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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
A selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!
OCTOBER 2014
The Case Against 8: Screening & Panel
Milken Institute School of Public Health, Auditorium 100,
950 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Allied in Pride presents a screening of The Case Against 8,
a documentary five years in the making that follows the legal battle to
overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage at the U.S. Supreme
Court. Following the screening will be a panel moderated by Professor
Stephen Forssell, director of the GW LGBTQ Graduate Certificate
program. Panelists include Kris Perry and Sandy Stier, plaintiffs for
Perry v. Hollingsworth, and Chad Griffin, president of the Human
Rights Campaign. This event is free and open to the public. For more
information, please e-mail Spencer Perry at [email protected].
¡Enough! Tal Como Soy: Latino American
Film Series
Multicultural Student Services Center (MSSC), Room 104 & 209,
2127 G Street, NW
Enjoy a film that will highlight issues that affect Latin
American communities all over the United States, followed
by an open discussion on those topics. Movie theatre
refreshments will be served. For more information about the film series,
please contact the MSSC at 202-994-6722 or [email protected].
Cabaret Showcase
Phillips Hall, Room B120, 801 22nd Street, NW
Start your Colonials Weekend off with the Cabaret Showcase.
The premier vocal students from GW’s music and theatre and dance
departments will perform exciting songs from the music theater, jazz
and cabaret traditions. For more information, please contact the GW
Department of Music at 202-994-6245 or [email protected].
WED
1
OCT.
6:00 P.M.
GW SPORTS
GW VOLLEYBALL
Oct. 10 at 7 p.m.
v Saint Louis
Oct. 11 at 7 p.m.
Oct. 11 at 1:15 p.m.
v Coppin State
Oct. 31 at 7 p.m.
9
OCT.
6:00 P.M.
GW WOMEN’S SOCCER
OCT.
7:30 P.M.
Oct. 11 at 7 p.m.
v Johns Hopkins
Oct. 11 at 1 p.m.
Oct. 25 at 7 p.m.
v Navy
Oct. 17 at 3:30 p.m.
v Davidson
Oct. 19 at 3:30 p.m.
v Richmond
Oct. 31 at 3 p.m.
GW MEN’S SOCCER
17
GW MEN’S WATER POLO
v Massachusetts
v Dayton
FRI
Oct. 11 at 11:00 a.m.
v Howard
v Dayton
v George Mason
THURS
GW SOFTBALL
GW WOMEN’S SWIMMING
Oct. 25 at 1 p.m.
v UMBC
GW MEN’S SWIMMING
Oct. 25 at 1 p.m.
v UMBC
Oct. 17 at 1 p.m.
v La Salle
Oct. 19 at 1 p.m.
v Saint Joseph’s
Come support GW. For locations,
tickets and more information, contact
GW Athletics at 202-994-6550
or visit www.GWsports.com.
Using the Arts to Improve the Care
of Older Adults
Marvin Center, Room 301, 800 21st Street, NW
WED
22
OCT.
Beverly Lunsford, director of the GW Center on Aging, Health & Humanities,
together with her colleagues, will present some of the ways the arts are used
in education programs for health-care students and practicing health-care
NOON
professionals. This half-hour program, followed by informal discussion and
coffee, is part of a series of lunchtime lectures that connect GW faculty, students and the public
during the spring and fall semesters. Free; no reservations required. Produced in collaboration
with the Arts Initiative Committee of GW. For more information, please contact 202-994-7394.
12th Annual Foggy Bottom/West End
Neighborhood Block Party
2100 Block of Eye Street, NW
Join us on Sunday for an afternoon with over 100 vendors,
live music, free food and neighbors. Vendors interested in
participating and those looking for additional information can
email [email protected] or call 202-994-9132.
This event is free and open to the public.
SUN
19
OCT.
1:00 P.M.
From the Old World to the New—a Musical
Journey from Portugal to Brazil
Mount Vernon Post Hall, 2100 Foxhall Road, NW
Join the GW Department of Music as piano professor and Warsaw’s
International Chopin Competition prize-winner Malinee Peris takes her
audience on a musical journey from Portugal to Brazil. From the Old World
to the New features Ms. Peris performing the works of Carlos Seixas, Joao
Domingos Bomtempo, Luis de Freitas Branco, Armando Jose Fernandes,
Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Claudio Santoro, Heitor Villa-Lobos, M. Camargo
Guarnieri and Ernesto Nazareth. For more information, please contact the
GW Department of Music at 202-994-6245 or [email protected].
For more information on the GW Community Calendar, please contact Britany Waddell in the Office of Government
and Community Relations at 202-994-9132 or visit us at www.neighborhood.gwu.edu.
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SUN
26
OCT.
3:00 P.M.