Sept. 5, 2003
Dateline
GW's Guide To Happenings Throughout Metropolitan Washington
Ongoing Events
Community Service The Animal Welfare League of Alexandria will
be collecting aluminum cans for recycling through Oct. 25. The Paws to
Recycle receptacle will be located on the east side of the shelter, along
the front fence, and will be accessible 24 hours a day. The shelter is
located at 4101 Eisenhower Ave. in Alexandria, VA. For more information
call 703/838-4774.
$ Performance Shakespeare in Hollywood The magic of
two worlds collide Shakespeares mystical woods and the stardust
of Hollywood on the 1930s soundstage of A Midsummer Nights
Dream. Arena Stage through Oct. 19. For tickets, call 488-3300 or
visit www.arenastage.org.
$ 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.
$ Exhibition Lesley Dill: A Ten Year Survey This exhibition explores
through paintings, drawings, installations and artists books how
insomnia and the night affect artists perception, imagination and
the creative process. National Museum for Women in the Arts through Sept.
14. For more information call 783-5000 or visit www.nmwa.org.
Exhibition Celebrating Scotlands Crafts On view are approximately
100 objects produced by traditional methods that highlight the continuation
of specialized skills and crafts passed down through the centuries from
generation to generation. Smithsonian Institution Arts and Industries
Building through Sept. 12. For more information call 357-2700 or visit
www.si.edu/.
Exhibition Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad Views of
Venice, London and Paris by American artists James Abbott McNeill
Whistler and Mary Cassatt recall the romance of Europe in nearly 100 prints
and drawings from the Baltimore Museum of Arts outstanding collection
of works on paper. At the Baltimore Museum of Art through Oct. 12. For
more information call 410/396-7100.
Exhibition Shakespeare Gallery View more than 250 of the Folgers
rich treasures pertaining to Shakespeare and his time, accompanied by
Sir Derek Jacobi and other noted Shakespearean actors reciting the Bards
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 gallerys 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
Friday / Sept. 5
$ Lecture Plant Family Album: Amazing Asteraceae Kyle
Wallick, USBG Botanist discusses the Asteraceae, the second largest family
of flowering plants. This hands-on workshop will include a tour of Bartholdi
Park, weather permitting. 1-3 pm. Members $5, non-members $8. United States
Botanical Garden. For more information call 225-8333 or visit www.usbg.gov.
Sunday / Sept. 7
GW Sports Womens Soccer at Georgetown 2:30 pm, Georgetown
University.
$ Seminar Working with Digital Cameras Join instructor Eliot Cohen
as he describes the capabilities of digital cameras and explains how to
use them. Learn to understand file size and scalability, and to evaluate
digital files for clarity and color fidelity. 10 am-5 pm. General admission,
$240; resident associate member, $195. For more information call 357-3030
or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Monday / Sept. 8
$ Gallery Talk The Splendor of Diamonds Exhibition
A dazzling array of the worlds seven rarest diamonds are brought
together for this exhibition. Jeffrey Post, renowned curator of the Smithsonians
gem collection highlights the stories behind these precious jewels. Baird
Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 6 pm. Gen admission $16;
members $12. For tickets and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Lecture Assassination in a Gilded Age: Underbelly Politics
and the Death of James Garfield Author Kenneth Ackerman tells the
gripping story of how a feud between two US senators Roscoe Conkling
and James G. Blaine puts into motion an extraordinary series of
events leading to the nations second presidential assassination.
S. Dillon Ripley Center, 8 pm, 1100 Jefferson Dr., SW. General admission
$15; members $12. For tickets and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Wednesday / Sept. 10
GW Event National Crash Analysis Center 10th Anniversary Virginia
Campus, 10 am-2 pm.
GW Sports Mens Soccer vs UMBC 3 pm, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
GW Sports Womens Soccer at American 4 pm, American University.
$ Reading An Evening with Harold Kushner: The Healing Wisdom of
the 23rd Psalm In this special appearance, Harold Kushner illuminates
the wisdom in the 23rd Psalm and its value as a guide for living in perilous
times. 6 pm. Location indicated on ticket. General admission $15; members
$12. For tickets and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Thursday / Sept. 11
GW Event Memorial Service 8:30 pm, University Yard. Sponsored by the Student
Association.
Saturday / Sept. 13
GW Sports Mens Soccer at George Mason 7 pm, Fairfax, VA.
$ Art Seminar Botanical Watercolor with Judith Stoffer, illustrator
and instructor. Beginning and experienced artists are encouraged to attend
this five-week workshop Sept. 13, 20, Oct. 4, 18, 25. Mastery of basic
realistic watercolor painting techniques, understanding of the palette,
light, and color will be emphasized during classroom exercises using plants
from the USBG collection. 9 am-noon. Members $125; non-members $150. United
States Botanical Garden. For more information call 225-8333 or visit www.usbg.gov.
Lecture Caucasian Flatweaves: Research, Findings and Conclusions
with Robert Nooter at the Textile Museum, 10:30 am. For more information
call 667-0441.
$ Seminar Venice: Its Dazzling Art and Architecture
This seminar traces the originality of the art and architecture of Venice
from the 14th to 18th centuries, focusing on masters and lesser known
artists. From 10 am-4:30 pm. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Dr.,
SW. General admission $131; members $85. For tickets and information call
357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Seminar Can We Talk? Handling Lifes Difficult Converstations
A leading communications coach and consultant discusses techniques for
handling difficult conversations without wounding someones heart
or psyche. From 9:30 am-4:30 pm in the S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Dr., SW. General admission $130; members $85. For tickets and information
call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
$ Dining Lecture A Taste of Moroccan Cuisine: A Luncheon with Ambassador
Mekouar Sponsored in conjunction with the Fabric of Moroccan Life exhibition
at the National Museum of African Art, participants experience the textures
and flavors of Moroccan cuisine under the generous spell of His Excellency
Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco, 12:30-3:30 pm. Luncheon
is at the ambassadors residence in Bethesda. Directions will be
given at time of registration. General admission $120; members $75. For
tickets and information call 357-3030 or visit www.residentassociates.org.
