CITY GUIDE
Washington, D.C.
Light It Up
5th annual tree lighting
Head to the Fairmont Hotel for one of D. C.’s
most beloved and family-friendly tree-lighting
ceremonies, featuring Christmas trees shimmering with thousands of tiny white lights
and more than 30 animated reindeer. Kids get
ave
Date
PENN QUARTER
the
Boom by
Peter Sinn
Nachtrieb
Nov. 3-30
This provocative fantasy
at the Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Company asks,
“Do we control our
own fate or is someone
else pulling the levers?”
woollymammoth.net
THE KENNEDY CENTER
Canadian Brass
Holiday Concert
Dec. 1
The Canadian Brass
plays a holiday program
full of new twists on
seasonal favorites at
the Kennedy Center
Concert Hall.
wpas.org
Whales | Tohorã
to decorate—and munch on!—cookies, and
sip complimentary hot chocolate as Rudolph
makes a special appearance with Santa Claus.
Classic sounds fill the air as the award-winning Georgetown Visitation Madrigals
perform. This event benefits the U.S. Marine
Corps’ Toys for Tots, and those attending
are encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy to
donate. Dec. 3.
Fairmont.com/Washington.
The National Geo-
graphic Museum
hosts a special
exhibit featuring
a creature that
has captured
the imagination
of millions—the
whale. This exhibi-
tion covers the
diversity, biology
and adaptation
of whales in the
South Pacific,
where
they
are highly revered
and play an inte-
gral role in the
life and culture of
New Zealanders.
This traveling ex-
hibition from New
Zealand, mak-
ing its American
debut, offers an
exceptional
opportunity to
learn about these
magnificent creatures through a
suspended 58-foot
sperm whale skeleton, the carved
facade of a Pataka
Taonga (treasure
house), and objects made from
whalebone and
teeth. Visitors can
also crawl through
a life-size model
of a blue whale’s
heart! Through
Jan. 18. national
geographic.com.
THE DISTRICT
Jan Lievens: A
Dutch Master
Rediscovered
Through Jan. 11
The life and career of
this enigmatic 17th-
century Dutch painter
will be brought to light
in a National Gallery of
Art exhibition featuring
over 130 of the artist’s
works.
nga.gov
DUPONT CIRCLE
Christo and
Jeanne-Claude:
Over the River,
A Work in
Progress
Through Jan. 25
The Phillips Collection
provides a look at the artists’ plans for their next
outdoor work of art—
suspending silvery fabric
panels over the Arkansas
River in Colorado.
phillipscollection.org
ON THE NATIONAL MALL
Fritz Scholder:
Indian/Not
Indian
Ongoing
The National Museum
of the American Indian
surveys the late artist’s
career, especially his
groundbreaking Indian
paintings, and his com-
plex identity as a person
of French, German, Eng-
lish and American Indian
ancestry.
nmai.si.edu
