IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Quilting: Demonstration
One-Time Events
Volunteers from the Annapolis Quilt Guild demonstrate quilting, piecing, and other quiltmaking techniques, and display related tools from the Museum's Textile Collection.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Within These Walls... 2nd Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats first and third Tuesday of each month through November.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit americanhistory.si.edu. CANCELED - Women in Health Care: Continuing the Legacy
Smithsonian Sponsored Events
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: Discovery Theater, 3rd Sublevel. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Women and Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Collectors' Roundtable: Pleasures of Building a Print Collection
One-Time Events
This annual series provides insight and invaluable advice on collecting art from museum directors, curators, collectors, and art dealers and consultants. This evening, Mary Ryan (Mary Ryan Art Gallery) discusses the pleasures of building a print collection.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: McEvoy Auditorium, Lower Level (enter from G St.). Cost: Free; first come, first served. Continues: Collectors' Roundtable series continues April 6 and May 4.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010, 7:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. George Washington Carver and the Nature Trail: Environmental Series
One-Time Events
(recommended for ages 8-adult) Walk the museum's Dr. George Washington Carver Nature Trail and learn how the principles of Kwanzaa are used to explain the benefits of natural recycling, the insect community, medicinal plants, and other outdoor offerings.
Note: Not suitable for people with mobility impairments.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Kids & Families. Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: Outdoors on nature trail (weather permitting). Cost: Free; for reservations, call 202-633-4844. Continues: Repeats the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit anacostia.si.edu. The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Anousheh Ansari's My Dream of Stars: Book Signing
One-Time Events
Anousheh Ansari signs copies of her book My Dream of Stars.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Ask an Expert: Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Rise of Space Advocacy in the 1970s
One-Time Events
In this lecture series, a museum staff member talks about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the museum.
Today's presentation is by Roger Launius, in the museum's Space History Division.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Meet at the Museum Seal, Milestones of Flight, 1st Floor, Center, Gallery 100. Cost: Free. Continues: Series continues most Wednesdays. Related Exhibition: Moving Beyond Earth.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
The Scientist Is In The Sant Ocean Hall: Ask an Expert
One-Time Events
A NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist stationed within the exhibition shows collection specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope and/or shown on a monitor) and talks with visitors about travels to various locations, field studies, collection of specimens, new discoveries, favorite topics of study, and more.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Center, in the Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free. Continues: Series continues every Wednesday. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Gallery Talk with Toby Jurovics
One-Time Events
Curator Toby Jurovics explores several of O’Sullivan’s photographs taken for topographic surveys led by Clarence King and Lt. George M. Wheeler and describes how the photographer recorded the rugged emptiness of the western landscape with an unsentimental eye that continues to influence and inspire contemporary artists.
Categories: After Five. Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Meet in the G Street Lobby. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 6:00 PM.
For more info visit www.americanart.si.edu. Conserving Time-Based Art: John G. Hanhardt
One-Time Events
John G. Hanhardt (senior curator for Media Arts and Nam June Paik Media Arts Center) discusses American Art’s recently acquired archive of Nam June Paik’s studio. One of the most influential artists of his generation, Paik transformed television and video into artists’ media. His methods and ideas launched a radical new art form that was embraced around the world and has changed visual culture.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Hirshhorn Museum. Event Location: Ring Auditorium, Lower Level. Cost: Free; first come, first served.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 7:00 PM.
For more info visit americanart.si.edu. Petites vacances ? Knokke le Zoute
Resident Associate Program
Part of Francophonie Cultural Festival 2010. Micheline leaves her routine and family behind to go on a road trip to see the sea at Knokke le Zout. Screening held at the Avalon Theatre. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Event Location: Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20015. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219894.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010, 8:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Thursday, March 18, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Thursday, March 18, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Thursday, March 18, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. DISCOVERY THEATER, Water, Water Everywhere
Discovery Theater
Ages 4-8, A Meet the Museum program at the Natural History Museum. View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Mini Theatre, Sant Ocean Hall (1st floor), Natural History Museum, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=51850&performanceNumber=218610.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 10:15 AM.
Traditional Afro-Mexican Dance
One-Time Events
Noted Washington, D.C. dancer and choreographer Carol Foster (founder of the D.C. Youth Ensemble) leads a workshop on traditional dances performed in the Veracruz and Costa Chica regions of Mexico. These dances were inspired by African cultural legacy.
Note: This event was originally scheduled to take place on Feb. 13.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: Program Room. Cost: Free; for information, call 202-633-4866. Continues: Repeats April 28. Related Exhibition: The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 10:30 AM.
For more info visit anacostia.si.edu. The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Water, Water Everywhere
Discovery Theater
Ages 4-8, A Meet the Museum program at the Natural History Museum. View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Mini Theatre, Sant Ocean Hall (1st floor), Natural History Museum, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=51850&performanceNumber=218611.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 11:15 AM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Water, Water Everywhere
Discovery Theater
Ages 4-8, A Meet the Museum program at the Natural History Museum. View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Mini Theatre, Sant Ocean Hall (1st floor), Natural History Museum, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=51850&performanceNumber=218612.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 12:15 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
The Scientist Is In The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: Ask an Expert
One-Time Events
Scientists stationed within the exhibition discuss their work, show collection objects and specimens, and answer visitors' questions about human origins.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Northwest Wing, in the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. Cost: Free. Continues: Series continues selected Thursdays each month through May. Related Exhibition: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Take Five! L’Tanya Mari’
One-Time Events
Jazz vocalist L’Tanya Mari’ is known for her creative arrangements. Her soaring voice, impeccable intonation, clear articulation, and a confident, swinging delivery have solidified her reputation as a commanding force in vocal jazz.
Categories: After Five. Performances. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Kogod Courtyard. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Continues: Series continues the 3rd Thursday of each month.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Julia Child: Face-to-Face Portrait Talk
One-Time Events
The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, curator Rayna Green from the National Museum of American History speaks about Julia Child.
Image: Julia Child / David Marlin, 1971 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
Categories: After Five. Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Meet at F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. Continues: Continues most Thursday evenings.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
For more info visit npg.si.edu. Bhagavad Gita
Resident Associate Program
Gandhi referred to the Bhagavad Gita, the most sacred text of Hinduism, as his handbook on life. Join Graham Schweig as he shares the wisdom found in this important religious text. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219298.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 6:45 PM – 8:45 PM.
Conserving Time-Based Art: Meet the Artist: John Gerrard
One-Time Events
Artist John Gerrard discusses the complex process behind his stark, realistic works that hover between fact and fiction. He presents actual scenes from desolate corners of America, which appear to unfold in real time, but, in fact, are actually fabricated images.
This event is also presented in conjunction with the 2010 Environmental Film Festival.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Hirshhorn Museum. Event Location: Ring Auditorium. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Directions -- John Gerrard.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
For more info visit hirshhorn.si.edu. Waking Sleeping Beauty
Resident Associate Program
Watch the true story of how Disney regained its magic with a staggering output of hits including “The Little Mermaid,” “Beauty and the Beast,” and “The Lion King” over a 10-year period. Discussion with Don Hahn and Peter Schneider after the film. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of American History, Carmichael Auditorium, Constitution Ave. NW b/w 12th & 14th Streets, Metro: Federal Triangle or Smithsonian. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219328.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Xiayin Wang, piano
Performances
The Washington Post called Xiayin Wang “a paragon of virtuosity” for her “scintillating display of rhythm and color.” She gives the Washington-area premiere of Richard Danielpour’s Enchanted Garden, Book 11, plus the Bach-Marcello Concerto in D, bwv 974; Mozart’s Sonata in D, k. 311; Ravel’s “Scarbo” from Gaspard de la Nuit; Scriabin’s Two Poems, op. 32, nos. 1 and 2, and Vers la Flamme, op. 72; and recent works by Peixun Chen and Wanghua Chu.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free tickets required. Related Events: Pre-concert gallery tour, Arts of China. 6:45 pm.
