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Image courtesy of La Sagrada Familia.
Monday:
>> The National Building Museum focuses on design tonight with New York architect Deborah Berke from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Berke will discuss her experiences as well as her "notion that architecture is not an end in itself, but a setting that is enhanced by its use." $20.
>> Fans of Barcelona, Gaudi and curvaceous architecture should head to the Museum of the American Indian tonight at 6:45 p.m. GW art history professor Phillip Jacks will highlight Barcelona's renewal as well as the stunning Sagrada Familia in Gaudi's Barcelona. $35.
Wednesday:
>> Today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., the New America Foundation presents a new Workforce and Family Education program titled The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Children: The 2009 Child Well Being Index, at which "speakers will discuss the state of America's children, some bright spots and particular areas of concern, as well as steps America can take to help its young people succeed in the face of daunting obstacles." Free.
>> Tonight at 6:30 p.m., the Spy Museum hosts a timely discussion with Shuja Nawaz, Bruce Riedel, and Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, titled Pakistan Today: The ISI, India, and What the Future Holds. They'll look at answers to questions such as "How does the history of the ISI— and its partnership with the CIA during the 1980s—affect its actions and worldview?" and "How do the United States and Pakistan look on their partnership in today’s circumstances?" $15.
>> Also at 6:30 p.m. tonight is an author event with Bob Coen and Eric Nadler at the K Street Busboys. They'll discuss Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail, which "details their seven-year global journey on the trail of anthrax, littered with dead scientists, billions in cash, and the scariest new germ arsenals known to humankind."
>> The Arts Club of Washington hosts an evening of poetry tonight starting at 7 p.m. with award-winning poets Jessica Garratt and Lisa Russ Spaar "as they flirt with the master, Emily Dickinson."
>> Get your fill of George Pelecanos at 7:30 p.m. at the Borders in Bailey's Crossroads.
Thursday:
>> $6 gets you into Sixth and I tonight, for an evening with best-selling novelist Elinor Lipman, who will be discussing her new book The Family Man, "a story full of witty dialogue among a gay lawyer, his widowed former wife, and his aspiring-actress daughter." You may remember her first novel, Then She Found Me, which was adapted to film and starred Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick and Bette Midler.
Friday:
>> Today's lunchtime lecture at the Hirshhorn should be an interesting one. D.C. performance artist Kathryn Cornelius will be giving her take on Guido van der Werve's work in the Black Box. 12:30 p.m.
>> Head to Politics and Prose tonight at 7 p.m. for an evening with author John F. Ross and his book War On The Run, which "profiles Robert Rogers, a colorful, extraordinary, but little-known hero of the 18th-century American frontier, whose tactics as a ranger in unconventional warfare prefigured those of today’s elite special forces in remote regions."
>> Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m., the 14th Street Busboys hosts evenings of spoken word as part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. New Orleans' Kalamu ya Salaam is on Friday, and D.C.'s Brian Gilmore is on Saturday.
Saturday:
>> Today's 2:30 p.m. Inside Media event at the Newseum highlights FBI Hostage Rescue with Special Agent James McGee who was a key figure in Waco rescue. He'll discuss his experiences and sign his new book, Phase Line Green.
>> Politics and Prose hosts Womenomics authors and TV journalists Claire Shipman and Katty Kay at 6 p.m. tonight.
Sunday:
>> The Newseum hosts another Inside Media discussion today at 2:30 p.m. Twenty Years After Tiananmen will feature veteran journalists Bernard Shaw and Bob Deans, who "reported live from Beijing as the story of a historic summit between communist leaders quickly changed when countless citizens defied the Chinese government by assembling and protesting in Tiananmen Square."
>> At 2 p.m., the National Gallery of Art continues their Short History of Color Lecture Series with Film Color before 1928. Professor Charles O'Brien will speak before a screening of short films, including Fireworks, A Little Jules Verne, Metamorphoses, and The Witches Cave.
Next Monday:
>> Hear first-hand from the Shakespeare Theatre Company what it takes to pull off an amazing performance tonight at 7 p.m. at the Lansburgh Theatre (Navy Yard metro). In Masters of the Theater and the Power of Performance: Behind the Scenes at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, artistic director Michael Kahn talks with the cast of the company's upcoming King Lear. $80.
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