Announcements

The Georgetown Visitation Masqueraders proudly present

Disney’s

Descendants The Musical

November 17th @ 7pm w/ ASL

*Live streaming will be be available November 17th

November 18th @ 7pm w/ ASL

November 19th @ 2:30pm

In-Person Box Office opens 1 hour before each performance

Seating begins 30min before each performance

Parking is FREE and ample

All performances are at the Nolan Center for the Performing Arts on the historic campus of Georgetown Visitation

Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Disney’s Descendants: The Musical is a brand-new musical jam-packed with comedy, adventure, Disney characters, and hit songs from the films!

Imprisoned on the Isle of the Lost – home of the most infamous villains who ever lived – the teenaged children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, and Cruella De Vil have never ventured off the island… until now. When the four troublemakers are sent to attend prep school alongside the children of beloved Disney heroes, they have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?

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3 guest speakers will connect us with Environmental & Climate Justice

Abre’ Conner
NAACP’s Director of Environmental and Climate Justice
Abre’ Conner oversees the strategy and collaboration at NAACP National to dismantle environmental racism. She has taught Education Law and is currently faculty in the Environmental Policy and Management Program at the University of California-Davis.

Bill Eger
Arlington County’s First Climate Policy Officer
As Climate Policy Officer, Mr. Eger will lead the Office of Climate Coordination and Policy, funded in the FY 2023 adopted budget. This new office within the County Manager’s Office was created to amplify, coordinate, and add capacity to the County’s ongoing responses to the climate crisis.

Heather Jeff
EcoActionArlington’s Fundraising and Development Manager
EcoAction Arlington educates, advocates, and acts to create a sustainable community by improving our natural environment, encouraging environmentally-friendly behaviors, ensuring environmental justice, and addressing the climate crisis.

NAACP Arlington Branch
October General Membership Meeting
Free and Open to the Public

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Gold’s Gym Ballston has undergone a remarkable transformation, and we want to share this epic moment with you! Check out our open house event coming this month and experience serious fitness at our newly renovated facility.

📅 Date: October 30th

🕕 Time: 10AM – 7PM

🏠 Location: 3910 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22203

Join us for a high-energy event that will showcase the new and improved gym space, designed to help you achieve your fitness goals and boost your workout experience.

What to Look Forward To:

🏋️‍♂️ Gym Open House: Stop by and bring a friend see our state-of-the-art gym equipment and upgraded facility.

💥 Special Offers: Exclusive membership discounts and promotions for attendees.

🎁 Complimentary Training Session: Book a complimentary training session with one of our elite personal trainers.

💪 Fitness Challenges: Test your strength and agility with fun fitness challenges.

The newly renovated Gold’s Gym Ballston equipment upgrades and gym improvements include:

• Brand New Dumbbells and Barbells

• Brand New Olympic Benches

• Brand New Smith Machines

• Exclusive Gym80 Plate Loaded Equipment Line

• Expanded Multi-Functional Cable Towers w/ New Attachments

• Booty Builder Hip Thrust Machines

• New Functional Turf Area w/ Training Rigs and New Equipment

• Four Additional Olympic Platforms

• In-Club Rebrand and Repaint

Come celebrate with us and experience the excitement of a reinvigorated gym space. Together, let’s embrace the journey to a healthier, stronger, and more confident you at Gold’s Gym!

See you at the gym.

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Art House 7 warmly welcomes you to our upcoming Fall 2 session of classes starting on October 30th. We’re thrilled to offer a diverse range of mediums and flexible class lengths, catering to a wide age range, starting from as young as 2, and, of course, providing a multitude of engaging options for adults!

Our classes cover an exciting spectrum of creative mediums, including fiber arts such as knitting, modern embroidery, crochet, and sewing. We also offer classes in ceramics on the wheel, drawing, watercolor, gouache, oil, acrylic, still-life painting, and captivating Japanese Suminagashi and printmaking. One of the highlights of this session is the highly anticipated 5-week “Painting the Portrait and Figure” workshop, led by the renowned local artist, Danni Dawson.

For our younger artists, we have specially designed classes like “Art Exploration through Impressionism” for students in kindergarten through 5th grade, an engaging “Art Together” parent-child class designed for 2–4-year-olds, and a “Teen Taught Art Club” tailored for kindergarteners through 4th graders.

We invite you to become a part of our vibrant arts community at Art House 7. To register for these artistic classes and explore our complete class schedule, please visit our website. While you’re there, we encourage you to sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay informed about all the latest events and developments at Art House 7. We can’t wait to share this creative journey with you!

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Are you looking for affordable and effective therapy to help you heal from body image issues or disordered eating? Rock Recovery is a mental health nonprofit based in Arlington, VA that provides individual and group therapy with specialized eating disorder therapists to help you find peace with food and your body.

Our team is growing, and we are thrilled to welcome therapist Natasia “Tasi” James to the team! Tasi has openings for new clients in both individual therapy sessions and her in-person and virtual therapy groups. Tasi has extensive eating disorder treatment experience, having worked with both adolescents and adults in eating disorder treatment centers previously. You can expect Tasi’s energy to be upbeat, warm, compassionate, and humorous. Her approach is to create a space for clients to feel comfortable and safe, encourage self-exploration to resolve core issues regarding their disordered eating/negative body image, and help clients to evolve in their authenticity.

Schedule a free consultation today to learn more about the individual and group therapy services Rock Recovery offers! We are in-network with CareFirst insurance and provide all services on a sliding scale so that cost is never a barrier to the care you need and deserve.

