Reminder: Lincoln and Obama with

Millennium Arts Salon

Don't miss the opportunity to hear two giants in American and African American history, politics, and journalism, speak about two Presidents:  Lincoln and Obama, Sunday, April 26, 4-5:30 p.m. at George Washington University (see details below).  Background on each salon speaker follows below. This event was scheduled later on Sunday so that you can come after your Tea, your Church, your lunch, and your tour of our beautiful city.  This is an event you will not want to miss! 

 Registration and Tickets at:

 www.millenniumartssalon.eventbrite.com

***Advisory About Parking***

from George Washington University

Due to Spring 2009 World Bank/IMF Meetings, Here is pertinent information for our Friends visiting MPA Building on Sunday, April 26, 2009:

• Pedestrian access will be preserved to all university buildings and office.
• The 2000 block of H and G Streets will be posted for no parking from 7 PM
• Friday through 6 AM Monday the 27th of April.  Cars parked on these streets after that time will be towed.
• H Street will be closed to vehicles from 18th to 21st with the exception of those who park (only with permit) under the MPA Building.  Those parkers will need to present GWorld cards to the Metropolitan Police Department officers at the 21st Street checkpoint. 

Luther W. Brady Art Gallery  at The George Washington University

Media & Public Affairs Building, 2nd Floor  805 21st Street, N.W.  Washington, D.C. 20052

A Look at Two Presidents:  Lincoln and Obama 

A Conversation with Drs. Ronald Walters and Les Payne

moderated by

Mel Hardy of Millennium Arts Salon

 Sunday, April 26, 4-5:30 pm at the Jack Morton Auditorium,

George Washington University  805 21st Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006

Our featured salon guests will discuss the legacy of Lincoln and the ascendancy of Obama.  Dr. Walters is Director of the African American Leadership Center at University of Maryland and is most appropriately referred to as the Dean of the political analysts of the civil rights movement. Mr. Les Payne is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and foremost authority on the life and impact of Malcolm X, and founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists.  While these cameo sketches do little justice to the immense bodies of work represented by each of our salonists for the afternoon, you will come away from this event transformed by the impact that each of these giants have made to modern American life.   Each salon speaker brings deep insights about both Presidents, resulting from long periods of review and study.  Their respective knowledge and dynamic interchange promises to inspire, inform and entertain.

This event is jointly sponsored by the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at George Washington University and Millennium Arts Salon, presented in cooperation with DC Cultural Tourism's celebration of the Lincoln Bicentennial.

Our two Salonists are immense talents, and you can hear examples of their great elocution and intellect in the following audio clips: 

About Ron Walters:

Location/Address:  The Jack Morton Auditorium on the campus of George Washington University (co-located with the Brady Gallery), 805 21 Street NW, Washington, DC 20006

Event Fee:  $10 (Students $5; FREE or discounted for MAS Salon Club Members).  For best seats, ticketed registration is required.  Tickets will be available at the door.

The Jack Morton Auditorium/Brady Gallery at George Washington University
805 21st St NW
Washington, DC 20006

Sunday, April 26, 2009 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM (ET)

Millennium Arts Salon

Millennium Arts Salon, founded in 1999, is dedicated to the advance of cultural literacy through the arts and cultural programming.  Now in its tenth year, MAS continues to deliver artistic and cultural perspective from the most prominent practitioners and actors in the creative, performing, and literary arts to an ever expanding audience in the mid-Atlantic corridor from Boston to Washington.  Most importantly, MAS documents each of its "Salons" through video taping, providing a recordation of primary research in artistic and cultural content to be made available to generations of students, researchers, and appreciators of cultural and artistic development for generations to come.