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EVENTS ON FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents two Friday Films:
*Dawn Strikes the Capitol Dome, 1936. Produced by the WPA, this short film is "an impressionistic study of Washington, DC--the City Superb!"
*You Can't Get Away With It, 1936. Commissioned by the FBI and produced by Universal Pictures, You Can't Get Away With It shows the facilities and techniques of the FBI and its agent training. Introduced by J. Edgar Hoover, the film includes dramatizations of apprehensions, including that of John Dillinger.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
TIME: 7:30 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents a musical tribute to Charles Mingus who was a gifted composer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, vocalist, author, and a seminal figure in jazz, featuring his widow Sue Mingus reminiscing about her husband's life and artistry.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Voice of America Auditorium, 330 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: FOLGER SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL LIBRARY presents one of Africa's widely published writers, Chinua Achebe who has written twenty-one novels, short stories, and collections of poetry. His first and best-known post-colonial landmark novel, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and has proved enduringly popular throughout Africa and the rest of the world.
DATE: April 19, 2002
LOCATION: Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol Street SE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-0345
WEB ADDRESS: folger.edu
