2009 (Partial)

Gallery

March 14th to April 30th

Judy Byron - Where I Live

Exploring Identity Through Bodies And Clothes.

Friday, March 27th

Movie Night at the Corner Store

Saturday, March 28th

Pickers Party at the Corner Store

8:00 PM

Jam Session/Open Stage night at the corner. Libations, light fare, tunes...

Saturday April 18th

8:00 PM

Cabaret! "Spring Is..." Kathy Reilly

with Mary Reilly and Barry Abel

Thursday April 30th

7:00 to 9:30 PM Fused Glass Intro

with Laurie Siegel & Kris Swanson

Sunday May 3rd 

Noon to 5 PM- Gift & Garden Art Show

Saturday May 9th

Gallery Opening 6 to 8 PM

Ellen Cornett

"Retold Tales"

Music Hall- 8 to 10 PM

Roger Hart & Matt Holsen

Eclectic blends and Blues

Sunday May 17th -Noon to 5 PM

One day woven Glass Art Show

“Nets-Working”

Kids helping kids (buy mosquito nets)

Benefit show for Save The Children, with instructor Laurie Siegel

Friday May 22nd

Movie Night at the Corner Store

Saturday May 30th

Dance party

8 PM- The Bobbe Shore Trio

Monday June 8th

Gallery Opening for

Valerie Gwinner

Saturday June 27th

Author Reading at 8 PM

 "Summer Shorts With A Twist"

by writer/performer Brett Busang.

Explore the themes of heat, seasonal and otherwise.

Saturday July  8th - Gallery Opening

New work from 29 Award winning artists

of the Capitol Hill Art League, through August 2nd.

Saturday July 18th

Kids Day at the Corner!

Pinata Decorating Workshop and

Pinata Show from 2 to 4 PM 

With Thalia Wiggins

Liz DeRoche - Kid’s Concert at 5 PM

With songs from her new CD,

The Singing Lizard

Wednesday July 22nd

Author Reading at 8 PM

Patricia Roth Schwartz - 

Poetry & short fiction 

Thursday July 30th

Poetry/Jazz at 8 PM

Ruth Lepson & Friends

Saturday August 15th

Kids & Family Day at the Corner! 5 PM

Artist/Performer Kevin Reese builds a

Giant Mobile over the audience with

"A Perfect Balance"

performed in venues across the country, including the Kennedy Center.

Wednesday August 19th

Multi actor Play Reading at 8 PM

“Charleston Revisited” by Anthony Gallo

Saturday August 8th

Gallery Opening  6 to 8 PM

12 US artists explore the cool & wet with

“Water!”

Friday August 21st at 8 PM

Theater/ Solo work  by

 Los Angeles performance artist

Nia Orms

“Please Take A Number”

Winner of the NAACP award for best actress in a play - 2008

Saturday August 22nd

Concert & CD Release Party

Two Shows, 5 PM & 8 PM

Nancy Eddy & Friends

Fourth Friday Movies on August 28th

Thursday September 24th

Poetry at 8 with

Palestinian poet Tala A. Rahmeh

OCTOBER

Thursday October 1st

Sensei/Student Show closing party

6 to 8 PM Free event

Sunday October 4th at 7:30 PM

Dresden & Peckett's Garden Party

Wednesday October 7th

7 to 9:30 PM

Fused Glass Workshop

Saturday October 10th

Gallery Opening 5 to 8 PM

Alec Simpson  Flashback/Fast Forward

Monday October 12th  at 8 PM

Matthew Wilson performs

The Great One-Man Commedia Epic

Friday October 16th &

Saturday October 17th at 8 P

Nia Orms

“Please Take A Number”

2008

January

Thursday 20th, 8 pm

A Spiral Staircase

by Brett Busang

New play loosely based on the dual artist marriage of Jo & Edward Hopper.

Staged reading with Marian Licha, Rebecca Ellis, Vince Eisenson, Brett Busang. Post show reception with actors and playwright.

February

Saturday 9th - 8 pm

2008 Valentine’s Dance Party with the

FAUBULETTES

Tuesday 12th & Wednesday 13th

Open Studio Gift Show

Blown & fused glass goblets, vases, jewelry, dishes, bronze sculpture, tiles, paintings, and more.

Saturday 16th - 8 pm Concert

Sally Martin "Parisian Valentine" with pianist

James Fitzpatrick

March

Saturday 1st - 8 pm

Staged reading of

Margaret Sanger and the Soldier

The DC Premier

of a new play by journalist/artist Jim Magner.

An autobiographical story of a young soldier’s Vietnam tour, and the life impact of leave times home with his mother, private nurse to 20th century icon, Margaret Sanger.

Refreshments, reception with the playwright and

actors after the show.

Saturday 8th- Noon to 5 pm

Thalia & Timothy Wiggins’

Party Pinata Show

Pinata building workshop for kids of all ages.

Popcorn, paint, prizes & fun!

Tuesday, March 11th- 7 pm

Frozen Kisses

By Terry Nicholetti

“… this deeply moving, very funny solo performance by actor, writer, motivational speaker Terry Nicholetti hits the funny bone and the solar plexus, often at the same time...”

Friday 14th, Sat 15th at 7:30 pm

16th at 3 pm

Song of Hilde

A modern Heroic Epic

This premier performance of a bloody, violent, tender, poetic tour de force by Roland Lloyd Parry will be performed by Christopher Tully, and directed by Sarah Forbey. Post show reception with the playwright, actor and director.

Wednesday 19th, 8 PM

Truth or Consequences

Taffetty Punk Theatre Company with a staged reading of the mock trial of the century.

Thursday 20th

8 PM Dance to the

Daryl Davis Trio

7:30-Swing dance intro with

Terry Nicholetti, followed by an

8 PM-  Dance party with the band!

May

Sunday May 4th

Author reading

Join NPR Food Commentator

Bonny Wolf

Talking With My Mouth Full

Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes and

Other Kitchen Tales

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Friday, May 23

Author Reading

Granville (Red) Austin

Retrieving Times

A memoir of Vermont in the 1930’s and 40’s

June

Sunday June 1st- 3 to 7 PM

Gallery Show

Exhibition and Sale of Fused Glass Art

‘Fragile Bowls for Peace” by the children

of Watkins Elementary School and Art teacher 

Laurie Siegel

Proceeds to benefit Doctors Without Borders

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Sunday June 8th- 5 PM

Film Screening of

Encounter Point

An award winning documentary that follows the lives of everyday leaders working for peace as the Israeli/Palestinian

conflict escalate.

Saturday June 21st-july 5th

Gallery Opening -Iranian American artist 

Aylene Fallah -Assembled Memories

Friday, October 3rd, 4 to 6 PM

Celebrate the

5th Anniversary of the YumeTree

Street Party at the 12th Street CVS

near Watkins School. This Corner Store

community mosaic is still growing strong with

new tiles and branches added often.

Screen

Friday, October 3rd, 7:30 PM

Film Night Special

The Great Debaters

With a talk and reception with

Jeff Porro, the original researcher of the

story behind the movie.

Stage

Friday October 10th, 8 PM

Saturday October 11th, 8 PM

Sunday October 12th, 5 PM

David Gaines in

7 (x1) Samurai

"BEST SOLO PERFORMANCE OF THE

2008 CAPITOL FRINGE FESTIVAL"

Gallery

September October

City Life

Oil paintings by R. Alexander Clark