Events This Week

Global Challenges, Modern Solutions with General Brent Scowcroft, President, The Scowcroft Group Wednesday, September 28, 6:00-7:00 p.m. George Washington University Room 451 Duques Hall 2201 G Street NW RSVP: http://scowcroft928.eventbrite.com As one of the nation's preeminent authorities on international policy, General Scowcroft will discuss contemporary challenges in international affairs and policy formation and reflect on lessons learned from the end of the Cold War from the government's perspective. His unique perspective will draw from his extensive background that includes serving as a National Security Advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. Sponsored by the Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communications and the Walter Roberts Endowment

Golden Buddha Happy Hour

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 4:00pm - 8:00pm

Buddha-Bar
Venue Address: 455 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20001 United States See map: Google Maps

Admire the new gold Buddha statue while enjoying Buddha-Bar DCs new happy hour menu, which is available Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. The larger than life Buddha is the golden reincarnate of the restaurants original statue, which has attracted much attention since Buddha-Bar DC first opened its doors last year. It was originally crafted from black onyx and designed in Indonesia specifically for the DC-location. Upon its arrival, the statue was blessed by a local Buddhist group in order to observe Buddhist traditions. The statue measures an impressive 18 feet and sits in a meditative state on a stage, overlooking the expansive dining room. The menu includes $4 domestic beers, $5 imported beers, $6 glasses of wine, and $7 signature cocktails on the rocks.

Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline September 28, 12:30-2:00 p.m. Open Society Institute 1730 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 7th Floor Washington, DC 20006 Lunch will be served. Register: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/washington/events/breaking-school-to-prison-pipeline20110928/event_rsvp The growing trend of harsh school discipline practices such as suspension, expulsions, and zero tolerance policies in public schools do more to increase student involvement in the criminal justice system than to correct or curb behavior. In many states, children are often arrested and criminalized for minor disciplinary offenses. African American males are the largest group of students disproportionately affected by such School-to-Prison Pipeline policies. In fact, a recent school discipline study in Texas by the Council of State Governments found that almost 60 percent of Texas public school students received punishments ranging from expulsion to in-school suspensions at least once between 7-12 grades. The study also found that African American males and students with educational disabilities were disproportionately disciplined for discretionary actions. Harsh and discriminating school discipline policies led the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice to create the Supportive School Discipline Initiative, which encourages positive and effective disciplinary practices that create safer school environments conducive to learning and do not remove students from the educational setting. Please join the Open Society Foundations for a panel discussion on the impact of school discipline policies and various initiatives underway to dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Representatives from the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice will join experts to discuss the federal program and other initiatives. Panelists Matt Cregor, Assistant Counsel of the Education Practice, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Robin Delany-Shabazz, Director for Concentration of Federal Efforts Program, U.S. Department of Justice Kristen Harper, Policy Advisor for Safe and Drug Free Schools, U.S. Department of Education Kavitha Mediratta, Program Executive for Children and Youth, Atlantic Philanthropies Jane Sundius, Director of Education and Youth Development Programs, OSI-Baltimore, Open Society Foundations Christopher Scott, Criminal Justice and Campaign for Black Male Achievement Policy Analyst, Open Society Foundations (moderator)

Everything on GU's website is listed as being at "37th & O Streets NW" - It's close. Here's a crappy map: http://maps.georgetown.edu/

presents

The German Federal Constitutional Court at 60: Karlsruhe Copes with the Pull of Europe

with
Dr. Heiko Holste

Visiting Scholar, BMW Center for German and European Studies German Federal Ministry of Justice (on sabbatical) Wednesday, September 28 12:00-2:00 p.m. Georgetown University McGhee Library Inter Cultural Center 301
Heiko Holste is a visiting scholar at the BMW Center on leave from the German Federal Ministry of Justice. From 2005-2009 Dr. Holste served as political Counselor and Head of Speechwriting for the Minister of Justice, Brigette Zypries. From 20042005 he was an advisor to the Federal Minister of the Interior, Otto Schily. In 2001 he earned his Ph.D. in constitutional history from the University of Gttingen. Dr. Holste is co-editor of the German quarterly Recht und Politik (Law and Politics).

Lunch will be provided. Register: http://heikoholste.eventbrite.com/ Please direct all questions to cgesevents@georgetown.edu

The Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Book Series with David Ignatius Wednesday, September 28, 12:00-1:30 p.m. The Aspen Institute One Dupont Circle NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036-1133 RSVP: Devon Rodonets (202) 736-3844 Washington Post columnist David Ignatius discusses his new thriller Bloodmoney: A Novel of Espionage. He is the author of Body of Lies, which became a major Hollywood film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe (2008). About the book: Someone in Pakistan is killing the members of a new CIA intelligence unit that is trying to buy peace with America's enemies. It falls to Sophie Marx, a young CIA officer with a big chip on her shoulder, to figure out who's doing the killing and why. Her starting point is Alphabet Capital, the London hedge fund that has been providing cover for this secret operation, but the investigation soon widens to include the capitals of the Middle East and the cruel hills of South Waziristan. Sophie thinks she has the backing of her hard-nosed boss, Jeffrey Gertz, and his genial mentor at headquarters, Cyril Hoffman. In addition, she gets help from the well-mannered lieutenant general heading Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate. But the closer Sophie gets to her quarry, the more she realizes that nothing in this gallery of mirrors is quite what it seems. This is a theater of violence and retribution, in which

the last act is one that Sophie could not have imagined. Moderator: Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute

Roundtable on Women & the Economy Wednesday, September 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m. The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare 10 G Street NE Suite 600 Lunch will be provided; please come a few minutes early to help yourself to the buffet RSVP: mpare@iwpr.org by Tuesday September 27th. We're back! We've decided to kick off the return of the Roundtable from our "summer break" with the release of two very important reports on the results of the IWPR-Rockefeller Survey of Economic Security. We hope you can join us to hear about and discuss the state of Americans' economic and retirement security. It is a vital time for such a discussion.

Agenda: "On the Edge: Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession" & "Retirement on the Edge: Economic Insecurity After the Great Recession" Carol Wayman, Director, Federal Policy, Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) Terry O'Neill, President, National Organization for Women (NOW) Heidi Hartmann, President, Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) Jeffrey Hayes, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR)

Washington D.C. Monthly Policy Luncheon "An Analysis of Obama's Jobs Plan" Wednesday, September 28, 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Regional Economic Models, Inc. 700 12th Street NW Suite 700 There is no charge to attend and lunch will be provided.

RSVP: http://www.remi.com/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=474&cntnt01origid=102 &cntnt01detailtemplate=onSiteDetail&cntnt01returnid=123&hl=en_US REMI (Regional Economic Models, Inc.) invites you to join us for our Monthly Policy Luncheon. As the country's unemployment figures continue to rise, REMI explores different options for job creation. Specifically, we will focus on President Obama's job creation proposals. These include the payroll tax credit,

maintaining infrastructure, and middle class tax cuts. Scott Nystrom will take an unbiased look at these options and how they effect the economy.

COMPLIMENTARY WINE TASTINGS

Join ZWK for happy hour and enjoy our weekly pick of amazing new wines paried with our artisanal cheeses. Zola Wine & Kitchen 505 Ninth Street NW

Wednesday, September 28, 5:00-7:00 p.m. ZWK Presents: Unusual Varietals

Sipp Mack Sylvaner Bodegas Carrau Tannat Calheiros Cruz

Friday, September 30, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Fun American Wines with Andrew Stover of Vino 50!

