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Weekend Round Up November 2, 2017
November 2, 2017
•Leonard Slatkin and Livingston Taylor are in town Friday, which is also Ladies Night at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. Saturday is Día de los Muertos in Arlington and on Sunday you can learn to pre-prepare holiday casseroles and/or paint watercolors mindfully.
Weekend Round Up October 26, 2017
October 26, 2017
•Going by the calendar, Halloween is on Tuesday. But the partying has already begun, continuing tonight at the Watergate’s Argentta Spa, on Saturday at Tudor Place and Malmaison and on Sunday at Pinstripes.
Weekend Round Up October 19, 2017
October 19, 2017
•It is a weekend of legendary names: Jerome Robbins, Frank Lloyd Wright, Annie Proulx, Dizzy Gillespie and Leonard Bernstein — not to mention Johannes Vermeer.
Last Chance: Nov. 9 Cultural Leadership Breakfast
October 16, 2017
•Melanie Mathewes, executive director of the Middleburg, Virginia, institution since 2013, will talk about the National Sporting Library & Museum’s evolution and its current major exhibition, “The Horse in Ancient Greek Art.”
Textile Museum’s Wetenhall Speaks at George Town Club
October 12, 2017
•The George Washington University Museum and the Textile Museum — designed by Hartman-Cox to incorporate historic Woodhull House, most recently a security office — opened at G and 21st Streets in March of 2015.
Weekend Round Up October 12, 2017
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This weekend, D.C. residents and visitors can experience France (in an animated film), Sweden (in a musical) and Rhode Island (people-to-people).
DC Artswatch Oct. 11, 2017
October 11, 2017
•FREER REOPENS WITH ASIAN FESTIVAL The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW, will celebrate the dual museum’s reopening this weekend with a […]
Films Pair With Wine, Scenery in Middleburg
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During the Middleburg Film Festival, Oct. 19 to 22, more than two dozen narrative and documentary films will be screened at venues such as the Middleburg Community Center, the National Sporting Library & Museum and the Hill School.
Weekend Round Up October 5, 2017
October 5, 2017
•Opening night for the Smithsonian’s Craft2Wear Show is tonight, Thursday, Oct. 5, and it’s also time for the Waterford Fair and the Solar & Green Home Tour.
Weekend Round Up September 28, 2017
September 28, 2017
•October arrives Sunday, along with Glen Echo’s Then & Wow! family day and the Blessing of the Animals in Georgetown at St. John’s.