Weekend Round Up July 20, 2017
• July 20, 2017

Another entertainment-filled weekend is here, with Capital Fringe in high gear and the District of Comedy Festival at the Kennedy Center.

Dumbarton Oaks Gardens Closed for 8 Months
• July 12, 2017

On Monday, July 10, the gardens at Georgetown’s Dumbarton Oaks — the Harvard-owned research library that exhibits Byzantine and Pre-Columbian art and artifacts in a pavilion designed by Philip Johnson […]

Septime Webre Named to Hong Kong Post
• June 6, 2017

A year after leaving the Washington Ballet — and a few months after launching the Halcyon Stage series — Septime Webre has been named artistic director of Hong Kong Ballet, […]

Regarding Henri … and Others
• April 19, 2017

As French Market visitors stroll Wisconsin Avenue, inhaling fresh air and enticing smells, they may find themselves asking, “What would Henri do?” French artist and cabaret devotee Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec […]

April 6 Cultural Leadership Breakfast: Judy A. Greenberg
• April 6, 2017

The founding director of the Kreeger Museum in Foxhall will be next month’s speaker at the George Town Club.

Panel and Last Chance: ‘The Great Swindle’ at OAS
• March 27, 2017

You have until Sunday to check out “The Great Swindle: Works by Santiago Montoya” at the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States on 17th Street.

New Dean at Georgetown College
• March 16, 2017

Christopher Celenza will succeed Chester Gillis as dean of Georgetown University’s oldest undergraduate school July 1.

Michael Kahn Muses on Shakespeare and Power
• March 13, 2017

The American theater legend was the featured guest at this morning’s Cultural Leadership Breakfast at the George Town Club.

This Thursday: Shakespeare Theatre’s Michael Kahn at the George Town Club
• March 9, 2017

Last chance to RSVP for Georgetown Media Group’s next Cultural Leadership Breakfast, March 9 at 8 a.m.

DC Artswatch
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“Belize 35,” an exhibition marking the 35th anniversary of Belize independence, will run from Feb. 11 through March 13 at the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States, 201 18th Street NW. The featured artists are sculptor Santiago Cal, with two installations, and photojournalist Karl Villanueva, with color images made Sept. 21, 1981, Belize’s day of independence.

The 2016 Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy will be given by John Maeda, partner at Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and former president of Rhode Island School of Design, on Monday, March 7, at the Kennedy Center. Named for the second chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the lecture takes place the evening before Arts Advocacy Day. To reserve a free ticket, and for Advocacy Day details, visit americansforthearts.org.

The DC Independent Film Festival will take place March 4 to 13 at the Naval Heritage Center, E Street Cinema, the Carnegie Institution for Science, BloomBars and Miracle Theater Church. The festival will screen 16 documentaries — including “Mind/Game,” about former Washington Mystic Chamique Holdsclaw — and 11 features, along with documentaries, shorts, animated films and high school film competition finalists. For details, visit dciff-indie.org.

Septime Webre, artistic director of the Washington Ballet since 1999, will step down from the position in June. Named for his French great-grandfather, also a seventh son, he took the company to Cuba (which his parents left in 1959) in 2000. Webre has continued to raise the D.C. and national profile of the company and school ever since, through his bold choreography and, among other accomplishments, the launch of programming in Southeast at THEARC and the creation of a “Nutcracker” set in Georgetown.

Compiled by Richard Selden.