Breaux Seyval Blanc Shindig White Okanogan Bench Rock Red Sawtooth Skyline Red

Supreme Court Preview: 2011 Term Wednesday, September 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lehrman Auditorium The Heritage Foundation 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE Washington DC 20002-4999 RSVP: http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/09/Supreme-CourtPreview?utm_source=DC+Linktank&utm_campaign=27783fbf24-DC_Linktank_Weekly_Events09_26_011&utm_medium=email

Just days before the High Courts 2011 Term begins, The Heritage Foundation will preview the likely blockbuster cases, with Supreme Court luminaries Paul Clement and Kannon Shanmugam. The Eleventh Circuits recent ruling striking down the individual mandate in ObamaCare, which Paul Clement won for 26 states, makes it almost certain the Supreme Court will hear the case. Will the government be able to delay the final decision until after the 2012 election? How will the Justices respond to the latest racial preference cases from the Fifth and Sixth Circuits: Will they overrule Grutter v. Bollinger or kick the can down the road for another 25 years? How will United States v. Jones (the GPS tracking device case) and Florence v. Board of Freeholders (the prisoner strip search case) change Fourth Amendment protections? Will the High Court uphold the Arizona immigration law or strike it down? Paul Clement has argued over 50 cases before the Supreme Court, including high profile cases like McConnell v. FEC, Gonzales v. Raich, and Gonzales v. Carhart. Since returning to private practice, Clement has taken up significant cases headed to the High Court, such as the ObamaCare suit in the Eleventh Circuit and Congresss defense of DOMA in the First Circuit. Kannon Shanmugam was an Assistant to the Solicitor General and has also argued a number of cases before the Court, including Hawaii v. Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Merck & Co. v. Reynolds. Hes been named as one of Washingtons Top 40 [lawyers] Under 40 by National Law Journal and The Washingtonian. Join us as these distinguished experts discuss what is likely to unfold in the next Supreme Court term.

More About the Speakers Paul Clement, Former United States Solicitor General and Partner, Bancroft PLLC Kannon Shanmugam. Former Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General and Partner, Williams & Connolly LLP Hosted By

Todd Gaziano, Director, Center for Legal & Judicial Studies

You are cordially invited to a special lecture with Ambassador Akbar Ahmed Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and Professor of International Relations, American University Advisory Board member, IWP's Center for Culture and Security on the topic of Poetry in Islamic Culture and his new book, Suspended Somewhere Between: A Book of Verse Thusday, September 29, 4:30 -6:30 p.m.

The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Please RSVP to kbridges@iwp.edu

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies and professor of International Relations at American University in Washington, D.C. From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Ahmed was the Pakistani High Commissioner (Ambassador) to the United Kingdom. He has also held many other senior positions in Pakistan. His many award-winning books include Discovering Islam: Making Sense of Muslim History and Society, Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World, Jinnah Quartet, Journey into Islam, and, most recently, Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam.

DC APA Film Festival Kick-off Party

Event Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 6:00pm

Tabaq Bistro
Venue Address: 1336 U Street NW Washington, DC 20009 United States See map: Google Maps

www.tabaqdc.com

We are excited to have our Kick-off Party next Thursday, Sept 29 at Tabaq Bistro! Come join us at 6pm and learn more about our 12th Annual DC APA Film Festival and partake in some great food/drink specials. We can't wait to see you as we kick off another great year of APA films! http://www.apafilm.org/festival-2011/

Exclusive - FFP at Gibson

Event Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm RSVP: RSVP Required Cost Price: $15.00

The Gibson
Venue Address: 2009 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20009 United States Phone: (202) 232-2156 See map: Google Maps

www.thegibsondc.com As a supporter of Fashion Fights Poverty, you are invited to an exclusive evening of mixology at The Gibson. Jon Harris will be speaking about his craft while he prepares four fashion inspired cocktails. Savory bites. Soul Call Paul providing the beats. $15 (very limited number of tickets available) to access the entire private upstairs. Buy Tickets Now! http://tinyurl.com/092811FFP 100% of ticket sales support FFP programs.

COMPLIMENTARY WINE TASTING

Potenza Wine 15th & H Streets NW Join us at Potenza for a weekly tasting and enjoy a variety of amazing new wines, paired with our artisanal cheeses. Thursday, September 29, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Red Wine and White Whiskey: Selections from Bacchus Imports

Avalon Sauvignon Blanc Albino Rocca Dolcetto Avalon Cabernet Chehalem Pinot Noir High West Silver Oak Whiskey

WINE SPECIAL
Sauvignon Blanc on sale for $10.49 and Cabernet on sale for $15.99!

Is Competitiveness Worth Defending? Thursday, September 29, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Wohlstetter Conference Center Twelfth Floor American Enterprise Institute 1150 17th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 RSVP: http://www.aei.org/event/100472

Politicians often call for actions to enhance US competitiveness with other countries and chide their political rivals for pursuing policies contrary to that purpose. Meanwhile, segments of the academic community have largely written off national competitiveness as meaningless. Economist Paul Krugman went so far as to say that "the obsession with competitiveness is not only wrong but dangerous, skewing domestic policies and threatening the international system." In light of the academic challenge to the notion of competitiveness, AEI has gathered experts to research the value of competitiveness in different spheres. How do we define competitiveness, and is it worth pursuing as a policy goal? In what ways do countries compete in various areas, including education, intellectual property, health care and taxes? This AEI conference will be the first of a two-part series in which scholars will present new research on competitiveness. Each paper will be presented by its author(s), followed by comments from an expert and questions from the audience.

Agenda 8:45 a.m. - Registration 9:00 a.m - Introduction: Kevin A. Hassett, AEI 9:15 a.m. - Competitive Tax Policy

Author/Speaker: Joel Slemrod, University of Michigan Discussant: Andrew Lyon, PricewaterhouseCoopers 10:15 a.m. - Rethinking Competitiveness

Authors: Kevin A. Hassett, AEI

R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia Business School Matt Jensen, AEI Speaker: Kevin A. Hassett, AEI Discussant: Chris Edwards, Cato Institute 11:15 a.m. - Break 11:30 a.m. - The Role of Innovation and Intellectual Property in Economic Competition Author/Speaker: Robert J. Shapiro, Sonecon Discussant: John H. Makin, AEI 12:30 p.m. - Lunch 1:00 p.m. - American Competitiveness and the Health Care System Authors: Michael E. Chernew, Harvard Medical School Philip I. Levy, AEI Speaker: Michael E. Chernew, Harvard Medical School Discussant: Stephen T. Parente, University of Minnesota 2:00 p.m. - Education and Global Competitiveness: Lessons for the US from International Evidence Author/Speaker: Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education Discussant: Grover J. Whitehurst, Brookings Institution 3:00 p.m. - Adjournment

Health and Harmony: Population, Health, and Environment in Indonesia September 29, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Fifth Floor Woodrow Wilson Center Ronald Reagan Builing 13th & Pennsylvania avenue NW Admission is free. RSVP: ecsp@wilsoncenter.org Photo ID required to enter the Reagan building

Forests cover 60 percent of Indonesia, while agriculture supports 49 percent of its workforce. As in other national parks, the management of Borneo's Gunung Palung must balance the demands of environmental conservation with the need to support the livelihoods of local communities. An innovative population, health, and environment (PHE) program supported by Health in Harmony--called Alam Sehat Lestari, or "Healthy Nature Everlasting"--seeks to meet these development challenges by combining family planning, health care and medical training, reforestation and rainforest protection, and organic farming and alternative livelihoods. Speakers: Alene Gelbard, Director, Company-Community Partnerships for Health in Indonesia, Public Health Institute Kinari Webb, Founder, Health in Harmony, Oakland, California; Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Event: Public discussion part of the Ambassador's Lecture Series

From Mississippi to Broome: Creating transformative economic opportunity Thursday, September 29, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Embassy of Australia 1601 Massachusetts Avenue NW RSVP: martha.evans@anu.edu.au or (202) 797-3373

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of the largest employers in their state, with almost 8,000 people employed in 19 different businesses. They have created an economic success story that has transformed their community, and in doing so have opened up a new world of educational and professional opportunities for young Choctaw. Other indigenous nations - including Citizen Potawatomi of Oklahoma, Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Membertou First of Nova Scotia, and Southern Ute Indian Tribe of Colorado - are also building economies that work. Why and how is this happening? Transforming native title into sustainable economic development is one of the great challenges facing Aboriginal communities from the Torres Strait to Broome. Professor Mick Dodson (The Australian National University) will lead a roundtable discussion with Dr Manley Bagay (University of Arizona and Harvard University) and Dr Toni Bauman (Australian Institute of Torres Strait Islander Studies) to consider what lessons there are in the North American experience, and examine the policy and legal changes that would be needed unleash similar opportunity in Australia.

Panel

Mick Dodson Mick Dodson is Director of the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the Australian National University. He is a Professor of law at the ANU College of Law. He is a member of the Yawuru peoples the traditional Aboriginal owners of land and waters in the Broome area of the southern Kimberley region of Western Australia. Mick Dodson has been a prominent advocate on land rights and other issues affecting Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander peoples. In 2009, he was named Australian of the Year by the National Australia Day Council. He is the current Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University.

