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Friday, September 19
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| 10:15 & 11:30 AM
Meet the Museum: Reel Live Puppets!
Discovery Theater Performance |
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(for ages 2-5) Learn how puppets come alive in person and on screen in this interactive show about imagination and the "reel world."
Note: $6, adults; $5, children (ages 2-16); $4, Resident Members.
Tickets required; call 202-633-8700 (see Note for prices)
Last day
Related Exhibition: Jim Henson's Fantastic World
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3111
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| 12:30 PM
Hirshhorn Collection
Friday Gallery Talk |
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Arts writer Kriston Capps talks about the Hirshhorn collection.
Free
Continues most Fridays
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Meet at information desk
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| 5:30-8:30 PM
Smithsonian Trunk Show of Jewelry & Wearable Art
Advance Chance Party |
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If you missed the spring craft show at the Smithsonian, here's another opportunity to take home something unique for someone special or for yourself. At the Smithsonian Trunk Show, thirty artists, each previously juried into a Smithsonian Craft Show, exhibit and sell their latest one-of-a-kind crafted design work in jewelry, accessories, and clothing. This event is produced by the Smithsonian Women's Committee to benefit education, outreach, and research projects within the Smithsonian Institution.
$35; RSVP required; call 202-633-5006
Continues Sept. 20-21
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Special Smithsonian Sponsored
Location: National Building Museum, 401 F St., NW (Judiciary Sq. Metro)
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| 6:45 PM, Lecture; 7:45 PM, Book Signing
Designing an Ocean-Themed Opera: The Pearl Fishers
Illustrated Lecture, with book signing |
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British fashion and set designer Zandra Rhodes discusses the sets and costumes she designed for her production of Georges Bizet's exotic opera The Pearl Fishers. She reveals her oceanic inspirations, the artistic challenges of bringing the sea to the stage, and the differences between designing for the stage and for the runway. Following the lecture, she signs copies of her book Zandra Rhodes and the Art of Textiles: A Lifelong Love Affair. Presented in cooperation with the Washington National Opera in conjunction with its production of The Pearl Fishers, scheduled to open September 20 at the Kennedy Center, and with the museum's opening of the Sant Ocean Hall on September 27.
Free; first-come, first served
Related Exhibition: The Sant Ocean Hall
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National Museum of Natural History
Location: Baird Auditorium (enter Constitution Ave.)
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| 7 PM
Wonderful Town, with POOL
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Two films are shown:
• POOL (2007, 13 min., video, Bahasa Indonesia and Acehnese with English subtitles, directed by Christopher Chong, Canada/Malaysia).Note: This film is intended for mature audiences.
• Wonderful Town (2007, 92 min., Thai with English subtitles, directed by Aditya Assarat, Thailand) In this haunting film, a Bangkok architect, sent to supervise construction of a new beach resort in a town devastated by the 2004 tsunami, falls in love with the young woman who manages the hotel in which he is the sole guest.
Free, but tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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| 7:30 PM
Native Theater: Mestiza Power
Performance |
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(in Spanish with English subtitles) This new theatrical work illustrates the dignity and everyday lives of contemporary Mayan women. The play is based on a series of interviews conducted with city and rural street vendors and recounts their childhood memories, educational experiences, cultural life, and the issues that face them today, including stories of domestic violence, street selling, and mystical practice. Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month.
Free
Repeats Sept. 20, 2 PM
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National Museum of the American Indian
Location: 1st Level, Rasmuson Theater (enter from Maryland Ave.)
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