BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN DESCRIPTION:Events & Public Meetings METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//alexandriava.gov//Web Calendar 1.0//EN SUMMARY:Events & Public Meetings X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H X-WR-CALDESC:Events & Public Meetings X-WR-CALNAME:Events & Public Meetings X-WR-TIMEZONE:US/Eastern BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Family,Fort Ward Museum,Museums,Women,Women History DESCRIPTION:To make sure the time\, location\, and other aspects have not c hanged\, or to share this event with your friends\, please see https://app s.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=57237\n\nLearn about the dress\ , skills\, and contributions of women during the Civil War from historical interpreters who will present on-going talks\, displays\, and demonstrati ons. Interpreters will explore women's roles on the home front\, in camp\, and on the battlefield. Featured topics will include soldiers' aid societ ies and relief efforts that were typically launched by women to support bo th armies during the war. Interpreters in Union uniform will explore the t heme of women who disguised themselves as soldiers during the war and will address the challenges experienced by the hundreds of women who served in the army. Learn how women and girls supported the war effort through indu stry and craft\, and pursued new work roles\, from the home and farm to th e city and factory. Displays include 19th-century tableware\, and a hands- on opportunity to learn about the everyday clothing of women and girls. Th e event is weather dependent.\n\nLocation: Fort Ward Museum\, 4301 W. Brad dock Rd.\nAudience: Anyone may attend\nTags: Family\, Fort Ward Museum\, M useums\, Women\, Women History\n\nImport this event into your calendar: ht tp://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/iCal.aspx?id=1&si=57237 DTEND:20240330T200000Z DTSTAMP:20240224T024755Z DTSTART:20240330T150000Z GEO:38.829553;-77.101740 LOCATION:Fort Ward Museum\, 4301 W. Braddock Rd. SEQUENCE:4 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Civil War Women's Day TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:a79e680f-a677-454f-8bda-84c1e6bd19a2 X-COA-DTSTAMP:20240224T024755Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Arts,Lyceum,Museums,Performing Arts DESCRIPTION:To make sure the time\, location\, and other aspects have not c hanged\, or to share this event with your friends\, please see https://app s.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=57407\n\nLafayette\, La Musique de la Garde Nationale Parisienne \n\nIn commemoration of the 250th annive rsary of the Marquis de Lafayette's 1824-25 tour of the United States\, en joy a lecture/concert of music from Lafayette's lifetime performed on earl y 19th-century instruments. Join researchers and historical-performance sp ecialists Dominic Giardino (historical clarinets) and Dr. Chris Troiano (s erpent) to experience the music that underscored Lafayette's French Revolu tionary career. The Age of Revolutions (1775-1848) was a period of social\ , political\, and cultural turbulence in Europe and the Americas. There wa s perhaps no greater witness to this era of dramatic change than Gilbert d u Motier\, Marquis de Lafayette. This lecture/performance\, with Lafayette 's leadership of the Garde Nationale Parisienne as the focal point\, will transport listeners to the desperate but optimistic early days of the Fren ch Revolution when music left the aristocratic great rooms of Versailles a nd poured onto the streets of Paris. \n\nAbout the Performers\nBased in Wi lliamsburg\, VA\, historical clarinetist Dominic Giardino enjoys a varied professional life exploring the intersections of history and performance. Dominic is the executive director of the Tucson-based concert series Arizo na Early Music\, develops music programming for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation\, and is a member of Early Music America's board of directors. As a clarinetist\, he has recorded with the Smithsonian Chamber Players\, Three Notch'd Road: The Virginia Baroque Ensemble\, and Newberry's Victori an Cornet Band. Dominic earned his B.M. in performance at the Eastman Scho ol of Music\, and his M.M. in early music as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in T he Hague\, where he studied with Eric Hoeprich.\n\nDr. Chris Troiano is th e Historical Ensembles Program Manager at George Mason University in Fairf ax\, VA and is the Program Director of the 8th Green Machine Regiment Band \, a mid-19th century brass band that performs music of the American Civil War on period brass instruments. Chris is also the co-host of the Early A merican Brass Band Podcast\, a podcast focusing on sharing research and pe rformances of brass bands from 1835-2023. Chris' primary instrumental focu s is low brass and he is an active teacher and performer on euphonium\, ba ritone\, trombone\, ophicleide\, and military serpent. \n\n\n\nLocation: L yceum\nFees: $20\nAudience: Anyone may attend\nTags: Arts\, Lyceum\, Museu ms\, Performing Arts\n\nImport this event into your calendar: http://apps. alexandriava.gov/Calendar/iCal.aspx?id=1&si=57407\n\nWeb resources:\n\nPur chase tickets here\nhttps://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n DTEND:20240508T003000Z DTSTAMP:20240416T155536Z DTSTART:20240507T230000Z LOCATION:Lyceum SEQUENCE:5 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Lecture/Concert: Music from Lafayette's Lifetime TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:66d874ee-445b-4557-b15e-e5ad0e890520 URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-COA-DTSTAMP:20240416T155536Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Black History,Lyceum,Museums DESCRIPTION:To make sure the time\, location\, and other aspects have not c hanged\, or to share this event with your friends\, please see https://app s.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?si=57403\n\nLecture: An Unholy Tra ffic\, Slave Trading in the Civil War South\n\nFrom Fort Sumter to Appomat tox\, Confederates bought and sold thousands of men\, women\, and children through a surviving trade in slaves. Even though the war destroyed the co tton economy that had long underpinned American slavery and fueled the sla ve trade\, Confederates used slave commerce to shape their experiences of the war\, whether to help them mobilize for the conflict or to weather the numerous crises it created. Some speculated wildly in human property to w ard off inflation or to buy shares in the slaveholding future for which th ey fought. Still others traded people to keep them from achieving the free dom the war offered. For those held in slavery\, meanwhile\, the surviving slave trade dramatically shaped the ways in which they encountered libert y\, yanking many back into bondage while inspiring others to risk flight. \n\nDr. Robert Colby is an assistant professor at the University of Missis sippi and is the author of An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil W ar South. Proceeds from the event support Freedom House Museum.\n\n\nLocat ion: Lyceum\nFees: $15/OHA Members $12\nAudience: Anyone may attend\nTags: Black History\, Lyceum\, Museums\n\nImport this event into your calendar: http://apps.alexandriava.gov/Calendar/iCal.aspx?id=1&si=57403\n\nWeb reso urces:\n\nTickets here\nhttps://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx\n DTEND:20240615T003000Z DTSTAMP:20240416T135628Z DTSTART:20240614T230000Z LOCATION:Lyceum SEQUENCE:5 STATUS:CONFIRMED SUMMARY:Lecture: Slave Trading in the Civil War South TRANSP:OPAQUE UID:6db64d97-c9e4-4456-8784-7cf40f63b83b URL:https://shop.alexandriava.gov/Events.aspx X-COA-DTSTAMP:20240416T135628Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR