Announcements

(This Community Post was written by Encore Stage & Studio and underwritten by Embracing Arlington Arts.)

In-person camps are making a dramatic entrance this summer at Encore Stage & Studio! Programs for ages 3-18 years run June 21 through August 27, 2021 at multiple locations in Arlington. Encore’s camps provide a fun and safe environment for children to explore theatre arts.

“Summer enrichment is essential to the social, emotional, and mental well-being of children in our community,” says Sara Duke, Executive Director. Summer camp titles include Improvathon, Island Adventures, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and more.

Families are invited to join Encore for a Summer Camp Parent Q&A on Wednesday, May 12 at 5 p.m. on Zoom, to meet staff and learn more about Encore’s summer programs. Encore Stage & Studio will follow all CDC best practices on masks, social distancing and cleaning. Encore’s camp registration is now available on www.encorestage.org. Select camps have already sold out. Register here for Encore’s Summer Camp Parent Q&A event.

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Art House 7 has a new art supply store, right next to its studio. We have very competitive prices. Check out our great selection of paints: oils, acrylics, watercolors, gouache. We also have paper, painting accessories drawing supplies and more.

We’re located in a commercial townhouse strip near the Lee Harrison Shopping Center. As you go west on Lee Highway, turn right immediately after the new drive-thru Starbucks. We’re on the right side of the building, at 5535 Lee Highway — to the right of Art House 7’s studio. Free parking is outside the door. We limit entry to one family unit at a time due to Covid. Masks are required. Hours: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. arthouseseven.com/supply-store 703-402-5017

Cody Chance and Dick Nathan of Long & Foster are hosting an online workshop on the topic of “down-sizing” Wednesday, April 21 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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Join the Arlington Chamber of Commerce for the AWE Women in Business Summit on Friday, April 30 featuring keynote speaker and Shark Tank success Sharmi Albrechtsen, CEO & Founder, SmartGurlz!

The half-day virtual event is open to all, and will feature female entrepreneurs and professionals from Amazon, Nestlé and other Arlington area businesses. Whether you’re a new business owner or an established professional, there is something for everyone with the speakers’ authentic and engaging breakout sessions in a variety of formats. The AWE Women in Business Summit will provide content to help you thrive professionally and personally with topics ranging from leading an inclusive organization to parenting during the pandemic.

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Many Arlington residents (more than 1,400 signed an online petition) have been working for more than a year to save the Febrey-Lothrop house and 9-acre estate as a park in Arlington. The local historic review board ruled it historic four months ago; the county parks and recreation commission wants the land for a park. The residents of Arlington need this open, green space and parkland more than the developer to build more $2 million mansions for rich people.

Sadly, the county board let the owner demolish the historic Febrey house in late March, but we still feel that the surrounding 9 acres hold historic value and value as a public park. The county board has showed already it intends to reject historic designation and protection of this land at its public hearing on April 17. We need legal funds to insure that the county government faithfully administers the state historic preservation law, and does not allow the last major open tract of land that still has much history in Arlington to be bulldozed.

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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 Tuesday, April 13 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 by April 12. Call/text Manavi at 703-869-6698 with any questions!

(This Community Post was written by Gallery Underground, the Arlington Artists Alliance gallery, and underwritten by Embracing Arlington Arts.)

Gallery Underground’s Focus Gallery presents, during the month of April, Urban Soul, a solo show of works by Gustavo Forselledo — expressionist images of Washington, D.C. and other cities worldwide, with a special emphasis on Uruguay, where the artist was born. Forselledo, who has been influenced by Uruguayan masters Carols Paez Vilaró and Joaquín Torres García, presents the acrylic and ink images on canvas and hardboard as acquiring their own movements so the observer can perceive the rhythm and soul of the cities depicted.

The exhibit encompasses two series of urban landscape paintings: expressionist images of Washington, D.C. and other cities worldwide, and Uruguayan urban icons and figures dancing the tango. Forselledo was born in Montevideo, Uruguay and is currently living in Arlington.

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Join us on Saturday, April 10 from 9 a.m. to noon at Clarendon Presbyterian Church for the next monthly drive-thru Food and Toiletry Collection to support Arlington homeless shelters.

Priority food items: Vegetable oil, corn meal, boxed cereal, bottled water, packaged healthy kids snacks, microwaveable soup/noodles, fruit juices, instant pancakes, syrup, jelly, individual packaged snacks, pasta, pasta sauce, canned vegetables and other dry goods. Priority toiletry items: Body wash all types/sizes, razors (men’s and women’s), toothbrushes, deodorant (regular and travel), travel toothpaste, mouthwash, men and women’s underwear, shower flip-flops, bar soaps, masks, pillowcases (new or used).

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Last month, I set out on a beautiful day for some canvassing. After a few fantastic streets, a few brief and contactless conversations with people who said they’d look into my campaign, I apparently stepped back into the 1950s. From the door of a house that I just dropped off literature sprang a middle-aged man who was apparently very exercised about the fact that I had the audacity to do electoral work where I live. “What the **** are you doing here? What makes you think you can do that here” With this not being my first rodeo with experiencing… things like this, I calmly responded that, “I’m passing out information about a candidate for the House of Delegates.” He then responded, “Well, I ought to call the cops.” I responded, “If you want to waste their time, call the cops.”

Within 3-5 minutes, four officers stopped me a few houses away to ask me what I was doing. Luckily for me, my wife, and my six week old son (at the time), these Arlington Police officers had the good sense to realize what happened in this case: I was canvassing while black. Even though I walked away with my life (this time), people who similarly get the police called on them for nothing do not. Sometimes they end up getting held against their will. Sometimes they get strip searched (as the hyperlinked bill introduced by the other candidate for the 47th District’s Democratic nomination would have allowed at traffic stops.)

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