Fireman's Field Complex, 250 S. Nursery Ave., Purcellville, VA, 20132

The annual Purcellville Wine and Food Festival returns on Saturday, July 18, in Dillon’s Woods at the historic Fireman’s Field Complex (250 S. Nursery Avenue, Purcellville). The festival will take place from 2 to 8 p.m., inviting guests to gather with family and friends for an afternoon and evening of local wine, beer, food, live music, art, and more.
This year’s event will showcase 40 vendors, including wineries, breweries, food and snack vendors, and local exhibitors. Enjoy live music performances by the Rick Reaves Band, The Darby Brothers, and the Franklin Park Big Band. The “Arts in the Garden” section, hosted by the Purcellville Arts Council, will highlight local artists who will create works of art live on-site. Additional activities include face painting and a photo stand-in booth. 
Early bird ticket pricing is available through 5 p.m. on July 17: 
• Early bird admission (ages 17 and over): $5 (+ tax) 
• Early bird drink tickets (6 oz wine or 12 oz beer): $8.50 (+ tax) 
• Early bird drink ticket package: 4 tickets for $32 (+ tax) 
• Early bird bottle of wine purchase: $35 (+ tax), available from participating wineries (bottles must be consumed on-site)
A souvenir glass will be provided with the purchase of the first drink ticket. Save time and money by purchasing your tickets in advance. 
The popular VIP experience returns for $275 (+ tax) and includes admission for six, a reserved table for six, three bottles of local wine, six souvenir glasses, six drink tickets, early entry to the festival, special commemorative gifts, and a selection of sweets and savories for the table. 
Tickets and VIP tables are available for purchase at <a href="https://www.PurcellvilleWineAndFood.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.PurcellvilleWineAndFood.com</a>. Guests are encouraged to make a weekend of it and explore local lodging and attractions. Check the Accommodations page of the festival website, as well as the Visit Loudoun website, for more information.
 The Purcellville Wine and Food Festival is hosted by Purcellville Parks and Recreation and Loudoun Brewing Company, with support from Visit Loudoun, Renewal by Andersen, Harris Teeter, Prince William Home Improvement, truHealthNow, Valley Energy, Loudoun Brewing Company, Bush Tabernacle, MotoMember, and OHM Productions. Sponsorship opportunities remain available. For more information, visit <a href="https://www.PurcellvilleWineAndFood.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">www.PurcellvilleWineAndFood.com</a>

Local Event: Purcellville Wine and Food Festival

Loudoun County

Leesburg

Virginia

Purcellville Wine and Food Festival

The annual Purcellville Wine and Food Festival returns on Saturday, July 18, in Dillon’s Woods at the historic Fireman’s Field...

Atlas Performing Arts Center

Key Changes: Supreme Chord Turns 18 is an energetic a cappella concert celebrating the milestones in life. Turning 18 symbolizes many changes and transitions, and we are excited to share some music to embrace these changes. Key Changes is presented by Supreme Chord, a talented, dynamic, fun-filled a cappella group.Founded in 2008, we’re a group of young professionals living and working in Maryland, DC, and Virginia who love to make beautiful a cappella music. We pride ourselves on the quality—and range—of our repertoire, with everything from Journey to Olivia Rodrigo, from Jason Derulo to Peter Gabriel.The performance will also feature two distinct D.C.-based ensembles: Chord of Appeals (C-o-A), an all-gender, community-first group founded in 2016, and The Augmented Eight, a men’s group originally formed in 1950 by Ivy League and Stanford alumni. While C-o-A has brought its joyful chorus to venues ranging from local museums to the White House, The Augmented Eight has entertained Washington audiences for over 75 years with a signature blend of old standards, modern pop, jazz, and show tunes. Both groups are thrilled and honored to take the stage to help celebrate the 18th anniversary of their friends, Supreme ChordTickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door! Buy your ticket now at the Atlas Performing Arts Center website: https://www.atlasarts.org/events/supremechord/

Local Event: Key Changes: Supreme Chord Turns 18

District of Columbia

Georgetown

District Of Columbia

Key Changes: Supreme Chord Turns 18

Key Changes: Supreme Chord Turns 18 is an energetic a cappella concert celebrating the milestones in life. Turning 18...

