Robert Schadler’s Committee for Western Civilization October, 2012 Calendar Exhibits: National Gallery of Art
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Committee for Western Civilization October, 2012 Calendar Exhibits: National Gallery of Art 202-737-4215 www.nga.gov Still Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst (to October 14) Shock of the News (to January 27) Photography & Identity in the Last 100 years (to December 31) National Archives, (9th & Constitution Avenue NW) 202-501-5000 www.archives.org Public Vaults (indefinite) Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery (12th St & Independence Ave SW), 202-633-4880 Silk Road Luxuries from China (indefinite) The Korean Art of Ceramic Inlay (indefinite) Chinese Ceramics: 10th -13th Century (indefinite) Buddhism in Chinese Painting (September 1 to February 24)
Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (indefinite) AirCraft: The Jet as Art (November, 2012)
The Star-Spangled Banner: The Flag that Inspired the National Anthem (permanent) Stories from Maritime America (permanent) First Ladies at the Smithsonian (permanent) Stories on Money (indefinite)
Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake (to January 6, 2013) The Beautiful Time (Photographs of the Congo; to January 6, 2013)
With the Reynolds Center for American Art & Portraiture (8th & F St. NW) 202-633-1000 www.reynoldscenter.org and www.americanart.si.edu Vintage Celebrity Portraits (to September 3) Modern American Poets (October 12 to April 28)
A Taste for Luxury in Early Iran (indefinite) Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 202-633-1000 www.africa.si.edu African Cosmos: Stellar Arts (to December 9) Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW) 202-633-1000 www.americanart.si.edu 40 Under 40: Craft Futures (to February 3) Smithsonian’s Postal Museum (2 Massachusetts Ave NE) 202-633-1000 Pony Express (Romance vs Reality) (permanent) Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum (Independence Ave and 7th Street SW) 202-633-4674 www.hirshhorn.si.edu Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian (Independence Ave & 4th St SW) 202-633-1000 www.americanindian.si.edu A Song for the Horse Nation (to January 7, 2013) The Sculpture of Abraham Anghik Ruben (to January 2)
Exploring the Early America (indefinite) Thomas Jefferson’s Library Creating the U.S. (indefinite) National Building Museum (401 F Street NW) 202-272-2448 www.nbm.org Detroit Is No Dry Bones (to February 18) Detroit Disassembled (to February 18)
Samurai: The Warrior Transformed (to September 3) Desert Air: Photographs by George Steinmetz (to January 27)
Dragons, Nagas and Creatures of the Deep (to January 6, 2013) The Blossoming of Ottoman Art (to March 10)
Outdoors: Outdoors on the Mall: Voyage, A Journey Through Our Solar System, (along Jefferson Dr between 6-10th St SW) 202 357-2700. 1/10-billionth scale model of solar system with 13 stations from Natl Air & Space Museum to Smithsonian Castle Outdoors on the Mall: Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden (corner of Jefferson Dr and 7th Street SW) 202 357-2700 (7:30 am to dusk) Outdoors on the Mall: National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (Constitution & 7th St NW) 202 737-4215 (10 am - 5 pm) Theater: Folger Theatre (201 E. Capitol St SE) 202-544-7077 www.folger.edu The Conference of Birds (October 23 to November 25) Lansburgh Shakespeare Theatre (450 Seventh St NW & 610 F St NW) 202-547-1122 Sidney Harman Hall (610 F Street NW) www.shakespearetheatre.org The Government Inspector (to October 28) Black Watch (to October 7) Arena Stage (1101 Sixth St SW) 202-488-3300 www.arenastage.org One Night with Janis Joplin (to November 4) Red Hot Patriot (to October 28)
