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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION presents the 2002 Smithsonian Folklife Festival features The Silk Road, a living exhibition of the music, crafts, culinary and narrative traditions involved in the historical cultural interchange between the "East" and the "West." This years theme is The Silk Road: Connecting Cultures, Creating Trust celebrates the living traditional arts of peoples of Silk Road lands. The ancient Silk Road was a vast network of trade routes whose flow of ideas, culture, music, and art crossed the mountains and deserts of Central Asia to connect East Asia and the Mediterranean
AGENDA: Highlight:
5:30 p.m. - Evening Concert Mountain Music, Desert Music: Folk Traditions of Mongolia and Rajasthan*
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES ADVISORY COMMITTEE holds a meeting to discuss to updates on: implementation of blood donor deferrals for risk of vCJD, recent reports of infectivity detected in blood of sheep experimentally infected with BSE and scrapie agents, and recent reports of abnormal prion proteins and infectivity detected in muscles of experimentally infected mice.
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: Gaithersburg Holiday Inn, 2 Montgomery Village Avenue, Gaithersburg, MD.
CONTACT: William Freas or Sheila Langford, 301-827-0314
WEB ADDRESS: fda.gov
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds a program with Peter Burian, Ambassador of the Slovak Republic to NATO and Ivan Korcok, Director General for Security and International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic discussing Slovakia's Path to NATO
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS: rferl.gov
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE ADMINISTRATION CHAIRMAN CHARLES CURIE holds a news conference unveiling new public service announcements that will highlight flans for September's annual recovery month observance.
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-443-8956
ADDRESS: samhsa.gov
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS presents the opening of the exhibition "American Beauties: Drawings from the Golden Age of American Illustrations." The exhibition consists of nearly 20 original drawings that feature idealized types of feminine American beauty created by artists such as Coles Phillips, Charles Dana Gibson, Nell Brinkley, John Held, Jr., and James Montgomery Flagg. The Gibson Girl, Brinkley Girl, Benda Girl, Phillip's "Fadeaway Girl" and related ideals of feminine beauty emerged during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and became widely popular in the public imagination
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: Swann Gallery of the Jefferson Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-707-5664
WEB ADDRESS: loc.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer Dov S. Zakheim conducts a briefing to outline findings of the Department of Defense Task Force on Credit Card Programs.
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: DOD Briefing, Room, Pentagon 2E781, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: Terry Mitchell, 703-695-0169
WEB ADDRESS:dod.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing with Peter Brookes, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs providing an "Asia Pacific Update."
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-724-1640
WEB ADDRESS:fpc.gov
TIME:6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents Eliot A. Cohen (School of Advanced International Studies, John Hopkins University) looking at four of history's greatest wartime statesmen -- Lincoln, Clemenceau, Churchill, and Ben Gurion -- and how each dealt with the military leaders who served under them to reveal the tensions between civilian and military leadership.
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents Jack Valenti, one-time speechwriter and special advisor to President Johnson and current president of the Motion Picture Association of America, who has written and delivered speeches for all kinds of settings. Learn from this master of communication how to write and deliver a terrific speech.
DATE: June 27, 2002
LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
