The National Gallery of Art, Washington, in collaboration with the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE), will host a public panel discussion about the life and work of architect Frank Gehry. Mr. Gehry will join Paul Goldberger, architecture critic and author of Building Art: The Life and Work of Frank Gehry, in conversation with moderator Harry Cooper, curator and head of modern art at the National Gallery of Art. The panel will be followed by a book signing with Paul Goldberger.
WHO:
Eleanor Acquavella – Acquavella Gallery and Co-Chairman, FAPE Membership Committee
The Honorable Elizabeth Bagley – Senior Advisor for Secretary of State Initiatives
The Honorable Donald Blinken and Vera Blinken – Former U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and FAPE Board member
Bob Colacello – FAPE Board member and author
Jennifer Duncan – FAPE Director
The Honorable Joe Gildenhorn and Alma Gildenhorn – Former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and FAPE Trustee Emerita
Agnes Gund – FAPE Board member and philanthropist
Roger Horchow – FAPE Chairman Emeritus
Jeff Koons – Artist
Sydie Lansing – FAPE Board member
The Honorable Ronald S. Lauder and Jo Carole Lauder – Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria and FAPE Chairman
The Honorable William H. Luers and Wendy W. Luers – Former U.S. Ambassador to Czech Republic and FAPE Founder and President Emerita
Robert E. Meyerhoff – Former Chairman of the National Gallery of Art
Ellen Phelan and Joel Shapiro — Artists
Eden Rafshoon – FAPE President
Molly Raiser – Former Chief of Protocol
Daniel Romualdez – FAPE Board member
Jack Shear – FAPE Board member and Executive Director, Ellsworth Kelly Foundation
Michelle Smith – FAPE Board member
Diana and Mallory Walker – Artist
Carrie Mae Weems and Jeffrey Hoone – Artist
Elyn Zimmerman — Artist
WHERE AND WHEN:
Monday, April 18
Frank Gehry and Paul Goldberger in Conversation
1:00 pm
National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium
Fourth Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Open to the public and press
FAPE SPONSOR – Bank of America
2016 ANNUAL EVENTS SPONSOR – Christie’s
Friends Night Out at the Smithsonian Craft Show
Washington, DC. . . Cocktails and shopping? Of course!
Take a break from politics, grab some friends and head over to the Smithsonian Craft Show, 5PM—8PM, Thursday, April 21, at the National Building Museum, 401 F Street, NW, Washington, DC.
Tickets for Friends Night Out are $25, which includes admission to the show, a cocktail, and light hors d’oeuvres. Click here to order your tickets: http://smithsonianassociates.
The fun evening shopping event will include a DJ, four of DC’s top mixologists, who will whip up your favorite cocktails featuring Green Hat Gin, and an opportunity to hear a lively presentation by an expert on our exclusive Dale Chihuly art glass installation. The 12 works of art will be on display for four-days only and have never before been shown in the DC area.
This is a great opportunity to browse and shop for one-of-a-kind, hand-made objects created by 120 of the top U.S. fine craft artists. The artists will be on hand to talk about their work.
Our celebrity mixologists:
Adam Bernbach – 2 birds 1 stone
Gina Chersevani – Buffalo & Bergen
Victor Dooley – The Red Hen
Tyler Hudgens – The Dabney
Curated by: Sebastian Zutant, The Red Hen and All Purpose
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The top 10 DC public and public charter high school student DC-CAPITAL STARS finalists, selected via a city-wide audition and public voting process, will take center stage and compete for college scholarships at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 8th Annual DC-CAPITAL Stars: The Sounds of Movie Music, presented by the DC College Access Program (DC-CAP). The event is the largest annual fundraiser for the DC-CAP and showcases the students’ artistic abilities in vocal, dance and instrumental performances.
During the show, a panel of celebrity judges (see below) and votes from the audience will help determine the grand prize winner who will receive a $10,000 college scholarship. Each of the remaining performers also will receive a scholarship to be applied toward their first year of college. The performance is followed by a private reception for gala ticketholders.
The evening is dedicated to local businessman and philanthropist, A. James Clark (1927-2015), who is being honored for his lifelong passion for education, commitment to community, and his support of DC-CAP.
Learn more and purchase tickets at www.dccap.org/gala.
WHEN: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 7 p.m.
WHERE: Eisenhower Theater
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW, Washington, DC 20566
WHO: Celebrity Judges:
- Donnie Simpson, Radio One disc jockey and TV personality
- Mark Rivera, Award-winning musician, singer and musical director
- Fik-Shun, “So You Think You Can Dance” winner (Season 10)
Ted Leonsis, DC-CAP Board Chair and Host Committee Chair
DC-CAPITAL STARS Top 10 Finalists from DC Public and Public Charter High Schools
WHAT
On Friday, April 29, 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will celebrate its Annual Spring Gala. Join NMWA patrons, honorary chair Her Excellency Maguy Maccario Doyle, Ambassador of Monaco to the United States and gala chair Shahin Mafi for a special night at the museum’s largest annual fundraising event.