HIGHLINE RxR

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints Northern Virginia</a> presents: “Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy,”
 on the men who set sail for the American Revolution and their fates, 
with Abby Mullen, assistant professor of history at the United States 
Naval Academy and author of To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805.
Their ranks were Black as well as White and included the young and 
the old, the offspring of incredibly wealthy merchant families as well 
as the all-but-destitute. The British government called them pirates and
 charged them with treason. Even George Washington referred to some of 
them as rascals. Yet all were willing to take to sea and take great 
risks as sailors in the fight against Great Britain.
Why did they do it?
As we celebrate our nation’s 250th birthday, join Professor Abby 
Mullen, who teaches Annapolis midshipmen classes on naval history, to 
become familiar with the kinds of people who joined our Navy at the 
outset, at great risk.
We’ll look at where American Revolutionary sailors came from, what 
motivated them to go to sea, and what happened to them during their 
service. We’ll examine the many ways they could serve as part of the 
Continental Navy, as part of state navies, or as privateers.
Finally, we’ll look at what happened to them in the long run, and how
 some ended up imprisoned by the British after being captured while 
others were discharged from their ship after the war as the Continental 
Navy got sold off bit by bit. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-navy-rise" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax 
and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time 
is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: A 1779 naval battle involving American and British ships as 
painted by Richard Paton in 1780 (Royal Academy / Public Domain).

Local Event: Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy

Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Those Who Gave...

Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy,”
 on the men who set sail for the American...

Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Those Who Gave Rise to Our Navy

Penn Social

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen,” a
 look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its mission to expand
 our understanding of dark matter, dark energy, and the Milky Way, with 
Bear Witherspoon, payload systems engineer for the Roman telescope at 
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.&nbsp;
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to be launched into space in late
 summer or early fall, and what it sees out there is likely to leave us 
spellbound.&nbsp;
Its to-do list includes performing a demographic census of planetary 
systems in the Milky Way, testing out a new camera that directly images 
exoplanets to help us find habitable worlds, and shedding light on the 
universe's most mysterious features—dark energy and dark matter.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Come get an insider’s perspective on that mission from Bear 
Witherspoon, who has overseen the assembly of the telescope and will be 
part of its launch team.&nbsp;
He’ll walk you through the design of the telescope and how it was 
built and tested. You’ll learn how it has a field of view 200 times that
 of the Hubble telescope as well as infrared vision that will help 
astronomers peer far across space and deep into the universe’s dustiest 
regions. It was subjected to rigorous vibration and sound tests to 
ensure it could survive launch as well as extreme cold in a vacuum to 
ensure it can function in space.&nbsp;
We’ll look at how the Roman space telescope will work with those that
 preceded it into the space, the Hubble and Webb space telescopes, by 
taking a much broader view and pinpointing worthy subjects of 
investigation for the more-focused instruments.&nbsp;
You’ll learn how the Roman telescope will help us investigate the 
roughly 95 percent of energy and matter called “dark” because we’ve been
 unable to observe it and how it works. Witherspoon will walk you 
through how it’s surmised that dark energy and matter provide the 
infrastructure for visible matter in the universe, and how the Roman 
telescope will try to identify the presence and effects of dark matter 
by observing visible matter on an incredibly large scale.&nbsp;
The talk promises to leave you in a state of wonder and excited about
 all we’ll be learning out there. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales 
tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed 
time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: A NASA illustration of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen

Profs & Pints DC: NASA’s New Quest to See the...

Profs and Pints DC presents: “NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen,” a
 look at the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and its...

Profs & Pints DC: NASA’s New Quest to See the Unseen

Georgetown Neighborhood Library

Join music edu-tainer Ms. Niki on a colorful adventure through upbeat original songs and classic favorites with a fresh new twist!

Local Event: Ms. Niki's Music Class

Ms. Niki's Music Class

Join music edu-tainer Ms. Niki on a colorful adventure through upbeat original songs and classic favorites with a fresh new twist!

