Here are some more great free arts and culture events from CultureCapital.com! This site is a fantastic resource for events provided by CultureCapital (formerly known as the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington) a wonderful organization that supports and highlights the DC metro area's vibrant and diverse arts community!
You can find more free events and exhibits on view inside of the beltway on the custom designed "Free in DC" Inside Out page on CultureCapital.com and you can also find CultureCapital.com on facebook and @TICKETPLACEDC on twitter. TICKETPLACE is another great program of CultureCapital where you can find half-price tickets to performances in the DC metro area!
Wednesday, October 8th
Lunchtime - Talk at NMWA - Metro Center
Conversation Piece: Blauer Leibesbrief (Blue Bodily Letters) & Data Zone, Cultures Table #3
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Note: Talk is free but if you want to tour the museum before or after, *regular admission applies. During NMWA’s weekly “Conversation Pieces” series, view selected videos featured in the special exhibition, Total Art: Contemporary Video, on view through October 12th. This week, Curatorial Assistant Stephanie Midon facilitates a conversation about themes connecting Pipilotti Rist’s Blauer Leibesbrief (Blue Bodily Letters) (1992/98) and Michal Rovner’s Data Zone, Cultures Table #3 (2003). *Regular admission: $10, students with ID and 65+ $8, Free for NMWA members and youth 18 and under + Free Community Day on the first Sunday of every month 12:00pm - 5:00pmNational Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave, NW
Metro: Metro Center, 13th St exit or take any number of buses to the corner of 13th & H St NW
Evening - Panel Discussion on Covering the Supreme Court - Archives
Courtroom Drama: Covering the Supreme Court
7:00pm, doors 6:15pm
Reservations are recommended; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis
A panel from the Supreme Court Press Corps discusses what it is like to cover the news about the highest court in the land. Representing the press from various angles, panelists include Garrett Epps, author of American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution; Marcia Coyle, author of The Roberts Court: The Struggle for the Constitution; and Jess Bravin, author of The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay. Book signings will follow the program. Note: Can't make it in person? Did you know that all public programs at the National Archives are free and streamed live online via the National Archives’ YouTube channel!
National Archives
use the special events entrance at the corner of
7th & Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
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Friday, October 10th
Lunchtime - Film Screening at The Archives - Archives
Kennesaw: One Last Mountain
12:00pm - 1:00pm
A discussion featuring Executive Producer Adam Eisenberg and Anthony Winegar, Chief Ranger at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park will follow the screening. About the film: (2013; 35 minutes) This film uses authentic battle recreations and accounts of soldiers, civilians, and freed slaves to bring a dramatic Civil War story from June 27, 1864 to life. The story is about the assault on Confederate forces entrenched along the Kennesaw Mountain line in an attempt to capture Atlanta, "a critical rail center and industrial hub of the Confederate war machine."
National Archives
Neptune Fine Art
Constitution Ave between 9th & 7th St, NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
Evening - Art Opening at Neptune Art - Upper Georgetown
Out of Bounds: Opening Reception
6:00pm - 8:00pm
on view from Friday, October 10th - Saturday, November 29th
Neptune Fine Art presents a group exhibition of contemporary abstraction featuring nine American artists in diverse media with exciting, independent visions. Participating artists: Elizabeth Enders, Erick Johnson, Ying Li, Jennifer Riley, David Row, Bill Schmidt, James Siena, Allan Tarantino, Michael Weiss.
Neptune Fine Art
1662 33rd St, NW
near Reservoir Rd, south of R St
Metro: See metro trip-planner for best bus access from metro, or take the Circulator, Union-Station, Georgetown route, to the stop closest to Reservoir Rd, near the end of the line
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Saturday, October 11th
Raphael, The Alba Madonna, c. 1510,
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Afternoon - Art Talk at NGA West Building - Archives
Gallery Talk: The Tondo in Renaissance Art
1:00pm - 1:50pm
also on Sunday at 1:00pm
Permanent collection gallery talk given by David Gariff, staff lecturer, National Gallery of Art.
National Gallery of Art
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda
6th & Constitution Ave NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
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Sunday, October 12th
Lunchtime - Documentary on PR-American Muslim Rapper Hamza Pérez - Anacostia
Photograph courtesy of Hamza Pérez
New Muslim Cool (2009; 83 min)
12:00pm - 1:45pm
Discussion and Q&A with Hamza Pérez follows the screening! This documentary follows Puerto Rican American rapper Hamza Pérez as he forgoes a life dealing drugs to start down a new path as a young Muslim raising his family in Pittsburgh’s tough North Side. This film is closed captioned.
