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Signature Event
Friday, August 20, 2010
10:45pm
Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert curates the annual Off-the-Wall Film Series, presenting a cross...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
6:30pm
This event was originally scheduled for January but was rescheduled due to inclement weather in the Washington D.C. area...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 14, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 20, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Sunday, May 22, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Sunday, April 17, 2016
2:00pm
Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 10, 2016
6:30pm
The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...