Weekend Highlights for October 30, 2009-November 1, 2009:
- Friday, October 30, 2009 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Celebrate Halloween at the annual Hilloween. This Capitol Hill event features hayrides with a horse and buggy around the Eastern Market building, carousel rides, a moon bounce, balloon twisting, and other fun activities. Costumes are encouraged and you can take the kids trick-or-treating around the community. 7th Street will be closed to vehicular traffic from North Carolina Avenue to C Street.
- On October 31, 2009 from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. head over to the Spy Museum (800 F Street, NW, Washington, DC) for CLUE: Secrets & Spies Edition game demos and giveaways will also take place. Special Halloween treats including pumpkin cookies, spiced cup cakes and fall cider will be available in the Spy Cafe. As part of the CLUE: Secrets & Spies Edition festivities a professional make-up artist will be on hand to teach the tools-of-the-trade necessary to transform guests in preparation for a night of tricks and treats. A costume contest will be held in the Spy Store at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday evening with prizes awarded to the most imaginative costumes. And if you do show-up in costume, there's a 50% discount off admission.
- On October 31, 2009 take a walking tour of The Most Haunted Houses in Washington DC. Your guide will take you to the most haunted sights in the city - all concentrated around the seven acres surrounding Lafayette Park. The walk begins at 7:30 p.m. and costs $10 per person.
- November 1, 2009 at 2 p.m. Reading of "The Fisherwoman" by Toni Morrison from Robert Bergman's A Kind of Rapture in the East Building Concourse, Auditorium at the National Gallery of Art. Author Toni Morrison and Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; special consultant to the director of the Princeton Atelier; and lecturer with the rank of professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University will present a reading of "The Fisherwoman". This is in conjunction with the Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986-1995 exhibition on view October 11, 2009-January 10, 2010.
- On November 1, 2009 from noon to 5 p.m. admission to the National Museum of the Women in the Arts is free.
- On November 1, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. head over to the West Building Main Floor, West Garden Court of the National Gallery of Art to hear pianist Till Fellne play Beethoven: Sonatas nos. 4, 15, 24, 25, and 27.
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