Thursday, March 18, 2010, 7:30 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Friday, March 19, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Friday, March 19, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Friday, March 19, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Chinese Treasures in Washington
Resident Associate Program
<span style="color: #ff0000;">New session just added! </span><span style="color: #000000;">This all-day tour includes visits to the permanent collection of Chinese art at <span class="Details TextSizeChangeable">the Smithsonian’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and to the a</span>ncient terra-cotta warriors of China exhibit at the National Geographic museum.</span> View more details.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Event Location: Tour begins and ends at the S. Dillon Ripley, Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW. Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=220264.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
Spring Landscape Photography on the Potomac
Resident Associate Program
Drawing inspiration from the rich tradition of such masters as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, and Paul Caponigro, intermediate and advanced photography students have an opportunity to develop a personal vision of the modern landscape. View more details.
Categories: Workshops. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Photolab 3036, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219929.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 10:00 AM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Water, Water Everywhere
Discovery Theater
Ages 4-8, A Meet the Museum program at the Natural History Museum. View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Mini Theatre, Sant Ocean Hall (1st floor), Natural History Museum, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=51850&performanceNumber=218613.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 10:15 AM.
Let's Read about Africa
One-Time Events
(for ages 6 and up) Storyteller Diane Macklin introduces young audiences to Africa through children's literature by award-winning authors.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: African Art Museum. Event Location: Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2. Cost: Free, but need to register; call 202-633-4640. Continues: Continues April 2 & 16 and May 7 & 21.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Water, Water Everywhere
Discovery Theater
Ages 4-8, A Meet the Museum program at the Natural History Museum. View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Mini Theatre, Sant Ocean Hall (1st floor), Natural History Museum, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=51850&performanceNumber=218614.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 11:15 AM.
Artist Talk with Shelia Hicks
Renwick Gallery
Internationally renowned artist Shelia Hicks discusses her fascination with fiber and her newly restored work The Silk Rainforest, recently acquired by the museum.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Renwick Gallery of the American Art Museum. Event Location: In the Renwick Gallery's Grand Salon. Cost: Free.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:00 PM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Water, Water Everywhere
Discovery Theater
Ages 4-8, A Meet the Museum program at the Natural History Museum. View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Mini Theatre, Sant Ocean Hall (1st floor), Natural History Museum, 10th & Constitution Ave. NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=51850&performanceNumber=218615.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:15 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Hirshhorn Collection: Friday Gallery Talk
One-Time Events
Art historian Suzanne Hudson talks about the Hirshhorn collection.
Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Hirshhorn Museum. Event Location: Meet at information desk. Cost: Free. Continues: Continues most Fridays.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit hirshhorn.si.edu. Robert F. Dorr's Hell Hawks! and Air Force One: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Robert F. Dorr signs copies of his books Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht and Air Force One.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store. Continues: Repeats every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in March.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Forensic Friday
One-Time Events
Join Smithsonian forensic anthropologists as they study new cases and those from the historic past. Take advantage of this opportunity to ask the forensic anthropologists questions and observe first-hand the basic methods used for documenting human remains recovered from archaeological investigations.
Today, learn how mummies are made, where they come from, and why scientists study them. This program is a rare opportunity to see some of the Smithsonian's mummies that are not usually on display.
Categories: Demonstrations. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Forensic Anthropology Lab within Written in Bone, 2nd Floor. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats one Friday a month through June. Related Exhibition: Written in Bone: Forensic Files of the 17th-Century Chesapeake.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital—Dinner and a Movie
One-Time Events
5-6:30 PM: Enjoy dinner at the Zagat-rated Mitsitam Native Foods Cafe (a la carte).
7 PM: Indigenous Plant Diva (2008, 10 min, Canada, directed by Kamala Todd, produced by Selwyn Jacob)
In the language of the Squamish Nation, Cease Wyss was given the name T'Uy'Tanat, meaning "Woman who travels by canoe to gather medicines for all people." In director Kamala Todd's lyrical portrait, Wyss reveals the remarkable healing powers of plants growing among the sprawling urban streets of downtown Vancouver.
7:10 PM: The Gift of Pachamama (El regalo de la Pachamama) (2008, 102 min, Bolivia/Japan, directed by Toshifumi Matsushita)
This is a spiritual docu-drama set in Bolivia, where a 13-year-old boy lives a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. One spring, he goes with this father on his first caravan. With blocks of salt strapped to their herd of llamas, they travel “The Salt Trail” for several months, exchanging salt for other products of the Andes. The boy begins to learn who he is as a…
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Mitsitam Cafe and Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Cost: A-la-carte dinner for a fee. Film screening is free, but reservations are required. (Reservation does not ensure a seat; seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.). Purchase Tickets: http://nmai.dinnerandamovie.sgizmo.com/.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
Photo Trekking
Resident Associate Program
This workshop is designed for photographers with some photographic experience who enjoy scenic hikes paced to optimize picture-taking opportunities. Build your portfolio while hiking along some of the mid-Atlantic’s most beautiful streams and dramatic waterfalls. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Workshops. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3031, 1100 Jefferson Dr, SW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219984.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 6:30 PM.
Tibetan Buddhism: Films From Around the World: Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint
Films
In person: Greg Kruglak, executive producer
This is a vividly told story of Milarepa, the man who became Tibet’s greatest yogi, poet, and saint (and a major figure in the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism). In the eleventh century, young Milarepa falls into a world of betrayal and hardships. The greed of others upturns his privileged life, dropping him into a void of despair, humiliation, pain, and anger, and he sets out to exact revenge. Filmed on location in breathtakingly scenic Spiti, India, near the Tibetan border, it was directed by Tibetan Buddhist lama Neten Chokling (co-star of the hit film The Cup) and stars Jamyang Lodro and Orgyen Tobgyal (both featured in The Cup). Bhutan / 2006 / 90 min. / Tibetan with English subtitles.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Discotheque
Resident Associate Program
Hot off the streets of Paris and into the halls of the National Postal Museum come this year’s featured DJ duo Make The Girl Dance. Must be 21 to enter. IDs will be checked at the door. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Performances. Venue: Postal Museum. Event Location: National Postal Museum, 2 Mass. Ave, NE (Union Station, Red Line), Must be 21 or older to enter, Photo ID checked at the door. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=220190.
Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Saturday, March 20, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Saturday, March 20, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Saturday, March 20, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. A Day at the Baltimore Museum of Art
Resident Associate Program
Take a guided tour of the exhibition Cezanne and American Modernism at the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as BMA’s extraordinary Cone Collection, which features masterpieces by Matisse, Cezanne, Gauguin, and Van Gogh. View more details.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Event Location: Departs Pentagon City Metro, West side of South, Hayes St. in front of the Pentagon City Mall, 1100 South Hayes St, Arlington, VA. Fringe stop, at I-495, Exit 27 carpool parking lot at 9:55am. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219514.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9:30 AM.
Ayn Rand: A Philosopher Who Lived Objectively
Resident Associate Program
This seminar explores the life of writer-philosopher Ayn Rand and explores the principles and applications of her philosophy, Objectivism. View more details.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219319.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM.