Upon arrival, guests will have the opportunity to view She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, which explores themes of protest, war and identity. The provocative and poetic works on view—most created in the last decade—include portraiture, documentary images and staged narratives. The featured photographers challenge stereotypes surrounding the people, landscapes and cultures of Iran and the Arab world.
The annual black-tie gala will continue with cocktails in the galleries and an exciting auction followed by dinner and dancing in the elegant Great Hall. The evening will be catered by Occasions and music will be provided by Big Ray and the Kool Kats. The 2016 Gala Auction Chair is Mary Clark.
WHEN
Friday, Apr. 29, 6:30 p.m.
Cocktails and Silent Auction: 6:30 p.m.
Dinner and Dancing: 8 p.m. to midnight
WHERE
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Valet parking available
DETAILS
The spring gala is the museum’s largest annual fundraising event attended by luminaries from Washington’s diplomatic, governmental and social communities. Proceeds will support the exhibitions and programs that make us the leading museum dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women in the visual, performing and literary arts.
TICKETS
Individuals $650; Gala Host Committee, Individuals $1,000 and Couples $1,500 (both include premium seating and recognition in the program); Sponsored Tables $10,000 and up
On Friday, April 29, 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) will celebrate its Annual Spring Gala. Join NMWA patrons, honorary chair Her Excellency Maguy Maccario Doyle, Ambassador of Monaco to the United States and gala chair Shahin Mafi for a special night at the museum’s largest annual fundraising event.
Upon arrival, guests will have the opportunity to view She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World, which explores themes of protest, war and identity. The provocative and poetic works on view—most created in the last decade—include portraiture, documentary images and staged narratives. The featured photographers challenge stereotypes surrounding the people, landscapes and cultures of Iran and the Arab world.
The annual black-tie gala will continue with cocktails in the galleries and an exciting auction followed by dinner and dancing in the elegant Great Hall. The 2016 Gala Auction Chair is Mary Clark.
WHEN
Friday, Apr. 29, 6:30 p.m.
Cocktails and Silent Auction: 6:30 p.m.
Dinner and Dancing: 8 p.m. to midnight
WHERE
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
Valet parking available
DETAILS
The spring gala is the museum’s largest annual fundraising event attended by luminaries from Washington’s diplomatic, governmental and social communities. Proceeds will support the exhibitions and programs that make us the leading museum dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women in the visual, performing and literary arts.
TICKETS
Individuals $650; Gala Host Committee, Individuals $1,000 and Couples $1,500 (both include premium seating and recognition in the program); Sponsored Tables $10,000 and up
BlackRock Center for the Arts will hold its annual gala on Friday, May 6 from 6:00pm–10:00pm. The gala theme is “An Evening of Wonder: Celebrating the Magic of the Arts at BlackRock.” In recent years, BlackRock has emerged as a noteworthy community asset, establishing Upper Montgomery County as a sought-after destination to live, work, and play, with its stellar performances, professional quality, and diverse offerings. Though it may seem the Center’s success happened overnight—like magic—it is instead a result of years of hard work and civic leadership in a forward-thinking community, one whose residents value the arts, their impact on the human spirit and their role in creating vibrant communities. Members of the public are invited to attend the event and celebrate the arts in Upper Montgomery County. Individual tickets to “An Evening of Wonder” cost $195 and can be purchased online at
The evening’s schedule for “An Evening of Wonder: Celebrating the Magic of the Arts at BlackRock” includes cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, silent and live auctions, a three-course dinner, live entertainment, fund-a-need, dessert, and an after-party with dancing. In addition, there will be an awards celebration honoring Therrien Waddell and Jean Casey for their outstanding dedication to the arts in our community. The gala is co-chaired by Jennifer Russel and Chester Anderson and this year’s Honorary Co-Chairs are the Honorable Isiah Leggett and Mrs. Catherine Leggett.
Gala sponsors as of February 9, 2016 include: Lauren Kay Pollin; Dataprise; Adventist Health Care; Hughes, an Echostar Company; John and Sheila Compton; Montgomery College; Shops at Town Center; Sugarloaf Trails; Clarksburg Premium Outlets; Bethesda Magazine; Black Hill, a project of Lerner; Minkoff Development; Matan; Sugarplum Tent Company; Wegmans; &pizza; Elm Street Developments; Jade Solutions, LLC; M&T Bank; Melane and Tom Hoffmann; Margie and Tom Quelet; Zoes Kitchen; and wine sponsorship by Randy and Kathy Scritchfield. Jean Casey, Beth Daly, and Hammet Hough are Individual Sponsors of the event.
