Sat­ur­day, May 19th, Time: 11:00 a.m.

Bar­bara Liotta Leads a Free Arts Tour
Bar­bara Liotta, cre­ator of the shim­mer­ing sculp­ture at The River Inn, will lead a free tour of Sculpt­ing Out­side the Lines Exhibit on Sat­ur­day May 19 @ 11 a.m..

Loca­tion: New Hamp­shire Avenue & I Street, The Tour begins promptly at 11 a.m.

Tues­day, May 22nd, Time: 7:00 p.m. Social — 7:30 p.m. Program

FBA Monthly Meet­ing: Air­port and Air­craft Noise
Invited Guest Speak­ers: Speak­ers: Mike Jeck, Air­port Noise Office, Met­ro­pol­i­tan Wash­ing­ton Air­ports Author­ity, and Russ Adams, Rea­gan National Air­port Tower Super­vi­sor, FAA. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St Stephen’s Mar­tyr Church, SW cor­ner of 25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave, NW

Mark the Date: Tues­day, June 26th, Time: 7:00 p.m. Social — 7:30 p.m. Program

FBA Monthly Meet­ing: Annual FBA Elec­tions & Year End Review
Invited Guest Speak­ers: MPD, 2nd Dis­trict Com­man­der, Michael Reese (invited), F&EMS Fire Chief, Ken­neth B. Ellerbe, Chief Kevin C. Hay, GWU Police Depart­ment. Pub­lic Safety in the FB/WE Neigh­bor­hood pre­sen­ta­tions and Q&A. Annual FBA Elec­tions and a Year End Review. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St Stephen’s Mar­tyr Church, SW cor­ner of 25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave, NW

Sat­ur­day, April 19th, Time: 6:30 — 8:30 p.m.

Town Hall Meet­ing on Ward 2 Bud­get
Co-hosted by the FBA and Mayor Gray. This is your oppor­tu­nity to talk with the Mayor directly.

Loca­tion: Sum­ner School, 1201 17th Street, NW (cor­ner of M Street)

Sat­ur­day, April 21st

Third Bien­nial FBA Out­door Sculp­ture Exhibit Opens
The Exhibit opens April 21, 2012 and runs through Octo­ber 20, 2012. The project is funded by the Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion Defense and Improve­ment Cor­po­ra­tion. A new cura­tor, Laura Roulet, will be work­ing with Co-Directors, Jackie Lemire, Jill Nevius, and Mary Kay Shaw on the Exhibit. Details will be forth­com­ing in future issues of the Foggy Bot­tom News.

Loca­tion: Var­i­ous loca­tions through­out the Foggy Bot­tom area. See the Arts in Foggy Bot­tom page on this web­site for fur­ther details.

Tues­day, April 24th, Time: 7:30 – 8:15 p.m.

FBA Monthly Meet­ing: Cof­fee min­gle with the Pres­i­dent
Invited Guest Speaker: GWU Pres­i­dent Knapp. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St Stephen’s Mar­tyr Church, SW cor­ner of 25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave, NW

Sat­ur­day, April 28th, Time: 10:00 a.m. – noon

Spring Com­mu­nity Clean Up
The mem­bers of the FBA Board invite you to step up with us Sat­ur­day April 28th and lend some elbow grease for a fun few hours of work­ing for the com­mu­nity good.

Loca­tion: Gather at the 26th Street Park (arrive a few min­utes early)

Sat­ur­day, March 3rd, Time: 10 a.m. till 1 p.m.

Talk with Jack Evans & Mar­ion Barry
Jack Evans is a business-friendly fis­cal con­ser­v­a­tive on the Dis­trict of Colum­bia Coun­cil. Mar­ion Barry is presently a Coun­cilmem­ber himself..

Loca­tion: UDC Audi­to­rium, 4200 Con­necti­cut Avenue, NW

Sun­day, March 4th, Time: 2:00 p.m.

Piano Recital: Sara Danesh­pour plays works by Rach­mani­noff, Chopin, Prokofiev, & Franck
Sara Danesh­pour has per­formed at the Kennedy Cen­ter and Strath­more Hall in her native Wash­ing­ton, D.C.; Carnegie Hall and the Inter­na­tional Key­board Insti­tute and Fes­ti­val in New York City; the Cleve­land Museum of Art; the Ven­tura Fes­ti­val in Cal­i­for­nia; the Frédéric Chopin Soci­ety in St. Paul, Min­nesota; the Werner-Richard-Saal in Munich; the Great Hall of the Moscow Con­ser­va­tory; and the Gnessin Acad­emy of Music in Moscow; as well as in Fin­land, Esto­nia, Den­mark, and Sweden.

Loca­tion: United Church, 1920 G Street, NW (Free Admission)

Sat­ur­day, March 10th, Time: 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The West End Library Book Sale
Join the West End Library Friends for our book sale! Browse through thou­sands of used books in all cat­e­gories. The West End Library serves the West End, Foggy Bot­tom and Dupont Cir­cle Neighborhoods.

Loca­tion: West End Library, 24th & L Streets, NW

Tues­day, March 13th, 6:30 — 8:30 p.m.

Dis­trict of Colum­bia Water and Sewer Author­ity Town Hall Meet­ing
Coun­cilmem­ber Jack Evans, DC Water Gen­eral Man­ager George S. Hawkins and mem­bers of the DC Water team will be in Ward 2 to talk about water projects and issues affect­ing the Ward 2 com­mu­nity. Dis­cus­sion top­ics include pro­posed water and sewer rate increases, drink­ing water, infra­struc­ture, clean­ing our rivers, job oppor­tu­ni­ties and what­ever else is on your mind. We hope to see you there!
For more infor­ma­tion, please visit: www.dcwater.com

Loca­tion: School With­out Walls ( Mul­ti­pur­pose Room ), 2130 G Street, NW

Mon­day, March 19th, 7:00 — 8:30 p.m.

Panel Dis­cus­sion: Envi­sion­ing a Future for Pub­lic Art
A con­ver­sa­tion on the evolv­ing mean­ing of pub­lic art in con­junc­tion with 5x5, a tem­po­rary pub­lic art project orga­nized by the D.C. Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties. The panel com­prises the project’s five curators—Amy Lip­ton (New York, NY), Jus­tine Topfer (San Fran­cisco, CA), Richard Hollinshead (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK), Laura Roulet (Wash­ing­ton, D.C.), and Steve Row­ell (Cul­ver City, CA). Sue Spaid, exec­u­tive direc­tor of the Con­tem­po­rary Museum in Bal­ti­more, is the mod­er­a­tor. The event is Free for fur­ther details and Reg­is­tra­tion click here »

Laura Roulet, cura­tor for the Foggy Bot­tom Out­door Sculp­ture Exhibit, is one of the cura­tors cho­sen for the 5x5 arts show in con­junc­tion with DC Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties. To view details about the 5x5 show click here »

Loca­tion: Cor­co­ran Gallery of Art and Col­lege of Art+Design, The Frances and Armand Ham­mer Audi­to­rium, 500 17th St., NW

Wednes­day, March 21th, 7:00 p.m.

ANC2A Reg­u­lar Meet­ing
Agenda details can be viewed by click­ing here »

Loca­tion: Heart House, 725 24th Street, N.W.

Thurs­day, March 22nd and Sat­ur­day, March 24th, 6:30 — 8:30 p.m.