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, SE (map)
Metro: Anacostia, take the W2 bus, see metro trip-planner
Afternoon - Art Talk at NGA West Building - Archives
Gallery Talk: The Tondo in Renaissance Art
1:00pm - 1:50pm
Permanent collection gallery talk given by David Gariff, staff lecturer, National Gallery of Art.
National Gallery of Art
West Building Main Floor, Rotunda
6th & Constitution Ave NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
Afternoon - Poetry and Prose Reading at The Writer's Center - Bethesda, MD
Delmarva Review Reading
2:00pm - 4:00pm
The Writer's Center hosts a poetry and prose reading by writers recently published in The Delmarva Review. Readers To Be Announced. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing.
The Writer's Center
4508 Walsh St - Bethesda, MD
Metro: Bethesda, elevator exit is closest
Late Afternoon - Documentary Film Classic at the NGA West Building - Archives
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin and Marlon Brando at Civil
Rights March in DC 08/28/1963. U.S. Information
Agency. Press and Publications Service
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Now considered a documentary film classic, The Price of the Ticket (view trailer and read more) (Karen Thorsen, 1990, 87 minutes) has been restored with the help of the Ford Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts in honor of Baldwin’s 90th birthday! See a biographical timeline on Baldwin here. Produced in association with Maysles Films and PBS/American Masters, The Price of the Ticket premiered in 1990 at Sundance and went on to win numerous awards at home and abroad. An emotional portrait, a social critique, and a passionate plea for human equality, its extensive vérité footage allows Baldwin to tell his own story: exploring what it means to be born black, impoverished, gay, and gifted in a world that has yet to understand that "all men are brothers." "On-camera witnesses" include the late Maya Angelou (she reads passages from the authors writings), Amiri Baraka, David Leeming, Bobby Short, and William Styron.
National Gallery of Art
West Building, Lecture Hall
6th & Constitution Ave NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
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Monday, October 13th
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Evening - Spoken Word, Movement, and Music Performance at UMD - College Park, MD
Here They Stood: A Site-Specific Spoken Word Opera
7:30pm
A site-specific performance incorporating spoken word, movement, and live music drawing on material from Joseph's upcoming, We Shall Not Be Moved: the Hip-H'opera Project, commissioned by Opera Philadelphia and Art Sanctuary. The work centers on the MOVE Organization in Philadelphia and investigates the state of education in today's society. This is the culmination of award-winning poet, playwright, dancer, performer, and social activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph's residency at the School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies.
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
H.J. Patterson Hall
Stadium Drive, UMD - College Park, MD
Metro: College Park and take a bus or taxi
Evening - New Music Concert at UMD - College Park, MD
TEMPO Fall Concert
8:00pm
Established and run by graduate students at the UMD School of Music, TEMPO premieres new music happening beyond the walls of the University of Maryland.
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Gildenhorn Recital HallStadium Drive, UMD - College Park, MD
Metro: College Park and take a bus or taxi
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Tuesday, October 14th
Evening - Illustrated Lecture Art Deco Art & Architecture at The Arts Club - Farragut West
The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meiere
6:30pm
Art and architectural historian Kathleen Murphy Skolnick will present an illustrated lecture, beginning at 7:00pm, on the work of Hildreth Meière (1892-1961), one of the most talented and prolific but largely unknown American muralists of the first half of the 20th century. Skolnik is co-author with Catherine Coleman Brawer of The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière, published this past May. During her 40-year career, Meière completed approximately 100 commissions. "An unsung heroine of Art Deco art and architecture, Ms. Meiere is the artist behind many of the most spectacular murals of the first half of the twentieth century. The dynamic roudels of Dance, Drama and Song at Radio City Music Hall, the shimmering glass mosaics in St. Bartholomew's Church, an altar at St. Patrick's Cathedral, the glistening red mosaic walls at One Wall Street, and the rich designs at the National Academy of Sciences and elsewhere are all the work of Meiere, a central figure in American decorative art." Books will be available for purchase and signing following the presentation.
Arts Club of Washington
2017 I St, NW
Metro: Farragut West or Foggy Bottom
See "Free in DC" Inside Out page on CultureCapital for more free events and exhibits on view!