Events This Week

Cell Phones: How Do They Affect the Brain? A Public Luncheon Briefing Hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science Through the Support of the Dana Foundation Wednesday, September 7, 12:00-1:30 p.m. B-338 Rayburn House Office Building RSVP: https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=CELL15E Seating is limited.

Today, mobile phones seem ubiquitous. But what effect do they have on the human brain? And how do we make decisions in areas where risk and uncertainty are involved? Join us as we discuss the state of the science. Featuring: Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health (NIH); Author, "Effects of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Signal Exposure on Brain Glucose Metabolism," Journal of the American Medical Association, 2011 George M. Gray, Ph.D., Director, Center for Risk Science and Public Health, and Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University

Moderated by Alan Leshner, Ph.D., CEO of AAAS. *** For questions, please contact Bethany Spencer at (202) 326-6601

AAAS is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. Since it was founded in 1848, AAAS has been dedicated to the advancement of scientific knowledge for the good of society as a whole.

The Dana Foundation is a private philanthropic organization that supports brain research through grants and educates the public about the successes and potential of brain research.

Make sure to check out our complimentary wine tastings and try out

our Pinot selection or some new wines with Rob from Bacchus. Salute!

ZWK

COMPLIMENTARY WINE TASTINGS

Join ZWK for happy hour and enjoy our weekly pick of amazing new wines paried with our artisanal cheeses. Zola Wine & Kitchen 505 Ninth Street NW

Wednesday, September 7, 5:00-7:00 p.m. ZWK Presents: Pinot Envy

Runaway White Pinot Blanc Mercer Pinot Gris Kali Hart Pinot Noir

Friday, September 9, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Try Some New Wines with Rob from Bacchus

Chemistry Cline Mourvedre Ros Block Nine Pinot Noir Vina Falernia Carmnre-Syrah

Transition in Tunisia: Analysis of the National Constituent Assembly Elections September 7, 10:00 a.m. International Foundation for Electoral Systems 1850 K Street NW, 5th Floor Washington, DC 20006 Light refreshments will be served. Space is limited. If you would like to attend this event, please contact Laura Osio at losio@ifes.org.

The country that ignited the Arab Spring will hold its National Constituent Assembly (NCA) elections on October 23.

According to a national survey conducted by IFES in May, at least eight out of ten Tunisians said they needed more information in key areas including: voter registration, participating political parties, candidates and campaigns, where and when to vote, voting procedures and vote counting. Is Tunisia ready? What are the main challenges facing the electoral commission as it prepares for the polls?

Please join us for a conversation featuring IFES elections expert Rafael Lopez-Pintor on these issues and more. LopezPintor spent two months in Tunisia this summer as an electoral expert for IFES.

This event will be moderated by Michael Svetlik, IFES Vice President of Programs.

The Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA) Hosts Experts for Panel Discussion of "Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats" September 7, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Murrow, White and Lisagor Rooms National Press Club 14th Street NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC 20045 Light fare will be served. RSVP: ciri.fenzel@CENSA.net

Panel discussion and Q&A session featuring national security experts:

Dr. Sebastian Gorka is Military Affairs Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and teaches at the National Defense University and Georgetowns Public Policy Institute. Dr. Frank Hoffman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University (NDU) where he also serves as Director of the NDU Press. Congressman Adam Smith is an 8th term Congressman representing Washingtons 9th District and the Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee. Dr. Robert Tomes is Director of Strategy and Plans at BAE Systems, Inc. and adjunct professor of security policy at The George Washington University. About CENSA The Council for Emerging National Security Affairs (CENSA), a leading non-partisan, non-profit research organization focused on national security policy, has most recently published Hybrid Warfare and Transnational Threats, which reinforces the organizations thought leadership on matters of national security. Hybrid Warfare contains hard hitting essays by national security luminaries, including those featured on the panel as well as Steven Biddle, Martin van Creveld, and up and coming professionals who examine the enormous national security implications of complex modern warfare.

Book Launch: Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself September 7, 4:00-5:30 p.m. 5th Floor Woodrow Wilson Center Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20004-3027 No RSVP listed

Speaker: Pamela Constable

From the book publisher: In Playing with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion to reveal the true face of modern Pakistan. . . . Constable takes us on a panoramic tour of contemporary Pakistan, exploring the fears and frustrations, dreams and beliefs, that animate the lives of ordinary citizens . . . From the opulent, insular salons of the elite to the brick quarries where soot-covered workers sell their kidneys to get out of debt, this is a haunting portrait of a society riven by inequality and corruption, and increasingly divided by competing versions of Islam.

About the speaker: Pamela Constable, a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 2010, serves as a South Asia correspondent for the Washington Post. She has been covering South Asia since 1999, and spent four years as the Posts bureau chief for the region, stationed in New Delhi and Kabul. Earlier, she spent nine years as the Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe, and served as journalist-in-residence at the Pew International Journalism Program at Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies. Constable is the author of the 2004 book Fragments of Grace: My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia, which reflects on her experiences covering South Asia.

Everything on GU's website is listed as being at "37th & O Streets NW" - It's close. Here's a crappy map: http://maps.georgetown.edu/

The BMW Center for German and European Studies and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Present Dr. Kurt Biedenkopf, Former Minister-President of Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany; Founding President, Dresden International University; Chairman of the Board, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin on "The Future of Europe and Its Global and Regional Responsibilities" Wednesday, September 7, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Georgetown University ICC CCAS Boardroom (Enter through ICC 241, boardroom is located down the stairs)

Lunch will be provided RSVP: http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/index.cfm?Action=View&EventID=3479

The Austtrian Cultural Forum in cooperation with the Office of Science and Technology present:

"Austria. Past, Present and Future" by Hannes Androsch book presentation and signing
Wednesday, September 7, 6:30 p.m. Embassy of Austria 3524 International Court NW Washington, DC 20008 Admission free. RSVP required: www.acfdc.org/eventsregistration or (202) 895-6776
Dr. Androsch will be available to sign copies of the book, cost for one book is USD $70, cash only please. Austria is no longer an "island of the blessed". It is time to reexamine the myths and opinions about this country. In this book, a team of noted scholars, experts and journalists take on the task of correcting the image of Austria and the Austrians. In the process they examine this countrys past and present, but also its future. This multifaceted book provides ample evidence that a love for Austria does not exclude criticism of it, that patriotism must not automatically mean glossing over the facts, and that it is essential to regularly

survey how Austria sees itself as well as how it is assessed by outsiders. With insightful essays and a wealth of carefully selected pictures, this deluxe edition provides an authoritative and comprehensive view of Austria. Hannes Androsch, born in Vienna in 1938, was minister of finance and vice-chancellor under Bruno Kreisky, directorgeneral of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein, and today is an industrialist. He is involved in many areas of public life and founded the non-profit "Hannes Androsch Foundation at the Austrian Academy of Sciences". Androsch is much in demand as commentator on current affairs as well as the publisher and author of numerous publications.

The Evolving Terrorist Threat and the Importance of Intelligence to Protect the Homeland Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:00 am to 5:15 pm Amphitheater Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC, 20004 RSVP email HS-CT@CSIS.org.

Agenda
7:00AM Registration, Continental Breakfast 8:00AM Welcome Fran Townsend, INSA Chairwoman Dr. John Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS 8:05AM Opening Keynote: The Importance of Intelligence to Protect the Homeland The Honorable Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security 8:35AM Introduction of CSIS Research paper - Confronting an Uncertain Threat: The Future of al Qaeda and Associated Movements Rick Ozzie Nelson, CSIS Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Program Thomas M. Sanderson, CSIS Transnational Threats Project moderated by the Honorable Juan Zarate, Senior Advisor, CSIS

9:15AM Panel: The Evolving Terrorist Threat Ambassador John Negroponte His Royal Highness Prince Turki Al-Faisal, moderated by Arnaud de Borchgrave, Director, CSIS Transnational Threats Project 10:15AM A View from the Hill Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) moderated by Kim Dozier, Associated Press 11:00AM Panel: Intelligence to Protect the Homeland and the Way Ahead John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Fran Townsend, INSA Chairwoman 12:15PM Lunch: Evolving Threats to the Homeland and the Role of Intelligence General Michael Hayden (Ret.), Principal, Chertoff Group Dr. John Hamre, President and CEO, CSIS 1:30PM Panel: Privacy and Security The Honorable Matthew Olsen, Director, National Counterterrorism Center The Honorable John Pistole, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration Cathy Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Suzanne Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group moderated by Jeanne Meserve, CNN 3:00PM Panel: Homeland Security Intelligence Analytic Tradecraft The Honorable Caryn Wagner, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security Eric Velez-Villar, Deputy Assistant Director, Directorate of Intelligence, FBI Phil Mudd, Senior Global Advisor, Oxford Analytica Dr. Mark Lowenthal, President and CEO, Intelligence & Security Academy moderated by Shane Harris, Washingtonian 4:15PM Concluding Remarks The Honorable James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence 5:15PM Wrap Up and Summary Fran Townsend, INSA Chairwoman

Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century: Continued Transformation Toward a Larger Role in the World?" Wednesday September 7, 8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Atlantic Council 1101 15th Street NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20005 RSVP: isp@acus.org or (202) 778-4968

The Atlantic Council is pleased to invite you to an all-day conference on Nordic-Baltic security, which will examine key strategic challenges for the countries of the Nordic-Baltic region, how to further strengthen regional cooperation, and how the region can play a larger role in transatlantic and global security. The Nordic-Baltic region has undergone a remarkable transformation since the end of the Cold War and the restoration of the Baltic states' independence twenty years ago. Today, the region is characterized by economic dynamism, deep EuroAtlantic integration, and robust stability. As we look to the next twenty years, increasing regional cooperation and integration offers the prospect of the region playing a much larger role in transatlantic and global security. This conference is the capstone event of the Council's Transatlantic Initiative on Nordic-Baltic Security, a year-long effort supported by Sweden's Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Initiative seeks to raise the level of debate on Nordic-Baltic security issues in Washington, as well as to provide actionable and policy relevant advice on how to further strengthen Nordic-Baltic cooperation on security and defense issues in a transatlantic and global context. A compendium of issue briefs on Nordic-Baltic security, covering a wide range of topics, will be released at the conference and several of the compendium authors will serve as conference panelists. Program 8:30 | Registration and coffee 9:00 | Welcome and Introduction 9:15 | The Regional Security Agenda: US Perspectives 10:00 | In Concert or Competition? NATO, the EU, and the Regional Security Agenda Panel Discussion moderated by Ian Brzezinski, Atlantic Council 11:15 | Coffee break 11:30 | Pillars of Security? Economics and Energy in the Nordic-Baltic Region Panel Discussion moderated by Fran Burwell, Atlantic Council 12:45 | Lunch 1:15 | Lunch Keynote Speech Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Former President of Latvia 2:00 | The Nordic-Baltic Region Meets the World: Should There Be a Global Agenda? Panel Discussion moderated by Robert Nurick, Atlantic Council 3:15 | Final keynote 3:45 | Farewell Featuring Vaira Vike-Freiberga Former President of Latvia Jim Townsend Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO US Department of Defense Jonas Hafstrom Ambassador to the United States Embassy of Sweden Frederick Kempe President and CEO Atlantic Council Per Augustsson Senior Fellow and Diplomat-in-Residence SAIS Ann-Sofie Dahl Associate Center for Political Studies Steve Flanagan Senior Vice President CSIS Imants Liegis Former Latvian Minister of Defense

Tomas Malmlof Policy Analyst Swedish Defense Research Agency Andris Spruds Lecturer Riga Stradins University Pekka Sutela Principal Advisor Bank of Finland Kurt Volker Senior Advisor Atlantic Council Damon Wilson Executive Vice President Atlantic Council

(202) 778-4968.

"The Path to 9/11" documentary Wednesday, September 7, 1:00-6:00 p.m. Allison Auditorium Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington DC 20002-4999 Register: http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/09/Path-to-9-11

THE YEARS THAT LED UP TO IT. EVERYTHING THAT MIGHT HAVE PREVENTED IT.

Written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh, THE PATH TO 9/11 a docudrama sprawling across eight and a half years, four continents, and multiple terrorist attacks generated great controversy when it originally aired in 2006. Yet, it achieved phenomenal rating numbers, drawing 28 million viewers. Join us for a special screening of THE PATH TO 9/11 and examine once more the courage and cowardice, the insight and oversight, the politics and players, and the heroes and the terrorists as they all collided on their paths to 9/11. The docudrama in its entirety runs four hours and thirty-six minutes.
1:00 p.m. Episode 1 (161 minutes) ~ Intermission ~ 4:00 p.m. Episode 2 (115 minutes)

Hosted by: Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D. , Vice President, Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, and Director, The Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

STORE HOURS | MON - SAT 11AM-7PM | SUN 12PM-5PM | If you have trouble reading this email, go to http://www.muleh.com/_email/20110906.html

On September 8, 2011, Fashion's Night Out Transforms Georgetown into a Fashion Playground with Over 90 Epic Style Celebrations!

GET READY! FNO Georgetown DC is coming back - bigger and better than ever! Fashion's Night Out 2011 features exciting events at over 90 stores, restaurants and salons, and is presented by the Georgetown Business Improvement District, who, along with the 2011 Fashions Night Out Host Committee, is proud to bring this exciting global event to DC! From cocktails and music to trunk shows and exclusive style events, FNO Georgetown offers over 90 ways to shop, play and celebrate style! Shop and celebrate fashion and style at over 90 stores, restaurants and salons throughout Georgetown! Aerosoles 1214 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-9:00 p.m. Come enjoy $10 off any purchase of $75 or more and enter to win a free pair of shoes! (Cannot be combined with any other offer/promotion. No purchase necessary to enter). View the latest Fall fashion dress lines, enjoy massages, wine, and champagne, along with FNO photo-taking throughout the night.

Affairs The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

ALDO Shoes 3237 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Alessi DC 3319A Cady's Alley NW

Celebrate with Aldo on our first FNO! Receive a gift with a $50.00 or more purchase. Join us for our first FNO, and shop for that perfect home accessory as you enjoy

6:30-9:00 p.m.

refreshments.

All Saints 3235 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. American Apparel 3025 M Street NW 6:00-10:00 p.m. Annie Creamcheese 3279 M Street NW 6:00-?

Enjoy music, makeovers and styling, food, and refreshments.

Enjoy light snacks and refreshments; enter to win American Apparel gift cards!

All day, events begin at 6:00 p.m. Check out Annie Creamcheese's special FNO sale, dancers, models and music.