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) commemorates its milestone 35thanniversary with Carmina 35 at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall onSunday, May 8, 2016 at 8 p.m., under the direction of Artistic Director Thea Kano. For more information, visit www.GMCW.org.
GMCW partners with New York’s Gallim Dance and 40 members of the New York City Master Chorale to perform a perennial favorite of classical music, Carl Orff’s canonical Carmina Burana. Soloists lending their talent to this performance are soprano Paige Cutrona, tenor Robert Baker, and baritone Young Kwang Yoo. The performance will also feature new choreography by the industrious Andrea Miller, Artistic Director for Gallim Dance.
A leading contemporary dance company based in New York, this collaboration complements the ethos of Gallim Dance, which celebrates the human spirit through works deeply rooted in the human experience of love, struggle and spirituality. Miller created a loose narrative for nine dancers, harnessing the passion and physicality that the music inspires to explore different relationships—same sex and heterosexual, romantic, platonic, and familial. She channels a spectrum of emotions—passion, sexuality, tension, struggle, joy—through characteristically big, bold movement.
This production of Carmina Burana will also be performed at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.
Orff’s sweeping masterwork is paired with touchstones from GMCW’s history. The second half of the concert will be bookended with significant works commissioned by GMCW— “Build A House” fromAlexander’s House and “This House Shall Stand” from Songs of My Family. The Chorus will also perform favorite selections from past concerts, as well as “This Train,” the first song rehearsed at GMCW’s inaugural rehearsal in 1981, GMCW’s anthem “Make Them Hear You” from Broadway’s Ragtime, and “We Kiss in Shadow,” performed by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus at the Kennedy Center in 1980, which served as the inspiration to start a DC-based gay men’s chorus.
Historical significance
A torchbearer and consistent, unified voice for equality, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC has been a steady presence in its community and at historic events that have impacted LGBT people. In 2013, GMCW sang on the steps of the Supreme Court when the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down, and returned in 2015 to sing jubilantly when the court ruled in favor of marriage equality. That same year, GMCW was the first LGBT chorus invited to perform in Cuba on a 10-day cultural and educational tour, helping to spread awareness about equality. The chorus sang at the Lincoln Memorial in 2008 for the first inauguration of President Barack Obama, performing “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee” with Josh Groban and Heather Headley. Additionally, GMCW vocal ensemble Potomac Fever performed at the White House in 2012 for the first-ever LGBT reception honoring rising LGBT leaders.
The chorus has grown from 90 members in its first season to more than 200 singing members today, educating and entertaining more than 10,000 patrons annually.
Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith and Executive Producer Edgar Dobie are pleased to announce An Evening with Ana Gasteyer, an exclusive celebration that includes the inaugural presentation of the Beth Newburger Schwartz Award, Monday, May 9, 2016 at the Mead Center for American Theater (1101 Sixth St., SW).
Born and raised in D.C., Gasteyer has appeared on Broadway in Wicked and The Threepenny Opera and is widely known for her memorable roles in film and TV, including six seasons on Saturday Night Live. For the benefit cabaret performance, the comedienne will perform hits from her new jazz album “I’m Hip” with members of her band, delivering saucy and fun-loving renditions from the American songbook.
The evening kicks off with a VIP cocktail reception and three-course seated dinner, followed by the performance, after which guests will enjoy a music, wine and dessert reception.
Dinner will feature the presentation of the inaugural award in Arena Stage Board Chair Beth Newburger Schwartz’s honor, for her invaluable work at Arena Stage and throughout her career to promote and recognize women’s roles throughout American history. This will be awarded annually to a female leader who strives to better the community in which she lives through her own unique strengths and talents.
All proceeds from the evening support Arena Stage’s award-winning artistic and community engagement programs. Space is limited.
Complimentary valet parking will be available.
Event Schedule
Monday May 9, 2016
5:30 p.m. Cocktail reception and seated dinner
8:30 p.m. Cabaret performance by Ana Gasteyer
Post-show music, wine and dessert reception following the performance
Individual Tickets
Dinner Ticket – $1,000
Performance Ticket – $500
Young Professional Ticket (35 or under) – $150
For additional event details visit arenastage.org/donate/special-
For information on individual ticket or table purchases please contact Maria Corso at 202-600-4025 or email mcorso@arenastage.org.
For information on corporate sponsorship packages, please contact Char Manlove-Laws at 202-600-4030 or email cmanlove-laws@ArenaStage.org.
An Evening with Ana Gasteyer is sponsored in part by GEICO.