Invisible Man (to October 14) Synetic Theater (1800 S. Bell Street, Arlington) 800.494.8497 www.synetictheater.org Jekyll & Hyde (to October 21) National Theatre (1321 Pennsylvania Ave NW) 202-628-6161 www.nationaltheatre.org Kennedy Center, 202-467-4600 www.kennedy-center.org Shear Madness Ford’s Theatre (511 Tenth Street NW) 202.347.4833 Fly, Trey Ellis (to October 21) American Century Theater (Gunston Arts Center, 2700 S. Lang St., Arlington, VA) 703-998-4555 www.americancentury.org H Street Playhouse (1365 H Street NE) 202-396-2125 www.theateralliance.com Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H Street NE) 202-399-7993 www.atlasarts.org Source Theater, 1835 14th Street, NW 202-518-0152 www.sourcedc.org Constellation Theatre (1835 14th Street NW) 800.494.8497 www.constellationtheatre.org Theater J (1529 16th Street NW) 202-518-9400 www.dcjcc.org/center-for-arts/theater-j/ Our Class (October 10 to November 4) Keegan/ Journeyman Theatre 703.892.0202 (at Church Street Theater, 1742 Church St NW) 202-265-3767 A Couple of Blaguards (to October 14) MetroStage (1201 N. Royal Street, Alexandria) 703-548-9044 www.metrostage.org Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris (to October 21) Olney Theatre, (2001 Olney-Sandy Spring Rd, Olney, MD) 301-924-3400 www.olneytheatre.org Round House Theatre (4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda 240-644-1100 www.roundhousetheatre.org Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Avenue, Arlington, VA) 703-820-9771 www.signature-theatre.org The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (to October 7) Dying City (to November 25)
Pygmalion (October 25 to November 18) WSC Avant Bard (Washington Shakespeare Theater) (1101 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA) 703-875-1100 www.washingtonshakespeare.org Woolly Mammoth (641 D Street NW), 202-393-3939 www.woollymammoth.net Chad Deity (to October 7) Carter Barron Amphitheatre (16th Street & Colorado Ave NW) Family Theater Adventure Theatre (Glen Echo Park), 301-634-2270 www.adventuretheatre.org Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse (to October 31)
Carnival of the Animals (to October 7) Imagination Stage (4908 Auburn, Bethesda, MD) 301-280-1660 www.imaginationstage.org P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical (October 18) Discovery Theater, Smithsonian Art & Industry Building (900 Jefferson Dr. SW) 202-357-1500 www.discoverytheater.org Smithsonian IMAX Movies Museum Of Natural History: Wild Ocean, Dinosaurs, Conquest of Everest Air & Space Museum: To Fly, Hubble, Legends of Flight, Black Holes, Journey to the Stars Washington Events, Talks, Films, Etc. October 1 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Brazilian Film Week, E St Cinema (555 11th St NW) 7:00 Opera: Don Giovanni, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 2 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Brazilian Film Week, E St Cinema (555 11th St NW) Noon Author’s Talk: James McPherson, National Archives, 202.357.5000 free 7:00 Author’s Talk: Arnold Scharzenegger, Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 3 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD $ Brazilian Film Week, E St Cinema (555 11th St NW) 7:30 Opera: Anna Bolena, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Jazz: Chris Mihn Doky & the Nomads, Blues Alley (1073 Wisc Ave NW) 202.337.4141 $ 4 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Brazilian Film Week, E St Cinema (555 11th St NW) 1:00 Perforance: Women’s Songs from Kazakhstan, Sackler Gallery (1050 Independence Ave SW). 202.633.4880 free 6:00 Performance: Boys & Girls Club of Washington, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Author’s Talk: Nate Silver (The Signal & the Noise) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:00 Tchaikovsky Concert; Nat’l Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Opera: Don Giovanni, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Jazz: Rachelle Ferrell, Blues Alley (1073 Wisc Ave NW) 202.337.4141 $ & 10p 10:00 Comedy: Tom Papa, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 5 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Oktoberfest: Reston Town Center, Reston www.OktoberfestReston.com 69th Annual Waterford Homes & Crafts, Waterford, VA www.waterfordfoundation.org 6:00 Performance: Sydney Skybetter, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ 8:00 Tchaikovsky