Weekend Roundup

Georgetowner • August 25, 2014

Summer Block Party Late Night

August 21st, 2014 at 05:00 PM | marcommintern@nbm.org | Event Website

Enjoy extended Museum hours to visit exhibitions, navigate the BIG maze, and nosh at Hill Country’s Backyard Barbecue.

Address

National Building Museum; 401 F St. NW

EPL at RiRa Georgetown

August 21st, 2014 at 07:45 AM | $4 Heineken, Newcastle and Strongbow during every game! | Tel: (202) 751 2111 | Event Website

All the action on our big screens! $4 Heineken, Newcastle and Strongbow during every game!

Aston Villa vs Newcastle: 7.45am Swansea vs Burnley: 10am Southampton vs West Brom: 10am Chelsea vs Leicester: 10am

Address

Rí Rá Georgetown; 3125 M STREET NW

Georgetown Family Festival

August 23rd, 2014 at 10:00 AM | info@dumbartonhouse.org | Event Website

Dumbarton House invites you to a weekend full of events that are fun for the whole family. Programs include, Georgetown walking tours, ice cream making, a Dolley cake, and Federal period games and crafts. Events begin Saturday, August 23rd at 10am and conclude Sunday, August 24th at 4pm.Admission to the museum is free this weekend.

Address

Dumbarton House; 2715 Q ST, NW

Sunset Yoga & Pilates in the Park

August 26th, 2014 at 06:00 PM | Event Website

The Georgetown BID, in partnership with Georgetown yoga and pilates studios, will host free one-hour sunset yoga and pilates sessions in the park throughout the summer. Sessions will begin at 6 p.m. in Georgetown Waterfront Park near the intersection of Potomac Street and K Street (Water Street). Please check in upon arrival at the information booth and pick up free water and light refreshments. You must bring your own yoga mat! Space is limited, and RSVPs are required. Namaste.

Address

Georgetown Waterfront Park

Salamander Resort & Spa Celebrates its First Year Anniversary with a Birthday Bash Weekend

August 29th, 2014 at 06:30 PM | $30 | Tel: 800.651.0721 | Event Website

– Salamander Resort & Spa is celebrating its first anniversary with a fun-filled Birthday Bash over Labor Day Weekend featuring numerous activities, contests and packages. – the resort will host a Birthday Bubbles celebration from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Filled with bottomless sparkling wine, birthday sweets and live entertainment, the event will take place on the Grand Terrace and Lawn. Admission is $30 per person.

Address

500 North Pendleton Street; Middleburg, VA 20117

Georgetowner • August 18, 2014

Yanni

August 15th, 2014 at 08:00 PM | $35.00 – $125.00 | philipc@wolftrap.org | Tel: 703.255.1900 ext. 1729 | Event Website

Globally acclaimed composer whose epic orchestrations fuse otherworldly synthesized sound with gorgeous instrumentation

Address

1551 Trap Road Vienna Virginia, 22182

Architecture 101: Bio-architecture

August 16th, 2014 at 11:00 AM | $12 Member | $10 Student | $20 Non-member. | marcommintern@nbm.org | Event Website

Address

National Building Museum, 401 F St., NW

National Bonsai Foundation Celebrates John Naka’s 100th Birthday

August 16th, 2014 at 02:00 PM | Free | averyanapol@gmail.com | Tel: 4148612076 | Event Website

Join the National Bonsai Foundation as we celebrate the legacy of John Naka, North American bonsai master who would have been 100 years old on this date. The event will feature videos and photos of Naka at work, remarks by the Museum’s assistant curator Aarin Packard, a display of Naka’s bonsai from the museum’s permanent collection and birthday cake.

Address

The National Arboretum, 3501 New York Ave., NE

IEF Old Fashioned Family Picnic

August 17th, 2014 at 02:00 PM | $70 per person, $150 for family | cbaerveldt@iefusa.org | Tel: 240-290-0263 ext 118 | [Event Website](http://iefusa.org/

Second Annual Old Fashioned Family Picnic to benefit the International Eye Foundation. Great family picnic fare, wine, beer, sodas. Hay rides, and listen to the music of King Street Bluegrass. Children welcome.

