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Tuesday, April 15
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| 10:15 & 11:30 AM ***Both Shows Cancelled***
Seasons of Life
Discovery Theater Performance |
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(for ages 5-10) Explore spring holidays from around the world that celebrate new life, rebirth, and the return of warmth to the earth: May Day (with its May pole), Easter (and the older holiday Oestre), Pesach (Passover), Nowruz (Persian New Year), and Buddha's birthday. Sing, dance, and learn about customs from around the world.
Note: $6, adults; $5, children (ages 2-16); $4, Resident Members.
Tickets required; call 202-633-8700 (see Note for prices)
Repeats April 16
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3111
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| 3-4:30 PM
Sketching: Draw and Discover -- Botanical Illustration
Luce Foundation Center Activity |
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Today, learn to draw from life with Alice Tangerini (Natural History Museum botanical illustrator). Note: Bring a small sketchbook and pencils.
Free
Repeats 3rd Tuesday of the month
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Kogod Courtyard
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| 6:45-9 PM
The Operas of Benjamin Britten, 20th-Century Master
Lecture |
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English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) received worldwide acclaim for the operas Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, The Turn of the Screw, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Death in Venice. Using visual and audio recordings, Smithsonian music and opera lecturer Saul Lilienstein presents and examines excerpts from Britten's major operas.
$40, general admission; $30, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center
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| 7 PM
Shake Hands with the Devil
Francophonie 2008: Film Series |
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(112 min., 2007, Quebec, Canada, directed by Roger Spottiswoode) Adapted from Romeo Dallaire's autobiography, Canadian actor Roy Dupuis portrays Dallaire, a workaholic charismatic officer, who finds himself eyewitness to hell on earth, the 1994 Rwandan genocide, desperately attempting to get aid for the under-funded, beaucratic United Nations.
$13, general admission; $10, members; call 202-633-3030
Last in series
See related performance, April 18
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Freer Gallery, Meyer Auditorium
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| Last update: May 1, 2008, 15:58 |
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