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  • No image for this event TUESDAY JANUARY 8, 2008 1 P.M.
    Villa & Grounds Tour

    Tagged : history, programs, tour
  • No image for this event SUNDAY JANUARY 13, 2008 3 P.M.
    Cypress String Quartet: Featuring Beethoven Opus 132

    Spiritual. Continuing their fascinating discussion of the "Late Beethoven" quartets, the Cypress turns its attention and virtuoso skills to the composer's String Quartet Op. 132 in A minor. Completed in July 1825, this transcendent composition embodies the range of turmoil and emotion experienced by an aging composer struggling with ill health, loneliness, financial loss, and most profoundly, deafness. Members enjoy an informal reception after ...

    Tagged : classical, concerts, programs
  • No image for this event THURSDAY JANUARY 17, 2008 NOON
    Member Book Club: A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

    Member Book Club discusses A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. For information on joining the Book Club, please visit the Membership page here.

    Tagged : learn, programs
  • The Divorcee SATURDAY JANUARY 19, 2008 2 P.M.
    Pre-Code Film: The Divorcee

    CANCELLED - Due to unforseen circumstances, this showing has been cancelled. Apologies for the inconvenience.When her husband has an affair, Jerry Bernard Martin (Norma Shearer) takes matters into her own hands and has an affair of her own. Also starring Chester Morris, Robert Montgomery and Conrad Nagel. Introductory remarks by Bay Area journalist, Angie Coiro. For mature audiences.

    Tagged : film, programs
  • Modern Iraqi Painting SUNDAY JANUARY 20, 2008 3 P.M.
    Moments From 20th Century Iraqi Art Opening Reception (Part 2)

    Stage two includes a number of artists known as the 60s generation. They are the artists who were taught by the Pioneers and thus nourished by the same principles that focused on issues of identity without abandoning aesthetic experimentation. Characteristic of their age, however, was change. Four of the artists presented here were founding members of the New Vision Group, al-Ru'yya al-Jadidah. The New ...

    Tagged : iraqreframe, programs
  • No image for this event WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2008 9:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Frankly Ben!

    Recommended for grades: 4-6 Curriculum Connections: History-Social Science; Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Meet Benjamin Franklin – not the elder statesman, funny glasses Franklin – but Ben, the inquisitive, mischievous, inventive fifteen- year-old. Ben’s first great idea is to form a club called Junto. But while Ben thinks their club is just about hangin’ out and having fun, his club mates have something else in mind ...

    Tagged : history, learn, school and teacher
  • No image for this event WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23, 2008 11:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Frankly Ben! -- SOLD OUT

    Recommended for grades: 4-6 Curriculum Connections: History-Social Science; Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Meet Benjamin Franklin – not the elder statesman, funny glasses Franklin – but Ben, the inquisitive, mischievous, inventive fifteen- year-old. Ben’s first great idea is to form a club called Junto. But while Ben thinks their club is just about hangin’ out and having fun, his club mates have something else in mind ...

    Tagged : history, learn, schooland teacher
  • No image for this event THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 2008 9:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley -- SOLD OUT

    Recommended for grades: K-5 Curriculum Connections: English-Language Arts; History-Social Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Stanley Lambchop is a normal kid until the bulletin board on the wall above his bed falls and lands right on top of him! The next morning when he awakes, Stanley is flat. Not just flat – really flat! Stanley decides that if he has to be flat, at least he is ...

    Tagged : learn, school and teacher
  • No image for this event THURSDAY JANUARY 24, 2008 11:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley -- SOLD OUT

    Recommended for grades: K-5 Curriculum Connections: English-Language Arts; History-Social Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Theatre Stanley Lambchop is a normal kid until the bulletin board on the wall above his bed falls and lands right on top of him! The next morning when he awakes, Stanley is flat. Not just flat – really flat! Stanley decides that if he has to be flat, at least he is ...

    Tagged : learn, school and teacher
  • Afiara String Quartet SUNDAY JANUARY 27, 2008 2 P.M.
    Afiara String Quartet: The Music of Dmitri Shostakovich: Robert Greenberg Lecture Series

    Opening for the 2008 Robert Greenberg Lecture Series, the Afiara String Quartet performs this exciting concert featuring the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The program includes Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 2, Op. 68, String Quartet No. 7, Op. 108, and String Quartet No. 13, Op. 138. The Afiara String Quartet accompanies Greenberg's witty and insightful discussion throughout the four-lecture series.Additional Information: Afiara's ...

    Tagged : classical, concerts, programs
  • No image for this event MONDAY JANUARY 28, 2008 7:30 P.M.
    Art historian Nada Shabout and archeologist McGuire Gibson with Abbas Milani (moderator)

    Archeologist McGuire Gibson and Art Historian Nada Shabout discuss the current conditions of Iraq's modern and ancient cultural sites and production.NADA SHABOUTDepartment of Art History, University of North TexasKnown as one of the world’s leading authorities on contemporary Iraqi art, Nada Shabout dedicated her career to documenting artwork missing and stolen from the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, damaged by ...

    Tagged : iraqreframe, programs
  • No image for this event THURSDAY JANUARY 31, 2008 9:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Strings of Fire - Cuerdas de Fuego

    Recommended for grades: 3-6 Curriculum Connections: History-Social Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Music Latin America comes alive with the exciting music from Strings of Fire – Cuerdas de Fuego. South American harpist Ramón Romero and Cuban percussionist Carlos Caro perform the lively, descriptive music of their homelands, giving students a multimedia bilingual musical tour of South America, Mexico and Cuba. Each melody describes Latin American nature, geography ...

    Tagged : concerts, learn, school and teacher
  • No image for this event THURSDAY JANUARY 31, 2008 11:30 A.M. (School & Teacher Event School & Teacher event)
    Strings of Fire - Cuerdas de Fuego

    Recommended for grades: 3-6 Curriculum Connections: History-Social Science; Visual and Performing Arts-Music Latin America comes alive with the exciting music from Strings of Fire – Cuerdas de Fuego. South American harpist Ramón Romero and Cuban percussionist Carlos Caro perform the lively, descriptive music of their homelands, giving students a multimedia bilingual musical tour of South America, Mexico and Cuba. Each melody describes Latin American nature, geography ...

    Tagged : concerts, learn, school and teacher

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