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Saturday, September 13
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Save Our African American Treasures
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Today, the museum shares its expertise to help you identify, protect, and preserve the treasures you have at home for future generations with the following sessions: • 20-minute sessions running 10 AM-12 Noon and 1-4 PM: Hometown Treasures: In 20-minute sessions with professional reviewers, participants may share what they know about their item and possibly learn more about its origins. Reservations are required for object review; e-mail rsvpnmaahc.si.edu or call 1-888-249-8033.
• 10-10:45 AM: Classroom I: Preserving Clothing and Textiles: In this session, professionals share tips on how to preserve your textiles.
• 11-11:45 AM: Classroom II: Books, Photographs, and Paper Documents: In this session, professionals share tips on how to preserve your books, photos, and other paper documents.
• 2-2:45 PM: Classroom III: What is Provenance?: In this session, learn about provenance -- how to establish the place of origin of your items and the records needed to authenticate them.
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
Location: Shiloh Baptist Church, 1510 9th St., NW
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| 9:45 AM-4:30 PM
2-Day Program: Connoisseurship and Collecting
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Expert appraisers introduce the principles used to recognize and evaluate high-quality objects and discuss how and when to choose an appraiser.
$125, general; $90, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center
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| 10 AM-3:45 PM
How to Downsize Your Home with Style
All-Day Lecture, with book signing |
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Lauri Ward, a longtime New York-based interior designer and pioneer in one-day redecorating, provides decorating strategies for making a new smaller home comfortable, functional, and elegant. Book signing follows.
$120, general; $85, members; call 202-633-3030
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Resident Associate Program
Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center
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| 11 AM-5 PM
Arts on Foot: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
Multimedia Festival |
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The National Portrait Gallery hosts a booth at the annual Arts on Foot street festival, offering a hands-on art activity and information on upcoming fall programming. This year marks the 16th anniversary of Arts on Foot -- a multimedia festival that kicks off the fall arts season in Downtown D.C.'s Penn Quarter -- featuring the visual arts, music, theater, dance, film, and creative cuisine.
Free; first come, first served
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National Portrait Gallery
Location: 7th and F Streets, NW (outside, rain or shine)
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| 11:30 AM & 1:30 PM
Alistair in Outer Space
Flights of Fancy -- Stories for Children with activity |
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Enjoy a reading of Alistair in Outer Space, written by Marilyn Sadler, then try your hand at an art activity.
Free
Repeats every Saturday in September
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National Air and Space Museum
Location: Space Race, 1st Floor, East Wing, Gallery 114
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| 2-4 PM
Jane Gardner Birch: They Flew Proud
Book Signing |
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Jane Gardner Birch signs copies of her book They Flew Proud.
Books available for sale in Museum Store
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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Outside Museum Store
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| 1 PM
More than Just a Game
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Historian C.R. Gibbs interviews Professor Robert E. Weems Jr. (University of Missouri) on some of the economic dynamics of the Negro Baseball Leagues. Professor Weems discusses how the Negro Leagues survived the Great Depression through the investment dollars of black gamblers and how African American migration to large northern cities during World War II, to pursue better employment opportunities, contributed to the subsequent desegregation of Major League baseball and the simultaneous decline and disappearance of the Negro Leagues. Weems also compares the histories of the Negro Baseball Leagues and African American insurance companies to graphically illustrate the overall impact of racial desegregation on the Negro Leagues and other historic black enterprises.
Free; but reservations required, call 202-633-4844
Related Exhibition: Separate and Unequaled (at the Historical Society of D.C.)
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Anacostia Community Museum
Location: 1901 Fort Place, SE
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Living in Many Worlds: Carnaval del Corazon
Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day |
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with an afternoon of craft-making and art activities, bomba y plena music and dance performances, storytelling, and bilingual tours. Children can play an art-inspired loteria (a Mexican game of chance similar to bingo) and make posters in the style of those in the exhibition Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1949-1989, on view at the S. Dillon Ripley Center.
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Special Smithsonian Sponsored
Location: American Art Museum, Kogod Courtyard
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| 2 PM
Meet Mital Shah
Lecture, with book signing |
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Relive with Mital Shah her six-month journey through South Africa and the formation of Well Souled, a company that intertwines travel, style, and purpose. Book signing follows.
Free; first come, first served
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National Museum of African Art
Location: Sublevel 1
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| 2 PM
Making Stoneware Jars in Northeast Thailand
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In rural northeast Thailand, potter Daniel Johnston spent two months making large jars and firing them in wood-burning kilns. He recounts his fascinating experiences in the village of Phon Bok and how he learned the local traditions of forming and firing jars.
Free; first come, first served
Related Exhibition: Taking Shape
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Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art
Location: Freer, Meyer Auditorium
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| 2-4 PM
William Stolzenburg: Where the Wild Things Were
Book Signing |
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William Stolzenburg signs copies of his book Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators.
Books available for sale in Museum Store
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National Museum of Natural History
Location: Outside Main Museum Store
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| 6 PM
The Emerson String Quartet
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The Emerson String Quartet, renowned internationally for its groundbreaking chamber music performances, consists of violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer (alternating in first chair position), violist Lawrence Dutton, and cellist David Finckel. This evening, they perform Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, Op. 74, No. 2; Dvorak's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 51; and Ravel's String Quartet in F Major.
$63, general admission; $51, member; call 202-633-3030
Continues in January
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Resident Associate Program
Location: Natural History, Baird Aud. (enter from Constitution Ave.)
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