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Designing Belonging,”
 on the messages sent by various institutional environments and how they
 can be made more welcoming, with Martha Kakooza, research associate in 
the department of higher education and student affairs at Morgan State 
University, where she teaches courses on gender, sexuality, and 
narrative and qualitative research.
Why do some rooms make people relax while others make them stiffen? 
Why do certain workplaces, schools, restaurants, churches, airports, and
 waiting rooms seem to say, “you are welcome here,” while others quietly
 signal “this was not built with you in mind”?
Explore how ordinary spaces shape belonging at a talk that will offer
 guidance to those seeking to create inclusive environments for 
students, clients, and customers. Being on hand will help anyone out 
there sort out why some environments have felt so welcoming while others
 left them focused on exits.
You’ll learn how a room's layout, lighting, seating, signage, sound, 
artwork, security presence, and history all affect whether people feel 
at ease or on edge, powerful or invisible, cared for or merely 
processed. People read these cues almost instantly, usually before they 
can explain why a place feels welcoming or alienating.
Dr. Martha Kakooza, a scholar whose research has focused space, 
identity, and institutional environments, will discuss why the same 
environment can feel like home to one person and like a closed door to 
another. She’ll describe how experiences of race, culture, class, 
gender, age, disability, and migration all shape how we read a space. 
We’ll look at how no space is truly neutral, because each one carries 
social messages and histories.
Drawing on research on students navigating higher-education 
institutions built without them in mind, Dr. Kakooza will discuss three 
distinct things spaces do to us: Some leave us drifting and unanchored. 
Some put us on display and grant only a conditional, watched kind of 
welcome. And some we manage to come to see as genuinely ours. She calls 
these different effects, respectively, “Drift,” “Quota,” or “Turn.”
Among the questions Dr. Kakooza will answer: What makes a place feel 
welcoming? How do buildings and rooms communicate power? What would it 
take to design schools, workplaces, and public spaces with belonging 
built in? (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. 
Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk
 starts 30 minutes later.)
Image by Canva.

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: Designing Belonging

Profs & Pints DC: Designing Belonging

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Designing Belonging,”
 on the messages sent by various institutional environments and how they
...

Georgetown Library

Join us for an adult-only evening filled with fun, laughter, and friendly competition featuring a variety of board games and card games. Sip on refreshing mocktails while you play and socialise in this event sponsored by the Georgetown Library Friends.

Local Event: Game Night & Mocktails

Game Night & Mocktails

Join us for an adult-only evening filled with fun, laughter, and friendly competition featuring a variety of board games and...

Summer is sizzling — cool down with an evening of refreshing drinks and relaxing origami at a cozy art center in Georgetown. Join&nbsp;Naoko Kamioka&nbsp;to fold playful fish and sea creatures that capture the spirit of the ocean and the joy of origami. In this one-hour workshop, participants will create several marine-themed origami pieces while enjoying a calm, creative atmosphere. After the class, the participants can transform the origami &nbsp;creations into an ocean collage, a hanging mobile, decorations for a craft fishing net, or other imaginative displays to bring a touch of the sea into &nbsp;home.
Maximum Participants. 7
Target age: above 15 yrs old (but those below 21 yrs old, only soft drinks will be served)&nbsp;
$30 (Workshop Only)
Supplies: Additional fee: Origami paper provided. $10 on the day for drinks and snacks. If you would like to bring those interested in sipping and seeing the art gallery (but not folding origami), they can join for $10.

Local Event: Sip and Fold Summer Origami with Naoko Kamioka

Sip and Fold Summer Origami with Naoko Kamioka

Summer is sizzling — cool down with an evening of refreshing drinks and relaxing origami at a cozy art center in Georgetown....

Lubber Run Amphitheater

After a double Wammie win, Valeria is celebrating with the release of a new World album—plus performing the songs that made this year unforgettable. Valeria Stewart will be on stage at Lubber Run Amphitheater with a powerhouse ensemble—lead guitarist Kevin Dudley, bassist Zoe Jorgenson, percussionist Manny Arciniega, and vocalist Grey Jacks—for a dynamic, multilingual performance. The evening celebrates her award-winning Raíces | Roots alongside the debut of new music from On a Wing, blending Latin, folk, and global influences.

Local Event: Valeria Stewart & Band at Lubber Run Amphitheater

Arlington County

Arlington

Valeria Stewart & Band at Lubber Run Amphitheater

After a double Wammie win, Valeria is celebrating with the release of a new World album—plus performing the songs that made...

