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Dinner with a Spy | An Evening Celebrating Josephine Baker

Storytelling Women's History Month Dinner

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Josephine Baker was a star renowned in Europe for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality, and her pet cheetah Chiquita! When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage. Yet instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight, she went from performer to Resistance spy. In honor of her birthday, join us for a tantalizing evening celebrating Josephine with former CIA Chief of Disguise, Jonna Mendez. We’ll toast Josephine’s flair and sheer fabulousness, and also take a deep dive into her achievements as a spy.

And what setting could be better for this intriguing evening than Chez Josephine? The café is a bubbly return to the joie-de-vivre of Paris of the 1930s – le Jazz Hot with soul. A tribute to the legendary entertainer founded in 1986 by Jean-Claude Baker. Josephine called Jean-Claude the thirteenth of her adopted Baker’s dozen of children — the famed Rainbow Tribe — and tapped him to arrange her international comeback tours and sing a song or two between acts. The personal connection between this venerable café and the extraordinary woman who inspired it is magical. 

Your ticket includes a three-course dinner with wine in the private dining room at Chez Josephine in the incomparable company of Jonna Mendez. 

Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. No tickets will be available at the door.

Josephine Baker was a star renowned in Europe for her singing and dancing, her beauty and sexuality, and her pet cheetah Chiquita! When the Nazis seized her adopted city, Paris, she was banned from the stage. Yet instead of returning to America, she vowed to stay and to fight the Nazi evil. Overnight, she went from performer to Resistance spy. In honor of her birthday, join us for a tantalizing evening celebrating Josephine with former CIA Chief of Disguise, Jonna Mendez. We’ll toast Josephine’s flair and sheer fabulousness, and also take a deep dive into her achievements as a spy.

And what setting could be better for this intriguing evening than Chez Josephine? The café is a bubbly return to the joie-de-vivre of Paris of the 1930s – le Jazz Hot with soul. A tribute to the legendary entertainer founded in 1986 by Jean-Claude Baker. Josephine called Jean-Claude the thirteenth of her adopted Baker’s dozen of children — the famed Rainbow Tribe — and tapped him to arrange her international comeback tours and sing a song or two between acts. The personal connection between this venerable café and the extraordinary woman who inspired it is magical. 

Your ticket includes a three-course dinner with wine in the private dining room at Chez Josephine in the incomparable company of Jonna Mendez. 

Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. No tickets will be available at the door.

More about International Spy Museum
The International Spy Museum (SPY) is an independent nonprofit museum which documents the tradecraft, history, and contemporary role of espionage. It holds the largest collection of international espionage artifacts on public display. The Museum opened in 2002 in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, DC, and relocated to a new, expanded building with all-new exhibitions at L'Enfant Plaza in 2019.
When & Where
Jun 3, 2023, 7:00pm to 10:00pm Timezone: EDT
$300.00

Special Instructions
Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. No tickets will be available at the door.

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