PAST: Special Highlights Post: Free events happening this Week! MON, Nov 8th - WED, Nov 10th

Hey there Free in DC fans!

This is a special post today in a different style than my normal posts. Due to unexpected circumstances that had me a bit swamped and delayed earlier, I was not able get this up on the Arts Desk on time today for my regular Freestylin' D.C. post.

There's lots of great content - much of which is not posted here yet - that I wanted to still share with you all - so I figured I'd post it with a disclaimer here than let a good post go to waste.

If you haven't been to the City Paper site yet by the way, they have lots of great posts and features special to their online site that aren't in the print edition and you should totally check it out! Hope you enjoy this one.

Events listed below are for Monday, November 8th, Tuesday, November 9th and Wednesday, November 10th.

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Weekday Edition

11.8.10 - 11.10.10

Well, there never seems to be a shortage of fabulous free things to do in this city! Worth mentioning but not highlighted here - FotoWeek DC continues this week with events and exhibits throughout DC now through Saturday. Below you’ll find a list of free events happening tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday - highlights from my site, Free in DC. Enjoy!

Tonight

If you love are like me and love riding the $1 Circulator bus - or you wish they had a route that came through your neighborhood - a public input meeting for the Circulator bus system is being held tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at MLK Library at 9 and G St, NW. I would personally love to see a crosstown connector line covering Cathedral/Glover Park - Cleveland Park/ Woodley Park - and Dupont Circle using Connecticut, Wisconsin and Mass as the main roads. It’s be great to have a line connecting upper Wisconsin Avenue to the rest of the city more easily.

Busboys and Poets 5th & K St, NW hosts author Jared Duval at 6:30pm as he discuesses and signs his book "Next Generation Democracy: What the Open-Source Revolution Means for Power, Politics, and Change," where he explores a new approach to solving complex problems through open source technology and new media that allows for individuals and diverse communities to easily become more engaged in our society.

If you can get up to the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts tonight or tomorrow night at 7 p.m., local MFA participant and performer Anu Yadav will be performing in The Family Project, featuring original solo works from current MFA students based on explorations of the public and private sides of their individual family members.

Tuesday

Long before Busboys and Poets came to DC, U St was known as the home of Duke Ellington, as well as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and medical researcher Charles Drew. Learn more about rich culture and history of U Street over at Busboys and Poets at 14th & V St, NW as author Blair Ruble discusses and signs his new book, "Washington's U Street: A Biography" at 6:30 p.m.

Local artist Graham Boyle will be giving an artist talk on “Art and Resistance” over at The Fridge, a great spot tucked in an alley off of 8th St, SE near the Eastern Market Metro, at 7:30 p.m. If you missed the opening for the show, Thrive, Despite!, (on view through November 14th) this is a great opportunity to chat with the artist about his new series of screen prints.

Sensing the energy of turning and reflection now that the sun is setting an hour earlier and the leaves are turning and falling? Why not learn to reflect through meditation! SOS DC is hosting a free six week Jyoti meditation class entitled “Inner and Outer Peace through Meditation.” The class will be with Raymond, who a good friend says is fabulous, and will take place in the community room at City Vista, next to Busboys at 5th & K St. Though the course is free, advance registration is required. The six week class runs through December 28th and will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday nights.

Wednesday

If you can get down to the National Gallery of Art at 12:10 p.m, you can sit back and relax to the sounds of Beethoven, Schumann and others performed by pianist Juliana Osinchik, sopranoKate Egan and mezzo-soprano Marlene Bateman in the East Building Auditorium.

On the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage, Brazil’s renowned Brazil’s renowned performer, composer, and producer Jair Oliveira fuses samba and bossa nova with soul, funk, and electronica from 6 to 7 p.m.

The Humanities Council of DC hosts their second of three free events taking place this week as part of their “World House Series” inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr’s vision of a "socially conscious democracy.” The "Philosophy of Green" is the theme of the series and this Wednesday’s panel is sure to be engaging as members from the Greater Washington Interfaith Power & Light discuss the moral obligations of caring for the earth and our future generations from varying religious perspectives. The event will take place at THEARC, in SE, near the Southern Avenue Metro, and will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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