Family Day: Kites of Asia
One-Time Events
Celebrate the beauty and tradition of kites from across Asia. Watch the artistry of indoor kite flying, make your own kite, and learn about Tibetan kite making and culture. To learn more about Tibetan culture, visit the Sackler Gallery's exhibition In the Realm of the Buddha, featuring Tibetan artist Situ Panchen (1700-1774).
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Throughout the museum. Cost: Free. Related Events: See related Kite Festival on March 27. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha at the Sackler Gallery.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Henry VIII: Dynamic Leader, Turbulent Times
Resident Associate Program
Look back in history to the Tudor rule of Henry VIII–a time of momentous historical and religious change, judicial murders, wars, and the pivotal wives with historian, Dale Hoak. View more details.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219365.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Sewing Basic Units in Pieced Quilts
Resident Associate Program
When making a traditional patchwork block, quilt makers sew pieces into a bigger unit. In this workshop for piece makers, students sew the half-square triangle, the four-triangle, the square-within-a-square, and the flying geese units. View more details.
Categories: Workshops. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3031, 1100 Jefferson Dr, SW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219130.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:00 AM.
Jewelry Workshop Series: Making Bling!
One-Time Events
Art instructor, author, and jewelry designer Kathleen Manning of Bedazzle leads a series of 6 workshops on creating jewelry using semi-precious stones, including onyx, malachite, lapis, jasper, and fresh water pearls. Participants will make three pieces of jewelry during each session.
For today's workshop, participants use jewelry wire to create hoop earrings, decorative bangles, and chain designs.
Categories: Workshops. Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: Program Room. Cost: $75 per workshop. Space is limited; for reservations, call 202-633-4866 or 202-633-4823. Continues: Series continues on the following selected Saturdays: May 8, July 10, Sept. 18.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 10:30 AM – 2:30 PM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Ross Simpson's Stealth Down: Book Signing
One-Time Events
Ross Simpson signs copies of his book Stealth Down.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Facing History: Be the Artist
One-Time Events
(for ages 10-14 with adult) This two-hour art class is designed so that youth can better understand an artwork by Patricia Horing, which is on view in the Outwin Boochever exhibition. Registered participants take a brief guided tour of the related exhibition, focusing on Horing's portrait, before creating an artwork based on the main ideas of that artwork.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Education Center, 1st Floor, Room 151E. Cost: Free, but space is limited; to register, call 202-633-8501. Continues: Repeats 3:30-5:30 PM today for ages 5-10 with adult. Related Exhibition: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
George Norfleet and Charles Herbert Flowers Jr.: Book Signings
One-Time Events
George Norfleet signs copies of his book A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and Charles Herbert Flowers Jr. signs copies of his children's book Training the Best.
Categories: Kids & Families. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: Dirt! The Movie, Ladies of the Land, Soil in Good Heart, and Seed Hunter
One-Time Events
The museum presents the following films in conjunction with the 2010 Environmental Film Festival:
• 12:30 PM: Dirt! The Movie (2009, 86 min, USA, directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow, narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis) This is the story of earth’s most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility – from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation.
• 2 PM: Ladies of the Land (2007, 30 min, USA, directed by Megan Thompson) As small, family farms continue to disappear and large, mechanized farms dominate American agriculture, a new kind of farmer is sprouting up across the land: women.
• 2:45 PM: Soil in Good Heart (2008, 14 min, USA, directed by Deborah Koons Garcia, produced by Catherine Butler) Land-based food is dependent on sunlight, water, and soil, but most people have no idea how important healthy soil is for the creation of nourishing food.
• 3 PM: Seed Hunter (2008, 59 min, Australia, directed by Sally Ingleton, Washington, D.C. premiere) Our planet is heating up…
Categories: Films. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Baird Auditoriun, Ground Floor. Cost: Free; first come, first served.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 12:30 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org. Robert F. Dorr's Hell Hawks! and Air Force One: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Robert F. Dorr signs copies of his books Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht and Air Force One.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store. Continues: Repeats every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in March.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Art a la Cart: Family Program
One-Time Events
(for ages 7-12) Travel through the galleries and handle brushes, palettes, bison hide, bottle caps, and quilt squares at interactive carts.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Throughout the museum; handouts available at both info desks. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats every Saturday and Sunday in March and April.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.americanart.si.edu. 40th Anniversary of the 1970 Postal Strike
One-Time Events
On March 18, 1970, Local 36 of New York City's National Association of Letter Carriers began a wildcat strike protesting low pay and poor job advancement. Postal workers in more than 30 cities joined the strike, crippling businesses nationwide. President Richard Nixon tried using the National Guard to process mail in New York City before negotiating with workers to end the strike almost two weeks after it began. Vincent R. Sombrotto (president emeritus of the National Association of Letter Carriers and member of Local 36), William Burrus (president of the American Postal Workers Union), and George Gould (former Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Postal Operations and Services) discuss these momentous events and the dramatic changes the strike sparked in the nation's mail service and its employees' lives.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Webcasts & Webinars. Venue: Postal Museum. Event Location: Discovery Center. Webcast: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/national-postal-museum. Cost: Free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit www.postalmuseum.si.edu. The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Making of a Mandala
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
One-Time Events
(2007, 81 min, USA, directed and produced by Lisa Merton and Alan Dater) This film focuses on the vision of Wangari Maathai -- 2004 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the grassroots Green Belt Movement of Kenya -- and the vital link between the health of the land, its people, and its government. Discussion with the director follows. Presented in partnership with the DC Environmental Film Festival.
Categories: Films. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: African Art Museum. Event Location: Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2. Cost: Free, but reservations required; call 202-633-4640.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: A Road Not Taken
One-Time Events
A Road Not Taken (Switzerland, 2010, 66 min.); United States Premiere.
In a visionary move, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the roof of the White House in 1979. This symbolic installation was taken down in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. In 1991, Maine’s Unity College acquired the panels and installed them on its cafeteria roof. In A Road Not Taken, Swiss artists Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller follow the route the solar panels took, interviewing those involved in the decisions regarding these panels as well as those involved in the oil crisis of the time. They also look closely at the way this initial installation presaged our own era.
Introduced by Jeffrey Stine, Chair, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History. Following the screening, Harry Rubenstein, Chair, Division of Politics and Reform, presents one of the solar panels featured in the film, which is now a part of the museum’s permanent collection. Filmmakers Christina Hemauer and Roman Keller…
Categories: Films. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Carmichael Auditorium.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:00 PM – 3:45 PM.
Reel Portraits: Peter Matthiessen: No Boundaries
One-Time Events
(2009, 60 min, directed by Jeff Sewald, narrated by Glenn Close) Author Peter Matthiessen has embraced many roles in life, from zen monk to cofounder of the Paris Review to environmental activist. In this film No Boundaries tells the story of Matthiessen’s life, his work, and his commitment to the natural world. Introduced by Rebecca Kasemeyer, education director at the National Portrait Gallery. Presented in partnership with the DC Environmental Film Festival.
Categories: Films. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G Street). Cost: Free; first come, first served. Auditorium doors open 30 minutes before program starts.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Sherri Smith's Flygirl: Book Signing
One-Time Events
Sherri Smtih signs copies of her children's book Flygirl.