Concert; Nat’l Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 6 Taste of Bethesda www.bethesda.org Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Oktoberfest: Reston Town Center, Reston www.OktoberfestReston.com 69th Annual Waterford Homes & Crafts, Waterford, VA www.waterfordfoundation.org 11:30 Big Draw Family Day: Mus of American Art (8th & F St NW) 202.633.1000 to 3 pm Noon Oktoberfest Block Party, Meridian Pint (3400 11th St NW) to 6 pm Noon Russian Bazaar, St. John’s Church (4001 a7th St NW) www.russianbazaar.org to 6 pm 2:00 Film: Women in Islam, Mus of African Art, (950 Independence Ave SW) free 6:00 Performance: Sydney Skybetter, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Opera: Anna Bolena, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ Jazz Trio: Lonnie Smith, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Tchaikovsky Concert; Nat’l Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir: Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, free standby 10:00 Comedy: Tom Papa, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 7 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Oktoberfest: Reston Town Center, Reston www.OktoberfestReston.com 69th Annual Waterford Homes & Crafts, Waterford, VA www.waterfordfoundation.org 10:00 Sunday Gospel Brunch, Hamilton (14th & F St NW) 202.787.1000 $ (&11:30, 12:30, 2) Noon Russian Bazaar, St. John’s Church (4001 a7th St NW) www.russianbazaar.org to 6 pm 2:00 Czech Film: The Devil’s Trap (subtitles) Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 2:00 Opera: Don Giovanni, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 3:00 Jupiter String Quartet (Mozart, Brahms) Nat’l Acad of Sciences (2100 C St NW) 202.334.2436 free 6:00 Folk-rock duo Family Night, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 10:00 Comedy: Erin Jackson, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 8 Columbus’ Day Observed Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 6:00 Folk: Elephant Revival, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Author’s Talk: Salman Rushdie (Joseph Anton) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:30 Sretensky Monastery Choir: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Performance: Robin Thicke, DAR Constitution Hall (17th St NW) $ 9 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 6:00 Rock: Yeveto, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Chamber Music (tribute to Zvi Zeitlin), Brucker Hall, Ft Myer, VA 703.696.3399 free 7:30 Opera: Don Giovanni, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Concert/Talk: 5 Lives of Women in Music, Emb of Austria (3524 Int’l Court NW) 202.895.6776 rsvp 10 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 6:00 Chinese Vocalist: Wang Li, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Talk: Kenny Broad (Blue Holes & Dark Energy), Nat’l Geographic (1600 M St NW) 202.857.7700 $ 7:00 Talk: What Makes American Art American? Mus of American Art (8th & F St NW) 202.633.1000 7:30 Sphinx Virtuoisi & Catalyst Quartet: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Concert: Pamela Frank & Friends, Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts Ben Taylor & Grace Weber, Kennedy Center, 467.7600 $ 11 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD $ 10:30 Family Program: Garden Sculpture Safari, Hillwood Museum (4155 Linnean Ave NW) 202.686.5807 resv Noon US Constitution’s Relevance Elsewhere: Heritage Foundation (2nd & Mass Ave SE) 6:00 Ethiopian Dance & Music: Fendika, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Bruckner Concert; Nat’l Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:00 Show Themes of the 1950s: Baltimore Symphony, Strathmore Hall, N Bethesda 301.581.5100 $ 10:00 Comedy: Jason Weems, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 12 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Noon Author’s Talk: Jean Yarborough (Teddy Roosevelt) Heritage Foundation (2nd & Mass SE 4:30 Author’s Talk: Michael Gordon (Endgame) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 6:00 Rock/African