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Fast Fashion/Slow Art

Tuesday–Sunday 1 p.m.–5 p.m.

Fast Fashion/Slow Art comprises 11 films, videos and video installations by a diverse group of emerging and established contemporary artists and filmmakers that, collectively, encourage scrutiny of today’s garment industry.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

From the Margins

9AM-5PM

2019 marks thirty years since the cancellation of TThe Perfect Moment: Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. And in this new perfect moment, this appealing anniversary wrapped neatly in black and white, it is easy to draw a line directly from the present back to one point in the past.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

INTER | SECTIONALITY: Diaspora from the Creole City

Open Nov. 14, 2019–March 20, 2020, Tuesday–Friday 10 a.m.–6 p.m., weekends 1–6 p.m.

Inter | Sectionality: Diaspora Art from the Creole City is a bold, multiregional, multidisciplinary curatorial collaboration and exploration of the emergence of the “Creole City” as a local, regional and global phenomenon.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

HOME: Selections from the Corcoran Study Collection

Free and open to the public November 14 - December 15, 2019; Tuesday – Sunday, 1 – 5 p.m.

Is a home just the physical dwelling or is it really where the heart is? How do we depict home? Is it a place, a person, or something indescribable? HOME: Selections from the Corcoran Study Collection seeks to show many facets of home through photographic works recently returned to the Corcoran Flagg Building from works explo

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Corcoran Music Festival: Master Class With counter)induction

1–3 PM

counter)induction contemplates the simultaneity of the historical and the contemporary in a concert of music emphatically modern yet profoundly connected to the past. 

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Dance Concert Fall 2019

November 14, 15, 16 at 7:30 pm

Student Choreographers from the Program of Theatre & Dance take the stage in this audience favorite! Featuring Flag2Redo by Guest Artist Ann Carlson and a new work choreographed by Dana Tai Soon Burgess

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre Marvin Center 800 21st Street, NW, First Floor Washington, DC

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Corcoran Music Festival: counter)induction: Futures Past

7:30–9:30 p.m.

counter)induction contemplates the simultaneity of the historical and the contemporary in a concert of music emphatically modern yet profoundly connected to the past.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Fast Fashion/Slow Art Exhibit Tour

1:00pm - 1:00pm

If you are interested in getting a more in-depth look at “Fast Fashion/Slow Art,” currently on view in the galleries off of the Flagg Atrium until December 15th, come take a student-led tour of the exhibit held on select Saturdays!

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Raas Chaos XIX

7:00pm - 8:30pm

 

The George Washington University's South Asian Society is excited to present one of the nation's leading garba-raas competitions: RAAS CHAOS!  In honor of celebrating our 19th year, we will be providing more entertainment, talent, and heart than ever before. We will showcase the country's best and most competitive collegiate garba-raas teams from across the nation!

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Diversity
• Foggy Bottom Campus

Dance Concert Fall 2019

November 14, 15, 16 at 7:30 pm

Student Choreographers from the Program of Theatre & Dance take the stage in this audience favorite! Featuring Flag2Redo by Guest Artist Ann Carlson and a new work choreographed by Dana Tai Soon Burgess

Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre Marvin Center 800 21st Street, NW, First Floor Washington, DC

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Fall Ball

7:30pm - 7:30pm

Alternative Breaks are substance-free, community service-learning trips during the university's fall, winter and spring breaks. Participants travel locally, nationally and internationally in teams of 10 - 50 to engage in active service and gain new perspectives on social issues.

• Community Service
• Student Organizations
• Sustainability

Documentary 13th with the Petey Greene Program

10:30am - 10:30am

Join the Petey Greene Program in the Marvin Amphitheater for a screening of the award-winning documentary 13th, detailling the systemic discrimination present in the United States after the passage of the 13th Ammendment. Screening will be on Sunday, November 17th from 10:30-1! The Petey Greene Program sends volunteer tutors into jails and correctional facilities to help incarcerated people earn their GEDs.

• Academic Events
• Community Service
• Student Organizations

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• School of Engineering & Applied Science
• School of Media & Public Affairs

GW Bands: New Beginnings

1:30–3:30 p.m.

