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Wild Women of Georgetown Walking Tour
Stroll through our historic neighborhood focusing on the stories of the women who helped build it, run it, and celebrate it. Women from all centuries and from all walks of life.
This women's history tour, held Sunday, March 23rd and 31st from 4:30 – 6:30 pm, is being offered through a partnership between A Tour Of Her Own and DC By Foot in celebration of Women's History Month.
This tour runs on a name your own price basis. You decide how much the tour is worth at the end of the tour. However, to ensure a suitable group size, there is a $3 non-refundable booking fee. All booking fees received from this special Women’s History tour will be donated to The National Women's Party at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument.
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Fragrant Floral Workshop at Hillwood Feb. 23
As part of a scented suite of workshops associated with Perfume and Seduction, Hillwood Museum is hosting a workshop on Saturday, February 23, 2019 on Fragrant Floral Design. The class is from 10:00 am to 11:30 am.
The power of scent can transform a home, evoking pleasant memories and creating joy.
In this hands-on workshop you'll create a stunning flower arrangement of fragrant blooms which are increasingly rare in commercial growing environments.
All materials are included. The completed arrangement will be approximately twelve inches wide. The fragrant blooms selected for your use will depend on seasonal availability.
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Ami Wilber
This program is limited to ten people. Payment is required in advance and is non-refundable. This workshop must have a minimum of four participants. In the event the workshop is canceled, participants may choose a refund or to participate in another session. Please wear comfortable shoes and clothing. You’ll be standing and working with plant material.
About the Instructor
Ami Wilber became the floral and event décor designer at Hillwood in November 2016. Ami has over twenty-five years of experience as a floral designer. She received a bachelor's degree in fine art from Miami University of Ohio and a Master's of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology, School for American Crafts. Prior to joining Hillwood, Ami created sculptures and exhibiting her installations at galleries and public spaces in Washington, DC.
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Women in the Arts Pop Up Block Party March 8
March 8 marks International Women’s Day and Tthe 3rd Annual Women in the Arts Pop up Block Party will be held in Georgetown, DC for four hours of bold art, charming music, fierce fashion, and delicious cocktails at the L2 lounge, Thos. Moser Showroom and Aurate NYC, DC Showroom.
Celebrate all the brilliant female artists and entrepreneurs changing the world.
International Women’s Day is a global celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. This day is not only a call to action for gender equality but also a celebration of women, all women! Come celebrate women and the arts in Georgetown this International Women’s Day.
Due to popular demand, DCSwim Week will be hosting the pop-up events in 3 different locations at attendee convenience, and this one is in Georgetown.
L2 Lounge is located at 3315 Cady's Alley in Georgetown.
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Kim Waters Live at Blues Alley Feb. 21-24
Saxophonist Kim Waters will be performing live at Blues Alley February 21-24, 2019.
Kim Waters has enjoyed a career longevity that is rare in the music business. For close to two decades the saxophonist, composer and producer has been one of the premier architects of Urban Smooth Jazz and a beacon of light in contemporary jazz. He has garnered praise from critics and fans alike, amassing record sales of over a million albums and ranks among the top five best-selling instrumentalists in jazz. Kim Waters’ music has fine-tuned the perfect combination of sensitivity and brawn, intellect and emotion and technique and soulfulness.
Kim Waters is the epitome of cool. The Washington Post says the model-handsome and charming saxophonist is "like a romantic pied piper out on a long evening stroll...he has a flair for composing seductive melodies" while JazzTimes Magazine hails Waters"" sax stylings as "effortlessly expressive."
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Zilia Sánchez at The Phillips Collection
The Phillips Collection presents the first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana) from February 16 through May 19, 2019.
The exhibition, I Am an Island, serves as a personal metaphor for Sanchez's experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents.
Sánchez’s artistic journey is traced from her early days in Cuba to her extended visits to Europe and residence in New York, and finally her move to Puerto Rico, where she now lives and works. Many of Sánchez’s works reference protagonists from ancient mythology (such as Trojans, Amazonians, and Antigone—all warriors and female heroines).
Others have reoccurring motifs of lunar shapes, erotic topologies, and tattoo drawings that map physical and psychological spaces and add another dimension to her curvilinear geometry, rich with metaphorical meaning.
The Phillips Collection is located at 1600 21st Street NW.
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Washington Dollar Days at Tudor Place
Practice frugality our founding father would approve of during the month of George Washington's birth. Take Tudor Place tours in February for a buck. Members free, as always.
Book early, tours will sell out especially on weekends. House tours sold out on your chosen day? You can still visit the garden.
Come to the Visitor Center for admission and your free self-guided garden map and audio tour.
Practice frugality our founding father would approve of during the month of George Washington's birth.
DC's only historic house museum with family ties to Martha and George Washington, highlights of the Washington Collection will be on display as part of all house tours.
Tours offered every day but Monday; last tour of the day starts at 3:00 pm.