Music: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Author’s Talk: Paul Elie (Reinventing Bach) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ Opera: Bizet’s Pearl Fishers, Virginia Opera, GMU Center for Arts, Fairfax 888.945.2468$ 8:00 Bruckner Concert; Nat’l Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Violin/Piano Concert (D Hope; J Kahane) Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts 13 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 1:00 Author’s Talk: John Muller (F. Douglass’ Washington) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 1:00 Weave a Basket: Mus of African Art (950 Independence Ave SW) 202.633.4646 2:00 W. Guthrie Celebration Concert: Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts 2:00 Czech Film: Valley of the Bees (subtitles) Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 6:00 Bluegrass: Tim O’Brien, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ Comedy: Anjelah Johnson, Warner Theatre (513 13th Ave NW) 800.745.3000 $ 8:00 Bruckner Concert; Nat’l Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 10:00 Comedy: Jason Weems, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 14 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 10:00 Sunday Gospel Brunch, Hamilton (14th & F St NW) 202.787.1000 $ (&11:30, 12:30, 2) 2:00 Kennedy Center Chamber Players: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 3:00 Left Bank Concert Society (Elgar/Britten): Mus of American Art (8th & F St NW) 202.633.1000 4:00 US Navy Band Concert: DAR Constitution Hall (1776 D St NW) www:usnavyband.ticketleap.com free 4:30 Rosselini Film: Journey to Italy (1954) Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 5:00 Author’s Talk (Life of William Rehnquist) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 6:00 Hootenanny Jam: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 15 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Noon Talk: How China Became Capitalist, CATO Institute (1000 Mass Ave NW) 202.842.0200 6:00 Zydeco: Nathan Williams & the Cha Chas, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free Stars, Stripes & Salse, Warner Theater 16 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 4:00 Libertarian Roots of the Tea Party, CATO Institute (1000 Mass Ave NW) 202.842.0200 6:00 Haitian Dance: Compagnie de Danse Jean-Rene Delsoin, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 US Army Band (Mozart, Brahms): Brucker Hall, Ft Myer, VA 703.696.3399 free 7:30 Marlinsky Ballet Cinderella, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 17 Kids Euro Festival www.kidseurofestival.org Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD800.296.7304 $ 6:00 Concert: Fire & the Wheel, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 An Evening with Rumi (readings): Nat’l Geographic (1600 M St NW) 202.857.7700 $ 7:30 Performance: DruidMurphy: Conversations, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Ron Carter Trio: Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts 18 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 10:30 Family Program: Garden Sculpture Safari, Hillwood Museum (4155 Linnean Ave NW) 202.686.5807 resv 5:00 Brian Settles Quartet: Mus of American Art (8th & F St NW) 202.633.1000 6:00 Theater Patrasket (Denmark), Kennedy Center, 467.4600 7:30 Marlinsky Ballet Cinderella, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 10:00 Comedy: Grad Showcase, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 19 Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ Noon Author’s Talk: Life of Cato (Rob Goodman) CATO Institute (1000 Mass Ave NW) 202.842.0200 6:00 Maverick le Magicien, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 7:00 Author’s Talk: Robert Sullivan (My American Revolution), Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ 7:30 Jazz: Anat Cohen Quartet: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Marlinsky Ballet Cinderella, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Concert: Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, Emb of Austria (3524 Int’l Court NW) 202.895.6776 rsvp 8:00 Cirque Chinois, GMU