Address

Farm of Dr. & Mrs. A. Raymond Pilkerton, 15111 River Road, Potomac, Md.

Georgetown Family Festival

August 23rd, 2014 at 10:00 AM | info@dumbartonhouse.org | [Event Website](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dolley-day-at-dumbarton-house-war-of-1812-commemoration-tickets-8779302129?ref=ebapi)

Dumbarton House invites you to a weekend full of events that are fun for the whole family. Programs include, Georgetown walking tours, ice cream making, a Dolley cake and Federal period games and crafts. Events begin Saturday, August 23rd at 10am and conclude Sunday, August 24th at 4pm.Admission to the museum is free this weekend.

Address

Dumbarton House; 2715 Q ST, NW

Georgetowner • August 11, 2014

Architecture 101: Traditional Japanese Architecture

August 9th, 2014 at 11:00 AM | $12 Member | $10 Student | $20 Non-member | marcommintern@nbm.org | Event Website

Mira Locher, FAIA, LEED AP discusses why thick, thatched roofs, rough mud-plaster walls, and precisely woven tatami mats are grounded within the natural environment and culture of Japan. 1.5 LU (AIA)
$12 Member | $10 Student | $20 Non-member.
Special series pricing for all three Architecture 101 lectures: $30 Member | $25 Student | $50 Non-member.

Address

National Building Museum; 401 F St. NW

DC’s Biggest Outdoor Water Festival For Adults Comes To The Yards

August 9th, 2014 at 02:00 PM | Free | Event Website

The Yards will host its first-ever adult outdoor water festival, Splash Yards. The park will transform into an adult pool party complete with water elements, lawn games and a tiki bar. Guests can stay cool with a giant inflatable water slide, two pools with individual motorboats and people-sized hamster balls, and a water battle of epic proportions. Live entertainment will be provided by beloved 90s party band, White Ford Bronco, as well as multiple DJ sets.

Address

355 Water Street SE

Harbour Nights: Stephen Heller

August 13th, 2014 at 06:30 PM | Event Website

Relax on the plaza at the Washington Harbour and hear live music at Harbour Nights every Wednesday evening starting June 4 through September 24. Different local bands each week – including Kerry McCool, Josh Burgess, ilyAIMY, and many more – begin their two-hour shows at 6:30 pm, next to outdoor restaurants on the Potomac River waterfront in Georgetown. See the lists of bands, special events, and dining options on the website, and stay updated with Facebook/TheWashHarbour and Twitter/TheWashHarbour.

Address

3050 K Street NW

Collections Conversation: Dolley Madison and the War of 1812

August 13th, 2014 at 12:30 PM | Free | info@dumbartonhouse.org | Event Website

Join Dumbarton House Executive Director Karen Daly and learn more about Dolley Madison’s exciting flight from the White House and her stop at Dumbarton House through research by author Anthony Pitch and the collections of Dumbarton House. The talk will feature items on loan for the exhibition “Homefront 1812: Friends, Family & Foe” on view at Dumbarton House throughout Summer 2014.Event is free, but reservations are suggested.

Address

Dumbarton House; 2715 Q ST, NW

Exhibition Reception: 50 Egg Tempera Paintings by Caroline Adams

August 15th, 2014 at 06:00 PM | FREE | gallery@callowayart.com | Tel: 202-965-4601 | Event Website

Mix egg yolk with powdered pigment and you have egg tempera, a painting medium that has been used for over 1,000 years. A successful Kickstarter campaign provided the funding for Washington artist Caroline Adams’s project to make 50 paintings in egg tempera. The project culminates in an exhibition of the fifty small landscapes at Susan Calloway Fine Arts in Georgetown. Adams noted that they will be hung together “to feel like glimpses of a larger space”.

Address

Susan Calloway Fine Arts; 1643 Wisconsin Ave NW

Gary Tischler • August 4, 2014

In troubled times, the precious daily dealings we do demand to be noticed, as if they might lose themselves in the morning headlines and the nightly news.

