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POSTPONED: Opening Day at the National Press Club
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There has never been a more anticipated Opening Day for baseball than the 2021 season. While most ballparks are limiting their capacities for spectators, the Press Club is the next best place to watch the game with friends and colleagues. Fifty fans will have the opportunity to watch the Washington Nationals play the New York Mets on Thursday, April 1. The pregame will be projected on the big screen in our ballroom beginning at 6 p.m. followed by the first pitch at 7:09 p.m. No more than 50 guests will be allowed in the ballroom and each person will have their own space to ensure enough…
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Opening Day at the National Press Club
There has never been a more anticipated Opening Day for baseball than the 2020 season. Unfortunately, baseball fans won't be heading to the ballpark this year, so the Press Club will be creating an alternative experience and the next safest option to watching the game at home. Fifty fans will have the opportunity to watch the World Champion Washington Nationals play the New York Yankees on Thursday, July 23. The pregame will be projected on the big screen in our ballroom beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the first pitch at 7:08 p.m. No more than 50 guests will be allowed in the ballroom and…
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NPC Broadcast Team Reception
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Senior Communicators Roundtable Dinner
National Press Club members are invited to join us for another lively discussion with fellow senior communications leaders on current topics that we all face in our function and profession. By sharing our concerns, ideas, approaches and strategies, we help each other be more effective in our roles for our organizations. Three-course dinner with wine served for $58 per person Cash bar at 6:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. This event is open to NPC members first. While guests may be invited, please let Paul Minehart ([email protected]) know in advance. Guests will be on a wait…
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Conversations with Correspondents: Geoffrey Cain on China's 'Perfect Police State'
Join us on Friday, July 16 at 12 p.m. for this virtual event. Click here to register.
Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning foreign correspondent and National Press Club member, will discuss his new book “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future” at a virtual event at 12pm on Friday, July 16. Click here to register Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses…
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Young Members Studio Theater Screening of White Pearl
All Press Club Young Members are invited to attend a screening of "White Pearl" at Studio Theater on Sunday, December 1 at 2:00pm. The play is about a leaked ad for skin-whitening cream going viral for all the wrong reasons and someone’s definitely getting fired. A twisted corporate comedy about selling whiteness and the ugliness of the beauty industry. Link for more details: https://www.studiotheatre.org/plays/play-detail/2019-2020-white-pearl Tickets are extremely limited. For any questions, please email Brennan Hoban at [email protected]
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The African American Woman, 400 Years of Perseverance
Gloria Browne-Marshall plans to present her latest book, The African American Woman, 400 Years of Perseverance at a National Press Club Book Rap on Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in the Cosgrove Lounge. The event is free for Club members and their guests but purchasing food and drink at the Club's Reliable Source Bar & Grill is encouraged. The book contains a series of essays depicting treatment and experiences of African-American women over the years. As one reader says “A must read! Gloria Browne-Marshall has the ability to capture and dissect issues in a constantly reliable, relevant and…
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100th Anniversary of the American Legion Post 20
NPC to hold reception marking centennial of American Legion Post 20 National Press Club members, especially veterans, and spouses/guests are invited to a reception on Tuesday, Nov. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m. to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of American Legion Post 20. The post has been affiliated with the Club since its inception. Post 20 has an illustrious pedigree. It was started at the suggestion of famed World War I General John “Black Jack” Pershing, who commanded the American Expeditionary Force in Europe. Serving in Washington after the war, Pershing was an associate…
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NPC Winter Reception
‘Tis the season! Alison Fitzgerald Kodjak, 112th President of the National Press Club, requests the pleasure of your company at the NPC Winter Reception. It's been a fabulous year - let's celebrate with cheer! 6:00 p.m. Vivian Awards Presentation 6:30 p.m. Meet, Mingle & Make Merry! Business/Cocktail Attire
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A conversation with photographer Michael McCoy
The Photography Committee's next program is Thursday, 29 October at 2:00 p.m. ET, featuring a conversation with Michael McCoy, who calls himself "a storyteller through photography and my camera lens." Photo Committee co-chair Cheriss May will moderate the session. McCoy is a Baltimore native who served two tours in Iraq, and whose work appears in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Wall Street Journal, among others, as well as Getty Images. He says that after his service in Iraq, "The camera is my saving sanctuary," and adds, "Photography crystallizes a…
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