6th Annual Musi­cal Cabaret
Come out and enjoy an evening of music, dance and the­ater dur­ing For­bid­den Planet Production’s 6th Annual Musi­cal Cabaret. Tick­ets for this stu­dent run event are $5 and can be pur­chased at the door. For more infor­ma­tion about show times, visit www.fppgw.org

Loca­tion: Lis­ner Down­stage, 730 21st Street, NW

Fri­day, March 23rd and Sat­ur­day, March 31st

New Plays Fes­ti­val 2012
Enjoy an evening of one act plays, writ­ten by GW stu­dents and directed by Alan Wade. To pur­chase tick­ets ($15) and for more infor­ma­tion on show times, please visit www.gwu.edu/~theatre

Loca­tion: Dorothy Betts Mar­vin The­ater, 800 21st Street, NW

Fri­day, March 23rd, 7:30 p.m.

Con­cor­dia DC presents a Stravin­sky mas­ter­piece, L’Histoire du sol­dat (The Soldier’s Tale)
Con­cor­dia DC will present a Stravin­sky mas­ter­piece, L’Histoire du sol­dat (The Soldier’s Tale) at The United Church, 1920 G Street NW (cor­ner of 20th). De’Andre Ander­son will nar­rate an Eng­lish trans­la­tion of the famous text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, based on a Russ­ian folk tale. David Mont­gomery con­ducts the Prince William Sym­phony Play­ers. This event includes the world pre­miere show­ing of 30 new “Soldier’s Tale” images made espe­cially for this pro­duc­tion by the dis­tin­guished Welsh artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. The con­cert will be filmed by Com­cast, and the doors open at 7PM. The event is free to the pub­lic and will be fol­lowed by a reception.

Loca­tion: The United Church, 1920 G Street NW (cor­ner of 20th)

Tues­day, March 27th, Time: 6 p.m. ~ 7:00 p.m.

Join the FBA at the Cir­cle Bistro for our March Mem­ber Meet­ing
Just Show Up. Happy Hour prices ($5 wine; $7 mar­ti­nis) and Door prizes. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: The Cir­cle Bistro, 1 Wash­ing­ton Circle

Thurs­day, March 29th, Time: 6 p.m. ~ 8:00 p.m.

Pub­lic Edu­ca­tion in DC: At a Fork in the Road
21st Cen­tury School Fund; DCVOICE; Empower DC; SHAPPE; and WeActRadio.com invite cit­i­zens, par­ents, edu­ca­tors, and stu­dents to a panel pre­sen­ta­tion and com­mu­nity discussion.

Loca­tion: Met­ro­pol­i­tan Com­mu­nity Church, 474 Ridge Street NW (two short blocks from Con­ven­tion Cen­ter Green Line) Near 5th and M, NW

Thurs­day, March 29th, Time: 6 p.m. ~ 7:30 p.m.

Octa­gon House Museum Reopens with Lec­ture on Pugin
AIA Legacy presents Gothic Pro­fu­sion, a talk at The Octa­gon Museum to com­mem­o­rate British archi­tect, Augus­tus Welby Pugin, on the 200th anniver­sary of his birth. Pugin is best known for his gothic revival archi­tec­ture in the United King­dom and Aus­tralia. Join us for light refresh­ments and a lec­ture by spe­cial guest, James Thun­der, a Pugin descen­dant and mem­ber of the Pugin Soci­ety of Rams­gate in Kent, Eng­land. This lec­ture marks the begin­ning of a new era for the Octa­gon as the own­er­ship tran­si­tion period comes to an end and the museum reopens to the pub­lic with tours and events.

6:00 pm: Light refresh­ments , 6:30 pm: Gothic Pro­fu­sion, an illus­trated talk by James Thun­der. Thunder’s talk will be fol­lowed by a brief ques­tion and answer ses­sion and birth­day cake.

Details: If you have heard of Pugin, it would be a sur­prise. The BBC spe­cial in Jan­u­ary 2012 con­ceded that Pugin is far from a house­hold name – even in the UK, “Pugin coun­try,” where the land­scape is filled with build­ings of his design from a work­ing life of but 15 years: Big Ben, the Houses of Par­lia­ment, 6 cathe­drals, 100 Angli­can and Catholic churches, barns, homes, rail­road sta­tions, and on and on. Not just the build­ings, but every­thing inside of them as well: din­ner­ware, sil­ver­ware, wall­pa­per, fur­ni­ture, floor tile, jew­elry. The Vic­to­ria and Albert Museum of Lon­don pos­sesses hun­dreds of such arti­facts. Pugin worked closely with crafts­men and was a grand pub­li­cist, includ­ing author­ing seven books. Pugin died at age 40 just after his tri­umphal achieve­ment at the first world’s fair, London’s Great Exhi­bi­tion of 1851, which made the revival of Gothic archi­tec­ture wel­come through­out the world. You may not know Pugin’s name, but you have undoubt­edly seen his influ­ence – even in America.

About the speaker: Mr. James M. Thun­der, a great-great-grandson of Pugin, is a mem­ber of the Pugin Soci­ety of Rams­gate, Kent, Eng­land. He has given illus­trated talks about Pugin to audi­ences at Moun­tain Sky Guest Ranch, Emi­grant, Mon­tana; Breck­en­ridge Ski Resort, Col­orado; the Uni­ver­sity of Notre Dame School of Archi­tec­ture; Chris­ten­dom Col­lege; and more. He authored “Pugin as Busi­ness­man” (1999) and “Pugin: A Godly Man?” (2002 and 2003), both of which appeared in True Prin­ci­ples, the annual jour­nal of the Pugin Soci­ety. He also wrote “The Gothic Revival in the Nine­teenth Cen­tury” (1999) which was pub­lished in Sacred Archi­tec­ture, the jour­nal of the Insti­tute for Sacred Archi­tec­ture. For the bicen­ten­nial of Pugin’s birth, he has pre­pared an essay enti­tled “A Por­trait of This Artist as a Young Man: For Par­ents and Young Peo­ple.” In addi­tion to prac­tic­ing law, Mr. Thun­der has spo­ken and pub­lished on a topic Pugin would have appre­ci­ated: faith-based land use planning.

Loca­tion: The Octa­gon Museum, 1799 New York Avenue, NW, to Reg­is­ter click here »

Wednes­day Feb­ru­ary 15th, Time: 7:00 p.m.

Foggy Bot­tom & West End Advi­sory Neigh­bor­hood Com­mis­sion 2A, Reg­u­lar Meet­ing
The Advi­sory Neigh­bor­hood Com­mis­sion (ANC) 2A proudly serves Foggy Bot­tom and the West End neigh­bor­hoods. The ANC typ­i­cally meets on the 3rd Wednes­day of each month. The meet­ing place moves to a dif­fer­ent loca­tion each meet­ing. Check the cal­en­dar for details. Please view the meet­ing agenda.

Loca­tion: St Stephen’s Mar­tyr Church, SW cor­ner of 25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave, NW

Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary, 23rd, Time: 10:30 a.m.

FBA Tour of State Depart­ment Diplo­matic Rooms
Those wish­ing to attend should con­tact Jackie Lemire at 337‑2167 or by email jglemire@aol.com prior to Feb­ru­ary 13. Space is lim­ited. Reser­va­tions will be hon­ored in the order they are received. Atten­dees will need to pro­vide a photo ID such as a valid driver’s license or a valid passport.