Of late, we have lived a summer of ongoing sorrow as well as one in which the weather has contrived to bring us rain and heat and the tribulations of storms during the week, and often picture-perfect weekends which we embrace with urgency.

In Washington, D.C, where the world news is local news and politics are like soot in the air, these patterns are especially poignant. We saw recently flowers grow like gardens at the Malaysian Embassy and the Embassy of the Netherlands, where mourners signed condolence books and President Barack Obama visited. It was the Dutch who suffered the most deaths in the shocking, horrific shoot down of a Malaysian over battle-contested territory in Ukraine. Nearly 300 deaths came from that act, suspected to be committed by pro-Russian separatists armed with sophisticated missiles, obtained from Russia, in eastern Ukraine. Bodies of passengers and uniformed crew members and children and toys, laptops, scarves and shoes and notebooks fell from the sky and scattered across the war-torn steppe.

The protagonists in that tragedy are still sifting through the physical and emotional wreckage that came from—there were funeral marches, candlelit vigils, full churches and anguish both spoken and held in the quiet of the night. In the meantime, the quasi-civil war continued in the Ukraine, apace, some of it fought near the site of the crash.

In the Middle East, there was nothing but death and fire everywhere, most dramatically in the Gaza strip, that embattled, compact land in which Palestinians live in stark contrast to many of their neighbors. A series of events—the murder of three Israeli teenagers, a retaliatory killing of a Palestinian teenager and the launching of rockets by the militant group Hamas into Israel—led to eventually an Israeli invasion of Gaza in search of deadly tunnels and launching sites. Gaza has become a killing ground with half-hearted truces quickly broken. A thousand Palestinians have died, many of them civilians, many children among them. There have been significantly more Israeli military casualties than in previous such clashes.

There seems to be no end in sight—thousands dying in Syria in the civil war there, hundreds more in Iraq where a preternaturally violent terrorist group is still within sight of Baghdad, killing with terrible efficiency.

These are the daily news of our lives—they often obliterate other news, as well as the politics of our divided times, including the big national questions of what to do with the flow of Central American youngsters to the American borders in Texas.

This is the stuff of coffee house talk, morning headaches, anguish and sorrow for many Washingtonians, this most international of cities, who have friends and relatives in the areas of conflict and killing.

In times like these, in this city, we cherish the joys we can manage, almost with a kind of guilt, the news always out there like a reproach. Still, the sun reflecting on carefully stacked tomatoes, bright and shiny, from the Eastern Shore, is a welcome, almost energizing sight: the colors seem perfect, even blessed. At the Dupont Circle Sunday market, musicians—a black, wiry man playing jazz with his violin, a smallish man in blue jeans putting a folk and country wail into a song about love gone dry in the long ago.

We wander through the market, where ready-made food is an increasing presence, buy our Sunday crab cakes because we must, take home West Virginia potato salad and a scrumptious peach and strawberry pie.

At Eastern Market on Capitol Hill, we mingle with the many who have come to enjoy the sun and its bearable temperatures and blue sky. We buy a stack of chocolate chip cookies from a woman who says, “Money back guaranteed, the best cookies on the street.” We go to the bookstore stacked with so many used books over two or three floors that the building seems to list. “Been here over two decades, sitting right here behind the counter,” the proprietor says. “You need to get out more,” somebody tells him. Children run, fathers lift their baby boys, dogs abound and jewelry from South Africa sparkles like a gift to come.

These days, you notice these things in what appears to be a sad, dangerous summer, filled with bright skies and omens.

In 1914, 100 years ago, on July 28, World War I began — after a month before there was another impossible blue-sky day like that in Sarajevo, when Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, setting off a series of events that would lead to the deaths of millions and change the world.

