Sunday, September 4, 2011

PAST: Free Arts & Culture Events this Week from CultureCapital.com! WED, Oct 5th - TUES, Oct 11th

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Here are some more great FREE arts and culture events this week from CultureCapital.com.

Culture Capital is a program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, a nonprofit organization serving Metro DC’s arts & culture community and the public for over 30 years.

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


Wednesday, October 5th

Meet the Artists - Opening Reception

5:30pm - 8:00pm

This show, at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, features monumental and pedestal sculpture and three-dimensional wall art from a
rtists Julie Girardini, David Hubbard, Joan Konkel, Barton Rubenstein, and Paul Martin Wolff.

1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW (map)
Metro: Federal Triangle or Metro Center


Friday, October 7th

Classical Music

Friday Morning Music Club: Chamber Music Concert
12:00pm - 1:00pm

Members of the Friday Morning Music Club perform.

Calvary Baptist Church
755 8th St, NW - between G & H St, NW
Metro: Gallery Pl - Chinatown


Saturday, October 8th

Artist Talk

1:00pm

Printmaker Michael Hagan discusses his current solo exhibition, "Doodle Digit Dot."

Metro: Silver Spring


Sunday, October 9th

Poetry + Prose Open Mic

Sunday Open Door Reading
2:00pm, sign up 1:30pm

Poet Michael Montlack reads from Cool Limbo and Alma Katsu reads from her novel, The Taker.

Metro: Bethesda, elevator exit is closest


Art Lecture


Given by Peter J. Brownlee, Terra Foundation for American Art.

East Building Concourse, Auditorium
Metro: Judiciary Square is closest to East Bldg


Film Screening

Downtown 81 - featuring Basquiat
4:00pm

Filmed in 1980-1981, Downtown 81 stars the legendary American artist Jean Michel Basquiat portraying a young painter in New York.

Metro: Farragut North or West and walk down about 17th or 18th St


Sunday Night Concert Series

6:30pm

Music by Bernstein, Mussorgsky, and Prokofiev.

National Gallery of Art
East Building, Atrium
Metro: Archives - Judiciary Square, closest to the East Building


Monday, October 10th

Jews and Race Relations in the South
7:00pm

Parade's playwright Alfred Uhry and Jewish historian and author Eli Evans take to the stage of Ford's Theatre for a conversation on growing up in a racially and socially tense South.

Metro: Metro Center


Tuesday, October 11th

Workshop on Leadership

Part of Leadership in the Rescue of the 33 Chilean Miners series
4:30pm

Learn about the extraordinary qualities of the men that led the Chilean miner rescue effort through their actions and decisions in the midst of disastrous times.
Baird Auditorium
Metro: Federal Triangle or Archives - Navy Memorial


Literary Art Tour

7:30pm

Enjoy a unique "Literary Art Tour" of the current exhibition, Vessel, as writers perform their pieces next to the visual artwork that prompted their literary responses.

Metro: U St or take the S1, S2, S4, or S9 bus from along 16th St to U St


Choral Concert

7:30pm

Donation based Choral music performance

Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall
at NoVa Community College, Alexandria Campus
Metro: Click venue link above or see metro for best bus access from the metro


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