Categories: Kids & Families. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
My Family’s Shrine, My Family’s Culture
Talks and Lectures
Monks and members of the Tibetan community discuss the family shrines on display in the Sackler Gallery’s education classroom. See how contemporary Tibetans arrange sacred paintings, sculptures, photographs, and offerings in family altars. Learn why particular items are placed in the shrines.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 2. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha: The Tibetan Shrine from the Alice S. Kandell Collection.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Facing History: Be the Artist
One-Time Events
(for ages 5-10 with adult) This two-hour art class is designed so that youth can better understand an artwork by Patricia Horing, which is on view in the Outwin Boochever exhibition. Registered participants take a brief guided tour of the related exhibition, focusing on Horing's portrait, before creating an artwork based on the main ideas of that artwork.
Categories: Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Education Center, 1st Floor, Room 151E. Cost: Free, but space is limited; to register, call 202-633-8501. Continues: See 12-2 PM today for ages 10-14 with adult. Related Exhibition: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center Scholarship 17th Annual Benefit Auction
Smithsonian Sponsored Events
"Oh, Say Can You SEEC" at the 17th annual Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center (SEEC) scholarship benefit auction. Bid on behind-the scenes Smithsonian tours and experiences, as well as selections from D.C.-area hotels and restaurants. Many of the items are geared toward children and families.
Auction proceeds support the SEEC scholarship fund that provides high-quality educational opportunities to all eligible families throughout the Washington, D.C. area.
Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Throughout the museum. Cost: $30 or $60 for four tickets through March 19; tickets may be purchased online at the link below of by phone at 202-633-7986. Note: Tickets purchased in advance can be picked up the night of the auction at the museum. Purchase Tickets: https://seec.ejoinme.org/?tabid=200747.
Saturday, March 20, 2010, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Sunday, March 21, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Sunday, March 21, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Sunday, March 21, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Getting to Know Your Digital SLR
Resident Associate Program
This class includes a hands-on set-up of each student's DSLR camera; a shooting session on location; and a review of images for composition, lighting, and other aesthetic considerations. View more details.
Categories: Workshops. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History, Computer Lab, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219090. Continues: For schedule, see newsletter.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 10:00 AM.
The Sacred Art of Making a Mandala: Dissolution of the Mandala.
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Experience the sacred Buddhist tradition of creating an intricate mandala sand painting. Tibetan monks work together, adding one grain of sand at a time to create a colorful mandala, a complex geometric diagram with spiritual and ritual significance in Buddhism.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sackler Pavillion. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 12:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: Homegrown, Ingredients, Honey for the Maya: Life with Stingless Bees, and Behold the Earth
One-Time Events
The museum presents the following films in conjunction with the 2010 Environmental Film Festival:
• 12 Noon: Homegrown (2009, 52 min, USA, directed by Robert McFalls, Washington, D.C. premiere) Spotlighting a 21st-century organic family farm operating off the grid in the heart of urban Pasadena, California, this film documents the activities of the Dervaes family.
• 1 PM: Ingredients (2007, 66 min, USA, directed
by Robert Bates, produced by Brian Kimmel and Debra Sohm Lawson, Washington, D.C. premiere) This film celebrates the farmers and chefs who are creating a truly sustainable food system; their collaborations have resulted in great tasting food and increased awareness about the benefits of eating locally.
• 2:15 PM: Honey for the Maya: Life with Stingless Bees (2009, 8 min, USA, directed and produced by Dr. Stephen Buchmann) Share a glimpse of millennia-old Mayan bee craft among temples and tropical forests. Discussion with Dr. Stephen Buchmann (entomologist, pollination ecologist, and…
Categories: Films. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Baird Auditoriun, Ground Floor. Cost: Free; first come, first served.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 12:30 PM – 5:00 PM.
For more info visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org. Robert F. Dorr's Hell Hawks! and Air Force One: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Robert F. Dorr signs copies of his books Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht and Air Force One.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store. Continues: Repeats every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in March.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Art a la Cart: Family Program
One-Time Events
(for ages 7-12) Travel through the galleries and handle brushes, palettes, bison hide, bottle caps, and quilt squares at interactive carts.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Throughout the museum; handouts available at both info desks. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats every Saturday and Sunday in March and April.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.americanart.si.edu. Tibetan Buddhism: Films From Around the World: The Saltmen of Tibet
Films
Presented in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
Observing age-old taboos and steadfast homage to the deities of the land and elements, four men meticulously plan and embark upon a grueling three-month yak caravan to fetch ”the tears of Tara,” the precious salt from northern holy lakes. Director Ulrike Koch’s The Saltmen of Tibet is a breathtaking collage of image and sound—a majestic tribute to the purity of a landscape, people, and traditions facing extinction. Switzerland/Germany / 1997 / 110 min. / German and Tibetan with English subtitles.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 1:00 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: Forever Wild: Celebrating America’s Wilderness
One-Time Events
Forever Wild: Celebrating America’s Wilderness (USA, 2009, 55 min.); Washington, D.C. Premiere
Capturing the glory of wild places through visually stunning images, this film celebrates America’s commitment to wilderness and its preservation. It also profiles America’s modern wilderness heroes—individuals who have volunteered countless hours and immeasurable energy to ensure that these wild places remain forever wild. In 1964, the United States created a law to keep its wildest lands wild, in an effort to save part of the world from the dominion of humankind. Today, energy development, sprawl, timber harvesting, and motorized recreation threaten to overrun many of the nation’s unprotected wild places. Forever Wild renews our understanding of the majesty of wild lands, the ecological necessity of protecting them, and the important role individual Americans continue to play in preserving a legacy of wilderness for all to enjoy. Narrated by Robert Redford. Featuring the prose of Terry Tempest Williams, read by…
Categories: Films. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Carmichael Auditorium.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM – 3:05 PM.
Gallery360: Martin Irvine and the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
One-Time Events
Martin Irvine, director of Irvine Contemporary (a gallery which specializes in contemporary art by early and mid-career artists) leads a tour of the related exhibition, bringing his multidisciplinary background to bear on selected works from the Portrait Gallery’s nationwide juried competition.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Meet at exhibition entrance, 2nd Floor. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2009.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM.
In the Realm of Tibetan Buddhism: A Path to Enlightenment
Talks and Lectures
Learn about Tibetan Buddhism with teachers from the Tibetan Meditation Center in Frederick, Maryland, and gain insight into the exhibitions In the Realm of the Buddha.
Dharma teacher Khenmo Thrinlay Chodrun introduces the basic teachings of Tibetan Buddhism.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: Sublevel 1. Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2:00 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: Butterflies & Bulldozers: David Schooley, Fred Smith and the Fight for San Bruno Mountain
One-Time Events
Butterflies & Bulldozers: David Schooley, Fred Smith and the Fight for San Bruno Mountain (USA, 2010, 60 min.); world premiere.
For fifty years, many people have fought to protect San Bruno Mountain, a rare fragment of wild San Francisco and the largest undeveloped urban area in the United States. Two men have devoted most of their adult lives working to protect the mountain, in very different ways. The battle for this mountain led to a significant change to the Endangered Species Act and turned allies into enemies. This story is emblematic of a common divide within the conservation community. It is a tale of commitment and compromise, and a drama of right versus right. Directed and edited by Ann Dunsky.
Introduced by Jeffrey Stine, Chair, Division of Medicine and Science, National Museum of American History. Discussion with filmmakers Ann Dunsky and Steve Dunsky follows screening.
