October 14-17 



■ Meeting The Smithsonian National Board held its 

 annual fall meeting in Washington, D.C. Members at- 

 tended business meetings and visited the National Zoo- 

 logical Park's Amazonia exhibit and the National 

 Museum of Natural History's Gems and Minerals Hall. 



Diego Natural History Museum. Five hundred guests, 

 including dignitaries from Mexico and the United 

 States, attended a gala opening reception for the exhibi- 

 tion, which is circulated by the Smithsonian Institution 

 Traveling Exhibition Service. 



October 16 



October 14 



■ Award At the annual black-tie dinner of the James 

 Smithson Society and the Smithsonian National Board, 

 the Smithson Society presented its Founders Award to 

 Ikuo Hirayama for his outstanding contributions to the 

 Freer Gallery of Art and his acclaimed work in conserving 

 Asian art. 



October 14 



■ Special Event In a tribute organized by The Smithson- 

 ian Associates and cosponsored by the National Museum 

 of the American Indian to honor the 1992 Nobel Peace 

 Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, the Quiche-Mayan In- 

 dian from Guatemala spoke to a capacity audience, and 

 musical groups from Latin America performed in her 

 honor. 



■ Exhibition "Beyond Category: The Musical Genius 

 of Duke Ellington" opened at the Museum of the City 

 of New York with a concert at Harlem's historic Apollo 

 Theater that featured the Smithsonian Jazz Master- 

 works Orchestra. The museum offered an impressive 

 array of public programs throughout the exhibition, 

 which is circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Trav- 

 eling Exhibition Service. 



October 18 



■ Public Program In the National Portrait Gallery's 

 Cultures in Motion program, "An Evening at 

 Monticello" featured the Jefferson Chamber Players in a 

 performance in celebration of Thomas Jefferson's 250th 

 birthday. The performance was organized by the Library 

 of Congress and Monticello. 



October 1$ 



■ Film Series Among the highlights in the Hirshhom 

 Museum and Sculpture Garden's 1993—94 series of inde- 

 pendent films, art documentaries, and children's mati- 

 nees—enjoyed by some 22,000 viewers— was the 

 Washington premiere of Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein. 

 The series also featured several programs in conjunction 

 with FilmFest DC and a world premiere of The Persua- 

 sions Sing A Capella, followed by a live performance. 



October 16-20 



■ Conference The National Science Resources Center co- 

 sponsored "An Advanced Leadership Institute for Ele- 

 mentary Science: The Next Steps" in Mesa, Arizona. At 

 the conference, 312 participants representing 67 educa- 

 tional communities took part in workshops ranging 

 from managing the process of change to operating a sci- 

 ence materials center. 



October ip 



■ New Collection "National Native News," the 

 country's only daily Native American radio news pro- 

 gram, joined with the National Museum of the Ameri- 

 can Indian to create the National Native News audio 

 collection. The initial collection of broadcast program- 

 ming is available for research in the museum's Film and 

 Video Center at the George Gustave Heye Center in 

 New York Ciry. 



October 20-24 



■ International Meeting Scientists from 10 Latin Ameri- 

 can countries convened at the Smithsonian Tropical Re- 

 search Institute's Tupper Center for meetings of the 

 Organization for the Flora Neotropica (OFN), a nongov- 

 ernmental organization that aims to publish a complete 

 flora of tropical America. 



October 16 



October 20 



■ Exhibition "Two Eagles/Dos Aguilas: A Natural His- 

 tory of the U.S. -Mexico Borderlands" opened at the San 



■ Special Event The National Museum of the American 

 Indian National Campaign hosted a members' reception 



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