Anthropologie 3222 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Appalachian Spring 1415 Wisconsin Avenue NW 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Join us in celebrating Fashion's Night Out with a special evening of personal shopping and one-on-one styling. "Express Yourself." Meet author and style expert Amy E. Goodman who will be on hand to sign her book, Wear this, Toss That and give advice on expressing your personal style with Appalachian Spring's unique handcrafted scarves, bags and jewelry. The evening will include a trunk show of jewelry designer Anna Balkan who celebrates the unique strength of feminine beauty. Come meet Ismail Tekin, DC's top hair stylist and Carl Ray, the celebrity make-up artist from the Four Seasons Salon, who will be on hand to consult on the latest trends and styles in hair and make-up.

Babette 3307 Cady's Alley NW 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Barbour Georgetown 3221 M Street NW BCBG 3210 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Betsey Johnson 3029 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Come Celebrate FNO with Us!

See what's in store for Fall with 20% off regular price merchandise, a gift with purhcase and hors d'oeuvres and champagne. Come celebrate Fashion's Night Out with your favorite Betsey gals! Join us for a Candyland party featuring sweets by National Confectioner's Association, cocktails by Potomac Wine and Spirits, live models and a chance to win your very own Betsey tote!! Be there! Join us to celebrate our 12th anniversary! Enjoy complimentary makeup and skin care consultations from top brands like Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown, Dermalogica, and ReVive. Meet with our very own Lance Etchison, named Washington's Best Eyebrow Wax 2011 by Washingtonian magazine, for an eyebrow and skin care consultation. Receive our exclusive anniversary gift with

bluemercury 3059 M Street NW 6:00-9:30 p.m.

the purchase of $100. Champagne and sweet treats will be served. Bogart Salon 1063 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-10:00 p.m. Calvin Klein Underwear 3207 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Join Bogart's hair and makeup stylists as we showcase fall fashion beauty looks and techniques with Rugby. Visit our new store during Fashion's Night Out and receive product discounts, complimetary bra fittings, refreshments and more! "Charm-ing Night Out!" Enjoy 10% off purchases of $100 or more and enjoy champagne and other refreshments. "Go, Get, Do Fall!" Enjoy a 15% off your entire purchase on FNO, a raffle, and food and drinks. Groove to the tunes of DJ Leo and enjoy Georgetown Cupcakes! From 8:00-10:00 p.m., partake in our glam photo shoot with photographer Walter Grio of Shoot for Change, and get your FNO pic available later online. Gift with purchase. Come celebrate the party of the year with the Georgetown Angels: Kassie Rempel of Simply Soles, Heidi Kallett of The Dandelion Patch and Stephanie Fornash Kennedy of Fornash along with Andrea Rogers. Sip on Skinny Girl Cocktails, nibble on sugary treats, indulge in champagne and enjoy a wine tasting. 20% off regular priced items and enter the Angels raffle! Experience art meets fashion, with live models in VIVANT TABLEUX or LIVING PICTURES interacting with high end design objects, and fine art and antiques, creating a unique and quirky fashion statement. Join us as we celebrate the designs of Paul Smith for Maharam with an exhibit, bubbly, and light snacks. View an interactive presentation about Maharam textiles' design and history from designers such as Ray Eames, Alexander Girard and Hella Jongerious. "Diamond Designs Presents: The Style of Washington" designer appearance, merchandise discount, food, refreshments.

Charm 2910 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. City Sports Georgetown 3338 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

CUSP 3030 M Street NW 6:00-10:00 p.m.

The Dandelion Patch The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Darrell Dean Antiques 1524 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-? p.m.

Design Within Reach 3307 Cady's Alley NW 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Diamond Designs of Georgetown The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 8:00 p.m.-?

Diesel 3033 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Come join us at Diesel for food, wine and spirits. While you shop, our associates will style you in the hottest denim fit. Meet DJ Samy K from HOT 99.5.

Easel Hair

Hair styling and makeovers at Urban Chic.

1616 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. For Your Home 1669 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Fornash The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 7:00-10:00 p.m. Jewlery Trunk Show. Jewelry will be 50% off during FNO. Introducing a new jewlry line from Turkey. Enjoy refreshments and a trunk show in the garden. Come celebrate the party of the year with the Georgetown Angels: Kassie Rempel of Simply Soles, Heidi Kallett of The Dandelion Patch and Stephanie Fornash Kennedy of Fornash along with Andrea Rogers of AskMissA.com. Sip on Skinny Girl Cocktails, nibble on sugary treats, indulge in champagne and enjoy a wine tasting. 20% off regular priced items and enter the Angels raffle! Spend $100, Get 25% off your entire purchase on FNO! Offer valid on September 8, 2011 at Gap stores in the U.S. Not valid at Gap Kids, Baby Gap, Gap Outlet, Gap Factory Store, The Gap Generaltion or online. See store for full rules and details. "Get Hitched in Georgetown" bridal package giveaway on FNO! Join us as we embark upon a new fashion season! In celebration of Fashion's Night Out, for one night only, our spring/summer 2011 collection will be 80% off at Hu's Wear and Hu's Shoes. Guests will also receive a rare opportunity to explore vintage pieces from the treasure trove that is the Hu's Wear and Hu's Shoes archive! Please join us to shop the sale, preview the fall collections and immerse yourself in DC fashion!

The Gap 1258 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:30-11:00 p.m.

Hitched 1523 Wisconsin Avenue NW Hu's Shoes 3005 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Hu's Wear 2906 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Join us as we embark upon a new fashion season! In celebration of Fashion's Night Out, for one night only, our spring/summer 2011 collection will be 80% off at Hu's Wear and Hu's Shoes. Guests will also receive a rare opportunity to explore vintage pieces from the treasure trove that is the Hu's Wear and Hu's Shoes archive! Please join us to shop the sale, preview the fall collections and immerse yourself in DC fashion! "Cocktails, Collars and Cuffs." Hugh and Crye will host an evening for the gentleman who dresses up without occasion, for the love of a look as crisp as the cocktail he sips. Join us for a gift with purchase, music and refreshments at our new location. Join us for hair styling and blow out tips, including a hydration area by Smartwater. "Intermix Toasts Fashion's Night Out" with food, refreshments, and the best of fall fashion styling

Hugh & Crye 3212 O Street NW, #5 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Ilo 1637 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Intermix The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW

7:00-10:00 p.m.

IPSA for Hair 1629 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-10:00 p.m. Isabelle's OKYO 2903 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Oribe blow-outs, drinks, appetizers and product discounts.

"ISABELLE"S OKYO Red Carpet Event" Introducing Didier's new fall and winter collection, 20% off products and refreshments.

J. Crew The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. J. McLaughlin 3278 M Street NW Jaryam 1631 Wisconsin Avenue NW 7:00-9:00 p.m. Jewelers' Werk Gallerie 3319 Cady's Alley NW 6:00-9:00 p.m.

J. Crew personal shoppers will be available for styling; gift with purchase.

Come Celebrate FNO with Us! European Fashion Houses Isabel de Pedro and Sunlight will have trunk shows.

Join us on FNO for 10% off all purchases from our collection of avant-garde, international, contemporary artisan jewelry. Juicy Couture celebrates Fashion's Night Out! Stop by Juicey for Viva La Juicy fragrance sampling, treats and 20 % off full priced merchandise. Join us for FNO!

Juicy Couture 3034 M Street NW 6:00-9:00 p.m. Karen Millen 1259 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Kate Spade 3061 M Street NW 6:00-10:00 p.m.

"Understated is Overrated" Join us on FNO for sips and snacks, and enter to win a $250 gift card and a shopping party with up to 20 friends. 'Kiehl's Karnival' Join us for a carnival themed night of festivities at Kiehl's Georgetown, featuring DJ Sterofaith, signature cocktails by X-Rated Fusion Liqueur, games, prizes, raffles, samples and shopping discounts galore! "My LACOSTE Legacy" Bring in a photo of yourself wearing a new LACOSTE outfit that resembles an old photograph of family, friends or advertisments displaying the LACOSTE brand and receive 20% off your purchase. TWEET your legacy photo and you could win a $500 Lacoste gift card! *See rules in-store. Going Out Lost Boys Style: The Lost Art of the Pre-Game - Lost Boys transforms into an

Kiehl's 3110 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Lacoste 3146 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Lost Boys 1033 31st Street NW

6:00-11:00 p.m.

old fashioned haberdashery for the gents on FNO! Enjoy Traditional Straight Razor Shaves, Old Fashioned Shoe Shines, Limited Edition Fashion Collection Debut, and a Barber Shop Quartet. From 6 - 9 pm, partake in Chivas Scotch classes featuring Master Blender, Craig Vaught. C'est la Vie en Lou Lou! Spend the evening in Paris with Lou Lou on FNO, featuring La Vie Parisienne jewelry designs rendered from original French jewelry of the 1900s. Wine and light hors d'oeuvres will be served. Join us a Lucky on FNO! Refreshments and special treats in store. Watch our yogis doing poses and performances in our M Street windows, and get snapped at our photo booth! Get ready to boogie with the ladies of Lush Georgetown. We'll be getting down all night as we transform the shop into a roller discocomplete with girls on skates! We'll also be providing funky foot and hand treatments. Join us for a 70's themed fall fashion party, celebrating one of fall's hot trends. Meet The Post's Fashion Washington assistant editor, Katherine Boyle, from 8:30-9:30 pm. Celebrate Fashion's Night Out at Madewell! Snack, sip, and score a limited-edition, dotted denim tote (with purchase of $150 or more; while suppliles last). Shop a hand-picked selection of vintage finds from our favorite local spots - Pretty People Vintage and Treasury. Enjoy wine and treats, and a special DJ music mix created specially for FNO. Enter to win a Michael Kors handbag! Garden beauty party. Refreshments, skin consultations and mini-treatments; megaprize drawings and fabulous gifts! Also visit us at our touch up bar at the BYT Lounge at Dean & DeLuca. Come and celebrate O Salon's new home with a fashion show starting at 7:30 p.m. and receive free makeup touch-ups from from L'Oreal Professional. Come by the Pedini showroom for refreshments and to see the latest in Italian kitchen design. Join us for a trunk show with Hobo International featuring a large selection of Hobo bags available for purchase as well as samples from their fall collection that will be available for advanced ordering. Come Celebrate FNO with us at our new

Lou Lou 1304 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Lucky Brand Jeans 3273 M Street, NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Lululemon Athletica Georgetown 3265 M Street NW 8:00-11:00 p.m. Lush 3066 M Street NW 5:00-11:00 p.m. M29 Lifestyle 2800 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Madewell 1237 Wisconsin Avenue NW

Michael Kors 3103 M Street NW Nectar Skin Bar 1633 Wisconsin Avenue NW 7:00-10:00 p.m. O Salon 3212 O Street NW 7:30 p.m.-?

Pedini 3340 Cady's Alley NW 6:90-9:00 p.m. The Phoenix 1514 Wisconsin Avenue NW

Rag & Bone

3607 M Street NW 6:00-9:00 p.m. Ralph Lauren 1247 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Georgetown store!

Ralph Lauren invites you for a festive evening of champagne and shopping to celebrate the global return of Fashion's Night Out. Join us for a fall fashion hair and makeup party, with drinks, treats and swag bags! Join us for the best of fall fashion with models dolled up by Bogart Salon.

Roche Salon 3000 K Street NW Rugby 1065 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Riccardi & Sports The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Second Time Around 3289 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Simply Soles The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Special sale and one-of-a-kind men's fashion, new Fall lines from Europe, Italian ties and shirts. 20% off new arrivals! 70% off summer and many other discounts on items throughout the store! Refreshments will be served! Come celebrate the party of the year with the Georgetown Angels: Kassie Rempel of Simply Soles, Heidi Kallett of The Dandelion Patch and Stephanie Fornash Kennedy of Fornash along with Andrea Rogers of Ask Miss A. Sip on Skinny Girl Cocktails, nibble on sugary treats, indulge in champagne and enjoy a wine tasting. 20% off regular priced items and enter the Angels raffle! Chic, Trendy & SISLEY! A night for chic and trendy fashions with a small Fall 2011 preview show. A make up artist and fashion stylist will be available for free consultations. Enjoy a sneak preview of J.W. Hulme's fall 2011 line of business and travel accessories! Giveaways all night from J.W. Hulme, Swaine Adeney, Penhalligon's and Korchmar at one the newest stores in Georgetown! Sip on Pimm's Cups as you peruse Sterling & Burke Ltd's unique collections of leather goods and gifts. Come celebrate the fashion of Steve Madden with a DJ, fun promotions and a free gift with purchase of $100 or more* while supplies last. TARI and Art Soiree invite you to join us as we bring the elegance and glam of Italia to FNO! Stop by for a taste of Roma and Milano. Drink Lambrusco, nibble on prosciutto and mozzarella and listen to Sanremo. Showcasing fashions by Gucci, Zegna, Valentino and more as well as the new 2012 Lamborghini Aventador. Later in the evenint, meet ProjectBeltway.com's Rachel Cothran, part of our FNO Host Committee, as she helps you shop for vintage designer

Sisley The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 8:00 p.m.-? Sterling & Burke 2824 Pennsylvania Avenue NW 6:00-10:00 p.m.

Steve Madden 3109 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

TARI 1525 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00 p.m.-12:00 a.m.

fashion! Total Party The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. True Religion 3225 M Street NW 6:00-9:00 p.m. 1st annual trunk/sample sale. 30% off all sample one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes and accessories. Thru Sept. 11th. Visit True Religion Brand Jeans during Fashion's Night Out and receive an exclusive gift with any purchase.* Enjoy refreshments as you shop our new fall collection. Plus, the latest must-have of the season will be unveiled - The Casey Legging in a variety of new colors. 10% of ALL Fashion's Night Out sales will be donated to The New York City Aids Fund of The New York Community Trust. *While supplies last. Come to UGG Australia to enjoy champagne and hors d'oeuvres. Receive a free UGG tote with purchase! "COLORS"a night of discounts, makeovers/stylists, great music, refreshments and of course COLORS! Makeup artist, men's grooming specialist and fashion stylist will be available for free consultations! "Shoshanna Pop-Up Shop Grand Opening" Urban Chic presents a Shoshanna pop-up shop! Be the first to shop the expansive selection 15% off. Enjoy specialty cocktails and treats from Freshii and salon make-overs by Easel. Join us for 'fashion jeopardy' and the chance to win amazing prizes! Meet Kate Michael, resident local fashionista, of KStreetKate! Free expert bra fittings, refreshments and gifts with any purchase.

