PAST: Free Art & Culture Events this Weekend from CultureCapital.com! New Weekend Feature for FRI, Oct 28th evening events - SUN, Oct 30th

Here are some more great free arts and culture events happening this weekend (listed here in a separate post!) from CultureCapital.com. Please c

lick through for complete details about the event and location details!

Friday, October 28th

Art Talk

Agents of Change: with Amanda Nelsen

6:00pm

Pre-registration is encouraged

Learn more about Paperworks: Incipit Vita Nova, a 16-foot-long, 200-pound work created in collaboration with over 100 members of the Wellesley College community.

Corcoran Gallery of Art

Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North

Saturday, October 29th

Art -Closing Reception

Doodle Digit Dot Closing Reception

1:00pm - 4:00pm

Closing reception for works by Mike Hagan, who explores the intersections of hand-pulled printing with other graphic processes including drawing, photography, commercial printing, and textile patterns.

Washington Printmakers Gallery

Metro: Silver Spring

Film Screening

Part of the Le Cinéma Fantastique Series: Cin-Concert:

La Chute de la Maison Usher

preceded by Edgar Allan Poe: Histoires Extraordinaires

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Jean Epstein combines motifs from Poe tales in La Chute de la Maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) in this feature film (1928, 35 mm, silent, 63 min), preceded by a rare screening of Eric Rohmer's short nonfiction essay on Poe, Histoires Extraordinaires (Eric Rohmer, 1965, DigiBeta, 25 min).

National Gallery of Art

East Building, Concourse, Auditorium
Metro: Judiciary Square - closest to East Building

Sunday, October 30th

Poetry Reading

"Sunday Open Door" Poetry Reading 10/30/11
2:00pm

Poet Elizabeth Rees reads from Tilting Gravity and poet Elizabeth Poliner reads from Sudden Fog.

The Writer's Center

Metro: Bethesda, closest to use the elevator exit

Art Lecture

Leonardo da Vinci: Artist of Sketchbooks and Notebooks

2:00pm

Given by Carmen C. Bamback, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

National Gallery of Art

East Building Concourse, Auditorium

Metro: Judiciary Sq, closest to the East Building

Classical Concert

Genova and Dimitrov Piano Duo

6:30pm

Music by Franz Liszt. Part of the Sunday evening concert series at the NGA.

National Gallery of Art

West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court

Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial, closest to the West Building

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