Dateline for April 2 — 16, 2002

ONGOING EVENTS
GW Exhibition “Showcasing Africana: Treasures from the Special Collections Department of Gelman Library” and “Lost in the City: An African American Perspective of the Nation’s Capital” in the Special Collections Department, Suite 207 at the Gelman Library, (2130 H Street, NW) through May 17. Hours: 9 am to 5 pm. Monday through Friday. Free, with photo ID required for entrance. Call 994-1363 for more information.

$ Exhibition “Skyscrapers: The New Millennium” at The Octagon Museum through April 28. The exhibition examines more than 30 high-rise buildings that have been completed in the past five or six years. Admission is $5, $3 for students and seniors. Call 638-3105 for more information.

Exhibition “Corridos sin Fronteras: A New World Ballad Tradition” will be on display through April 28 at the Arts and Industries Building. This music-based exhibition recreates the historical development of the ballad over the past 200 years. Call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu for more information.

Exhibition “Making the Grade: African Arts of Initiation” at the National Museum of African Art through May 5. Displays of the diversity of arts associated with coming-of-age rituals. Free. For more information, call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu.

$ Theatre “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” starring Rick Hemmerly reprising the role of the internationally ignored songstress. Signature Theatre through May 5. Tickets cost $28 and $30. Call 703/218-6500 or visit www.sig-online.org for tickets and more information.

$ Exhibition “Corot to Picasso: European Masterworks” at The Phillips Collection (1600 21st St., NW) through May 12. Nearly 60 European paintings and sculptures will be on display from masters such as Seurat, Gauguin, Courbet, Mondrian, and Monet. Admission is $10 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens. For more information, call 387-2151 or visit www.phillipscollection.org.

Exhibition “Places of Their Own: Emily Carr, Georgia O’Keefe, and Frida Kahlo” will be on display through May 12 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Free admission. For information call 783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.

$ Theater “Romeo & Juliet” at the Shakespeare Theatre through May 19. Call 547-1122 or visit www.shakespearedc.org for tickets and performance times.

Exhibition “Peter Rabbit’s Garden” will be on display until May at the National Museum of Natural History, marking the 100th anniversary of The Tale of Peter Rabbit. Call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu for more information.

Exhibition “Portraits of America: 40 Years of Photographing Americans” Presented through May 27 at the National Geographic Society. For information call 857-7588 or visit www.nationalgeogrpahic.com.

Exhibition The Vogel Collection Works from the 40-year span of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s careers. Through June 23 at the National Gallery of Art. Free. Call 737-4215 or visit www.nga.gov.

Exhibition “Technology as Catalyst: Textile Artists on the Cutting Edge” at the Textile Museum through July 28. The exhibit explores the interconnected role of hi-tech equipment and handwork in the creation of textiles. For more information, call 667-0441 or visit www.textilemuseum.org.

Exhibition “Year of the Horse: Chinese Horse Paintings” will be on display until Sept. 2 at the Freer Gallery of Art. These rarely seen works on silk and paper date from the 14th to the 19th century. Call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu for more information.

Exhibition “Precious Memories: The Collectors’ Passion” at the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture through Sept. 30. The exhibit explores the work of seven cultural historians who have emerged as major collectors of African-American art, memorabilia, and archival objects offering insight into the black experience in America.

Exhibition “On Track: Transit and the American City” on view through Oct. 27 at the National Building Museum. Explore the spatial, political, technological, and human dimensions of rail transit’s relationship to cities. For more information, call 272-2448 or visit www.nbm.org.

Exhibition “From Monastery to Marketplace: Tradition Inspired Modern Ethiopian Painting” will be on display until January 2003 at the National Museum of Natural History. Call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu for more information.

Exhibition “Slates, Slide Rules, and Software: Teaching Math in America” is on display at the National Museum of American History. Call 357-2700 or visit www.si.edu for more information.

Exhibition “The Underwater Web: Cabling the Seas” is on display at the National Museum of American History. Call 357-2700 or visit www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/Underwater-Web/ for more information.

TUESDAY / APRIL 2
GW Forum “Can Globalization Have a Positive Effect on Global Poverty?” sponsored by GW’s Center for the Study of Globalization beginning at 4:30 pm in the Marvin Center Amphitheater. Visit www.gwu.edu/~gwcsg for more information.

$ Theater “Death of a Salesman” at Weinberg Center for the Arts, 7:30 pm. For information call 301/228-2828 or visit www.weinberger.org.

$ Concert The Washington Opera with Placido Domingo and Eugene Kohn conducting Verdi’s “A Masked Ball,” where illicit passion ends with the governor’s assassination in one of the master’s grandest (and most censored) operas. At the Kennedy Center through April 20. Tickets range from $41 to $255. Call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org for event dates and tickets.

$ Theater “Surface Transit” presented by the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through April 21 at the Kennedy Center. Embodying eight vivid characters, among them an Italian cop, a rap artist addicted to rhyming, and a chain-smoking Jewish grandmother, award-winning poet and actor Sarah Jones is streetwise, hip, and loaded with attitude. For tickets and performance times, call 393-3939 or visit www.woollymammoth.net.

$ Event “A Celebration of the Sonnet” sponsored by the Folger Shakespeare Library beginning at 7:30 pm at the library. Launch this season of song and Shakespeare’s birthday with a celebration of the sonnet, co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America in honor of April as National Poetry Month. Cost is $10. Call 675-0344 or visit www.folger.edu for more information.