Inspired by the rich visual language of traditional Persian miniature painting, this workshop invites participants to explore contemporary approaches to this intricate and poetic art form. Through storytelling, symbolism, pattern, color, and composition, participants will create their own modern interpretations while learning about the history and aesthetics of Persian miniatures.
Using acrylic and gold leaf we will experiment with detailed imagery, decorative elements, layered spaces, and narrative scenes. The workshop encourages both technical exploration and personal expression, blending tradition with contemporary themes and individual imagination.
Age group: Adults, beginners
Maximum Participants: 6
$100, plus $30 material fee payable to the instructor
Materials Provided
<ul><li>Watercolor or mixed media paper</li><li>Fine-tip brushes</li><li>Acrylic paints&nbsp;</li><li>Gold leaf</li><li>Pencils and erasers</li><li>Colored pencils</li><li>Gold or metallic paint/pens</li><li>Collage materials such as patterned paper, magazines, or printed text (optional)</li><li>Scissors and glue</li><li>Palette and water container</li><li>Paper towels or cloth rag</li><li>Reference images or personal sketches for inspiration</li></ul>

Local Event: Modern Persian Miniature Painting with Sarah Barzmehri

Modern Persian Miniature Painting with Sarah...

Inspired by the rich visual language of traditional Persian miniature painting, this workshop invites participants to explore...

Modern Persian Miniature Painting with Sarah Barzmehri

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints Northern Virginia</a> presents: “Owl Wisdom,”
 an introduction to the biology, habits, and conservation of various owl
 species in our region and beyond, with Steve Sheffield, professor of 
biology at Bowie State University, curator of mammals and birds for the 
Natural History Society of Maryland, and president of the Maryland 
Ornithological Society.
Who wants to learn about owls?
If you are fascinated by these hunters of the night, you’ll love 
spending an evening with Steve Sheffield, a biologist who extensively 
studies owls and works to conserve them.
He’ll start by covering the different types of owls in our region and
 elsewhere, and the ways in which their bodies and their sizes represent
 physical adaptations to their environment. He’ll especially focus on 
the owl species of the United States and Canada, describing their 
biology, ranges, preferred habitat and prey, behavior, and 
vocalizations.&nbsp;
You’ll learn how and why field biologists study owls and how owl 
researchers from around the world assemble periodically to discuss their
 work. We’ll consider owls' value to ecosystems and, especially, humans 
and human-dominated landscapes where they serve as especially efficient 
killers of rodents and other crop-harming pests.
Dr. Sheffield will talk about the many years he has spent researching
 owls, with much of his work focused on their exposure to environmental 
contaminants and how they’re affected.&nbsp;
Being top predators, owls serve as sensitive bioindicators of 
contamination throughout the food chain. Much like canaries in coal 
mines, they function as an early warning system alerting us to 
potentially dangerous levels of toxicity. We don’t just study them for 
their own good, but ours as well. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-owl-wisdom" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales 
tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed 
time is for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)&nbsp;&nbsp;

Local Event: Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Owl Wisdom

Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: Owl Wisdom

Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “Owl Wisdom,”
 an introduction to the biology, habits, and conservation of various...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “Unearthing Family Roots,”
 a guide to discovering and documenting your lineage, with Fatou Sow, 
genealogist, adjunct lecturer at Howard University, and project director
 for the soon-to-be-launched Black Family Museum and Archive.
Where does your name come from, and what does it mean?
Answering such questions, and otherwise researching our roots, can 
unlock a deeper sense of who we are and what we want to become. Learn 
valuable tips for studying, preserving, and presenting your family’s 
lineage with Fatou Sow, an educator, social scientist, and 
multidisciplinary artist who frequently partners with organizations to 
stage genealogy workshops and storytelling events.
She’ll start by looking at the concept of the “nuclear family” and 
how it has evolved far beyond old-school ideals as a result of economic 
shocks and shifting social values.&nbsp;
Then Fatou will share practical tools for capturing your own 
lineage—focusing on the art of oral history interviews with elders—and 
introduce a draft collection policy to help your family safely organize 
and steward its history. You will learn how to research ancestral lines
 not just through paperwork, but through art, music, food, and cultural 
spaces.&nbsp;
As a real-world example, Fatou will share her work with the Griot 
Collective, which hosts genealogy-focused events in Washington D.C., 
Detroit, and Alabama. She’ll also discuss her central role in developing
 University of Maryland grant funded Black Family Museum and Archive, 
which uses photographs, writing, video documentation, and 3D 
installations to tell stories.&nbsp;
Talk attendees are encouraged to bring something from their family’s 
past to discuss with other audience members as part of a “show-and-tell”
 portion of the event. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/family-roots" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and 
processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is 
for doors. Talk starts 30 minutes later.)&nbsp;&nbsp;
Image: A 1960s Ivery family photo from Detroit (via Fatou Sow).