Georgetowner •

International Beer Day at Piazza Beer Garden Hosted by DC Brau’s Brandon Skall

July 31st, 2014 at 06:00 PM | maha.hakki@mokimedia.com | Tel: 202.735.5224

International Beer Day is celebrated on August 1. Chef Francesco Ricchi and DC Brau’s Brandon Skall invite you to kick off the festivities one day early at Piazza Beer Garden on Thursday, July 31 from 6 to 8 p.m. For $10, beer lovers can enjoy three world brews and a presentation by DC Brau’s Brandon Skall

This event is open to the public. RSVP via email.

Address

Piazza Beer Garden; 7401 Woodmont Ave.; Bethesda, MD

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities presents a Visual Arts Exhibition

August 1st, 2014 at 06:00 PM | dcarts@dc.ccsend.com | Tel: (202) 724-5613

This month-long, free exhibition presents some of the District’s finest visual artists competing for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ FY15 Artist Fellowship Program (AFP) grant.

The gathering of these artworks in the District’s first operated public gallery captures the broad scope of the dynamic art scene and provides an opportunity for artists to express their visions to the public.

Address

Gallery at 200 i; 200 I Street, SE

Mary Chapin Carpenter: Songs from The Movie

August 1st, 2014 at 08:15 PM | $25.00 – $125.00 | philipc@wolftrap.org | Tel: 703.255.1900 ext. 1729 | Event Website

Spellbinding orchestral arrangements from an intimate country/rock Grammy winner’s new album, “Songs From The Movie”

Address

1551 Trap Road Vienna Virginia, 22182

Tysons Corner Center Concert Series

August 1st, 2014 at 07:00 PM | Free | ntieman@susandavis.com | Tel: 202-408-0808 | Event Website

Tysons Corner Center will host our first annual Fresh Artists Summer Concert Series. Shows will begin at approximately 7PM on the brand new outdoor Plaza.

Join us every Friday through August 29th for free live music perfect for the whole family. Get ready to rock!

Address

Tysons Corner Plaza

Re-Energize Your Summer Reading: A NoveList and Literature Resource Center Tutorial

August 2nd, 2014 at 01:00 PM | Free | julia.strusienski@dc.gov | Tel: 202-727-0232 | Event Website](http://dclibrary.org/node/43233)

Already finished all the books you were looking forward to reading this summer? Come learn about NoveList and Literature Resource Center, two great digital library resources that can help you find fiction and nonfiction titles and keep you reading for the rest of the season–and all year-round.

Address

Georgetown Neighborhood Library, 3260 R St. NW

Summer Concerts: CityDance Ensemble

August 3rd, 2014 at 02:00 PM | Free | marcommintern@nbm.org | Event Website](http://go.nbm.org/site/Calendar/983677012?view=Detail&id=117285)

Free. CityDance Ensemble explores dances from around the world in their presentation of “Dancing In One Language.”

Address

National Building Museum; 401 F St. NW

Dumbarton House: Jane Austen Film Fest “Pride and Prejudice”

August 6th, 2014 at 07:00 PM | Info@DumbartonHouse.org | Tel: 202-337-2288 | Event Website](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/free-jane-austen-outdoor-film-series-2014-tickets-11959927465?ref=ebapi)

Dumbarton House invites you to settle on the north garden lawn for one or all films during their third outdoor summer film series, this year showcasing Jane Austen. Doors open at 7 p.m. to members and 7:30 p.m to the public. This year, no registration is required to attend. Admission will be determined on a first-come first-served basis.

August 6: Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Rain dates will be July 16, July 30, and August 11, respectively.

Address

Dumbarton House; 1715 Q St NW

Georgetowner • July 21, 2014

Plein Air Easton Art Festival

July 17th, 2014 at 07:00 AM | Event Website

Plein Air Easton is the largest and most prestigious juried plein air painting competition in the United States. In its 10th year, it is held annually in Easton, Maryland each July. Plein air painters produce art from life (as opposed to in the studio). Artists from all over the United States and beyond apply to this competition. There will be 58 competing artists that will paint throughout Talbot County, Maryland the week of July 12-20, 2014. The resulting original works of art are displayed in the Academy Art Museum where awards are announced and paintings are sold throughout the final weekend.

