I would like to believe they can. Dance is moving their bodies in order to move us. With that and open if this inbetween afonso in colorful costumes in columbia or in mosques on the caribbean coast duns is universal. And with a contemporary Dance Company damaged goods choreography makes do what is known for creating productions that challenge the status quo. And not afraid to work with pay in the darkness or things that are. Uncomfortable. But i more to give her a kind of transformation or transportation or things are moving things to go you know bringing things up so they can kind of. Open up. Contemporary dance pushes emotional physical and social limits it makes a political statement without using anywhere its just great physical exertion whats moving the dance world these days we set off to find out starting interest in. The american choreographer make steel with invited experts from around the globe to dressed in. Congress or tons congress 2019 some 500 people from the world of da
Some point of no return. Its a dangerous race between hope and catastrophic consequences were created. At 5 30 p. M. Eastern, and author discussion on political diversity in freespeech on College Campuses with professor sam abrams. Mark villa of columbia university, april of Elizabethtown College and former president of the aclu. I dont want to demonize and disparage these protesters so they are passionately committed to social justice and racial justice. I want to thank them for that but i would love to have the opportunity to persuade the cap freedom of speech, especially for those that we hate is their most essential ally. For more of the schedule, go to booktv. Org. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies this brought you today by your cable or satellite provider. Now, part of fridays washington journal with an author. He talked about opiate addiction and the government reaction. This is half an hour.
Monetary policy at the National Economists club dinner in washington, d. C. She provided an assessment of the economy labor market and discuss tools used by the Federal Reserve in response to the 2008 financial crisis. This is 40 minutes. Good evening ladies and john. I president of the National Congress club. Its my pleasure to introduce the speaker. I like to spend a few moments offering expressions of gratitude. First on behalf of the Congress Club i would offer my sincere thanks to the British Embassy for hosting us in this beautiful venue. Its an honor to be this evening and we very much appreciate your hospitality. I want to recognize the cornerstone and the group which help make this event possible. Not least of which by sponsoring a student table, how good it is joining us we have students from universities from across washington, d. C. Now delighted to reduce the speaker who will deliver this years lecture. She needs no introduction. Nonetheless, i feel providing one is obliga
Farah elliott. Were in one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. We call it the new house wing, but it was really built in 1857. And this spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol and the artifacts the broad sweep of history and the collection we have that matt and i work with and interpret all the time. So today we want to tell you about the history of the house page program. It has a history going back to the early 1800s. We dont actually know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messengers and a page is simply a messenger, an errand runner. In u. S. Legislative practice, it usually has involved, at least in the u. S. Congress, young boys between age 8 and age 16 in the 19th century who would run all kinds of errands for members of congress. On the floor, rounding up members, things of that nature. And we have a couple of accounts that place it at 1800 when the first pages, young boys served on the house floor as pages.
Im fara eelliott. Were in one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. We call it the new house wing, but it was really built in 1857. And this spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol and the artifacts that we have in the collection that matt and i work with and interpret all the time. Zb so today we want to tell you about the history of the house page program. It has a history going back to the early 1800s. We dont actually know when the first pages served in the house. The tradition of having messengers and a page is simply a messenger, an errand runner. In u. S. Legislative practice, it usually has involveinvolved, at in the u. S. Congress, young boys between age 8 and age 16 in the 19th century who would run all kinds of errands for members of congress. On the floor, rounding up members, things of that nature. And we have a couple of accounts that place it at 1800 when the first pages, young boys served on the house floor as pages. Theres an eyewi