Join the GW Bands for their fall concert, featuring the debut of GW’s new band director, Michael Schmitz. The repertoire for this concert draws from the traditional English rhyme “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue,” which details what a bride should wear on the day of her wedding, a new beginning in life.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

GW Orchestra and University Singers Fall Concert

6–8 p.m.

Join the GW Orchestra and the GW University Singers for a joint concert. Additional information will be posted at corcoran.gwu.edu/mainstage closer to the event date.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

The Undeniable Power of Music to Heal

4:15pm - 4:15pm

Join William Wilson Corcoran Visiting Professor Molly Jane Udaya Sturges for an in-depth look into the crossroads of music, healing, community making and spirituality. For over 25 years Molly has been working as a social practice composer, artistic director, and healing arts practitioner with individuals and communities around the globe.

• Academic Events
• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design
• School of Nursing

What Makes Local Infrastructure So Expensive?

3:30pm - 3:30pm

What makes local infrastructure so expensive? Are there ways to trim cost but maintain quality? To solicit community input and still proceed expeditiously?

Join our panel of local experts and moderator Robert McCartney (Senior Regional Correspondent, The Washington Post) to explore policies that could help moderate high and increasing infrastructure costs.

Panelists are:

• Academic Events
• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Career & Professional Development

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• School of Business
• School of Engineering & Applied Science

VASC Speaker: Kaywin Feldman

6:30pm - 6:30pm

On November 20th at 6:30 pm in Smith 104 join us to hear a lecture from Kaywin Feldman, the fifth director of the National Gallery of Art. She will be speaking on her experience as the director of four different art museums across the United States and her commitment to connecting people to art in a globalized world through the power of wonder and accessibility.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Betrayal: When the Government Took Over the Teamsters Union

7:00pm - 8:30pm

Betrayal: When the Government Took over the Teamsters Union is a documentary exposing how the abuse of federal power over three decades ruined lives and careers, while undermining constitutional protections of more than a million union members. 

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment
• Foggy Bottom Campus
• Guest Speakers

Corcoran Music Festival: Opera Lafayette: John Blow’s Venus and Adonis

Check corcoran.gwu.edu/mainstage for updates on time

Opera Lafayette will perform a reimagined version of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis across two nights in celebration of their 25th anniversary, returning to the Corcoran’s Flagg Building, where they debuted in 1995.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Building Community on Climate Change - Exhibition Opening

6:00pm - 6:00pm

This December, Chile will host the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-25). To commemorate this event, the Embassy of Chile to the United States has invited students from the Corcoran Continuing Education program to exhibit works inspired by our planet's climate and the effects of our collective human impact.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Artist Interview: Fast Fashion on Film

6:30–8PM

Filmmaker Wang Bing in conversation with "Fast Fashion" co-curator Phyllis Rosenzweig

 

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Corcoran Music Festival: Opera Lafayette: John Blow’s Venus and Adonis

Check corcoran.gwu.edu/mainstage for updates on time

Opera Lafayette will perform a reimagined version of John Blow’s Venus and Adonis across two nights in celebration of their 25th anniversary, returning to the Corcoran’s Flagg Building, where they debuted in 1995.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Fast Fashion/Slow Art Exhibit Tour

1:00pm - 1:00pm

If you are interested in getting a more in-depth look at “Fast Fashion/Slow Art,” currently on view in the galleries off of the Flagg Atrium until December 15th, come take a student-led tour of the exhibit held on select Saturdays!

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Percussion Camerata

7:30–9:00 p.m.

Join Music at the Corcoran for our Camerata Recital series, featuring curated student performances in a salon atmosphere presenting an eclectic repertoire. All Camerata recitals are free and open to the public.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design

Percussion Camerata

7:30pm - 7:30pm

Our Camerata Recital series features curated student performances in a salon atmosphere presenting eclectic repertoire and ties together performance practice and scholarship.

• Arts, Culture & Entertainment

• Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
• Corcoran School of the Arts & Design