Manley A Begay Jr Manley A Begay Jr, Navajo, is Associate Social Scientist & Senior Lecturer in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona. He teaches courses on nation-building, curriculum development, and Indigenous education. He is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Toni Bauman Toni Bauman is a Research Fellow in the Native Title Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. She is an anthropologist, mediator, facilitator and trainer who has published widely and made presentations to national and international audiences. She has over 30 years experience in Indigenous matters including land and native title claims, agreement-making, decision-making and dispute management processes, joint management of national parks and Indigenous Protected Areas, government policy, art and craft, program evaluation, feasibility studies, tourism and training.

Newsletter | Austrian Cultural Forum Washington

The Austrian Cultural Forum Washington and Brodmann Pianos present:

lecture Fascination Liszt

Thursday, September 29, 7:30 p.m. Embassy of Austria 3524 International Court NW Washington, DC 20008 Admission free, RSVP required:

www.acfdc.org/events-

registration or (202) 895-6776

Child prodigy, piano virtuoso, heartthrob and enchanter of Europes concert halls: Franz Liszt was one of the most dazzling musical personalities of the Romantic era and the composer of a gigantic oeuvre. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Liszts birth, the artistic directors of the Liszt Festival Raiding Johannes and Eduard Kutrowatz will hold a lecture on outstanding Austrian composer Franz Liszt. Johannes and Eduard Kutrowatz studied piano at the renowned Josef Haydn Conservatory in Eisenstadt, with a special focus on original works for four hands or two pianos respectively. The brothers won many international awards and filled concert halls all over the world. Both of them teach at the Music University in Vienna. Franz Liszt was born in Austria-Hungary. He became one of the greatest pianists of his time. Liszt was also a renowned composer and piano teacher. At the age of only eight years, Liszt composed his first works. With nine years he already played in Sopron and Bratislava. In the 1820s Liszt took up his studies in Vienna. As a celebrated pianist he toured throughout Europe. He spent his last years in Hungary, Germany and Italy. Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth in July, 1886.

The Gallery
Contemporary Middle East and Arab American Artists
2425 Virginia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20037 Metro: Foggy Bottom (202) 338-1958 Gallery Hours: M-F 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

The Jerusalem Fund Gallery invites you to

Of Refuge, of Home
an exhibition of paintings by Adam Chamy
(September 30-October 28)
Opening reception to meet the artist: Friday, September 30, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Open to the Public Free No RSVP Needed

The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that does educational and humanitarian work on behalf of Palestinians, particularly those living in the Occupied Territory and surrounding refugee camps. The Gallery is The Jerusalem Fund's cultural program. It promotes the work of artists from Palestine as well as from the Arab and Islamic worlds through art exhibits, book signings, film screenings, musical performances and workshops.

Palestinian-Texan artist Adam Chamy explores identity, myth, and home through a series of family portraits and installation works that weave themes of migration, roots, and belonging. Faces of Texan farmers hang side by side with Jerusalem merchants. One has centuries-old ties to land through frontier settlement of the American South. The other, an enterprising global Levantine merchant family, faces a broken homeland severed by colonization and war. Together these fragmented myths and stories formulate an identity questioning the idea of home and form a story of a bicultural Arab-Americana. Born in Fort Worth, Adam graduated from George Washington University in 2009 and received a BA in International Affairs with minors in art, art history, and anthropology. His works have exhibited in group shows in the Washington area, Texas, and Spain. This is his first solo show.

Food Price Increases: Causes, Impacts and Responses Friday, September 30, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. George Washington University The Elliott School of International Affairs City View Room, 7th Floor 1957 E Street NW RSVP: http://tiny.cc/foodpricesandpoverty

8:30-9:00 a.m. - Registration and Coffee

9:00 a.m. - Opening Remarks Stephen Smith, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, and Director, Institute for International Economic Policy, GW 9:15-11:15 a.m. - Panel 1: Causes: Long and Short Term Forces Underlying Food Price Spikes and Trends Nora Lustig, Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University; "Survey of Long and Short Run Factors" Keith O. Fuglie, Chief of the Resource, Environmental, and Science Policy Branch in the Resource and Rural Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; "Global and Regional Food Productivity and Output Trends Patrick Webb, Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University; "Models of Determinants of Food Price Increases" 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. - Panel 2: Impacts: Poverty, Nutrition and Welfare Impacts of Food Price Increases Francisco Ferreira, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank; "Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil" James Foster, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, GW; "Measurement Issues in Assessing Poverty Impacts of Food Price Spikes" 1:15-2:00 p.m. - Lunch Keynote Address Alain de Janvry, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley 2:00-4:00 p.m. - Panel 3: Responses: Policy and Program Responses to Food Price Spikes Carlos B Martins-Filho, Professor of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder; Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; "Excessive Food Price Volatility Early Warning System" Maximo Torero, Division Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division; leader of the Global Research Program on Institutions and Infrastructure for Market Development; Director for Latin America, IFPRI; "Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets: Policy Responses" Uma Lele, Author and Development Advisor; "Responses of the World Bank to Food Price Spikes" The forum will feature current research and policy analysis on the causes, impacts, and responses to recent increases in food prices. The forum will include a combination of presentation of research results, demonstration of policy tools, and discussion of policy implications, priority actions, and future research needs. The forum will focus on global trends as well as regions of interest, notably Africa.

Sponsored by the Institute for International Economic Policy

Abolish the Transportation Security Administration Friday, September 30, 12:00 p.m. (Lunch Included) B-354 Rayburn House Office Building

Featuring David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute. Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, federalized aviation security has proven costly, reactive, and an intrusive failure. Restoring security responsibility to airports and airlines would provide numerous benefits to the traveling public without compromising security. Join us for a discussion of why Congress should privatize airport security and abolish the Transportation Security Administration.

For recent published work of the speakers, see: "Does Risk Management Counsel in Favor of a Biometric Traveler Identity System?" by Jim Harper and "Abolish the Department of Homeland Security," by David Rittgers.

Cato events on Capitol Hill are free of charge and open to the public. To register for this event, please email events@cato.org, or call (202) 789-5229 by noon, Thursday, September 29, 2011.

Honfleur reopens this Friday, September 30, at 7:00 p.m. with new works by Gustavo Daz Sosa.

Gustavo Daz Sosa graduated in Cuba with the golden title in 2002. He has since moved to Spain, exhibiting widely, invited as a resident artist at Arteleku in San Sebastian, and settled in the outskirts of Madrid, where he lives and works today. More recently Gustavo returned to Habana, Cuba for a solo exhibition at the Gallery, Kingdom of This World. Honfleur Gallery has been working with Gustavo since 2009 and is pleased to present never before seem mixed media works on canvas and six new charcoal works on paper.

photo by Antoine Sanfuentes

Starting at 8:00 p.m., THE CONNECTION, a free jazz performance by Butch Warren & Freddie Redd accompanied by a photographic slide show by Antoine Sanfuentes. A poetry reading by local DC poet, Fred Joiner, will also happen in between sets.

An evening of jazz and art with two legendary jazz musicians, Freddie Redd pairs up with Butch Warren to play hard bop jazz...known for his piece "The Connection," these two connect an era and an art form.

Born in 1939, Butch Warren began his career as a jazz bassist at the ripe age of 14. Early on, the bassist worked locally in the Washington, DC, area, most notably with Stuff Smith. Warren was in great demand for club work and appeared on many recordings, particularly dates for the Blue Note label led by Joe Henderson, Jackie McLean, Stanley Turrentine, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, and Dorham. He was a member of Thelonious Monk's quartet from 1963-1964 and then moved back to Washington, DC, where he worked on a television show from 19651966.

