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| 10:15 AM & 11:30 AM (1 PM show tentative)
Lesole South Africa
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(for all ages) Lesole Dance Project performs tribal dances of the Zulu homelands: Gumboot, the coal miners' infectious dance from deep underground, and Pantsula, the super-cool dance from the street corners of Johannesburg.
Note: $6, adults; $5, children (ages 2-16); $4, Resident Members.
Tickets required; call 202-633-8700 (see Note for prices)
Repeats July 11
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The Smithsonian Associates Discovery Theater
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Room 3111
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Repetition and The Battle of Orgreave
The Cinema Effect: Part II Special Screenings |
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Note: Programs are unrated but may contain adult content.
• 12 Noon: Artur Zmijewski's Repetition (2005, 75 min.) re-creates the infamous 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, but achieves a different result. Rather than accepting their roles and engaging in confrontational behavior, as in the original experiment, the modern-day "guards" and "prisoners," aware of the power of the camera to survey and control, ultimately unite against the producers to end the experiment. • 1:30 PM: Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave (2001, 63 min.) is a re-enactment of the 1984 confrontation between striking miners and police near the Orgreave coking plant in England. The event provided an opportunity for several members of the parties participating in the original strike -- including miners and their families, policemen, the townspeople of Orgreave, the British media, and the viewing public -- to re-evaluate the chronology of the conflict and the way in which the televised images of the strike colored public opinion.
Free; first come, first served
Repeats Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays through Sept. 6
Related Exhibition: The Cinema Effect: Part II - Realisms
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Location: Ring Auditorium
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The Gemini Paraglider
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Roger Launius, Space History Division, discusses the Gemini Paraglider, a research vehicle used to develop technology for landing the Gemini capsule on land instead of parachuting into the ocean.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird
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SAAM I Am -- Chalk Festival
3-Day Family Program |
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(for all ages) Head to the great outdoors -- the sidewalk outside the museum's F Street entrance -- for three days of creative chalk art. Spend today (and Friday) sketching the afternoon away, but save your best ideas for the festival on Saturday.
Free
Continues July 11 & 12
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Location: Sidewalk outside F Street Entrance
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| 6 PM (Galleries remain open until 8 PM this evening)
Royal Family Albums
Art Night ImaginAsia Family Program |
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(ages 8-14 with adult) Take a close look at the exquisite layouts and design of pages from the royal albums compiled for the great Mughal emperors Jahahgir and his son Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, in the related exhibition. Then return to the classroom and use handmade papers to construct an album page in the Mughal style. Bring a 4 x 6" or 5 x 7" full-length portrait or group photograph. Note: Reservations required for groups over 8, call 202-633-0461.
Free; first come, first served; for groups 8+, see Note
Repeats July 12 & 16
Related Exhibition: MURAQQA'
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Sackler classroom, Sublevel 2
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Portrait of Leopold Stokowski
"Face to Face" Portrait Talk |
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The weekly portrait talk highlights a portrait selected by a National Portrait Gallery staff member or guest speaker.
Researcher Warren Perry talks about the portrait of Leopold Stokowski by Edward Steichen in the related exhibition.
Free
Continues every Thursday evening
Related Exhibition: Edward Steichen: Portraits
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National Portrait Gallery
Location: Meet at F Street Lobby
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Sunset Serenades: The Sharon Thomas Experience
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Bring a blanket and a picnic -- or purchase food and beverages at the Zoo -- and enjoy live jazz music by The Sharon Thomas Experience.
Free
Series continues every Thursday through August 7
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National Zoo
Location: Lion/Tiger Hill (rain or shine)
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| 7 PM (Galleries remain open until 8 PM this evening)
Magic Lantern
Art Night |
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With its unique combination of illusion, communication, and art, the Japanese magic lantern spectacle known as utsushi-e was a precursor to cinema. For the first time in the United States, Tokyo's Minwa-za Company revives this tradition from the Edo era by re-creating the performances -- complete with colorful moving images accompanied by live narration and music -- that dazzled audiences nearly 200 years ago.
Free, but tickets (2 per person) distributed 1 hour before
Related Exhibition: Japanese Arts of the Edo Period, 1615-1868, Part 2
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium (enter Independence Ave.)
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Five Hundred Feet Over Cuba: Secrets of the Cuban Missile
Crisis Lecture, with book signing |
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Never has the world come so close to nuclear annihilation as during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. A key role in resolving the crisis was played by low-level U.S. reconnaissance pilots who gathered crucial intelligence by flying over the island at 500 to 1,000 feet. The Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs recently discovered hundreds of cans of previously top-secret raw intelligence film from these missions while conducting research at the National Archives. This evening, joined by James Curry, a former U.S. Navy pilot who flew missions over Cuba during the crisis, and Dino Bruigioni, a top CIA analyst who studied the film for clues to the intentions of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, he reconstructs the low-level U.S. reconnaissance missions over Cuba. Book signing follows.
$35, general; $25, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center
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