About Rock Recovery:

Rock Recovery is an Arlington-based nonprofit dedicated to providing accessible eating disorder therapy and support to clients and families in our community, as well as educational events to decrease mental health stigma. Learn more about us at https://www.rockrecoveryed.org/ or contact us at [email protected] for more information on our services.

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Interested in an adult Bar or Bat Mitzvah (or as we now call it, a B-Mitzvah)? This is an 8-month study group that will lead to a group B-Mitzvah in the spring. Join us on Oct. 15 for our organizing meeting and see if your B-Mitzvah time has come!

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Kol Ami explores the Creation story and the new science of Restoration Ecology this Saturday morning at Shabbat services, as part of a Science Meets Judaism series. Join us at 10 am for services, 11 am for the discussion and learning. A potluck lunch follows at noon. Please contact us at [email protected] for the address or Zoom link.

Changes Psychological Services, PLLC is so excited to announce our expansion to Arlington! We are an insurance-based, mental health private practice that opened in Washington, DC in 2016. We strive to provide the highest quality, evidenced-based treatment while making each therapy experience engaging, collaborative and fun! We have immediate telehealth openings in Virginia and we proudly accept BCBS plans (CareFirst, Anthem, FEP, HMO and PPO)!

Our providers specialize in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adults. CBT is a solution-focused and goal-oriented treatment that focuses on tangible skills and techniques that help you build better coping strategies, manage your symptoms and live your best life! Our clients include college/graduate students, early and mid-career professionals, federal and local government employees, healthcare workers and new parents. Our areas of expertise include the following:

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (excessive worry, rumination and thoughts that get “stuck”)

• Social Anxiety Disorder (difficulty with social interactions, performance-related concerns)

• Specific Phobias (fear of needles, driving, flying, heights, etc.)

• Illness Anxiety Disorder (aka “health-related anxiety”)

• Panic Disorder

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

• Perinatal/postpartum mental health conditions (in women and men)

• Parenting stressors

• Adjustment difficulties (school, work, life, career)

• Perfectionism

• Imposter syndrome (feeling like a “fraud” or not good enough)

• Overall stress management

If you need help with any of the above, contact us to schedule a free, initial phone consultation! We are so grateful to be a part of the Arlington community and can’t wait to hear from you!

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The Brew Shop is excited to announce this week’s Friday night tasting with Fargo, North Dakota’s Drekker Brewing Company will feature Owners Darin Montplaisir and Tom Knowlton. Darin and Tom will be on site to chat all things beer and Drekker from 4:30-6:30 pm on Friday, 10/13. The tasting is free for all (ages 21+).

The Brew Shop is a local specialty beer and wine store in Arlington’s Courthouse neighborhood located at 2004 Wilson Blvd, and holds free beer/wine tastings every Friday from 5-7pm. For more information follow The Brew Shop on social media @arlbrew.

Drink proud. Love Local. Brew Well.

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The Commonwealth of Virginia has officially designated Oct. 9, 2023 PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day, a critical step forward in the fight to help young people suffering from debilitating neuroimmune disorders known as PANS and PANDAS.

Also known as autoimmune encephalitis, these post-infectious disorders are triggered by common viral and bacterial infections, such as strep throat and the flu. The immune system misdirects its response and attacks healthy brain tissue, resulting in life-altering brain inflammation and an array of debilitating symptoms. Early treatment can return patients to their baseline.

The proclamation, issued by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, says that lack of awareness can lead to “misdiagnosis or failure to diagnose many children suffering from PANS and PANDAS and increased costs to taxpayers” if the disease remains untreated.

“Young people affected by post-infectious neuroimmune disorders are taken off their life’s path,” says Dr. Gary Kaplan with the Kaplan Center for Integrative Medicine. “Many lose the ability to continue schooling or work. There are days they cannot get out of bed and days filled with pain and disability.”

“There’s only so much that physicians can do without insurance approval for prescribed treatments,” Kaplan adds.

Delegate Patrick Hope (D-47), who plans to introduce PANS/PANDAS legislation in the upcoming Assembly, says: “I have dedicated my work to ensuring that Virginia’s most vulnerable populations are protected, and I will continue to do so, by supporting the PANS/PANDAS community and assuring their needs are met and irreparable damage is avoided.”

MORE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EXeWUndH09omAWL6bP-jr96bQu2hQJb0/view?usp=drive_link

Is your young adult (or teen) looking for tools to manage stress? Our local therapy practice recently welcomed Brittany Tokash, Resident in Counseling, and she has openings now for new clients.

Brittany collaborates with young people, explaining how stress affects us and tailoring for them healthy techniques for confidence, energy, self-esteem, friendships, school and work. If needed, Brittany also provides skilled Depression Therapy and Anxiety Therapy. With all of her clients Tokash uses a mix of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and values work, staying focused on science-backed results and positive change.

Brittany prioritizes getting to know teens and young adults where they are, “Nobody can tell you what you’re experiencing is unimportant. If it’s causing you pain, it is significant and should be discussed with someone in a safe environment. To talk about it is the first step.”

Brittany has lived in Northern Virginia for several years, “In my spare time, you can often find me chasing after my cat, who sometimes makes an appearance in sessions. I love getting together with friends to watch HGTV and cooking shows. I myself do not cook often enough, but I sure do love to bake.”

In addition to her Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and Forensic and Legal Psychology from Marymount University, Brittany has a Bachelor’s in Psychology from St. John Fisher University.

Schedule a free consultation with Brittany today: www.sarahmoorelpc.com.

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