Friday Morning Programming

FRIDAY MORNING PROGRAMMING FORM HAS CLOSED

Join us for our annual Friday Morning Programming! NAIMUN LXIII will continue to offer unrivaled opportunities for access to some of Washington’s most exciting spots.

There is limited availability for Friday Morning Programming; spots will be decided via raffle.

Note: Many of these sites are active participants in foreign policy and politics so their schedules are subject to change. Our outreach is also ongoing. As such, we cannot guarantee this list will match the final tour locations.


EMBASSY VISITS

In the world of international relations, there are few places more central than Washington D.C. While at the conference delegates can take advantage of its amazing location to visit one of the hundreds of embassies in the area. There’s even a chance delegates will get to meet their committee counterpart in real life!

This year’s embassy visits includes:

  • Embassy of Australia

  • Embassy of Denmark

  • Embassy of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea

  • Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania

  • Embassy of Spain

University CAMPUS TOURS

Delegates will have the option to visit Georgetown University’s campus on Friday morning, one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in the nation. NAIMUN works closely with the admissions office to offer tours during which delegates can take a picture in front of the iconic Healy Hall and learn about the diverse opportunities that Georgetown offers.

WASHINGTON, D.c. HOTSPOT TOURS

We offer a wide range of Washington Hotspot tours. Delegates can learn about the history of the United States and have the chance to witness diplomacy in action at federal buildings.

This year’s Washington, D.C. excursions include:

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

  • Library of Congress

  • National Archives

  • National Portrait Gallery

  • Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture

  • Smithsonian National Museum of American History

  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

  • Supreme Court of the United States

  • U.S. Capitol

  • U.S. Department of Defense

  • U.S. Department of State

  • The White House

Please contact our Director of Programming Pooja Narayan (p.narayan@modelun.org) with any questions or concerns.

Carla D. Canales,
Opera Singer, The Canales Project

What is the role of soft power in the diplomatic process? How can the arts and culture be used to better communicate across borders? At NAIMUN LXIII, we’ll explore these important questions with our keynote speaker, Carla D. Canales, opera singer and cultural arts envoy.

Carla Canales has won acclaim on leading stages around the world as a performer while also being recognized as an educator, advocate, and entrepreneur. Most recently, Carla served the Biden Administration in a newly created position at the National Endowment for the Arts and later at the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, as Senior Advisor and Envoy for Cultural Exchange. Carla currently serves as a Fellow at the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Carla is a published author, having written an op-eds for USA Today and for the New York Times, as well as book chapter contributions for several academic books on cultural diplomacy and soft power. In 2025, Carla became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For the past twenty years Carla has served as an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. In 2024, she led a seven month cultural diplomacy project for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, as part of the recently launched Global Music Diplomacy Initiative.

Carla is the founder of The Canales Project, a non-profit arts and advocacy organization through which she created Hear Her Song, a musical celebration of distinguished female leaders worldwide that commissions new songs written by female composers to honor them. To date she has performed project selections over a dozen times at venues including the National Gallery of Art, The Public Theater and Kennedy Center. Carla maintains an active performing schedule, with recent international performances as Carmen at the Zheng Xiaoying Opera Center (2024) and at the Sicily International Voice Festival (2023).

She is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English and is currently studying Mandarin.

Hilltop Madness

Friday, February 14 | 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM | International Ballroom

Become a Hoya! Experience the high-energy fun of Georgetown’s finest performing arts groups, from Bollywood dancers to a Capella groups. Get a taste of life as a Hoya and experience Georgetown’s hospitality while enjoying a night of singing, dancing, and free ice cream!

Social Justice Event: Workshop on internet governance WITH INTERNET SOCIETY

Saturday, February 15 | 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM | Columbia West

Join us for this workshop event that will help delegates understand who owns the internet, why this is important, and how policymakers can make the internet more equitable. Internet Governance is a critical issue that can influence who gets access to the internet, and who is excluded from all the benefits that online access can provide.

Representatives from Internet Society will guide participants through understanding these complex issues, and lead them to begin thinking about how they believe internet policy should be guided.

Delegate Social

Saturday, February 15 | 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM | International Ballroom

NAIMUN encourages delegates to get to know each other out of committee! Saturday night’s delegate social gives delegates the chance to meet and mingle with their peers from across the country and around the world while enjoying some of today’s top hits.

DELEGATE game night

Saturday, February 15 | 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM | Georgetown West

Diplomacy takes a playful turn at Delegate Game Night! Join fellow delegates in playing classic board and card games. It's a night where diplomacy meets fun, adding a memorable twist to the traditional Model UN experience.