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Elliott (in the morning) announced on his morning radio show that the chili cook off is now sold out. We confirmed this by checking the DC101 website. For those of you with tickets, Minus-One is the first band playing starting at Noon
Help Paint 8th Street NW On Saturday! (Colorfield remix project)
In March, we reported that 8th Street NW was to be “striped” in association with the Colorfield remix project that runs this April to July. We got word that striping will occur on Saturday!
Where: 8th St NW, between D & E St
When: Saturday, May 12th, 6:00am – 7:00pm
Dedication: Saturday, May 12th, 12:00 – 12:30pm
Come and help paint 8th Street!
- From the DC Newsroom: In May 1987, the Corcoran School of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum collaborated to paint a giant color stripe scheme on 8th Street NW between D and E in honor of Gene Davis, an important artist of the color field movement and former Corcoran faculty member. Mokha Laget, long time studio assistant to Gene Davis, designed the project. Now 20 years later, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the Corcoran plan to recreate the 1987 project as an homage to Gene Davis with Mokha Laget as the lead artist for this project once again. She has created an alternative scheme much closer in color, rhythm, musicality and lyricism to Gene Davis’ paintings.
8th Street (between D & E) will be closed during these times:
Info courtesy of the PQNA. Pic courtesy of the DC Newsroom.
DC101 Chili Cook-Off Coming To Old Convention Center Lot This Saturday
When: 11 am – 8pm, Saturday, May 12
Where: Old Washington Convention Center Site (approx. 9th & H St NW)
- Here is the Newswire blurb: Now in its 28th year, the DC101 Chili Cook-Off benefiting the National Kidney Foundation is DC’s hottest block party featuring top bands and dozens of the area’s best chili cooks competing for top honors. The event is set for Saturday, May 12, 2007, from 11:00 am – 8:00 pm at 11th Street and New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, the site of the former convention center.
In addition to the chili competition, the event features an outstanding lineup of musical acts including Jet, Three Days Grace, Buckcherry, Breaking Benjamin, Silversun Pickups […]
Last year’s Cook-Off attracted 15,000 people, which is about 3/4 the capacity of a Verizon Center basketball game (20,173 people). That should give readers an idea of how busy the neighborhood will be on Saturday!
International Artists’ Forum At Touchstone Gallery Tomorrow Night
A group of international artists will be unveiling their latest works in the Touchstone Gallery Annex at 406 7th Street tomorrow night, May 11, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm. The public is invited to attend the opening reception.
The forum includes Ethel Bustamante (Columbia), Wendy Plotkin-Mates (USA), Haydeh Rastin (Iran), Marjolein van Milligen (The Netherlands), and Marion van Ruiten (Germany). Guest artist, Cynthia Angeles, is from the Philippines.
Bustamante and Plotkin-Mates formed the group about five years ago when they both met as part of the World Bank Art Staff Association. As a forum, their ideal is to enrich the DC community with the diversity of their cultures entwined in their artwork.
Depicted is Bustamante’s Fertility Dance.