Dateline
GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan
Washington
ONGOING EVENTS
Exhibition Laying the Foundation
for Liberty, through June 1 at The Octagon relates the saga of
the pedestals design and construction featuring the stories of
the many individuals involved in the complex process of bringing the
Statue of Liberty from France. For more information please call 626-7369.
Exhibition The Path to the Presidency Princeton University
and the Woodrow Wilson House Museum celebrate the centennial of Woodrow
Wilsons appointment as president of Princeton in an exhibit on
view at the Wilson House Museum through March 23. For more information
please call 387-4062.
Exhibition Whistler in Venice: The Pastels on view
at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art through June 15. Whistler
in Venice is the first of three separate Whistler exhibitions
to be held at the Freer during 2003, which marks the centennial of the
artists death. The show highlights 14 unusually beautiful and
rare examples of these works, along with etchings and a watercolor.
For more information please call 357-2700.
Exhibition Tobacco: Architectural Photographs on
view at The Octagon AIA Headquarters Gallery through May 2. Acclaimed
architectural photographer Maxwell MacKenzie returns to the AIA Headquarters
Gallery with a spectacular new series of color and black and white photographs
documenting the diminishing tobacco barn. For more information please
call 626-7369 or visit wwiener@theoctagon.org
Exhibition An Imperial Collection This exhibition
of 49 sculptures, oil paintings, and watercolors, many rarely viewed
outside Russia or Europe, illustrates how women as painters and patrons
were major contributors to Russian imperial, social, and cultural history.
On display through June 18 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
For more information please call 783-5000.
Exhibition Teapots and Tea Tastings This exhibition
features 100 teapots spanning the 18th and 19th centuries from the collection
of the Norwich Castle Museum in England, plus the worlds largest
teapot, made around 1851 for the Crystal Palace Exposition in London.
The US Botanic Garden, in conjunction with the National Museum of Natural
History will host Traditions in Elegance: 100 Teapots from the
Norwich Castle Museum in the East Gallery of the Conservatory,
through March 30. For more information please call 226-4082.
Exhibition Auto Focus: Raghubirs Way Into India
runs through Aug. 10, presents 50 photographs of Indian landscape by
the late Raghubir. These images are viewed from, framed by, or reflected
in the mirrors of the Ambassador car. For tickets and information, call
The Smithsonian Associates at 357-3030 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
$ Theater 1776 The Tony Award winning red, white,
and blue music-filled history lesson will be at Fords Theatre
through June 1. Tickets are $29-$45. For more information call 347-4833.
$ Exhibition The Splendors of Russia: Celebrating 300 Years
of St. Petersburg The series features such topics as Russian art,
music, ballet, opera, cuisine, architecture, history, film, and literature.
Sponsored by the Smithsonian Associates through March 31. For more information
call 357-3030.
Wednesday / March 19
GW Sports Baseball vs Norfolk State 2:30 pm, Barcroft Park.
Thursday / March 20
Documentary Film Art 21 (2001), noon at the Hirshhorn
Museum. Each episode focuses on a theme: place, spirituality, identity
and consumption. Additional episodes will be screened on April 3 and
April 10. Orientation Room. For more information call 357-2700 or visit
www.hirshhorn.si.edu/.
Film Black Maria Film Festival 2003 (Part One) Festival
director John Columbus introduces this program of award-winning work
from one of the most important short film showcases in the United States.
8 pm, Ring Auditorium. Also March 21 at 8 pm. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden. For more information call 357-2700 or visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu.
Friday / March 21
Spring Begins
GW Competition GW/KPMG MBA Case Competition MBA students from
local, national, and international business schools meet in competition
to analyze a current situation facing a nonprofit organization and present
solutions that draw on the organizations assets. Competition concludes
March 22. At the Washington, Marriott. For more information E-mail Kristen
Booth at casecomp@gwu.edu.
$ Reading PEN/Faulkner 200203 Readings Ann Patchett &
Richard Powers, 8 pm. All readings are followed by a reception and book
sale in the Folgers Great Hall. Seating in the theatre and church
is unreserved, with doors opening 30 minutes before event time. Tickets
are $15. For ticket information call the Folger Box Office at 544-7077
or visit www.folger.edu.
Saturday / March 22
GW Sports Womens Lacrosse vs Le Moyne 1 pm, GW-Mount Vernon
Athletic Complex.
Event How to Receive Free Money to Buy Your Home
A free workshop on how to use the nonprofit Nehemiah Gift Program
to become a homeowner will be held at: Annandale Library, 7001 Little
River Turnpike, Annandale, VA, from 35 pm. Seating is limited,
reservations are required. For more information call 800/362-3878, code
4164.
