Announcements

Starting April 6th, EvolveAll Martial Arts and Training Studio is opening its doors for Intro Week — one full week where every class is free to try, no experience or membership required.

Whether you’ve been thinking about trying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, want to sharpen your striking skills, or are ready to find a fitness routine that sticks, next week is your chance to walk in and see what EvolveAll is all about. New this season: ongoing Self-Defense classes and expanded Fitness Bootcamp sessions have been added to the schedule — two of the most-requested programs at the studio.

In its mission to interrogate both the classics and the current days, Avant Bard Theatre proudly presents the final weekend of “The Two Gentlemen of Killarney,” an adaptation by Séamus Miller (“Coriolanus,” “The Margriad”) at Gunston Arts Center – Theatre Two.

The play is a timely immigrant love-comedy with live Irish music. Adapted from Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” the story follows friends-turned-rivals from Ireland to America during the Great Famine, blending Shakespeare’s wit with traditional Irish tunes and delivering a rollicking and dynamic celebration of love, immigration, and humanity. All performances are free to APS students and federal employees affected by the DHS shutdown (just show ID); all Saturday matinees are Pay-What-You-Can.

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Only 4 dates left for Spring Mini Photo Sessions – perfect for families, pets, and seniors.

The Capitol Hill Chorale is proud to share Zoltan Kodály’s masterpiece “Psalmus Hungaricus” in collaboration with the Washington Saxophone Quartet.

Kodály wrote the piece against the devastating backdrop of post-World War I Hungary, weaving traditional Hungarian musical motifs with the biblical story of King David. The result is an impassioned plea for justice.

At a certain point a lot of guys realize their social life has narrowed more than they expected. Friends move away, people get pulled into work or relationships, and actually seeing the same guys regularly becomes rare.

That’s what led me to build an app called Choros here in DC.

Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC (EMP&A), a boutique IP law firm focused exclusively on trademark protection, has successfully secured more than 5,000 client trademark registrations at the USPTO.

EMP&A has built its practice around understandable and accessible trademark protection for small businesses and growing brands.

Metropolitan Culinary Arts Institute (MCAI) located in Arlington, VA, is proud to announce that it has received approval to accept VA education benefits. Eligible veterans, active-duty military members, and qualified dependents may now use their GI Bill® benefits to enroll in MCAI’s professional culinary programs.

This approval allows qualifying students to apply GI Bill® education benefits toward MCAI’s intensive certificate programs in ‘Culinary Arts’ and ‘Breads & Pastry Arts’, both designed to prepare students for careers in the professional food industry.

When spring arrives, creativity thrives. Art House 7’s April-May Spring Session offers a wide variety of mediums for all ages: painting, drawing, ceramics, printmaking, sculpting, collage, and sewing (embroidery and machine). New for grades 4 to 11:  digital art classes, where students learn how to draw, color, and design dynamic digital creations. For the younger set, we have Art Club, crochet, Arts and Crafts Exploration, and more.

Art House 7 offers classes throughout the year, taught by a range of fantastic teachers. You can buy art supplies next door. We’re near the Lee Harrison Shopping Center.



Screening as part of the DC Environmental Film Festival (dceff.org)

Saturday, March 21, 1pm at the Miracle Theatre – Tickets $5 with the code MPEFF50.

Make Agudas Achim your preschooler’s home to learn and grow!

Play-based learning

In its mission to interrogate both the classics and the current days, Avant Bard Theatre proudly presents “The Two Gentlemen of Killarney,” an adaptation by Séamus Miller (“Coriolanus,” “The Margriad”) at Gunston Arts Center – Theatre Two.

The play is a timely immigrant love-comedy with live Irish music. Adapted from Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” the story follows friends-turned-rivals from Ireland to America during the Great Famine, blending Shakespeare’s wit with traditional Irish tunes and delivering a rollicking and dynamic celebration of love, immigration, and humanity. All performances are free to APS students and federal employees affected by the DHS shutdown (just show ID); all Saturday matinees are Pay-What-You-Can.

If you want APS to reform its school device use policies and shift to an “ANALOG AS DEFAULT” paradigm, PreK – 12, we ask that you PLEASE SIGN THE ATTACHED LETTER ASAP. Research confirms that the Ed Tech experiment has failed; we need to prioritize face-to-face learning, writing by hand, and reading physical books — not the convenience offered by apps and digital curricula. We ask that APS leaders adopt “ATTENTION AS CURRICULUM” in the same stroke. This means deliberately cultivating school environments that act as antidotes to the attention-shattering, shallowing, screen-saturated world beyond the school walls. It means actively working to enhance students’ attention spans – their capacities to focus, tolerate delayed gratification, and do hard things.