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7th Annual Jane Austen Film Festival
Dumbarton House invites you to the 7th Annual Jane Austen Film Festival Wednesdays from July 11th through August 1st 2018.
Tickets are $6 per film or $20 for all four films. Purchase tickets here. Become a museum member and get in for free, plus have early entry.
*Highly recommend to buy tickets in advance as this event regularly sells out*
Showings begin at 7:00 pm and end at 11:00 pm:
Love and Friendship (2016): July 11th
Sense & Sensibility (1995): July 18th
Emma (1996): July 25th
Pride & Prejudice (2005): August 1st
Dumbarton House is located at 2715 Q Street in Georgetown.
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Dance Soirée in Paris June 29
The Embassy of France requests the pleasure of your company for an evening of dancing, champagne, French wine, and dessert.
Join on your own or with friends at their Dance Soirée in Paris to meet and socialize with ICDC members as you enjoy an evening of music, French wine, Parisian desserts & dancing! Even if you've never danced before, let them show you how to dance the Viennese Waltz, Tango, & Salsa followed by an evening of dancing in the French Embassy ballroom.
Space is limited, so please make your reservations early. Purchase tickets here.
Enjoy delectable Parisian desserts available for purchase
As you enjoy the evening, enjoy French desserts prepared by the embassy chef available for purchase.
They need a complete guest list of all the attendees for security purposes at the entrance so if you reserve more than one ticket, please e-mail the full name of each guest. All guests must be 21 and over. Reserve your tickets now as space is limited.
Due to enhanced security at the French Embassy, photo ID is REQUIRED for attendance. Please ensure all ticket holders and each guest attending with a ticket holder has valid photo ID. They are unable to issue a refund if you are denied entry due to lack of photo ID. If you reserve more than one ticket, please e-mail the full name of each guest.
7:00 pm Admission commences
~ Viennese Waltz Dance Lesson
~ Tango dance lesson
~ Salsa dance lesson
8:30 pm Dance Party (starting time approximate, and after the dance lessons)
Dance the night away to a mix of ballroom dance music with a selection of Latin music for added variety. This is a wonderful opportunity to practice your dancing and socialize with other attendees. Recorded music will be played for a night of dancing.
10:30 pm Evening concludes with the cash bar closing at 10:15 pm.
The Embassy of France is located at 4101 Reservoir Road NW.
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Jean Carne Live at Blues Alley in July
Jean Carne will be performing live at Blues Alley July 12 through 15, 2018.
The Philly Soul legend's recording career began in 1969 with her husband Doug. Her musical skills became apparent as a teenager on a morning radio talk show, 'Today In Georgia', when she sang 'Misty' to the accompaniment of Errol Garner's piano. Together they made three albums for Ovation Records that saw a building success, via touring engagements across the U.S.A. Jean was often praised for being one of the first Afro-American women to control her musical stylings and not be controlled by the industry moguls.
Jean performed with Duke Ellington, the last vocalist to do so before his death. She then teamed up with Norman Connors for four highly regarded sets, contributed 'Reach For it' to George Duke's Gold album and sang lead vocals on the first two albums by Earth, Wind And Fire. The four albums she recorded for Philadelphia International are considered her finest and introduced Jean to pop and R & B audiences for the first time.
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Georgetown Independents Day June 30
Join over 30 independent merchants throughout Georgetown on Saturday, June 30, from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm to celebrate the spirit of small business—the heart and soul of our neighborhood for decades.
Stop by the participating stores and restaurants for Fourth of July-themed refreshments, activities and entertainment! An Uncle Sam stiltwalker and several Washington Nationals Presidents will be in the TD Bank lot (1611 Wisconsin Avenue) that afternoon to celebrate Independents Day Georgetown, plus enjoy music, a hot dog truck, popcorn and ice pops, and more.