Infor­ma­tion: Con­tact Jackie Lemire at 337‑2167 or by email jglemire@aol.com

Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary, 23rd, Time: 7:30 p.m.

The Aliage Quin­tet make their debut on the Con­cor­dia DC Series
On Thurs­day, Feb­ru­ary 23 at 7:30 a bril­liant new Ger­man musi­cal ensem­ble, the Aliage Quin­tet, will make its debut on the Con­cor­dia DC series at The United Church, 1920 G Street. The series is spon­sored by The United Church, 1920 G Street, in con­junc­tion with the Cul­tural Divi­sion of the Ger­man Embassy. “Aliage” brings to the stage an unusual instru­men­ta­tion of four sax­o­phones and piano, offer­ing aston­ish­ing per­for­mances of the great musi­cal clas­sics. The audi­ence will be treated to unique tran­scrip­tions of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade, Mendelssohn’s Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream, and Vivaldi’s “Sum­mer”, among oth­ers. The con­cert is free, fol­lowed by a reception.

Loca­tion: The United Church 1920 G Street NW Wash­ing­ton, DC

Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary, 24th, Time: 7:30 p.m.

The Sis­ters Chamasyan In Con­cert at the United Church
The Chamasyan sis­ters, Monika, Armine and Marina, have been play­ing vio­lins and piano together for most of their lives. They are win­ners of national and inter­na­tional com­pe­ti­tions and have per­formed through­out the U.S. and Europe. The pro­gram will include selec­tions by J.S. Bach, Wolf­gang Mozart, Franz Schu­bert, Lud­wig Van Beethoven and others.

Loca­tion: The United Church 1920 G Street NW Wash­ing­ton, DC

Spring 2012 Con­cert Event Calendar

Pre­sented by the United Church in Coop­er­a­tion with the Cul­tural Dept of the Ger­man Embassy
Sun­day, March 4 at 2 P.M. / Sara Danesh­pour, piano
Fri­day, March 23 / Prince William Sym­phony Play­ers: His­toire du sol­dat
Fri­day, March 30 / Amalia Laborde, soprano; Mag­dalena Duhagon, gui­tar
Fri­day, April 20 / Kim Cook, cello; Marylène Dosse, piano
All events are free to the pub­lic. Each event starts at 7:30 p.m except where noted and is fol­lowed by a reception.

Loca­tion: The United Church 1920 G Street NW Wash­ing­ton, DC

Tues­day, Feb­ru­ary 28th, Time: 7 p.m. Social; 7:30 p.m.

FBA Monthly Mem­ber­ship Meet­ing
Foggy Bottom/ West End Aging in Place Project, A Spe­cial Com­mit­tee of the Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion. Open Infor­ma­tional Meet­ing after the reg­u­lar meet­ing, hosted by the Foggy Bot­tom Association.

Loca­tion: St Stephen’s Mar­tyr Church, SW cor­ner of 25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave, NW (Entrance on 25th St NW)

Every Wednes­day in Jan­u­ary, 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th Time: 10:00 a.m.

Free Super­mar­ket Shut­tle for Foggy Bottom/West End Seniors
For res­i­dents 60 and over this ser­vice is free of charge. This shut­tle leaves from the Water­gate East dri­ve­way at 10 am and returns between 11:30 am and Noon. This ser­vice is pro­vided by Fam­ily Mat­ters of DC. To sign up for a trip, call 202–289-1510 ext. 1415 Leave name, phone and date of trip. Fam­ily Mat­ters may ask you to reg­is­ter. If you don’t sign up, you may show up and will be able to board if there is a seat.

Loca­tion: Strath­more, 5301 Tuck­er­man Lane, North Bethesda, MD phone:301–581-5100

Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 12th, Time: 7:30 p.m.

Bruce Swaim Quar­tet (Cel­e­brat­ing Amer­i­can Com­posers)
“Long one of D.C.‘s best-kept secrets” (Cadence Mag­a­zine), tenor sax­o­phon­ist Bruce Swaim has per­formed with such artists as Keter Betts, Carl Allen, Rose­mary Clooney, Martha Reeves and Mil­lie Jack­son. If you want to hear straight-ahead Amer­i­can jazz stan­dards, “alive and pas­sion­ately deliv­ered” (Cadence Mag­a­zine) along with new works com­posed by Swaim and the group’s pianist Jay “Sea­mus” Coo­ley, this is the concert–and Strath­more is the place.

Loca­tion: Rivers at the Water­gate, 600 New Hamp­shire Ave., NW

Through Sun, Jan­u­ary 15, Show­times: 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

ANN: An Affec­tion­ate Por­trait of Ann Richards
This play with Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actress Hol­land Tay­lor (Two and a Half Men) is a hilar­i­ous and touch­ing evening of the­ater cel­e­brat­ing a beloved daugh­ter of Texas. Tick­ets and Infor­ma­tion: 800–444-1324 or 202–467-4600.

Loca­tion: John F. Kennedy Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts, 2700 F Street, NW Washington

Through Sun, April 8, FREE

Exhi­bi­tion: Antico: The Golden Age of Renais­sance Bronzes
For the first time in the United States, an exhi­bi­tion is devoted to to the Man­tuan sculp­tor and gold­smith Pier Jacopo Alari Bona­colsi, know as Antico (c. 1455–1528) for his exper­tise in clas­si­cal antiq­uity. Enlivened with gild­ing and sil­ver­ing, his exquis­ite bronze reduc­tions of ancient Roman sculp­tures were cre­ated just after the redis­cov­ery of the orig­i­nal antiq­ui­ties dur­ing the Renais­sance. Antico’s bronzes are so rare that the nearly 40 works in this exhibition–including medals, reliefs, busts, and the renowned statuettes–constitute more than three quar­ters of the sculptor’s exist­ing works. The exhi­bi­tion is FREE to the gen­eral pub­lic. The exhi­bi­tion is on view in the National Gallery’s East Build­ing, Ground Floor.

Loca­tion: National Gallery of Art, 4th and Con­sti­tu­tion Avenue NW, Wash­ing­ton, DC East Build­ing

Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 10th, Time: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion Annual Hol­i­day Party
Join fel­low FBA mem­bers and their guests in cel­e­brat­ing the upcom­ing hol­i­days at our Annual Hol­i­day get together. The party will fea­ture Hors D’Oevers a cash bar and a host of friends and fel­low mem­bers. This years event will be held on Sat­ur­day Dec. 10th from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Rivers at the Water­gate, 600 New Hamp­shire Ave., NW. For ques­tions and/or infor­ma­tion con­tact Jackie Lemire jglemire@aol.com

Loca­tion: Rivers at the Water­gate, 600 New Hamp­shire Ave., NW

Wednes­day, Decem­ber 14th, Time: 7:00 p.m.

The Big Idea: Explor­ing the Edge of Exis­tence
NG Mem­ber: $18; Gen­eral Pub­lic: $20 How is tech­nol­ogy expand­ing the lim­its of the known uni­verse? 2006 Nobel Lau­re­ate in Physics, John Mather, who has designed space probes to mea­sure the traces of the big bang, will dis­cuss this topic with Nat Geo Explorer-in-Residence Robert Bal­lard, who has pio­neered cutting-edge tech­nol­ogy to unlock deep ocean mys­ter­ies. Boyd Mat­son, host of National Geo­graphic Week­end, moderates.

Pre­sented in part­ner­ship with the Nobel Prize Edu­ca­tion Fund. The recep­tion for “Explor­ing the Edge of Exis­tence” is co-sponsored by Wood­ford Reserve.