Ugg Australia 1249 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. United Colors of Benetton 1200 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00 p.m. -? Urban Chic 1626 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

Victoria's Secret The Shops at Georgetown Park 3222 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m. Vineyard Vines 1225 Wisconsin Avenue NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

"Evening in Newport", an evening of New England-style spirits and hors d'oeuvres as you browse the new fall collection inspired by Newport, Rhode Island. First 50 shoppers will receive a free gift with any purchase; enter to win a raffle. Fashions Night Out at The Walking Company is all about the boots UGG Boots. Enjoy treats and see the latest for fall from UGG Australia and enter to win a pair of classics from UGG Australia. Free gift with purchase.

The Walking Company 3101 M Street NW 6:00-11:00 p.m.

"Designer Sidewalk Sale." Cynthia Rowley, Wedding Creations & Anthony's Tuxedos Lela Rose, Dessy, Watters & Watters marked 3237 P Street NW down and ready to make an appearannce in 10:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m. your closet! Wink 3109 M Street NW 6:00-9:00 p.m. Receive a gift with purchase and stop in to see the latest for fall from DVF, Vince, J Brand, Wren, Myne and Tucker.

Shop for a cause - purchase a $10 signature Georgetown DC eco-friendly tote bag and $15 t-shirt from participating stores or at the BYT Lounge at Dean & DeLuca. 100% of proceeds benefit Labels for Love. Labels for Love is committed to raising funds and awareness for women's and children's organizations in the Washington, DC Capital Region as well as national and international areas in need. Shop and Ride - Enjoy free (and stylish) pedicab rides when you show a receipt from any purchase from a participating Georgetown merchant during this exciting evening. Look for the FNO Georgetown Hot Air Balloon hovering high above the neighborhood, signaling that Georgetown is the place to be for the evening. Be on the lookout for roaming dancers rockin the streets of Georgetown and the FNO Fashion Flash Mob at the PNC Bank parking lot (at M St. and Wisconsin Avenue) at 7 p.m. - feel free to join in! Watch 50 lucky couples compete for their dream wedding at the "Get Hitched in Georgetown" competition. Couples will compete to win the ultimate Georgetown wedding package compliments of 20 Georgetown merchants - including a designer wedding gown, tiered cake, five-star wedding suite, invitations and even a waterfront reception - in what will be an unforgettable showdown. Couples will compete in several entertaining, must-watch activities in the TD Bank lot (1611 Wisconsin Avenue) at 8:30 p.m. Dance, sip and refuel between fashion events at the swanky BYT Lounge at Dean & DeLuca ~ a comfy (and chic) place to rest your weary feet. Brightest Young Things is hosting this funky and fashionable lounge complete with wine tastings, "flower power" accessory making and an FNO photo shoot wall for glam photo ops. 6 -11 pm Dean & DeLuca 3267 M Street, NW. Grab a Washington Post DC Scout "Scout Book" - your ultimate guide to Georgetowns scouted boutiques. Books will be distributed throughout Georgetown. Visit DC Scouts participating stores for special gifts with purchases and other exciting promotions. Step into the FotoDC FNO FotoBooth for a snapshot and see your 10x14 portrait projected onto the PNC Bank building and enjoy a free take away photo. Refuel, refresh and recharge at select smartwater hydration spots, including Ilo Salon, PNC Bank lot, pedicab pickup stops and other retail sites throughout Georgetown.

TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11 (August 23-September 30) Opening Reception September 8, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Pepco Edison Place Gallery 702 8th Street NW (202) 872-3396

Michael B Platt The Journey

"Ten Years After 9/11" is an exhibition featuring the work of thirty-nine international artists commemorating the tenth anniversary of the event of September 11, 2001.

Co-curators Helen Frederick and William Dunlap were determined to create a venue for artists to show work made in response to and in the wake of the cataclysmic events of 9/11. "It's not that artists were any more or less effected by the events of 9/11 than anyone else," says William Dunlap. "The difference is that they respond by making concrete objects that want to be seen." As Frederick and Dunlap explain, they curated the artists not specific artworks. In that light, "Ten Years After 9/11" gives voice to artists from Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Russia, Ireland, Germany and the United States, each bringing their personal perspectives and unique viewpoints to the cultural conversation. According to Frederick the exhibition explores how a rupture has been recorded, filtered, transformed and translated into powerful works of art over the past ten years. "Ten Years After 9/11" opens to the public on August 23rd with a reception Thursday September 8, 7:00-9:00 p.m. at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 702 Eighth Street, NW. On September 11 at 4 p.m. Kurt Steger's Burden Boat Project will engage the public in a water-cleansing ceremony in the Kogod Courtyard between the National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 750 9th Street, NW. Recording /Responding to Loss and Recovery, a special panel discussion with participating artists moderated by Helen Frederick, takes place at The Pepco Edison Place Gallery on Tuesday September 13, 6-8 p.m.

Kurt Steger Burden Boat WDC

The artists invited to exhibit are: Saadi Al Kaabi, Ahmed Alkarkhi, Shahla Arbabi, Ken Ashton, Billy Colbert, Combat Papermakers/Drew Cameron, Brian Counihan, Frank Hallam Day, Joan Danziger, Alexander Djikia, Bill Dunlap, William Dunlap, Michael D. Fay, Helen Frederick, Chawky Frenn, Ann Glover, Alison Hall, Pinkney Herbert, Victor Juhasz, Jeffrey Kent, Bridget Sue Lambert, Adam Lister, Despina Meimaroglou, Michael Pestel, Matt Pinney, Michael B. Platt, Phyllis Plattner, Annette Polan, Raoul Middleman, David Richardson, Patrick Sargent, Brian Sentman, Peter Sowiski, Kurt Steger, Erwin Thamm, Leonid Tishkov, Sean Watkins, Sue Wrbican, Workingman's Collective.
Edison Place Gallery is Pepco Holdings, Inc. space dedicated to non-profit arts organizations. Our mission is to sponsor diverse, high quality exhibitions on behalf of the community we serve.

FASHION'S NIGHT OUT @ REDEEM

This Thursday, September 8, Local Designer and hometown hero Mauro Farinelli of Wolf vs. Goat joins Redeem for Fashion's Night Out, offering made-to-measure shirt and suiting services from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m.

Plus, shop our brand new Fall arrivals from Kai-aakmann, Religion, Something Else, Thvm, Feral Childe, and Comune.

Light fare provided by The Queen Vic. Come by, have a drink, shop late.

Redeem 1734 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20009

Fall Offerings Here and Now...

Something Else

Kai-aakmann

Religion

Thvm

Coming Soon: Buckler

With a self-described "English bloke meets New York" aestethic, designer Andrew Buckler combines the best of the roguish American icon with a bit of British edge. We love his sleek lines and flair for understated drama and are pleased to welcome him to the brand line-up. Buckler will be arriving at Redeem later this month.

COMPLIMENTARY WINE TASTING

Join us at Potenza for a weekly tasting and enjoy a variety of amazing new wines, paired with our artisanal cheeses.

Potenza Wine 15th & H Streets NW Thursday, September 8, 5:00-7:00 p.m. A Mysterious Past: Cameron Hughess Prestigious Wines from Top Secret Sources

Flying Winemaker Santa Barbara Chardonnay Lot 169 Napa Merlot Lot 74 Napa Cabernet 'Oak Knoll District'

WINE SPECIAL

Save 10% on all Cameron Hughes Selections!

An invitation to efFUSIONS Sculptures and paintings by Danielle Bensky THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 AT 6:00 PM
Dear Friends of La Maison Franaise, On Thursday, September 8 at 6p.m., La Maison Franaise will host the vernissage of efFUSIONS: Sculptures and paintings by local French artist Danielle Bensky. Ms. Bensky attended the School of Fine Arts in Rouen, France and the Corcoran School of art in Washinton. She has already exhibited her works at the UNESCO in Paris, as well as galleries in Paris, Geneva, London and D.C. She has received commissions from the NIH, HRH, Columbia Hospital, NRC and Georgetown University's Lauinger Library.

WHAT: efFUSIONS: Sculptures and paintings by Danielle Bensky Vernissage (exhibit opening, wine & cheese reception with the artist) WHEN: Thursday, September 8 at 6:00 p.m. WHERE: La Maison Franaise Embassy of France - 4101 Reservoir Road NW ADMISSION: Free - reservation required RESERVATIONS: http://vernissage28sept2011.eventbrite.com/

We look forward to welcoming you to La Maison Franaise! Please take the time to scroll down and discover some of the other upcoming cultural events at the Embassy of France. Warm regards, Roland Celette Cultural Attach | Director of La Maison Franaise

www.HouseofFranceDC.org

-----------------------------------------About Danielle Bensky's work -----------------------------------------'Life-Force Struggle' Words by Michele Sarde In Danielle Benskys sculpture, life forces are at work through a ceaseless struggle to transcend limits. Its a struggle to reach upwards, refusing to admit the degradation of physical reality, an intrinsic assertion of our humanity, not against nature but joining her in the effort. Contrary to so many contemporary works of art haunted by darkness and destruction, these forms create joy, alleviate despair and show the finest of human qualities: spirit and flesh conjoined in a thrust towards an inner freedom bringing all else in its wake. The quintessentially human tends to express itself more and more in our time through the feminine, no longer woman-as-object, transformed and sometimes disfigured by men, but woman creating, who delights in contemplating her own ascending dream, and who, unlike Narcissus, looks into a moving mirror, a mirror moving with the world itself. It is this very woman that Danielle Bensky plucks out from the toughness of matter and for whom she dreams up a fragile yet harmonious equilibrium always reaching above eye-level. In the transition from sculpture to painting, we see not only an exploration of new resources involving color but above all the deployment within just two dimensions of an infinitely virtual space. This is reflective of the mental trajectory of our artist who needs to imagine a universe with fluid boundaries, a limitless spatiality consonant with immeasurable anguish in the face of chaos, a chaos which must be exorcised. An open secret haunts these painterly works whose paradigmatic themes, whether eye, knot, abyss, origin or matrix, are now revealed, now dissolved, now fractured, in a giddying back and forth, a spinning around, transpiercing and commanding artistic energies. This inner tsunami which deploys the uncontrolled surging of the wave its powers of destruction yet also shows the upending of space when it recedes, irresistibly evokes the idea of revolution: revolution in all its solar and lunar cycles, whether in nature or in historical space. From within the encompassing mystery of matter, this labyrinth of shadow and light, this encroaching threat merely evoked rather than demonstrated, Benskys work manages to show the way out. We thus are witness to the sublimation of the core experience of the artist and its metamorphosis.

The Rhythm Road: Oscar Williams, Jr. and the Band of Life and Kate McGarry Quartet September 8, 6:00 and 7:15 p.m. Grosvenor Auditorium National Geographic 1600 M Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Free For this prestigious series, Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. State Department have collaborated to produce a tour featuring top performers of jazz, urban, and roots music. The performers were selected from applicants from around the country to represent American music and culture at venues overseas. Dont miss this chance to hear some of the countrys finest musicians in advance of their tours abroad. 6:00 p.m. - Kate McGarry Quartet, featuring GRAMMY Award nominee McGarry, offers a bold and cohesive sound that takes traditional jazz in a thrilling new direction. 7:15 p.m. - Award-winning gospel from Oscar Williams, Jr. and the Band of Life combines an array of talents and styles that merge into a cutting-edge melodic sound.

The Kate McGarry Quartet

Oscar Williams, Jr. and the Band of Life

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Discussion with ISPU Fellow Zahra Jamal Please join the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and the Charity and Security Network for a roundtable featuring ISPU Fellow Zahra Jamal discussing her latest publication, "Charitable Giving among Muslim Americans: Ten Years after 9/11." Since 2001, Muslim nonprofits and individuals have come under increasing scrutiny as the American government bolsters its national security measures on transparent and accountable giving. The results are producing major shifts in the giving practices of American Muslims.

When: September 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m. Where: 1225 Eye Street NW, Suite 307 (the big conference room)

Other Speakers:

Suhail A. Khan, Chairman of the Conservative Inclusion Coalition and Member of the Board of the American Conservative Union Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington Legislative Office Kay Guinane, Director of the Charity and Security Network

Coffee and light breakfast will be served. Register Now!

Contact: Siwar Bizri Institute for Social Policy and Understanding sbizri@ispu.org (202) 741-6395

"The Great Recession and Import Protection: The Role of Temporary Trade Barriers" Thursday, September 8, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Light refreshments will be served Auditorium J1-050 World Bank J Building 18th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 RSVP infoshopevents@worldbank.org

For more information, see attached announcement or visit http://worldbank.org/infoshop/events

TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11:

THE CHANGING TERRORIST THREAT

American University Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016

September 2011

Ten years after the tragic events of September 11, the United States' national security landscape continues to evolve. To counter the rapidly changing domestic, international, and non-state actor threats faced by the nation, the national security law community must be constantly looking forward to what the country might face next. Please join the Program on Law & Government and the American University National Security Law Brief for what is sure to be a thought-provoking discussion.

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REGISTER NOW

12:00pm-1:00pm: Keynote Speaker MICHAEL LEITER, Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (from 2007-2011)

1:00pm-2:30pm: Combating the Ever-Changing Terrorist Threat: Legal & Policy Issues Panelists: LISA MONACO, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, Department of Justice IVAN FONG, General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security PROFESSOR KENNETH ANDERSON, American University Washington College of Law PROFESSOR STEPHEN VLADECK, American University Washington College of Law

Moderator: PROFESSOR DANIEL MARCUS, American University Washington College of Law

Buffet lunch to be served.

The Honor of Your Presence is Requested

by The Federation of Friends of the DC Public Library and Books Plus Bookstore at A Special Preview of the Annual Citywide Fall Book Sale Thursday, September 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. The Great Hall Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library 901 G Street NW Music, complimentary libations and hors doeuvres Remarks by special guest Council Member Tommy Wells New Chair of the DC Council Committee on Libraries This Preview Event is open only to Friends of the DC Public Library and their friends. (Friends may join or renew at the door.)
RSVP appreciated by Tuesday, September 6 (202) 431-9254 or robinsdiener@gmail.com

A Reception Exclusively for WPA Artists at the Residence of the Ambassador of the Netherlands in Washington, DC Thursday, September 8, 2011

6:00-8:00 p.m.

WPA Artists have received a special invitation to meet the 10 artists from Aruba featured in the Microcosm exhibition that will be opening at the Residence of the Ambassador of the Netherlands. The exhibition, curated by Laura Roulet, Gijs Stork, and Renwick Heronimo, is in celebration of Aruba's 25th Anniversary as an independent island nation within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

The reception, exclusively for WPA member artists, represents part of an ongoing effort by the Dutch government to foster communication and exchange among artist initiatives between the Dutch Caribbean, the mid-Atlantic region, and the Netherlands.

