Weekend Roundup February 2 2012
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Shakespeare’s Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500- 1700
FEBRUARY 3RD, 2012 AT 10:00 AM | FREE | BEMELSON@FOLGER.EDU | TEL: (202) 675- 0342 | EVENT WEBSITE
Virginia Woolf famously evoked “Shakespeare’s sister” in A Room of One’s Own as she tried to imagine the difficulties women writers faced during the early modern period. In fact, Woolf was not aware of how many women actually were writing during that time, because many of their works were never published, and those that were, lay in relative critical neglect. This exhibition explores those women who were, in fact, writing during Shakespeare’s time.
February 3- May 20
Address
201 East Capitol Street SE
Washington, DC
20003
LOVE Show Reception
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 AT 06:00 PM
Celebrate that ultimate feeling between two people with the LOVE Show (poems, paintings and music)
Address
Mark Cottman Gallery
1014 S. Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21230
Fashion Takes Flight
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 AT 07:00 PM | $85 | EVENT WEBSITE
A ticket to this event includes cocktails, gourmet hors d’oeuvres, access to a fashion show with models and military service men and women sporting the District’s freshest new talent, a silent auction and an invitiation to the exclusive after-party at Lincoln. Come together to support an organization, Luke’s Wings, that aims to assist the families of those who serve.
Address
Washington Nationals Park
1500 South Capitol Street SE
Smithsonian at Little Washington
FEBRUARY 4TH, 2012 AT 08:00 PM | 10$-25$
Pièces de clavecin en concerts by Jean-Philippe Rameau, played by the Smithsonian Chamber Players. Rameau, the great French composer of the Baroque era, composed this music in 1741. This concert gives Theatre audiences the opportunity to hear some of the same concerts which are performed at the Smithsonian’s American History Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.
Address
The Theatre
291 Gay Street
Washington
VA 22747
Women On Stage: A Conversation about Susanna Centlivre
FEBRUARY 5TH, 2012 AT 02:00 PM | FREE | RESERVATIONS@NMWA.ORG | TEL: (202) 783- 5000
In conjunction with Folger Theatre’s production of Susanna Centlivre’s The Gaming Table, director Eleanor Holdridge, head of the MFA Directing program at Catholic University of America and Georgianna Ziegler, the Folger’s Head of Reference, discuss the 18th- century playwright’s theatrical legacy.
Address
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue NW
Washington DC
