At the The Foggy Bottom Association and the Arts Club’s Literature Committee are proud to present an evening with author Thomas Mallon, who will discuss and autograph copies of his acclaimed bestseller, Watergate: A Novel.
Mallon’s dramatized account of the infamous political scandal that rocked the Nixon White House landed a coveted spot on both the Washington Post’s “50 Best Works of Fiction for 2012” and the New York Time’s “100 Notable Books of 2012.” Thomas Mallon’s previous books of fiction include Henry and Clara, Bandbox, and Fellow Travelers. He has also written volumes of nonfiction about plagiarism (Stolen Words), diaries (A Book of One’s Own), letters (Yours Ever) and the Kennedy assassination (Mrs. Paine’s Garage), as well as two books of essays (Rockets and Rodeos and In Fact).
His work appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review and other publications. Mallon received his Ph. D. in English and American Literature from Harvard University and taught for a number of years at Vassar College. His honors include Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships, the National Book Critics Circle citation for reviewing, and the Vursell prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, for distinguished prose style.
He has been literary editor of Gentlemen’s Quarterly and deputy chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He currently directs the Creative Writing program at The George Washington University in Washington, D. C and resides in Foggy Bottom.
Red Sprinkle and Squareroot Group partner with the American Heart Association for “Heart 2 Heart”; an event that will benefit AHA and the countless individuals who benefit from its services and philanthropy.
With a growing rate of heart disease affecting all members of American communities, it is no wonder the American Heart Association has become the leading organization to encourage heart health and awareness. In order to support its efforts, on Wednesday, February 27th (6-9pm), Red Sprinkle and Squareroot Group will partner with the American Heart Association for “Heart 2 Heart”; an event that will benefit AHA and the countless individuals who benefit from its services and philanthropy. Over the course of the night, guests will enjoy themed cocktails and small plates, provided by Hotel Rouge’s exquisite bar and culinary staff. Guests will also participate in a silent auction featuring donated items and services provided by local and national businesses. Proceeds will benefit the American Heart Association’s longstanding mission to educate, serve and inspire.
OS Fashion & The Selected Few have produced an opportunity for you to catalyze change in the District! Join us for a Town Hall Meeting at iStrategy Labs, where we will host a discussion focused on analyzing and improving DC’s retail and fashion industry. You will not want to miss this opportunity to discuss, share, network, and work towards improving DC’s robust community!
February 27th, 2013
iStrategy Labs
1630 Connecticut Ave NW, 7th Floor
6:00PM – 9:00PM
RSVP ONLY EVENT
$10 – OS Fashion Members
$20 – Non Members
Featured Participants:
Peter Corbett, Founder and CEO of iStrategyLabs – a digital agency that develops solutions to clients’ challenges and brings them to life in the online and offline world. A tireless champion of innovation, and disruptors everywhere – Peter has become a globally sought after speaker and mentor. His network extends deeply across the US, into Finland, Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, India and beyond. He remains a definitive connector and leader among Washington DC’s creative and technology community having spent years as a grassroots organizer driven to build a healthy ecosystem for entrepreneurs in the nation’s capital.
Clients Include: Disney, ESPN, GE, Microsoft, NASDAQ, Intel, American Eagle Outfitters, Pinkberry, Honest Tea, Coca-Cola, Crate & Barrel/CB2, The US Army, Deloitte, McKinsey, Volkswagen, Ford, Hilton, and more.
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Keith Sellars, President & CEO of Washington, DC Economic Partnership – a public-private partnership dedicated to promoting business opportunities throughout the District. He has successfully led initiatives that have attracted both national and local retailers to the District of Columbia including Target, Best Buy, Harris Teeter, Trader Joe’s, Apple, Whole Foods and Costco, as well as playing a significant role in developing the structures that have made the WDCEP a successful organization.
Sellars has been recognized within the District government and the greater business community. His professional associations include the International Council of Shopping Centers, Urban Land Institute, DC Building Industry Association, African American Real Estate Professionals (AAREP) and International Economic Development Council.