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: Unearthing Family Roots

Profs & Pints DC: Unearthing Family Roots

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Unearthing Family Roots,”
 a guide to discovering and documenting your lineage, with Fatou Sow,...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “The Stories in Our Bones,” an
 introduction to the field of bioarchaeology and what it tells us about 
life and death in the past, with Jordan Wilson, bioarchaeologist, 
skeletal biologist, and postdoctoral fellow and lecturer at Georgetown 
University.
Gather among the living to learn how lessons are taught by the dead.
Join Dr. Jordan Wilson of Georgetown University to dig into the field
 of bioarchaeology, a science that combines knowledge of human skeletal 
anatomy with that of past cultures and treatment of the body after 
death.
Covering bioarchaeology’s history, she’ll describe how researchers 
first realized that skeletons could be every bit as important to our 
understanding of the past as artifacts displayed in museums. She’ll also
 discuss how early research on human skeletal remains unfortunately 
became intertwined with research in eugenics.
She also will give you an understanding of bioarchaeologists’ 
methods, teaching you how they determine the age, biological sex, and 
ancestry of the deceased from their bones. You’ll learn how they 
identify various traumatic injuries, from broken arms to scimitar cuts, 
as well as evidence of repetitive actions to gain insight into daily 
activities. Past health problems are identifiable from the scars left on
 bones by illnesses such as rickets, scurvy, tuberculosis, and anemia.
We’ll examine some famous bioarchaeology cases and look at what 
movies get wrong about mummies and the field of archaeology in general. 
We’ll also look at how human remains research is used for good, by 
identifying the missing, solving cold cases, and supporting tribal 
sovereignty.&nbsp;
Among the questions she’ll tackle: What’s the oldest murder mystery 
ever solved? (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-stories-in-bones" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing 
fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. 
The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Part of a skeleton in a bioarchaeology lab. (Photo by Andreacise / Wikimedia Commons.)

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: The Stories in Our Bones

Profs & Pints DC: The Stories in Our Bones

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Stories in Our Bones,” an
 introduction to the field of bioarchaeology and what it tells us...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints Northern Virginia</a> presents: “The Road to Mass Surveillance,”
 on the proliferation of automated license plate readers and the threats
 that they pose to our freedoms, with Steven Keener, a leading 
researcher on such devices as an assistant professor of criminology and 
director of the Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice Research and 
Policy at Christopher Newport University.
Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras have popped up 
throughout the country, with Flock Safety emerging as the predominant 
producer. They capture images of every passing vehicle and feed that 
data into centralized databases, giving tremendous power to track our 
movements on the road to both the government agencies that use them and 
the private companies contracted to operate them.&nbsp;
Proponents of the technology praise it for helping to track stolen 
cars, felony suspects, and missing persons. But it also has been used by
 law enforcement officers to stalk ex-partners, and its misreads of 
license plates have led to false accusations of crimes. Data from the 
cameras have been shared with entities that are not supposed to be 
allowed access, and attempts have been made to use such data to track 
individuals attending protests or crossing state lines to access health 
care that their own state banned. People have hacked into the cameras 
and the data they gather and broadcast that information on YouTube.&nbsp;
Learn in depth about ALPR cameras and the debate over their use and 
regulation with Steven Keener, the lead author of the first geospatial 
analysis of this emerging technology, “Surveillance Inequality: Race, 
Poverty and the Geography of Automated License Plate Reader Cameras.”
Dr. Keener will provide an overview of how ALPR cameras operate, 
describing what images are captured of each passing vehicle, what 
happens to those images in the short term, the lifecycle of the data 
that the cameras collect, and how the cameras are operated jointly by 
local police and private surveillance companies.&nbsp;
He’ll offer insights on the comprehensive, expansive database that 
has been built using the images captured by ALPR cameras, describing 
where that information is stored, who has access to it, how long it can 
be accessed and for what reasons, and what happens when the dataset is 
tapped into for investigations and criminal cases. You’ll learn about 
where cameras are placed and about trends in their use.
Dr. Keener will look at the risks of such a comprehensive dataset of 
individuals' daily movement patterns and bring you up to speed on court 
cases challenging ALPR surveillance systems on grounds such as the 
Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure. We’ll
 look at rigorous debates at the local level over whether to maintain or
 cancel contracts with the private surveillance companies and at efforts
 by state lawmakers in Virginia and elsewhere to put guardrails on such 
technology.
Dr. Keener, a critic of ALPR systems who actively works with 
community organizations evaluating the cancellation of ALPR contracts, 
will equip talk attendees with the knowledge to engage in local 
advocacy. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/nv-mass-surveillance" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. 
Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk
 starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Traffic in downtown Los Angeles (Photo by Prayitno / Creative Commons).

