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Thursday, September 4
11 AM-1 PM
Demonstration Preserving Postal History
Demonstration
Preserving a national collection of stamps, airplanes, mail trucks, and a 1936 marble statue of Benjamin Franklin is a full-time job. Manda Kowalczyk (preservation technician) discusses artifact preservation projects and the current conservation treatment of William Zorach's larger-than-life statue of Benjamin Franklin.
Free
National Postal Museum
Location: Atrium
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12 Noon & 1:30 PM
Film Repetition and The Battle of Orgreave
The Cinema Effect: Part II Special Screenings
Note: Programs are unrated and may contain adult content.

• 12 Noon: Artur Zmijewski's Repetition (2005, 75 min.) re-creates the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, but achieves a different result. Rather than accepting their roles and engaging in confrontational behavior, as in the original experiment, the modern-day "guards" and "prisoners," aware of the power of the camera to survey and control, ultimately unite against the producers to end the experiment.

• 1:30 PM: Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave (2001, 63 min.) is a re-enactment of the 1984 confrontation between striking miners and police near the Orgreave coking plant in England. The event provided an opportunity for several members of the parties participating in the original strike -- including miners and their families, policemen, the townspeople of Orgreave, the British media, and the viewing public -- to re-evaluate the chronology of the conflict and the way in which the televised images of the strike colored public opinion.
Free; first come, first served
Repeats Saturday, Sept. 6
Related Exhibition: The Cinema Effect: Part II - Realisms

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Ring Auditorium
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6-6:30 PM
Special Tour Lecture Portrait of Edwin Booth
Face-to-Face Portrait Talk: Arts & Letters at NPG!
The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Today, program assistant Maya Foo talks about the portrait of Edwin Booth by Mathew Brady's studio.
Free
Continues every Thursday evening
National Portrait Gallery
Location: Meet at F Street Lobby
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