Sun, Nov 1 | 10am-2pm | 2700 Art Space | Green Valley
Join us for a celebration of art, creativity, and community, with a monster-led pet costume parade and mariachi band! Shop local art, handmade goods, and vintage treasures. Get a pet portrait, enjoy a massage by the minute, make a "crankie" with Mab, or relax in an Adirondack chair and soak up the fall weather. Enjoy fresh pizza, pie à la mode, coffee, delicious mango treats, and more from our fabulous food vendors. Try your hand at cornhole featuring artwork by David Amoroso, challenge a friend to chess or checkers, and explore all the creative surprises around the market.
- 10am-2pm - SPARK! Not Your Usual Art Market open
- 11 am - Post-Halloween Pet Costume Parade! Bring your costumed pets for a festive parade, complete with prizes and plenty of adorable photo opportunities.
- 12-1:30 pm - Enjoy live music from a roaming mariachi band, Mariachi Los Amigos!
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Sun, Nov 1 | 5-8pm | MoCA Arlington | Virginia Square
Join us for an evening picnic on the lawn of Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington. With family-friendly activities, vendors, food trucks, games, and folklórico performances, this event celebrates the traditions and heritage of Día de los Muertos. Plus, dress as a Catrina to be a part of the Catrina Parade, and enjoy live music from Mariachi Estrellas!
Bring a photo of loved ones who have passed to include on the ofrenda, altar. Artist David Amoroso will build a large-scale altar on the front portico of the building. Come, be part, and celebrate! The museum will also be open late to explore the fall exhibitions.
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Oct 28-Nov 29 | 5–7pm | Alliance Gallery | Clarendon
Alliance Gallery is pleased to present Color Stories, a member juried exhibition celebrating how color can tell a story, evoke a mood, capture a moment, or express ideas. This show invites artists to explore their relationship to color and light, whether through vibrant palettes or pastel hues. Join on Thursday, October 29, 5-7pm,for an opening reception!
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Sat, Nov 7 | 7:30pm | Gunston Theater 1 | Long Branch Creek
National Chamber Ensemble's 20th Anniversary Season opens with an evening of Romantic masterworks by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Brahms. Acclaimed soprano Karin Paludan joins National Chamber Ensemble musicians for a program celebrating the beauty, passion, and elegance of the Romantic era.
Featuring chamber music and vocal selections by three of classical music's most beloved composers. The concert features "Shepherd on a Rock", Schubert's spellbinding opera-like song, Mendelssohn's glorious Piano Trio in D minor and Brahms dramatic Piano Quartet in G minor. Join for an inspiring evening of exceptional artistry as NCE begins their milestone 20th season.
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Thu, Oct 29 | 6-7:30pm | MoCA Arlington | Virginia Square
Create playful or thought-provoking miniature sculptures by combining small found objects with air dry clay. Throughout history, various traditions sprung around the burying of the dead and what they got to take with them to the grave. In this artist-led workshop we will connect the idea of grave goods to one of the universe's inviolable law: energy and matter can not be created nor destroyed. In a cosmic way, we are the universe's old nachos.
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Oct 12-Jan 18 | Cody Gallery at Marymount University | Virginia Square
Image Building is a solo exhibition of abstract and representational works, including paintings, drawings, and assemblages. Every image in this exhibition is built. Together, the works show abstraction and observation as two approaches to constructing an image, piece by piece, until it holds together.
Join on Thursday, October 29 for an artist’s talk (4-5pm, Ballston Center Auditorium) and opening reception (5-7pm, Cody Gallery).
View more about J. Jordan Bruns: Image Building.
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Friday, Nov 6 | 12pm | St. George's Episcopal Church | Virginia Square
Spend your Friday lunchtime with the Friday Morning Music Club for a free chamber music concert at St. George’s Episcopal Church. The November 6 program features Brahms’ Cello Sonata No. 2 and Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 8 in G Major, Op. 30, No. 3.
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thru Nov 11 | Mason Exhibitions Arlington | Virginia Square
Curated by Cheryl Edwards, this timely exhibition features intercultural artists who served during the Vietnam War, presenting works from public and private collections that honor memory, witness, and the lasting impact of service across generations. As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the exhibition explores memory, resilience, and the physical and psychological residues of war while reconsidering how the nation remembers its history.
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