Antoine Sanfuentes is the Washington DC Bureau Chief for NBC news that has been documenting Butch Warren's recent life history. His photographs chronicle Butch Warren's come back. After four legendary years recording for blue note records in New York (1960-1964), Butch Warren spent decades off the music scene only re appearing briefly to disappear again. These photographs document his struggle as a jazz musician and an artist. This performance is funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts

Both events are free and open to the public. For more details: 202.580.597

1241 Good Hope Road SE Washington DC 20020

Runway Moms for a Cause

Event Date: Friday, September 30, 2011 - 6:30pm - 10:30pm

Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Venue Address: 3519 International Court, NW Washington, DC 20008 United States See map: Google Maps

"Runway Moms for a Cause" (RMFAC) is an impactful intersection of philanthropy and fashion at its best. Labeled a visual fashion statement for Global Goodwill, RMFC is a runway show for philanthropists to take a stance on an often overlooked issue, and lend a helping hand towards a solution. The inaugural black-tie event will focus on influential Washington, DC mothers raising funds for orphans through the United for Kids Foundation (UKF) - a 501c3 organization committed to fighting poverty and illiteracy through education and social welfare programs in Nigeria. RMFAC is recognized by the Embassy of Nigeria as a prelude to the Nigerian Independence Day celebrations.
Participating mothers will be adorned in one of a kind designs by L-Shandi and guests will partake in a silent auction featuring original artwork, sent from Nigeria, by the benefitting orphans depicting their life goals and dreams. WHO: Hosted by Maureen Umeh, Emmy award winning Anchor of Fox 5 News, Aba Kwawu, Founder, The Aba Agency, Jessica McFadden, Founder, top online DC Metro area Mom site "A Parent in Silver Spring", Kelly Collis, Tommy Show on Fresh 94.7, Founder, City Shop Girl, Maimah Karmo, Founder, Tigerlily Foundation, Rebecca Cooper, Anchor, WJLA Channel 7, Maggy Francois, Fashion Educator, West Potomac Academy, Tanya Dallas-Lewis, Musician and Journalist, Christine Brooks-Cropper, President, Greater Washington Fashion Chamber of Commerce, Chichi Emeson, Executive Director, Miss Nigeria in America, Inc., Natalie Jobity, President, lan Image Management, Mia Redrick, Owner, Finding Definitions, Kristie Hale, CEO, Impulse Design Group, Inc., Susi DuPuis, Personal Assistant to CEO & CFO of BP Alternative Energy North America, Monique Lighart, Realtor, Long and Foster, Neneh Diallo, Director of Communications, Millennium Challenge Corporation, Christhel Barron, PR & Events coordinator at LJ Bamboo, Doyin DaramolaBoatin, Doctor of Pharmacy, Dekalb Medical Hospital.

About Runway Moms for a Cause (www.lshandi.com/charity): "Runway Moms for a Cause" (RMFAC) is an impactful intersection of philanthropy and fashion at its best. Labeled a visual fashion statement for Global Goodwill, RMFC is a runway show for philanthropists to take a stance on an often overlooked issue, and lend a helping hand towards a solution. The inaugural black-tie event will focus on influential Washington, DC mothers raising funds for orphans through the United for Kids Foundation (UKF) - a 501c3 organization committed to fighting poverty and illiteracy through education and

social welfare programs in Nigeria. RMFAC is recognized by the Embassy of Nigeria as a prelude to the Nigerian Independence Day celebrations.

Upcoming Show at Studio Gallery

EXHIBITIONS September 28 - October 22 Artist Reception Saturday, October 1, 4:00-6:00 p.m. First Friday Reception October 7, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Studio Gallery 2108 R Street NW

Solo Show: Meditations, Abstractions, and Distractions Carolee Jakes

Local artist Carolee Jakes was working on textile-embedded portraits of the women in her family when she began the indulgently pleasurable experience of knitting a "windsock". Using recycled sari yarn spun by a women's cooperative in India as the primary material, she added old buttons and strips of discarded silk, as well as pieces of used violin, cello, and bass strings. This show includes work that leads up to and responds to this creative process.

Duo Show: Chroma Eugene Markowski

An Exhibit of Architectural Photographs of the Future By Kenneth M. Wyner (September 1-October 28)

Opening Reception Saturday, October 1, 5:30-10:00 p.m. American Institute of Architects 1735 New York Avenue NW Washington, DC 20006 (202) 626-7300

The Royal Thai Embassy will be bringing a Thai village to the heart of Georgetown on Saturday, October 1, 2011 from Noon to 5 p.m. The event will feature a Thai food fair, including authentic, healthy and popular dishes from all four regions of Thailand prepared by the Embassy and local Thai associations. The food fair includes authentic Thai drinks, Thai beer and Thai fruit. Attendees will be invited to watch the following cultural performances: Muay Thai demonstration, long drum dance, traditional Thai musical instrument performance, and a Thai fencing/sword-baton dance demonstration. There will also be an opportunity to experience a Thai massage and a special exhibition of Thai-U.S. relations. Admission to all exhibits and performances is free of charge, while food and beverages will be available for purchase. Proceeds raised will go toward charitable causes supported by Grace Church. For further information, please contact the Royal Thai Embassy at (202) 944-3600. Embassy - 1024 Wisconsin Avenue NW

You and your guest are invited to our home//my studio to welcome the end of a rainy summer, new artworks, and good health. Come by to celebrate with food, refreshments, and friends. Saturday, October 1, 4:00-7:00 p.m. 3330 N Street NW RSVP: bogoslowsky@mac.com or call 202-329-1155

Looking forward to seeing you, Andrey Bogoslowsky

http://web.mac.com/bogoslowsky/Site/Bogoslowsky.html

Luce Unplugged Amy Bormet

DC-based jazz pianist & vocalist Amy K. Bormet performs after an art talk Sunday, October 2, 1:30 p.m. Luce Foundation Center Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & F Streets NW

GLENVIEW MANSION ART GALLERY Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park 603 Edmonston Drive Rockville, Maryland 20851

The 2011 Edward Said Memorial Lecture with

Dr. Saree Makdisi Professor of English & Comparative Literature University of California, Los Angeles

Monday, October 3, 12:30-2:00 p.m. The Palestine Center 2425 Virginia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20037

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Dr. Saree Makdisi is a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, and the author of Romantic Imperialism (Cambridge University Press, 1998), William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s (University of Chicago Press, 2003), and Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (WW Norton, 2008; revised and updated, with a new foreword by Alice Walker, 2010). He is currently completing work on a book tentatively called Occidentalism, Race and Imperial Culture, which explores the convergence between the civilizing mission into which the British empire would morph in the nineteenth century and the almost exactly parallel mission inside England itself. The book includes chapters on William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Francis Place, Robert Southey and Thomas Macaulay, and Charles Dickens. Among other things, it aims to reevaluate the significance of Romanticism as one of the key sites of resistance to the imperial culture that would consolidate itself in Britain after 1815, and would go on to affect virtually every aspect of British culture by the end of the nineteenth century. He is also the co-editor of the volume The Arabian Nights in Historical Context (Oxford University Press, 2008), and of Marxism Beyond Marxism (Routledge, 1996). He is also Editor of the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature, which is published by the University of California Press. He received his PhD from the Literature Program at Duke University in 1993, and his BA from Wesleyan University in 1987. Most of his scholarship focuses on the culture of modernity and empire in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain (the Romantic period), but he is also interested in the consequences and afterlives of modernity and empire in the contemporary Arab world, especially Lebanon and Palestine, about which he has published extensively in scholarly books as well as in academic journals such as Critical Inquiry. In the spirit of speaking not only to a relatively narrow circle of scholars sharing a common expertise but to a broader public as well, he has written a number of articles on contemporary events which have appeared in, among others, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Nation, The Huffington Post, The London Review of Books and the

Beirut newspaper al-akhbar. He has also spoken or appeared on, among others, the BBC World Service, National Public Radio, al-Jazeera, PBS, South African Broadcasting Corporations SAFM, and Radio National in Australia.

The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinian political experience to American policy makers, journalists, students and the general public. Established in 1991, it is the educational program of the Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development. The Palestine Center brings together people and resources within the American and Palestinian communities to educate about Palestine and the Palestinian people's ongoing quest for sovereignty on their land, civil and political rights and an end to Israeli occupation. The need for an organization such as The Palestine Center can be found in the effects of the economic, cultural and political oppression Palestinians have endured and which continues on a daily basis in East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the surrounding refugee camps and for Palestinians world-wide as they struggle to retain their homeland. Palestinians' ability to maintain their daily lives and strengthen their democratic political system depends on international humanitarian and non-governmental organizations such as The Palestine Center.