Sunday / Sept. 14
GW Sports Womens Soccer vs Maryland 1 pm, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
Exhibition In Their Own Words: African American Slave Narratives
Drawing on the narratives of enslaved Africans, letters to and from their
descendants, and folktales handed down through generations, this exhibition
will capture the powerful story of the African American experience from
the unique perspective of the slave. Anacostia Musuem and Center for African
American History and Culture through March 7. For more information call
610-3290 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
Monday / Sept. 15
GW Discussion The Future of Competitive Sourcing sponsored
by the Law School from 9-11 am, Jacob Burns Moot Courtroom. Presenters
include David Walker, the comptroller general of the United States, and
Paul Light, of NYU and the Brookings Institution. For reservations, call
994-2955.
Exhibition First Sight: Treasures of Smithsonian Photography
On view will be many never-before-exhibited photographs from the vast
Smithsonian photography collection. Arts and Industries Building. For
more information contact 357-2700 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
Exhibition Everything I See is New and Strange Few
artists have captured the essence of the natural world, literature and
mythology as Walter Inglis Anderson. This exhibit will feature a selection
of his watercolors, oil paintings, block prints, pottery works, woodcarvings,
arts and crafts and photomurals. Arts and Industries Building through
Dec. 9. For more information contact 357-2700 or visit www.smithsonian.org.
Tuesday / Sept. 16
GW Sports Volleyball at Georgetown 7 pm, Georgetown University.
Wednesday / Sept. 17
GW Sports Womens Soccer at Howard 2:30 pm, Howard University.
Thursday / Sept. 18
GW Workshop Home Buyer Workshop The GW Home Program is hosting
a home buying information session from noon-1 pm in Marvin Center 302.
The workshop is especially designed for first-time home buyers and features
information regarding the purchase of a home in the District. Seating
is limited. To RSVP complete the online form at www.gwu.edu/~gwhome. For
more information contact Yvette Hicks, program coordinator, at 994-5369
or E-mail gwhome@gwu.edu.
Friday / Sept. 19
Lecture Insects and Gardens E. Eric Grissell, garden
writer and USDA research entomologist, explains the important role of
insects in garden ecology. Grissell describes a whole range of interactions
among insects and garden plants. Noon-1:30 pm. Free, pre-registration
required. United States Botanical Garden. For more information call 225-8333
or visit www.usbg.gov.
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. Now 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
19622002 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 dynamic, sometimes grotesque
jewelry. Renwick Gallery, through Jan. 19. For more information call 275-1595
or visit www.smithsonian.org.
Saturday / Sept. 20
Lecture Pile Carpets From the Caucasus with Dabney
Lewis, 10:30 am at The Textile Museum For more information call 667-0441
Sunday / Sept. 21
GW Sports Womens Soccer vs Towson 1 pm, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
Tuesday / Sept. 23
Autumn begins
Friday / Sept. 26
GW Sports Womens Soccer vs Richmond 4 pm, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
Saturday / Sept. 27
GW Sports Cross Country Invitational 10 am, Bull Run Park, Centerville,
VA.
GW Sports Mens Soccer vs Towson 1 pm, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
GW Sports Volleyball vs Duquesne 7 pm, Smith Center.
Sunday / Sept. 28
Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown
GW Sports Womens Soccer vs Creighton noon, Mount Vernon Athletic
Complex.
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. Included are richly illuminated
sutras texts, expressive Zen Buddhist aphorisms rendered in ink monochrome,
portraits of Zen masters and mandala paintings. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
through Feb. 8. For more information contact 357-4880, ext.219, or visit
www.smithsonian.org.
Wednesday / Oct. 1
Toddler Treat Sprouts Bring your preschooler to the
US Botanic Garden for plant-related fun. Sign up for a one-month
session and attend four different programs. Wednesday sessions include
activities such as story time, songs, art activity or walks in the garden.
Children must be accompanied by an adult. Two remaining series, Oct. 1,
8, 15 and 22; and Oct. 29, Nov. 5, 12 and 19. 10:30-11:30 am. United States
Botanical Garden. For more information call 225-8333 or visit www.usbg.gov.
$ Theater The Grapes of Wrath Frank Galats Tony
Award-winning adaptation of Steinbecks The Grapes of Wrath 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. Steinbecks 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.fordstheater.org.
Friday / Oct. 3
GW Sports Womens Soccer vs Massachusetts 4 pm, Mount Vernon
Athletic Complex.
GW Sports Volleyball vs Fordham 7 pm, Smith Center.
Saturday / Oct. 4
GW Sports Volleyball vs Rhode Island 7 pm, Smith Center.
Sunday / Oct. 5
Yom Kippur begins at sundown
GW Sports Womens Soccer vs Rhode Island 1 pm, Mount Vernon
Athletic Complex.
Performance Cantaré: Songs and Rhythms of Latin America
Cantaré performs songs in Spanish and Portuguese from the Caribbean
and Central and South America. For children of all ages with an adult
companion. National Museum for Women in the Arts from 1-1:45 pm, 2:15-3
pm. Free; reservations are not required. For more information call 783-7370
or visit www.nmwa.org.
Send feedback to: bygeorge@gwu.edu
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