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Arts on Foot
Outdoor Festival 2008

FREE Admission
11:00am – 5:00pm
7th & F Streets, NW
Gallery Pl.-Chinatown Metro

The Outdoor Festival includes

Cultural Corridor Performance Stage Music Stage Art Market

World Market^® Wine Area Restaurant Sampling Pavilions

O Organics^TM Cooking as Art Chef Demonstrations

Map of the Outdoor Festival

Cultural Corridors
Participate in fun hands-on arts activities for everyone in the Cultural Corridors, presented by Downtown’s most exciting art, music, theatre, dance, and cultural organizations.

Your Information Source
8th & F and 7th & F

You’ll find the Festival Program and bottled water ($2). Check out The Examiner’s cool new e-dition, The Washington Examiner's "green" alternative.

F Street Corridor

American Immigration Law Center

• Make your own immigrant sculpture with clay using sculpting tools after viewing replicas of Ellis Island sculptures by artist Phillip Ratner

Cultural Tourism DC

• Take a quiz on arts and culture in Downtown, win a prize

Embassy of Canada

• Build your own Inukshuk, a stone sculpture made by Inuits used as Arctic landmarks

Goethe-Institut

• Take a short, fun quiz to learn about the dynamic German cultural heritage of so many Americans and win a prize, ages 8+. Children’s craft activity celebrating German culture

goDCgo.com

• Learn about this interactive mapping software website, transportation options to your favorite Downtown locations, and the new Smart Bike program in DC

Marian Koshland Science Museum–National Academy of Sciences

• Find your DNA alias: use a DNA decoder sheet, beads, and letters of your name to make a piece of art. Make a germ finger puppet while learning about microbes and the importance of hand washing

National Archives

• Play the Patent Puzzler Game using facsimiles of patents
• View facsimiles of important historical documents including the Declaration of Independence; take home Archive giveaways

National Building Museum

• Use tin ceiling pieces to create your own colorful architectural pattern rubbings, and use architectural stamps of columns, fences, lampposts, and more to create your own artistic patterns

National Cherry Blossom Festival

• Create your own Cherry Blossom themed lantern-called a denkigasa-using vellum, ink and an embroidery hoop

National Museum of Crime and Punishment

• Enter a raffle for a family four-pack of free tickets to the museum and meet McGruff the Crime Dog for a photo.  Free admission is offered to the museum at 575 7th Street to all who have their hand stamped by visiting the Crime and Punishment activity booth

National Portrait Gallery

• Create a special craft celebrating the rich and vibrant heritage of Hispanic countries in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month

The New York Times

• Enter to win a $200 gift certificate for a painting by a featured festival artist, sign up for a discounted home-delivery subscription (50% off), and receive a free gift

Prison Arts Foundation

• Have your mug shot taken in front of a genuine police line up wall ($5 per photo). View and purchase works of art created by incarcerated artists; learn about arts programs in prison and hear ex-prisoners speak of their experiences

Pensaré Design

• Design a Poster with Pensaré Design Group-the studio that designed the new Arts on Foot Logo and poster

REYES + DAVIS Independent Exhibitions

• Watch and learn as print maker Johanna Mueller demonstrates wood engraving

Smithsonian American Art Museum

• Pick-up scavenger hunt clues to go on an adventure amid the 3,300 objects in the Museum’s Luce center. Create a colorful masterpiece inspired by African American artist William H. Johnson

Westwood College

• A 2008 Westwood College graphic design graduate will create a unique piece of art before your eyes.  Enter to win this original work-a drawing will be held at the close of the festival
  

Cultural Corridor 8th Street
between 7th and 9th

DC Shorts Film Festival

• View a selection of films from the 2007 Festival.  From 11:00 – 1:00 pick up FREE tickets to the family-friendly film screening at the Landmark E Street Cinema, ages 8+

International Spy Museum

• Test your spy skills by decoding a top secret message using a cipher, then receive missions to practice your skills at home, ages 8+

Madame Tussauds DC

• Create a wax mold of your own hand to bring home, ages 5+ ($6-8 per hand)

National Museum of Women in the Arts

• Create an artist’s book incorporating stories, poems, decorations and artwork with provided materials

• Newsmania is a fast-paced, live-action trivia game for news junkies—come compete for prizes.
• Craft your own printer’s cap out of newspaper to make a Colonial hat. Newspaper toss game will test your paper-boy skills, located next to the Information Booth near 8th Street

