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Events This Week

Humanities Council Happy Hour: "DC's Triple Threat: Sex, Scandals, and Social

Media"

Date:

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 5:00pm - 7:30pm

BAR 7

Venue Address:

1015 1/2 7th Street NW

Washington, DC 20001

United States

See map: Google Maps

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Humanities Happy Hour is back with a series of four events each Wednesday from July 20 to August10 at Bar 7 on Mt. Vernon Square!

July 20 - "DC's Triple Threat: Sex, Scandals, and Social Media"

Join sex therapist Peter Chirnos, journalist Marc Sandalow, gossip columnist Amy Argetsinger, andblogger Stef Woods as they discuss scandalous behavior in the District and how it is increasingly

magnified by the media.

There is no need to register for any of these events. Just stop by Bar 7 after work and join in on theconversation! As an added perk, a percentage of your tab will support the Humanties Council of

Washington, DC! And, as usual, the bar will serve the famous HUMANITINI - don't forget to give it atry!

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Yoga in the Park

Date:

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Meridian Hill Park

Venue Address:

15th St NW and W St NW


United States

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Join Citizen Effect for our 2nd Annual Yoga Challenge's FREE Yoga in the Park event!

This August is Citizen Effect's Yoga Challenge. Citizen Effect has partnered with yoga studios aroundthe city to give deals to anyone who signs up to raise $250 for Becky's Fund, a nonprofit organization

addressing domestic violence in the District. Our goal is to raise $20,000 for Becky's fund while

having fun and getting healthy.

Come out on July 20th for a free class, bring your friends, and be part of a critical cause here in DC!

The Citizen Effect Team.

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2011 Indian Summer Showcase June 3-August 6

SPECIAL PERFORMANCE

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Moccasins and Microphones

Wednesday, July 20, 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Rasmuson TheaterNational Museum of the American Indian4th Street & Independence Avenue SWWashington DC 20024

The Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team presents Moccasins and Microphones: Modern

Native Storytelling, a theater production based on the poetry of their award-winning debut album

featuring Native and contemporary songs and dances.

The show follows two Native American youth (siblings Joe and Anita) through their birth, education

at an Indian boarding school, and early adult lives as Natives in todays world. The celebrated SFIS

Spoken Word Team has traveled throughout the US and internationally to perform their poetry and

has been featured on the New York Times, the PBS News Hour and HBO. .

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Come by ZWK this Wednesday as we present the PerfectSummer Wines or join us Friday & meet Chris fromInternational Cellars. Theres always something happening atZola Wine & Kitchen!

Salute!

COMPLIMENTARY WINE TASTINGS

Zola Wine & Kitchen

505 Ninth Street NW


Join ZWK for happy hour and enjoy our weeklypick of amazing new wines paried with our artisanal cheeses.

Wednesday, July 20, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

ZWK Presents: Chillable Red Wines - Perfect for Summer!

Chiarli Lambrusco Shindig Red Blend G.D. Vajra Langhe Rosso

Friday, July 22, 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Meet & Taste Wine with Chris from International Cellars!

Pradio Friulano Malgra Nebbiolo Coste della Sesia "Kindred" by Sparkman Cellars


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WORKINGMAN COLLECTIVE: Prospects and

Provisions

AN EVENING OF SWING POETRY

Casey Smith, Assistant Professor, Corcoran College of

Art + Design

Thursday July 21, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Hemphill Fine Arts1515 14th Street NW


A group of DC poets will take over the installation of

Swing for a lively and informal reading. Disregardeverything you think you know about poetry readings; this

one will prove your expectations wrong. Organized by

Casey Smith. Participating readers TBA.

Workingman Collective: Prospects and Provisions is on

view through August 20, 2011.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday10:00am5:00pm, and by appointment.

Images top to bottom: Workingman Collect ive, Swing, 2011, steel, fir, powdercoat, clay pots, and

assorted houseplants. 108" x 110" x 115", Ed. 3; Workingman Collective, Table, 2011, cherry, steel,G scale train set, B+O locomotive and coal car, 96" x 70" x 148", Ed. 3


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So come on out for Happy Hour on Wednesday, July 20, where the Scoutmob team will be in attendance tomeet and mingle with the SMC-DC community! The 20th is their official launch date in Washington, DC, and

we're happy to have them celebrate it with us. The local social media community is looking forward to meetingyou.

