Thursday, November 11, 2010

PAST: Reminder: Here are some other Free events this SAT, Dec 11th & SUN, Dec 12th - Thanks to CultureCapital.com

Weekend highlights. Great Free events from CultureCapital.com

Saturday, December 11th

Fine Art at Strathmore. Adults enjoy a guided tour of the current exhibit, delving into technique and history of the artists and works.

Strathmore
Metro: Grosvenor

1:00pm

A fictionalized account of Alice Liddell's 1932 visit to America quietly portrays in flashback her childhood friendship with author Lewis Carroll. Joining her reverie are several of Jim Henson's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland creatures--the Mad Hatter, Gryphon, Caterpillar, and Dormouse. (Gavin Millar and Dennis Potter, 1985, 35 mm, 94 minutes)

Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial


Artist reception and short talk with Margaret Adams Parker. The current show on view at WPG features etchings by Margaret Adams Parker and Woodcuts by Carole Nelson, an artistic result of the two artists separate and varied travels.

Metro: Silver Spring


Sunday, December 12th

2:00pm

Panel discussion includes David Bindman, emeritus professor of the history of art, University College London, and associate of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University; Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art; Ruth Fine, curator of special projects in modern art, National Gallery of Art; Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art; Sharmila Sen, general editor for the humanities, Harvard University Press; and Lou Stovall, master printmaker.

Book signing of The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volumes I–III follows.
6:00pm

Students of the Youth Orchestra provide music for a sing-a-long of portions of The Messiah, George Frederick Handel.

Metro: Foggy Bottom, take free K.C. Shuttle
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