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December 2009
| Exhibition
Imagining China: The View from Europe, 1550–1700
September 18, 2009–January 9, 2010 10am–5pm
Monday–Saturday
Folger Great Hall
Curators: Timothy Billings, with Jim Kuhn
Alexander Huang, video curator
Early modern Europeans imagined China as a land of wonder, of riches, and of enormous opportunity. Rare books and maps from the Folger collection, along with items from the Library of Congress and the Walters Arts Museum, capture England's dawning cultural awareness and admiration of things Chinese.
Tickets:
FREE
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| PEN/Faulkner
PEN/Malamud Award Memorial Reading:
Amy Hempel & Alistair MacLeod
December 4, 2009 7:30pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Honored for excellence in the art of the short story, Hempel, whose 2006 Collected Stories was named one of The New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year, and MacLeod, whose internationally acclaimed stories are collected in Island, read and are honored.
Tickets:
$15
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| Music
In Dulci Jubilo: A German Christmas
December 11, 2009 8pm
December 12, 2009 5pm
December 12, 2009 8pm
December 13, 2009 2pm
December 13, 2009 5pm
December 16, 2009 7:30pm
December 17, 2009 7:30pm
December 18, 2009 8pm
December 19, 2009 2pm
December 19, 2009 5pm
December 20, 2009 2pm
December 20, 2009 5pm
Pre-concert discussion Friday at 7pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
The Folger Consort and the Cantate Chamber Singers celebrate the holidays with the festive music of Michael Praetorius, the most prolific German composer of the early 17th century, by performing Baroque-inspired chorale settings from his Musae Zioniae, including In Dulci Jubilo, Es ist ein Rose, and Puer Natus Est.
Tickets:
$43
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| Poetry
Emily Dickinson Birthday Tribute: Lucie Brock–Broido
December 14, 2009 7:30pm
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
Lucie Brock-Broido, director of poetry in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, reads selections from her book The Master Letters, inspired by letters written by Dickinson. Co-sponsored with the Poetry Society of America. With Dickinson’s beloved black cake.
Tickets:
$12
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