Loca­tion: National Geo­graphic Live! 1600 M Street, NW. Phone 202 857 7700

Fri­day, Decem­ber 16th, Time: 7:30 p.m.

The Wash­ing­ton Inter­na­tional Cho­rus (Dim­i­tar Nikolov, Music Direc­tor)
The Choir of the United Church of Wash­ing­ton DC (David Mont­gomery, Music Direc­tor), and The Unity Cen­ter of Light Choir of Bowie, MD will present a joint hol­i­day con­cert. Admis­sion and post­con­cert recep­tion are free. The music will be drawn from Cen­tral Europe, Rus­sia, Africa, North and South Amer­ica. The fea­tured work is Navi­dad Nues­tra, by the great Argen­tine mas­ter Ariel Ramirez.

Part of the fes­tiv­i­ties the two music direc­tors will play the duo piano samba from Milhaud’s cara­mouche. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion email info.concordia.dc@gmail.com or call (202) 331‑1495.

Loca­tion: The United Church, 1920 G St., NW., Wash­ing­ton DC

Sun­day Dec. 18th & Mon­day Dec. 19th, Time: 11:00 a.m.

Bal­let In Cin­ema: The Nut­cracker
Per­formed pri­mar­ily dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son, The Nut­cracker is a fairy-tale based on a nov­el­ette of the same name by E.T.A. Hoff­mann. Chore­og­ra­phy by Yuri Grig­orovich with ideas from the sce­nario by Mar­ius Petipa. Star­ring Nina Kaptsova as Marie and Artem Ovcharenko as The Nutcracker/The Prince. Live from the Bol­shoi The­ater in Moscow. 124 min­utes with inter­mis­sion. Music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Chore­og­ra­phy by Yuri Grigorovich.

Loca­tion: WEST END CINEMA, 2301 M St NW – (Entrance on 23rd Street between M and N Streets NW) 202–419-3456

Sun­day, Decem­ber 18th, Time: 3:00 p.m.

The Wash­ing­ton Saenger­bund per­forms a Ger­man Xmas Con­cert
Lim­ited park­ing is avail­able in the church dri­ve­way; on-street park­ing is read­ily avail­able on week­ends. The Church’s eMail address: info@theunitedchurch.org

Loca­tion: The United Church, 1920 G St., NW., Wash­ing­ton DC

Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 24th, Time: 5:00 p.m.

Christ­mas Ser­vice with Ger­man music and ser­mon in Eng­lish
The United Church is located in the heart of Wash­ing­ton, DC’s Foggy Bot­tom and West End neigh­bor­hoods, at the cor­ner of 20th and G Streets, NW. We are a few blocks away from the Foggy Bottom/GWU (23rd & I Streets) and Far­ragut West (18th & I) Metro sta­tions, both on the blue and orange lines.

Loca­tion: The United Church, 1920 G St., NW., Wash­ing­ton DC

Mon­days, Time: 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Mon­day Night Yoga: @ St. Paul’s Parish Atrium
St. Paul’s parish­ioner Adeoye (eh DAY oh yay) Mabo­gunje will lead the class. Sug­gested dona­tion is $10 per class. Adeoye is a grad­u­ate stu­dent at the Acad­emy for Clas­si­cal Act­ing (a joint pro­gram of the Shake­speare The­ater Com­pany and George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity). He com­pleted his teacher train­ing at Yogaview in Chicago. The class will meet each Mon­day from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, fol­lowed by a short break and period of meditation—for those who wish to par­tic­i­pate—
that will end by 7:50 pm. Each par­tic­i­pant will need a Yoga mat and block.

An addi­tional oppor­tu­nity for silent med­i­ta­tion before the Blessed Sacra­ment begins in the Church at 8:00 pm, and ends with the Office of Com­pline at 8:30 pm. www.stpauls-kst.com/

Loca­tion: St. Paul’s Parish Atrium, 2430 K Street NW, Wash­ing­ton DC

Mon­day, Novem­ber 7th, Time: 7:00 p.m. & Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 12th @ 11:00 a.m.

West End Cin­ema: Opera In Cin­ema
Gounod’s Faust was the most suc­cess­ful opera of its time, reach­ing Covent Gar­den in 1863, four years after its Parisian pre­miere, and quickly becom­ing a favorite of Vic­to­rian audi­ences. In 2004 Faust returned with a flour­ish to The Royal Opera’s reper­tory: David McVicar’s bril­liantly the­atri­cal pro­duc­tion, played out in the Paris of the Sec­ond Empire, has given its famil­iar melodies, grand ensem­bles and epic cen­tral strug­gle between good and evil a new lease on life. Charles Edwards’s splen­didly var­ied sets con­jure up Gounod’s Paris, even quot­ing paint­ings of the period, with the composer’s own inter­nal strug­gle between reli­gious devo­tion and pas­sion for the the­atre sup­ply­ing a clever subtext.

Angela Ghe­o­rghiu returns to the role of Mar­guerite, which she sang when the stag­ing was new. Vit­to­rio Grigolo, who made such a sen­sa­tional Covent Gar­den debut as Des Grieux in Manon in 2010, sings the philoso­pher, Faust, whose moral scru­ples are under­mined by the intrigues of the demon Méphistophélès sung in a rare appear­ance of rich-toned Ger­man bass René Pape. Pop­u­lar bari­tone Dmitri Hvoros­tovsky is Marguerite’s unlucky brother Valentin, with musi­cal direc­tion from expe­ri­enced Ital­ian con­duc­tor Evelino Pidò. 255 min. with inter­mis­sion • Music by Charles-Francois Gounod • Sung in French with Eng­lish subtitles

Loca­tion: West End Cin­ema, 2301 M St NW (Entrance on 23rd) 202–419-3456, www.westendcinema.com

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 9th, Time: 7:30 p.m.

The GWU Cham­ber Choir per­forms “French Col­ors“
The GWU Cham­ber Choir per­forms an all French pro­gram, fea­tur­ing a per­for­mance of Gabriel Fauré’s “Requiem,” Claude Debussy’s “Trois Chan­sons” as well as works by Saint Saens and Ravel. This con­cert is free and open to the public.

Loca­tion: Stephen Mar­tyr Church, 2436 Penn­syl­va­nia Avenue, NW.

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 9th, Time: 8:00 p.m.

The GWU Cham­ber Choir per­forms “New Fron­tiers” (Note Date Change)
The GWU Orches­tra will per­form works explor­ing change, cre­ation, and explo­ration of new hori­zons includ­ing Hohavness’s “And God Cre­ated Great Whales” and Dvorak’s Sym­phony No. 5 (“New World”). Led by the Direc­tor of the Uni­ver­sity
Orches­tra Nan­cia D’Alimonte. The con­cert is free and open to the public.

Loca­tion: Lis­ner Audi­to­rium, 730 21st Street NW (at H Street)

Tues­day, Novem­ber 15th, Time: 6:30 p.m.

Book Talk with Matthew Gilmore (event spon­sors: FBA & Reiter’s Books)
Matthew Gilmore, co-author of “Foggy Bot­tom and the West End” will dis­cuss his book at Reiter’s Books. Gilmore is author of “His­toric Pho­tos of Arling­ton County,” co-author of “His­toric Pho­tos of Wash­ing­ton, D.C.” and found­ing edi­tor of H-DC, the DC online dis­cus­sion list of H-Net.org. H-Net’s e-mail lists func­tion as elec­tronic net­works, link­ing pro­fes­sors, teach­ers and stu­dents in an egal­i­tar­ian exchange of ideas and materials.