Click here to register for a date and time. If you have any questions, please call 202.965.0400 or email education@tudorplace.org.
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Orchids at Smithsonian American Art Museum
From February 16 through April 28, 2019, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (8th and F Streets, NW) is showcasing a dazzling collection of orchids.
Escape the winter cold and step into a floral oasis in the Kogod Courtyard with Orchids: Amazing Adaptations. A joint collaboration with SAAM, the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Gardens, and the U.S. Botanic Garden, this installation fills the museums’ courtyard with hundreds of orchids of stunning variety. Did you know that orchids are found on every continent except Antarctica? The gorgeous presentation showcases how orchids have adapted to their many different environments.
When you visit, stop by the museums’ Courtyard Café for treats that feature orchid-inspired flavors like vanilla, and purchase beautiful custom orchid merchandise in the Museum Store.
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Who's Your Ultra Violet Valentine?
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Designed by hand, delivered by hand, Fabio and his stellar team are ready to create that exquisite floral arrangement for your Valentine!
Let Georgetown's favorite florist turn the ultimate romantic holiday ... or any day into a magical celebration!
Order by 2:00 pm on February 13 for Valentine's Day delivery!
Ultra Violet Flowers is located at 1218 31st Street in Georgetown
Tel: 202.333.3002
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Hervé Maury and His Beasts Now at Ligne Roset
"The animals that are here always look at us and are very surprised," says Hervé Maury with a twinkle in his eye. Endowing animal characters with complexity and humor, he celebrates all manner of bestiary, including insects, giraffes, koi fish, and mice.
(Photo by: Judith Beermann)
Hervé Maury
This construction worker-turned-artist has brought his whimsical subjects to Ligne Roset. Maury's show at the Chicago showroom last year was so successful that the collaboration with the French modern interior design and furnishings company resumed Thursday evening at a reception in their recently opened Wharf DC location.
(Photo by: Judith Beermann)
Ligne Roset at Wharf DC
From Montmartre, where he was born, to Paris and now in Marseilles, the artist creates paintings full-time for exhibitions around the world.
(Photo by: Judith Beermann)
Sara Mokhtari with La Belle et la Bete
In 2006, his "Big Beasts" polar bear series adorned the windows of Hermès boutiques.
(Photo by: Judith Beermann)
Hervé Maury and Sophie Caporossi, Batignolles in DC
Twenty years ago, after moving and wanting to decorate a new apartment, Maury couldn't find any appealing animal-themed art so he created his own, starting with a series of charming dog paintings. Family and friends soon discovered his talent and the artist was born.
(Photo by: Judith Beermann)
Hervé Maury
He begins his works with sand and a palette of pigments on brown paper and linen canvas, followed by gouache, India ink and sometimes charcoal. What remains constant, thanks to the the sand, is a natural tone, with the animals seeming to emerge from the earth.
(Photo by: Hervé Maury)
A natural connection to all of his subjects belies the fact Maury is a pet-free artist. "No, I don't have a dog. Never have." Maury explains. Have to wonder what his creatures, with their round, piercing eyes, and often bewildered expressions think about that.
(Photo by: Judith Beermann)
Ligne Roset at Wharf DC
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'Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project' at NGA
Starting September 12, 2018, on view at the National Gallery of Art is the recent acquisition of four large-scale photographs and one video from Dawoud Bey's most important series, "The Birmingham Project."
For more than 40 years photographer Dawoud Bey (b. 1953) has portrayed American youth and those from marginalized communities with an unusual degree of sensitivity and complexity. This deeply felt and conceptually rich monument to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963 coincides with the 55th anniversary of this tragedy. The exhibition focuses on Bey's representation of the past through the lens of the present, pushing the boundaries of portraiture and engaging ongoing national issues of racism, violence against African Americans, and terrorism in churches.
In four diptychs Bey pairs two life-size portraits representing the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing and related violence in Birmingham that Sunday in 1963: one portrait of a young person the same age as one of the victims, and another of an adult 50 years older—the child's age had he or she survived. Alongside these photographs, the exhibition features Bey's video 9.15.63. This split-screen projection juxtaposes, on the right, a recreation of the drive to the 16th Street Baptist Church, shot from the window of a moving vehicle looking up at trees and the roofs of houses from the vantage point of a young child. On the left, slow pans move through everyday spaces—some familiar (a beauty parlor and barbershop), some politically charged (a lunch counter and schoolroom), as they might have appeared that Sunday morning. Devoid of people, these views poeticize the innocent, mundane existences ripped apart by violence.
A short film of approximately eight minutes is screened in the project room in the West Building and also will be available on the exhibition's webpage. Featuring an interview with Bey, the film will provide valuable context for understanding the series in light of Bey's broader interests in portraiture and American history. It explores how the artist became interested in the topic, how he arrived at the final formulation of his series in diptych portraits and a video, and what he learned on his repeated trips to Birmingham over seven years of research. Finally, the film addresses the links between Bey's work in Birmingham and his current long-term project on the Underground Railroad.
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