The U.S.-Israel Relationship: Twenty Years after Oslo

Monday, October 3
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. U.S. Capitol Visitor Center Congressional Meeting Room South (CVC-217) Capitol Hill Washington, DC Space is limited for this conference. For more information, or to register, please visit: usisraelrelations.eventbrite.com

Twenty years after the Madrid Peace Conference and the launch of the Oslo eraand a

decade after those hopes for peace were shattered by the Second Intifadathe United States and Israel face unprecedented challenges. From attempts to isolate and deligitimize Israel at the United Nations to Irans nuclear ambitions, from suicide bombers to cyberwarfare, the threats are many and increasing. The political situation in the Middle East following the Arab Spring is tenuous at best. With the Obama administration making the Arab-Israeli peace process the focus of Middle East foreign policy, in order to meet these threats, the United States must work closely with its allies, above all Israel. The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is pleased to sponsor a day-long Hudson Institute/Foundation for Defense of Democracies conference which will feature some of the countrys top experts to discuss these important issues. SCHEDULE 8:45 am: Registration and Light Continental Breakfast 9:00 am: Welcoming Remarks Kenneth Weinstein, President & CEO, Hudson Institute Clifford May, President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies 9:15 am: Peace ProcessExpectations and Reality Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations and former Deputy National Security Advisor John Hannah, Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Richard Cheney, and senior advisor to Secretary of State Warren Christopher Kenneth Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History and Israeli Studies and Director of the Middle East Research Program at Emory University Moderator: Lewis Libby, Senior Vice President, Hudson Institute; former Chief of Staff to Vice President Richard Cheney and former National Security Advisor 10:30 am: An Ascendant IranThe Threat to the U.S. and Israel Ilan Berman, Vice President, American Foreign Policy Council Michael Doran, Visiting Professor, New York University and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Senior Director at the National Security Council Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President of Research, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Lee Smith, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies; and Senior Editor, The Weekly Standard Moderator: Mark Dubowitz, Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies 12:00 pm: Luncheon Keynote Address Ambassador Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States 1:15 pm: IsraelValue of the Strategic Relationship Gary Bauer, Director, American Values

George Gilder, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute and author of The Israel Test Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL), co-chair of the Republican Israel Caucus Moderator: Hillel Fradkin, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute 2:45 pm: The Way ForwardThreats and Opportunities Peter Berkowitz, Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Robert Lieber, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University Joshua Muravchik, Foreign Policy Institute Fellow, SAIS Abram Shulsky, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute Moderator: Douglas Feith, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 4:00 pm: Reception at the Conclusion of the Conference

Please note that due to limited space, filling out the registration form does not guarantee a spot. You will receive a separate email within one week confirming the status of your registration.

Artemis G. Kirk, University Librarian and the Georgetown University Library Associates

cordially invite you to

Suspense and Shiraz! Murder and Malbec! An Evening with Ellen Crosby

Author Ellen Crosby in conversation with Georgetown Professor and Critic-in-Residence Maureen Corrigan

Monday, October 3, 2011 6:00 p.m. Copley Formal Lounge Copley Hall Georgetown University

Reception and book-signing to follow

Please RSVP to library.georgetown.edu/rsvp or 202-687-7446 by September 29, 2011

Ellen Crosby is the author of a series of wine country mysteries, the most recent of which are The Sauvignon Secret and The Viognier Vendetta. For the past twenty years, she has been a freelance journalist in the US, London, Moscow, and Geneva, Switzerland, writing feature stories for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post. Before that, Ellen worked as ABC Radio News Moscow correspondent during the late 1980s. She later wrote her first novel, Moscow Nights, based on her experiences in the former Soviet Union during the waning days of the Gorbachev era. Prior to working as a journalist, Crosby was an economist in the United States Senate. She has a masters degree in international relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in political science from The Catholic University of America. She spent her junior year of undergraduate school in Madrid, Spain and did a semester of graduate studies in Bologna, Italy. Maureen Corrigan is Critic-in-Residence and a Lecturer in the Department of English at Georgetown University. She is an expert in 19th-century British literature; womens literature, especially autobiography; popular culture; detective fiction; contemporary American literature; and Anglo-Irish literature. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from Fordham University. For the past 18 years, Corrigan has been the book critic for the Peabody Award-winning program, Fresh Air, heard nationally on NPR. She is also a columnist for Book World in The Washington Post and a regular contributor to many publications. She is the author of Leave Me Alone, Im Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. Wine bottle design by David Hagen.

The Census of Marine Life

Tuesday, October 4, 12:00-1:00 p.m. . A light lunch will be available at 11:45 a.m.
Resources for the Future 1616 P Street NW Washington, DC 20036 First Floor Conference Center
The recently completed first Census of Marine Life was a cooperative international effort to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. At this RFF seminar, Program co-founder Jesse H. Ausubel will overview the most comprehensive and authoritative answer yet to one of humanity's most ancient questions - what lives in the sea? The Census combines information collected over centuries with data obtained during the decade-long effort to create a roll call of species globally and in 25 biologically representative regions - from the Antarctic through temperate and tropical seas to the Arctic. The Census helps set a baseline for measuring future changes in the Earth's oceans. Japan recently announced that the Census will receive the 2011 International Cosmos Prize for the programs contributions to science and conservation.

Jesse H. Ausubel is Vice President of Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which provided core support to the Census, and Director of the Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University in New York City. The author or editor of over 150 articles, reports, and books, Ausubel is a university fellow at Resources for the Future and an adjunct faculty member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Registration is required.

To RSVP for this event, please visit RFF's event registration page.

Please note that RSVPs should go to bryce.wakefield@wilsoncenter.org

THE WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS ASIA PROGRAM and THE CENTER FOR AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND STUDIES, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY

Present a luncheon book discussion: Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010: Middle Power Dreaming?

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2011 12:00 1:15 PM 5TH FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

James Cotton University of New South Wales With introductory remarks by Kim Beazley Australian Ambassador to the United States

RSVPs required. Contact bryce.wakefield@wilsoncenter.org

The advent of the Rudd-Gillard governments in Australia brought a return to the Labor tradition of middle power activism in foreign policy, especially in relation to Asia-Pacific regionalism, nuclear nonproliferation, and development in the Pacific island states. Both governments results in the diplomatic arena, however, have been mixed. Australias successful management of the impact of the global financial crisis, its membership in the G20, which has emerged as a major organ of global governance, and the Rudd governments failure to adhere to its own ambitious climate change agenda or to capitalize fully on the prime ministers extensive knowledge of China are some of the issues considered in the forthcoming Australia in World Affairs 2006-2010 (Oxford University Press).

About the speaker: James Cotton (PhD, London School of Economics) is professor of politics, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. He was a graduate fellow at Princeton University and a language student at the Beijing Yuyan Xueyuan. He has held academic positions in Western Australia, Newcastle upon Tyne, Singapore, the Australian National University, and Tasmania. In 2001 he was Centennial Professor in International Relations and in the Asia Research Centre, London School of Economics, and in 2004 and in 2007 he was a visiting professor in the department of politics and public administration, University of Hong Kong. Between 1997 and 2003 he was a foundation member of the Foreign Ministers Advisory Council convened by the foreign minister of Australia. In Fall 2009 he was the Wilson Centers Australia Scholar. He is the co-editor, with John Ravenhill, of the four volume series Australia in World Affairs.

Nonprofit Outlook: Where's the Light at the End of the Tunnel? Tuesday, October 4, 11:45 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Urban Institute 2100 M Street NW 5th Floor Lunch will be provided at 11:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at noon. Register: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2223287914 Panelists: Stephen Bennett, president and CEO, United Cerebral Palsy Elizabeth Boris, director, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute (moderator) Howard Husock, vice president for policy research and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative, Manhattan Institute Julie Rogers, president and CEO, Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Marta Urquilla, senior policy adviser, White House Domestic Policy Councils Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation (invited) The recession and its aftermath continue to ravage many nonprofits with a trifecta of troubles: reduced giving from individuals, government funding cuts, and increased demand for services. Mix in bruised foundation and corporate philanthropy, unemployment rates stuck over 9 percent, rising poverty levels, the desperate status of most state budgets, and the politics of the federal deficit and you have an environment choking the nonprofit sector. Join the discussion as a distinguished panel wrestles with such formidable questions as What are nonprofits doing -- or failing to do -- to cope and move ahead? How does this look locally? Nationally? Can the force of budget pressures be channeled into opportunities for the sector? How are nonprofits shaping the policy environment? Are they proposing policy options? How are relationships being reconfigured? With businesses? With governments? With donors? With foundations? Can the focus on social entrepreneurship and strategic impact help nonprofits surmount current challenges?

