Announcements

Second Saturday Divorce workshops are designed to equip you with the legal, financial and emotional resources you need to make the right decision for your marriage and your life. This is a supportive and understanding space focused on encouraging peaceful, empowered decisions about divorce.

At a Second Saturday Workshop, you’ll hear from local divorce professionals including family law attorneys, financial advisors, therapists and more who will offer professional, unbiased support, prudent information, and assist with your questions and concerns regarding the divorce process. All Second Saturday workshops value privacy and we will never release personal information or specifically identify any registrants or attendees.

Wednesday, August 11, hosted by Argent Bridge Advisors. Register here.
Saturday, August 14t, hosted by Cooper Ginsberg Gray PLLC. Register here.

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Support your child’s learning needs this school year with reading, writing and math tutoring! Strengthen phonemic awareness through one-to-one personalized instruction via the Orton-Gillingham approach; a direct, explicit, and multi-sensory way to teach literacy to individuals that struggle with developing the relationship between letters and sounds.

Build long-term planning, organizing, and prioritizing skills with executive function coaching! For more information, please contact Mary Doherty at mary@mpowerededucation.

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Grab a few friends and register for the fall Arlington County Parks & Recreation 3v3 adult basketball league! New this year!

Choose from two divisions: I (competitive level) and II (rec level). Games begin September 1 and will be held on Wednesday nights at Lyon Village Park (1800 N Highland Street) and Virginia Highlands Park (1600 S Hayes Street). Cost is $260 per team. Learn more and register here by August 15.

The arts industry in Arlington is reopening and we at Embracing Arlington Arts are urging Arlingtonians to get out and enjoy the many diverse offerings coming your way! From galleries to performing arts to music events to children’s theater and everything in between, the extremely talented artists and arts organizations in the County are ready to entertain you and help us cope in these post-COVID times. Our website hosts a chronological Calendar of Events, as well as a listing of arts organizations located in Arlington.

We also are asking you to patronize these events to help these critical organizations get back on their financial feet after more than 16 months of little opportunity for earned revenue due to the pandemic and shutdown. Yet during this same time period, these organizations continued giving back to our community.

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Have you found your quarantine oasis? Are you tired of paying down someone else’s mortgage? Please join us for a Rent vs. Buy Happy Hour on Wednesday, July 28 at 6 p.m. via zoom (link to be provided upon RSVP).

A lot has happened in the local market since the beginning of the pandemic. Sip on your drink of choice and learn from Northern Virginia and Washingtonian Magazine top producing agents on how you can get $1,500 towards your closing costs immediately! We will discuss the latest market updates, the home buying process and rent vs. buy cost savings. Please RSVP by clicking on the link. Call/text Manavi at 703-869-6698 with any questions!

Cody Chance and Dick Nathan of Long & Foster are hosting an online workshop on the topic of “down-sizing” Wednesday, July 28 from 5-6:30 p.m. Every great endeavor begins with a great plan. This workshop will give you the tools to design your plan. We have created a workbook with an extensive planning guide to enable you to design a personalized written plan for your move, and more than twenty pages of resources specific to Northern Virginia to help you along the way!

These resources will help you to find the best people to assist you in your move, and help you get the belongings that won’t move with you into the hands of people who will value them. The workshop format is a “guided group discussion” of the workbook, with a chance for the participants to ask their own questions, and special guest presenter Alexandra Fry of Orchestrated Moves will be joining us to share her many years of expertise in organization and moving.

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Events for Warriors has partnered with Homes for Our Troops, Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie #871, local businesses, restaurants, breweries and the Sutlr Restaurant App to do a charity event. They are raising money to build an accessible house for a Marine Corporal from Arlington who lost both of his legs in combat in Afghanistan. The event will have raffle prizes, a 50/50 raffle and more! Here’s a list of some of the sponsors:

Breweries: lexingtonbrewingco.com, hardywood.com, rocketfrogbeer.com
Restaurants Partners: michaelslittleitaly.com, delraypizzeria.com, hopsnshine.com
Tech Company: www.sutlr.com/business

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(This Community Post was written by Liza Figueroa Kravinsky of GoGo Symphony and underwritten by Embracing Arlington Arts.)

No, I don’t mean that music needs to retire; I mean the terms “highbrow” and “lowbrow” music (and other arts) need to retire. They come from the old pseudoscience phrenology, where the brows of African skulls were said to be lower than those of European skulls.

Well, that explains a lot about classical music world. Classical music was historically inspired by the popular music in Europe of its time — the popular dances, marches, folk and religious music, entertainment for parties. Until recently.

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Arlington County, in coordination with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT), is exploring the possibility of providing a multimodal connection between Crystal City and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport to meet the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and those using micromobility devices.

Arlington County is hosting this meeting to introduce the CC2DCA study to the public and answer questions. In addition, from July 15 through August 15, an online questionnaire will be available to provide input on the study.

Have you found your quarantine oasis? Are you tired of paying down someone else’s mortgage? Please join us for a Rent vs. Buy Happy Hour on Wednesday, July 14 at 6 p.m. via zoom (link to be provided upon RSVP).

A lot has happened in the local market since the beginning of the pandemic. Sip on your drink of choice and learn from Northern Virginia and Washingtonian Magazine top producing agents on how you can get $1,500 towards your closing costs immediately! We will discuss the latest market updates, the home buying process and rent vs. buy cost savings. Please RSVP by clicking on the link. Call/text Manavi at 703-869-6698 with any questions!

Please join us on Saturday, July 10 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Clarendon Presbyterian Church for a drive-thru collection to support our neighbors experiencing homelessness.

Priority food items: Healthy kid snacks, Annie’s Bunny Fruit Snacks, Annie’s Grahams and Cookies, Annie’s Crackers, Annie’s Granola Bars, Annies’s puffs, Individual packaged chips, Chips A hoy/Oreo cookies, Baby wipes, Paper towels, Sugar, Jelly, Peanut butter, Bottled water, Juice, Capri Sun fruit drink pouches, Condiments, Seasonings. Priority toiletry items: Deodorant (men and women), Foot Powder, Medium Size Men’s Boxers, Razors (men and women), Toilet Paper, Body Wash Full Size, Towels, Mouthwash. Clarendon Presbyterian is located at 1305 N. Jackson Street, Arlington, VA 22201.

Drives are held on the second Saturday of each month on the Jackson Street side of the church. For questions or to volunteer, please contact: [email protected] or (703) 527-9513. Please check the church website for any inclement weather announcements at www.clarendonpresbyterian.org. Thank you!