A Great Divide? How Westerners and Muslims See Each Other

Thursday, July 21, 12:15-1:45 p.m.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

1779 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20036-2103

RSVP:http://carnegieendowment.org/events/forms/?fa=registration&event=3327

Ten years after 9/11 and the start of the war in Afghanistan, how has the relationship between Western and Muslim

publics evolved, and what does this mean for policy makers? A panel of experts will discuss a new Pew Research Center

report on Western and Muslim publics views of each other, based on a survey conducted this spring by the Pew Global

Attitudes Project. The report will provide insight into perceptions of relations between Western and predominantly Muslim

nations, attitudes toward Islamic extremism, attitudes toward Muslim minorities, and the image of various religious groups.

Pew Research Centers Andrew Kohut will present the new findings, followed by a discussion with Georgetown

Universitys Samer Shehata and the Atlantic Councils Shuja Nawaz. Carnegies Marwan Muasher will moderate.
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The Cato Institute invites you to a

Book Forum

July 21, 2011

The Ethics of Voting(Princeton University Press, 2011)

featuring the author

Jason Brennan

Georgetown University

with comments by

Bryan Caplan

George Mason University

Author, The Myth of the Rational Voter

moderated by

John SamplesCato Institute

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Nothing is more integral to democracy than voting. Most people believe that every citizen has

the civic duty or moral obligation to vote, that any sincere vote is morally acceptable, and that

buying, selling, or trading votes is inherently wrong. Jason Brennan argues that voting is not a

duty for most citizens in fact, he argues, many people owe it to the rest of us not to vote.

Bad choices at the polls can result in unjust laws, needless wars, and calamitous economic

policies. Brennan shows why voters have duties to make informed decisions in the voting

booth, to base their decisions on sound evidence for what will create the best possible policies,

and to promote the common good rather than their own self-interest. They should vote well or not vote at all. He argues that voting is not necessarily the best way for citizens to exercise

their civic duty, and why some citizens need to stay away from the polls to protect the

democratic process from their uninformed, irrational, or immoral votes. In a democracy, every

citizen has the right to vote. Come hear Jason Brennan reveal why it's sometimes best if they

don't.

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Heather Levy Solo Exhibition

(July 1-August 1)

Reception

July 21, 5:00 p.m.

The City Club of Washington DC

555 13th Street NW

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Poetry ReadingFriday, July 22, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Touchstone Gallery901 New York Avenue NW


All welcome. Free of charge. Refreshments provided.Touchstone Gallery presents a Maryland Writers' Association poetry reading on Friday, July 22, 2011. Theprogram, which will include refreshments, runs from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. The reading will feature several writers

whose publications range from A Little Breast Music to The Hartford Review. As Gregg Wilhelm, ExecutiveDirector of the CityLit Project, describes it, Life in Me Like Grass on Fireis the confluence into which the manystreams of love flow. Ride the current of these words through rapids and still waters to places new yet familiar.For more than twenty years, the Maryland Writers Association has nurtured and supported the Maryland literaryarts community. In honor of that tradition, select MWA members deliver a heartfelt introduction to the regionswriting community in MWA Books second anthology, Life in Me Like Grass on Fire, reflections on love. The


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anthology is divided into several sections, ranging from first love, lost love to love as we age. The anthology features 50 poets, edited by Laura Shovan, a Maryland State Arts Council Artist-in-Education andeditor of the art and literary journal, Little Patuxent Review.The poets other credentials range from those justembarking on their literary careers to those with impressive publication lists.

Maryland Writers Association is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the art, business,

and craft of writing.

Hudson Institute cordially invites you to an event on...

Export Controls: What's Ahead from the Obama

Administration and Congress

Monday, July 2512:00-2:00 p.m.

Export controls in the United States are at a crossroads, with

potentially significant consequences for both national security

and the global defense industry.

The Obama administration has been developing export controlreform proposals for nearly two years, which it plans to unveil

at the Department of Commerce's 2011 Update Conference on

Export Controls and Policy taking place on July 19-21. The

administration is also finalizing its statutory proposals, and

there are competing Republican and Democratic bills already

introduced in Congress.

To examine the future of U.S. export controls, Hudson Institute

invites you to attend a panel discussion featuring current and

former decision-makers:

Michael Froman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy

National Security Adviser for International Economic Affairs

Douglas J. Feith, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow and former

To RSVP please click

here.

Complimentary lunch

will be served.