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After a summer of sharing their story in major news outlets like CNN, MSNBC, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and in front page news stories across the country, Bradford Wells and Anthony Makk will be joining Immigration Equality in Washington. They will be meeting with key Congressional leaders ... and theyd like to meet you, too. Please join them and the Immigration Equality team on Tuesday, October 4th, for our Third Annual Capital Reception & Fundraiser, hosted by Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams. Well have important updates on our work to help families like Bradford & Anthony ... celebrate the successes of the past year ... and build the support we need to continue our critical work on Capitol Hill.

Tuesday, October 4, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams 1526 14th Street, NW (between P & Q Streets, NW, in Logan Circle) Washington, DC 20005

The event is free, however your support is welcome, and critical to our success. We hope that if you're moved by our work, you'll help us reach our goal of $15,000 for our on-going work on behalf of LGBT immigrant families. Donations can be made online at ImEqActionFund.org/DCevent

Please RSVP by September 30th to Maria at mbooth@imeqactionfund.org.

Thank you for being part of the Immigration Equality family. I look forward to seeing you in Washington on October 4th.

Immigration Equality is the only national organization devoted exclusively to working on behalf of LGBT and HIV+ immigrant families. Since 1994, our free hotline has answered thousands of legal queries from LGBT families facing immigration problems, and built a nation-wide grassroots network of activists, advocates and allies. For more info, please visit ImEqActionFund.org/blog or check out our three-minute Day in the Life of Immigration Equality video at YouTube.

Immigration Equality Action Fund is a 501(c)4 not-for-profit organization. Because 100% of gifts to the Action Fund support unlimited lobbying for LGBT families, gifts to the Action Fund are not deductible either as charitable contributions or as business expenses under 26 U.S.C. 162(e). Immigration Equality Action Fund, 1325 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20005

What Should the Palestinians Do Now? Tuesday, October 4, 12:30-2:00 p.m. George Washington University The Elliott School of International Affairs Linder Family Commons, Room 602 1957 E Street NW A light lunch will be served. RSVP: http://bit.ly/nHgi07

Panelists: Wendy Pearlman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University Mouin Rabbani, Institute for Palestine Studies Nathan Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, GW

Moderator: Marc Lynch, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs; Director, Institute for Middle East Studies; Director, Middle East Studies Program, GW Three leading political scientists discuss prospects for Palestinians after the United Nations statehood bid. Sponsored by the Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and the Institute for Middle East Studies

October Networking Mixer Tuesday, October 4, 5:45-8:00 p.m. Josephine 1008 Vermont Avenue NW Washington, DC 20005 Register: http://metroevents.org/events?event_id=18&utm_source=Metro+Event+Specialists&utm_campaign=5369 df4353-PreReg_Oct&utm_medium=email#dbem-rsvp-form

Join us for an exclusive look a the newly renovated Josephine, a 5500 sq/ft upscale lounge in downtown DC. Originally opened in 2008, Josephine is currently undergoing a total rennovation. MES will be the first group to host an event in the newly renovated space. Click either of the pictures above for a full size look at the architects rendering. Simply Stunning! The October #MESmixer will feature:

Networking with over 300 local event professionals An exclusive look at a new DC venue Food, Entertainment, and more!

This month were partnering with Regal Celebrations, to add a number of interesting twists to the event

"Frontera Sin Frontera" Poetry Traditions of Mexico and the U.S. October 4, 7:00 p.m. Library of Congress Mumford Room, sixth floor James Madison Building 101 Independence Avenue SE Book sales and a signing will follow the discussion. Free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are needed.

A panel of experts will discuss the poetry traditions of the United States and Mexico and the literary exchanges between the two countries, shedding light on the historical, political and cultural heritages of both nations. The event is sponsored by the Librarys Poetry and Literature Center and co-sponsored by the Librarys Hispanic Division. Panelists include Jeannette Clairon, co-editor (with Harold Bloom) of a forthcoming anthology of American poets; Mnica de la Torre, co-editor of "Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry"; Rafael PrezTorres, author of "Movements in Chicano Poetry: Against Myths, Against Margins" and co-editor of "The Chicano Studies Reader: An Anthology of Aztln 1970-2000"; and Mexican poet Pedro Serrano. The panel will be moderated by Luis Alberto Ambroggio, poet and member of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Espaola (North American Academy of the Spanish Language). Panelists will focus on the ways in which American poets reach Mexican audiences and vice versa, through the publication of recent anthologies in both countries. It will also address the particular challenge Chicano poets face, with the influence of both traditions. The Poetry and Literature Center is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position that has existed since 1937, after the late Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress. Since then, more than 40 of the nations most eminent poets have served as either Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress or, after the passage of Public Law 99-194 in 1985, as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. The Poet Laureate suggests authors to read in the literary series and plans other special literary events during the reading season.

TO RSVP PLEASE: CLICK HERE

John Konkel The Red Door

"Shining Stars" Mixed-Media Exhibition (September 8-January 7)

Meet the Artists Reception Wednesday, October 5, 5:30-8:00 p.m. 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Form, color and highly polished material, ranging from bronze, steel, glass and mixed-media will transform the Eleven Eleven Sculpture Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW and capture the eye and imagination of visitors in this show featuring monumental and pedestal sculpture and three-dimensional wall art by Julie Girardini, David Hubbard, Joan Konkel, Barton Rubenstein and Paul Martin Wolff.

The Cato Institute invites you to a Book Forum

The Cato Institute invites you to a Policy Forum October 5, 2011

Because of the ongoing construction in our building expansion, this Cato Institute Policy Forum will be held at the

Barbara Jordan Conference Center Kaiser Family Foundation 1330 G Street NW Washington, DC 20005

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment and Evidence-Based Health Reform

featuring

Katherine Baicker Harvard School of Public Health Robin Hanson George Mason University Michael F. Cannon Cato Institute Rachel Garfield Kaiser Family Foundation

moderated by

Julie Rovner National Public Radio

The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment is the first study ever to measure the effects of health insurance by randomly assigning subjects to receive Medicaid coverage or no coverage. At this forum, lead investigator Katherine Baicker will present the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment's first set of results and discuss further data that this revolutionary experiment will produce. The panelists will comment on the studys results and what the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment means for medicine, Medicaid, and health care reform.

Thursday, October 5 4:00 p.m. (Reception to follow)

Barbara Jordan Conference Center Kaiser Family Foundation 1330 G Street NW Washington, DC 20005

To register, visit www.cato.org, fax (202) 371-0841, or call (202) 789-5229 by noon on Wednesday, October 4.

Copyright 2011 Cato Institute 1000 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20001

World Wildlife Funds Kathryn Fuller Science for Nature Seminar Series

Insights from biodiversity science for addressing global sustainability challenges

Dr. Georgina Mace

Professor, Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London

* Associate Director (Knowledge) for Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme * Co-Investigator for Valuing Nature Network * Coordinating lead author for the Conceptual Framework of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) * Fellow of the Royal Society ____________________________________________________________________________

Please join us as we celebrate WWFs 50th anniversary!

Date: Thursday, October 6th, 2011

Time: 4:30-5:30 p.m. (lecture); 5:30-6:30 p.m. (wine and cheese reception)

Admission: FREE

Registration: http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/fellowships/fuller/item1816.html#register

World Wildlife Fund Headquarters 1250 24th Street, NW Washington, DC 20037

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Insights from biodiversity science for addressing global sustainability challenges

The outlook for global sustainability in 2011 is not encouraging. Progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals is behind schedule, intergovernmental negotiations addressing climate change are stalled, and the international 2010 target for reducing the rate of biodiversity loss was missed by a substantial margin. Yet over the past 50 years, conservation biologists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have made substantial progress in our understanding of the natural world. We know a great deal now about how much biological diversity exists, what maintains the diversity, what is driving biodiversity degradation and at least some of the consequences. There is a significant history of successful actions and interventions to conserve species and habitats around the world. How can our knowledge and experience of successful intervention in biodiversity conservation be corralled to enhance the broader sustainability agenda? I will address this question in three inter-related themes, (1) Mainstreaming biodiversity, (2) Understanding and working within biophysical limits, and (3) Addressing short term crises versus long-term drivers. I will draw conclusions across the three themes about the significance of agreeing and adopting appropriate measures and values for biodiversity.

