Estate: A Social and Cultural History, continues Hillwoods
year-long celebration of St. Petersburg's tercentenary with a talk about
the city's English gardens. Lecture is included in the estate reservation
fee: $12 public, $10 seniors, $7 students, $5 children. 2 pm. For more
information call 1-877/HILLWOOD or visit www.hillwoodmuseum.org.
GW Sports Mens Basketball vs. Universal
All-Stars (Exhibition) 7:30 pm, Smith Center.
Sunday / Nov. 9
GW Film Central Station sponsored by Gelman Library
and the Office of Study Abroad. A young boy and an old woman bond during
a road trip in search of the boys father. Portuguese with English
subtitles. 7:30 pm, Gelman Library. For more information, call 994-0570.
GW $ Concert Rickie Lee Jones GWs Lisner Auditorium presents
Jones, live in concert at 8 pm. Tickets, $30 general admission, $15 for
GW students, are available at the Lisner Auditorium Box Office, all TicketMaster
locations, and online at www.ticketmaster.com.
Monday / Nov. 10
GW Lecture Anthropology of Narcotrafficking Speaker includes Mark Edberg
of GWs departments of public health and anthropology. 12:30 pm,
Hortense Amsterdam House, 2110 G St. For more information call the Department
of Anthropology at 994-6075 or E-mail: anth@gwu.edu.
Tuesday / Nov. 11
Veterans Day
Today in History: 1954: Nov. 11 was designated Veterans Day to
honor veterans of all US wars.
GW Celebration Iftar Celebrate the breaking of the fast for Ramadan.
Marvin Center Grand Ballroom, 4 pm. Free event, tickets required. Co-sponsored
by the Program Board, Muslim Student Association and Jewish Student Association.
For more information call 994-7313.
Wednesday / Nov. 12
$ Panel BBC Now! Emerging as a shining star among news networks,
the BBC is meeting its goal of communicating the news to a worldwide audience.
Veteran journalist Frank Sesno moderates a panel discussion with seasoned
BBC journalists. 6:30 pm, Ring Auditorium, National Museum of Natural
History, 10th & Constitution, NW. General admission $25. For tickets
and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
GW Sports Volleyball vs Maryland Eastern Shore 7 pm, Smith Center.
Thursday / Nov. 13
GW Concert The Student Choice Concert sponsored by the GW Band
at Lisner Auditorium. Featuring Festive Overture by Shostakovich
and music from the motion picture Lord of the Rings. Free,
6 pm. For more information, visit www.lisner.org.
GW Sports Womens Basketball vs Tennessee Fury (Exhibition)
7 pm, Smith Center.
Friday / Nov. 14
GW Sports Volleyball vs La Salle 7 pm, Smith Center.
GW Performance Faculty Artist Series featuring Lori Barnet, associate
professorial lecturer in music and Philip Hosford, founder and director
of the Academy of Music in Montgomery County. Presented by the Department
of Music. Free, 7:30 pm, Mount Vernon Campus Hand Chapel.
Exhibition A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait
Gallery Seventy-five paintings of Americans, including works by some of
the most important portrait painters the nation has produced, are on view.
The portraits reflect the range of the gallerys collection. Through
Feb. 8. For more information please call 357-2700 or visit www.smithsonian.org
Saturday / Nov. 15
GW Sports Volleyball vs Temple 5 pm, Smith Center.
Sunday / Nov. 16
GW Film The Bench sponsored by Gelman Library and Royal
Danish Embassy. An alcoholic pensioner is reunited with a
woman claiming to be his daughter. Danish with English subtitles. 7:30
pm, Gelman Library. For more information, call 994-0570.
Monday / Nov. 17
$ Lecture Advertrocities Advertisements come in good,
bad and ugly. Bob Garfield, opinionated co-host of NPRs On
the Media, analyzes the worst television advertising ever made and
tells how such commercials ever saw the light of day. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr., SW. General admission $20. For tickets and
information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Tuesday / Nov. 18
GW Lecture Ambassador of Sweden Jan Eliasson will present Perspectives
on the Euro, the UN, and the US. 4 pm, Lindner Commons, 1957 E St.,
Room 602. RSVP to rsvpesia@gwu.edu.
GW Lecture The Case for a Right to Housing in the United
States Chester Hartman will discuss the 50-year-old Congressionally
promulgated National Housing Goal, as well as issues of priorities and
values, notions of social, civil, and economic rights and ways to establish
a true right to decent, affordable housing. Sponsored by the Department
of Sociology. Marvin Center 403, 6:308 pm. The event is open to
the public. For more information call 994-6345.
$ Lecture World War IIs Flyboys In September,
1944, eight American pilots were shot down over Chichi Jima. They were
flyboys the young men who took the American military
into the air and made it triumphant. Historian James Bradley has now uncovered
the truth of what happened to the seven prisoners, including George H.
W. Bush. 8 pm, Ring Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 10th
& Constitution, NW. General admission $20. For tickets and information
call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Wednesday / Nov. 19
GW Lecture Department of Geography Speaker Series featuring Timothy
Beach of Georgetown University discussing the geoarchaeology of Eastern
Mediterranean Turkey. 12:30 pm, 1957 E St., Suite 512B. For more information
call the Department of Geography at 994-6158.
GW Lecture American Power and the Crisis of International
Legitimacy presented by Robert Kagan, senior associate, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace. 6 pm, 1957 E St., Room 213. RSVP to
rsvpesia@gwu.edu.
$ Lecture The Role of Consultants in American Politics
Some of Americas finest Democratic and Republican political consultants
debate their role and their effect on our democratic institutions. 6:30
pm, S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr., NW. General admission
$30. For tickets and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Thursday / Nov. 20
$ Performance National Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin
at the Kennedy Center, 7 pm. Nov. 21-22 at 8 pm. Tickets $20-$75. Call
467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org for tickets and information.
Saturday / Nov. 22
Today in History: 1963: President John F. Kennedy was shot as he
rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, TX.
$ Theater A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens A
Christmas Carol returns to Fords Theatre ushering in the holiday
season with David H. Bellss spirited adaptation of the Dickens classic.
Through Dec. 31. For more information call 638-0896 or visit www.fordstheatre.org.
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