Address

Plein Air Easton; 40 East Dover Street; Easton, Maryland 21601

Bethesda Row Summer Sidewalk Sale

July 18th, 2014 at 09:00 AM | Free

Bethesda Row will hold the Bethesda Row Summer Sidewalk Sale, the annual festival that turns the Bethesda Row quadrant into a festive outdoor street bazaar, offering live entertainment along with unprecedented deals on fashions, housewares, beauty items, furniture and more. The weekend also offers restaurants specials throughout Bethesda Row.

Address

4950 Elm St.; Bethesda, MD

Castleton Festival: Don Giovanni

July 18th, 2014 at 08:00 PM | Event Website

Maestro Lorin Maazel will conduct a new production of Don Giovanni at the 2014 Castleton Festival, held in the 650-seat Festival Theatre. Don Giovanni is Mozart’s two-act opera based on the legendary exploits and adventures of the fictional hero Don Juan, directed by renowned Italian stage director Giandomenico Vaccari, returning to Castleton after receiving critical acclaim for its 2013 production of The Girl of the Golden West.

Address

Castleton Farms; 7 Castleton Meadow Lane; Castleton, VA 22716

Zoogazing! Planetarium to Arrive at National Zoo

July 19th, 2014 at 09:00 AM | Admission is free! | Roman-CohenT@si.edu | Tel: 202-633-3026 | Event Website

Take a journey to the stars without leaving the Zoo! A mobile planetarium is coming to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, courtesy of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It will be an out-of-this-world event! This Saturday, July 19, from 9am to 2pm, the Zoo’s Visitor Center will transform into a planetarium where you can view animal-themed constellations. There will also be storytelling, crafts, a scavenger hunt, and much more. It’s fun for the whole family! Learn more at fonz.org/zoogazing.

Address

3001 Connecticut Ave., Nw

Thai Village

July 19th, 2014 at 11:00 AM | kelsey@lindarothpr.com | Tel: 703-417-2702 | Event Website

The fourth annual Thai Village, in celebration of Thailand’s traditions and people will feature food from several of DC’s best Thai restaurants, musical performances, art exhibitions, food demonstrations and traditional Thai massage.

Address

Grace Church; 1041 Wisconsin Ave NW (across from the Thai Embassy in Georgetown)

2001: A Space Odyssey

July 19th, 2014 at 08:30 PM | $22.00 – $55.00 | philipc@wolftrap.org | Tel: 703.255.1900 ext. 1729 | Event Website

The ground-breaking 1968 film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick still retains its allure and mystery. The NSO performs the score live as the enigmatic and compelling film is screened in the house and on the lawn. The film is presented by arrangement with Warner Bros., Southbank Centre London, and the British Film Institute.

Address

1551 Trap Road Vienna Virginia, 22182

Jane Austen Outdoor Film Festival

July 23rd, 2014 at 08:30 PM | Free | info@dumbartonhouse.org | Event Website

You are cordially to DUMBARTON HOUSE for our third outdoor summer film fest!

This year, no registration is required to attend. Doors open to Museum Members at 7:00 pm. Doors open to the public at 7:30 pm. Due to our site capacity, admission will be first-come, first-served.

Screening Schedule:

July 23rd Sense & Sensibility (1995)

August 6th Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Rain dates are July 16th, July 30th, and August 11th. All films begin around 8:30pm

Address

Dumbarton House; 2715 Q ST, NW

Georgetowner • July 14, 2014

Shot in the Dark Golf & Dinner Classic

July 11th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | $195-$375 | mmccall@clb.org | Tel: 202-434-6406 | Event Website](http://www.clb.org/)

Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind’s Second Annual Shot in the Dark Golf & Dinner Classic is a unique fundraiser promoting the awareness of the prevalence of visual impairments and the abilities of those with vision impairment. Activities include a 9-hole night golf tournament, dinner, live entertainment, a putting contest, and a memorable blind golf clinic.