To assure that as many artists as possible may have this opportunity, WPA cannot accommodate spouses, significant others, or friends on the guest list.

To RSVP, please email Liz Georges at lgeorges@wpadc.org no later than 10am, Tuesday, September 6

Artists wishing to attend the reception MUST RSVP in order to be placed on the guest list. No one will be admitted who is not on the guest list. Space is limited and reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis. All confirmed guests will receive an email with the reception address on Tuesday.

Above image: Elisa LeJuez, Micro Macro, 2011, mixed media collage, 9 x 60 inches.

Fashion's Night Out September 8, 4:00-7:00 p.m. Saks Fifth Avenue Tysons Galleria McLean VA 22102 RSVP: (703) 269-1206 Once a year, the entire fashion world goes out for a nationwide late night of style, makeovers, music and more. Join Saks Fifth Avenue Tysons Galleria, DC magazine, March of Dimes, the Office of Minority Health and A Healthy Baby Begins with You celebrity spokeswomen Tonya Lewis Lee to celebrate the beauty of healthy living.

Shop the newest fall collections and bid on unique experiences and rare items. Saks Fifth Avenue is proud to donate 10% of the evening sales and all auction proceeds to March of Dimes. Sample gourmet goodies as top chefs prepare folate-filled food live.

Warning: in case you could not figure it out by the talk's title, the three groups sponsoring this, as well as Graham, are HUGE war-mongering neo-cons. I advocate showing up with big "Ron Paul 2012" buttons on!

You are cordially invited to a Defending Defense series event hosted by the American Enterprise Institute, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, September 8th.

Defending Defense: Defense Spending and the Super Committee

Thursday, September 8 B-339 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 12:15 p.m. Registration and lunch 12:30 p.m. Introduction and remarks: Thomas Donnelly, American Enterprise Institute Mackenzie Eaglen, The Heritage Foundation William Kristol, The Weekly Standard and Foreign Policy Initiative Speakers (with remarks to be followed by Q & A): Senator Lindsey Graham Senator Jon Kyl* Representative Randy Forbes Representative Duncan Hunter Representative Allen West 2:00 PM Adjournment

Click here to RSVP

For media inquiries, please contact Rachael Johnson at RJohnson@foreignpolicyi.org, 202-296-3322.

With the deficit-reduction Super Committee deliberations approaching, and the prospect of deeper and more damaging cuts to defense spending in sight, Defending Defense brings together Senators Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl* and Representatives Randy Forbes, Duncan Hunter, and Allen West for a discussion of U.S. defense spending and Americas global commitments. *Attendance is contingent on the meeting schedule of the deficit-reduction Super Committee

About Defending Defense

Defending Defense is a coalition effort between the American Enterprise Institute, the Foreign Policy Initiative, and The Heritage Foundation to promote a sound understanding of the U.S. defense budget and the resource requirements necessary to sustain Americas preeminent military position in a dangerous world. Most recently, Defending Defense issued a primer on the prospects for and consequences of a hollow force in light of military spending cuts. Defending Defense has also produced a primer on Chinas military build-up and its implications for U.S. defense spending. This followed the first Defending Defense joint brief, which was designed to separate myth from fact in the current defense spending debate. About the Foreign Policy Initiative FPI is a non-profit, non-partisan, tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. FPI seeks to promote an active U.S. foreign policy committed to robust support for democratic allies, human rights, a strong American military equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century, and strengthening America's global economic competitiveness. The organization was founded in 2009 and is led by Executive Director Jamie Fly. FPIs Board of Directors consists of Eric Edelman, Robert Kagan, William Kristol, and Dan Senor. Visit our website at www.foreignpolicyi.org for more information.

Belarus Political Prospects: A Panel Discussion with Tribute to Vitali Silitsky Thursday, September 8, 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Basement Conference Rooms A and B Center for Strategic and International Studies 1800 K. Street NW Washington, DC 20006 Please RSVP to REP@csis.org Lunch will be served.

Vitali Silitsky, a prominent and accomplished young Belarusian political scientist and democracy advocate, tragically passed away this June. Colleagues and friends at CSIS, the National Endowment for Democracy, and PONARS Eurasia invite you to attend a discussion of the current situation in Belarus that provides an up-to-date analysis of events on the ground, combined with an appreciation of the contributions that Vitali made to his native country and to the political science discipline.

Featuring: Dzianis Melyantsou, Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies Arkady Moshes, Finnish Institute of International Affairs Mitchell A. Orenstein, Johns Hopkins University Lucan Way, University of Toronto With opening remarks and tribute to Vitali Silitsky.

September has arrived, and with it the countdown to a predicted Palestinian campaign to pursue statehood at the United Nations.

Upcoming events
The September Situation: Israeli and Palestinian Initiatives and the UN. Thursday, September 8th, 7:30 p.m. Tifereth Israel

With change continuing to sweep across the Middle East, the UN session this September looms as a crucial turning point for Israelis, Palestinians, Americans and the world community. Next week on Thursday, September 8th at 7:30 pm, you're invited to "The September Situation: Israeli and Palestinian Initiatives and the UN" to digest recent and upcoming events with a panel of experts at a J Street DC Metro and Tifereth Israel Congregation town hall forum. Tifereth Israel is located at 7701 16th Street NW in Washington, DC. The event is free and open to the public. Click here for your last chance to RSVP for the timely and engaging September Situation forum. If you've already signed up, I look forward to seeing you there! The town hall forum is a unique opportunity to engage with and hear from expert voices in the community as we prepare for the landmark events in September, share ideas about building support for a better future, and strengthen the proIsrael pro-peace movement here in DC. The evening's panelists include: Scott Lasensky, US Institute of Peace; Ghaith al-Omari, American Task Force on Palestine; Jennifer Griffin, FOX News; and Greg Myre, NPR Morning Edition. The moderator will be Aliza Marcus, Vice President for Communications, J Street. Read their bios below. Click to RSVP now for next week's "The September Situation: Israeli and Palestinian Initiatives and the UN." I hope you can join us as the crucial month of September unfolds, - Matt Matt Mayers J Street DC Metro September 1, 2011

J Street DC Metro in Action

Last week, while an earthquake was shaking up the east coast, the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement did some shaking up of its own: Over 1,000 J Street supporters in 21 cities across the nation visited over 100 Congressional offices to make the call for bold leadership towards Two States Now. Here in DC, we contributed by phone banking to amplify the work of those out in the field. With over 500 calls made, we helped turn out activists around the country to deliver tens of thousands of signed Two-State Summer postcards. Thank you to everyone who kept making calls through the earthquake,

signed the postcards and petitions, held one-on-one conversations, hosted and attended house parties and helped us demonstrate support for a twostate solution!

September Situation Panelists

Scott Lasensky is a Senior Research Associate at USIP and has long dealt with Israeli-Palestine peace process issues. Scott is co-author of an acclaimed book with former U.S. Ambassador Dan Kurtzer, Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East. Ghaith al-Omari is Executive Director of ATFP - a prominent PalestinianAmerican think tank that advocates strenuously for two states for two peoples. Ghaith was Palestinian drafter of the Geneva Initiative virtual peace agreement negotiated by Israeli and Palestinians and advised the PLO Negotiating Unit in previous peace negotiations with Israel and served in various positions in the Palestinian Authority. Jennifer Griffin and Greg Myre served as Jerusalem correspondents from 1999-2007, she for FOX News and he for AP and the New York Times. Jennifer and Greg reported extensively from both the Palestinian territories and Israel, and provide unique on-the-ground journalistic and personal accounts of both peoples in their recently published book, This Burning Land Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Aliza Marcus is a former staff writer for Bloomberg News and Reuters, has written about politics, conflicts and economics in the Middle East and Washington. She was a special correspondent for the Boston Globe in Israel.
J Street is a 501(c)(4) organization that primarily focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on important national issues.

Celebrate Labor: Where Art and Politics Meet

(August 30-September 20) VisArts at Rockville presents the work of Maine artist Judy Taylor, whose 11-panel labor mural in a Maine state office building was removed under protest. A large-scale reproduction of the mural, preliminary drawings, labor paintings and supporting work will be on display in the Kaplan Gallery.

Opening Reception September 8, 7:00-9:30 p.m. VisArts 155 Gibbs Street Suite 300 Rockville, MD 20850

2nd Thursday Art Night: Fall for the Arts

Thursday, September 8, 6:00-9:00 p.m. FREE Event
Browse open studios, interact with artists, and enjoy refreshments. Target Gallery reception for So Yoon Lym: The Dreamtime The Art League Gallery reception for the All-Media Exhibition and Red Dots, Shanthi Chandrasekar's solo show Summer's Tide reception in Site 3 Gallery Sneak preview of Art Activated and flyer of upcoming fall events Refreshments by Bertucci's Restaurant Click here for more information.

Target Gallery: So Yoon Lym: The Dreamtime

August 20 - September 25
2011 Open Exhibition Winner So Yoon Lym presents a series of large photorealistic black and white acrylic paintings that explore the social, cultural, ethnic, and gender affiliation associated with intricate hairstyles. Reception 2nd Thursday Art Night September 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Artist Talk: 7:00 p.m. during reception Click here for more information. Click here to view the artwork online!

Gallery Shows and Other Events

Satellite Images (August 2-September 11) Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery Studio 18 Gallery members show work inspired by views of our world from afar. Off Season and Forgotten (August 2-October 3) Multiple Exposures Gallery Studio 312 New photographs by Eric Johnson and Sandy LeBrun-Evans. Shades of Fall (August 29-October 2) Scope Gallery Studio 19 As seasons change, the Ceramic Guild taps a spectacular vein of creativity with variations of autumn gold, copper and crimson. Summer's Tide (September 1-25) Site 2 & Site 3 Galleries The Art League School's summer classes have come together to exhibit their work, including life-size papiermach sculptures and small stained glass panels. Reception 2nd Thursday Art Night, September 8, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Diptychs, Triptychs, & Tetraptychs (September 3-October 30) Printmakers Inc. Studio 325 This solo show features printmaker Maggie Stewart's multi-part works including diptychs, tripychs, and the uncommon four-part format of tetraptychs. Reception Sunday, September 11, 2:00-4:00 p.m.

Red Dots (September 8-October 3) The Art League Gallery Room 21 Red Dots is a solo show by self-taught artist Shanthi Chandrasekar, featuring intricate, multi-layered drawings that are infused with imagery reflecting her Indian heritage. Reception 2nd Thursday Art Night, September 8, 6:30-8:00 p.m. All-Media Exhibition (September 8-October 3) The Art League Gallery Room 21 This exhibit shows artworks in a variety of media and subject matter. Reception 2nd Thursday Art Night, September 8, 6:30-8:00 p.m. Fall Fusion (September 8-October 3) Enamelists Gallery Studio 28 Enamelists use heat to fuse glass onto metal. This month's exhibition will combine the use of "fusion" with a celebration of fall color. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ..... (September 13-October 16) Potomac Fiber Arts Gallery Studio 18 Gallery members show work inspired by the Fibonacci numbers. Champagne Reception Celebrating Wearable Art Sunday, September 18, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Studio 29 Join Torpedo Factory artist Annemarie Feld for a champagne reception celebrating her wearable art inspired by unique pieces of leather and fabric.

Torpedo Factory Art Center 82 Artist Studios 6 Galleries 105 N. Union Street Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 838-4565

"The Next Wave" Book Talk with Catherine Herridge Policy & Research Forum Event Thursday, September 8, 5:00-6:30 p.m. Elliott School of International Affairs The George Washington University 7th Floor, State Room 1957 E Street NW Washington, DC 20052 RSVP: http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/events/herridgePRF407eventreg.cfm

Please join the Homeland Security Policy Institute for a Policy & Research Forum Event featuring Fox News National Correspondent, Catherine Herridge, author of the book "The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits," a comprehensive look at the evolving homegrown terrorist threat within our borders. Featured Speaker: Catherine Herridge, Author, The Next Wave: On the Hunt for Al Qaeda's American Recruits From Guantnamo to Afghanistan, Fox News national correspondent Catherine Herridge has looked the worlds worst terrorists in the face. A reporters reporter, she and her investigative team spent years scouring the United States and the world to uncover the shocking secrets of the next wave.

"The Cold War" Thursday, September 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Auditorium The Rome Building Johns Hopkins University SAIS 1619 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C A reception will follow at 7:30 p.m. RSVP: atobin1@jhu.edu or (202) 663-5796 Hosted By: European Studies Program

Summary: John Harper, professor of American Foreign Policy and European Studies at the SAIS Bologna Center, will discuss his new book, The Cold War.

