Phillips Day 90th Anniversary Bash

The Phillips Collection

Submitted by Andrea on July 1, 2009 - 9:43pm

Venue Address: 

1600 21st Street NW

Washington, DC 20009

United States

Phone: 202-387-2151

See map: Google Maps

www.phillipscollection.org

Celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary with a day of free activities, gallery talks, and live music.

Highlights include:

- Free admission to Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint.

- Cupcake party favors while supplies last (10 a.m.–noon).

- Hands-on art-making inspired by Will Ryman’s outdoor sculpture of colossal pink roses (10 a.m.–2 p.m.).

 Hourly gallery talks on Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party and European Masterworks (11 a.m.–6 p.m.)

- “Happy Birthday” sing-along led by on-air talent from ABC7/WJLA-TV (noon)

- Ballet students from the Kirov Academy of Ballet of Washington D.C. practicing in the Degas exhibition (12:30–3 p.m.)

- Interactive self-guide to the collection by illustrator Elizabeth Graeber

- Musical performances throughout the day, featuring Parisian-inspired accordionist Manny Bobenrieth, The Capital Hearings a cappella group, Teiber Trio, Tommy Cecil Quartet, Yvonne Johnson Trio, and DJ Neville C.

- Cash bar with wine, beer, champagne, and light snacks (4:15–8 p.m.).