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!
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Wednesday, February 25
Lunchtime - Talk at NMWA - Metro Center
Gallery Talk: Material Girl
12:00pm - 12:30pm
Note: Talk is free but if you want to tour the museum before or after, *regular admission applies. Bite-size lunchtime talks are offered most Wednesdays throughout the special exhibition, Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea. Museum staff members facilitate interactive talks that encourage close looking and the investigation of mediums, techniques, or overarching themes of the exhibition. This week, Digital Media Specialist Laura Hoffman discusses the variety and significance of the physical media artists have employed to depict spiritual subject matter. *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 - 5:00pm (that's this Sunday, March 1!)
National 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
Lunchtime - Author Talk & Signing at The Archives - Archives
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships that Built America
12:00pm
Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation. Neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. He blended his talents with those of key partners, led the drive for the Constitutional Convention, and pressed for an effective new government. A book signing will follow the program.National Archives
between 7th & 9th on Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
Afternoon - Lecture at the National Gallery of Art West Building - Archives
Resisting Love, Embracing War in Representations of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata
3:30pm
Peter Lukehart, associate dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, NGA.
National Gallery of Art
West Building, Lecture Hall
6th & Constitution Ave NW
Metro: Archives
Evening - Black History Month Literary event at The Hill Center - Eastern Market
Hill Center and PEN/Faulkner Present: Voices Beyond Bondage
7:00pm
see details on the post already up on Free in DC listing free events as part of Black History Month
Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Ave, SE
Metro: Eastern Market
Evening - High School Choir Concert at the National Cathedral - Wisconsin & Mass Ave
10th High School Choir Festival Grand Finale Concert at the Washington National Cathedral
Presented by the Cathedral Choral Society
7:15pm
Celebrate Youth! Our 10th Annual High School Festival brings together choirs from DC public, charter, and independent schools with the DC Youth Orchestra Program. Join us for the grand finale concert at Washington National Cathedral.
Washington National Cathedral
3101 Wisconsin Ave, NW
on Wisconsin near Mass Ave
Metro: Dupont Circle and bus along Mass Ave or take the metro to Tenleytown and take any of the 30 line buses, which run often, south along Wisconsin Ave. You can also wait for the 96 line to McLean Gardens (which doesn't run often) from the Woodley Park metro to the intersection of Woodley Rd and Connecticut. See note below for uber and lyft promotions for first time users!
See the "Free in DC" Inside Out page on CultureCapital for more free events & exhibits!
Friday, February 27
Lunchtime - Author Talk & Signing at The Archives - Archives
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
12:00pm
Between the 18th and mid-20th centuries, countless African Americans passed as white, leaving behind families and friends, roots and community. Historian Allyson Hobbs explores the possibilities and challenges that racial indeterminacy presented to men and women living in a country obsessed with racial distinctions. A book signing will follow the program.
National Archives
between 7th & 9th on Constitution Ave, NW
Metro: Archives - Navy Memorial
Afternoon - Author Talk at the Smithsonian Anacostia - Anacostia
Author Talk with Heather M. Butts at the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
2:00pm
The service of African American doctors, nurses, and surgeons in defense of the Union during the Civil War is explored by Dr. Heather M. Butts, author of the book African American Medicine in Washington, DC: Healing the Capital During the Civil War Era. A book-signing follows the talk. Limited copies of the book will be available for purchase.
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, SE
Metro: Anacostia, see metro trip-planner for bus options from metro
Art by local artist Ben Tolman
Evening - Art Opening at Flashpoint - Chinatown
Reception for Ben Tolman: Civilized at Flashpoint in Chinatown
Presented by: CulturalDC at Flashpoint Gallery
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Through drawings, sculpture and video, Ben Tolman explores the relationship between people and their constructed environment and to each other within that environment. The exhibit will be on view from February 27 - March 28, open Wednesday - Saturday from 12:00pm - 6:00pm and by appointment.
Flashpoint Gallery
916 G St NW
Metro: Gallery Pl - Chinatown, 9th & G exit, by MLK Library
Evening - Film Screening at American University - Tenleytown
Film Series: Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary: Central Station preceded by Socorro Nobre
7:00pm - 9:15pm
Please click link above to read more about the films, screening at American University, presented by the National Gallery of Art. Two films: Central Station (1998, 113 minutes) and Socorro Nobre (1996, 23 minutes).
American University - Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater
on the second floor of the McKinley Building
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (see campus map)
Metro: Tenleytown and take the free AU Shuttle to campus
See the special "Free in DC" Inside Out feature on CultureCapital.com for more free events!
Saturday, February 28
Afternoon - Curator Talk on the Civil War Exhibit at the Smithsonian - Anacostia
Curator Kathryn Jacob talks about the new Civil War Exhibit at the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum
2:00pm
Kathryn Jacob, Curator of Manuscripts, Schlesinger Library, Harvard University talks about the library’s current exhibition What They Wrote, What They Saved: The Personal Civil War. The exhibition features diaries, letters, and first-hand accounts from men and women affected by the strife and conditions of that period. These stories complement ACM’s new exhibition, How the Civil War Changed Washington (February 2, 2015 – November 15, 2015) in which the personal stories of several Washingtonians living in the nation’s capitol during the war are featured.
Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, SE
Metro: Anacostia, see metro trip-planner for bus options from metro
Afternoon - Art Opening in Upper Georgetown - Georgetown
Opening for Thirty Years of Discoveries Paintings, Calligraphy and Ceramics by Stephen Addiss
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Stephen Addiss is a painter, poet, ceramicist, musician, and Japanese art historian. Addiss was a professor for thirty-six years, retiring in 2013 from a distinguished position at the University of Richmond. He began studying calligraphy and ink painting in 1969 with Asian scholars, later studying in Japan and Taiwan. This exhibition features over thirty years of ink paintings, calligraphy and ceramics.
Robert Brown Gallery
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
Late Afternoon - Film Screening at the NGA West Building - Archives
Film Series: Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary: Intermissions
3:30pm - 5:30pm
(João Moreira Salles, 2004, 117 minutes)
Luis Inácio (Lula) da Silva rose from poverty to become one of Brazils most popular presidents. João Moreira Salles had access to Lula during the 2002 campaign and fills his film with behind-the- scenes footage, foregrounding the "intermissions" between big public events.
National Gallery of Art
West Building, Lecture Hall
6th & Constitution Ave NW
Metro: Archives
See the "Free in DC" Inside Out page on CultureCapital.com for more free events and exhibits!
Sunday, March, 1
Afternoon - Author Talk & Signing at the NGA West Building - Archives
Lecture and Book Signing: Other Planes of There
2:00pm
Renée Green, artist, filmmaker, writer, and director, MIT Program in Art, Culture, and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; in conversation with James Meyer, associate curator of modern art, National Gallery of Art. Book signing of Other Planes of There: Selected Writings follows.
National Gallery of Art
West Building Lecture Hall
6th & Constitution Ave NW
Metro: Archives
See the "Free in DC" Inside Out page on CultureCapital.com for more free events and exhibits!
Monday, March 2
Evening - UMD School of Music Concert at The Clarice Smith Center - College Park, MD
TEMPO Spring 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.The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Stadium Drive, UMD - College Park, MD
Metro: College Park and take a bus or taxi
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