The Anxious Ear
• January 23, 2024

Music responds to the world around us. Join us for a series of performances with music spanning from 1930s Germany to the present-day United States. The Anxious Ear is planned […]

Guided Meditation: Mark Rothko
• November 30, 2023

Join us for a 30-minute meditation lead by yoga instructor and artist Aparna Sadananda, surrounding by paintings by Mark Rothko. Free and open to all, no meditation experience required. This […]

Shakespeare in the Library: Will’s World and Today’s Theatre
• November 28, 2023

Join us in our Library for a discussion with special collections librarian Yuri Long and guests from the Shakespeare Everywhere festival. They put early modern literature into conversation with contemporary […]

Wreath Sale Fundraiser & Event for the Mount Zion & Female Union Band Society Cemeteries
• November 21, 2023

Join us on Saturday, December 9th from 10:00 – 11:30 AM for the 3rd annual NSCDA-DC Wreath Laying Ceremony to Honor the Ancestors. Additionally, the National Society of the Colonial […]

Sky Hopinka: Wandering Translations, Poems, and Film
• October 10, 2023

Join us for a conversation with Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians), a New York based artist and poet, who teaches at Bard College. His film, video, photography, […]

Dorothea Lange: Seeing People
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Join us for an introductory presentation on Dorothea Lange: Seeing People by exhibition curator Philip Brookman. Brookman is consulting curator in the National Gallery’s department of photographs, and former chief […]

Death Comes to Tudor Place
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Join us for this special guided tour of the historic house from October 3 through November 5. This tour reveals almost 200 years of mourning customs as expressed through artifacts […]

The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
• September 25, 2023

Experience this exciting exhibition – “The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans” – on opening weekend and meet some of the featured artists in person. Weaving Performance, […]

Sanrizuga – Heta Village
• September 20, 2023

Shinsuke Ogawa (1935-1992) was one of Japan’s leading documentarians who inspired generations of non-fiction filmmakers to practice and participate in the power of dedicated, collective filmmaking. Ogawa lived and worked […]

Mondrian’s Dress
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Join an in-depth presentation on issues of authorship and (mistaken) identity raised by Yves Saint Laurent’s 1965 series of so-called Mondrian dresses. Nancy J. Troy, Kress-Beinecke Professor at the Center […]