Betsy and Walter Stern

Conference Center

Hudson Institute

1015 15th Street NW

6th Floor

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Under Secretary of Defense

William Schneider, Hudson Institute Adjunct Fellow;

President, International Planning Services, Inc.; former

Chairman, Defense Science Board and former Under Secretary

of State

Brandt Pasco, Attorney at Kaye Scholer LLP and formermember of the National Security Council Task Force on Export

Control Reform.

North Korean Security Challenges: A Net Assessment

Mark FitzpatrickDirector, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, IISS

Monday, July 25Lunch 11:45 am 12:00 pmRemarks 12:00 1:00 pm

International Institute For Strategic Studies

1850 K Street NWSuite 300Washington, DC 20006

RSVP:[email protected](202) 659-1490

Mr Fitzpatrick will discuss the new IISS Strategic Dossier, North Korean Security Challenges: a net assessment.

This dossier analyzes North Koreas array of weapons of mass destruction, missiles and asymmetric conventional

forces, as well as its diverse forms of state-sponsored crime and human rights abuses, amidst internal troubles that

may put the regime on the cusp of dramatic change.

Based in London, Mr Fitzpatrick is the Director of the IISS Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme. He was

previously the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Non-Proliferation (acting) at the US Department of State. He receiveda Master of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. This meeting will be

moderated by Andrew Parasiliti,Executive Director, IISS-US and Corresponding Director, IISS-Middle East.
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Katherine White, Esq., Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission

Please join the Center for American Progress and the Instituteor Social Policy and Understanding for a special presentation:

What Sharia Is and Isnt: Examining the Anti-

Sharia Movement in America

July 26, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

light lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.

Center for American Progress1333 H Street NW, 10th Floor


dmission is free. Space is extremely limited. RSVP

required. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basisand not guaranteed.

RSVP to attend this event

Welcome:Sally Steenland, Director, Faith and Progressive PolicyInitiative, Center for American ProgressOpening remarks:Shireen Zaman, Executive Director, Institute for Social Policyand Understanding

Featured panelists:

Professor Asifa Quraishi, Fellow, Institute for Social Policyand Understanding and Assistant Professor of Law, University ofWisconsin Law SchoolRev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy, President, Interfaith AllianceFaiz Shakir, Editor, Think Progress, and Vice President, Centerfor American Progress Action Fund

Moderated by:Matthew Duss, Policy Analyst, Center for American Progress

In recent months, anti-Muslim forces have raised the specter ofSharia usurping the Constitution and destroying the American

way of life. Bills have been introduced in more than two dozenstates that would ban the practice of Sharia lawdespite thefact that Sharia is not a collection of laws but a set of diverselyinterpreted guidelines for religious practice. In addition, noMuslim American leaders are calling for Sharia to override

American laws. Banning religious freedom for Muslims isunconstitutional and would have serious consequences forinternational treaties and for religious expression in other faiths.

Join us for an enlightening discussion with a panel of experts whowill explain the basics of Sharia, compare its precepts with thoseof Christianity and Judaism, dissect how it is being used as a

wedge issue in political campaigns, and examine the the realimpact on Muslim American communities.

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For more information, call(202) 682-1611.

Neurotechnology and the Military

A Public Luncheon BriefingHosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science

In Cooperation with the House Armed Services CommitteeThrough the Support of the Dana Foundation

Tuesday, July 26, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

B-340 Rayburn House Office Building

RSVP:https://www.signup4.net/Public/ap.aspx?EID=NEUR27E

Seating is limited.

This briefing will focus on areas of neuroscience that are of particular interest to members of the military.Come learn more about brain-machine interfaces that could help veterans cope with injuries, about drugs

designed to enhance brain function, and about related ethical issues.

Speakers include:

Leigh R. Hochberg, MD, PhD, Investigator, Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine, Providence

VA Medical Center; Associate Professor of Engineering, Brown University; Acute Stroke and NeurocriticalCare, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women's Hospital, and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital;

Visiting Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Martha J. Farah, PhD, Director, Center for Neuroscience & Society, Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the

Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan D. Moreno, PhD, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress; David and Lyn Silfen University

Professor, Professor of Medical Ethics and of History and Sociology of Science, Professor of Philosophy (by

courtesy), University of Pennsylvania; Author, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (2006)

Moderated by Alan Leshner, PhD, CEO of AAAS.

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For questions, please contact Bethany Spencer at(202) 326-6601.

