WDCSA Newsletter – April 1997

Saturday May 17

FACULTY SPEAKER EVENT

Richard Vinograd

6:15-9:30 pm

Walters Art Gallery

Baltimore, MD

600 North Charles Street

Baltimore, MD

(410) 547-9000

6:15: Event Registration (Outside Graham Auditorium,
Lower Lobby Entrance)

6:45: Faculty lecture (Graham Auditorium)

7:45: Reception (Lower Lobby)

8:30: Viewing of
The First Emperor: Treasures from Ancient China (3rd
Floor Gallery)

About the Museum Exhibit:

This exhibition is the first ever in the United States to focus on the brilliant
First Emperor of China (Emperor Qin Shihuangdi; 259-210 B.C.), the man who
established the country of China and built the Great Wall. Highlights include
14 spectacular life-size terra cotta tomb figures from what is recognized
as the archeological find of the century the discovery in 1974 in Xian, China
of the magnificent buried army of the First Emperor. The First Emperor:
Treasures from Ancient China will be an unforgettable experience of one
of the most remarkable times and legacies the world has ever known. This
evening is the last that the blockbuster exhibit will be open; afterwards,
the statues return to China forever. This evening, Stanford has reserved
a premium timed entrance slot for alumni and friends. Don’t miss this
opportunity to see, learn, and be entertained.

Directions:

Walters Art Gallery is located in Midtown Baltimore at 600 North Charles
Street, one half mile north of The Inner Harbor.

(From Washington DC) I-95 North past Baltimore Beltway to 395 North, Take
Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. Exit, MLK North approximately 1 mile, Turn
right at Druid Hill Avenue, Four blocks down on the left.

Parking: Street and pay-lot parking are available.

Event Cost: $17 per person, includes faculty lecture, reception, and viewing
of the Special Exhibit, First Emperor: Treasures from Ancient China

Or, $7, includes faculty lecture and reception.

Please send check payable to WDCSA to:

Dell Wilkinson

6401 N. 27th Street

Arlington, VA 22207

Please reply by Friday, May 9, 1997. We regret no refunds thereafter.
Reservations that include gallery admission are limited to the first 150
persons. Please reply early to avoid disappointment. Tickets will not be
mailed; your name will be held at the door. For additional event information,
please call Dell Wilkinson (‘86): (703) 237-4818.

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Ongoing Events…

THE MODERN DRAMA DISCUSSION GROUP

Dinner & Discussion

Spring/Summer 1997 Dates

May 15

June 16

June 29

July 15

6:30 (dinner)

7:30 (discussion)

The Heidi Chronicles (1989), the Pulitzer
Prize-winning play by Wendy Wasserstein. Heidi follows an art historian
and her friends from the turbulent ’60s through the go-go ’80s. The previous
evening, May 14 at 7 p.m., Wasserstein will lecture on Life in the
Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St., SE.
The Drama Discussion Group has discount tickets for Wasserstein’s lecture
for $7.50 each. Make your check out to Robin Larkin & mail to 5403 Nibud
Ct., Rockville, MD 20852.

June 16: Lanford Wilson’s 5th of July (See the
play with the Group on June 29) at the Washington Shakespeare Company at
a discount. When we attend a play we always stay after the performance to
discuss the play a second time, this time with members of the cast.)

July 15: Jean Anouilh’s Becket, (we will attend
the play which opens at the Olney Theatre July 22 at a date yet to be
determined). We also are hoping the directors of 5th of July &
Becket will join us for our June & July meetings, but we have
not confirmed that just yet.

To receive messages on-line about the drama discussion
group send the message “join theatre” (without the quotation marks) to
theatre-req@jskay-consulting.com
or visit their Web site at
http://www.jskay-consulting.com/theatre/
.

Make reservations by contacting:

David Sobelsohn

(202) 484-8303

Email: dsobelso@capaccess.org.

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