Nicole Miller Trunk Show Thursday, September 8 1:00 light lunch 5:00-7:00 cocktail reception Betsy Fisher 1224 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036

Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict Friday,September 9, 9:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Georgetown University

Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs 3307 M Street NW Suite 200 RSVP: http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/rsvp?id=liberty-and-tolerance-in-an-age-of-religiousconflict

Religious liberty and tolerance are among the most central global issues facing us today. Too often scholars have approached them solely as philosophical questions or abstract universal imperatives, obscuring their meaning and significance within specific religious traditions. Any effort to deepen appreciation for religious liberty and tolerance while excluding religious voices is bound to fail. In conjunction with Calvin College, the Berkley Center is convening scholars and practitioners from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds to examine and compare resources supportive of religious freedom and tolerance within their own traditions. The participants are among the contributors to a forthcoming book, Abrahams Children: Liberty and Tolerance in an Age of Religious Conflict. The conference, made possible through the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, will conclude with an interfaith service in commemoration of September 11, 2001. Each of the panels will address the following questions: 1. Historically, how has your tradition been exploited by opponents of religious liberty and tolerance? Does such exploitation persist, and why? 2. What are the major resources within your tradition supportive of religious liberty and tolerance? What do they add to dominant secular human rights discourse? 3. How can interfaith dialogue and activism advance the liberty and tolerance agenda? What dangers and pitfalls do you see along the way? Schedule Friday, September 9 9:15-10:45 a.m. Muslim Perspectives Zainab Al-Suwaij, Rana Husseini, Hedieh Mirahmadi, Aziz Abu Sarah 11:00am-12:30pm Jewish Perspectives Arik Ascherman, Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Leah Shakdiel 12:45-2:00 Lunch and Keynote Address Hedieh Mirahmadi 2:30pm-4:00pm Christian Perspectives Ziya Meral, Kelly James Clark, Hanna Siniora, Nicholas Wotterstorf 4:00pm-5:00pm Keynote Address Nurit Peled-Elhanan 5:00pm Reception Saturday, September 10 Interfaith Dinner and Discussion, 6 PM: Fairfax, Virginia Please direct all questions regarding this event to lrm9@calvin.edu Sunday, September 11 National Cathedral, 9 AM Please direct all questions regarding this event to lrm9@calvin.edu

ROBERTO HIDALGO
PIANO CONCERT
SEPTEMBER 9, 7:00 PM
MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE 2829 16 Street NW Washington, DC 20009
FREE ADMISSION SEATING IS LIMITED RSVP RECOMMENDED: RSVP@instituteofmexicodc.org DOOR OPENS AT 6:30 PM NO LATE ADMITTANCE
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Join us for an evening of music with acclaimed Mexican pianist Roberto Hidalgo. Known for his programs that combine Latin American and traditional western repertoires, this concert will feature works by Carlos Chvez, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Manuel de la Falla and Frederic Chopin. Praised as a pianist of great technical skill and interpretive warmth, Roberto Hidalgo has thrilled audiences with his innovative programs and thoughtful renditions of the pianistic literature. He is at home performing both the established repertoire as well as new works by contemporary composers. This past season he premiered works by John Musto and Carlos Snchez Gutirrez as part of the Look&Listen Festival, in New York City. The New York Times has rated his work as impressive and

beautiful, and Reforma (Mexico) called him a pianist of the highest standard. He has performed in Europe, South America, Mexico and the United States. He has participated in several seasons of such Festivals as Look&Listen Festival, Music Mountain, Chappaquiddick Summer Music Festival, Cervantino Festival, Foro Internacional de Msica Nueva, Foro de Compositores del Caribe and Keyed Up Festival, among others. He has played in Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Bargemusic in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC and LA County Museum; Palacio de Bellas Artes, Sala Nezahualcoyotl, Centro Nacional de las Artes, in Mexico; Collegiale Saint-Julien in Tournon-sur-Rhone and Roubaix, France. Orchestra engagements include Orquesta Sinfnica de Minera, Orquesta Sinfnica de Xalapa, Plainfield Orchestra, Orquesta de Cmara de Baja California. In addition to his solo career, he keeps a busy schedule as part of Split Second Piano Ensemble with pianist Marc Peloquin. Mr. Hidalgo, a New York-based Mexican pianist teaches at the Bloomingdale School of Music and runs a successful private studio.

9/11 Anchors on the next Kalb Report September 9, 8:00 p.m. Ballroom The National Press Club 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor Washington, DC 20045 The show will be in the Club's ballroom on Friday, Sept. 9 at 8:00 p.m. Please plan to arrive a few minutes early to get seated before the show begins. No charge for admission, but seats are limited. Please reserve by calling the Club's reservation line: 202-662-7501.

Some of the leading journalists who were on the air during the 9/11 terrorist attacks will talk to host Marvin Kalb about "Anchoring 9/11: The Day and the Decade." With Marvin will be ABC's Charles Gibson, CBS' Dan Rather, Fox's Brit Hume and Frank Sesno, who was CNN's Washington bureau chief that day. They will talk about what happened on 9/11 and the subsequent decade that changed the world.

The Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela invites you to the screening of the well-known venezuelan film

Desnudo con Naranjas (Nude with oranges)

A film by Luis Alberto Lamata En el siglo XIX venezolano, lleno de guerras, brujeras y supersticiones, un indio y una blanca deciden abandonarlo todo para amarse libremente; pero el bilongo (un amuleto portador de riqueza y perdicin), la guerra federal, y el mismo destino, intentarn impedirles su amor. Basado en un cuento de Robert Louis Stevenson. In the nineteenth century in Venezuela, full of wars, witchcraft and superstition, an Indian man and a White woman left everything to freely love each other, but the bilongo (a lucky charm bearing wealth and ruin), the Federal war, and the fate itself, would try to prevent their love. Based on a story written by Robert Louis Stevenson. Friday, September 9 at 7:00 p.m. Embassy of Venezuela Bolivarian Hall 2443 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008 RSVP: cultura@venezuela-us.org.

A Constitutional President: Ronald Reagan and the Founding Friday, September 9, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lehrman Auditorium Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington DC 20002-4999 Register: http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/09/A-ConstitutionalPresident?utm_source=DC+Linktank&utm_campaign=7aa081b6a3-DC_Linktank_Weekly_Events09_05_011&utm_medium=email From the very beginning to the very end of his Presidency, Ronald Reagan was guided by the first principles of the American Founding, especially the idea of ordered liberty. In the opening paragraphs of his first inaugural address in 1981 much of which he personally drafted President Reagan echoed the preamble of the Constitution, calling on We the people to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom America. Eight years later, in his farewell address to the American people, the President said that the American Revolution was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words, We the people.

Under all circumstances, Reagan looked to the Constitution as his North Star. In his State of the Union speeches, Reagan referred to the Constitution more than any other president in the preceding 50 years an average of 16 times per speech. A survey of his presidential papers reveals 1,270 references to the Constitution during his eight years in the White House and another 113 mentions of the Declaration of Independence. In this forum, with two former Reagan cabinet members and two published Reagan historians, we will discuss how the principles of The Founding and the Constitution provided the foundation for Reagans presidency and ultimately influenced his every decision. More About the Speakers: Jim Miller Senior Advisor, Husch Blackwell, LLC and former Director of Office of Management and Budget, the Reagan Administration Steve Hayward F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, and Author of The Age of Reagan Lee Edwards Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles & Politics, The Heritage Foundation

Hosted By

Edwin Meese, III Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

Newsletter | Austrian Cultural Forum Washington

duo :nota bene: concert

Friday, September 9, 7:30 p.m. Embassy of Austria

3524 International Court NW Washington, DC 20008 Admission free. RSVP required: www.acfdc.org/eventsregistration or (202) 895-6776
The duo :nota bene: was founded in 1996 and consists of violinist Eva Steinschaden and pianist Alexander Vavtar. The two musicians graduated from the Mozarteum University Salzburg, where they currently teach. They have concentrated primarily on music of the Viennese Classical School, focusing also on the modern period and particularly on contemporary music. To date, they have recorded six CDs, all under the Viennese Extraplatte Label. Over the years, the duo :nota bene: has premiered many works by distinguished composers such as Friedrich Cerha, Cesar Bresgen, Gerhard Wimberger, Charles Camilleri, Helmut Neumann, Laurence Traiger, Klemens Vereno, Ludwig Nussbichler, Helmut Schmidinger and Christian David Kardeis. They have also performed as a duo with orchestras including the Sinfonia Varsovia, Pozna Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra/Bulgaria and Leopold Mozart Chamber Orchestra Salzburg. The two musicians have for many years maintained a close artistic partnership with the Schauspielhaus Salzburg, the largest "free theatre" in Austria. Their collaboration has produced many programs blending music and text with subtlety and humor. Program: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for piano and violin op 96, G major Beat Furrer: "Lied" for violin and piano (1993) Helmut Schmidinger: "...was uns anrhrt, dich und mich" Johannes Brahms: Sonata for violin and piano, op 100, A major

Project 4 Presents:

Ellington Robinson: In Quest of The Sun (September 9-October 15)

Opening Reception Friday, September 9, 6:30-9:00 p.m. Project 4 Gallery 1353 U Street NW, 3rd floor Washington, DC 20009 (202) 232-4340
Project 4 Gallery is proud to present In Quest of The Sun, a solo exhibition of new work by DC artist Ellington Robinson. To Ellington Robinson, painting is a physical, psychological, and spiritual experience, which includes a formal process and a narrative approach. By contorting and layering collected materials such as travel documents, vinyl, record sleeves, and cassette tapes, Robinsons works evolve and embody his quest.

In his new work Robinson explores the ways by which people reach their physical and socioeconomic location. He asks: How do we arrive at our longitude, latitude, and altitude? What determines our height, width, and depth within time zones. Robinson recognizes that planes, trains and cars, religion, education, and labels are agents in our migration, while also acknowledging a celestial agent where the ancestors dwell in eternity and parallel universes. He employs interoffice envelopes where the names of ancestors, musicians, freedom fighters, and literati are inscribed as a way of stating a common thread; or cassette tapes in which the voices are there but cannot be seen or heard. Further, Robinson draws from the study of his own location and travels. Railroad tracks and floorboards of inner city row-homes are distinctive from the horizon of the ocean in the Virgin Islands, visually representing the contrast between the two places Robinson has called home. Ellington Robinson earned his M.F.A. in painting and mix media at the University of Maryland, College Park and his B.A. in English from Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA. His work is in public and private collections including The David C. Driskell Center and the Jean and Robert Steele Collection. Robinson currently lives and works in Washington DC. Please join us for the opening reception of Ellington Robinson: In Quest of The Sun, with the artist in attendance. Music by DJ I'Wah. Image credit: Hametic, 2011 acrylic, collage, ink, and oil, 60" x 48"

Art + Fashion
Art Reception and Oliberte Shoe Arrival Friday, September 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Carbon 2643 Connecticut Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008 RSVP: katherine@carbondc.com (Woodley Park metro)

CARBON continues to shine a spotlight on our local artists with a new installation on exhibit beginning September 5, 2011. Skin Memories and Exposures tells stories of compassion, humanity and humor from two independent lenses. Local artisans Amy Walker (ne West) and Alicia Selian draw upon their international development and communications experience, respectively, to capture poignant messages set against Africa and Italy. The exhibit coincides with the introduction of Olibert mens shoes to the nations capital. The Canadian shoe company produces in Africa, notably Ethiopia, in an effort to promote economic development and job creation. The casual comfort meets urban line uses premium leather (vegetable tanned), recycled rubber soles, and hand-stitching to ensure a

high quality product.

2643 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington DC 20008 (across from Woodley Park-Zoo Metro)

Caos on F
Reception Friday, September 9, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Caos on F 923 F Street NW (202) 215-6993

Caos on F will debut the paintings of Eastern Shore artist Tanja North, new work by DC artist Carole Greenwood, and new work by Caos artists David Harp, Chul Beom Park and Matthew Falls.

In conjunction with the Arts on Foot festival September 10 & 11, Caos on F will be open 11-7pm Saturday, Sept 10 and 11-6pm Sunday, September 11. Caos on F will also be featured at the festival site with a booth at 9th and F Street.

For more information about the art festival go to www.artsonfoot.org

VESSEL
(September 9 - October 22) Opening Reception Friday, September 9, 7:00 p.m. Smith Center for Healing and the Arts 1632 U Street NW Washington, DC, 20009 With a dance performance by Maida Withers Dance Construction Company and live music by Steve Hilmy

After a year of renovation the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery is excited to re-open its doors and present its grand re-opening exhibition, VESSEL. Since 9/11 fear has plagued our cultural psyche, resurrecting the divisive "we" and "other" in our communities. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, our small hope is to use art to open greater avenues for connection and to catalyze a healing discourse. VESSEL combines abstract works to evoke a sacred space of "holding," where open community dialogue may be inspired. Selected works express an effort to move beyond and communicate that 'healing is possible' for everyone. Featuring works by Emily Biondo, Alonzo Davis, Jenny Freestone, Ani Kasten, M.J. Kavian, Madeleine Keesing, Rachel Rotenburg, Angela White, and Millicent Young. "Vessel, Recycle" by Jenny Freestone

VESSEL is also a launch event for The 9/11 Arts Project: Healing 10 Years Later. For more project details and events please visit: www.911artsproject.com

Gallery Hours: W-F 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm

Glenview Mansion Art Gallery Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park 603 Edmonston Drive Rockville, MD 20851

7.4.11
Photographs by Facing Change: Documenting America (September 9November 18)

Opening Reception Friday, September 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Carroll Square Gallery 975 F Street NW Washington DC 20004

Gallery open during business hours MondayFriday, 8:00am6:00pm This exhibition is in collaboration with The 9/11 Arts Project. Visit 911artsproject.com for more information.

Debbie Fleming Caffery, Erath, Louisiana, July 4, 2011

Waverly Street Gallery

4600 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 951-9441 Entrance and parking on Waverly Street. One block from Bethesda Metro station.

A CELEBRATION OF COLOR
Works on Paper by Ruth Meixner-Bird
and New Work by Gallery Artists (September 6-October 8)

Opening Reception

Friday, September 9, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Color is the unifying theme of this series of acrylic paintings on paper. With an abstract vocabulary, Meix geometric and organic shapes to suggest the contradiction of containment and freedom. Her brush strok some tightly drafted, reinforce the sense of unsettling balance.

Meixner-Bird has exhibited widely in the New York, Philadelphia and Washington area and internationally the Embassies Program. She has taught painting and drawing at American University and Montgomery C teach privately.

Jewelers Showcase features four guest jewelry artists September 6, - December 3, 2011 Contents Copyright 2011, Waverly Street Gallery, LLC. All rights reserved.

Flashpoint Gallery Presents

banished? productions' Tactile Dinner Car

(September

9 - 24)

Opening Reception Friday, September 9, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Flashpoint Gallery

916 G Street NW Washington, DC 20001

banished? productions Tactile Dinner Car will offer gallery visitors bite-sized dishes that riff on F.T. Marinettis Futurist Cookbook. The artists will activate a hand-built car, which will serve as the visual centerpiece to the exhibition. Visitors will partake in conceptual culinary offerings such as pizza served in a pill-shaped capsule. The interactive installation will combine performance, video, food and sculpture to create a multi-sensory experience.

Tickets to experience the culinary offerings during activation times are $25. Admission to view the exhibition is free.

Buy Tickets Here!

Flashpoint Gallery, a CuDC project, is generously supported by The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, The Kresge Foundation, the MARPAT Foundation, the Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Prince Charitable Trusts, The Washington Post and many other generous partners. Hotel Helix is Flashpoints 2011-12 Hotel Partner. Barefoot Wine is Flashpoints 2011-12 Wine Partner. American Airlines is the official airline of CuDC.

U.S. Policy Toward Pakistan Friday, September 9, 12:00-1:30 p.m. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace 1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20036-2103 Register: http://carnegieendowment.org/events/forms/?fa=registration&event=3360

Ten years after 9/11, the United States and Pakistan have little to show for the strategic cooperation they proclaimed in the aftermath of the attacks. The best way for the United States to help Pakistan is to stop pretending that it can change the Armys dysfunction and stop enabling the military, writes George Perkovich in a forthcoming piece. Instead, the United States should scale back its presence in Pakistan and redesign its approach to civilian assistance in cooperation with more effective national and multinational actors. Karen DeYoung, associate editor and senior national security correspondent for the Washington Post will moderate a discussion of U.S. policy toward Pakistan in the post-9/11 context. Copies of the new publication, Stop Enabling Pakistans Dangerous Dysfunction, will be available.

