OFERTÓRIO
CAETANO VELOSO
With Moreno, Zeca & Tom Veloso
For over 35 years, GRAMMY Award-winner Caetano Veloso has been a major musical, social, and cultural force in Brazil. The New York Times calls him “one of the greatest songwriters of the century.” Veloso’s latest project is a collaboration with his sons: Moreno, Zeca, and Tom. This legendary lineage performs an intimate, acoustic concert full of their favorite songs like “Um Canto de Afoxé Para o Bloco do Ilê,” and your favorite songs of Veloso’s like “Cucurrucucu Paloma,” “Sozinho,” and more. Veloso first became known for his participation in the Brazilian musical movement Tropicalismo, which encompassed theatre, poetry, and music in the 1960s, paving the way for pursuits in rock, pop, folk, and Bossa Nova.
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Jonathan Drori, author and environmentalist
From India’s sacred banyan to the fragrant cedar of Lebanon, trees offer us sanctuary, inspiration and companionship – not to mention sustenance and raw materials – and forests have surprising parallels with human communities. In this fascinating and beautifully illustrated talk, Jonathan Drori, author and trustee of The Eden Project in Cornwall, and former BBC documentary film-maker and board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, uses plant science to illuminate how trees play a role in every part of our lives, from the romantic to the regrettable, and how they are capable of the most bizarre antics. An unmissable event for tree and nature lovers. Please note: Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Program begins at 7 p.m.
DATE: Thursday, May 2
TIME: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Conservatory Garden Court
FREE: Pre-registration required, visit www.USBG.gov/Learn
This program sponsored by the Friends of the U.S. Botanic Garden.
WHO:
Jo Giese presents her upcoming memoir, Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother (She Writes Press/April 23, 2019). Giese is an award-winning radio journalist, author, teacher, community activist, and former TV reporter. As a special correspondent, she was part of the Peabody Award winning team at Marketplace, the popular public radio business show. At Marketplace she won an EMMA (Exceptional Merit in Media Award) for an Exceptional Radio Story from the National Women’s Political Caucus and a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation. She has contributed to Ira Glass’s “This American Life” radio show, and is the author of “A Woman’s Path” ( St. Martin’s Press) and “The Good Food Compendium” (Doubleday). Giese has written for scores of publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, LA Weekly, European Travel & Life, and The Malibu Times.
WHAT:
Giese sits down for an honest conversation with Sally Quinn, author and journalist, to discuss Jo’s new memoir, “Never Sit If You Can Dance: Lessons from My Mother.
Jo Giese’s mother Babe was a 50s trailblazer who celebrated life to its fullest.
This Mother’s Day, her book invites us to remember the lessons we learned from our mothers that we perhaps only came to appreciate later and say “Thank you.” With lessons ranging from “flowers never go out of style’ to ‘don’t be drab’ and ‘we all need someone waiting for us in the parking lot’” Never Sit If You Can Dance is a light-filled and universal tribute to love that will ring true with mothers, daughters, and their families in a time when we all need some old-fashioned civility in our lives.
Talking points:
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The coarsening of our culture and lack of civility
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What would women in the 50s have thought of the #metoo movement?
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Sharing real world connections vs. online social media connections
Public event highlights include:
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Public lecture and book reading
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Conversations with Jo Giese and Sally Quinn
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Books for sale
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Book signing and opportunities to meet the author
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Complimentary cocktails and appetizers
WHEN:
Saturday May 11, 2019
1 PM ET
WHERE:
Politics and Prose Bookstore
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
Public launch event, book reading, complimentary cocktails and appetizers will be served.
Seating is limited. RSVP to Emanuela@WildboundPR.com or 323.644.2111
The War of the Rosés returns to Roofers Union and sister wine bar Jug & Table. Guests will enjoy selections of rosés from around the world handpicked by new Wine Director Chas Jefferson. Guests are invited to try them all, either by the glass or half-priced bottle, which will all be available at half price, and all are asked to select the fourth annual crowd favorite. This year, Jefferson has selected rosés from Austria, France, Spain and Italy. Bottles representing each country will be available on all three floors, including the rooftop, and the rosé that proves the most popular will earn a dedicated spot on the wine lists at both concepts this summer. Menu items like Jug & Table’s Rosé burrata with watermelon and mint will be available a la carte to pair with a bottle for a meal with friends, or nibble throughout the evening.