Local Event: Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: The Road to Mass Surveillance

Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: The Road to...

Profs and Pints Northern Virginia presents: “The Road to Mass Surveillance,”
 on the proliferation of automated license plate...

Profs & Pints Northern Virginia: The Road to Mass Surveillance

August 3rd, 10th, and 17th from 6:00 P.M. to 8:45 P.M.
Pochoir (from the French word for "stencil") is the traditional printmaking method using intricate hand-cut stencils and brushes to apply layers of vibrant color, yielding prints rich with textures and colors.
Learn the basics of a modernized version of the classical pochoir method for printmaking! By the end of this class, you will have not only a beautiful series of handmade prints but all the skills necessary to continue making pochoir prints at home for years to come!
Through this class, students will learn:
- How to create and divide an image into separate color layers
- How to hand-cut intricate stencils using “bridges”
- Methods for registration and alignment of printed layers
- Methods for inking stencils to create areas of solid ink or ombre patterns
- The process of editioning a series of prints
Syllabus:
Week one:
- Learn a brief history of pochoir printmaking and look at examples
- Receive an overview of the entire process
- Create a design and separate color layers
- Begin cutting Dura-Lar stencils
Week two:
- Finish cutting Dura-Lar stencils
- Receive a demonstration about how to ink
- Begin printing initial color layers
Week Three
- Finish printing pochoir prints
- Edition series of prints and optional trade!
Adult/Ages 15+ All skill levels welcome
6 Maximum Participants
$150 
Supplies: $15 materials fee is payable to the instructor in the classroom (Venmo/Zelle/Cash).

Local Event: Modern Pochoir Printmaking with Theresa Provasnik (3 Sessions)

Modern Pochoir Printmaking with Theresa...

August 3rd, 10th, and 17th  from 6:00 P.M. to 8:45 P.M.
Pochoir (from the French word for "stencil") is the traditional...

Modern Pochoir Printmaking with Theresa Provasnik (3 Sessions)

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “The Road to Mass Surveillance,”
 on the proliferation of automated license plate readers and the threats
 that they pose to our freedoms, with Steven Keener, a leading 
researcher on such devices as an assistant professor of criminology and 
director of the Center for Crime, Equity, and Justice Research and 
Policy at Christopher Newport University.
Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR) cameras have popped up 
throughout the country, with Flock Safety emerging as the predominant 
producer. They capture images of every passing vehicle and feed that 
data into centralized databases, giving tremendous power to track our 
movements on the road to both the government agencies that use them and 
the private companies contracted to operate them.&nbsp;
Proponents of the technology praise it for helping to track stolen 
cars, felony suspects, and missing persons. But it also has been used by
 law enforcement officers to stalk ex-partners, and its misreads of 
license plates have led to false accusations of crimes. Data from the 
cameras have been shared with entities that are not supposed to be 
allowed access, and attempts have been made to use such data to track 
individuals attending protests or crossing state lines to access health 
care that their own state banned. People have hacked into the cameras 
and the data they gather and broadcast that information on YouTube.&nbsp;
Learn in depth about ALPR cameras and the debate over their use and 
regulation with Steven Keener, the lead author of the first geospatial 
analysis of this emerging technology, “Surveillance Inequality: Race, 
Poverty and the Geography of Automated License Plate Reader Cameras.”
Dr. Keener will provide an overview of how ALPR cameras operate, 
describing what images are captured of each passing vehicle, what 
happens to those images in the short term, the lifecycle of the data 
that the cameras collect, and how the cameras are operated jointly by 
local police and private surveillance companies.&nbsp;
He’ll offer insights on the comprehensive, expansive database that 
has been built using the images captured by ALPR cameras, describing 
where that information is stored, who has access to it, how long it can 
be accessed and for what reasons, and what happens when the dataset is 
tapped into for investigations and criminal cases. You’ll learn about 
where cameras are placed and about trends in their use.
Dr. Keener will look at the risks of such a comprehensive dataset of 
individuals' daily movement patterns and bring you up to speed on court 
cases challenging ALPR surveillance systems on grounds such as the 
Fourth Amendment’s prohibition of unreasonable search and seizure. We’ll
 look at rigorous debates at the local level over whether to maintain or
 cancel contracts with the private surveillance companies and at efforts
 by state lawmakers in Virginia and elsewhere to put guardrails on such 
technology.
Dr. Keener, a critic of ALPR systems who actively works with 
community organizations evaluating the cancellation of ALPR contracts, 
will equip talk attendees with the knowledge to engage in local 
advocacy. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-mass-surveillance" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus sales tax and processing fees. 
Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk
 starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Traffic in downtown Los Angeles (Photo by Prayitno / Creative Commons).

