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Meet and Greet Artist Lily Cox-Richard:
Washington Project For The Arts
2023 Massachusetts Ave NW
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
6:30pm – 7:30pm | FREE!
Washington Project for the Arts welcomes Lily Cox-Richard, an artist currently in DC as a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellow (SARF), for an informal talk and meet and greet with DCs arts community. Come get to know the artist and hear more about her recent sculpture series, The Stand, and her participation in the SARF program, while giving her an introduction to DCs thriving arts scene.
Lily Cox-Richard is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. She received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. The Stand consists of carved plasters depicting tree stumps, wheat sheaves, and massive quartz crystals, all props that were once used structurally and allegorically in American Neo-Classical figure sculpture. The works in The Stand are all based on marble sculptures by Hiram Powers (1805-1873), once known as The Father of American Sculpture, whose works depicted idealized female figures that symbolized allegorical themes. By shifting the focus to the supporting elements and the contact points, Cox-Richard hopes to show a different allegory: I aim to create a new whole, not a fragment or ruin. In condensing these sculptures down to their supports, figure and ground conflate into new forms, revealing latent content.
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Bruce Monroe Community Garden Expansion!:
Bruce Monroe Community Garden
Georgia Ave between Columbia Rd and Irving St NW
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
9:00am – 12:00pm | FREE!The Bruce Monroe Community Garden is growing and we need your help!
Join us this Saturday, July 14, from 9:00am Noon, and help build a new set of raised beds at the garden! Over 100+ community members already participate in the garden and we are looking to expand this great community resource! The community garden features composting facilities, a learning garden for kids, fruit and nut trees, as well as shared and reserved plots.
Once completed, these new plots will be immediately available, just in time for the late summer and fall harvest. Whether youve never gardened before or are looking to upgrade from your balcony container garden, wed love to have you as a part of our garden community!
No building/construction experience necessary and well provide gloves, tools, and guidance. Just come with some sunscreen and a bottle of water. A quick email to [email protected] to let us know you’re coming would be appreciated.
The Bruce Monroe Community Garden is located in Bruce Monroe Park (Georgia Ave between Columbia Rd and Irving St, NW), behind the tennis courts.
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Africa Underground “Beneath the Stars” at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art:
National Museum Of African Art
950 Independence Avenue SW
Friday, July 13th, 2012
7:00pm – 11:00pm | $35Africa Underground is back!…
Come and enjoy an evening of cosmic delights at the National Museum of African Art, Friday, July. 13 from 7 to 11 p.m. Join DJ T, musical artists Eme and Heteru and other performers from across the African diaspora and around the continent.Tickets available online.
No ticket sales at the door!
21 and up
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Film Screening with Meridian Hill: “Walk with Me”:
Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court Northwest
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
7:30pm – 9:00pm | $10Second in their series of documentaries profiling artists, their work, and their impact on their community, PictureHouse presents Walk with Me. Against the backdrop of historical moments of social change, Walk with Me follows three generations of women who use theater to inspire, stir, and animate our democracy. While at work in prisons, schools, and community centers, the film reveals that one person–one artist–can make a difference. The screening will feature an audience discussion with co-directors Ellie Walton and Tanisha Christie. The event is supported by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC. For more information on the film as well as Meridian Hill Picture, visit www.meridianhillpictures.com
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Free Improv Comedy @ The Pinch:
The Pinch
3548 14th Street Northwest
Monday, July 9th, 2012
8:00pm – 10:00pm | FREE!Monday just became the best night of your week. Come check out DC’s finest and funniest at The Pinch in Columbia Heights on Monday nights in July! Tonight’s lineup is Washington Improv Theater’s Jackie & Commonwealth, featuring Press Play. After the show there’s a jam for anyone who wants to jump on stage and play.