Austria – Loimer-Niederösterreich Zweigelt – $24/ bottle for the event
France – Château Platon Bordeaux Rosé Cabernet Franc – $20/bottle for the event
Spain – Armas de Guerrero- Bierzo Mencía – $18/bottle for the event
Italy – Fontaleoni Toscana Sangiovese – $22/bottle for the event
Solstice Saturday Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian
Saturday, June 22; 3–9:30 p.m.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in DC celebrates the first Saturday of summer—Solstice Saturday— beginning with an afternoon of Andean music, dance, and family friendly activities celebrating the Great Inka Road. At 7 p.m., the celebration becomes the Solstice Illuminated Dance Party, taking place on the museum’s Welcome Plaza. There will be a DJ, refreshments, fun, and food, with all galleries open throughout the evening.
3–7 p.m.—Solstice Saturday: Celebrate the Sun!
With the exhibition The Great Inka Road as the theme, the museum celebrates Inti Raymi, the festival of the sun, with Andean music and dance. The festivity opens with traditional Bolivian dancing by Tradiciones Bolivianas, Pujllay Cliza, Fraternidad Tinkus Chochabamba, and Expresion Cultural Sikuris K’hantati Los Andes share traditional dances of Bolivia. RAYMI will be playing Andean music.
Make your own Andean fan based on the chakana, a symbol evoking the four cardinal directions, and add luminescent embellishments to show off later in the evening. Get inspired by the solar and lunar imagery throughout the museum and decorate your own canvas bag to take home.
Indigenous peoples of the Andes in South America believed that gold represented the sun. Visitors can create their own foil pendant featuring your choice of a llama, sun, or jaguar design at the imagiNATIONS Activity Center.
Meet Ande, the museum’s resident, life-size, plush toy Llama. Learn how to dress a fashionable llama for a stroll along the Inka road.
7–9:30 p.m.—Solstice Illuminated Dance Party
Grab a glow stick and dance to DJ Dola on the Welcome Plaza. Enjoy food and drinks—including anticuchos de carne, lomo saltado, chicken empanadas, chips and guacamole, arroz con leche and churros con chocolate—from local vendors Peruvian Brothers and the museum’s Mitsitam Café. Bears Shaved Ice will be serving shaved ice in a variety of flavors!
Be sure to visit the Museum’s membership table with your member card to receive a special gift (or join that evening). Cool off with a walk through the indoor galleries, which also will be open through the night.
When the sun goes down, bring your luminescent fan and join a “comparsa Iluminada”—an illuminated procession— and join Tradiciones Bolivianas, Raymi, Fraternidad Tinkus Chochabamba, Expresion Cultural Sikuris K’hantati Los Andes, and Pujllay Cliza in the procession from the festivities to an outdoor gathering on the Welcome Plaza.
Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Celebrate the Second of July, the day the Continental Congress voted for American independence, with music of the founding era. David and Ginger Hildebrand of the Colonial Music Institute perform eighteenth-century songs—including ballads, marches and French-inspired songs—in costume with period instruments.
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Guests are invited to an all you can eat and drink experience at City Tap Dupont’s All-American Cookout, complete with cornhole on the patio. For $40, enjoy endless hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, coleslaw, and ice pops, paired with house wines, Founders Solid Gold Lager, Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT, Southern Tier Swipe Right, and other beer offerings. Available a la carte options include bourbon slushies ($6), grapefruit crushes and orange crushes ($7), and watermelon limoncello cocktails ($8).
WHAT: This curated, kid-friendly event in NMWA’s Great Hall brings together small presses, artists and more to sell their independently published (largely paper-based) works. More than 40 artists will be selling creations from zines to books, from comics to prints, and plenty in between. This event is organized by the DC Art Book Collective, and the participants are chosen by a panel of judges: Nguyên Khôi Nguyễn, artist and educator based in Baltimore; Christopher Kardambikis, assistant professor in printmaking at George Mason University; Malaka Gharib, artist and writer based in Washington; Alison Michael Baitz, graduate student in library science and children’s literature at Simmons University; LA Johnson, artist, illustrator and creative director at NPR; Elizabeth Graeber, illustrator based in Washington; and Lynora Williams, Director of the Library and Research Center at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. WHERE: WHEN: PRICE: |
