Events at the Library of Congress

Wednesday March 29, 2023

Thursday March 30, 2023

  • Event | courses and workshops

    Italian Legislative Framework for the Return of Unlawfully Obtained Artwork

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Online Only     Join senior legal information analyst Dante Figueroa and special guest Roberto D'Orazio for “Italian Legislative Framework for the Return of Unlawfully Obtained Artwork”, a Foreign and Comparative Law webinar. This entry in the series will discuss the general legal framework in both the United States and Italy concerning the identification, tracking, and return of unlawfully obtained artwork
    This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External.
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    Event | special events

    Live! at the Library

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    5:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall     The Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building and all exhibitions will be open for extended hours on Thursdays. Visitors are invited to enjoy happy hour drinks and food available for purchase in the Great Hall and the Jefferson Building’s beautiful architecture while immersing themselves in the Library’s exhibits, collections and programs.
  • Event | special events

    Live! At The Library: The Olivia Records Story

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     LJ 119     Historian Bonnie Morris interviews veterans of Olivia Records, the pioneering woman-run record company founded in Washington, D.C., which celebrates its 50 anniversary this year, on the label’s history
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    2023 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100)     This small, curated display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2023 recipient, pop music icon Joni Mitchell.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    2023 Women's History Month: Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     This small, curated display features documents nearly 80 years of research, pageants, demonstrations, strikes, picketing, and petitioning to promote women’s suffrage. These items were donated to the Library of Congress in 2020 by the library of the National Woman's Party (NWP). Most of the material originated in the library of Florence Bayard Hilles, one of the founders of the NWP, whose collection was regarded...
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     George and Ira Gershwin Room     Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Join In: Voluntary Associations in America

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     South Gallery     This major exhibition examines the longstanding impulse of Americans to join together for common purposes such as fellowship, charity, professional growth, emergency services, societal reform and community building.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Mapping a Growing Nation: From Independence to Statehood

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Northwest Gallery     A part of this major exhibition, Abel Buell’s "New and Correct Map of the United States of North America" is the first map of the newly independent United States compiled, printed, and published in America by an American. The exhibition comprises maps of the northeastern and southeastern regions of the United States.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    "Not an Ostrich" and Other Images from America's Library

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Southwest Gallery     A major exhibition organized by the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles and drawn from the photo collections of the Library of Congress, "Not an Ostrich" presents a taste of this institution’s spectacular holdings of more than 14 million images. Photos reproduced for this exhibition, made between 1839 and today, trace the evolution of photography, from daguerreotypes and other early processes to contemporary...
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Thomas Jefferson's Library

    Thursday
    March 30, 2023
    10:00 am - 8:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Southwest Pavilion     Take a trip through this major exhibition, a re-created version of Jefferson’s library, which assembles 6,487 volumes that founded the Library of Congress, and learn how one of America’s greatest thinkers was inspired through the world of books.

Friday March 31, 2023

  • Event | lectures and symposia

    Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom

    Friday
    March 31, 2023
    2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     LJ 119     Jann Ronis, Executive Director, Buddhist Digital Resouce Center, presents a book talk on "Digital Dharma: Recovering Wisdom", which documents the work of the late E. Gene Smith, former Library of Congress Field Director, to rescue, preserve, digitize and make available to scholars worldwide the vast Tibetan Buddhist canon.
    This event will be livestreamed on zoomgov.com External.
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    Event | film and video screenings

    My Fair Lady (Warner Bros, 1964)

    Friday
    March 31, 2023
    7:30 pm - 9:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Packard Campus Theater     George Bernard Shaw’s play "Pygmalion" made it to Broadway in 1914, and was filmed in 1938. Lerner & Lowe kept much of the dialogue of the orginal but added songs and gave the film a new name. The musical premiered on Broadway in 1956 and made Julie Andrew a star. She was not held over for the film version but Rex Harrison marvelously was.
  • Event | concerts and performances

    Immanuel Wilkins Quartet

    Friday
    March 31, 2023
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater     Saxophonist, composer and arranger, Blue Note artist and Downbeat Rising Star, Immanuel Wilkins is a vital voice in a new generation of jazz thinkers. “His sound is most often silky and lush…with a gorgeous tone and phrasing… but he can shift into a grittier gospel feel or an airier whisper as the art requires.” (Pop Matters.com).
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    2023 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

    Friday
    March 31, 2023
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall - 1st Floor (LJ-100)     This small, curated display includes material from the Library’s collections that highlights the work of past Gershwin prize recipients as well as the 2023 recipient, pop music icon Joni Mitchell.
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    2023 Women's History Month: Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories

    Friday
    March 31, 2023
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     Great Hall - 2nd Floor (LJ-200-E)     This small, curated display features documents nearly 80 years of research, pageants, demonstrations, strikes, picketing, and petitioning to promote women’s suffrage. These items were donated to the Library of Congress in 2020 by the library of the National Woman's Party (NWP). Most of the material originated in the library of Florence Bayard Hilles, one of the founders of the NWP, whose collection was regarded...
  • Event | exhibits and tours

    Here to Stay: The Legacy of George and Ira Gershwin

    Friday
    March 31, 2023
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
    Add to calendar     George and Ira Gershwin Room     Experience the glamour and sophistication of the 1920s and 1930s in this permanent tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin, who helped provide a musical background to the period. The exhibition contains a wealth of materials that provide insight into their careers and personalities, including manuscript and printed music, lyric sheets and librettos, correspondence, photos, paintings, and drawings, all from the Library's Gershwin Collection,...