AAAS is a non-profit, non-partisan organization. Since it was founded in 1848, AAAS has been dedicated to

the advancement of scientific knowledge for the good of society as a whole.
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ACKC (Artfully Chocolate)

and

Artfully Gifts & Chocolate

LAUNCH NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH

CARLA HALL'S ALCHEMY

Celebrity Chef, Carla Hall, has chosen Artfully

Chocolate and Artfully Gifts & Chocolate as new

retail outlets for her wonderful Alchemy Cookies.Bite size and bursting with flavor, the cookies will

be sold at both Artfully Chocolate locations in D.C.

and Del Ray and Artfully Gifts & Chocolate in Old

Town, Alexandria.

The cookies will be available starting the day of

the tasting parties (see side bar).

In addition to being a favorite on Bravo's "Top

Chef," she will be one of the hosts of ABC's new

show, "The Chew" starting in September.

Artfully Chocolate and Alchemy first hit it off atthe Taste of Del Ray, a food festival in Del Ray a

FREE Alchemy CookieTastings

July 26, 7:00-9:00 p.m.ACKC (Artfully Chocolate)

1529c 14th Street NWWashington, DC 20005

(202) 387-2626

Come meet Carla

RSVP requested:email to

[email protected]

Note: Cookies will be availble forsale at DC store starting the night ofthe tasting.

July 29, 7:00-9:00 p.m.Artfully Gifts & Chocolate506 John Carlyle Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

(703) 575-8686

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couple months ago, where Carla was the celebrity

judge. The relationship with Carla's team has

turned from professional to friendship with

different kinds of possibilities being explored.

Note: Cookies will be availble forsale at Artfully Chocolate in Del Rayand Artfully Gifts & Chocolatestarting the evening of July 29.

"Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity"

book launch

July 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW


No RSVP given

Photo ID required to enter the RR building.

Event Details

Author and speaker: Riaz Mohammad Khan, former foreign secretary of Pakistan and former Wilson Center

Pakistan Scholar

International River Basins: Mapping Institutional Resilience to Climate Change


Environmental Change and Security Program

Woodrow Wilson Center

One Woodrow Wilson Plaza

1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NWWashington, DC 20004-3027

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with:

Jim Duncan, Consultant, World Bank

Aaron Wolf, Professor, Department of Geosciences, Oregon State UniversityMatt Zentner, Hydrologist, U.S. Department of Defense
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Celebrating Our Town Through Documentary

Silver Spring Stories Film Festival

Presented by Docs In ProgressCo-Sponsored by the Charles Gilchrist Center for Cultural Diversity

Thursday, July 28, 2011

6:30 p.m.Reception

7:00-8:30 p.m. Screening

Silver Spring Civic Building

1 Veterans Place

(8523 Fenton Avenue on GPS)

Silver Spring, MD 20910

This event is FREE and OPEN to the public.

Please join Docs In Progress for the second annual Silver Spring Stories

Film Festival, a celebration of short documentaries which showcase the

people and places of Silver Spring. This festival is free and open to the

general public. No tickets are required although an RSVP is recommended.

Downtown Silver Spring is the home of Docs In Progress, a 501(c)(3)

nonprofit arts organization which develops, encourages, and celebrates new

and diverse voices in documentary film. As part of our programs, Docs In

Progress cultivates community partnerships which enhance the work of

emerging documentary filmmakers and also connect them to the civic life of

Silver Spring.

The festival will feature works by adult students in our Documentary

Production classes and middle schoolers and high schoolers who

participated in our 2011 Summer Documentary Filmmaking Camp. All of the short

documentaries are about people and places from Silver Spring. You will

also have a chance to hear from some of the filmmakers and subjects of these

films.

THE TOPICS OF THIS YEAR'S FILMS INCLUDE:

Alliance Comics

City Printing

Contradiction Dance Company

CREATE Arts Center

Dale Music

Gandhi Brigade

Joe's Record Paradise

Moorenko's Ice Cream

Pulmonary Hypertension Association

Silver Spring Books

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We look forward to welcoming you for this special evening. Please feel

free to forward this invitation to your colleagues and neighbors who may

also be interested by clicking the "Forward E-mail" button below.

With best regards,

Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director

Docs In Progress

ABOUT DOCS IN PROGRESS

Docs In Progress is a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization which gives

individuals the tools to tell stories through documentary film to educate,

inspire, and transform the way people view their world. The Docs In

Progress Documentary House in downtown Silver Spring serves as a community

media center where we provide classes, workshops, and other professional

development and networking opportunities to aspiring, emerging, and

established documentary filmmakers. We also hold public screenings,

discussion groups, and other programs through partnerships with a number

of other arts and educational institutions around the Washington/Baltimore

area and beyond.

