Posts Tagged ‘festival’
FotoWeek DC Returns This Week
FotoWeek DC by Hoffmann
FotoWeek DC will return to the District this week for a series of exhibits celebrating the art of photography. The festival features over 150 photography-related workshops, lectures and exhibitions, as well as portfolio reviews by a specialized panel at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. It all starts with a launch party scheduled [...]
Celebrate Hawai’i at NMAI
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courtesy of ‘whonew’
Kicking off last night at the National Museum of the American Indian is a special exhibit about our 50th state, Hawai’i. The exhibition, “This IS Hawai’i” is a collaboration between NMAI and Transformer, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit visual arts organization. Together, they present a multisite exhibition featuring new and experimental works of [...]
We Love Music: MoogFest 2010 (Night One)
all photos by the author except where noted.
Also check out my MoogFest 2010 (Night Two) coverage.
Also check out my MoogFest 2010 (Night Three) coverage.
Last weekend, in scenic Asheville North Carolina, AC Entertainment and Moog Music teamed up to present a revamped and relocated version of the annual MoogFest; a festival celebrating inventor Robert Moog’s massive [...]
Wed. Screening: How Everyday Folks Bring Change
If you’ve ever thought of starting your own sustainably sourced salad shop or of plucking all the trash from the city streets, check out tomorrow night’s screening of Climate of Change, a film that shows how ordinarily people are making a difference for the planet, around the planet.
It shows how self-described “hillbillies” in Appalachia battle [...]
Environmental Film Fest on the Way
Break out the organic popcorn — the Environmental Film Festival is coming. From March 16-28, you can see up to 155 films from 31 countries. This year’s theme is the connection between food and the environment.
Going Green DC has a good wrapup of the festival’s global and local highlights. A Road Not Taken, which talks [...]
FotoWeek DC 2009: What to See
FotoWeek Projections by coolmarie
Before last year there was a huge void in DC’s photography world. Despite being the home of National Geographic, the Newseum, the Washington Post, and many award winning photographers, we were missing an event to bring everyone together, to celebrate photography. Sure, some of the galleries in town would have a photography [...]
Weekend Flashback: 4/3 – 4/5/09
Macro Blossoms II/Washington DC, courtesy of base10
Did you get out to see the blossoms, like seemingly everyone else around here and along the East Coast? A gorgeous weekend – even with high wind bursts on Saturday – couldn’t damper the Cherry Blossom Festival and many blooms remained attached to their branches. Which meant they were [...]
Chocolate Lovers Festival
Moonstruck chocolates
Originally uploaded by eszter
The Fairfax, VA Chocolate Lovers Festival is this weekend, Feb. 7-8 in the Old Town part of the City of Fairfax in our fine Commonwealth of Virginia. It has been going on since 1992, is held the first full weekend in February and looks to be quite a big affair. From [...]
More »We Love Arts: The Art of Autumn
32_309 Fish.jpg, courtesy of smleon
Fall is right around the corner…and so is the sixth annual Alexandria Festival of the Arts.
The festival runs this year on Saturday, September 13 and Sunday, September 14. As usual, the festival will occupy the section of King Street between the Potomac and Washington Street, so casual drivers of the area [...]