• Use watercolors and acrylics to paint some pictures in the Plein-Air style of the impressionists and observe the world in a whole new way 

Verizon Wireless

• Check out the newest line-up of fully-loaded touch screen phones with GPS Navigation, V CAST, Music, and Real-Time IM, Text, Pictures and Video Messaging while viewing DC Shorts Film Festival's Best of 2007 at our very own Verizon Wireless mobile theater

WAMU 88.5

• Chat with WAMU Ambassadors about the station and membership and get some WAMU goodies

World Market®

• Stop by and see the latest in extraordinary entertaining, decorating, and gifting galore
  

More Fun

F Street
between 6th and 7th streets

Wines of Argentina

Stop by the Argentine Pavilion to learn more about this fascinating South American country, an international tourism mecca and home of the tango, soccer and world-class wines

General Motors

Stop by and learn about some of General Motors' green and gas-friendly cars.

Results Gym

Join the Results team for FREE chair massages, body fat testing, Q&A with fitness experts, and enter the hourly raffle to win a free membership

Sportrock Climbing Centers

Test your athleticism and flexibility on the 20-foot climbing wall and see some of Sportrock's own master climbers.  $3 per climb or $5 for two climbs–includes a complimentary bottle of Hi Ball, the sparkling energy drink

Theater Downtown

CityDance Ensemble

• Colorful face painting will transform you into a jungle animal character from CityDance Ensemble’s production of Rudyard Kippling’s “Jungle Books”

Ford’s Theatre

• Toss a penny into a replica of President Lincoln’s hat and pose for a photo with a life-size cut out of the famous president.

Shakespeare Theatre

• Make a crown and become your own Shakespearean royalty

Washington Stage Guild and Woolly Mammoth Theatre join CityDance, Ford’s and Shakespeare to share information about their upcoming seasons and special events.  Enter a raffle to win tickets.

Performance Stage
F at 6th Street

New this year! A vibrant mix of performers will delight audiences with athletic talent, international flair, and artistry

Music Stage

9th and F

Flying through the air isn’t only for Olympic gymnasts.  See AirDance DC! perform acrobatics and dance on an 18-foot rig.

Performers include Ann Behrends, Jayne Bernasconi, Carey Nagoda, Nina Charity, Lizzie Cavanaugh, LeeAnn Lenhart, Guido DiSalvo, Jessica Misleavy.  Rigging by Jonathan Deull

Don’t miss the action as local talent gets called to the carpet in this street performance hot spot. 

Entertainers will include:

• Madison Glorious Sounds/Brass Band, Washington, DC
• On A Sensual Note/A Cappella, American University
• Erasable Inc./Improv Theater, University of Maryland
  

Art Market
The juried Art Market includes diverse pieces to admire and purchase from 79 artists. Browse and learn about these works—all sold by the artists themselves!

Wine Area

All Day

Wine Sampling in the Hotel Monaco courtyard
Enter mid-block on 8th Street through the arched carriageway.  21+ I.D. required; $7 admission fee, reentry permitted.

Tent 1
• Billington Wines – varied selections
• Icon Estates – California
• J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines – California
• World Market

Tent 2
• Wines of Argentina
• Includes wines from Alamos, Baqueano, Bodega NQN, Bodega Séptima, Bodega Tapiz, Bodega Weinert, Bodegas Eclipse, Bodegas Salentein, Colomé, Dante Robino, Don Miguel Gascón, Doña Paula, El Fogón, Eral Bravo, La Riojana, and Rutini Wines

Wine Seminars

Intimate tastings with specialists from the world of wine 
Seating is limited to fifty

• Enjoy flavors from 30 of Penn Quarter’s hottest restaurants at nominal cost

Honest Tea, $2
Be Real. Get HONEST. Sample the nation's top-selling organic iced teas and thirst quenchers.
8th Street and F between 6th and 7th

Bottled Water, $2
At Your Information Source
8th & F and 7th & F

Gifford’s Ice Cream & Candy Co.
8th & F

On the Fly
Smart and responsible ecovending, with fresh, local food…and FUN
F Street between 6th and 7th",

O Organics^TM Cooking as Art Chef Demonstrations

• Celebrated chefs from Penn Quarter restaurants
   transform raw ingredients into edible works of art.