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Wednesday, April 23
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| 10:15 AM only (11:30 AM show 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 24 & 25
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3111
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| 12 Noon
Mars
Ask an Expert |
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Museum curator Bob Craddock, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, discusses Mars.
Free
Continues most Wednesdays
Related Exhibition: Exploring the Planets
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National Air and Space Museum
Location: Meet at the Museum Seal
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| 12 Noon-2 PM
Create a Working Artist Color Palette
Spring Workshop |
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(for ages 16 and up) Plein air artist Deborah Chapin demonstrates the techniques involved in creating a working palette. Learn to see color from an artist's perspective and gain experience mixing a limited palette to achieve colors from our surroundings.
Note: For reservations, call 202-233-8490, e-mail saamprograms@si.edu, or visit the Web at americanart.si.edu/visit/calendar.cfml.
$30 materials fee; for reservations, see Note
Repeats April 26
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Kogod Courtyard
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Art + Coffee: Self-Guided Tour
Luce Foundation Center Activity |
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Take a self-guided tour of the works in the Luce Foundation Center for American Art. Afterwards, enjoy a complimentary coffee or tea.
Free
Repeats most Wednesdays
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Meet in the F Street Lobby
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| 3-3:30 PM ***Cancelled***
Behind-the-Scenes Program
Lunder Conservation Center Activity |
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A museum conservator explains how artworks in the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery collections are cleaned, conserved, and stabilized.
Note: Register in person at the Luce Foundation Center information desk before 3 PM.
Free, but registration required; see Note
Repeats every Wednesday
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: 3rd floor, west, Lunder Conservation Center
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| Tour, 6:45 PM (Arts of China gallery); Concert, 7:30 PM
Shanghai Quartet
Meyer Concert Series ***New Time*** |
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World premiere of Chen Yi's "From the Path of Beauty," co-commissioned by the Freer and Sackler galleries for the Shanghai's 25th anniversary, plus Haydn's op. 77 no. 1, and Beethoven's op. 132.
Note: Free tickets (up to 4 per person) can be reserved in advance through Ticketmaster at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling 202-397-7328 or 800-551-7328 beginning at 10 AM two Mondays before the event. A handling fee is applied. Tickets (up to 2 per person) will also be available at the auditorium door 1 hour before the event begins on a first-come, first-served basis.
Free, but tickets required; see Note
Last program
Related Exhibition: Arts of China
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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In Search of Shanghai
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Kenneth Hammond (China scholar and associate professor of history, New Mexico State University) explains how Shanghai's dramatic transformations over the centuries are a key to understanding China's development as a world power and as a society. In the late imperial period, Shanghai was a small town. By the 19th and 20th centuries, it had grown into a crossroads where Chinese and Western cultures mixed. After the Communist revolution, it was transformed into a leading example of the new socialist system. When China was re-opened to the global economy, it was yet transformed again.
$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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| Last update: May 1, 2008, 15:58 |
