#26 Smithsonian Associates, Interview with Rebecca Roberts,
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
4.7 • 106 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 3 minutes
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SMITHSONOIAN ASSOCIATES: FALL PREVIEW, INTERVIEW WITH REBECCA ROBERTS
Welcome to our inaugural episode of Smithsonian Associates Events, on The Not Old Better Show. Thank you for listening. I want to invite you to subscribe to these great, free podcasts on iTunes, Google Play, and at the Smithsonian Associates web site, and where you can hear all these episodes. And, at the Smithsonian Associates web site, that's SmithsonianAssociates.org, you can find out more, become a member, and sign up for eAlerts with special offers and pre sale notices. Give it a try, I think you'll love it.
Smithsonian Associates is the largest museum-based education program in the world—and produces vibrant educational and cultural programming inspired by the Smithsonian's research, collections and exhibitions. The programs are designed to be entertaining, informative, eclectic, and insightful. Each year more than 750 individual programs are presented to spark creativity and excite learning in people of all ages in the Washington, D.C., area and across the country.
Smithsonian Associates brings the Smithsonian to life through seminars, performances, lectures, studio arts classes and local and regional study tours, as well as many engaging programs for children, including performances, museum sleepovers and summer day camps.
This fall's program includes over 70 courses and workshops, with over 1/3 making their Smithsonian debut.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | It's time for this week's featured guest on the Not Old Better Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm Rebecca Roberts. Welcome to my office underground |
| 0:16.0 | underneath the Smithsonian Castle. I'm a program coordinator here at the |
| 0:19.7 | Smithsonian Associates and we do all the public programs for all the museums |
| 0:24.0 | whether it's art and architecture, history, world history, |
| 0:28.0 | literature, science, sculpture classes, battlefield tours, you name it, we do it. |
| 0:32.0 | We've got a huge lineup of classes coming up |
| 0:35.1 | for the fall quarter starting in September. |
| 0:37.7 | We've got a whole suite of programs |
| 0:40.1 | about the Gilded Age in America, |
| 0:42.1 | end of the 19th century, beginning a 20th century, |
| 0:44.4 | that encompasses art, architecture, science, literature, even cocktails. |
| 0:49.6 | We've got a big partnership with NIH and Bethesda coming up, a pulse on modern medicine where we're talking about not only some of the |
| 0:57.4 | science behind the medicine you hear about but then the latest and greatest on |
| 1:01.3 | the news so you'll learn for instance about how a virus works but then also |
| 1:04.4 | also what's going on with Zika. |
| 1:06.2 | And we've got a nice series of tours on the history of DC coming up. |
| 1:11.3 | We're gonna concentrate on Georgetown for the fall quarter, but that's an |
| 1:15.1 | ongoing series, other parts of DC coming up if you stay tuned. People around the |
| 1:19.8 | country know the Smithsonian. They come here on their sixth grade school trips. People around the world know the Smithsonian. They come here on their sixth grade |
| 1:22.6 | school trips. People around the world know the Smithsonian. But we |
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