The filmmakers then present 13 minutes of film clips from their work-in-progress, Green Fire: The Life and Legacy of Al…
Categories: Films. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Carmichael Auditorium.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Tibetan Buddhism: Films From Around the World: The Silent Holy Stones
Films
In Person: Wanma-caidan, director
Presented in collaboration with the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital
“The place where the story took place is none other than my home village, where the mountains and waters have always haunted my dreams. I long to tell the true stories—in my own way—that have come up in my home village, to disclose the real looks of her, and to reveal the genuine conditions of life of the people there. What the film endeavors to depict is the unconscious change that has been going on under the surface of the seeming silence in the relatively secluded land, a reciprocal infiltration between tradition and modernism. . . .” —writer-director Wanma-caidan
Tibetan writer-director Wanma-caidan’s dramatic feature debut is a Chinese production filmed on location in the Tibetan village of Amdo (now in Qinghai province). The film follows a young lama who during the Tibetan New Year is assigned as an attendant to a seven-year-old Living Buddha of a mountain monastery. The boy…
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 3:30 PM.
Panel Discussion: "Religious Perspectives on the Science of Human Origins"
One-Time Events
The Smithsonian's Human Origins Program invites Dr. Rick Potts, curator of the Hall of Human Origins, and the Human Origins Program's Broader Social Impacts Committee for a panel discussion about the relationship between scientific and religious perspectives in light of the latest research on human evolution.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Baird Auditorium, Ground Floor (enter from Constitution Ave.). Cost: Free. Related Exhibition: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Sunday, March 21, 2010, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
For more info visit www.humanorigins.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Monday, March 22, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Monday, March 22, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Monday, March 22, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Monday, March 22, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Monday, March 22, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
VHS Kahloucha
Resident Associate Program
Part of Francophonie Cultural Festival 2010. Documentary follows artist Kahloucha (Tunisia's Quentin Tarantino), deep in production of his latest film, Tarzan of the Arabs. Screening held at the French Embassy. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Event Location: Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road, N.W. Washington, DC. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219897.
Monday, March 22, 2010, 7:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Behind-the-Scenes Quilt Tour
One-Time Events
Go into Textile Storage for a small, tour with a curator. Space is limited and fills fast, so be sure to call and reserve your spot: 202-633-3826.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Textile Storage. Cost: Free, but advance registration required. Call: 202-633-3826.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Doll Making with Francine Haskins: Community Arts series
One-Time Events
Join famed doll artist Francine Haskins in the creation of an art doll. Bring your imagination, creativity, and positive energy in creating and designing your own doll. Use your own special fabric or select materials provided in this 5-hour workshop.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: Program Room. Cost: $50; for required reservations and information, call 202-633-4866.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM.
For more info visit anacostia.si.edu. Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Two Doctors and One Philosopher: Collecting Japanese Paintings in the Nineteenth Century
Talks and Lectures
The nineteenth century was a period of significant transition in Western understanding of Japanese art. Princess Akiko of Mikasa, a member of Japan’s Imperial Family, compares the Japanese painting collections of three highly influential collector-connoisseurs: Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866), William Anderson (1842–1900), and Ernest Fenollosa (1853–1908). In her lecture Princess Akiko, who recently received her doctorate degree from Oxford University and wrote her thesis on Anderson, demonstrates how each of these collections not only reflects personal taste and historical context, but also traces how Western ways of appreciating Japanese paintings changed over the course of the nineteenth century.
This lecture is offered as part of the Freer and Sackler Galleries’ distinguished history of art research collaboration with Japan.
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Princess Akiko
Princess Akiko of Mikasa graduated from Gakushuin University (Tokyo) in 2004 and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Oxford in 2010. Her…
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Ibn Battuta's Marvelous Travels
Resident Associate Program
His Excellency Aziz Mekouar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morroco, hosts a lecture by art historian Lawrence Butler on Medieval Berber scholar Ibn Battuta and his extensive travels. A buffet of Moroccan food follows. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Event Location: Moroccan Ambassador's Residence, (Directions sent separately). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219332.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 7:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Spectacular Temples of Freemasonry
Resident Associate Program
Freemasonry, the world's oldest fraternal organization, is also one of the oldest organizations in the city of Washington, where Masons participated in the laying of cornerstones of the White House and the U.S. Capitol. Gary Scott, Past Master and 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason, leads this tour that includes some of the most significant architectural treasures of Washington. View more details.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Event Location: Departs Mayflower Hotel, DeSales St. side, 1127 Connecticut Ave. NW, No fringe stop on this tour. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219283.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 9:00 AM.
Ask an Expert: Aleksei Leonov’s First Walk in Space
One-Time Events
In this lecture series, a museum staff member talks about the history, collection, or personalities related to a specific artifact or exhibition in the museum.
Today's presentation is by Cathleen Lewis, in the museum's Space History Division.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Meet at the Museum Seal, Milestones of Flight, 1st Floor, Center, Gallery 100. Cost: Free. Continues: Series continues most Wednesdays. Related Exhibition: Space Race.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
The Scientist Is In The Sant Ocean Hall: Ask an Expert
One-Time Events
An ocean scientist stationed within the exhibition shows collection specimens or artifacts (including some under the microscope and/or shown on a monitor) and talks with visitors about travels to various locations, field studies, collection of specimens, new discoveries, favorite topics of study, and more.
Note: On the third Wednesday of each month, a NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist is in the exhibition to talk with visitors.
Categories: Kids & Families. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: 1st Floor, Center, in the Sant Ocean Hall. Cost: Free. Continues: Series continues every Wednesday. Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Connected Cultures: Religious Traditions of the Middle East
One-Time Events
This panel discussion explores the cultural connections between the three largest monotheistic traditions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. All three traditions originated in the Middle East and are all inextricably linked, as they have infl uenced each other over centuries. The evening interfaith panel aims to foster a better understanding of human diversity and cultural change through the lenses of these three religions.
Panelists are Imam Yahya Hendi (Muslim chaplain, Georgetown University), Dr. Marc Gopin (director, Center on Religion, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution [CRDC] at George Mason University), and Rev. Dr. Clark Lobenstine (executive director, InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington [IFC]). The panel is moderated by Najeeba Syeed-Miller (executive director, Center for Civic Engagement and Dialogue, Los Angeles).
This program is related to the IMAX film Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta, shown in the museum's Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Webcasts & Webinars. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Baird Auditorium, Ground Floor. Webcast: http://www.mnh.si.edu/calEvents/connected_cultures.html. Cost: Free, but reservations requested; e-mail Journeytomecca@si.edu. Related Events: For complete schedule of programs, visit the museum's Web site.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6:30 PM.
For more info visit www.mnh.si.edu. Blitzkrieg
Resident Associate Program
In this detailed look at Blitzkrieg, or lightening war, Marcus Jones explores its origins, considers its successes and implications, and offers a more critical understanding of the Second World War's most important military innovation. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219214.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM.
Vietnam: Beyond the War
Resident Associate Program
Take an armchair journey through the history, culture, and geography of Vietnam. Author Dana Sachs uses personal narrative, scholarly research, and vivid images to lead the way. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=220153.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Thursday, March 25, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Thursday, March 25, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Thursday, March 25, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. Behind-the-Scenes Lace Tour
One-Time Events
Go into Textile Storage for a small tour with a curator. Space is limited and fills fast, so be sure to call and reserve your spot: 202-633-3826.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Textile Storage. Cost: Free, but advance registration required. Call: 202-633-3826.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946.
Resident Associate Program
The Art of Gaman features arts and crafts made by Japanese Americans in U.S. internment camps during World War II. Internees used scraps and found materials to make furniture and other objects to beautify their bleak surroundings. These objects are physical manifestations of the art of gaman, a Japanese word that means to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and grace. View more details.