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FIFA World Cup Viewing Party - Sweden vs Germany June 23
Join the Embassies of Sweden and Germany and DC Stoddert Soccer for a World Cup viewing party Saturday, June 23, 2018 outdoors as Sweden will meet the defending champions Germany. Gates open at 1:00 pm and close at 5:00 pm. Game starts at 2:00 pm
Free and open to the public, registration required. Bring your own picnic (food and drinks) and blanket or lawn chairs. Giveaways and family fun on-site.
The Swedish Residence Garden's entrance to the grounds will be provided from the back gate ONLY. The back gate is located on Van Ness Street at 44th Street, NW, DC 20016. Street parking only.
PLEASE NOTE: In the event of inclement weather, the event will be cancelled and registered guests will receive a cancellation email the morning of the event. When the event is at max capacity no additional admittance will be granted to the grounds.
Photo ID will be checked at the gate, children will need to be accompanied by an adult.
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Summer Solstice Jam at Gypsy Sally's
Celebrate the longest evening of the year with John Kadlecik's Summer Solstice Jam Night, June 21, 2018 at Gypsy Sally's.
John Kadlecik is a singer, songwriter, and musician who can play most string instruments but is primarily known for being a guitar-slinging sideman to Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh and Bob Weir in the band Furthur. Also an original co-founder of the group Dark Star Orchestra, John has been performing improvisationally-oriented shows regularly since the late 1980's and touring nationally for the last 20 years. His work also includes several studio releases of original music, and he is currently touring with his own group, The John Kadlecik Band.
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Gypsy Sally's is located at 3401 K Street in Georgetown.
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Fabergé Time at Hillwood
Now through January 13, 2019 visit Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens to see treasures created by the firm of Carl Fabergé.
Featuring over 100 objects, Fabergé Rediscovered unveils new discoveries relating to Hillwood’s own collection of Fabergé imperial Easter eggs and other famed works, highlighting new attributions and provenances and providing a new framework to study and understand 19th- and 20th-century jewelry and goldsmithing.
(Photo by: Alex Braun/hillwoodmuseum.org)
From Hillwood's Fabergé Collection
The special exhibition displays the greatest examples from Hillwood’s Fabergé collection, left by Marjorie Merriweather Post for the benefit of future generations, along with important loans from other museums and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée d’Orsay, the McFerrin Collection, the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation, and His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco.
"Marjorie Post was a serious collector and approached the collecting of Fabergé as she did her important collection of French 18th-century and Russian imperial art, as an avid student and connoisseur. As a result, she assembled an important and impressive collection of these intriguing works,” explained Hilwood executive director, Kate Markert. “Since it’s been over 22 years since Hillwood’s Fabergé collection was last examined in a book or exhibition, this fresh look at the works of Fabergé, revealing new information, attributions, and provenances for Hillwood’s objects, is long overdue.”
Hillwood Estare, Museum and Gardens is located at 4155 Linnean Avenue NW.
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Kreeger Museum Presents Portuguese Contemporary Art
Opening June 5th and running through July 31, 2018, The Kreeger Museum will be exhibiting the first group exhibition of Portuguese art of the 21st century to be presented in the United States.
Second Nature is both a portrait of recent artistic production in Portugal and an exploration of the relationship between human culture and the environment. Working in media ranging from watercolor to photography to video, artists in the exhibition consider the tension between the concept of an untouched natural world—a popular subject in art history—and the ways humans have dominated and reshaped the environment using modern technology.
The exhibition includes 38 works and is the first to go on tour from the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon, which opened to the public in October 2016. It is curated by art historian Luisa Especial and MAAT Director Pedro Gadanho, formerly Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The exhibition brings together works created over the past two decades by sixteen artists from different generations, each of whom employs modern technology and materials to capture, filter, and reinvent the natural world, thereby generating a “second nature.”
Highlights include an installation centered on an orange tree root by sculptor Alberto Carneiro (1937–2017); two multimedia sculptures by artist Vasco Araújo (b. 1975) that explore the relationship between nature and colonialism; a 24-foot multi-perspectival drawing by Gabriela Albergaria (b. 1965); and arresting photographs of illegal fishing and hunting traps by João Grama (b. 1975).