Loca­tion: Reiter’s Books, 1900 G Street NW, 202–223-3327

Fri­day, Novem­ber 18th, Time: 7:30 p.m.

Piano Con­cert: Dim­i­tar Nikolov plays Mussorgsky’s famous Pic­tures at an Exhi­bi­tion
Con­cor­dia DC will present Dim­i­tar Nikolov, pianist, in Mussorgsky’s famous Pic­tures at an Exhi­bi­tion on Fri­day, Nov. 18 at 7:30 at The United Church (1920 G Street). The cor­re­spond­ing images by Vik­tor Hart­mann will be pro­jected dur­ing the con­cert. Before emi­grat­ing to the U.S., Nikolov stud­ied piano and con­duct­ing at the Bul­gar­ian National Acad­emy of Music in Sofia. Nikolov’s play­ing is vir­tu­osic in the tra­di­tion of the Russ­ian piano school, with rich sound, great dynamic con­trasts, and strong rhythms. Friday’s con­cert also includes Béla Bartók’s 1926 Piano Sonata, and Three Pieces, op. 15 by the revered 20th cen­tury Bul­gar­ian mas­ter, Pantcho Vladigerov.

Loca­tion: The United Church, 1920 G Street

Sat­ur­day, Novem­ber 19th, Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

Get a Head Start on Leaf Col­lec­tion
DC’s Depart­ment of Pub­lic Works (DPW) ended its weekly res­i­den­tial mechan­i­cal street clean­ing for the sea­son on Mon­day, Octo­ber 31. Res­i­den­tial street sweep­ing is sus­pended to allow DPW per­son­nel to tran­si­tion to and focus on their leaf col­lec­tion duties, which start Novem­ber 7 and will run through Jan­u­ary 14, 2012. Leaves will be removed at least twice by “vac­u­um­ing” the leaves res­i­dents rake into their tree­box spaces. Loose leaves raked into the tree boxes or bagged leaves placed there will be col­lected and com­posted. DPW also will col­lect bagged leaves from the tree­box space or the alley in neigh­bor­hoods with rear trash and recy­cling collections.

Loca­tion: On streets west of 23rd Street (DPW “area A”)

Tues­day, Novem­ber 29th, 7 p.m. Social; 7:30 p.m. Program

The Foggy Bot­tom Association’s Monthly Mem­ber­ship Meet­ing
Speaker To Be Announced. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St. Stephen Mar­tyr Church (25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave NW, enter on 25th St)

Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 8th, Time: 9:30 a.m.

Foggy Bottom/West End Vil­lage (Meet­ing on Aging in the Com­mu­nity)
The Vil­lage, a mem­ber­ship orga­ni­za­tion for res­i­dents who are 50+, fos­ters neigh­bor­hood social­iza­tion and res­i­den­tial sta­bil­ity by pro­vid­ing avenues for social engage­ment and ser­vices that allow mem­bers to remain in their res­i­dence as long as possible.

Loca­tion: West End Library at 1101 24th Street NW (north­east cor­ner of 24th & L Streets)

Sun­day, Octo­ber 16th Doors open at 7 p.m. and the Con­cert starts at 7:30 p.m.

House of Swe­den Music: Con­cert by You Say France & I Whis­tle
You Say France & I Whis­tle is Swedish indiepop at its best; com­bin­ing melodi­u­ous upbeat pop with joy­ful lyrics. The band’s vision from the begin­ning was open­ness in mak­ing music: blend­ing dif­fer­ent sounds and gen­res. The musi­cal influ­ences were many, every­thing from Jus­tice to Beach Boys. The band has three lead singers, which makes the music and the live shows more dynamic.RSVP required to rsvp-hos@foreign.ministry.se with “Octo­ber 16” in the sub­ject line.

Loca­tion: House of Swe­den, 2900 K Street, NW

Sun­day, Octo­ber 16th Tour from 12:00 noon-5:00 pm – Tea from 2:00 pm-5:00 pm

44th Annual Dupont Cir­cle House Tour and Tea
This year’s Tour mean­ders through neigh­bor­ing streets east and north of the Cir­cle and fea­tures over a dozen homes, rang­ing in archi­tec­ture from turn-of-the-century Vic­to­rian to Mid-Century Modern.

Sam­ple sites include a pala­tial four-story Parisian style town­house stud­ded with art and arti­facts (that could be a lat­ter day salon of the Académie des Beaux-Arts), and an open, mod­ern design home, with no inte­rior ver­ti­cal load-bearing walls, which cre­ates a cool-air effect for the sculp­tured cen­tral stair­case lead­ing to a lumi­nous glass-tiled mas­ter bath.

Tick­ets cost $30 in advance, $35 on the day of Tour, and pro­vide admis­sion to all sites and after­noon Tea. The Tea is served this year at the Whit­te­more House, 1526 New Hamp­shire Avenue, NW, home of the Woman’s National Demo­c­ra­tic Club, from 2:00 – 5:00 pm. For more info, tick­ets or to vol­un­teer: www.dupont-circle.org

Loca­tion: Woman’s National Demo­c­ra­tic Club, 1526 New Hamp­shire Avenue

Fri­day, Octo­ber 21st Call 202–419-3456 for showtimes

West End Cin­ema Presents: MARGIN CALL (a nar­ra­tive)
A thriller that revolves around the key peo­ple at a invest­ment bank over a 24-hour period dur­ing the early stages of the finan­cial cri­sis. Cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bet­tany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgely, Simon Baker, Demi Moore, Stan­ley Tucci www.westendcinema.com

Loca­tion: West End Cin­ema 2301 M St NW (between N 23rd St & N 24th St) Wash­ing­ton, DC 20037

Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 22nd, Time: 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

West End Library Friends Book Sale
This half-price sale of used and con­tributed books is a con­tin­u­a­tion of our pre­vi­ous sales and there are bar­gains galore! Prices range from $.25 to $2.50 for the major­ity on sale. Spe­cial vol­umes will be appro­pri­ately priced. DVDs and an abun­dance of CDs and video­tapes are avail­able, as well as $1.50 “sur­prise boxes” cov­er­ing a vari­ety of top­ics. West End Library Friends’ tote bags and T-shirts will also be avail­able for pur­chase. All pro­ceeds from this sale will go toward the D.C. Pub­lic Library city­wide “Sum­mer Read­ing Pro­grams.” Mark your cal­en­dars now and help sup­port this wor­thy cause. Call 202–724-8707 or fur­ther information.

Loca­tion: West End Library at 1101 24th Street NW (north­east cor­ner of 24th & L Streets) westendlibrary@dc.gov

Tues­day, Octo­ber 25th, 7 p.m. Social; 7:30 p.m. Program

The Foggy Bot­tom Association’s Monthly Mem­ber­ship Meet­ing
Speaker To Be Announced. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St. Stephen Mar­tyr Church (25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave NW, enter on 25th St)

Wednes­day, Octo­ber 26th, Time: 5:30 p.m.