About the Speaker Georgina Mace is Professor of Conservation Science at Imperial College London. Her research interests are in measuring the trends and consequences of biodiversity loss and the assessment of species extinctions. She led the process to develop, test and document criteria for listing species on IUCNs Red List of Threatened Species, and subsequently worked on the biodiversity elements of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and on the technical development of measures for the CBD 2010 Biodiversity Target.
From 2000 to 2006, Mace was Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London and Head of the Institute of Zoology. In 2006, she moved to Imperial College London as Director of the NERC Centre for Population Biology. She was awarded a CBE in 2007, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2002, and was the 2007 winner of the International Cosmos Prize. She has been Vice President of the British Ecological Society (2001-2004), President of the Society for Conservation Biology (2007-2009) and Vice Chair of DIVERSITAS - the international programme on biodiversity science (2007-2010).

RSVP: CLICK HERE

You are cordially invited to a lecture on "American Traitors: Fathers and Sons" with Bryan Denson Reporter Federal Courts/Investigations The Oregonian and Brian Kelley IWP Adjunct Professor Retired CIA Operations Officer October 7, 6:30-8:00 p.m. The Institute of World Politics 1521 16th Street NW Washington, DC 20036 Please RSVP to kbridges@iwp.edu

"I would never hurt my kids" said convicted spy Jim Nicholson to interviewer Katie Couric as he was recounting the events which caused him to be arrested as a spy and sentenced to twenty four years in federal penitentiary. Yet a dozen years later, Nicholson convinced his youngest son Nathan to make contact with the Russian SVR to try and collect some $300,000 which the SVR maintained in Nicholson's "escrow account" which had built up during the eighteen months in which Nicholson was on the SVR payroll while a serving senior CIA operations officer. Nicholson maintained that he needed money to keep his family together after a costly divorce and that he saw no other way to get the money he needed other than to sell secrets to the Russians.

Some two decades before Nicholson made his fateful decision to sell out his country, a retired Naval Warrant Officer by the name of John Walker told interviewer Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes why he became a spy for the KGB for almost eighteen years. He simply wanted to live a better lifestyle and did not think that the secrets he was selling had any real strategic value.

What linked these two spies? Both of them recruited their sons to follow in their footsteps. When Michael Walker was getting ready to graduate from high school, his father told him the family secret; John was a self-proclaimed "master spy" for the KGB. He told Michael that he had been grooming him since he was a young boy to take over the family business. To do this Michael needed to enlist in the Navy and get access to secrets which he would in turn provide to his father for subsequent sale to the KGB. During the interview of John Walker, he was shown a 60 Minutes interview of his son Michael who was incarcerated in another prison. A chastened young man was lamenting about his poor choice which had resulted in lengthy prison sentence. Wallace asked John bluntly, "How could you do this to your son?" John Walker paused and then said, "I don't want to talk about that."

Nathan Nicholson was twelve when his father was arrested. Nathan struggled growing up and enlisted in the Army after graduating from high school. An injury caused Nathan to be discharged early and he faced financial difficulties. His father saw in his son a conduit to the SVR and convinced his son to seek out the SVR to begin to collect escrow money. Young

Nathan revered his father and agreed to the plan.

What happened next? Bryan Denson, a senior investigative reporter for the Oregonian newspaper covered the Nicholson family caper which ended with eight additional years added to the sentence for Jim Nicholson. Denson did extensive interviews with Nathan, his mother, his sister and other notables who knew Nicholson and knew about what transpired prior to the arrest of Nathan by the FBI.

Denson will appear at the Institute of World Politics on 6 October 2011 to tell the fascinating story of the father - son spy team. He will be introduced by Professor Brian Kelley who will review the Walker father and son spy case using several video clips of the Walker family trying to explain what happened to that family which resulted in three family members being sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their involvement in espionage. The speakers will show the remarkable parallels between the two cases.

Introducing The Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C. by Michael Lee Pope Book Launch

Friday, October 7, 7:00 p.m.

Athenaeum 201 Prince Street Alexandria, VA 22314 (703) 548-0035

How did Alexandria end up as part of the District of Columbia? What went wrong, and why did it leave? Find out as author Michael Lee Pope reveals the "Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C." at the historic Athenaeum.

The history of Alexandria, D.C., began in 1791 with a gentleman's conspiracy. Political smokescreens and backroom deals involving George Washington set the new capital on both sides of the Potomac. Yet what first seemed an economic boon for the port city descended into an economic quagmire with a judicial vacuum. The streets were rocked by the lawlessness of a dueling mania, devastating fires and a draconian court system that sent petty thieves to the gallows. Author Michael Lee Pope charts this all-but-forgotten history from the incorporation into the District of Columbia and the controversial surrender of the city in the War of 1812 to gangs of retrocessionists that roamed the city in 1846 and the rising tensions between North and South that finally returned Alexandria to the commonwealth.

Steinway Series: Peabody Pianists Celebrate Liszt Sunday, October 9, 3:00-4:00 p.m. McEvoy Auditorium Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & F Streets NW

Born in Hungary on October 22, 1811, Franz Liszt was one of the greatest pianists, composers, and teachers of the nineteenth century. In honor of the two-hundredth anniversary of his birth, four piano students from the renowned Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University will perform a selection of Liszts solo piano works.

The Goethe-Institut Washington and the Smithsonians Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden present Lunch Bytes, a series of three monthly lunchtime events dedicated to digital art and culture, examining the consequences of the increasing ubiquity of new media in the art world and considering challenging questions raised by this changing artistic landscape.While enjoying a light lunch, the visitor experiences and participates in discussions between renowned German and American artists and intellectuals. -----------------------------------------------Lunch Bytes: Institutional Challenges October 12, 12:00-2:00 p.m. Goethe-Institut 812 Seventh Street NW RSVP: rsvp@washington.goethe.org Digital art continues to present new questions to museums and other institutions devoted to the presentation and preservation of art. How are institutions adapting to the challenges, needs, and opportunities of contemporary society? How can digital art be stored, exhibited and preserved? What happens to the vast amount of data circulating daily on the web? Artists and expert panelists include: Joel Holmberg, New York-based artist Jeff Martin, Time-based Media Conservator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Christiane Paul, Director of Media Studies Graduate Programs at The New School and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Peter Weibel, Director of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

THE FREE STATE FOUNDATION FSF'S FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION LUNCH

WHEN: Wednesday, October 12, 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. WHERE: The Mayflower Hotel

Special Keynote Speaker Senator Jim DeMint

Ranking Member, Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet
This past Spring, the Free State Foundation celebrated the Fifth Anniversary of its founding. While our ambitions and goals were clear from the start, we were not so bold then to proclaim with any certainty where we would be in five short years -- indisputably one of the nation's leading, most influential, and most respected think tanks promoting free market-oriented, property rights-protective, and rule of law policies. To celebrate this milestone, only a bit belatedly, but hopefully with all earthquakes, hurricanes, and the like behind us, we are planning a gala celebratory lunch on October 12, 2011, from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM. More details will follow shortly. But make plans now to attend. We want you to celebrate with us, as we look back at the past five years, and, most importantly, ahead to the next five. Indeed, the theme of our program will be: "Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years."

A complimentary lunch will be served, subject to space limitations and reservations.

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

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Hudson Institute cordially invites you to...

Better-For-You Foods: It's Just Good Business

Thursday, October 13 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Lunch will be served. Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center Hudson Institute 1015 15th Street NW 6th Floor Washington, DC 20005

Hudson Institute would like to invite you to join us for the release of a new report examining efforts by the food and beverage industry to sell better-for-you products and what impact those efforts have had on major consumer packaged goods companies bottom lines. This report was produced by the Obesity Solutions Initiative of the Hudson Institute, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Among the topics to be discussed:

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Can selling better-for-you foods be better for corporate bottom lines? Can shareholders benefit when better-for-you products are emphasized? Can the same strategies be used to improve public health and help the food and beverage industry achieve its business goals?