TURKIC AMERICAN ALLIANCE & RUMI FORUM

presents

Panel to Commemorate the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 "Appreciation

of Heroes"
Speakers: David Mark - Senior Editor, POLITICO Abdi Farah - DHS Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Office
Friday, September 9, 2011 5:30 p.m. Welcome 6:00 p.m. Program Turkish American Alliance 750 First Street NE Suite 1125

Washington, DC 20002 Free and open to the public (registration required) Light refreshments will be served Please Click to RSVP Synopsis: Turkic American Alliance is a non-government, not-for-profit organization with the mere purpose of promoting cultural understanding. The Alliance is established as a broader umbrella organization for federations, councils and similar entities which bear the qualities and share the objectives of establishing closer relations with the Turkic American community and the community at large and also with the members of other ethnic communities in the United States.

Rumi Forum was founded in 1999 with the mission to foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace all over the world and to provide a common platform for education and information exchange.

Washington Printmakers Gallery

Two new exhibitions on view starting next week:

Drawn to Print
Drawings and prints by gallery artists

9/11 Tenth Anniversary: Artists' Reactions

A selection of prints by WPG artists that were created in response to this world-changing event. This exhibition is held in conjunction with the

9/11 Arts Project.Exhibitions run August 31-September 25

Opening Reception for both Exhibitions: Saturday, September 10, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Washington Printmakers Gallery Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 8230 Georgia Avenue, 2nd Floor Silver Spring, MD 20910

Directions:

By metro: Take the Red line to the Silver Spring stop. From the station, follow Wayne Ave to Georgia Ave. From Wayne Ave and Georgia, the red Pyramid Atlantic building is 2 blocks to the right, on the right-hand side of Georgia at Ripley Street. Driving: The red Pyramid Atlantic building is on the South Bound (West) side of Georgia Avenue at Ripley Street, 2 blocks south of Wayne Avenue. A small parking lot in front of Pyramid Atlantic offers free parking, and there are several public garages within walking distance.

Second Saturday Art Opening featuring Aina Nergaard-Nammack

Aina Nergaard-Nammack

Opening Reception Saturday, September 10, 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Aina Nergaard-Nammack's canvases are vibrant and colorful abstract compositions imbued with balance and vibrancy.

Homebody 715 Eighth Street SE Washington, DC 20003 (202) 544-8445

IS REALISM RELEVANT?
opening 3 solo exhibitions with new figurative paintings by: ERIK THOR SANDBERG NATHANIEL ROGERS KATIE MILLER with conner/*gogo special project: Lauren Adams: Plunder Opening Reception Saturday, September 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Conner Contemporary Art 1358 Florida Avenue NE Washington, DC 20002 to preview: CLICK HERE + AND HERE
ERIK THOR SANDBERG Receptivity (detail) 2011, oil on curved wood panel, 26 x 88 x 35.5 inches.

IS REALISM RELEVANT? Erik Thor Sandberg: Reparatory Gestures Nathaniel Rogers: When Disaster Strikes Katie Miller : The Fancy of Babes with *gogo emerging art projects: Lauren Adams: Plunder September 10 - October 22, 2011 Is Realism Relevant? Conner Contemporary Art enthusiastically says YES with three concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new works by Erik Thor Sandberg, Nathaniel Rogers and Katie Miller. Six centuries after Flemish oil painting branded the early modern age, each of these DC area artists maximizes his or her command of the realist technique to express the human condition in contemporary life. Engagement with current issues imbues these painters works with the relevance of their own time, while their informed references to artistic precedents casts present situations within a historical perspective. With its world class Old Master museum collections, Washington is a natural home for realism. Representational painting began to make a resurgence here in the 1970s, in the wake of the prominent Washington Color abstractionists. Today, Sandberg, Rogers and Miller are at the leading edge of contemporary realism in DC. ERIK THOR SANDBERG unleashes allegories of our increasingly complex relationship

with nature through narratives of power and passivity that unfold across panoramic vistas in Reparatory Gestures, his fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Sandberg, who has repeatedly demonstrated mastery of the human figure and landscape as a subjects, emphasizes the viewers body in the experience of the topographies depicted in the four large concave paintings that anchor this new series. The artist designed curved panels to envelope us in captivating expressions of mans manipulations of the environment. Sandberg impressed artificiality on each wilderness landscape with depictions of intrusive human activity, or vestiges of it, such as a port-a-potty, picnic fixings, and guardrails. Whether his characters are engaged in libidinous acts, or immobilized by uncertainty, the contexts in which we find them question the ultimate consequences of their choices. As the picture planes bend, so do the meanings that play out across them. The concave arch of each panel pushes and pulls the ideas represented on it, diverting them from a predetermined linear progression into elusive possibilities for our thoughts to follow. Sandberg reminds us that our personal and collective journeys may lack sure direction or fixed outcomes. Yet, he also suggests, with flawlessly rendered details, including glistening drops of nectar and multi-colored birds eggs, that natures powers of imaging and reparation are ceaselessly at work, leaving us with hope that these forces can restore the balance that man repeatedly compromises. NATHANIEL ROGERS presents vivid analogies of human phenomena surrounding the concept of crisis - how we create it, deal with it, or ignore it - in When Disaster Strikes, his second solo exhibition with the gallery. Rogers superior draftsmans skill is perfectly matched to his sharp wit in this series of intimate panel paintings that reveal coping strategies, or lack thereof, in the automated, indulgent contemporary world. The artist postulates extreme life situations that manifest at intersections and dissonances between behavior and virtual reality. In scenes of real and imagined disasters, including floods, fires and unseen threats, Rogers suggests a breakdown in reality. This theme is expressed most noticeably in the anxiety contained in his narratives, and more subtly in the dissolution of the representational fabric of his pictures. We find a section of the interior depicted in Facing Annihilation unexpectedly sanded down to reveal the bare wood of its support; and a slice of the landscape background in Nailed, appears to peel off, an illusion that underscores the artifice of the picture. As Rogers characterizes contemporary states of mind, he also tests his mediums ability to convey the immediacy of our experiences. The Fancy of Babes is KATIE MILLERs first solo exhibition with the gallery. Relentlessly pushing the realist technique toward hyper-realism, Miller creates artistic characterizations of the consumer-driven hype that fuels the commercial sexualization of children. The artist orders her toddler subjects according to hieratic compositions seen in Renaissance masterpieces by Hans Holbein the Younger and Albrecht Drer, among others, employing geometric principles from that period to instill her figures with the authority of holy, royal or mythological beings. The anachronistic formats interact with Millers exacting rendering of the childrens features and flesh, giving them an otherworldly quality. The youngsters that confront us in these paintings appear disarmingly knowing and self-possessed. This effect is amplified by their attributes, belly button rings and bling-bling-binky pacifiers, inspired by Bratz Babyz dolls, and other widely marketed childrens products. Even the kids pets - a purse dog, a Cremello horse and a hairless cat - appear to have been bred to exaggerated points of curvaceousness. In her three largest panels, Miller poses the toddlers full-length figures in extremely graceful positions that seem to defy anatomy and gravity. Their precarious beauty figures the challenges of balancing childhood with forced adulthood in todays consumer culture. Conner Contemporary Art is also pleased to announce Plunder, a special *gogo projects installation created by Lauren Adams for our courtyard. Adams work was inspired by Elizabethan colonial era textiles, such as pirate flags and clothing depicted in portraits of Queen Elizabeth I and the explorer Sir Walter Raleigh. Adams appropriates decorative patterning from the time of sea based exploration to suggest a critique of capitalisms colonial past. Pairing pirate flags with courtly dress, the artist asserts that pirate culture arose not only from rogue sailors who plundered other ships for

transatlantic trade goods, but also from the colonizers who 'plundered' North American native wealth. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00-5:00 p.m.

KABAKOV (September 10October 29) Opening Reception Saturday, September 10, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Hemphill Fine Arts 1515 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20005 Included in the exhibition are drawings and a scale model of The Large House of Humanity, 1998, an unrealized project designed for the bank of the Potomac River in Washington DC. The proposed monument has a perimeter of 70 x 50 meters and a height commensurate with the Washington Monument. The white metal construction forms the contours of a traditional American home with a mansard roof. From a distance this gigantic house appears like a white mirage against the blue sky. Suspended from the ceiling inside the house are wire letters that read: Since home we have but one, this earth we live upon. With our home in constant motion we are striving toward the stars. Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., and by appointment.
Image: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, The Large House Of Humanity, colored pencil on paper, 37 x 45

Opening Receptions Saturday, September 10, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Gateway Arts Center 3901 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood, MD 20722

TRADE

An Art Exhibition Based on Exchange Portfolios

Featuring: Joan Belmar, Serena Perrone, Debra Ruzinsky, Justin Strom, Jon Swindler, Laura G. Thorne, Novie Trump and Tom Wolff. At the 39th Street Gallery 3901 Rhode Island Avenue, Brentwood, MD 20722 Entrance on 39th Street, Second Floor

TRADE is exchange; it means "commerse" and "profession." The exhibition TRADE at the 39th Street Gallery intends to be all of those things. It's about working in the arts, placing the gallery and the Gateway CDC at the center of all the things galleries do: supporting artists, building relationships, creating discourse, and yes, funding the continuation of those efforts. Based on the concept of an exchange portfolio and curated by Phil Davis, Trade brings together eight artists who each created a new edition of 12 artworks. Each artist will receive one work from each of the other artists, thus becoming one another's collectors and inevitably also one another's promoters. The remaining four works in each edition are available for sale - all at the same price of $250. It's a rare opportunity to collect work by established artists at such an affordable level. Proceeds go directly to the artists and also benefit the Gateway CDC, which in turn supports arts programming in the 39th Street Gallery as well as working to developing the Gateway Arts District.

______________________________ 39th Street Corridor Exhibition Space Hello:Mosaics by Liza Linder

"I've never really gotten over the fact that my husband and I put our bodies together and made two people. INCREDIBLE." Liza Linder

This installation tells the story of that process for the artist. From the beginning of their relationship she

left branches of forsythia on her now husband's windshield as a way of calling attention to herself and a way of saying "Hello."

This is the artists way of giving thanks to Cilia, Progesterone and Chromosomes.

And though the artists story continues to change and move through time, the act of mosaic-making sets her experiences in stone, well in glass, anyway. In this way, the story becomes concrete. It stops moving and becomes a place of stillness...a place of contemplation.

The Gateway Community Development Corporation is the catalyst for arts-driven economic revitalization of the U.S. Route 1 corridor and the surrounding communities in the Gateway Arts District. Gateway CDC works in the communities of Brentwood, North Brentwood, and Mount Rainier, and works in collaboration with several partners to ensure the success of the entire Gateway Arts District.

Gateway CDC 4102 Webster Street North Brentwood, MD 20722

Join us as we debut our new art space and first exhibition featuring paintings by Baltimore artist Randi Reiss-McCormack in the solo space and an installation by DC-based artist Matt Hollis in the project space.
harmon art lab (HAL) is a creative collaboration that ties art curator, artist and viewer into an interactive dialogue of ideas and engagement. HAL will exhibit the work of two risktaking artists per month working in a variety of media that will help to redefine contemporary art in the DC area, one as a solo exhibition, the other as a site-specific installation influenced by the space and the content of the artist's own work. This will offer prospects for transformation as each artist creates something temporal and unique to the space. Along with the gallery, harmon art lab will publish a monthly online art paper inviting a menagerie of guest writers to articulate refreshing and thoughtful perspectives about the world of art as they see it. Unlike a traditional gallery website, the online art paper will also include fascinating interviews with area artists, collectors, curators and critics, as well as exhibition and installation images every month.

HAL will be open on Saturday and Sunday during the first week of exhibition, with events such as artist talks, panel discussions and private functions throughout the month, and by appointment after that.

harmon art lab is the creation of artists Peter e Harper and Thomas Drymon.

Randi Reiss-McCormack's work has been shown on both coasts as well as in Europe. A prolific artist, an educator, a wife and mother of three, her work involves themes of domesticity mixed with patterns of pop culture and impressionistic vibrancy resulting in a subtle social commentary that embraces the viewer, incites nostalgia, and stirs thought.

Matt Hollis's work evokes a deep sense of nature, transforming and enlarging it into an artificial realm that gives the viewer a new perspective on how life interacts with itself.

Peter e Harper Thomas Drymon 1716 14th Street NW, 2nd floor Washington DC 20009 (202) 368-7150 Copyright 2011 harmon art lab, All rights reserved.

INDUSTRY
21st Century Design Gallery presents

MELTDOWN
new work by

TOM PRICE
(September 10 - October 22) Opening Reception September 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Industry Gallery 1358 Florida Avenue NE Suite 200 Washington DC 20002 (202) 399-1730

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 30, 2011) INDUSTRY will be launching its Fall 2011 design season with the first U.S. solo exhibition of work by innovative British artist and designer, Tom Price. Specializing in modern furniture products, sculpture and lighting design, process plays a key role in Prices work which has been bought by international museums, galleries and private collectors. Much of Prices work is made using unconventional materials. In fact, he often finds it necessary to invent new tools and techniques in order to get the required results from certain fabrications. But Price sees this as an intrinsic part of the overall designand narrative. "I like to think of myself as working in collaboration with materials, processes and phenomena and that the final physical outcome is a product of mutual consent."

About Tom Price

A London native, Price attended several renowned schools including the Royal College of Art. That background in Fine Art informs his approach to design, which is typically very sculptural in both appearance and concept. The vast majority of Tom Prices furniture and collections are anything but conventional. Represented in collections around the world, recently two of Prices pieces were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco.

Meltdown Chair-PP Stripe Photo Courtesy of INDUSTRY

Included in this exhibition will be Prices coveted Meltdown Chairsa series of unique furniture pieces made by melting a seat shape into a sculpted assembly of commonplace plastic products using a specially designed heated former. Original to this exhibit is an homage to DC. When he visited last spring, Price fell in love with the areas iconic cherry trees. Inspired by them, he has constructed a series of sweeping sculptures out of plastic tubing, referencing the shapes of the trees and their blossoms. They will combine to create a unique immersive and site-specific installation, taking over an entire room of the gallery. Prices public commissions include a large-scale sculpture for a new square in the centre of Gloucester (UK) and a sculptural installation for a restored Victorian grotto at the foot of the Royal Terrace Gardens, in Torquay (UK). As an enduring tribute, Prices talent and techniques are referenced in many respected design books including Desire by Elizabeth Honerla; Contemporary Furniture by Martin Wellner and Andrea Mehlhose; New Talents The State of the Arts by Hans Maier-Aichen and Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary by the Museum of Arts and Design, New York.