A Salute to Judith Terra, Chair­per­son, DC Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties
Judith Terra, chair of the DC Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties, will dis­cuss her life-long devo­tion to the arts as a patron, museum founder, and arts admin­is­tra­tor. $20. wine & hors d’oeuvres. Reser­va­tions required by 3 pm Tues­day, Oct. 25. The Arts Club’s Evenings With Extra­or­di­nary Artists series spot­lights Washington’s most cre­ative per­form­ers, artists, writ­ers, and cul­tural lead­ers in inti­mate and infor­mal pro­grams. The events take place at the his­toric James Mon­roe House, home to our nation’s fifth pres­i­dent. For more infor­ma­tion on the Arts Club and its activ­i­ties, visit www.artsclubofwashington

Loca­tion: James Mon­roe House, 2017 I Street, NW | Call 202–331-7282, ext 16, email, membership@artsclubofwashington.org

Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 29th, Time: 1:00 & 3:00 p.m. Activ­i­ties between 11:00 a.m. & 3:00 p.m.

Pippi Long­stock­ing at Kid’s Euro Fes­ti­val
Pippi in Amer­ica — play­ful jazzy ver­sions of well known Swedish children’s songs will be per­formed
by Sarah Riedel and her band. Per­for­mances at 1:00 and 3:00 pm, rec­om­mended for chil­dren 5
years and above. For younger chil­dren, a screen­ing of the film Laban the Lit­tle Ghost will take
place at the same time. Other children’s activ­i­ties will be offered through­out the day,
from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm. For more infor­ma­tion about Kids Euro Festival

Loca­tion: House of Swe­den 2900 K Street NW | Visit: www.kidseurofestival.org

Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 7th, Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m.

Dis­cus­sion Series: The Gil­gamesh Epic: The Search for Immor­tal­ity
The West End Library Friends con­tin­ues its FALL BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES this year with the theme “The Heroic Adven­ture and led by Ori Z. Solteer

Loca­tion: West End Library at 1101 24th Street NW (north­east cor­ner of 24th & L Streets)

Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 9th thru Sun­day Sept. 11th, Times: 5:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

REBIRTH: Doc­u­men­tary Makes its Wash­ing­ton Debut w/Director Jim Whitaker
There will be no loss of words mark­ing this 10th remem­brance of the Sep­tem­ber 11 ter­ror­ist attack. How­ever, with the debut of REBIRTH, a decade-long ini­tia­tive of doc­u­men­tary mak­ing depicts the after­math of 9–11 and the sto­ries of the lives of 5 New York­ers whose expe­ri­ences char­ac­ter­ize the trauma and loss of the ter­ror­ist attack as they make trans­for­ma­tion through the ten years that fol­low. REBIRTH with Direc­tor, Jim Whitaker join­ing us for Q&A at the 5:30 and 7 pm shows, Sep­tem­ber 9.

Loca­tion: West End Cin­ema, 2301 M St, NW (Entrance on 23rd) 202–419-3456 www.westendcinema.com

Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 12nd, Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Pro­posed Redis­trict­ing of FB/WE Area Accord­ing to the 2010 Cen­sus
Wit­nesses may present up to five min­utes of oral tes­ti­mony or sub­mit writ­ten com­ments Ques­tions can be directed to Co-Chairs Rebecca Coder, Asher Cor­son, or Bar­bara Kahlow.

Loca­tion: George Wash­ing­ton Uni­ver­sity Duques Hall – Room 258, 2201 G Street, NW

Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 16th, Time: 7:30 p.m.

Amer­i­can Pre­miere of Edmund Nick’s “The 13 Months”
Recital by bass bari­tone Ulrich Schutte, accom­pa­nied by David Mont­gomery on piano, and Schumann’s Dichterliebe.

Loca­tion: The United Church, 1920 G St NW (202) 331‑1495 Free Admis­sion

Fri­day, Sep­tem­ber 16th, Times: 7:50 | 10:00

West End Cin­ema Presents: BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD
In 1958, 14-year-old Robert James “Bobby” Fis­cher stunned the chess world by becom­ing the youngest Grand Mas­ter in his­tory, launch­ing a career that would make him a leg­end. Over the next decade and a half, his breath­tak­ing rise to the top ech­e­lon of the game riv­eted the world and inspired an inter­na­tional chess phe­nom­e­non. Then, at the apex of his suc­cess, Fis­cher dis­ap­peared from the pub­lic eye. This reveal­ing new doc­u­men­tary chron­i­cles Fischer’s mete­oric rise as well as his shock­ing with­drawal from com­pe­ti­tion and the mad­ness that dev­as­tated much of his life. 92 min, Not Rated, Dir. Liz Gar­bus. Advance tick­ets avail­able online and at the box office begin­ning Sept 13.

Loca­tion: West End Cin­ema, 23rd St, NW (between M and N) 202–419-3456

Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 24th, 5 to 8 p.m.

Art by Inmates
Spe­cial show of “Prison Art” paint­ings by inmates in jails across Amer­ica at Water­gate Gallery. Den­nis Sobin, (direc­tor of SAFE STREETS ARTS FOUNDATION, which pro­vides ser­vices to impris­oned indi­vid­u­als in order to pro­mote reha­bil­i­ta­tion through artis­tic accom­plish­ment and self esteem) will be at the recep­tion and per­form­ing clas­si­cal gui­tar. There will be a silent auc­tion at this recep­tion with selected art­work to ben­e­fit the program.

Loca­tion: 2552 Vir­ginia Ave NW (Water­gate Mall near Safe­way) 202–338-4488 www.watergategallerygramedesign.com

Tues­day, Sep­tem­ber 27th, 7 p.m. Social; 7:30 p.m. Program

The Foggy Bot­tom Association’s Monthly Mem­ber­ship Meet­ing
Speaker To Be Announced. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St. Stephen Mar­tyr Church (25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave NW, enter on 25th St)

Thurs, Sept 29, 7 pm; Fri, Sept 30, 8 pm; Sat, Oct 1, 8 pm

Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the National Sym­phony Orches­tra, The Choral Arts Soci­ety of Wash­ing­ton, and Mem­bers of Children’s Cho­rus of Wash­ing­ton
Children’s Cho­rus of Washington’s spe­cial ensem­ble has three per­for­mances with the National Sym­phony Orches­tra pro­duc­tion of Carmina Burana at the Kennedy Center.

Loca­tion: Kennedy Cen­ter Con­cert Hall. For tick­ets, go to www.kennedy-center.org or call 202–467-4600.

Thurs­day, August 4th, Time: 6:00 p.m.

Water­gate Gallery Artist Talk
Water­gate Gallery & Frame Design was estab­lished in 1986. The gallery was expanded in 2005 offer­ing a beau­ti­ful dis­play area for artists. The gallery shows local, national and inter­na­tion­ally known artists in an inti­mate and friendly venue. Water­gate Gallery & Frame Design is located in the his­toric Water­gate com­plex in Foggy Bot­tom next to The John F. Kennedy Cen­ter for the Per­form­ing Arts. There is easy access to George­town, the West End and down­town Washington.

Loca­tion: 2522 Vir­ginia Ave NW, Water­gate Mall, 202–338-4488 | www.watergategalleryframedesign.com

Mon­day, August 8th, Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Food Net­work Star’ Open Cast­ing Call
The Food Net­work is look­ing for peo­ple who are full of life, pas­sion­ate about cook­ing, and knowl­edge­able about food to meet us in per­son at our open cast­ing call. We’re reach­ing out to any chef, home cook, caterer or culi­nary enthu­si­ast who might be inter­ested in becom­ing the host of his or her own cook­ing show on Food Net­work! Addi­tional infor­ma­tion can be found by vis­it­ing CastingDesignStar.com and Foodnetworkstarcasting.com

Loca­tion: The Westin City Cen­ter, 1400 M St NW, Wash­ing­ton, DC 20005
If you have any ques­tions or require fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­tact Amy Weiser: amy@jenscasting.com

Tues­day, August 9th, Time: 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m.