Center for Arts, Fairfax, VA 888.945.2468 $ 10:00 Comedy: Ari Shaffir, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 20 Bethesda Row Arts Festival www.bethesdarowarts.org Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 10:00 Corcoran Community Day, 500 17th St NW www.corcoran.org to 3 pm free admission 1:00 Under African Skies: Mus of African Art (950 Independence Ave SW) 202.633.4646 20 min show; runs to 2 pm 2:00 Performance: Rose of Sharon, Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts 2:30 Russian Film of King Lear (subtitles): Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 6:00 Israeli Indie: Raw Men Empire, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ 8:00 Cirque Chinois, GMU Hylton Center, Fairfax, VA 888.945.2468 $ 10:00 Comedy, Ari Shaffir, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 21 Bethesda Row Arts Festival www.bethesdarowarts.org Renaissance Festival, 1821 Crownsville, Crownsville/Annapolis, MD 800.296.7304 $ 10:00 Sunday Gospel Brunch, Hamilton (14th & F St NW) 202.787.1000 $ (&11:30, 12:30, 2) 1:30 Marlinsky Ballet Cinderella, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 4:00 Cirque Chinois, GMU Center for Arts, Fairfax, VA 888.945.2468 $ 4:00 Russian film of Hamlet (subtitles), Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 5:00 Author’s Talk: Walter Stahr (Seward) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:00 Haitian Songs: BeIO, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 10:00 Comedy: Ari Shaffir, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 22 6:00 Soprano Laurie Rubin: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Gershwin Goes to Washington: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:30 Mark Twain Prize Ceremonnies: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 23 Noon Seminar: Africa’s Third Liberation, CATO Institute (1000 Mass Ave NW) 202.842.0200 6:00 Estonian Magicians: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Theater: War Horse, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Chinese Folk Songs: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 24 6:00 Free Markets & the Financial Crisis, CATO Institute (1000 Mass Ave NW) 202.842.0200 6:00 Folk Songs from Georgia: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 6:30 Author’s Talk: Klaus Stimeder (Here Is Berlin) Goethe Institut (7th St NW) 202.289.1200 rsvp 7:30 Talk: Bill Nye (Solar System Exploration), Nat’l Geographic (1600 M St NW) 202.857.7700 $ 7:30 Theater: War Horse, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Washington Ballet, Dracula, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 25 10:30 Family Program: Garden Sculpture Safari, Hillwood Museum (4155 Linnean Ave NW) 202.686.5807 resv Noon Author’s Talk: Brink Lindsey (Human Capitalism) CATO Institute (1000 Mass Ave NW) 202.842.0200 6:00 Perforance: Suzanne Farrell Ballet, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 NSO Pops: Robert Flack’s Back in Town, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Theater: War Horse, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Ballet: Dracula, Washington Ballet, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 26 Annapolis Craft Beer & Music Festival www.theannapoliscraftbeerandmusicfestival.com 3:30 Author’s Talk: Sheila Bair (Bull by the Horns), Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ 7:30 Amernet String Quartet (Haydn, Beethoven): Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Jazz: Jason Moran & The Bandwagon, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Piano/Cello (L Shapiro; P Wispelwey) Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts 10:00 Comedy: Jim Breuer, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 27 1:00 Weave a Basket: Mus of African Art (950 Independence Ave SW) 202.633.4646 2:00 Dog Howl-oween: Hillwood Museum (4155 Linnean Ave NW) 202.686.5807 resv 2:00 Silent Film: The Patsy (1928), Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 4:00 Ernie Kovacs films w/discussion: Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 5:00 Music for