Events/Things To Do

On April 5, the award-winning Hay-Adams, located steps from the White House at 800 16th Street, NW, 20006, will host its next Author Series luncheon honoring David W. Blight to discuss his latest work, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which published October 16, 2018. The Hay-Adams’ Author Series, where literary crowds honor literary masters, is an on-going event, which hosts outstanding writers in a historic setting, directly overlooking the White House at the Top of The Hay.  One will enjoy exceptional food, drink and lively conversation.  Tickets are priced at $90 per person (all inclusive), which includes a three-course, prix fixe menu with wine pairings: https://www.hayadams.com/author-series/events.  The menu, themed around the book, will be created by Vice President & General Manager Hans Bruland working closely with Executive Chef Nicolas Legret.  

Additionally, Kramerbooks (http://kramers.com) will be on hand so guests will have the opportunity to purchase a copy of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, which Blight can sign and personalize after the luncheon.  Tickets go on sale March 15 and will be available online at: http://www.hayadams.com/author-series/washington-dc-author-events. For additional information guests can email Kathleen Newman at KNewman@hayadams.com or by calling (202) 638-6000.  Tickets must be purchased by April 1 and will not be available at the door.

WHO:             David W. Blight is a teacher, scholar and public historian. He is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including 

American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era; and Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory; and annotated editions of Douglass’s first two autobiographies. He has worked on Douglass much of his professional life, and been awarded the Bancroft Prize, the Abraham Lincoln Prize, and the Frederick Douglass Prize, among others.

His newest book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, is the first major biography written in the last quarter century about the most important African American of the nineteenth century. An escaped slave,Douglass became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. Blight brings new information about Douglass to light in the tome, particularly the last thirty years of his life, thanks to access he gained to a trove of papers and letters in a private collection that no other historian has used in any full-length biography of Douglass. It has been recognized as a New York Times, Wall Street Journal and TimeTop 10 Book of the Year.

David W. Blight was born in Flint, Michigan. After achieving his undergraduate degree, he taught in a public high school in his hometown for seven years. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1985 with a thesis titled “Keeping Faith in Jubilee: Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of the Civil War”. Blight has been a consultant to many documentary films, including, “Death and the Civil War,” (2012), the 1998 PBS series, “Africans in America,” and “The Reconstruction Era” (2004) among others. He is also a frequent book reviewer for the New York Times, Washington Post Book World, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, Slate.com and other newspapers, and has written many articles on abolitionism, American historical memory, and African American intellectual and cultural history.  

WHEN:          The luncheon will be held at the Top of The Hay on Friday, April 5, 2019, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (doors open at 11:30 a.m.).

WHERE:       The Hay-Adams is located at 800 16th Street NW, Washington DC, 20006, across Lafayette Square from the White House. The historic Hay-Adams offers guests Washington’s most prestigious address with views overlooking the White House, Lafayette Square and St. John’s Church, the “Church of the Presidents.”  Consistently recognized as one of the world’s best hotels by Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, Fodor’s Travel and U.S. News & World Report, the hotel is just minutes from the Smithsonian Museums, the Washington Monument, the Capitol Building, the Mall, as well as convenient to Metro stations and the convention center. For reservations or more information call (202) 638-6600 or visit their website at www.hayadams.com.

The University of Virginia Club of Washington DC will hold its Final Four Watch party at Mission Navy Yard on Saturday.

Starting at 11 am, the two-level enormous bar and restaurant located across from Nats Stadium will have beverage and food specials for the Virginia Cavaliers/Virginia Hoos fans.

$5.50 16 oz. Bud Light

$25 for a bucket (5) Bud Lights

$5 El Jimador shots

$6 Jack Daniels and Jack Honey

$3 Chorizo Sliders

Mission Navy Yard

1221 Van Street SE (across from the center field entrance to Nats Stadium)

www.MissionNavyYard.com

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.

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.

 Melrose Georgetown Hotel’s Annual Derby Day Viewing Party. Guests are invited to experience the “Greatest Two Minutes in Sports” in Jardenea Lounge on Saturday, May 4, from 3-7 p.m., offering partygoers and racing enthusiasts an authentic Derby Day program including classic Derby cocktails and dining options.

Immerse yourself in all things Derby with a classic Mint Julep or indulgent Bacon Bourbon cocktail. A variety of themed light-bites will be offered during the viewing ranging from Country Ham & Biscuits, Bourbon Pecan Pie and a play on the traditional Kentucky Hot Brown with crisp tater-tots.

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:

• The coarsening of our culture and lack of civility

• What would women in the 50s have thought of the #metoo movement?

• Sharing real world connections vs. online social media connections

Public event highlights include:

• Public lecture and book reading

• Conversations with Jo Giese and Sally Quinn

• Books for sale

• Book signing and opportunities to meet the author

• 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