Speakers include:

Henry J. Cardello, MBA, Senior Fellow and Director, Hudson Institute Obesity Solutions Initiative, lead author of the study James S. Marks, M.D., M.P.H., Senior Vice President and Director, Health Group, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Susan J. Crockett, PhD, RD, FADA, Vice President, Health & Nutrition, General Mills Richard Klauser, MBA, Head of Marketing, Nestl Infant Nutrition

This event will be streamed live on Hudson's website www.hudson.org/WatchLive. Click here to register for this event.

Under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE GREEK HERITAGE & THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS

PRESENT A Lecture and Reception

About David G. Romano

David Gilman Romano

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

"Zeus on an Arcadian Mountaintop and the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos"

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 6:30 p.m.

The Embassy of Greece 2217 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20008

Dr. David Gilman Romano is Director of Greek Archaeological Projects at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. at Washington University in St. Louis, an M.A. at the University of Oregon, and a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include Greek and Roman cities and sanctuaries, Ancient Greek athletics and the ancient Olympic Games, computer applications in archaeology, and Roman urban and rural land planning. He directs the Archaeological Mapping Lab at the Penn Museum (http://archaeologicalmappinglab.org). Since 2004 he has been Co-Director and Field Director of the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project and has been directing the creation of the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos.

Reception following the Lecture

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Mt. Lykaion Excavations in progress in the open air altar at the peak of the mountain.

Since 2004 the Mt. Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project (http://lykaionexcavation.org) has been underway in the Arcadian mountains at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion -- the birthplace of Zeus, according to some ancient sources. Archaeological explorations have indicated that activity at an open-air altar on the mountaintop goes back to the Final Neolithic period with a significant Mycenaean shrine by the Late Helladic period. The site was also famous in the historic periods with major athletic games, only 22 miles from the more acclaimed Olympia. The mountainous landscape of the western Peloponnesos -- western Arcadia, northern Messenia and Southern Elis -- that surrounds Mt. Lykaion is a spectacularly beautiful region of Greece, characterized by forested hills, river valleys, peaks, mountain meadows, springs, isolated but charming villages and towns, and winding roadways. The area abounds with native flora and fauna, and large parts of the region remain mostly undisturbed by modern civilization. The region has a rich history and mythology going back thousands of years with vestiges of many important ancient temples, sanctuaries and cities.

A proposal initiated by the Mt. Lykaion Project and a team of Greek, American, and international collaborators to designate this region as the Parrhasian Heritage Park of the Peloponnesos (http://parrhasianheritagepark.org) has already received overwhelming support from the grassroots level to the governors of Arcadia and the Peloponnesos, the mayors of many villages and towns in the region, and most recently from the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Greece. This heritage park would be the first of its kind in Greece and promises to preserve and promote the region, stimulating economic growth and pride in the regions rich cultural heritage and natural beauty. In this presentation, Dr. Romano will highlight some of the exciting discoveries resulting from the work of this joint Greek and American excavation project under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and will introduce the audience to the Parrhasian Heritage Park.

The Cato Institute invites you to a Book Forum

The Cato Institute invites you to a Book Forum October 14, 2011 Because of the ongoing construction in our building expansion, this Cato Institute Book Forum will be held at

Atlas Economic Research Foundation 1st Floor Conference Room 1201 L Street NW Washington, DC 20005

Frdric Bastiat: Campaigner for Free Trade, Political Economist, and Politician in a Time of Revolution
featuring

David Hart Editor, The Collected Works of Frdric Bastiat, Vol. 1 (Liberty Fund, 2011)
moderated by

Jason Kuznicki Editor, Cato Unbound

Frdric Bastiat was a pivotal figure in French classical liberalism in the mid-19th century. He suddenly emerged from the southwest province of Les Landes to assume leadership of the fledgling French free trade movement in 1844, which he modelled on that of Richard Cobdens Anti-Corn Law League in England. Bastiat then turned to a brilliant career as an economic journalist, debunking the myths and misconceptions people held on protectionism in particular and government intervention in general, which he called sophisms or fallacies." When revolution broke out in February 1848, Bastiat was elected twice to the Chamber of Deputies where he served on the powerful Finance Committee and struggled to bring government expenditure under control. He confounded his political opponents with his consistent libertarianism: he denounced the socialists for their economic policies, but he took to the streets to prevent the military from shooting them during the riots that broke out in June 1848. Until his untimely death in 1850, Bastiat was an indefatigable foe of political privilege, unaccountable monarchical power, the newly emergent socialist movement, and above all, the vested interests benefited from economic protectionism. He was a giant of 19th century classical liberalism, and Liberty Fund is publishing a six-volume collection of his work.

Friday, October 14, 2011 Noon (Luncheon to follow)

Atlas Economic Research Foundation 1st Floor Conference Room 1201 L Street NW Washington, DC 20005

To register, visit www.cato.org, fax (202) 371-0841, or call (202) 789-5229 by noon on Thursday, October 13, 2011.

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Waverly Street Gallery

4600 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 (301) 951-9441 Entrance and parking on Waverly Street. One block from Bethesda Metro station.

FAR FROM THE CROWD

Paintings by Barbara French Pace
and New Work by Gallery Artists

October 11 - November 5, 2011

Opening Reception Friday, October 14, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

Landscape artist Barbara French Pace whisks us away to quiet places far from the crowd in her new ex walks pensively along a path, but most of her paintings invite viewers to marvel at dramatic cliffs or con

absorb the beauty. Even urban scenes feel quiet as if lost in time. Working in oil, the artist uses subtle c and lend a sense of calm. Pace has studied art locally and in Italy. She draws inspiration from extensive Twice selected as artist-in-residence at the Stone Tower Studio at Glen Echo, she exhibits her work regu in the mid-Atlantic region.

Contents Copyright 2011, Waverly Street Gallery, LLC. All rig

The Cato Institute invites you to a Book Forum

The Cato Institute invites you to a Policy Forum October 18, 2011 Because of the ongoing construction in our building expansion, this Cato Institute Policy Forum will be held at Mount Vernon Place Undercroft Auditorium 900 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001

Mexico and the War on Drugs: Time to Legalize

featuring

Vicente Fox Former President, Mexico

moderated by

Ian Vasquez Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity Cato Institute

Mexico is paying a high price for fighting a war on drugs that are consumed in the United States. More than 40,000 people have died in drug-related violence since the end of 2006 when Mexico began an aggressive campaign against narco-trafficking. The drug war has led to a rise in corruption and gruesome criminality that is weakening democratic institutions, the press, law enforcement, and other elements of a free society. Former Mexican president Vicente Fox will explain that prohibition is not working and that the legalization of the sale, use, and production of drugs in Mexico and beyond offers a superior way of dealing with the problem of drug abuse.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Noon (Luncheon to follow)

Mount Vernon Place Undercroft Auditorium 900 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001

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Press Release: "The Mechanics of Seduction"

The Solo Show of Glenn Arthur

Glenn Arthur's "The Mechanics Of Seduction" is a series of paintings exploring the fascination, power and sensuality found within the human machine. Inspired by an era defined by industrial enlightenment and artistic innovation, Glenn fuses together a fanciful blend of elaborate and historical aesthetics. Each delicately painted female entices the viewer through mechanical elements while alluring them with hypnotic beauty into a world of ornate elegance wrapped in a cloak of disquieting surrealism. The juxtaposition of organic emotion and unfeeling apparatus demonstrates the unyielding, seductive romance between human and machine reminding us of the inherent desires that fuel us all. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Opening Reception Saturday, October 22, 8:00-11:00 p.m. Art Whino Gallery 120 American Way National Harbor, MD 20745 The event is FREE and open to the public.

Show end date: November 13th

About the Artist

Glenn Arthur is a self taught visual artist from Orange County, California. Born in February of 1979, he grew up in a conservative, religious household with little to no influence in art. After shedding his roots he quickly realized that creating art would be his calling. Although he constantly doodled and sketched throughout his youth, Glenn did not come into painting until later in life when a friend forced a paintbrush into his hands and said, You need to do this! Since then Glenn has been diligently working on creating his own brand of beautifully painted images. Using acrylic paints on wooden panels, he adds in elements and influential symbols of his past and present to each piece. Beyond the aesthetics of his artwork, Glenn brings an overwhelming sense of passion to his paintings. Touching on

themes of love, death, conflict and duality, Glenns art tells stories of strength and hope through emotion and sentiment with his sensual beauties and signature hummingbirds.