Address

Woodmont Country Club; 1201 Rockville Pike; Rockville, MD 20852

Castleton Festival: Madama Butterfly

July 11th, 2014 at 08:00 PM | [Event Website](https://www.castletonfestival.org/)

Maestro Lorin Maazel will conduct a new production of Madama Butterfly at the 2014 Castleton Festival, held in the 650-seat Festival Theatre. Madama Butterfly, one of Giacomo Puccini’s most influential and famous works which tells the dramatic love story of an American naval officer and his young Japanese bride, directed by Tomer Zvulun.

Address

Castleton Farms; 7 Castleton Meadow Lane; Castleton, VA 22716

Disney Fantasia Live in Concert

July 11th, 2014 at 08:30 PM | $22.00 – $55.00 | philipc@wolftrap.org | Tel: 703.255.1900 ext. 1729 | [Event Website](http://www.wolftrap.org/Find_Performances_and_Events/Performance/14Filene/0711show14.aspx)

Experience Disney magic on the big screen when the NSO casts an enchanting musical spell on sorcerer Mickey and other cherished animated characters from Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000

Address

1551 Trap Road Vienna Virginia, 22182

Ritz Carlton: World Cup Final Match & Celebration

July 13th, 2014 at 03:00 PM | [Event Website](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-cup-2014-final-match-celebration-registration-12173097061)

Art Soiree & The Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown are partnering up to turn the Ballroom of the hotel into a watching destination of the final match of the World Cup. Featuring live telecast on a huge screen in the Ballroom, drinks & food specials, as well as the celebration with confetti, music & dancing after the game. To RSVP, click [Event Website](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/world-cup-2014-final-match-celebration-registration-12173097061).

Address

Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown; 3100 South Street NW

Ride Towards Wellness, a program with Women & Bicycles

July 13th, 2014 at 01:00 PM | Free | Erika.Rydberg@dc.gov | Tel: 202-727-0232 | [Event Website](http://dclibrary.org/georgetown)

Whether you ride for fun, to commute or to race, cycling is becoming a part of many women’s health routines. Join WABA and Role Model Laurie from Proteus Bicycles. Laurie is a Women’s Health expert,and has offered to host a skill share on health and biking.

Join us to learn about how biking benefits your health and the health of our communities.

No need to RSVP, but if you would like to you can RSVP on this [Facebook event page](https://www.facebook.com/events/312069855615706/)

Address

3260 R Street NW Washington, DC 20007

Harbour Nights: Julia Fanning

July 16th, 2014 at 06:30 PM | [Event Website](http://www.thewashingtonharbour.com/events/)

Relax on the plaza at the Washington Harbour and hear live music at Harbour Nights. Julia Fanning will be performing Wednesday, July 16 and will begin their two-hour show at 6:30 pm. Shows will be on every Wednesday night through September 24.

For more information about the list of people coming in go to: [www.thewashingtonharbour.com](http://www.thewashingtonharbour.com/events/)

Address

3000 K St , next to outdoor restaurants on the Potomac River waterfront in Georgetown.

Natalie Koltun • July 7, 2014

Due to an increase of crowds anticipated for upcoming Independence Day events, the District Department of Transportation is advising residents and visitors to travel with extreme caution and encourage the use of public transportation.

Metrorail will operate its Saturday schedule until 2 p.m. on Friday, with increased service just before and after the fireworks display on the National Mall. Metrobus will also operate its Saturday schedule, but some routes will be detoured around the National Mall due to lane closures and increased traffic. The DC Circulator will operate its regular weekday schedule on Friday, July 4.

For those traveling around the city in a car, DDOT plans to manage the flow of traffic leaving the city after the fireworks display by extending particular green lights, beginning a half hour after the fireworks conclude for a total of one hour. DDOT will open the temporarily-closed travel lanes from noon Thursday, July 3, to Saturday, July 5. Public parking near the National Mall will be extremely limited during the fireworks display and throughout the day on Friday, July 4.

Please use extreme caution when walking or driving near the National Mall during the Independence Day festivities. DDOT will have Traffic Control Officers stationed in the area to assist with traffic and ensure the safety of pedestrians at busy intersections.

For more information on getting around Washington, D.C., this weekend, visit godcgo.com/.

