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MAPS & DIRECTIONS
Catholic
University Campus Map
FROM AIRPORT TO HOTEL
The two main airports
in the D.C. area are of course Reagan National and Dulles Airport. From Dulles you can take buses or taxis, but
there is no subway going directly to or from it. Of course you could have a taxi take you to
the nearest subway station or to Rosslyn station and proceed from there to the
Hilton Rockville Hotel on the Rockville Pike, although you would need transfers
to accomplish that. It’s much easier to get from Reagan National Airport to the
Hilton Rockville. Just follow the signs
in the airport to the subway, and soon you’ll find yourself on a station
platform that looks like this and offers a choice, Blue Line or Yellow Line:
You could take either
the Blue Line to Metro Center and transfer there to the Red Line to Shady Grove
or take the Yellow Line to Gallery Place/Chinatown and transfer there to the
Red Line to Shady Grove. But of course
you would get off before you get to Shady Grove, at the Twinbrook Station, right next to the hotel
(See “Accommodations”
for hotel information). The Red Line is
the key to the entire conference, as explained below.
Or go to http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm
At this conference, with the exception of coming from the airport to the
hotel, you might use nothing but the Metro Red Line (roughly U-shaped) to get
to all events, but as the events on Friday and Saturday night get out so late,
when the Metro is not always reliable, chartered buses will be provided to take
you back to the Hilton Rockville Hotel.
Note that the three straight red arrows
below point to the three stations on the Red Line that you need to travel to
and between, Twinbrook
(where the Hotel Rockville is) at the top left, Dupont Circle (where you exit to attend the
reception at the Irish Embassy on Massachusetts Ave. NW on Thursday night), and
Brookland-CUA to
the right, where the daily sessions of the conference on Friday and Saturday
will be held. Two other stations that
you might encounter are Metro
Center and Gallery
Place Chinatown (see white
two-headed arrow), either of which might be your transfer point to the
Red Line if you come in from National Regan Airport on the Blue or Yellow
Lines. And, if you choose not to take
the chartered bus back to the hotel on Friday night after the play at the
Washington Stage Guild Theater (9th St. between E & Fth), you
might take your chances with the Metro by getting on at either of those
stations. The Friday night buffet at
Clyde’s of Gallery Place (near the corner of 7th St. & G St.) is
accessed by the Metro at, of course, the Gallery Place Chinatown, which you could travel to
from Brookland-CUA
if you don’t want to take the chartered bus.
If you don’t take the chartered
buses when they’re available to you, or if you’re late getting to them, you can
always try the Metro or a cab, but then you’re on your own.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY CAMPUS MAP
Or go to http://welcome.cua.edu/ for a version with
an index of buildings.
The buildings that are involved in the Shaw Conference are lined up on a
roughly northwest diagonal from the Brookland-CUA Metro station near the bottom
right corner to the Pryzbyla Center near the middle and the Hartke Theater
nearer to the top left. Most of your
time will be spent at the Pryzbyla, but a Shaw play will be available at the
Hartke Theater on Saturday night.
The daily sessions on
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16 & 17, of the 2009 DC Shaw Conference will be held
on the campus of The Catholic University of America in their student center,
called the Pryzbyla University Center, on the third floor in the red and green
areas in the building map below.
Although the Food Court on the second floor (yellow area) will be
available to conference registrants on Friday, as well as the Student
Restaurant (yellow area) and a Starbucks on the third floor, only the Starbucks
and the Student Restaurant will be open on Saturday.
If coming from the Metro
Station, you could enter Pryzbyla from the east (steps to climb) or or from the
west (see campus map above),
depending on which route you took. The
west door is the one you would take out to get to the Hartke Theater Building,
which is on an upward northwest diagonal from Pryzbyla to the west side of the
campus.