Gender in Development Workgroup Event

Cross-Sector Approaches in Education: Enhancing Youth Development and Reducing Gender

Inequity in Guatemala and Jamaica





Please join us at a reception immediately following the panel presentation.

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The SID-Washington Gender in Development Workgroup and Juarez & Associates (J&A) will be hosting a

panel presentation with top-level representatives from two basic education projects being implemented byJ&A: USAID/Guatemala Education Reform in the Classroom (REAULA) and the USAID/Jamaica BasicEducation Project (JBEP).

REAULA focuses on achieving a more democratic and prosperous Guatemala, building on successes fromthe 2004-2009 period of USAID support to Guatemalan education, and on Government of Guatemala's

priorities. REAULA provides technical assistance to improve access to the quality, equity and efficiency of
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basic education, by increasing teacher effectiveness, improving classroom-learning environments,

fostering effective first and second language acquisition and reading, extending access to girls andindigenous groups, and expanding parent and stakeholder participation in student learning. The overallgoal is to ensure educational reform in the classroom and the application of effective approaches to

expand and improve basic education opportunities in Guatemala, thus contributing to workforce readinessof the nation's youth as well as reduction in youth violence.

JBEP is helping to make Jamaica a more secure, democratic, prosperous and stable US partner by

supporting the USAID Jamaica Country Assistance Strategy, and the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ)Educational Transformation Program. In line with USAID's and the GOJ's shared policy of sustainable

transformation, JBEP incorporates achievements from the previous USAID Expanding Educational Horizons

in assisting the Ministry of Education to roll out tested educational practices. JBEP targets 250 Primary,All-Age and Junior High schools island-wide. JBEP also receives complementary funding from theCaribbean Basin Security Initiative to support activities in 54 of the project schools located in crime prone

and volatile communities. This presentation describes one aspect of the work of JBEP in its effort toimprove teaching and learning in primary schools situated in these violence prone communities, with afocus on boys.

Presenters:

Fernando Rubio, Chief of Party, REAULA/USAID

Gabriela N??ez, Deputy Chief of Party, REAULA/USAID and Gender Specialist

Juan Luis C?rdova, Education Specialist, USAID/Guatemala/HE

Dr. Doreen Faulkner, Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, JBEP/USAID

Dr. Hyacinth Evans, Technical Program Coordinator, JBEP/USAID

Dr. Jean Beaumont, Chief of Party, JBEP/USAID


24/26

"Asian Space Policy and the United States"



Choate Room


Washington DC 20036RSVP:[email protected]

"Asian Space Policy and the United States" will feature a panel discussing the Beijing workshop,

the direction of Asia space, and the role the United States policy community can play in shaping

that direction. This event will follow up on the May 2011 Secure World Foundation (SWF) - China

Academy of Sciences (CAS) International Workshop on Space Policies and Laws held in Beijing.

Space policy in the Peoples Republic of China will be one of the main topics of discussion.

Following the panel discussion, there will be an open Q&A session.

Panelists:

Mr. Ben Baseley-Walker, Secure World Foundation

Ms. Alanna Krolikowski, University of Toronto

Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, East Asia Non-Proliferation Program, Monterey Institute
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25/26

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This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. For over 60 years, the party of Mao Zedong

has ruled the Peoples Republic of China, and while the government has changed some of its policies, in many ways,

it continues to keep its citizens under close watch. Chinese leadership celebrated the anniversary with fanfare,

parades, and performances, fostering a nationalist nostalgia for a time that was in fact, anything but joyful. As the

Chinese Communist Party conceals the truth of its brutal past, the Laogai Museum seeks to expose it.

The Laogai Museum will host a screening ofThe Blue Kite(in Chinese with English subtitles), a film by Chinese

director Tian Zhuangzhuang released in 1993. The movie, which follows a family through three tumultuous

Communist Party political campaigns, is banned in China. Director Tian was subsequently exiled from the film

industry for ten years. Despite the image the Chinese government strives to portray to the outside world today, a

look at the human cost of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution

show a much different side of the Party.

Please join us for a look back at the darkest moments in Chinese Communist Party history.

Film Screening of "The Blue Kite"

Saturday, July 30, 2:00 p.m.
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26/26

Laogai Museum

1734 20th Street NW


Please RSVP by July 27th, as seating is limited.

[email protected](202) 408-8300 ext. 300
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