Venue: Renwick Gallery of the American Art Museum. Event Location: Renwick Gallery, 17th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Meet at the Information Desk, Metro: Farragut West & Blue/Orange & Red lines. Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=220306.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 11:00 AM.
Meet Our Museum: Women Inventors
One-Time Events
At the end of the 20th century less than 1 percent of U.S. patents granted yearly included the name of a woman. That number has grown to about 12 percent today. Let’s celebrate female ingenuity with education specialist Tricia Edwards as she applauds women inventors and looks to promote opportunities for innovation and inspiration.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Flag Hall. Cost: Free and open to the public.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:15 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Lace Making: Demonstration
One-Time Events
Volunteers from the Chesapeake Region Lace Guild demonstrate lace-making techniques and display related tools from the Museum's Textile Collection.
Categories: Demonstrations. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Within These Walls... 2nd Floor, West Wing. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats fourth Thursday of each month through October.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM.
For more info visit blogs.smithsonianmag.com. The Scientist Is Online: Ask an Expert
One-Time Events
Scientists from the Smithsonian Human Origins Program discuss their work and answer questions.
Categories: Webcasts & Webinars. Event Location: Online at twitter.com/HumanOrigins. Webcast: http://twitter.com/HumanOrigins. Cost: Free. Continues: Continues selected Thursdays each month through May. Related Exhibition: The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins: What Does It Mean To Be Human?
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Artist Talk: Sokari Douglas Camp
One-Time Events
Nigerian-born British artist Sokari Douglas Camp discusses her large-scale steel sculptures, which reference her Nigerian roots and international issues in striking ways. Masquerader with Boat Headdress, owned by and on view at the National Museum of African Art, is among the featured works.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: African Art Museum. Event Location: Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2. Cost: Free.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 4:00 PM.
Gertrude Stein: Face-to-Face Portrait Talk
One-Time Events
The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, curator Wendy Wick Reaves speaks about Gertrude Stein.
Categories: After Five. Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Meet at F Street Lobby. Cost: Free. Continues: Continues most Thursday evenings.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Cultivating Creativity: A Whole-Brain Approach
Resident Associate Program
Cognitive neuroscientist Barry Gordon explores the nature of creativity, examines its bases in the mind and brain, discusses a variety of ways people can foster their creativity, and offers helpful hints for improving one's creativity. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219301.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:45 PM – 9:00 PM.
Standing Guard: The Terra-Cotta Warriors
Resident Associate Program
Robert DeCaroli explores the legacy created for the first emperor of China, the world-famous life-size terra-cotta army from Xi’an buried in formation by the thousands, poised for battle. Tonight, explore the legacy these soldiers reveal about early China. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th & Independence Ave. SW, (Enter on Independence Avenue side). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219199.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 6:45 PM – 8:45 PM.
French Troubadours Tete and Eric John Kaiser
Resident Associate Program
With pop-folk-bluesy rhythms, Tété (Senegal) is one of France's most well regarded song writers. Kaiser (France) embodies a modern pop/rock sound that borrows from many genres including rock, hip-hop and reggae. Part of Francophonie 2010. View more details.
Categories: After Five. Performances. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, 10th & Constitution Avenue, NW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219325.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:00 PM.
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo: Independent Film Series
One-Time Events
(2008/09, 90 min) Director Jessica Oreck discusses her film that explores a centuries-old Japanese subculture: individuals who revere, collect, and market some of the most preposterous, bizarre-looking creatures on earth—insects. Using Japan’s love affair with bugs as a frame, the film uncovers perspectives that can transform our ideas about nature, beauty, and daily life.
Presented in collaboration with American Film Institute's Project 20/20, Japanese Information and Cultural Center, and Environmental Film Festival.
Categories: After Five. Films. Venue: Hirshhorn Museum. Event Location: Ring Auditorium, Lower Level. Cost: Free. Continues: Most Thursdays in April.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:00 PM.
For more info visit hirshhorn.si.edu. GE Aviation Lecture: Colonel Dawn M. Dunlop
One-Time Events
Learn about the latest testing on fourth- and fifth-generation fighters, bombers, airlift, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and more. This evening, Col. Dawn M. Dunlop (vice commander, 412th Test Wing, Air Force Flight Test Center) narrates a video about operations and testing at Edwards Air Force Base and discusses the Department of Defense's policy change admitting women into combat aviation roles, which allowed her to become the first woman to pilot the F-22 Raptor.
Categories: After Five. Films. Lectures & Discussions. Webcasts & Webinars. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater, 1st Floor, East Wing. Webcast: http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/lectures/webcast. Cost: Free, but ticket required; visit the Web at Ticket Request Form, or call 202-633-2398.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 8:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Friday, March 26, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Friday, March 26, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Friday, March 26, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium: Echoes of Elvis
One-Time Events
Selected scholars come together to discuss the life, music, and legend of the King of Rock. Speakers include Dr. Mark Russell, historian; Dr. Roy C. Brewer, professor of music, University of Memphis; Dr. Tanya Jung, assistant dean, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Stephen K. Wright, professor of English, Catholic University of America; and Warren Perry, writer/researcher, National Portrait Gallery, and curator of One Life: Echoes of Elvis.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: McEvoy Auditorium (enter from G Street). Cost: Free, but space is limited; for reservations, call 202-633-8299 or e-mail NPGElvis@si.edu. Related Exhibition: One Life: Echoes of Elvis.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Gustafer Yellowgold
Discovery Theater
Ages 2-6, Live music and visual images tell this story for our smallest audiences! View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Discovery Theater, 3rd Sublevel, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219493.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:15 AM.
Sounds of Africa
One-Time Events
(for ages 6 and up) Young audiences play African instruments and learn about African polyrhythms and syncopation with Ugandan musician Daniel Ssuuna.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: African Art Museum. Event Location: Lecture Hall, Sublevel 2. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats April 9 & 23 and May 14 & 28.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM.
Tales for Tots
One-Time Events
(for ages 5 and under) Enjoy story time in the galleries and the Luce Foundation Center, then try a hands-on activities.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Meet in the G St. Lobby. Cost: Free, but registration required; call 202-633-8490 or e-mail AmericanArtPrograms@si.edu. Continues: Repeats 2nd and 4th Friday of each month through May.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
DISCOVERY THEATER, Gustafer Yellowgold
Discovery Theater
Ages 2-6, Live music and visual images tell this story for our smallest audiences! View more details.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Discovery Theater, 3rd Sublevel, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian (Blue/Orange Lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219495.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 11:30 AM.
George Norfleet and Colonel McGee: Book Signings
One-Time Events
George Norfleet signs copies of his book A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and Colonel McGee signs copies of his book Tuskegee Airmen.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Josef Albers: Friday Gallery Talk
One-Time Events
Johns Hopkins art history graduate Kate Markoski talks about the related exhibition.
Note: Topic and speaker subject to last-minute change.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Hirshhorn Museum. Event Location: Meet at information desk. Cost: Free. Continues: Continues most Fridays. Related Exhibition: Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit hirshhorn.si.edu. Robert F. Dorr's Hell Hawks! and Air Force One: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Robert F. Dorr signs copies of his books Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht and Air Force One.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store. Continues: Repeats every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in March.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Migratory Bird Club Lecture: Direct and Indirect Influences on Population Growth Rate in Birds
Special Zoo Events
The speaker is Peter Arcese, a professor at The University of British Columbia.
NOTE: This event is for Smithsonian Migratory Bird Club members only.