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Cork Market’s Fried Chicken and Champagne Dinner:
Cork Wine Bar
1805 14th Street Northwest
Sunday, July 8th, 2012
6:00pm – 8:00pm | $75Cork Market’s Fried Chicken & Champagne dinners will pair Chef Kristin Hutter’s award-winning Fried Chicken with a different bubbly at each of the monthly Sunday dinners which run from 6-8p.m. Chef Hutter’s Garlic-Herb Marinated Fried Chicken was named one of Bon Apptit’s “Top 10 Fried Chicken.” Each dinner serves two and includes a deliciously crispy and tender half fried chicken, seasonal sides such as biscuits and asparagus salad and two glasses of sparkling wine all for $75 exclusive of tax and gratuity. Reservations must be made 48 hours in advance by calling 202.265.2674 or emailing [email protected].
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Ellen Richardson, a graphic designer and Pleasant Plains resident, recently took her Craigslist hunting skills to the next level with the launch of her blog, Listed District. Listed District offers daily DC Craigslist findings of everything from Mid-Century and Industrial furniture, to bikes and the utterly strange. Every week Ellen is going to share a roundup of some Phenomenal Finds with PoPville.
“I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.”
Groucho Marx
I hope everyone’s 4 of July was as eventful as mine – flammables, trajectory-enhanced sparklers, wine, terrible homemade ice cream, etc. Today’s Listed District finds rounds up some fabulous items for your hunting pleasure:
$100 – Industrial Vintage School Desk. This brings up several school-themed items: try a 1980s D.C. Pennant ($5), a set of Vintage Art Instruction Books, or this stellar set of Globe Wernicke industrial barristers ($250).
$250 – Chrome Faux Bamboo Side Tables. For the Regency fan – maybe you’d also want to own this fabulous Mirrored Buffet ($375) and this Neo-Classical Mirrored Vanity.
$200 – Pair Danish Caned Chairs. The seller admits that these chairs need a little love, but I can see them in the same space as this small MCM bookcase ($50), or perhaps a Crate & Barrel Oslo Dining Table ($750).
$400 – 7 Drawer Dresser by Drexel. This is a reasonable price – I’d put a fiddle leaf fig tree in this Sascha Brastoff Modernist Planter ($85) and recover this Vintage Rocker ($75) for an easy modern bedroom makeover.
$3200 – Fully Restored 1964 Vespa. I have no idea if this is a good deal, but I’d feel like a sassy 60s woman-on-the-go while driving it…
Happy Hunting!
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The Grand American Vaudeville Revue:
The Red Palace
1210 H Street Northeast
Friday, July 6th, 2012
8:30pm – 12:00am | $15Revel in the oddities, the macabre and the salaciousness this good country has to offer as the Red Palace welcomes Baltimores premiere and Best of Burlesque, Gilded Lily Burlesque, the twisted pleasure of Philadelphias Olde City Sideshow, and the venomous blasts and hardest-rockin tunes of King Sickabilly and his Full Moon Boys!! Witness a true celebration of American vaudeville with Baltimores Sicillian princess, Maria Bella, the chocolate that melts your heart, GiGi Holliday, sassy and stunning torch singer, Sophia Sunday, stage kitten extraordinaire, Lauren Marleaux, the debonaire and dangerous master of ceremonies, Danny Borneo and the beautiful, yet buggy, Reggie Bugmuncher!! Stay tuned after the show for an amazing set by Providences country/honky tonk band, King Sickabilly and his Full Moon Boys!! 21+
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BicycleSPACE FireFly Ride and Picnic: A Full Moon Outing:
Bicyclespace
1019 7th Street Northwest
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012
8:00pm – 12:00am | FREE!The Full Moon will be out Tuesday, July 3rd and we are excited to announce another Full Moon Outing–one of a series of rides and picnics we will host this summer.
Be sure to wear light colors– like white or yellow– and, in honor of Fireflies, join us for a flight through the city to enjoy simple pleasures on a calm night. Though you should bring your own lights as well, we will pass out glow sticks so that everyone can shine like tiny stars and illuminate our path.
After meeting at the shop at 8pm, the moonlight will guide our brilliant swarm through the city. The ride will finish with a grand picnic and some musical surprises.
Please register here.
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