HGTV’s Design Star’ Open Cast­ing Call
We are look­ing for peo­ple who are pas­sion­ate about their work, knowl­edge­able and hold a clear & unique design per­spec­tive. We are cast­ing every­one from beginner’s level to experts! Please help us reach out to any design pro­fes­sional or enthu­si­ast who might be inter­ested in becom­ing the host of his or her own show on HGTV!

Loca­tion: The Westin City Cen­ter, 1400 M St NW, Wash­ing­ton, DC 20005
Addi­tional infor­ma­tion can be found by vis­it­ing www.CastingDesignStar.com If you have any ques­tions or require fur­ther infor­ma­tion con­tact Amy Weiser: amy@jenscasting.com

Thurs­day, August 11th, Time: 5:00 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Wine Tast­ing!
Free wine tast­ing event to cel­e­brate the debut of Sub­arashii Kuda­mono Asian Pear wines in DC. Made from Penn­syl­va­nia grown gourmet Asian Pears, Sub­arashii Kuda­mono Asian Pear Wine (Riesling-style) and Asia Pear Dessert Wine (like an Ice Wine with a kick!) are both fan­tas­tic and won­der­ful offer­ings at your next gath­er­ing. “Peared” with both wines will be sam­ples of artis­nal cheese from the Penn­syl­va­nia coun­try­side. For more info: www.winesofsubarashii.com or www.wonderfulfruit.com

Loca­tion: Cen­tral Liquors, 625 E Street NW Wash­ing­ton DC 20004

July 7–11, Open Daily 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Evening events begin at 5:30 p.m.

Smith­son­ian Folk­life Fes­ti­val
Cel­e­brate cul­tural tra­di­tions from around the world. The Fes­ti­val includes daily and evening music and dance per­for­mances, crafts and cook­ing demon­stra­tions, sto­ry­telling and dis­cus­sions of cul­tural issues. This is one of Wash­ing­ton, DC’s most pop­u­lar sum­mer events. Evening events begin at 5:30 p.m. Admis­sion is free. Dur­ing the Fes­ti­val, you may call (202) 633‑7484 to hear a recorded descrip­tion of daily events.

Loca­tion: National Mall, between 7th and 14th Streets in Wash­ing­ton, DC (Mall Park­ing is extremely lim­ited)

Tues­days through Sat­ur­days, through August 2011

Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods
With 70 per­for­mances from late June through early August, Wolf Trap’s Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods presents family-friendly shows at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. on Tues­days through Sat­ur­days. Amidst 117 rolling wooded acres and nes­tled in a shady grove, the stage at Wolf Trap National Park is set for lively adven­tures in music, dance, sto­ry­telling, pup­petry, and the­ater. Most per­for­mances are rec­om­mended for chil­dren between Kinder­garten and 6th grade.

Loca­tion: 1645 Trap Road, Vienna, Vir­ginia 22182 Visit the web­site for Dates & Times: www.wolftrap.org

Fri­day & Sat­ur­day, July 15–16, Time: 8:30 p.m. — Park gates open at 7 p.m.

Com­cast Out­door Film Fes­ti­val in Alexan­dria
Alexan­dria will once again host the Com­cast Out­door Film Fes­ti­val this sum­mer. Bring a blan­ket to enjoy free movies in the heart of Alexan­dria, Vir­ginia. Movie­go­ers are encour­aged to come early and enjoy food from ven­dors such as Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Chick-Fil-A and Domino’s Pizza. A por­tion of the food sales will ben­e­fit Boys & Girls Club of Greater Wash­ing­ton, Alexan­dria Chap­ter which is a non-profit orga­ni­za­tion in the City of Alexan­dria that instills char­ac­ter and lead­er­ship devel­op­ment, health and life skills, a sense of belong­ing and con­fi­dence for our youth in the City of Alexandria.

Loca­tion: Water­front Park, King St., Alexan­dria, Vir­ginia See a map of Alexandria »

Mon­day, July 18th, @ 6:30 p.m.

Albert Mar­tinez, will speak and sign copies of his new book, “Sci­ence Secrets: The Truth about Darwin’s Finches, Einstein’s Wife and Other Myths “
Join us at Reiter’s Books for the fol­low­ing install­ment in our Rel­e­vant Writ­ers Series. Albert Martinez’s cap­ti­vat­ing new book takes a unique look at his­toric sci­ence myths. From Newton’s dis­cov­ery of uni­ver­sal grav­ity to Einstein’s belief in God, Mar­tinez ana­lyzes, debunks and demys­ti­fies some of the most cap­ti­vat­ing leg­ends in sci­ence. Open to the pub­lic. Light refresh­ments served.

Loca­tion: Reiter’s Books, 1900 G Street N.W., tel: 202.223.3327 | web­site: www.reiters.com

Mon­day, July 20th, @ 7:00 p.m.

ANC2A Monthly Meet­ing
The agenda, which includes items on Stevens School and GW Oncol­ogy Cen­ter, can be viewed online at: www.anc2a.org/nextmeet.html

Loca­tion: Heart House, (Amer­i­can Col­lege of Car­di­ol­ogy), south­west cor­ner of 24th & N Streets, NW

Thurs­day, July 23rd, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

West End Library Friends’ Bag Day Book Sale
At the West End Library, 1101 24th St., NW. This sale of used and con­tributed books is a con­tin­u­a­tion of our three pre­vi­ous sales. Fill a bag (bags donated by Trader Joe’s) with books for $5.00 or buy a Friends’ tote bag for $10 and fill it up for free! Spe­cial vol­umes will be appro­pri­ately priced. DVDs, CDs, and video tapes are avail­able at 1/2 price. The sale is a community-based event and all pro­ceeds ben­e­fit the West End Pub­lic Library and its ser­vices to the com­mu­nity. Please mark your cal­en­dars now to come sup­port our library.

Loca­tion: West End Library at 1101 24th Street NW (north­east cor­ner of 24th & L Streets)

Mon­days, July 25 — August 15, begin­ning at dusk, around 8:30–9:00 p.m.

Screen on the Green 2011 in Wash­ing­ton DC
Screen on the Green is a favorite Wash­ing­ton, DC sum­mer tra­di­tion. Bring a blan­ket to the National Mall on a warm night and watch a clas­sic film on a gigan­tic movie screen. Films are shown on Mon­day nights begin­ning at dusk, around 8:30–9:00 p.m. Peo­ple start to claim their spots on the lawn as early as 5 p.m. Movies play except in extreme weather and there are no rain days. This year’s new loca­tion is just a few blocks west!

Movie Sched­ule: July 25 – In the Heat of the Night, August 1 – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, August 8 – Gen­tle­men Pre­fer Blondes, August 15 – Cool Hand Luke

Loca­tion: National Mall between 8th and 14th Streets, Wash­ing­ton DC.

Sat­ur­day, June 11th, 10:30 a.m. — 3:30 p.m.

West End Library Friends’ Half-Price Book Sale
The sale is a community-based event and all pro­ceeds ben­e­fit the West End Pub­lic Library and its ser­vices to the community.

Loca­tion: 1101 24th St., NW (24th & L Streets)

Tues­day, June 21th, 7:00 p.m.