Georgetowner •

Blues Alley: Loide Album Release

July 5th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | $24.00 General Admission | Event Website

World Jazz artist Loide (pronounced Loy-deh), announces the release of her album In Time. As her sophomore project,In Time is the follow-up to her 2011 album “Live at Bohemian Caverns.” Staying true to her sound, fans can expect to hear what Loide calls her signature “Afro-Lusophone,” jazz. Loide coined the affectionate term to express her sound with a mix of her African heritage, lusophone because she occasionally sings in Portuguese and jazz because there is much jazz influence in her music.

Address

Blues Alley; 1073 Wisconsin Ave NW

Castleton Festival: Madam Butterfly

July 6th, 2014 at 02:00 PM | Event Website

Maestro Lorin Maazel will conduct a new production of Madama Butterfly at the 2014 Castleton Festival, held in the 650-seat Festival Theatre. Madama Butterfly, one of Giacomo Puccini’s most influential and famous works which tells the dramatic love story of an American naval officer and his young Japanese bride, directed by Tomer Zvulun.

Address

Castleton Farms; 7 Castleton Meadow Lane; Castleton, VA 22716

The Aloha Boys

July 6th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | Free | evelyn.verdon@fairfaxcounty.gov | Tel: 703-790-0123 | Event Website

Part of the Summer Sunday Concerts in the Park series. The Aloha Boys play an acoustic down-home, backyard-style Hawai’ian music, a style which includes everything from the very traditional to contemporary songs and styles. Concerts will be held in the McLean Central Park Gazebo, located at Route 123 and Old Dominion Drive. Parking available at McLean Community Center.

Address

McLean Central Park Gazebo; 1468 Dolley Madison Blvd; McLean, VA 22102

Powerhouse Georgetown: Design@+ Exhibit

July 7th, 2014 at 06:00 PM | Event Website

In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Sister Cities Relations between the District of Columbia and Beijing, China, the Powerhouse will be the venue for the ‘Design@+’ exhibit and activities, being unveiled on July 7, followed by a series of free public programs, panels and pop up artisans until July 11. The design exhibit includes approximately 80 contemporary designs by D.C.-based and Beijing-based designers.

Address

the Powerhouse; 3255 Grace Street, NW

Capital Fringe Festival Opening Day

July 7th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | $17 | communications@capitalfringe.org | Tel: 202-737-7230 | Event Website

The first of eighteen days of creative and uninhibited performances. In addition, much merriment and revelry is to be had at the Baldacchino Tent Bar at Fort Fringe, where visitors and fanatics alike can enjoy even more live local music than ever before, food, drinks and pulled BBQ pork, and catch the latest buzz about all of the Fringe performances.

Address

Fort Fringe; 607 New York Avenue NW

Take an Om Break Yoga at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library

July 7th, 2014 at 07:15 PM | Free | Erika.Rydberg@dc.gov | Tel: 202-727-0232 | Event Website

Yoga continues this July at the Georgetown Neighborhood Library. In addition to our continuing afternoon classes we now will have a few evening classes as well.

As of this month we also have 6 community yoga mats available on a first come first serve basis.

To RSVP to any or all classes please email Erika.Rydberg@dc.gov with your name and the class dates you are interested in. I will take the first 30 RSVPs for each class, the remainder will be put on a wait-list.

Address

3260 R Street NW

Richard Selden • July 2, 2014

Andrew Wyeth’s “Wind from the Sea” – the centerpiece of the “Looking Out, Looking In” exhibition at the National Gallery of Art (reviewed in the May 7 issue of The Georgetowner) – was painted a year before and on the same Maine farm as his iconic “Christina’s World” of 1948.

Cushing, Maine, where Christina Olson lived, was the painter’s summer home. Andrew Wyeth’s roots were in Chadds Ford, Pa., where the Brandywine River Museum of Art offers scheduled tours of his studio and the Kuerner Farm, both portrayed in several works in “Looking Out, Looking In.”

“His art is all about sense of place – things that mean something to him, people that mean something to him,” says Virginia O’Hara, the Brandywine museum’s curator of collections.

