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Events Calendar
- May 4 - National Museum of Women in the Arts Guided Tours
- Jun 4 - Insider’s View on Stanford
Upcoming Events
National Museum of Women in the Arts Guided Tour
Saturday, May 4, 1-2 P
1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC
Join WDSCA for a private tour of the permanent collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). The first museum in the world founded to champion women artists, NMWA continues to be a leader in advocating for better representation for women in the art world.
Nineteen spots are available and will be limited to paid WDSCA members until April 13. The tour will begin at 1 pm. Please arrive 10-15 minutes early to purchase a museum admission ticket ($13 for DC residents and adults over 70, $16 general admission).
Did you know that only 11 percent of acquisitions at major US art museums in the last 10 years were by women? NMWA reopened last fall following a top-to-bottom renovation and boasts a rich collection of works from artists of diverse backgrounds from the 16th century to today. This hour-long tour of collection highlights will be led by Andrew Lokay '20, a docent at the museum.
The closest Metrorail stations are Metro Center and Gallery Place-Chinatown. If taking Metrobus, take routes 80, G8, S2, X2, D6, D3, 68, D1, or 42 and get off near the corner of H St and 13th St NW. Street parking is highly limited but nearby garages are available. The museum is ADA-accessible.
Register here.
Insider’s View on Stanford
Tuesday, June 4th 6-8 PM
National Press Club - Holeman Lounge, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, DC
Gather with your Stanford community of alumni and friends for an Insider’s View conversation with Stanford Vice President of External Relations Martin Shell.
This is a unique opportunity to engage with senior leadership on topics that matter to you and the broader Stanford community, including the recent announcement of our new president, Jonathan Levin, ’94.
Martin W. Shell is Vice President and Chief External Relations Officer at Stanford University. He leads the offices of Community and Culture, Community Engagement, Development, Government Affairs, Special Events and Protocol, and University Communications. He aligns the work of Stanford’s externally facing teams to design, implement and maintain strategies for service and engagement regionally, nationally, and globally, including collaboration with local partners to address sustainability, affordability, and other challenges specific to Silicon Valley and the Bay Area.
Reception with light appetizers and beer/wine begins at 6:00 p.m.
Insider’s View talk will begin at 7:00 p.m., followed by a question & answer session.
We hope you can join us!
This event is presented by the Washington DC Stanford Association, the Stanford Alumni Association and the Stanford Office of External Relations.
Capacity is limited and advance registration is required. We are not able to offer on-site registration and refunds are not available for this event.
Register here.
WDCSA Book Club Corner
Washington DC Book Club Discussion
Sunday, June 9th 5pm
Meeting at a private home in Beltsville, Md. Exact location information will be sent one week prior to the event.
The June book is The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Defended a Country from Corporate Greed, by John Cavanagh and Robin Broad; Beacon Press, 2021, 211 pages. Available in hardcover, paperback, audiobook, and Kindle editions.
In the early 2000s, many people in El Salvador were at first excited by the prospect of jobs, progress, and prosperity that the Pacific Rim mining company promised. However, farmer Vidalina Morales and others soon discovered that the river system supplying water to the majority of Salvadorans was in danger of catastrophic contamination and decided to stop the destruction of their homeland. Based on over a decade of research, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh unspool this story—replete with corporate greed, violent threats, murders, and a transnational lawsuit at a secretive World Bank tribunal.
For further information, contact Don Bieniewicz, MS '75, at donbien@erols.com.
Baltimore Book Club Discussion
Monday, May 13th, 7:30 pm
Google Meet: Registrants will be emailed a link to join the meeting a few minutes before.
We are reading The Feast of the Goat, a Spanish novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated to English by Edith Grossman.
“It is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions; The Catholic Church spurs its clergy against the government; from its highest ranks down, the country is arrested in bone-chilling fear. Vargas Llosa unflinchingly tells the story of a regime’s final days and the unsteady efforts of the men who would replace it. (The author) weighs the burden of a corrupt and corruptive regime upon the people who live beneath it. This is a moving portrait of an unrepentant dictator and the unwilling citizens drawn into his orbit.” (From book cover)
Our July 15th book is The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight by Martha Ackmann.
Questions/RSVP: Helene Myers, Ph.D., P'14, send to cedarhouse@comcast.net