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Ryan Fox, Tailor & Legacy of William Fox & Co. – Started in 1965 by Craig Fox and William Frank, Wm Fox & Co set out with the mission to bring Washington’s gentlemen the finest clothing and furnishings from around the world. With William leaving the business in the 70′s, Craig vowed to keep his dream alive to create the best men’s shop in Washington. Wm Fox became a true family business with Craig’s son Ryan joining the business in 2006. A fine example of retail longevity, and success in the Nation’s Capital.
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Dian Holton, Editorial art director with AARP The Magazine. Dian has 14 years of retail styling experience along with visual display expertise with GAP, Banana Republic and Anthropologie. She blogs fashion for AARP.org interviewing 50+ fashion icons like Norma Kamali, profiling costume designers, and showcasing apparel geared towards that demographic. In addition, she has devoted close to a decade of her personal time as an active Washington DC board member of AIGA (The Professional Association for Design). Her current role is to oversee mentoring initiatives that will aid in the education, inspiration and growth of designers and creatives in the local area.
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This Town Hall Discussion will be Moderated by
Grant Harris, Owner & Chief Style Consultant, Image Granted, LLC – a Washington, DC based image consulting company founded in 2009 dedicated to solving the complex image, style & fashion issues of today’s professional man. Image Granted provides local and international corporate branding, market research, product development, speaking engagements, private consultations and other value-based services for corporate entities and individuals in need of practical & affordable style advice.
About Our Event Hosts:
Open Source Fashion: OS Fashion is a helpful community of Fashion, Retail, and Technology professionals. We produce events regularly in NYC (April 2011) & DC (January 2013) that are focused on educating our community, and finding collaborative opportunities amongst our member innovators.
The Selected Few is a Washington, DC based global menswear consulting company focused on improving the relationship between buyers, vendors and consumers through data, education, and event planning. We are laying the foundation for a more engaging and intimate buying process. It’s where menswear means business.
Pump Me Up: D.C. Subculture of the 1980s is the first exhibition to explore the thriving underground of Washington, D.C., during the 1980s, giving visual form to the raucous energy of graffiti, Go-Go music, and a world-renowned punk and hardcore scene.
Curator’s Talk: Roger Gastman
Wednesday, February 27, 7 p.m.
$10 Members; $12 Public
To complement Pump Me Up, the exhibition he curated, graffiti historian Roger Gastman discusses the graffiti of Washington, D.C. Gastman began writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda. An exhibition viewing and book signing follows the talk.
The exhibition explores the visual culture of the “other D.C.,” demonstrating its place in the history of street art as well as that of America’s capital city. In the midst of notorious problems with drugs and corruption, D.C. gave birth to an infectious visual culture captured in the exhibition through posters, graffiti, graphic art, archival photographs, and ephemera. Pump Me Up tells a local history from a local point of view, while providing a framework for the contemporary surge of interest in street art and underground graphics.
Pump Me Up traces the history of graffiti in Washington while emphasizing its inextricable ties to the burgeoning forms of local music. The exhibition highlights the vibrant scene that sprang up around Go-Go, a local form of funk pioneered by Chuck Brown and others, including the stripped-down “Go-Go graffiti” style. Started by neighborhood “crews,” this style became a hallmark of the D.C. style of graffiti writing. Around the same time, an underground hardcore and punk scene sprang up in venues like the Wilson Center and the 9:30 Club.
Ephemera, photos, flyers, posters, records, newspaper clippings, stage clothes, instruments, video loops, and much more, all made largely between 1980 and 1992, will fill the Corcoran’s Atrium and Rotunda, bringing the era to life. The exhibition includes sections on graffiti writers (notably the work of COOL “DISCO” DAN), the D.C. punk, hardcore, and Go-Go scenes, concert posters made by the Baltimore-based Globe printing press, and visual culture from the drug wars.
Pump Me Up is curated by Roger Gastman, who began writing graffiti as a teenager in Bethesda, Maryland. Since then, he has founded and published the pop culture magazines While You Were Sleeping and Swindle, with Shepard Fairey, and authored a dozen graffiti art books including The History of American Graffiti (with Caleb Neelon; 2011). In 2011 he curated, with Jeffrey Deitch and Aaron Rose, the exhibition Art in the Streets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gastman’s film production credits include Banksy’s Exit through the Gift Shop and the graffiti documentary Wall Writers, and he is currently directing a documentary for Sanrio/Hello Kitty on the history of the brand and its fans.