WEDNESDAY / APRIL 3
GW Lecture “The European Union and the Road to a Common Immigration Policy” sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs beginning at 12:15 pm. Giampaolo Cantini, first counselor from the Embassy of Italy, will make his presentation in Stuart Hall 103. Call 994-1667 for more information.

GW Lecture “The Broadband Policy Challenge” beginning at noon in Marvin Center 308. W. Russell Neuman, senior policy analyst in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will present. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Pete Van Riper at 994-6662.

Concert Free Jazz at the Corcoran Every Wednesday beginning at 12:30 pm, join premier jazz musicians as they perform for free in the Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Call 639-1700 for more information.

GW Sports Baseball versus Howard at 3 pm at Barcroft Park in Arlington.

THURSDAY / APRIL 4
GW Lecture “East Timor, Human Rights, and a New Nation” sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs beginning at 12:30 pm. Aboeprojadi (Tossi) Santoso, a journalist for the Indonesian weekly Editor, will make his presentation in Stuart Hall 301. This event requires an RSVP. Please contact gsigur@gwu.edu.

FRIDAY / APRIL 5
GW Sports Men’s and Women’s Tennis versus Xavier at 1 and 4 pm, respectively, at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex.

$ Event “The Art of Salsa” A fascinating and informative look at one of America’s hottest music and dance styles with Salsa historian Eileen Torres at the National Geographic Society, 7:30pm. Admission $25; $20 members. For information call 857-7700.

SATURDAY / APRIL 6
GW Sports Men’s Tennis versus St. Bonaventure at noon at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex.

GW Sports Baseball versus Fordham at noon at Barcroft Park in Arlington.

GW Sports Women’s Tennis versus Duquesne at 4 pm at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex.

SUNDAY / APRIL 7
Daylight Savings time, set clocks forward one hour

GW Sports Lacrosse versus Temple at noon at the Mount Vernon Athletic Complex.

GW Sports Baseball versus Fordham at noon at Barcroft Park in Arlington.

Gallery Talk “Distinguished Craft Artist Series” Wood Turning since 1930 artist Stoney Lamar presents a slide-illustrated lecture about his work. Talk starts at 3 pm at the Renwick Grand Salon. For information, call 357-2531.

MONDAY / APRIL 8
GW Lecture “The Politics of the Internet in China” sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies beginning at 12:30 pm in Stuart Hall 103. Eric Harwit from the University of Hawaii will give the lecture.

GW Event Nikolay Novoselov Memorial Forum on US-Russia Relations beginning at 6 pm at the Marvin Center Amphitheater. Panelists will discuss the changing US-Russia relations after Sept. 11. Among the participants are Ambassador Yuriy Ushakov of the Embassy of Russian Federation; GW Shapiro Professor Leon Fuerth; and Eugene Lawson, president of the US-Russia Business Council.

WEDNESDAY / APRIL 10
GW Sports Baseball versus Norfolk State at 3 pm at Barcroft Park in Arlington.

Lecture “After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout” Lt. Col. Carafano, executive editor of Joint Force Quarterly, will provide a step-by-step analysis of Operation Cobra. Noon and 7 pm at the National Archives. Reserve a seat by calling 208-7345.

Concert Free Jazz at the Corcoran Every Wednesday beginning at 12:30 pm, join premier jazz musicians as they perform for free in the Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Call 639-1700 for more information.

THURSDAY / APRIL 11
GW Event 2002 Student Awards Ceremony at Marvin Center 310 beginning at 10:30 am. The outstanding student employees and cooperative education students are recognized each year during this ceremony. RSVP to 994-6434 or jseile@gwu.edu.

$ GW Theatre “One Flee Spare,” kindness and cruelty in 17th century England. April 11–14. Contact the Department of Theatre and Dance at 994-6178 for more information about subscriptions, performance locations and times.

$ Event “Great NBC TV Moments” NBC celebrates its 75th anniversary reminiscing about the network’s history beginning at 6 pm. Hosted by Bob Wright (CEO) and Tim Russert. Tickets cost $11–$15. For more information, call 357-3030 or visit www.ResidentAssociates.org.

$ Event “An Evening with Jane Goodall” Join one of the science world’s most legendary and beloved figures, Jane Goodall, for a discussion on the need to conserve Earth’s precious natural resources. Sponsored by the National Geographic Society. Tickets are $10–$50. Call 432-SEAT for more information.

Gallery Talk “Take a Break at the Renwick” Renwick Gallery exhibition specialist James Baxter gives a behind-the-scenes tour of museum furniture construction. Talk starts at 1 pm at the Renwick lobby. For information, call 357-2531.

FRIDAY / APRIL 12
GW Event “Chalk In” sponsored by the University Counseling Center from 9 am to 5 pm on H Street, between Kogan Plaza and the Marvin Center. Express your creativity and relieve stress at this annual event. Call 994-5300 for more information.

SATURDAY / APRIL 13
GW Sports Rowing hosts the GW Invitational Crew Classic all day on the Potomac River.

MONDAY / APRIL 15
GW Lecture “December 7 and September 11: Rethinking Culture and the Clash of Civilizations” sponsored by the Elliott School of International Affairs beginning at 5:30 pm. John Dower, the Elting E. Morison Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will make his presentation in Marvin Center 307. Call 994-1667 for more information.

TUESDAY / APRIL 16
GW Sports Baseball versus Georgetown at 3 pm at Barcroft Park in Arlington.

GW Lecture SMPA Shapiro Seminar with Peter Hannaford beginning at 6 pm at the Marvin Center Amphitheater. Visit www.gwu.edu/~smpa for additional information.

$ Concert The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. For tickets and information call 467-4600 or visit www.kennedy-center.org.