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CALLING ALL ARTISTS,
CREATIVES, AND CULTURE BEARERS:
Join us at Arlington
Arts Center on Thursday, March 22 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM for the Arlington
Artspace Arts Market Survey Launch Event! Arlington Cultural Affairs is
collaborating with Artspace to create affordable live/work spaces in Arlington.
Artists within a 50-mile radius of Arlington are encouraged to make their
voices heard by taking the Art Market Survey, available on March 22, and
identify their current and future live-work needs and express their interest in
being a live-work resident.
The event will feature a
presentation on the Arlington Artspace project along with remarks by Virginia
Commission for the Arts Executive Director Margaret Vanderhye followed by a
Q&A session and a reception where you can mingle with potential creative
neighbors and take the survey on the spot!
With 232 entries to the 2018 Moving Words Adult Competition, judge Teri Ellen Cross Davis has selected six winners and four honorable mentions.
The Winners are: Lara Payne, Maggie Rosen, Eric Frosbergh, DL Mattila, Dorothy Bendel, JoAnne Growney.
Honorable mentions going to: Luther Jett, Henry Crawford, Susan Scheid, Michael Glasser.
Read the winning poems, including a poem of Arlington County Poet Laureate Katherine E. Young, based on this year’s theme "Ripped from the Headlines" here.
Also, mark your calendars for Sunday, April 8th at 2PM for the Winner’s Reading at New District Brewery!
Artfest Week 2018
Arlington Artists Alliance present their 15th annual ArtFest Week! The community is invited to take part in this popular week-long celebration of Art in Arlington. Highlights include an art show and sale featuring the works of 35 Arlington-based artists, in paintings of many genres, ceramics, sculpture, artists cards, and unframed works. Opening Reception is March 16 at Hendry House. More
thru March 23 | Fort C.F. Smith Park, Woodmont
National Chamber Ensemble: Strings Fever: Brahms and Mendelssohn
Two of the greatest works by Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn featuring the lush sounds of the strings. Brahms' String Sextet No. 2 " Dramatic and captivating" Mendelssohn's Octet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20 "A work of youthful verve, brilliance and perfection, which makes it one of the miracles of Romantic music." These two works are both masterpieces of the chamber repertoire requiring deep musicianship and brilliant virtuosity Reception follows performance. More
Sat, March 24, 2018 @ 7:30 pm | Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington, Barcroft
Persephone: A Burlesque by Richard C. Washer
Persephone, queen of the underworld, sets out to prove to her husband that love is greater than death in this burlesque-style play based on Greek mythology. Written by Richard C. Washer with original music by Mark Haag, Persephone is part of the First Draft New Play Reading Series. This reading will be followed by a guided post-show discussion with the audience, actors and playwright. More
Wed, March 28, 2018 @ 7:30 pm | Theater on the Run, Four Mile Run Valley
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2018 Lit Up Ball: Darkly Ever After
A Fancy Dress and Literary-Theme Social Event for Adults! Join the Friends of the Arlington Public Library for an exciting evening with music form Tongue in Cheek Jazz Band, light appetizers and desserts, and drinks available for purchase. Prizes awarded for the best fair tale inspired attire (costumes are optional) so be ready to be the bell (or dame) of the ball! The Lip Up Ball was created in 2013 to raise community awareness of Library programs. More
Thurs. March 22 from 7-11PM | Clarendon Ballroom, Clarendon
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"That's Why I'm Here" Exhibition
Marymount University’s Cody Gallery will host an opening reception for the exhibition “That’s Why I’m Here,” which features work by Kyle Bauer, Cynthia Connolly (Curator at Arlington Arts), Elizabeth Huey, Kim Llerena, and Jordan Rathus.“The exhibition considers location and landscape as an impetus in creating work and questions our sense of placement within the grander scheme of space,” said its curator, Meaghan Kent, the gallery’s interim director. “Bittersweet, melancholic moments run throughout the exhibition as one discovers that within these moments of reorientation we can find perspective, humility and humor.” Opening Reception Mar. 22 from 5-7PM. More
thru May 5 | Marymount Ballston Center, Ballston
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