Holiday Event? Get Listed!
Friday, October 27, 2006; Page WE03
Holiday Event? Get Listed!
Weekend will publish its annual guide to Christmas, Hanukkah and other winter holiday activities on Dec. 1. If you would like us to include your concert, pageant, children's show or similar event, mail a detailed description -- with dates, times, prices, street address and a telephone number that we may print -- to Holiday Happenings, Weekend, The Washington Post, 1150 15th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20071-5650. This is in addition to information you may wish to submit for our regular weekly listings. Our deadline is Nov. 17. Craft fairs and religious services cannot be included.
An Addition to George's House
Mount Vernon, the first president's last home, unveils its Donald W. Reynolds
  A model of George Washington at age 45 is on display at Mount Vernon's new galleries. (By James A. Parcell -- The Washington Post) |
Museum and Education Center and the Ford Orientation Center Friday with remarks by historian David McCullough and broadcaster Roger Mudd, Revolutionary-era military reenactors, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and free admission all day. The $60 million, 66,700-square-foot complex will display furnishings, china, silver, manuscripts and other memorabilia in 20 galleries, and five theaters will screen films about Washington's life and era.
MOUNT VERNON CEREMONY Friday at 11 at Mount Vernon, on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, about eight miles south of Alexandria. Estate open daily 9 to 5 through Tuesday, 9 to 4 from
November through February. Regular admission $13, seniors $12, ages 6 to 11 $6, younger free. 703-780-2000 orhttp:/
Dance Around the World
Mexico's leading modern dance troupe, Tania Pérez-Salas and her Compañia de Danza, makes its first Washington area appearance Saturday at George Mason University. In one piece, "Waters of Forgetfulness," the stage will be transformed into a shallow pool as part of an examination of the symbolic and practical significance of water. A Boston critic called the work "not only visually arresting but unabashedly sensual, subliminally erotic and achingly human." Tickets cost $18 to $36.
COMPAÑIA DE DANZA Saturday at 8 at the George Mason University Center for the Arts, 4400 University Dr., Fairfax. For tickets, 888-945-2468; for information, 703-993-8888 orhttp:/
As part of its "EtCetera!" series of edgy international works, the Kennedy Center is staging "Saint Genet l'Africain," inspired by Jean Genet's "The Maids," about two sisters who serve a self-centered matron, as interpreted in modern dance by choreographers Koffi Koko of Benin and Ismael Ivo of Brazil and their all-male troupe. In their version, the characters become two prison inmates and an eccentric warden. Tickets cost $38.
"SAINT GENET L'AFRICAIN" Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:30 at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, 2700 F St. NW (Metro: Foggy Bottom-GWU,
with free shuttles). 202-467-4600 (TDD: 202-416-8524) orhttp:/