Not a member? Call Lisa Whitney at 202.633.3027
or email her at whitneyl@si.edu.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: National Zoo. Event Location: Research Building located off Adams Mill Road. (map). Cost: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Club members only. RSVP requested - Amy Wilson at 202.633.0550 or
wilsonas@si.edu.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
DC Environmental Film Fest Frogs: The Thin Green Line
Special Zoo Events
This lecture is free and open to the public. RSVP now.
Frogs have lived on this planet for more than 360 million years. Over the centuries, they have evolved into some of the most wondrous and diverse creatures on earth. Today, however, all their remarkable adaptations and survival tactics are failing them. Recent discoveries are startling: more than a third of all amphibians—most of which are frogs and toads—have already been lost and more are disappearing every day. It is an environmental crisis unfolding around the globe.
Traveling from Australia to North and South America, where the calls of frogs once filled the air, scientists now hear only silence. Ecosystems are beginning to unravel and the potential to discover important medical cures may be lost forever. Habitat loss, pollution, and a human population that has doubled in the past 50 years have set the stage for their diminished numbers. But now, a fungus called chytrid has been identified as the major culprit, and so far the spread of the fung…
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: National Zoo. Event Location: Visitor Center Auditorium. Cost: Free.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
For more info visit nationalzoo.si.edu. Tibetan Buddhism: Films From Around the World: Wheel of Time
Films
Master filmmaker Werner Herzog devotes his idiosyncratic passion and vast cinematic skill to discovering Tibetan Buddhism for himself. Herzog first finds the Dalai Lama at an assembly of half a million pilgrims at the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in India. The director then films a pilgrimage to sacred Mt. Kailash before he goes to Austria, where the Dalai Lama presides over an important ritual known as the Kalachakra (wheel of time) initiation. Herzog’s resonant voice-over enhances this beautiful exploration of Tibetan culture. Germany / 2003 / 80 min. / English and Tibetan with English subtitles.
Categories: Films. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meyer Auditorium. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: In the Realm of the Buddha.
Friday, March 26, 2010, 7:00 PM.
IMAX Films at the Samuel C. Johnson IMAX Theater
For Showtimes and ticketing information visit the Johnson IMAX Theater web site.
Note:
- For after hours shows, use the Constitution Ave. entrance.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Johnson IMAX Theater, 1st Floor. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202321.
Saturday, March 27, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Lockheed Martin Imax Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=21156&venue_val=202320.
Saturday, March 27, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. IMAX Films at the Airbus IMAX Theater
Explore our fascination with flight through the air and in space. View Earth from the open cargo bay of the Space Shuttle. Journey to natural and man-made wonders of the world. These and other thrills await you in the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center's Airbus IMAX Theater. Films are projected on the five-story-high screen with six-channel digital surround sound. For information on films, see Web site below.
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Airbus IMAX Theater. Purchase Tickets: http://www.si.edu/imax/shows.htm.
Saturday, March 27, 2010.
For more info visit www.si.edu. NanoDays 2010
One-Time Events
Learn about nanotechnology through special activities in Spark!Lab during NanoDays by:
• constructing a giant model of a carbon nanotube entirely from balloons
• measuring height in nanometers
• creating a liquid crystal display that changes color
• and other nanotechnology-related experiments
NanoDays 2010 is a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future.
Categories: Celebrations. Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Spark!Lab. Continues: Repeats daily through April 3. Related Events: See related lectures today and April 3. Related Exhibition: Spark!Lab.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
44th Annual Kite Festival
Smithsonian Sponsored Events
The Smithsonian 44th annual Kite Festival will showcase craft in flight, beauty in the air, and the art of making kites soar.
Be it a diamond or delta, box-kite or rokkaku, honor the art of kite making with color, creativity, and, of course, craft. The possibilities are endless, so stretch your imagination, push the limits, have fun, and be crafty! Whatever you end up creating, please make sure that in order to enter into the competition all kites must fly according to AKA specifications.
Note: Registration from 10 AM to 12:30 PM. To enter, contestants must have made their own kites, which must be capable of flying at a minimum altitude of 100 feet for approximately 1 minute.
Categories: Kids & Families. Event Location: National Mall, near the Washington Monument (Rain Date: March 28).
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit kitefestival.org. How to Write a Romance Novel
Resident Associate Program
Take one heroine, a soupcon of conflict, a leading man and you have the makings of a romance novel. Join award winning novelist Kathleen Gilles Seidel in a how-to workshop and turn your idea into a finished book. View more details.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: S. Dillon Ripley Center. Event Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive, SW, Metro: Smithsonian Mall Exit (Blue/Orange). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219316.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:00 AM – 3:30 PM.
Portraying the Gilded Age
Resident Associate Program
Art historian Bonita Billman discusses Gilded Age artists William Merritt Chase, James Whistler, John Singer Sargent, and Cecilia Beaux. From the Civil War to WWI, American nouveaux riches had their portraits painted for posterity. Luncheon included. View more details.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Event Location: Willard InterContinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Metro: (Metro Center, Red/Orange/Blue lines). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219353.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
Historic Treasury Building
Resident Associate Program
Members Only: Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972, this magnificent granite structure in the Greek Revival Style was constructed over a period of 33 years between 1836 and 1869. It houses one of the oldest and most intact collections of fine and decorative arts in the Executive Branch. Highlights include the restored Salmon P. Chase and Andrew Johnson Suites, the Cash room, and the restored gilded West Dome and Lobby. View more details.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Event Location: US Treasury Department - main building, 15th Street & Hamilton Place, NW, meet at the South Entrance, Iron Gate, Metro: McPherson Square (Blue/Orange Line). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219014.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 10:30 AM.
Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Helen Thomas, veteran reporter who has covered six administrations at the White House, signs copies of her new book with co-author Craig Crawford Listen Up, Mr. President! Everything You Always Wanted Your President to Know and Do. The book provides advice and cautionary examples from recent and historic presidents. Thomas also signs copies of her children's book The Great White House Breakout.
Categories: Kids & Families. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Mall Store, 2nd Floor, Center. Cost: Books available for sale in the Museum Store.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM.
Marie Smith's S is for Smithsonian: Book Signing
One-Time Events
Marie Smith signs copies of her recently released children's book S is for Smithsonian: America's Museum Alphabet.
Categories: Kids & Families. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Outside Main Museum Store, Ground Floor. Cost: Books available for sale in the Museum Store.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Historic Treasury Building
Resident Associate Program
Members Only: Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972, this magnificent granite structure in the Greek Revival Style was constructed over a period of 33 years between 1836 and 1869. It houses one of the oldest and most intact collections of fine and decorative arts in the Executive Branch. Highlights include the restored Salmon P. Chase and Andrew Johnson Suites, the Cash room, and the restored gilded West Dome and Lobby. View more details.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Event Location: US Treasury Department - main building, 15th Street & Hamilton Place, NW, meet at the South Entrance, Iron Gate, Metro: McPherson Square (Blue/Orange Line). Cost: Click here to view prices. Purchase Tickets: http://residentassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?utm_source=VIARC&utm_medium=SIWeb&utm_campaign=Calendar&tmssource=181896&performanceNumber=219015.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 11:15 AM.
George Norfleet and Charles Herbert Flowers Jr.: Book Signings
One-Time Events
George Norfleet signs copies of his book A Pilot's Journey: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and Charles Herbert Flowers Jr. signs copies of his children's book Training the Best.
