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.
Free
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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).
Indulge your inner Francophile with French amusements from the 1700s at this celebration of Bastille Day and Marjorie Merriweather Post’s 18th-century French decorative arts collection.
Sousa on the Rez: Native American Brass Bands and Beyond
Thursday, July 18, 2 p.m.
Lecture
Rasmuson Theater
Native American jazz, classical and popular musicians have experienced artistic and commercial success since well before the turn of the 20th century. Many were first exposed to this music at boarding schools, where the regimented discipline of marching bands was a key component of the program of forced assimilation. Nevertheless, many Native Americans discovered a love of, and talent for, these genres of music and made them their own. Join us as Erin Fehr (Yup’ik), archivist at the Sequoyah National Research Center at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, and John Troutman, curator of American Music at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, discuss the social, historical and artistic experiences of Native American musicians since the beginning of the 20th century. Additionally, there will be a screening of Sousa on the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum, which celebrates the continuing popularity of marching bands in Native American communities. This program is funded as part of the Smithsonian Year of Music.
Friday, July 19, 2019, 12:30-1 p.m.
Join Executive Director Jack Warren for a discussion of a treasure from our library — the 1786 published edition of the marquis de Chastellux’s account of his travels in America, which offers remarkable insights into how European intellectuals imagined the natural world at the end of the eighteenth century and how they related those ideas to the American Revolution. Chastellux was a major general in the French army and the liaison between George Washington and General Rochambeau.
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Still Human, Friday, July 19; 7 p.m. -Veteran actor Anthony Wong and newcomer Crisel Consunji won Hong Kong Film Awards for performances in this moving dramedy about a grumpy wheelchair-bound pensioner (Wong) and the live-in maid (Consunji) hired to take care of him. Directed by Oliver Siu Kuen Chan, Hong Kong, 2019, 111 min., Digital Cinema Package, Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles. In person: Crisel Consunji, actress.
Saturday, July 20, 2019, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Join us for an evening to mark the anniversary of the encampment of French troops in our neighborhood in 1782 on their march north after the Siege of Yorktown—the only time a foreign army has ever camped within the boundaries of the present District of Columbia. Enjoy a tasting of French wines, French-inspired foods, and activities inspired by this historic event, which happened here!
Reservations required. Participants be 21 years of age or older to attend. $25 general admission; $20 for Society members and Institute Associates.
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Friday, July 26, through Sunday, July 28, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
You are invited to the free three-day Kaypi Perú Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian. This event highlights the South American nation’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and traditional arts. Kaypi Perú,which means “This is Peru” in the indigenous language of Quechua, includes an art market, music and dance performances, hands-on activities for kids, a film screening, traditional plants, and Peruvian cuisine. The festival is presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Peru.
Friday, July 26, through Sunday, July 28, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
You are invited to the free three-day Kaypi Perú Festival at the National Museum of the American Indian. This event highlights the South American nation’s rich and diverse cultural heritage and traditional arts. Kaypi Perú,which means “This is Peru” in the indigenous language of Quechua, includes an art market, music and dance performances, hands-on activities for kids, a film screening, traditional plants, and Peruvian cuisine. The festival is presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Peru.
