PAST: Select highlights from CultureCapital Insider March 10th - 15th

Below are some highlights this week from CultureCapital.com's new weekly email, CultureCapital Insider. Please Note: Some events are in VA and MD so please check Metro Triplanner for public transit access. Also, please note that some of these may have an admission charge, so please click through each event for complete info. Sorry about the formatting issues, I'm short on time post this and wanted to be sure to put the info up! Looks like lots of good stuff happening this week!

Wed Mar 10	Gallery Talk: Tall, Grande, Venti: Nineteenth-Century French Painting in the East Building National Gallery of Art
	UM School of Music: UM Jazz Ensemble and Alumni Band Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Thu Mar 11	FMMC Composers Strathmore
	Minds Wide Open: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts The Art League
	Women in Journalism Leadership National Archives Experience
Fri Mar 12	2010 Prince George's County Annual Spelling Bee Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
	Free for All Fridays Round House Theatre Education Center
	Historic Home Tour, March 2010 Strathmore
Sat Mar 13	Vocal Arts Society: American Festival Recital, Brandie Sutton The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Sun Mar 14	Open Door Reading Series: Katie Bowler and John Murillo The Writer's Center
	Stars on Sunday: Crosscurrents Dance Company Workhouse Arts Center
Through Mar 21	Women in Art: Body of Work Del Ray Artisans
Through Mar 26	Sahomi Naka Montpelier Arts Center, Resident Artist Gallery
Through Mar 31	Windows into DC Washington Convention Center
Through Apr 12	National Geographic Image Collection National Geographic
Through Apr 30	Arlington Artists Alliance: Eastern Views Arlington YMCA

Wed Mar 10	HerStory The Art League
	Persona Grata Gallery plan b
	Youth Art Show McLean Project for the Arts
Thu Mar 11	Gallery Talk: Recent Acquisitions and Old Friends National Gallery of Art
Fri Mar 12
	Philosophical Fridays - A Four Session Series with Refreshments Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center
Sat Mar 13	Sacred Waters: Photography by John Stanmeyer National Geographic
Mon Mar 15	Clybourne Park Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Wed Mar 10	Polar Obsession: Photographs by Paul Nicklen National Geographic
Sat Mar 13	Teatro de la Luna: Chumbale (El Casado Casa Quiere / Every Love Bird Needs a Nest) Gunston Arts Center
	In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age National Gallery of Art

Thu Mar 11
	Bob Sima Concert Athenaeum
	Friday Morning Music Club: Chamber Program Rosslyn Spectrum
	The Rise of Cubism: Influences, Precursors, and Early Experiments The Kreeger Museum
Fri Mar 12	In the Bag - Making New Accessories from Recycled Materials Del Ray Artisans
	Montpelier Spring Jazz Series: Ethel Ennis with Trio Montpelier Arts Center
	Sake Tasting And Curator's Gallery Talk The Textile Museum
	The Embassy Series: Inna Faliks, Piano Embassy of Ukraine
Sat Mar 13
	EDGEWORKS Dance Theater Dance Place
	Federal Crafts Workshop Riversdale House Museum
	Hands-On History Day: Be a Woodturner's Apprentice Montpelier Mansion
	Joy of Motion Dance Center presents Classical Repertory Dance Theatre Atlas Performing Arts Center
	The Art and Craft of Screenwriting The Writer's Center
	The Metropolitan Chorus: Introducing Karl Jenkins Mount Olivet United Methodist Church
	Work, Fight, Pray: Life in the Middle Ages Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center
Sun Mar 14
	Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and Bowen McCauley Dance: Haiku Suite Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus
	Lecture and Book Signing: In and Out of the Darkroom: Nineteenth-Century Photographic Processes National Gallery of Art
	Maryland Choral Society: Johannes Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem George Washington Masonic National Memorial
	National Chamber Ensemble: Coming to America Rosslyn Spectrum
	Play Reading Arts Club of Washington
	Stars on Sunday: Ericka Ovette Workhouse Arts Center
Mon Mar 15
	St. Patrick's Day Celebration with Beoga National Geographic

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