WPAS OPENING NIGHT

October 10 · The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts

PHOTOS BY JONAH KOCH

THE EVENT: The Washington Performing Arts Society’s (WPAS) Season Opening Celebration with a performance by D.C. native Denyce Graves.

THE SCENE: If it weren't for the beef tenderloin, the extravagant fl owers and the Kennedy Center setting, one might have thought it was an intimate family aff air put together by co-chairs Susan Porter, Patricia Stern, Julie Conners and Josephine Cooper.

THE GUESTS: Farah Pahlavi, Chilean Amb. Mariano Fernandez, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Adrian Fenty and Michelle Fenty, Jane and Calvin Cafritz and Jacqueline Mars.

Climis Lascaris, Michael Connors and John Mason	Adrian and Michelle Fenty with Susan and Stephen Porter

Dina Curtis, Her Imperial Majesty Farah Pahlavi and Wayne R. Curtis	Chilean Amb. Mariano Fernandez

Annie Totah	Reggie Van Lee and Doug Wheeler

Svetlana Ushakova and Giorgio Via	Justice Ruth Badar Ginsburg and Neale Perl

Lena Scott Lundh and Jacqueline Mars	Nini Ferguson and Rachel Pearson

Earl and Njambi Wynn