Showing posts with label the IDB Cultural Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the IDB Cultural Center. Show all posts

Saturday, June 27, 2009

50 Years, 50 Works

50 Years, 50 Works
The Art of Latin America and the Caribbean in the 20th Century

INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK CULTURAL CENTER through August 14, 2009
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSSFsKl0xiM

The IDB Cultural Center cordially invites you to visit the exhibition "Selections from 50 Years, 50 Works," at the IDB Cultural Center Gallery (1300 New York Avenue, N.W.), which was shown in Medellín, Colombia, in March-May of this year, on occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Gallery
1300 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
202 623 3774
Monday to Friday, 11 am to 6 pm

www.iadb.org/cultural

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Marcos Díaz

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.

The IDB Cultural Center and the Embassy of Spain present a recital by the brazilian-spanish guitarist .

Under his father´s guidance, Marcos Díaz began to play the guitar when he was eight years old. Shortly after, he began studies with the guitarist Isaías Savio at the Conservatorio Dramático e Musical de São Paulo, Brazil. Some years later, he moved to Spain and took up his studies at the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Ourense where he studied under Tomás Camacho. He enrolled in the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid, where he studied under José Luis Rodrigo and won the "I Premio Extraordinario Fin de Carrera de Guitarra" in 1984.

He is regularly invited as a soloist in festivals and concert halls in Europe and the U.S., and has released three CDs for the recording label Ópera tres: one with works Dowland, Bach, Sor, Barrios and Rodrigo, and the others contain his own guitar transcriptions of six suites for the cello by J.S. Bach.

Program: Three Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti; Three pieces by Joaquín Rodrigo;
Asturias by Isaac Albéniz; Suite nº 6 BWV 1012 by J. S. Bach;
Three pieces by F. Moreno-Torroba; Rondeña by Regino Sainz de la Maza.

Free and open to the public - photo id required

Inter-American Development Bank, Metro Center, Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center
1330 New York Avenue NW - Washington, DC
For more information call 202 623 3558

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

XVIII Latin American Film Festival

The Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association, the American Film Institute, and the IDB Cultural Center cordially invite you to the XVIII Latin American Film Festival with the participation of Spain and Portugal.

Complete schedule and more information on http://www.dclatinamericanfilmfestival.org

On Tuesday, September 18 at 6:30 p.m. the IDB Cultural Center will present the opening night ceremony and film (Brazil's The Greatest Love of All - with English subtitles, not for minors)
at the IDB's Enrique V. Iglesias Conference Center
1330 New York Avenue NW, Metro Center
Washington, DC

This event is by invitation only, but the balconies and extra seats at show time (150+seats) will be made available to the public on a first-come, first-seated basis, with free passes distributed to the public at 6:00 p.m.

Photo ID required. 202 623 3558 http://www.iadb.org/cultural
http://www.dclatinamericanfilmfestival.org/