The latest season at the Folger Theatre is wrapping up with one of my favorite Shakespeare comedies: Twelfth Night. With love triangles, mistaken identities, scheming, sword fights and drunken hilarity, Twelfth Night’s storyline is as intricate (and more entertaining) as your average daytime soap opera. The show opens with a shipwreck that separates Viola and [...]
Friday April 26 Honfleur Gallery (6pm to 8pm) You don’t have to fly to New Orleans for Jazz Fest, simply cross the Anacostia River this Friday! Honfleur will show a series of collages by John Lawson depicting Jazz greats. Lawson, who lost most of his work during Katrina, has also assembled a series of poems [...]
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Saturday April 20 39th Street Gallery (3pm to 5pm) The 39th Street Gallery is presenting an artist talk for the closing reception of Real and Remembrance. The talk will address English Physicist Michael Faraday’s belief that human perception comes from one’s imagination and not from one’s understanding of reality. For more information, click here. 39th [...]
Friday, March 22nd DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (6:30-8:30pm) Celebrate the arrival of spring. Seeds, Pods and Saplings, curated by Zoma Wallace, brings together the talents of Japanese-born sculptor Yuriko Yamaguchi, painter Michi Fugita and internationally renowned multimedia artist, Iona Rozeal Brown, whose work collectively created a surreal landscape in bloom. The DCCAH [...]
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Friday December 7 Brentwood Arts Exchange (6pm to 9pm) In partnership with the Washington Printmakers Gallery, the Brentwood Arts Exchange presents the “Maryland Edition” of Mentor & Mentee with instructors and protégés showing work side by side. You have to love an exhibition with a piece called ““Out of the Jungle It Came: A Look into the [...]
‘Tis the season once more, and along with it, the holiday performances. Whether you’re looking for a holiday sing-a-long or a modern take on a Christmas classic, there’s something for everyone this year. Here’s a roundup of ten shows where you can get your fill of song, dance, and drama. And who knows, maybe it [...]
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There are two weeks left to catch the Folger Theatre’s newest transformed drama, the Conference of the Birds, and there is good reason to make space on your calendar for this production. For one, it’s nothing like what you’d expect from a 12th-century Persian fable. The performance, filled with dance, song, flowing action and a somewhat [...]
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Some time ago we teased you all via Instagram about what was coming to the space at 511 11th street SE. Now we are happy to say that Little Loft is the business that will come soon to this space! Do you have a budding artist in your midst? Do you want to bring more [...]
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This post is sponsored by the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. By Megan Cheek Summer is wrapping up and in just a few short weeks, the school year will be back in full swing. In the latest installment of “Ask Leslie,” the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s spunky and knowledgeable Youth Education Coordinator Leslie Mansour answers your [...]
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