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| Author Events 341581 | Meet Susan Stockdale Author and illustrator Susan Stockdale reads her newest book, Fabulous Fishes, which uses simple, rhyming text to introduce children to fish, familiar and exotic. A book signing follows. Advance registration is required. 703.241.8281 6/21/08 Ages: 3-6 Time: 11am Cost: Free |
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| Concerts 342818 | Summer Concert Series: US Navy Commodores Bring blankets, chairs, and a picnic dinner for a free concert under the starts. Catch the big band jazz sounds of the US Navy Commodores. 301.528.2260 http://www.blackrockcenter.org 6/21/08 Ages: All Ages Time: 7pm Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 52236 | America on the Move Take a journey though the history of the United States - a history shaped by transportation. The exhibition uses multimedia technology and historical artifacts to create period settings around times and places where transportation changed American lives and landscapes. Among the over 300 objects are a 1950s Chicago Transit Authority car; a 199-ton, 92-foot-long Southern Railway locomotive, the 1401; and a 1903 Winton, the first car driven across the United States. 202.633.1000 http://americanhistory.si.edu Ongoing Daily 11/22/03 - 1/11/10; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: During museum hours Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 376391 | Separate and Unequaled: Black Baseball in DC From Reconstruction to the second half of the 20th century, baseball, the great American pastime, was played in Washington, DC, on segregated fields. The exhibition looks at the phenomenal popularity and community draw of this sport when played by African Americans. Featured are such personalities as Josh Gibson and "Buck" Leonard, star players of the Homestead Grays. The show also highlights community teams that gave rise to the various amateur, collegiate, and semipro black baseball teams and leagues. 202.383.1850 http://www.historydc.org Ongoing Daily 5/18/08 - 10/5/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 376392 | Riots Are The Language of the Unheard A multimedia exhibit consisting of photographs, video footage, and artifacts investigating the grievances that led to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. riots, the efforts to address those grievances, the riots, and their ripple effects. 202.383.1850 http://www.historydc.org Ongoing Daily 6/1/08 - 12/15/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: 10-19 Time: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 376394 | An Illustrated History: the Negro Baseball Leagues Through photographs and memorabilia, this traveling exhibit presents a timeline of the history of blacks in baseball. 202.383.1850 http://www.historydc.org Ongoing Daily 5/18/08 - 10/5/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: Tue-Sat 10am-5pm Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 370437 | East of the River: Continuity and Change A documentation and exhibition project that looks at the community life of neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River on the occasion of the Anacostia Community Museum's 40th anniversary. The exhibit insightfully explores the development of Washington communities east of the Anacostia River from a provocative yet universal perspective - the struggle over land: who owns it, who controls it, who profits from it, and how residents determine their own destiny. The timeline covers the region's Native American beginning through the present and into possible futures. 202.633.4844 http://anacostia.si.edu Ongoing Daily 9/15/07 - 11/9/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: 7-18 Time: During museum hours. Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 343351 | TxtStyles/Fashioning Identity Textiles are powerful communicators of status, gender and accomplishments in Africa. The exhibit's extraordinary costumes and textiles of the African continent range from ensembles to wrappers to wall hangings to chain mail and accessories/hats. 202.633.4636 http://www.nmafa.si.edu Ongoing Daily 6/11/08 - 12/8/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: During museum hours Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 342030 | G-Men and Journalists G-Men and Journalists: Top News Stories of the FBI's First Century explores the role of the media in shaping the bureau's image and the sometimes cooperative, sometimes combative relationship between the press and the FBI. The exhibition features approximately 200 artifacts drawn from the FBI evidence vaults and the collections of other museums, reporters, law-enforcement professionals, private collectors and the Newseum. 888.639.7386 http://www.newseum.org Ongoing Daily 6/20/08 - 6/20/09; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: 9am-5pm Cost: Free with paid admission |
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| Exhibits 338350 | China's Forgotten Fleet: Voyages of Zheng He Nearly a century before Columbus arrived in the Americas, a massive Chinese armada commanded by Admiral Zheng He set sail on the first of seven epic voyages. China's Forgotten Fleet: Voyages of Zheng He tells the story of these little-known journeys and cultural exchanges through objects, maps, and ship models (including a 10-foot-long replica of a baochuan or treasure ship) from the National Museum in China and the Quanzhou Maritime Museum. Visitors travel in the fleet's path to five ports - Malacca, Sri Lanka, the Malabar Coast of India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Malindi in East Africa - and learn about Chinese navigation and shipbuilding methods. 202.857.7588 http://www.nat... hic.com/museum Ongoing Daily 6/11/08 - 9/7/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: During museum hours. Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 338351 | Shaolin: Temple of Zen Over the past eight years, photographer Justin Guariglia won the trust of the notoriously secretive warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple, a unique Chinese Buddhist sect dedicated to preserving a form of kung fu referred to as the "vehicle of Zen." Shaolin: Temple of Zen features images and video from Guariglia documenting these individuals, who consider themselves the keepers and masters of their centuries-old art forms in their original setting, a 1,500-year-old Buddhist temple. 202.857.7588 http://www.nat... hic.com/museum Ongoing Daily 6/11/08 - 9/7/08; check with location for exceptions. Ages: All Ages Time: During museum hours. Cost: Free |
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| Exhibits 333136 | Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from Kabul The exhibit Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul presents over 200 extraordinary artifacts unearthed in modern Afghanistan from a vault under the Presidential Palace in 2004. Ranging in date from 2200 BC to AD 200, the objects present a rich mosaic of Afghanistan's cultural heritage and are drawn from four archaeological sites. Maps illustrate the locations of some 1,500 archaeological sites, ancient cities, the routes known as the Silk Road, and regions that relate to the artifacts. A documentary film narrated by celebrated Afghan-American author, Khaled Hosseini, explores ancient Afghan culture, the history of these collections and their dramatic rediscovery. |