The fifth anniversary of Commedia dell Media will take the stage at The Hamilton on Thursday, February 28. Commedia dell Media will feature a record-breaking lineup of thirteen vying for the title of “DC’s Funniest Journalist.” Emceed by Brandon Wetherbee, assistant editor of The Huffington Post and host of the comedic talk radio show “You, Me, Them, Everybody,” the show will be driven by the comic stylings of Jon Allen and Patrick Reis of Politico, C-SPAN’s Libby Casey, Rich Edson of Fox Business News, Elahe Izadi of the National Journal, NPR’s Renita Jablonski, CBS Radio’s Chris Lingebach, Natalie McGill of The Nation’s Health, Valerie Paschall of DCist, The Washington Post’s Alexandra Petri, Meredith Shiner of CQ/Roll Call, Kat Timpf of Washington Times 24/7, and CCTV’s Mike Walter.For more info about the performers and charities, see our websites, or contact organizer Christina Davidson at Christina@journopalooza.com
Commedia dell Media
Thursday, February 28, 2013
at The Hamilton
600 14th St. NW
Doors 7:00; Comedy 8:00
Tix: $20 advance; $30 day-of-show
Please join Suspicious Package and friends on Friday March 1 at premiere dc music venue THE BLACK CAT, for Journopalooza V battle of the bands! The Black Cat stage has seen the likes of Foo Fighters, the Killers, Radiohead, the Roots and many others..
Well, those guys are booked elsewhere 3/1…but we hope you’ll come rock out with SP and five other great bands for fun times to benefit two good causes- Writopia Lab for student creative writing workshops in DC, and REACH to improve adolescent literacy in DC schools. Ballot-stuffing for Suspicious Package highly encouraged – we would love to see you there! Tickets will likely sell out, get ’em $20 in advance at www.journopalooza.com.
VOTE Suspicious Package
Journopalooza V
Friday March 1, 2013
The Black Cat
1811 14th St NW
Washington DC
Doors Open 7:30 p.m.
Suspicious Package plays at 9:00 p.m.
Tickets: $20 in advance, $30 day of show
Proceeds benefit Writopia and REACH
The contents of Suspicious Package are:
Tim Burger * Bryan Greene * Josh Meyer * Christina Sevilla * Tom Toles
www.facebook.com/SusPackage @SusPackage
Pageant of the Tsars Symposium
Saturday, March 2
11am-4pm
Hillwood and the Initiative for Russian Culture at American University are pleased to present a symposium complementing the exhibit Pageants of the Tsars: The Coronation Albums of the Romanovs. The exhibition marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty in 1613 and explores the history of Russia through the lens of Hillwood’s collection of five coronation albums. Spend the day with Russian scholars, including exhibition curator Kristen Regina of Hillwood, Anton Fedyashin and Eric Lohr from American University, Fiona Hill of The Brookings Institution, Russell Martin of Westminster College, and Edward Kasinec of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.
$65, $40 Hillwood Members, $20 Students
4155 Linnean Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Register at www.HillwoodMuseum.org or call (202) 686-5807
Join the National Women’s History Museum* (NWHM) for this speical event.
Hear the story of the heroines, heroes and villains that made up the three generations fighting for women’s right to vote. Amazing history largely unknown to most Americans. This will be a multi-media presentation. The weekend will celebrate the Centennial as a turning point in the largest bloodless revolution in American History, Woman Suffrage centered on the March, and women that planned to rivet national attention on this fight.
Textbooks even today dismiss this incredible feat that enfranchised more people in America than the American Revolution or the Civil War using phrases like “In 1920 women were given the right to vote.” Women were not “given” the vote…they fought hard and one woman died during their fight.
Come hear how they employed what for their times were radical measures to shake up society and the obstacles they overcame.