Upon their marriage in 1940, Andrew and Betsy Wyeth made a 19th-century schoolhouse their home and Andrew’s studio. Restored to look as it did when they lived there, the modest building – white, inside and out – is filled with old furniture, artists’ materials (brushes, a carton of eggs for making tempera paints, large blocks of watercolor paper), books on art, ship models and armies of toy soldiers. The kitchen has “modern” appliances from the 1950s.

Part of the studio is set up as the studio of their son James, known as Jamie, as if he were working on his 1967 portrait of John F. Kennedy. A short distance away is the expansive, prop-filled studio of Andrew Wyeth’s father and teacher, famed illustrator N.C. Wyeth, who built it in 1911 with earnings from his work on Scribner’s edition of “Treasure Island.” (The museum also has scheduled tours of N.C. Wyeth’s studio.)

Even more evocative is the bleakly beautiful farm of German immigrant Karl Kuerner, designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011 along with the Olson House in Cushing. A square, stone trough in front of two windows in the ancient barn is clearly the motif of the painting “Spring Fed” in “Looking Out, Looking In.” Another work in the National Gallery show depicts the farmhouse attic, with iron hooks from which onions and potatoes were hung.

No portraits of Wyeth’s Chadds Ford muse, Helga Testorf, who was Karl Kuerner’s nurse, are part of “Looking Out, Looking In,” but the painter had a way of instilling a human presence in his still lifes (not just art-history talk: in some cases a figure in an initial version of a work was later removed).

Much of the credit for preserving the scenic and historic landscape that Wyeth painted goes to the Brandywine Conservancy, founded in 1967 to protect the watershed. Having created the museum in 1971, the organization – based in a former gristmill off U.S. 1 – recently renamed itself the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art.

A selection of Andrew Wyeth’s watercolors of Chadds Ford from the 1940s through the 2000s (he died in 2009) is on view at the museum through the end of September. “Exalted Nature: The Real and Fantastic World of Charles Burchfield,” an exhibition of more than 50 paintings by a very different American artist, opens Aug. 23.

The only name that looms larger than Wyeth in the Brandywine Valley is du Pont. DuPont, the chemical company, began in 1802 as Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours’s gunpowder mill on the Brandywine. His little family of Huguenot immigrants from Burgundy expanded in size and wealth in the 19th and 20th centuries to produce some of America’s greatest industrialists and philanthropists.

In 1906, Pierre S. du Pont bought the historic arboretum in Kennett Square, Pa., known as Peirce’s Park, making it his private estate and expanding it to more than 1,000 acres of gardens, fountains and greenhouses. We know it today as Longwood Gardens, welcoming roughly a million visitors annually. The latest addition to Longwood is an 86-acre Meadow Garden. Among the upcoming events are Summer Soirées on July 18 and Aug. 22 (free with admission) and Patti LuPone on July 10 ($45-75) and Savion Glover on Aug. 14 ($36-56).

Winterthur, the Wilmington mansion of one of Pierre’s cousins, Henry Francis du Pont, is furnished with his exceptional collection of American antiques and surrounded by gardens. It is a suitable setting for an audience-broadening Winterthur exhibition, “Costumes of Downton Abbey,” displaying 40 historically inspired costumes from the PBS series (through Jan. 4).

Other Wilmington cultural attractions include the Hagley Museum and Nemours Mansion, both connected to du Ponts, and the Delaware Art Museum, which features works by the Pre-Raphaelites, John Sloan and illustrators such as Howard Pyle.

Good dining choices may be found on State Street in downtown Kennett Square, where there is a monthly First Friday Art Stroll. For a country inn ambiance, try Buckley’s Tavern in Centerville, Pa., on Kennett Pike between Kennett Square and Wilmington.

To make an overnight or a weekend of it, there are 11 B&Bs listed on the Brandywine Valley Bed and Breakfast Association website. The landmark 1913 Hotel du Pont in Wilmington displays works by N.C., Andrew and Jamie Wyeth in its elegant public rooms. [gallery ids="116309,116312" nav="thumbs"]