Uncivil Discourse: 21st C Consort, Mus of American Art (8th & F St NW) 202.633.3030 $ 6:00 Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Musical Political Satire: Capitol Steps, Reagan Bldg (1300 Penn Ave NW) 202.312.1555 $ 10:00 Comedy: Jim Breuer, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 28 10:00 Sunday Gospel Brunch, Hamilton (14th & F St NW) 202.787.1000 $ (&11:30, 12:30, 2) 1:00 NSO Family Concert: Halloween Spooktacular, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ (also 3 pm) 1:30 Theater: War Horse, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 2:00 Film: The Mark of Zorro (D Fairbanks; 1920), Mus of American Art (8th & F St NW) 202.633.1000 free 4:30 German/Russian Film: Five Days, Five Nights (subtitles) Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 6:00 Inuit Drummers & Dancers: Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Ballet: Dracula, Washington Ballet, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 10:00 Comedy: Jim Breuer, Improv (1140 Conn Ave NW) 202.296.7008 $ 29 6:00 Traffik Theater: Red Riding Hood (Denmark) Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Brahms/Shostakovich Concert: Avanti Orchestra, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 30 6:00 Family Theater: Periferia Teatro (Spain), Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:00 Author’s Talk: Thos Ricks (The Generals) Politics & Prose 5015 Conn Ave NW) 202.364.1919 7:30 Chamber Music: US Army Band, Brucker Hall, Ft Myer, VA 703.696.3399 free 7:30 Theater: War Horse, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Ballet: Dracula, Washington Ballet, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Opera: L’Invitation au Voyage, Opera Lafayette, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 8:00 Concert: Joan Labarbara & Lillevan, Coolidge Aud, Lib of Congress, loc.gov/concerts 31 Halloween 2:00 Talk: Info Schulze, German Unification, German Historical Institute (1607 NH Ave NW) 202.387.3355 resvp 6:00 Performance: This Way to the Egress, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 free 7:30 Theater: War Horse, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Ballet: Dracula, Washington Ballet, Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ 7:30 Soprano Christine Brewer (Spanish songs), Kennedy Center, 467.4600 $ November 1 All Saints’ Day 2 3 3:30 Film about Shostakovich (1988), Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free 4 3:00 US Army Orchestra, WWII Tribute, Brucker Hall, Ft Myer, VA 703.696.3399 free 4:00 German Film: Song of the Rivers (subtitles) Nat’l Gallery of Art, 202.842.6799 free History Calendar October 1 Spain cedes Louisiana to France (secret Treaty of San Ildefonso), 1800 Edison Lamp Works (Menlo Park) begin production of first light bulbs, 1880 University of Chicago established, 1891 First Model T produced, 1908 Chief Justice William Rehnquist born (Milwaukee), 1924 2 Richard III of England born, 1452 Louis Bonald born, 1754 Graham Greene born, 1904 3 Washington proclaims a national day of thanksgiving, 1789 Lincoln proclaims a national thanksgiving for November, 1863 Thomas Wolfe born, 1900 Luciano Pavarotti born (Modena, Italy), 1935 German unification, 1990 4 St. Francis of Assisi born, 1181 or 1182 First Bible in English, 1535 Frederic Remington born, 1861 USSR launches 1st satellite (Sputnik), 1957 5 Jonathan Edwards born (CT), 1703 Thomas Edison invents electric light bulb, 1878 First trans-Pacific flight (Japan to Wenatchee, WA), 1931 Steven Paul Jobs dies (age 56), 2011 6 George Westinghouse born (NY), 1846 Alfred, Lord, Tennyson, dies (Surrey, England), 18921 Caroline Gordon born, 1895 Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying first published, 1930 Vaclav Havel born, 1936 7 Edgar Allan Poe dies (Baltimore), 1849 James Whitcomb Riley born, 1853 Niels Bohr born (Denmark), 1888 Sculptor Daniel Chester French dies, 1931 8 Netherlands is first country to recognize US, 1782 John Hancock dies (age 56), 1793 Alexander Solzhenitsyn named Nobel Prize winner, 1970 9 Franciscan Juan Batista de Ansa founds mission of