Childrens Program Young at Art Family Program: Who
Painted All These Blurry Pictures? Hunt for out-of-focus art with
storyteller Judith Gravitz, then make special blurry glasses. For children
ages 69, accompanied by adults. From 10 amnoon. Preregistration
required. E-mail education@hmsg.si.edu or call 357-3235, ext. 116. Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden. For more information visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu.
Sunday / March 23
GW Sports Womens Lacrosse vs Saint Josephs 1 pm,
GW-Mount Vernon Athletic Complex.
Lecture Gerhard Richters Photography: Documentation
and Metaphor Philip Brookman, senior curator of photography and
media arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, examines Richters use
of photography in the context of his painting and interest in documentation
and media images. Brookman will also discuss the relationship of the
painters work to that of other contemporary photographers. 3 pm,
Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. For more information
call 357-2700 or visit www.hirshhorn.si.edu.
$ Film Animania! Oscar-Winning Film Shorts. In the spirit of
the Academy Awards and as part of the Environmental Film Festival, families
are invited to view past Oscar-winning short animated films The
Old Man and the Sea, Crac!, and The Man Who
Planted Trees. Times, 24 pm in the Carmichael Auditorium,
14th & Constitution Ave., NW. Gen. admission $15; young associate
members $10; resident members $12; and children 13 and under $5. For
tickets and information, call The Smithsonian Associates at 357-3030
or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Monday / March 24
$ Lecture/Booksigning Life at the Speed of Unser
Champion auto racer Bobby Unser launched the family legend in 1968 with
the first of his three wins at the Indianapolis 500. Unser talks about
what it took to get to the top of his profession and shows video clips
of some of the most spectacular moments in his career. Unsers
new book Winners Are Driven, is available for signing. Starts
7 pm in the Carmichael Auditorium, 14th & Constitution Ave., NW.
Gen. admission $20; members $15. For tickets and information, call The
Smithsonian Associates at 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Tuesday / March 25
GW Sports Baseball vs Delaware State 3 pm, Barcroft Park.
$ Lecture Your Gardens Architect
Can Be You! James
van Sweden draws on his new book Architecture in the Garden
to explain how not only to grow a garden, but how to build one, 6 pm.
S. Dillon Ripley Center. General admission $14, members $11. For tickets
and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Family Fun Bubblemania!, Casey Carle is the maestro of bubbles-tiny
bubbles, huge bubbles, bubbles within bubbles... even a bubble with
an audience member inside! Find out why bubbles are spherical, how to
create a square one, and what makes bubbles pop. For all ages. Weekdays
at 10 am and 11:30 am, Saturdays at noon, through March 29. Discovery
Theater. Gen admission $10; members $8. For tickets and information
call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Wednesday / March 26
GW Sports Mens Tennis vs Mary Washington 3 pm, GW-Mount
Vernon Athletic Complex.
GW Info Session Professional (Part-Time) MBA Informational Session
at 6:30 to 7:30 pm at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, 1800 President St., Reston,
VA. Please RSVP via E-mail at barbara@admin.dup.gwu.edu or call 973-1130.
$ Seminar Russian Folktales: Ancient Stories from a Rich Pagan
Past Animal tales and tales of enchantment both are products of the
popular imagination and constitute a vital part of Russian culture,
6:309 pm, Ring Auditorium. General admission $25 members $20.
For tickets and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Thursday / March 27
Today in History: 1912: First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the
Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino
cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac Tidal Basin in Washington,
DC.
$ Theatre Masters of Russian Theater Andrei Malaev-Babel, artistic
director of Washingtons Stanislavsky Theatre Studio and expert
on Stanislavsky Method, and Sarah Kain, expert on Michael Chekhovs technique,
engage in a lively discussion about Russian theater, 7 pm. S. Dillon
Ripley Center. General admission $17, members $15. For tickets and information
call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Saturday / March 29
GW Sports Baseball vs Temple (DH) noon, Barcroft Park.
GW Sports Mens Rowing vs Virginia Thompson Boat Center.
Sunday / March 30
GW Sports GW Invitational Golf Tournament through March 31, Issue,
MD.
GW Sports Baseball vs Temple noon, Barcroft Park.
Monday / March 31
GW Volunteer Miriams Kitchen Responsibilities include cooking,
serving food, and cleaning dishes. From 6:30 to 9 am. For more information
contact kwanke@gwu.edu.
Wednesday / April 2
GW Sports Softball vs James Madison (DH) 2 pm, GW-Mount Vernon
Athletic Complex.