PANEL: This distinguished and lively panel will be moderated by Ann F. Lewis who was White House Director of Communications for President Bill Clinton; Senior Advisor to the Presidential Campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton; Co-Chair of the President’s Commission on Celebration of Women in American History; Member of the Board of the Jewish Women’s Archive, and Chair of JWA’s Centennial Commemoration of the Triangle Fire.
Lewis will be joined by a diverse panel that covers the full range of scholarship on this subject:
Dr. Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor Emerita, State University of New York, Binghamton, has consulted with the NWHM since 2010. She is the author of many books and articles in U.S. women’s history and women’s history transnationally, including Women’s Rights Emerges from the Antislavery Movement (2000) and Women and Power in American History (3rd edition 2008). .
Dr. Erin Chapman is a historian of U.S. race politics, African American cultural expression, U.S. gender politics, and racialized popular culture.
Dr. J.D. Zahniser is the co-author (with the late Amelia Fry) of Alice Paul: The Making of a Political Leader (Oxford University) the first comprehensive scholarly biography of the controversial suffrage leader
Mary Walton is the author of A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot. For twenty-two years, until 1994, she was a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer
Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr. is an award-winning editor, writer nd principal of Robert Cooney Graphic Design. Co-editor of “The Power of the People: Active Nonviolence in the United States,” he has concentrated on America’s activist history of grassroots social change. In 1993 he began the Woman Suffrage Media Project, which included in depth research into how American women won the right to vote.
TICKETS: Free and Open to the Public No tickets required.
*At 2 pm, following the free panel, a staged reading entitled “Take What is Yours,” is being held as a fundraiser in support of the National Women’s History Museum. There will be a second reading at 8pm. Tickets will be available through GW Lisner Auditorium’s Box Office or by links through www.NWHM.org and www.suffrage-centennial.org.
Get into a glaze haze with all-you-can-gorge free donut samplins from:
& more TBA!
PLUS
Special edition brunch cocktails and beer pairings!
Donut eating competition!
Saturday morning cartoons!
Animated GIF photobooth from OnomonoMedia!
Donut eating go-go dancers!
AND
Burn off the calories with a special edition
DJ set (BJ set?) with Sean Peoples
NOT TO MENTION
Skeeball / Arcade Games / Foosball / Billiards / Cornhole / Board Games
and more stuff!
All this for only 12 bucks
(day of tickets are $15)
we’re most likely gonna sell out
This is a 21+ event
The oldest symphonic choral ensemble in Washington, D.C., the Cathedral Choral Society (CCS), is holding its Angel of the Arts Award Gala on Saturday, March 2, 2013 at the Embassy of Italy at 6:00 p.m. Named for arts philanthropist, Laura E. Phillips, the Angel of the Arts Award honors a deserving man or woman who has dedicated their career and brought their passion for the arts to the Washington community. This year’s recipient is Douglas H. Wheeler, president emeritus of the Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS). This is the first time the Angel of the Arts award has been given in four years.
The 2013 Angel of the Arts Award honoree is the distinguished Douglas H. Wheeler, president emeritus of the Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS). WPAS and CCS have a long history dating back to the 1980s.
Mr. Wheeler’s historic career spans nearly five decades of incubating local talent and bringing national and international artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Midori, Yo-Yo Ma and Luciano Pavarotti to Washington audiences. In addition to more than 60 performances each year, WPAS, an independent, nonprofit professional arts organization, forges community partnerships through educational projects with schoolchildren and develops innovative art forms with emerging artists. Today, as president emeritus of WPAS, Mr. Wheeler is developing WPAS’s Legacy Society, works on special projects with nonprofit organizations, and serves on several national boards.
CCS is the resident symphonic chorus of Washington National Cathedral. Founded in 1941 by Paul Callaway who served as music director until 1984, the 130-voice chorus is the oldest symphonic choral ensemble in Washington. Since 1985, J. Reilly Lewis has conducted the Society in musical masterpieces from plainsong to the classics to contemporary works. CCS has presented numerous world premieres; many of them commissioned by the Society, and has maintained a tradition of showcasing both promising young soloists and internationally known artists.
Gala attendees will include community, business, philanthropic and arts leaders and patrons from the D.C. region.
