Calendar Week of Sunday, August 18, 2024-Saturday, August 24, 2024
Jacolby Satterwhite: A Metta Prayer Through October 13, 2024
In the expansive multimedia installation A Metta Prayer, Jacolby Satterwhite fuses choreography, video, animation, lighting, and music to reimagine a kaleidoscopic, computer-generated world.
18 Aug Sun / 2024
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Family Zone
1 p.m.—4 p.m.Visit the MFAH Family Zone for engaging gallery activities with coloring sheets, colored pencils, books, and more.
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Green Border (Zielona granica)
2 p.m.—4:30 p.m.Along the treacherous forests (“green border”) between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa are lured by government propaganda promising easy passage to the European Union. Instead, they become trapped in an escalating geopolitical standoff.
21 Aug Wed / 2024
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Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan
Drop-in Tour | “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”
1:30 p.m.—2:30 p.m.Experience an extraordinary look at Japan’s Meiji era.
22 Aug Thu / 2024
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Tour & Toast | “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”
6:15 p.m.—7:15 p.m.Join fellow art enthusiasts for a private group tour of Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan.
23 Aug Fri / 2024
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Best of the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival
7 p.m.—8:15 p.m.For adult audiences
The annual Ottawa International Animation Festival curates a selection of short films, both award winners and audience favorites, for the touring Best of Ottawa Program. The lineup of 10 short films highlights cutting-edge achievements in the art of animation, representing the myriad styles, techniques, and perspectives that animation is uniquely capable of realizing.
24 Aug Sat / 2024
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Hashiguchi Goyō, “This Beauty” Poster for Mitsukoshi, 1911, color lithograph, Darrel C. Karl Collection. Photograph: Alex Jamison
Saturday Members Tour “Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan”
11:30 a.m.—12:15 p.m.MFAH members are invited to enjoy an inside look at the exhibition Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan.
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Best of the 2023 Ottawa International Animation Festival
7 p.m.—8:15 p.m.For adult audiences
The annual Ottawa International Animation Festival curates a selection of short films, both award winners and audience favorites, for the touring Best of Ottawa Program. The lineup of 10 short films highlights cutting-edge achievements in the art of animation, representing the myriad styles, techniques, and perspectives that animation is uniquely capable of realizing.