Author Talk at the Arts Club of Wash­ing­ton
Thomas Chorl­ton: The First Amer­i­can Repub­lic 1774–1789: The First Four­teen Amer­i­can Pres­i­dents Before Wash­ing­ton. The Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress served as a fully func­tion­ing national gov­ern­ment from 1774 to 1789, prior to George Washington’s 1789 inau­gu­ra­tion under the new Amer­i­can Con­sti­tu­tion. Chorl­ton looks at the 14 pres­i­dents of the Con­ti­nen­tal Congress—men who func­tioned as head of state, sign­ing all offi­cial doc­u­ments, receiv­ing for­eign vis­i­tors, rep­re­sent­ing the emerg­ing nation at offi­cial events, and pre­sid­ing over the con­gress’ delib­er­a­tions. “These four­teen pres­i­dents were the giants of their age,” says Chorl­ton, “men of power, wealth, and expe­ri­ence who led their new nation through extremely dif­fi­cult days largely on the strength of their char­ac­ter.” This Event is Free!

Loca­tion: The Arts Club of Wash­ing­ton, 2017 Eye Street NW (For­mer home of Pres­i­dent James Mon­roe) (202) 331‑7282 for more info.

Sat­ur­day, June 25th

Grammy Award-wining band Ozomatli In Con­cert
The two-time Grammy Award-winning band Ozomatli’s music is a col­li­sion of hip hop, salsa, dance­hall, samba, funk, East LA, R&B, Jamaican reg­gae, and more. The band joins the NSO Pops for a spe­cial evening with Latin flair.

Loca­tion: Kennedy Cen­ter Con­cert Hall: DC Jazz Spe­cial Offer! Tick­ets only $20 (reg $35)

Tues­day, June 28th, 6:30 p.m. — 8:30 p.m.

Potomac Annex (Old Obser­va­tory Hill) Tour
Join DCPL for a tour led by Navy His­to­rian Jan Her­man of the Potomac Annex. Occu­pied by the Navy since 1842, Obser­va­tory Hill is the loca­tion of the his­toric Old Naval Obser­va­tory (1844) and the orig­i­nal Wash­ing­ton Naval Hos­pi­tal, designed by famed archi­tect Ernest Flagg. $15 Mem­bers ; $25 Non-Members. Advance reser­va­tions required. Space is limited

Loca­tion: 23rd & E Streets, NW., Sign-up here »

Tues­day, June 28th, 7:00 p.m. Social — 7:30 p.m Meeting

The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion Monthly Meet­ing
Speaker To Be Announced. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.

Loca­tion: St. Stephen Mar­tyr Church (25th and Penn­syl­va­nia Ave NW, enter on 25th St)

Fri­day, May 6th and 13th, @ 7:30 p.m.

The Mary­land Opera Stu­dio Presents Opera Scenes
Fri­day, May 6th @ 7:30 p.m. scenes from La Cener­en­tola by Gae tano Donizetti, The Cru­cible by Robert Ward, Der Rosenkava­lier by Richard Strauss, and Die Zauber­flöte by Wolf­gang Amadeus Mozart will be per­formed. After a year of tak­ing apart their craft and sculpt­ing it from the ground up, the final class project for first-year stu­dents pairs them in oper­atic scenes from a wide vari­ety of reper­tory that fea­tures all aspects of their train­ing. Fri­day, May 13th @ 7:30 p.m. scenes from Car­men by Georges Bizet, L’incoronazione di Pop­pea by Clau­dio Mon­teverdi, and Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi. Note: Please arrive at least 15 min­utes before the sched­uled start time of all per­for­mances; late-comers will be seated at appro­pri­ate breaks only.

Info: Call the Clarice Smith Per­form­ing Arts Cen­ter Ticket Office at 301–405-ARTS (2787) for ticket information.

Sat­ur­day, May 14th, 10 a.m. — 2 p.m.

1st His­toric Foggy Bot­tom Spring Clean Up
The dog-eared state of so many of the street curbs, & tree boxes in our His­toric Foggy Bot­tom makes a sad impres­sion on our many vis­i­tors. More­over, it drags down our prop­erty val­ues. The mem­bers of the FBA Board invite you to step up with us May 14 and lend some elbow grease for a fun few hours of work­ing for the com­mu­nity good. For the first 30 indi­vid­u­als to reg­is­ter and com­plete their assign­ment, Citibank has gen­er­ously offered to donate pot­ted plants for the first 30 reg­is­trants who com­plete their assign­ments. (1 per house­hold!) Plus, Citibank is so big on FB that a num­ber of them will join us for the clean up.

Loca­tion: Sign in at 904 New Hamp­shire or the 26th St Park (900 block of 26th St NW, 26 St between I & K) and pick up your assign­ments. For more info or to reg­is­ter, email lisa338@yahoo.com

Wednes­day, May 18th, 7 p.m.

ANC 2A – Monthly Met­ing of Advi­sory Neigh­bor­hood Com­mis­sion
(ANC) 2A Proudly serves Foggy Bot­tom and the West End neigh­bor­hoods. Heart House (Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion of Car­di­ol­ogy) located on the south­west cor­ner of 24th and N Streets, NW. Please view the meet­ing agenda. For updates on the rede­vel­op­ment of the West End Fire Sta­tion and Library sites, see the “Issues” page or visit the developer’s site at www.abetterwestend.com. Agenda and Issues page is avail­able at www.anc2a.org

Addi­tional Infor­ma­tion: For more info email, 2A02@anc.dc.gov

Fri­day, May 20th, 10:30 p.m.

FILM: Sound of Noise on the Roof
A musi­cal thriller about love, lunacy and loud drum­ming, Sound of Noise has won numer­ous awards, includ­ing The Golden Rail Award at Cannes. This fea­ture film debut of Swedish film­mak­ers Ola Simon­s­son and Johannes Stjarne Nils­son will be screened atop House of Swe­den. A heavy­weight drum bat­tle by the film’s guer­rilla musi­cians will take place before the screening.

Loca­tion: Atop the House of Swe­den Tick­ets: $10 at Ticketweb.com

Sat­ur­day, May 21st, 10 a.m.

His­tory in the Mak­ing: Ren­wick Craft Invi­ta­tional 2011
The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion has made arrange­ments for a docent-led tour of this exhibit of work of supe­rior crafts­man­ship by four extra­or­di­nary Amer­i­can artists – sil­ver­smith Ubaldo Vitali, ceramic artist Cliff Lee, glass artist Judith Schaechter, and fur­ni­ture­maker Matthias Pliess­nig. The tour will be fol­lowed by an optional, Dutch-treat brunch at Found­ing Farm­ers restau­rant, 1924 Penn­syl­va­nia Ave, NW. The tour is FREE. How­ever, space on the tour is lim­ited so reser­va­tions are required.

Infor­ma­tion: Those inter­ested should con­tact Jackie Lemire at 337‑2167 or email jglemire@aol.com

Tues­day, May 31st, 7:00 p.m. Social — 7:30 p.m Meeting

The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion Monthly Meet­ing
Speaker To Be Announced. The Foggy Bot­tom Asso­ci­a­tion holds nine monthly meet­ings each year with speak­ers of inter­est to the areas res­i­dents. The meet­ings are held every month (except for July, August, and Decem­ber). Atten­dance at FBA meet­ings is open to all res­i­dents of Foggy Bot­tom and the West End.