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: The Road to Mass Surveillance

Profs & Pints DC: The Road to Mass Surveillance

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Road to Mass Surveillance,”
 on the proliferation of automated license plate readers and the...

<a href="https://www.profsandpints.com/washingtondc" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Profs and Pints DC</a> presents: “George Washington and the Civil War,” on
 how all sides of a nation-dividing conflict enlisted a long-dead 
founding father, with Anne Sarah Rubin, a professor of history at the 
University of Maryland, Baltimore County who specializes in the study of
 nationalism and memory during the American Civil War.&nbsp;
George Washington died in December 1799, more than sixty years before
 the American Civil War began. Yet in 1860 he seemed to be everywhere, 
embraced by abolitionists and slaveholders, Unionists and Confederates 
alike as a mythical symbol of their own righteousness. All drew on the 
image and iconography of George Washington and the American Revolution 
to claim legitimacy for their respective sides.
Gain insight into how our nation’s history and memory has long been 
weaponized to support disparate causes with Anne Sarah Rubin, an author 
of two books on the Civil War who has given great talks in Baltimore on 
the war’s impact on that city.
Dr. Rubin will describe how memories—both actual and cultural—of 
Washington and the revolution diverged in ways that reflected divisions 
over slavery. Slaveholders and abolitionists each laid claim to the 
parts of the past that they could use and discarded the rest.
The memory of the Founders and the Revolution was malleable. Homages 
to their wisdom and the republican experiment they created could be read
 as conservative. Calls for greater equality could be read in the 
Revolution’s spirit. Washington was portrayed as a benevolent master in
 one popular engraving and as an emancipator in another.
Each side used images, songs, and stories to make their case. When 
the war broke out, Confederates eagerly seized upon popular songs like 
“Yankee Doodle” and “The Star-Spangled Banner” and rewrote them to serve
 their own ends, calling Union soldiers “Hessians” or “Tories” and 
praising the Stars and Bars as the better flag.
With the end of the war and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 
Northerners united the two presidents in death, even proposing that 
Lincoln be buried at Mount Vernon. That presidential home itself became a
 symbol of sectional reconciliation. (<a href="https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/dc-george-washington-civil-war" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">Advance tickets</a>: $13.50 plus 
sales tax and processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with student ID. 
Listed time is for doors. The talk begins 30 minutes later.)
Image: A Stephen James Ferris print published in 1865 after Lincoln’s assassination (Library of Congress).

Local Event: Profs & Pints DC: George Washington and the Civil War

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Profs and Pints DC presents: “George Washington and the Civil War,” on
 how all sides of a nation-dividing conflict enlisted a...

Profs & Pints DC: George Washington and the Civil War

Wednesday, August 5 to 26th from 4 to 6 P.M.Budget frames cost $200-$300 and high-quality frames cost $400-$800. For any artist, framing is always a pervasive problem and sometimes a crippling cost. Fortunately, with a little bit of knowledge and the right tools and materials, it doesn’t have to be you can build the highest possible quality frame for approximately $80. This class will cover everything from basic woodworking with hand tools to cutting glass to archival matting for artwork. By the end of this class, you will have a complete frame and all of the knowledge you need to make your own frames going forward.
Please note: Students will be expected to bring their own artwork to frame. Artwork must be under&nbsp;20” x 26”. The price of the class reflects the cost of artwork framed with UV protective glass.&nbsp;The maximum dimension frame that glass is practical is 24” x 30”.
If any artist is interested in larger, the price of class will be adjusted to reflect the cost of UV Plexi.
For classes, a syllabus: 4 Weeks
Week 1: Cut and Glue Frame stock.
Week 2: Finish Frame stock &amp; cut mat board.
Week 3: Cut glass, cut spacers, Cut strainer.
Week 4: Mount artwork, Cut Backing, &amp; Assemble frame.
Age group: Adult - beginner
Number of participants: max 3
Cost: $400
Required supplies:
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Supplies Included in the Price
Frame stock, wood, archival matt boards, UV protective Glass, wood, spacers, hand tools, power tools, wood finish, fasteners

Local Event: Frame it Yourself! Works on Paper with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

Frame it Yourself! Works on Paper with William...