Categories: Kids & Families. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Environmental Film Festival: Winners from 2009 Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival
One-Time Events
The museum presents the following films in conjunction with the 2010 Environmental Film Festival:
• 12 Noon: The Legend of Pale Male (2009, 85 min, USA, Washington, D.C. premiere) This is the true story of how one hawk lays claim to Central Park and sets in motion a chain of events that will unite New York City behind his cause. He inspires a young man to become a filmmaker and together they set out on a 16-year journey through life, death, birth, hope, and redemption. Discussion with filmmaker Frederic Lilien follows screening. (for families)
• 1:45 PM: Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (2009, 60 min, UK) Presented by David Attenborough who asks three key questions: How and why did Charles Darwin
come up with his theory of evolution? Why do we think he was right? And why is it more important now than ever before?
• 3 PM: The Forest: Realm of Shadows (2008, 45 min, Germany, directed by Jan Haft, Washington, D.C. premiere) The Central European Forest is a secret place whose inhabitants live…
Categories: Films. Kids & Families. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Baird Auditoriun, Ground Floor. Cost: Free; first come, first served.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:00 PM – 5:15 PM.
For more info visit www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org. Seasoned with Spirit: Food Upon the Water
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) Wild rice, or manoomin, is still harvested the traditional way by the Anishanabe (Ojibwe) people of the Great Lakes region. Ricers and their families take canoes in the rice fields and hand harvest the rice. After participating in the rice harvest, Loretta helps to prepare Winona LaDuke’s favorite wild rice and maple syrup cake to accompany a lakeside first rice feast of buffalo, wild rice and cranberry-stuffed acorn squash, buffalo stew, and beautiful ruby red swamp tea.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater, First Level. Continues: Repeats daily through March 31. Related Events: See related film at 3:30 PM.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:30 PM – 12:57 PM.
Tour: Arts of Japan
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Travel to Japan through the Freer Gallery's unparalleled collection of screens, paintings, lacquerware, prints, ceramics, and sculpture. Look closely at Japanese works of art and learn about their importance in Japanese history and culture, past and present. Meet at the Freer info desk.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Venue: Freer Gallery. Event Location: Meet at Freer information desk.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM.
Robert F. Dorr's Hell Hawks! and Air Force One: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Robert F. Dorr signs copies of his books Hell Hawks!: The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht and Air Force One.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store. Continues: Repeats every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in March.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.nasm.si.edu. Art a la Cart: Family Program
One-Time Events
(for ages 7-12) Travel through the galleries and handle brushes, palettes, bison hide, bottle caps, and quilt squares at interactive carts.
Categories: Demonstrations. Kids & Families. Workshops. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Throughout the museum; handouts available at both info desks. Cost: Free. Continues: Repeats every Saturday and Sunday in March and April.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit www.americanart.si.edu. Stanford Chamber Chorale
One-Time Events
The Stanford Chamber Chorale, directed by Stephen M. Sano (associate professor and chair of the music department) performs works from British, American, folk, and spiritual traditions.
Categories: Performances. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Kogod Courtyard. Cost: Free; first come, first served.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM.
Constance Valis Hill's Tap Dance America: Book Signing
One-Time Events
Constance Valis Hill signs copies of her book Tap Dance America.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Mall Store, 2nd Floor, Center. Cost: Books available for sale in the Museum Store.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Elizabeth Catlett and the Mexican Visual Arts Tradition
One-Time Events
1 PM: Talk and Tour at the Anacostia Community Museum
Art historian and educator David Driskell (professor emeritus, University of Maryland) gives a tour of the exhibition African Presence in Mexico and talks about the internationally known artist and former Washingtonian Elizabeth Catlett and her uniquely American contributions to Mexican art and aesthetic values.
3 PM: Lecture and Discussion at the Mexican Cultural Institute,
David Driskell gives a presentation on "Elizabeth Catlett and the Mexican Visual Arts Tradition" at the Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
Note: Transportation from the Anacostia Community Museum to the Mexican Cultural Institute for the 3:00 PM lecture will be offered to those who register by calling 202-633-4844.
Categories: Gallery Talks & Tours. Lectures & Discussions. Venue: Anacostia Community Museum. Event Location: 1 PM at the Anacostia; 3 PM at the Mexican Cultural Institute. Cost: Free; for information, call 202-633-4844. Related Exhibition: The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 1:00 PM.
For more info visit anacostia.si.edu. ImaginAsia: Tatebanko: Japanese Paper Dioramas
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Using a rediscovered art form from seventeenth-century Japan, create a diorama using copies of Japanese woodblock prints in the Asian collections.
Categories: Kids & Families. Venue: Sackler Gallery. Event Location: ImaginAsia classroom, Sackler sublevel 2. Cost: Free. First come first served.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2:00 PM.
David Romanowski, Melissa Keiser, Paul E. Ceruzzi: Book Signings
One-Time Events
The following museum staff members sign copies of their books:
• David Romanowski signs copies of his book Air & Space Official Guide; Melissa Keiser joins him in signing copies of their book Legacy of Flight.
• Paul E. Ceruzzi signs copies of his books Internet Alley and Modern Computing.
Categories: Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center. Event Location: Outside Museum Store. Cost: Books available for sale in Museum Store. Continues: Repeats March 31 at Air and Space on the Mall.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Don Wilson: Book Signings
One-Time Events
Chair of the museum's Vertebrate Zoology Department Don Wilson signs copies of his books: Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to the World's Wildlife, Human: The Definitive Visual Guide, Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources, Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (2-volume set), Mammals of North America, and his children's book Artie and Merlin.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Natural History Museum. Event Location: Outside Main Museum Store, Ground Floor. Cost: Books available for purchase in Museum Store.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Marie Smith's S is for Smithsonian: Book Signing
One-Time Events
Marie Smith signs copies of her recently released children's book S is for Smithsonian: America's Museum Alphabet.
Categories: Kids & Families. Shopping/Book Signing. Venue: Reynolds Center: American Art Museum & Portrait Gallery. Event Location: Outside Bookstore. Cost: Books available for sale in the Bookstore.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Rubén Blades — In His Own Words
Smithsonian Latino Center
Legendary Panamanian musician, composer, and actor Rubén Blades discusses his viewpoints, memories, and experiences related to the history of Latin music in the United States with curator Marvette Pérez.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: Carmichael Auditorium, 1st Floor, Center. Cost: Free; first come, first served. Related Exhibition: Panamanian Passages located at the S. Dillon Ripley Center.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 3:00 PM.
Seasoned with Spirit: Bounty of the River’s Edge
One-Time Events
(2006, 27 min, USA) The people of the Yurok Tribe live off the bounty of the Pacific Coast on the banks of California’s Klamath River, harvesting salmon, shellfish, seaweed, and edible wild greens -- along with acorns ground and cooked in tightly woven handmade baskets. Loretta joins her Yurok friends for a feast of alderwood smoked salmon, dried sirfish and eels, along with an amazing sturgeon egg (caviar) bread.
Categories: Films. Venue: American Indian Museum. Event Location: Rasmuson Theater. Cost: Free.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 3:30 PM – 3:57 PM.
Innovative Lives: Michael Fuhrer
One-Time Events
Michael Fuhrer, a leading expert on nanoscale electronics and associate director of the University of Maryland NanoCenter will discuss his research in the field as well as the role of nano-electronics in past, present and future innovations.
This Innovative Lives program is a part of NanoDays 2010, a nationwide festival of educational programs about nanoscale science and engineering and its potential impact on the future.
Categories: Lectures & Discussions. Venue: American History Museum. Event Location: First Floor, Spark!Lab.
Saturday, March 27, 2010, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.