Meyer Auditorium
Past Events
Many events have been hosted previously at the Meyer Auditorium. HistoryGuide currently has 24 past event listings in its database, shown below.
| Date | Event Information |
|---|---|
| Every Thu | Meditation and Mindfulness. Take a few moments out of the day to find a comfortable posture, calm your breath, relax deeply, and awaken to effortless attent… (Educational - Spiritual Workshop) |
| 09/12/08 09/14/08 09/19/08 More... | 5th Annual US-ASEAN Film Festival. International film festival focusing on the Southeast Asian region. ASEAN stands for the Association of Southeast Asian Nation,… (Festivals - Film Festival) 202-262-3775. |
| 06/06/10 06/13/10 | Taiwan Film Screening. The two films, A City of Sadness and A Brighter Summer Day are often considered the keystones of "Taiwan New Wave Cinema," indic… (Performance - Movies) 202-895-1854. |
| 01/09/15 01/11/15 | 19th Annual Iranian Film Festival Presents: Manuscripts Don't Burn. Made in defiance of a 20-year ban on filmmaking, this incendiary thriller was inspired by the Iranian government's 1995 attempt… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 01/15/15 | Debating the Use of Lost-Wax Casting in Ancient China. Donna Strahan, the new head of the F|S Department of Conservation and Scientific Research, discusses evidence of and theories on… (Community - Lecture) |
| 01/16/15 01/18/15 | 19th Annual Iranian Film Festival Presents: Fish & Cat. In person: Shahram Mokri, director (Friday only). Based on a true story about a rural Iranian restaurant that served human fles… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 01/23/15 01/24/15 | What's the Time in Your World?. A woman returns to Iran and recovers her past in Safi Yazdanian's debut feature, which won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2014 Busan… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 01/25/15 | Hafez and Lines of Beauty. Works by the renowned Persian poet Hafez uphold the same notions of beauty as does the nasta'liq script. Dr. Dick Davis, an acco… (Community - Lecture) |
| 01/29/15 | The Oriental Carpet: Foreign Gifts and Foreign Affairs. Walter Denny, a leading expert in textiles of the Islamic world, speaks about his new book How to Read Islamic Carpets, which ex… (Community - Lecture) |
| 01/30/15 02/01/15 | Bending the Rules. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival, Bending the Rules illuminates the conflict between em… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/06/15 02/08/15 | Fifi Howls from Happiness. Once known as the "Persian Picasso," exiled artist Bahman Mohassess recounts his fascinating life in this lively, lyrical docume… (Community - Lecture) |
| 02/10/15 | Music From Japan 40th Anniversary Concert. Mayumi Miyata, sho; Wu Man, pipa; Jin Hi Kim, komungo. Three of the world's leading exponents of Asian instruments make a rare j… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 02/11/15 | Musicians from Marlboro II. Don't miss Metropolitan Opera soprano Sarah Shafer and mezzo-soprano Rebecca Ringle as they perform gorgeous songs by Brahms and… (Arts - Concert - Classical / Symphony) |
| 02/13/15 | Discovering Georgian Cinema Presents: Eliso. Directed by one of the great early figures of Georgian cinema, this cherished classic from 1928 depicts the country's majestic l… (Arts - Concert - Classical / Symphony) |
| 02/15/15 | Discovering Georgian Cinema Presents: Nail in the Boot. Live keyboard accompaniment by Burnett Thompson; introduced by Dr. Peter Rollberg, GWU. The poor quality of a nail in a soldier'… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/15/15 | Discovering Georgian Cinema Presents: Salt for Svanetia. Live keyboard accompaniment by Burnett Thompson; introduced by Dr. Peter Rollberg, GWU. Mikhail Kalatozov's 1932 debut film is a… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/20/15 | Discovering Georgian Cinema Presents: Paradise Lost. Davit Rondeli's "Paradise Lost is still called the best Georgian comedy of the 1930s," according to the Historical Dictionary of… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 02/22/15 | Discovering Georgian Cinema Presents: Repentance. Introduced by Dr. Julie Christenson, GMU. One of the most important censored films to come off the shelf with the cultural liber… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 10/08/15 | Musicians from Marlboro I. Peter Stumpf, is joined by other artists from the Marlboro Music Festival to perform Mozart's String Quintet no. 6, K. 614; Earl… (Arts - Concert - Classical / Symphony) |
| 10/29/15 | Classical/Indonesian Fusions: JACK Quartet and Lightbulb. The eclectic and award-winning JACK string quartet joins forces with the Lightbulb ensemble to perform new music for strings, Am… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 11/03/15 | Flower-Bird-Wind-Moon: Asako Tamura, soprano; Mariko Furukawa, piano. Kyoto native and world opera star Asako Tamura invokes the traditional Japanese theme of flower-bird-wind-moon (kacho-fugetsu) i… (Arts - Opera) |
| 11/12/15 | Fotoweek DC: Frame by Frame. In conjunction with Fotoweek DC, presenting a powerful, award-winning documentary about photojournalism in Afghanistan. (Dirs.:… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
| 11/14/15 | Making Musical Waves: The Legacy of Yatsuhashi Kengyo. Four leading artists from Japan perform music by the revolutionary seventeenth-century composer Yatsuhashi Kengyo and his follow… (Arts - Concerts) |
| 12/04/15 12/06/15 12/13/15 More... | Action, Anarchy, and Audacity: A Seijun Suzuki Retrospective. On the occasion of the publication of Time and Place are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki by F|S Curator of Film Tom Vick, t… (Festivals - Film Festival) |
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