 Wednesday, August 5 to 26th   from 4 to 6 P.M.Budget frames cost $200-$300 and high-quality frames cost $400-$800. For any...

Frame it Yourself! Works on Paper with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

Washington Printmakers Gallery :&nbsp;Wednesday, August 5th to 26th from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
Want to develop your interest as an artist and looking for a place to start? Whether you want to make artwork that is realistic or abstract, all art shares the same fundamentals. Beginning with traditional forms of drawing, this 4-week class will start by teaching comparative measurement, and the basic techniques artists have used to draw for hundreds of years. Next this class will transition to working from direct observation and teach students how to find inspiration from the world around them.
Syllabus
Week 1: Master Copy Bargue Drawing- Introduce Comparative Measurement
Week 2: Master Copy Bargue Drawing- Understanding hard and soft edges
Week 3: Still Life- Comparative Measurement, Drawing from Direct Observation.
Week 4: Still Life- Understanding Light and shadow. Blending with Pencils
Adult, All skill levels
9 Maximum Participants
$ 160

Local Event: Intro to Drawing: History and Foundation with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

Intro to Drawing: History and Foundation with...

Washington Printmakers Gallery : Wednesday, August 5th  to 26th from 6:30 to 8:30 P.M.
Want to develop your interest as an...

Intro to Drawing: History and Foundation with William Demaria - 4 Sessions

Creative Cauldron

I’m honored to be invited back to the Creative Cauldron Stage 🎉 and excited about this show lineup which will include an appearance by saxophonist Christopher Peterman performing on some material from my next album. Tickets are available now! <a href="https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?performance=%20895411" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">app.arts-people.com/index.php?performance=%20895411</a>

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Valeria Stewart Album Release 

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Conflict Resolution Support for Families and Organizations

Rogers Resolution Services

Hi, I'm Shelby! I’m a local mediator who helps neighbors resolve family, relationship, and workplace conflicts in a calm, structured way. Through my small business, Rogers Resolution Services, I offer mediation and conflict-resolution support tailored to your unique needs and help guide people through difficult conversations. I work primarily with co-parents, partners, relatives, roommates, and teams who need help talking through decisions, routines, boundaries, or recurring disagreements. I also support workplaces and community groups facing communication challenges or breakdowns. My role is neutral. I don’t give legal advice or take sides. I facilitate conversations, de-escalate tense situations, and help people reach practical and maintainable agreements they can feel comfortable with. Services include: • Family, community, and workplace mediation • Co-parenting communication planning • Conflict coaching (one-on-one support) • Group and organizational facilitation • Workplace and team communication support Please feel free to reach out if you or a neighbor need help with repairing communication, setting boundaries, and/or creating a healthier dynamic at home or at work. Thank you for reading, and I look forward to helping you!

Hi, I'm Shelby! I’m a local mediator who helps neighbors resolve family, relationship, and workplace conflicts in a calm, structured way. Through...

R2 Advisors | Strategic Financial Advisory · Tysons VA

R2 Advisors

R2 Advisors is a CPA and strategic financial advisory firm based in Tysons, Virginia. We help organizations build financial systems leadership can trust — aligning accounting, reporting, tax, and operational workflows so decisions can be made clearly, even as complexity grows. Led by experienced CPAs and CFO-level advisors, R2 Advisors works with businesses, nonprofit leaders, and executive teams across the Washington DC metro area and nationwide. Our services include strategic CFO advisory, accounting and client advisory services (CAS), tax strategy, financial systems and automation, and risk and governance. What makes R2 different: we don't treat accounting, tax, and advisory as separate functions. Every engagement is built on one integrated structure — so reporting stays consistent, leadership gets reliable numbers, and nothing conflicts across areas. R2 Advisors serves organizations navigating growth, operational complexity, and leadership transitions — from multi-location operations and compliance-heavy environments to service-based businesses and project-driven firms. Industries served include government contracting, healthcare, professional services, nonprofits, technology, and capital markets. 1775 Tysons Blvd, Office 4162, McLean, VA 22102 r2.cpa | (571) 766-6727

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