The Kreeger Museum is located at 2401 Foxhall Road NW.
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Sense of Humor Coming Soon to DC
Humor may be fundamental to human experience, but its expression in painting and sculpture has been limited. Instead, prints, as the most widely distributed medium, and drawings, as the most private, have been the natural vehicles for comic content.
Drawn from the National Gallery of Art’s collection, Sense of Humor celebrates this incredibly rich though easily overlooked tradition through works including Renaissance caricatures, biting English satires, and 20th-century comics. The show, located in the West Building, ground floor, opens July 15th and runs through January 6, 2019.
Included are major works by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Jacques Callot, William Hogarth, James Gillray, Francisco Goya, and Honoré Daumier, as well as later examples by Alexander Calder, Red Grooms, Saul Steinberg, Art Spiegelman, and the Guerrilla Girls.
The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Bober, Andrew W. Mellon senior curator of prints and drawings; Judith Brodie, curator and head of the department of American and modern prints and drawings; and Stacey Sell, associate curator, department of old master drawings, all National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Admission is always free and passes are not required.
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Nordic Jazz 2018
On Sunday, June 24, 2018, the Nordic Embassies present the 12th annual Nordic Jazz Festival with internationally acclaimed performers from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.
Two bands will perform in the spectacular setting of House of Sweden. Enjoy a first hour of cocktails on our rooftop followed by two full sets of contemporary jazz by Sigurdur Flosason Quartet (from Iceland & Sweden) and Trail of Souls (from Norway).
Rooftop Reception (weather permitting) 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Concerts 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Program
6:30 Doors open. Bar with spectacular views overlooking the Potomac river is available with items for
purchase.
7:30 - 7:35 Welcome remarks
7:45 - 8:30 Sigurdur Flosason Quartet (Iceland & Sweden) in Alfred Nobel Hall
8:30 - 8:45 Short break
8:45 - 9:30 Trail of Souls (Norway) in Alfred Nobel Hall
Please note that the full concerts will not take place on the rooftop.
Bar and food items available for purchase. 21+ to drink.
ABOUT THE BANDS
Sigurdur Flosason Quartet (From Iceland & Sweden)
Featuring:
Sigurdur Flosason on saxophone
Anna Greta Sigurdardottir on piano
Graig Earl on double bass
Paul Svanberg on drums
The quartet plays music composed by saxophonist Sigurdur Flosason, many of which were recorded on his most recent album, “Green Moss Black Sand” (Storyville Records). The music is dedicated to the nature in the highlands of his native Iceland. This touring ensemble is composed of Graig Earl on double bass, Paul Svanberg on drums, and Anna Greta Sigurdurdottir on piano. Anna Greta Sigurdurdottir, an award-winning jazz pianist in her own right, is also Sigudrur Flosason’s daughter.
Sigurdur Flosason is a leading Icelandic jazz musician. He has recorded more than twenty CDs with a wide variety of jazz music; everything from his own compositions and jazz standards to experimental music and improvisational solo performances with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Norrbotten Big Band. Sigurdur is a driving force and frequent conductor of the Reykjavik Big Band and a founding member of the Icelandic Saxophone Quartet. He has performed in all the Scandinavian countries, the US, Canada, Japan, China, Thailand, and various European countries.
Trail of Souls (Norway)
Featuring:
Solveig Slettahjell with vocals
Knut Reiersrud on guitar and harmonica
Andreas Ulvo on piano and keys
Roger Arntzen on bass
Pål Hausken on drums
Vocalist Solveig Slettahjell, blues guitarist Knut Reiersrud and jazz trio Andreas Ulvo, Roger Arntzen and Pål Hausken are on an international tour with “Trail of Souls,” a cross-disciplinary musical performance reimagining blues and gospel classics through the lens of Norwegian folk traditions and electronic, experimental influences.
Trail of Soul's performance at the Nordic Jazz Festival in Washington, DC is the launch of an American tour. The ensemble has performed to great acclaim in Norway, Germany, and Austria. www.trailofsouls.com
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