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The Club September 10, 1:00-4:00 p.m. Price: Event Phone Number: 703-556-4582 The Men's Store at Bloomingdales Tysons Corner 8100 Tysons Corner Center Mclean VA 22102 Get Ready for a Club-Inspired Brunch, Plus Just-Can't-Say-No Deals on fall's best new looks. 30% off almost all regular-price dress shirts and ties. 25% off a great selection of regular-price shoes and belts. A very tempting invitation, please reply by September 7th.

Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow OPEN STUDIO

Saturday, September 10, 10:00 a.m.4:00 p.m. Mather Studios Building 916 G Street NW, Apt#304 (202) 737-6161
BY METRO: Get off at Gallery Place (red/yellow/green) OR Metro Center (red/blue/yellow). From Gallery Place, exit towards "9th Street / Galleries" which will put you on the corner of 9th & G. From Metro Center, exit toward "11th Street" which is the corner of 11th & G. When you arrive at the building, use the phone outside to look up 'Ellyn' and dial the access code (0304) to be buzzed in.

Dana Ellyn

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INDUSTRY
21st Century Design Gallery

INDUSTRY is the premiere gallery in the US devoted to exhibiting the work of 21st Century design. Their focus is on designers who create functional art from industrial materials. Offering single-artist exhibitions, INDUSTRY represents a broad spectrum of international design trends through imaginative and limited edition works that blur the boundary between art and design and redefine the relationship between designer and gallery. INDUSTRY MISSION is to introduce and promote designers and their work to US collectors, curators and critics, to stimulate the conversation about the role design can play in theirs lives, and to inform the viewer about the importance of contemporary design in this time and place. INDUSTRY DIRECTOR Craig Appelbaum has been a collector and private dealer. He opened INDUSTRY in 2010 to exhibit individual artists work within the frame of an installation, allowing each artist to tell his or her own story through site-specific works designed to transform the perception of space. "Many of the artists I show are producing pieces that are highly sought after by museums and collectors in the rapidly expanding area of contemporary design. In the past decade the field has grown considerably as measured by the increasing number of museum exhibitions, international art fairs such as Design Miami and S.O.F.A., and attention by major international auctions houses including Christies, Phillips and Sothebys." INDUSTRY MENTORING PROGRAM In addition to showcasing established artists the gallery also has developed an initiative to introduce the work of emerging designers and design students, offering them the opportunity to exhibit in a professional environment and affording them a realistic gallery experience. And while introducing new talent, at the same time gallery visitors will have a rare opportunity to view the work of tomorrows designers showcasing innovative products from a new generation.

Washington

INDUSTRY occupies 4,300 square feet in their Washington location in the Atlas/H Street historic district of Washington, DC. INDUSTRY is excited to announce the opening of a second gallery in the renowned Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles with FOSSILIZED 2.0an exhibit by Belgian designer Jens PraetSeptember 22nd-November 11, 2011.

Los Angeles Opening 9.22.11

INDUSTRY HOURS The Gallery is open Wednesday Saturday, 11 am 5 pm, and by appointment.

The Ambassador of the Czech Republic and Mrs. Petr Gandalovic, in remembrance of the 10th Anniversary of the Victims of September 11th, invite you to a special concert of Tre Mezzi, featuring mezzo sopranos Shawnee Bell, Kehembe Eichelberger, and Sylvia Twine, accompanied by pianist Everett P. Williams, performing works by Antonin Dvorak, Henry Burleigh, and Duke Ellington. The event is also a part of the Mutual Inspirations Festival 2011 - Antonin Dvorak. For additional information about the festival and Tre Mezzi, please visit www.mutualinspirations.org/events/tre-mezzi/.

Sunday, September 11, 5:00 p.m. Embassy of the Czech Republic 3900 Spring of Freedom Street NW Washington, DC 20008 RSVP: (202) 274-9101 or amb_washington@embassy.mzv.cz. Business Attire Admission is free.

Steinway Series: Smithsonian Chamber Players: "Celebration of Life" September 11, 3:00 p.m. McEvoy Auditorium Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & F Streets NW

The Smithsonian Chamber Players present an all-Schubert concert featuring the "Arpeggione" Sonata for cello and piano, the Sonatina in G Minor for violin and piano, and the "Trout" Quintet.

Fall Exhibitions (September 9-October 23) Charlie Risselada, Main Gallery

Large poured paintings by Maryland artist are based on topographical imagery of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Rachel Rotenberg, Library Gallery

Sculpture

Linda Bernard and Roslyn Logsdon, Resident Artist Gallery

Windows, Fiber and Ceramics

Opening Reception September Montpelier Arts Center 9652 Laurel, MD 20708 (301) 377-7800 11, Muirkirk 2:00-4:00 p.m. Road

EXHIBITIONS: August 31 - September 24, 2011 Studio Gallery and Split This Rock collaborate for a special September 11th Reception with poetry and music Sunday September 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Artist ReceptionSaturday, September 17, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Studio Gallery 2108 R Street NW

The 9/11 Arts Project: Studio Gallery All Members

Artists everywhere have been moved to create work in response to the events of 9/11, both immediately afterwards and over the past 10 years. By bringing together past and present work, we hope to illuminate ways in which art can help us to process catastrophe and its aftermath. The participating artists have been asked to reflect on their work in this regard, and their observations and insights will be included in the exhibition.

Duo Show: Objects of Their Own Design Pam Frederick

Duo Show: The Nature of Nature Flora Kanter

Appearing Sunday, September 11, 4:00-6:00 p.m. Gowri K is a poet, singer, and lawyer whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from Sri Lanka. She has been a featured poet at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Campus Progress's Protest Through Poetry, Busboys and Poets, and Sulu DC and her poetry has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Bourgeon, and Lantern Review. She was a member of the 2010 DC Southern Fried Slam team and serves as the program director at BloomBars community arts space, where she hosts Poetry in the Morning and Poet-Tree in Bloom. Holly Karapetkova's poems, essays, and translations from the Bulgarian have appeared in Mid-American Review, Waccamaw, 32 Poems, and many other places. Her first book, Words We Might One Day Say, is from Washington Writers'

Publishing House. She lives in Arlington, VA, and teaches at Marymount University. Gregory Pardlo is the author of Totem (APR 2007). He is recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a translation grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received other fellowships from the New York Times, the MacDowell Colony, and the Lotos Club Foundation. He teaches at George Washington University.

Art @ Paolo's

"Lucky 13 - II" ( detail ) by Fabiano Amin (September 4-October 9)

Meet the Artists Reception Tuesday, September 13, 6:00- 8:00 p.m Paolo's 1303 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington, DC 20007

I have never been there, but everybody says they serve lunch at these noon talks

Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security Tuesday, September 13, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Lehrman Auditorium The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington DC 20002-4999 RSVP: http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/09/Confronting-Terror

Speakers John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law, New York Law School, and former President, American Civil Liberties Union

Hosted by Edwin Meese, III Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies

The 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks is an appropriate time for reflection, both as to what the nation endured as a result of the attacks as well as whether the response has been appropriate. In addition to providing their reflections on the 9/11 tragedy and its aftermath, distinguished legal scholars John Yoo, Nadine Strossen, and Ed Meese will discuss their own and others contributions to Confronting Terror, a unique collection of essays from principled supporters and critics of the law and policy of the war on terrorism. Edited by Dean Reuter and John Yoo, Confronting Terror sets the stage for a reasoned and robust discussion of the future with a collection of provocative essays examining the meaning of 9/11. Other authors include former Attorneys General John Ashcroft and Michael Mukasey, federal Circuit Judges Laurence Silberman and Raymond Randolph, Richard Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, Johnathan Turley, and Bob Barr. The contributors present stark differences of opinion on issues such as the Presidents authority to detain, the assertion of state secrets, the limits of surveillance, the use of unmanned drones and targeted killing, the treatment and interrogation of detainees, the Patriot Act, and the peculiar nature of our foe. More surprising, perhaps, are the areas of agreement, particularly the fact that the policies of two very different Presidents are remarkably the same. In presenting these contrasting views, the editors and contributors hope to clarify the debate, both for our society and for those responsible for waging the war.

The Goethe-Institut Washington and the Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden present Lunch Bytes, a series of three monthly lunchtime events dedicated to digital art and culture, examining the consequences of the increasing ubiquity of new media in the art world and considering challenging questions raised by this changing artistic landscape.While enjoying a light lunch, the visitor experiences and participates in discussions between renowned German and American artists and intellectuals. -----------------------------------------------Lunch Bytes: Copy Culture Wednesday, September 14, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Goethe-Institut 812 Seventh Street NW RSVP: rsvp@washington.goethe.org Kicking off the series is an event centered on questions about copyright and authorship. What does "copyright" mean in todays context? Is it an outdated legal construct that cannot adequately deal with the internet as a play of free floating artistic content? Does it still make sense to link a work exclusively to its producer and an original idea when web content is constantly changing. Artists and expert panelists include: Michael Bell-Smith, New York-based artist, Jeffrey Cunard, copyright and cyber law expert at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Washington, DC, Cornelia Sollfrank, Hamburg-based artist, Mark Tribe, Artist, Asssitant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, and founder of Rhizome.

Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art Meryle Secrest, award-winning biographer, presents "Worlds Apart: Romaine Brooks and Amedeo Modigliani." September 14, 7:00 p.m. McEvoy Auditorium

Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & F Streets NW Reception follows. Free tickets are required and available in the G Street Lobby at 6:30 p.m. (limit two tickets per person).

An American in Deutschland: Photographs by Leonard Freed (September 15-November 15) Exhibition Opening September 15, 6:00-8:00 p.m. A Conversation with Brigitte Freed + Reception to follow German Historical Institute 1607 New Hampshire Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20009-2562 RSVP by Sept 8 (202) 387-3355 or events@ghi-dc.org

Leonard Freed (1929-2006) devoted his career as a Magnum photographer to making sense of a complex world. For over fifty years, Germany offered the American-born Freed a frequent point of departure. This exhibition draws from Freeds selection of images from his immense archive, as well as unpublished diary-style annotations accompanying many of his photographs. An American in Deutschland explores postwar German society from Freeds unique historical vantage point. In conjunction with the exhibition at the GHI, two other institutions will also exhibit prints by Leonard Freed: the Washington DC Jewish Community Center's Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery (Sept. 15Nov. 15) and the Goethe-Institut (Sept. 28Oct. 28). Curated by Paul M. Farber and Martin Klimke In collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Washington DC Jewish Community Centers Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery, and the Goethe-Institut. Under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Peter Ammon.

D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) September 15, 6:00 p.m. Keck Center, 500 Fifth Street NW Room 100 Photo IDs required Register:

http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1746193913?ref=

Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Scie (CPNAS) is partnering with Leonardo, the Internati Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, to pr Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), a m discussion forum on art and science projects in the n capital region. DASERs provide the public with a sn the cultural environment of the region and foster interdisciplinary networking.

September 15 Program

5:30 to 6:00 p.m. Check in

6:00 to 6:10 p.m. Welcoming remarks and communi time. Anyone in the audience currently working within the intersections and science will have 30 seconds to share their wor present your work as a teaser so that those who are interested can seek you out during social time follow event.

6:10 to 7:10 p.m. Panelists' presentations (15 minut Irina Aristarkhova, Assistant Professor of Women's and Art, Penn State University, State College, Penn Rebecca Kamen, artist; professor of art, Northern V

Community College Natalie Settles, artist in residence, Tonsor Lab for P Evolutionary Genetics, University of Pittsburgh; ad assistant professor, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Stephen Tonsor, associate professor, Plant Evolutio Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 7:10 to 7:45 p.m. Discussion 7:45 to 8:30 p.m. Reception

The purpose of DASER is to foster community and d around the intersection of disciplines. The thoughts opinions expressed in the DASER events are those o panelists and speakers and do not necessarily reflec positions neither of the National Academy of Scienc Leonardo.

Johns Hopkins University Montgomer y County Campus 9601 Medical Center Drive Rockville, MD 20850 9605 Building, Room 121 Directions

The Montgomery County Department of Economic Development and Switzerland Trade and Investment Promotion cordially invite you to the Trans-Atlantic Symposium on Cleantech Innovation and Federal Contracting. With the participation of at least five Swiss and five American companies, this platform will give you an opportunity to learn more about innovative energy efficiency and sustainable transportation projects from the Geneva and Montgomery County regions and network with some of the industrys leading businesses. One of the many projects that we will present to you that day is PlanetSolar, which is supported by ThinkSwiss Brainstorm the Future, a U.S.-wide official program of the Swiss Confederation that promotes the exchange of ideas and know-how between the United States of America and Switzerland. Seeking to test the boundaries of solar technology by its attempt to make the first exclusively solarpowered circumnavigation of the globe, the TRANOR PlanetSolar (pictured above) literally carries the message of solar energys potential for our planet.

When:

Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m.

Where:

[TransAtlanticSymposium_DetailedProgram.pdf ] Program: Registration, coffee and light refreshments 8:00 a.m. Opening Remarks by 8:30 a.m. Elaine Amir, Executive Director, Johns Hopkins University Montgomery County Campus Steven A. Silverman, Director, Montgomery County Department of Economic Development Markus Walther, Representative, Cleantech Switzerland and Franois Schmidt, Trade Counselor, Embassy of Switzerland in Washington, D.C. Pierre-Franois Unger, Geneva State Councilor, Head of Department of Regional Affairs, Economy and Health

Presentations by

9:00 a.m. Andr Schneider, Conference Director, European Future Energy Forum Pascal Goulpi, Cofounder and Executive Director, PlanetSolar Cathy Snyder, Vice President, Homeland Security & Energy Programs, Washington Operations, Lockheed Martin

Company presentations by

George McKarris, CEO, CleanFIZZ, Geneva, Switzerland Joel Vauchel, Director, Marketing, ABB Transformers, Geneva, Switzerland 11:00 a.m. Piero Abbate, CEO, TVP Solar, Geneva, Switzerland Peter Kazimirski, CEO, City Windmills, Geneva, Switzerland Kimbel A. Nap, Regional General Manager, LEM USA Inc., Milwaukee, WI Maryland companies TBA

Networking lunch

Program concludes 12:40 p.m. A more detailed program is attached to this invitation [TransAtlanticSymposium_DetailedProgram.pdf ]

2:00 p.m.