San Francisco de Asissi (CA), 1776 Battle of Yorktown begins, 1781 Friedrich von Hayek wins Nobel Prize, 1974 10 Battle of Tours; Charles Martel defeats Muslim Army, 732 Henry St. John Bolingbroke born, 1678 Giuseppi Verdi born, 1813 Helen Hayes born (DC), 1900 Ludwig von Mises dies (NYC), 1973 11 Edison patented voice recorder, 1868 1st manned Apollo mission (W. Schirra, F. Eisele & W. Cunningham), 1968 12 Columbus Day Christopher Columbus first sights land in the Americas, 1492 Robert E. Lee dies, 1870 Iron Lung first used (Boston), 1928 13 Navy’s Birthday (Continental Congress orders navy construction), 1775 Albert Jay Nock born, 1872 Margaret Thatcher born, 1925 14 William the Conqueror defeats English (Battle of Hastings), 1066 William Penn born (London), 1644 Hannah Arendt born (Hanover, Germany), 1906 Milton Friedman wins Nobel Prize, 1976 15 Virgil born (near Mantua, Italy), 70 BC Friedrich Nietzsche born (Lutzen, Germany), 1844 Sir Pelham Grenville (P.G.) Wodehouse born, 1881 16 Noah Webster born (West Hartford, CT), 1758 Eugene O’ Neill born, 1888 George C. Marshall dies (DC), 1959 John Paul II elected Pope, 1978 17 Albert Einstein arrives in U.S., 1933 Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957 18 Edict of Nantes, 1685 Jose Ortega y Gasset dies, 1955 Thomas A. Edison dies (age 84; West Orange, NJ), 1931 Leo Strauss dies (Annapolis, MD), 1973 19 Jonathan Swift dies, 1745 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, 1781 Admiral Arleigh Albert Burke born (Boulder, CO), 1901 Russell Amos Kirk born (Plymouth, MI), 1918 20 Louisiana Purchase ratified by Senate, 1803 Herbert Hoover dies (age 90), 1964 21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge born, 1772 Battle of Trafalgar (England-Napoleon), 1805 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel born, 1833 Edison invents workable light bulb, 1879 Saul Bellow born, 1915 Dr. Norman Borlaug wins the Novel Peace Prize (for food production), 1970 22 Princeton University granted charter (as the College of New Jersey), 1746 Franz Liszt born, 1811 Metropolitan Opera opens (with Gounod’s Faust), 1883 23 First Parliament of Great Britain holds first meeting, 1707 Boris Pasternak awarded Nobel Prize, 1958 Hungarian Revolution begins, 1956 24 Treaties of Westphalia, 1648 (Swiss independence) Dr. Robert Koch discovers TB germ, 1882 25 Geoffrey Chaucer dies, 1400 Battle of Agincourt (St. Cyprian’s Day), 1415 Charge of the Light Brigade (Crimean War), 1854 Pablo Picasso born, 1881 John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize, 1962 26 First Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia, 1774 Erie Canal completed, 1825 27 Federalist Papers begin publication, 1787 Eliphalet Remington born (Suffield, CT), 1793 Violinist Jascha Heifetz makes American debut (Carnegie Hall), 1917 DuPont announces "nylon," 1938 28 Harvard College founded, 1636 Eli Whitney applied for cotton gin patent, 1793 Peter Tchaikovsky conducts first public performance of his Pathetique Symphony (St. Petersburg), 1893 Jonas Salk born, 1914 Evelyn Waugh born, 1923 Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954 Author Sheldon Vanauken dies (Lynchburg, VA), 1996 29 Massachusetts Bay Colony declares itself an independent colony, 1652 William Penn lands (Chester, PA), 1682 Republic of Turkey proclaimed, 1923 Wall Street Crash "Black Tuesday", 1929 First ballpoint pen in US goes on sale at Gimbel’s (NY), 1945 30 John Adams born (Quincy - Braintree, MA), 1735 Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility published, 1811 Fyodor Dostoevsky born, 1821 (old calendar) Paul Valery born, 1871 Ezra Pound born, 1885 George Marshall awarded Nobel Peace, 1953 31 Martin Luther posts 95 theses (Augsburg), 1517 John Keats born, 1795 Chiang Kai-shek born, 1887 Joseph Campbell dies (Hawaii), 1987 Reformation Day IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE TAKEN OFF THE DISTRIBUTION FOR THIS CALENDAR – OR WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE DISTRIBUTION – PLEASE E-MAIL: CWESTCIV@YAHOO.COM. 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