By Wednesday, September 7, 2011 to was.events@eda.admin.ch. RSVP: Please state clearly whether you would like to participate in the networking lunch.

WRITE. SPEAK. LIVE.

Spoken Word Poetry Slam with Shelly Bell

Friday, September 16, 7:00 p.m.
Athenaeum 201 Prince Street Alexandria, Va 22314 (703) 548-0035 Free

Join the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association for the first in a series of quarterly spoken word poetry events: WRITE. SPEAK. LIVE. Shelly Bell, Director of Seven City Art Society will produce and host the events. The first WRITE. SPEAK. LIVE. event on September 16th will feature a performance by artist Ms. Wise, along with Shelly herself and other talented spoken word poets. Attending the event is free, but for a $10 entry fee, audience members can compete, slam style, for a $100 prize at the end of the evening.

Shelly Bell, Director of Seven City Art Society

Spoken word poetry is the art of bringing written works to life through performance. Spoken word artists create a poetic theatrical experience that engages audiences of non-poetry and poetry lovers alike. The works are valued for their brutal honesty; non-traditional use of poetic conventions, words, and sounds; and fresh creativity. HBO's Def Poetry Jam and Brave New Voices have increased the mainstream popularity of spoken word.

We invite you to join us Thursday, Friday and Sunday from 12 to 4 pm, and Saturdays from 1 to 4 pm. The Athenaeum is closed on holidays. Admission is free.
The NVFAA is partially supported by funding from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Alexandria Commission for the Arts.The NVFAA is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation or materials in an alternative format contact us at nvfaa@nvfaa.org or call 703.548.0035.

"Day into Night" (September 16-November 12) Opening Reception Friday, September 16, 5:00-8:00 p.m The Old Print Gallery 1220 31st Street NW (202) 965-1818 A new show of linocuts and woodblocks by NY artist Emily Trueblood. . This collection of prints, , is inspired by the bold, graphic lines of city architecture, juxtaposed by the flux of time and nature. The prints chosen for Day into Night are inspired by the bold, graphic lines of city architecture, and their strong enduring presence.

Fashion Design Exhibition "Swiss Style" (September 16-October 14) Opening Reception Friday, September 16 6:00-8:30 p.m. Alex Gallery 2106 R Street NW Washington, DC 20008
Fashion designs for men and women created by 10 graduates of the Geneva University of Art and Design / Haute cole dArt et de Design Genve will be showcased in the exhibition Swiss Style, running from September 16 to October 14. The collection reflects diverse design talent, with items ranging from gowns to casual wear, footwear and jewelry. These inventions play with unique materials, illustrating techniques that mix know how and new technologies. Many of the pieces were created for big name designers including the Martin Grant fashion house in Paris and the Brazilian shoe brand, Melissa. Outfits worn by the Swiss Pavilion guides of the World Expo Shanghai will also be on display. A projection will show the latest runway show of the Geneva University of Art and Design, as well as varied student design creations. The opening reception on September 16 will be attended by Charles Beer, Head of the Geneva Department of Education, Culture and Sport. Wine from Geneva will be served.

Julie Simon for Melissa Designs, Brazil

"Deciphering the Art of the Ancient Maya and the Year 2012" Friday, September 16, 7:00 p.m. Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium Thomas Jefferson Building 10 First Street SE Free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required. Art historian and archaeologist David Stuart, the foremost expert on Mayan hieroglyphs, will deliver the fifth Jay I. Kislak Lecture.

Sponsored by the Librarys John W. Kluge Center, the Hispanic Division and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division, In his lecture, Stuart will explore the Mayas prediction of "the end of the world in 2012" and discuss his most recent book on that subject: "The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth about 2012."

Stuart received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work on Mayan writing. He holds the Linda and David Schele Professor of Mesoamerican Art and Writing at the University of Texas in Austin and is also the director of the universitys multi-disciplinary Mesoamerican Center. He has conducted major excavation projects in Mexico and Central America. His book "Ten Phonetic Syllables" (1987) became the basis for the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphs. Among his other works, he published a volume in 2003 in the Peabody Museums series titled "Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions."

The fifth Kislak lecture is a component of the Kislak American Studies Program established at the Library of Congress in 2004 by the Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Previous lecturers were Jared Diamond, Felipe FernandezArmesto, Michael Coe and Jonathan Spence.

In addition to lecture series, the Kislak gift includes an important collection of books, manuscripts, historical documents, maps, and art of the Americas. A permanent rotating exhibition of materials from the Kislak Collection, "Exploring the Early Americas," opened in December 2007; it can found at myLOC.gov/Exhibitions/EarlyAmericas/. The Kislak gift also provides for fellowships to study its materials.

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nations oldest federal cultural institution. The Library seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs and exhibitions.

Potential Impact of Proposed Privacy Legislation Luncheon September 16, 12:00-2:00 p.m. U.S. Chamber of Commerce 1615 H Street NW Washington DC 20062-2000 RSVP: cedgar@uschamber.com Presented by Jim Stone, EVP of Growth Strategies at Maritz This briefing will highlight the potential impact of proposed privacy legislation on a broad range of marketing and related services, including traditional market research, consumer surveys, customer loyalty programs, employee incentive programs, and social media data collection and analysis (the measurement of a businesss perception, reputation, opportunities and risk in the online marketplace). While there has been significant discussion among policy makers about the impact of proposed privacy legislation on advertising, and online behavioral advertising in particular, the potential impact on the U.S. economy is much broader when all facets of marketing services are considered, especially given the widespread use and reliance on these services to drive sales revenue, market growth, customer acquisition, employee productivity and other elements that are fundamental to performance of U.S. businesses and our national economy.

Coming Soon:

Site/Schema solo exhibition by Nikki Painter (September 17 - October 22)

Opening Reception Saturday, September 17, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Civilian Art Projects 1019 7th Street NW Second Floor Washington DC 20001 (202) 607-3804
Civilian Art Projects presents Site/Schema, new drawings and site-specific installation by Nikki Painter. In her second solo exhibition, Painter's works continue to develop and expand a set of images, bright colors and patterns to investigate the ways in which chaos and order interact and coexist. She will exhibit new works on paper and two site-specific installations, one in the project space and one in "The Entrance," our new foyer space made available for experiments and other awesomeness.

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Civilian Art Projects is a gallery in Washington, DC representing emerging and established artists. Civilian supports artists working in a broad range of media including painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, and other emerging forms. Founded by a curator and arts leader and supported by a growing network of collectors, artists, and patrons, Civilian brokers the connection between the public audience and the artist's private practice through a challenging exhibition series, public talks, off site exhibitions, workshops, art fairs, and other unique events and opportunities. Civilian is located in the Mt. Vernon/Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Hours: Open by appointment until September 15, 2011.

"Derailed 2"

The Solo Show of Tim Conlon

(September 17-October 16) Opening Reception Saturday, September 17, 8:00-11:00 p.m. Art Whino Gallery 120 American Way National Harbor, MD 20745

The event is FREE and open to the public. Derailed 2, a solo exhibition featuring aerosol artist Tim Conlon. Derailed 2 pays homage to the artists almost twenty-year love affair with freight train graffiti art. In this new exhibition, Conlon will showcase a series of new works including life-size aerosol

paintings of aged freight cars; weathered model trains featuring scaled-to-size graffiti in the bright colors and iconic characters for which Conlon is best known; and contemporary photographs of trains and their environs. About Derailed 2 Conlon says, I discovered freight train graffiti as a college kid in Baltimore just as the scene was emerging. As one of the biggest port cities on the East Coast, commercial cargo regularly arrived on large ships in Baltimore Harbor and was transferred to freight trains headed toward big cities like Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Train cars were everywhere and as an art student with in interest in graffiti, it was easy to get hooked on this revolving art gallery.

Conlon is best known for his large-scale murals and canvases. He was one of two aerosol artists featured in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallerys 2008 exhibition, RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture and recently was featured and had a small curatorial role in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Arts Art in the Streets exhibit. Works by Conlon have also been exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Art Basel in Miami, Strychnin Gallery in Berlin, and numerous other galleries. He has been featured in dozens of publications, websites, and other media outlets including Smithsonian Magazine, Washingtonian Magazine, The Washington Post, Washington City Paper, NPR, DC Modern Luxury, American Observer, Paste Magazine, the DCist blog, and The Examiner. Conlon posts regular missives about art and culture both local and global on his website and blog, www.conoperative.com.

Public Surveillance Cameras: A Clear-Eyed Look at Their Implementation and Impact Monday, September 19, 11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided at 11:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at noon. The Urban Institute 2100 M Street NW 5th Floor Washington, DC 20037 RSVP: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1867697333 Panelists: Sharon Bradford Franklin, senior counsel, Constitution Project Nancy La Vigne, director, Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute Jonathan Lewin, managing deputy director, City of Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications Mike Semel, deputy local editor, news and investigations, Washington Post (moderator) Cities are increasingly turning to surveillance cameras to reduce crime, but do they stop wrongdoing in its tracks or simply push it into other neighborhoods? If the cameras perform as intended, what are their costs to police budgets and citizen rights? To fill the knowledge gap, the Urban Institutes Justice Policy Center studied surveillance systems in Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. The results of that three-year study -Evaluating the Use of Public Surveillance Cameras for Crime Control and Prevention -- will be detailed, discussed, and debated at this special Urban Institute forum. In theory, surveillance cameras deter potential offenders, alert police to dangerous situations, generate evidence to help identify suspects and witnesses, and make people feel safer. Join us to find out how well theory works in real life.

Increasing Interdependence: China and the Two Koreas

Gordon Chang
Forbes.com Columnist Author of "The Coming Collapse of China"

Dick Nanto
Congressional Research Service

Since formally opening up relations in 1992, ties between South Korea and China have grown at an exponential pace. In the span of only three decades China has become South Korea's top trade partner, while the United States has fallen to fourth. At the same time, North Korea's dependence on China as its sole patron has only grown. Join KEI for a special breakfast program to mark the launch of Korea's Economy 2011 and two of this year's distinguished authors for a discussion on the changes and implications of the growing interdependence between China and the two Koreas.

Tuesday, September 20, 9:00-10:30 a.m. Korea Economic Institute 1800 K Street NW Suite 1010 Washington DC, 20006
A light breakfast will be served.

Please register here: http://www.keia.org/rsvp.php?event=Increasing+Interdependence+and+Kor ea's+Economy+Book+Launch

You are cordially invited to a book lecture for Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve with author Dr. Juliana Geran Pilon IWP Professor Director, Center for Culture and Security at IWP Friday, September 23, 6:00-7:30 p.m. The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Please RSVP to kbridges@iwp.edu

In Soulmates: Resurrecting Eve, Juliana Geran Pilon argues for a return to an egalitarian view of men and women, found in the original Genesis narrative, as reflected through Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In each of these Abrahamic traditions, it was understood that man and woman were created to be soulmates in God's image -equal despite their different functions within society. Pilon writes that this original message has gradually been distorted, with disastrous effect. Any hope for an ennobling human community begins by resurrecting Eve as an equal partner to Adam.

The work examines the Biblical creation narrative, comparing it to Greek and other ancient mythologies. Pilon explains how the disturbing association of woman with sin and death led to Eve's demise as Adam's equal. The final section of the work deals with the Goddess myth, love and marriage in early religious narratives, and modern man's search for his soul no less than for a soulmate.

The book, at its core, is a meditation on the relationship between men and women but also among human beings. The resurrection of Eve is indispensable to attaining a true appreciation of love and faith. Pilon uses religious texts, expert

commentary, and various works of fiction, poetry, and psychology to make her argument come alive. The work is strengthened by the writing style, alternately poetic and humorous, and a clear and illuminating progression of ideas. Its emphasis on reconciliation and understanding, and its post-feminist outlook will find a receptive audience.

Juliana Geran Pilon (Author) Juliana Geran Pilon is the director of the Center for Culture and Security at the Institute of World Politics. Her areas of expertise include international affairs, philosophy, public diplomacy, and foreign culture. She is the author of numerous titles, including Notes from the Other Side of Night; Why America Is Such a Hard Sell: Beyond Pride and Prejudice; and The Bloody Flag: Post-Communist Nationalism in Eastern Europe (available from Transaction).

Visit us throughout the day for an open house with:

free sample programs and classes cooking demos music and entertainment refreshments giveaways and an opportunity to tour our new space-complete with a rooftop terrace, state-of-the-art teaching kitchen, courtyard, and increased program and gallery space.

Saturday, September 24
11:00 am - 4:00 pm

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts 1632 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 (202) 483-8600

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We hope to see you September 24th and invite you to join us throughout the year for an expanded selection of programs for the cancer community and the general public, including: Healthy cooking and nutrition classes Arts and creativity classes Living Well with Cancer workshops and retreats Therapeutic yoga & stress reduction and more classes for health and wholeness

Culture: A Core Element of Austrian Foreign Policyure - A Core Element to Austrian Foreign Policy imund Abraham Memorial Screening Raimund Abraham Memo Lecture by Martin Eichtinger
Monday, September 26, 7:30 p.m. Embassy of Austria 3524 International Court NW Washington, DC 20008 Admission free, RSVP required: www.acfdc.org/events-registration or (202) 895-6776 Ambassador Martin Eichtinger is Director General for Cultural Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. He was born in Graz, Austria, in 1961 and finished his postgraduate studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna/Italy and Paris. He joined the Austrian Foreign Service in 1986 and served as personal secretary to the Foreign Minister. His diplomatic assignments included Mexico and Washington, D.C., where he headed the Austrian Press and Information Service from 1992 to 1999. Between 1999 and 2007, he was Chief of Cabinet of the Austrian Special Representative for Payments to Former Forced and Slave Laborers of the NaziRegime, Director for International Affairs at the Austrian Federation of Industry, manager in a private company, Chief of Staff and later Secretary General of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor. From 2007 to 2010, he served as Austrian Ambassador to Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Since July 2010, he has been Director General for Cultural Policy at the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs. At the Austrian Embassy, Ambassador Eichtinger will hold a lecture on the importance of culture as a general means of diplomacy and as a core element of Austrian Foreign Policy.

You are cordially invited to a special lecture with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations, American University Advisory Board member, IWP's Center for Culture and Security on the topic of Poetry in Islamic Culture and his new book, Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse Thusday, September 29, 4:30 -6:30 p.m. The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Please RSVP to kbridges@iwp.edu

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Ahmed was the Pakistani High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom. He has also held many other senior positions in Pakistan. His many award-winning books include Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World, Jinnah Quartet, Journey into Islam, and, most recently, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam.